On April 6, a new streaming service will launch called Quibi. What sets this apart from others is that all of the content is no longer than 10-minutes per episode. Now, the service has revealed what’s coming in its first month, and there are a slew of original series headed your way.
On April 6, two beloved MTV shows are getting a revamp. First, there is Singled Out–hosted by Keke Palmer and Joel Kim Booster. The show will reflect today’s dating atmosphere and have 20 episodes. Secondly, there is Punk’d, this time hosted by Chance The Rapper. In the press release for the show, augmented reality is mentioned, so we’ll see how that plays out in this well-known prank series.
Next up, Chrissy Teigen plays the judge, jury, and possibly executioner in the new court room show Chrissy’s Court, where she’ll hear cases in small claims court and make a ruling. That series debuts on April 6. Finally, there is 50 States of Fright, the horror series landing on April 13. This series is executive produced by Sam Raimi, and Raimi will also direct and co-write alongside Ivan Raimi. Check out the teaser for the new show below.
After each show’s premiere date, new episodes will be released daily on Quibi, as opposed to weekly on other services. This makes the wait to binge-watch something a whole lot shorter.
Quibi will cost $5 a month with ads and $8 a month without ads. To kick things off, Quibi is offering a 90-day free trial for the service. To start, it will be available on iOS and Android devices, as the service is geared towards mobile devices. Below, you will find everything coming to Quibi in April. If you’re interested in more streaming service news, check out what’s coming to Netflix, Hulu, Shudder, Crackle, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ for the month of April as well.
Fortnite‘s Week 6 challenges of Season 2 are now live, and like last week’s batch, these are themed around the Meowscles skin. That means that you’ll need to do some cat-like things to complete a few of the missions, such as destroying dog houses. If you’re not sure where those can be found, we’ve put together the map and guide below to help you out.
Where Are The Dog House Locations?
Dog houses aren’t exactly prominent fixtures, so you may have some trouble tracking them down. Fortunately, there are quite a few of them scattered around the map, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to find three and complete this challenge. Many can be found by houses in big residential areas like Pleasant Park and Holly Hedges, so you’ll definitely want to narrow your search to places like that. To make it easier, we’ve marked down some areas where you can reliably find dog houses on the map below.
Fortnite dog house locations
How To Complete The Challenge
Now that we know where dog houses are, all you need to do is smash three of them and this challenge will be complete. Your best bet will probably be Holly Hedges; there are four dog houses in that area alone, and you only need to destroy three to clear the mission, so you can conceivably complete the challenge in one go.
I miss Game of Thrones, and if you were one of the millions who tuned in every week for eight seasons to catch the latest machinations of the Starks, Targaryens, and Lannisters, you’ve likely spent the better part of the past year looking for a show to fill the void HBO’s (mostly) stellar political drama with dragons left behind. While Netflix’s The Letter for the King isn’t a perfect replacement for the cultural phenomenon that was GoT, I’d highly recommend it as a relatively quick binge that scratches that itch. (You can also read David Griffin’s official IGN review for The Letter for the King!)
The new series, which is available on Netflix globally, can be most easily pitched as Game of Thrones with kids — and I mean that as a positive, if all things YA don’t immediately put you off. The plot is pretty straightforward: while training to become a knight, 16-year-old Tiuri (His Dark Materials’ Amir Wilson) finds himself in possession of — you guessed it — an important letter for the king of the realm.
But despite that simple premise, which is an adaptation of the 1962 Dutch novel of the same name from Tonke Dragt, the show is very ambitious in its scope and ultimately fulfills its promise. It has a surprising amount of political intrigue, interesting fantastical elements, and surprises throughout its six episodes that keep things interesting and engaging to someone used to the complexity of GoT, even as it leans into some familiar fantasy tropes, like “The Chosen One.”
What I liked most about The Letter for the King is the world it created. I’m a sucker for most things fantasy, so I’m predisposed to give your show a shot if you’ve got interesting characters, a solid magic system, and a good mystery. The Letter for the King checks all those boxes, and it also looks great. Shot in Prague and New Zealand, The Letter for the King feels akin to Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones in its scale, bringing its fantastical backdrop to life better than the likes of The Shannara Chronicles or, I’d argue, even The Witcher.
