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Okay, yes, the Trials of Osiris has been disabled for the last few weekends in Destiny 2. But Bungie says it has fixed the mode, and it’s live right now, with one of the best guns currently available in the mode ready to claim for just three wins. You should definitely log in and grab it (you don’t even have to win to earn it)–here’s what map you’ll be facing and what other rewards you can hope to claim.

There’s also a whole lot of new gear in Trials this season, including new armor and weapons and even a few cosmetics. This weekend’s Trials event actually continues to the Tuesday weekly reset on March 23, so you’ve got a little extra time to earn rewards and spend tokens with Saint-14.

Trials of Osiris Map And Rewards (March 19-23)

• Map: Endless Vale
• 3 wins — Igneous Hammer, Solar hand cannon
• 5 wins — Hunter, Warlock, or Titan Chest Armor: Pyrrhic Ascent Vest, Vestment, or Plate
• 7 wins — Hunter, Warlock, or Titan Leg Armor: Pyrrhic Ascent Strides, Boots, or Greaves
• Flawless run — Sola’s Scar (Adept), Solar sword

If you’ve been hesitant about Trials in the past, this is a good weekend to dip in, even if you’re not a great PvP player. Igneous Hammer, the three-win reward, is a very good gun, and this is the easiest chance to nab it. You don’t even have to get wins, because the End Game bounty from Saint-14 will give you the three-win reward just for playing Trials in general.

The Trials of Osiris is Destiny 2’s super-tough weekend competitive multiplayer event, which takes place from Friday to Tuesday every week, and it represents some of the highest-level challenges and rewards in the game. Your goal is to rack up as many victories as you can before you suffer three total losses, which forces you to reset your Trials run, or Passage. You’ll earn loot along the way as you rack up more and more wins, but the best rewards in the event come when you go on a winning streak of seven matches in a row–a “Flawless” run.

If you can manage to go Flawless, you’ll visit the Lighthouse, which is only available to Flawless players, where you’ll get some exclusive rewards. Opening the chest in the Lighthouse now gets you an “Adept” weapon, which has extra stat boosts you can’t get almost anywhere else.

But as mentioned above with the Igneous Hammer, even if you don’t go Flawless, you can still get a lot out of playing in the Trials of Osiris. Loot is doled out for notching three, five, and seven wins in total, even if you have losses–so you don’t have to be a PvP god to get something out of the event. Once you lose three matches total, however, you’re forced to restart your Trials run from the beginning. To access the Trials, you’ll need to see Saint-14 in the Tower to purchase a Trials card.

You’ll also earn Trials tokens as you play in the event and complete Trials bounties, which you can spend with Saint-14 in the Tower’s Hangar for more loot. However, Trials tokens expire at the end of each Trials event, so you have to spend them during the weekend you earn them. Double-check that you’ve spent them all before you stop playing.

Microsoft and Xbox are poking fun at Sony’s PlayStation 5 in the wake of another example of the console’s confusing way of handling cross-generation upgrades.

Marvel’s Avengers received its long-awaited PS5 upgrade yesterday, the process of moving over to the new edition hasn’t been so smooth. To ensure that your save was brought over to PS5, players had to update the PS4 version (or redownload it if it was deleted), manually upload their save, and then import that into the PS5 version.

By comparison, Microsoft’s Smart Delivery system on Xbox Series X|S prevented this, with players simply needing to boot the new version of the game and have their save automatically migrated. A fact that Xbox general manager of games marketing, Aaron Greenberg, took pleasure in sharing on Twitter.

Microsoft made a big deal about Smart Delivery leading up to the launch of the current generation consoles, and it’s examples like Avengers that make it evident why. Sony, by comparison, has had sporadic issues with cross-generation titles, with even Spider-Man Remastered on PS5 requiring a manual save upload from the PS4 version for continued progress.

Along with the current-generation upgrade, Square Enix announced new content for Avengers coming over the next few months, including the introduction of Black Panther later this year. Spider-Man, a character exclusive to PS4 and PS5 versions of the game, will not be added to the game at the start of the summer as originally planned.

Since the release of Title Update 1.2.0 for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, players have experienced frequent crashes around Ravensthorpe. Ubisoft is working on a fix, which should go live next week.

Seeing your game crash is never a good time, but having Valhalla crash more frequently around Ravensthorpe is particularly frustrating. Valhalla is structured into self-contained arcs, forcing you to return to Ravensthorpe (basically your in-game hub) whenever you finish a story mission to then pick up a new one.

On top of that, Valhalla’s latest piece of seasonal content, The Ostara Festival, just went live and will only be available for a limited time. The Ostara Festival specifically adds new things to see and do around Ravensthorpe–you have to complete challenges around your settlement in order to unlock the seasonal rewards. Ravensthorpe is where you need to go for Valhalla’s new river raids, too.

So basically, most of the people who are still playing Valhalla right now as they wait for the April release of the Wrath of the Druids DLC are struggling to go to the one place where you need to go in order to finish the game’s campaign or participate in the game’s new post-launch content.

It’s not all bad, though. Title Update 1.2.0 added the fan-requested transmog feature and new skills to unlock. Plus, it fixes a lot of the major bugs that have been in Valhalla for weeks.

If you’re looking to get into Assassin’s Creed Valhalla yourself, it’s available for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, PC, and Stadia. If you buy the game on PS4 or Xbox One, the game will freely upgrade to the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions, respectively. For those who have already completed the campaign, narrative director Darby McDevitt participated in a Valhalla spoiler podcast, where he talked about how the game’s twist ending originally played out quite differently.

Super Mario Bros. 35’s last World Count Challenge event will begin on March 23, Nintendo has announced. Like the previous two World Count Challenges, this is a collaborative event, with My Nintendo points up for grabs if players can hit the lofty goal Nintendo has set.

This time, players will be working together to collect coins. If participants can collectively acquire 350 million coins before the event ends, everyone who collected at least one coin during the World Count Challenge will receive 350 My Nintendo Platinum points. Platinum points can be redeemed for a variety of rewards on the My Nintendo website, including some exclusive physical goods.

The World Count Challenge event begins at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET on March 23 and runs until 11:59 PM PT on March 29. As Nintendo notes, this’ll be the game’s final event; like Super Mario 3D All-Stars, Super Mario Bros. 35 is scheduled to be delisted after March 31, so you only have a few days left to play it. Super Mario Bros. 35 is free to download for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers.

That isn’t the only Mario game holding a new event. Another Ninji Speedrun course is now live in Super Mario Maker 2. This one is called “Cape Mario Master,” and it tasks players with collecting 100 coins as quickly as they can as Cape Mario in a “vast” forest level.

According to Nintendo, Mario Maker’s 2 next Ninji Speedrun event will begin on April 14, and it will be the game’s final one. The company hasn’t shared many details about that event yet, but it says it “will be bigger than usual and last for 2 weeks.”

It’s been a huge week for Xbox Game Pass, with multiple new releases, EA Play on PC, FPS boost on older games, and improvements to download speeds for Xbox Insiders. The Console Crew weigh up the service against PlayStation and Nintendo’s offerings.

By Tamoor Hussain , Lucy James , Jordan Ramée , and Max Blumenthal on March 19, 2021 at 10:00AM PDT

On this week’s episode of Console Crew, the gang celebrates Game Pass. You’ve heard us, and many others, say this before but Xbox’s subscription service is easily the best service in video games when it comes to bang for your buck. But it’s not just giving people access to a massive library of video games at no additional cost, it’s also changing the industry in a number of ways ranging from making content accessible in various places, to giving smaller developers more exposure, and helping some games develop a strong community where they might otherwise struggle.

One other key thing Game Pass doing is breeding competition, both directly and indirectly. PlayStation and Nintendo players will now begin to think about how much value those platform holders are delivering to them, and the ways in which they can maximize their money and time when it comes to buying and playing games.

That’s also a big discussion point in this episode of Console Crew, as Lucy, Jordan, and Tamoor discuss Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo’s efforts to entice players to play games on their platform and engage with their ecosystems. This comes as a number of high-profile titles from Bethesda are added to Game Pass and Sony updates the list of free titles that will be available as part of its Play at Home campaign. For its part, Nintendo has a library of classics available through Switch Online, but the question is, are Sony and Nintendo’s efforts enough to compete with Game Pass? Do they even need to compete, for that matter? Watch to find out what the crew thinks.

Echo Night Games has released a new update for Signs of the Sojourner, just in time for the game’s launch on consoles. The update adds five new characters to the game.

In a Steam blog post, Echo Night teases that the new characters will be a mysterious stranger, a caravaneer, a grumpy neighbor, a community organizer, and someone fighting to save their town. No further clues beyond that, and given the nature of Signs of the Sojourner, it’s very easy to accidentally miss folks in the story. So you may need to replay the game once or twice to see all five new characters.

Personally, I’m thrilled to have any excuse for jumping back into Signs of the Sojourner for another playthrough, now that it’s also available for PS4, Switch, and Xbox One (as well as PS5 and Xbox Series X|S via backwards compatibility). Signs of the Sojourner was my Editor’s Spotlight for 2020–it’s one of the most intriguing games I’ve ever played, relying on deckbuilding to emulate conversations, code-switching, and cultural differences.

In Signs of the Sojourner, you’re tasked with joining a travelling caravan to attract goods for your struggling town and keep it on the region’s established trade route so that it can continue to survive. When you meet someone new, conversations play out by matching the symbols on your cards with the other person–succeed and it’s a good talk; fail and you’ll miscommunicate your points. As you acquire new cards and continue to build your deck, you’ll more easily be able to connect with folks from other towns, but shuffling out and losing the cards from your original deck will mean that you can’t as easily match up with the friends and family you grew up with back home.

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Bunny Day is just around the corner again in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Nintendo has made some tweaks to this year’s event. The holiday itself falls on April 4, but just as last year, eggs will appear around your island in the days leading up to it. Fortunately, they won’t be around for nearly as long.

As Nintendo detailed in a post on Switch’s News channel, this year’s Bunny Day will only run from March 28 to April 4. That’s much shorter than last year’s event, which ran for nearly two full weeks, from April 1-12. Players were quick to share their frustrations about Bunny Day across social media at the time, taking issue not only with poor Zipper T. Bunny (who is just doing his job), but also the prevalence of eggs.

The eggs in particular were a common cause for complaint. Throughout the event, different types of eggs would be hidden in trees, rocks, the ground, and the ocean and river. These could be used to craft special Bunny Day furniture, but the problem was they spawned much too frequently, making it difficult to dig up fossils or catch fish without being inundated with eggs.

Nintendo tried to address these complaints by adjusting the eggs’ appearance rates partway through the event, but by that point, Bunny Day had already been sullied for many. The event’s shorter duration this year should hopefully mean that it won’t be quite as annoying this time around.

That isn’t the only change Nintendo is making to this year’s Bunny Day. The company is also adding a handful of new Bunny Day items to the game. There will be five new items in total, and unlike the ones you could craft from recipes last year, these will be sold exclusively at Nook’s Cranny. You’ll see one item on sale in the shop’s seasonal corner each day leading up to the event. The return of eggs means you’ll also have another chance to craft any Bunny Day items you may have missed from last year.

The new Bunny Day items were added as part of New Horizons’ 1.9.0 update, which also increased the number of design slots you can have and introduced a variety of Sanrio-inspired villagers and items. The Sanrio content is tied to the Animal Crossing Sanrio Amiibo cards, which will go on sale in the US for the first time starting March 26. Beyond that, Nintendo is also rolling out a new update for NookLink later this month, and an Animal Crossing collaboration with Build-a-Bear was recently announced.