Unlike those previously mentioned titles, there aren’t really any big names you’ll recognize in The Letter for the King. The one key exception is Andy Serkis, who appears opposite his real-life daughter Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (adorably, he plays her dad in the show). But the young cast is great, with believable chemistry and strong performances that anchor the show even as it spins up in a fantastical way.
This isn’t YA in the same way as, say, the darkly, delightfully campy Riverdale or Pretty Little Liars. The Letter for the King is more Lord of the Rings than Game of Thrones in its earnest tone and commitment to its high fantasy setting, just with a younger cast. So if you’re looking for something new to watch and missing Game of Thrones like me, I can recommend The Letter for the King as a fantasy world I’m glad I sank six hours into.
For more new Netflix titles, be sure to check out the full rundown of what’s new to Netflix in March!
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Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN’s weekly video game talk show. This week we’re discussing the latest entry into IGN’s 10/10 Hall of Fame, this week’s surprise Nintendo Direct, The Last of Us Part 2, and more. Watch the video above or hit the link below to your favorite podcast service.
Things won’t be getting stranger until at least next year, with the Season 4 Stranger Things trailer dropping on Valentine’s Day of this year. But the show remains an excellent watch, not too serious but just serious enough to stand up to multiple rewatches. If you’re a Stranger Things fan like I am, the good news is we just added a ton of Stranger Things designs to the IGN Store to tide you over.
Stranger Things is just one of tons of officially licensed properties we have available in the IGN Store. We keep adding more, too, so check back regularly. Right now you can find some truly awesome designs from The Legend of Zelda, X-Men, Animal Crossing, DC Comics and way, way more.
Funimation, the premium anime streaming service, has grabbed the exclusive rights to two series: The Millionaire Detective – Balance: Unlimited and Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2. Both of these series will be arriving to the service this spring.
Kaguya-sama: Love is War follows the story of Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya, Shuchiin Academy’s student council leaders. Peers think the duo would make the perfect couple, but neither wants to go out on a limb to ask the other out. So they determine ways to trick the other into instigating a date. Check out the Season 2 trailer below.
Season 2 of of the romantic comedy series, Kaguya-sama, arrives this April. The new season will be subtitled. Currently, all episodes of Season 1 (subtitled) are streaming on Funimation. English dubs for both seasons will arrive later this year.
Also arriving to Funimation this spring is The Millionaire Detective – Balance: Unlimited. The series follows Modern Crime Prevention Task Force detective Daisuke Kambe and partner Haru Kato at the Toyko Metropolian Police Department. They work in a department where only people who’ve caused problems for the police end up. It’s a real odd couple situation, as Daisuke is rich and materialistic and Haru believes money isn’t everything. Check out the trailer below.
No official release date has been revealed yet. The Millionaire Detective is created by Yasutaka Tsutsui (Paprika, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) and directed by Tomohiko Ito (Death Note, Sword Art Online).
If you’re looking for more anime to check out while you’re stuck at home, check out the 10 best romance anime, the best anime on Netflix, or the best anime of 2020 to watch, which includes the recently-released Beastars on Netflix. In her review of Beastars, Jenny Zheng said, “Beastars isn’t interested in a tidy equality message per se–it’s more concerned with exploring what the characters think equality is, unpacking that, dumping it on the floor, and watching them slip and slide in the mess. It’s a glorious and complicated examination of power (both physical and via capital resources) and social relationships through the lens of an anthropomorphic society.”
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you could travel to a tropical island and find a variety of different fish, bugs, and fruit. This island was always the same, permanently in summer year-round. The Mystery Tour in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an extension of this feature, with a variety of deserted islands to visit (but within your own hemisphere and season).
Mystery Tour islands are much smaller than your main island, but they’re great for meeting new villagers, gathering extra resources, and even making tons of money if you’re lucky. We’ve rounded up our best tips for deserted-island hopping as well as all the types of Mystery Tour islands we’ve found so far.
Once your airport is open (starting the second day you play the game), you’ll be able to use a Nook Miles Ticket to go to a deserted island. You can purchase Nook Miles Tickets for 2,000 Nook Miles each at the Nook Stop machine in Resident Services.
Once you have a ticket, talk to Orville at the airport, select the “I wanna fly!” option, and then select “Use Nook Miles Ticket.” You’ll then be whisked away to a random island on your Mystery Tour!
These islands come in a variety of styles ranging from pretty basic to rare and lucrative; we’ve detailed all the types we’ve encountered so far below. Keep in mind that an island is generated each time you buy a Nook Miles Ticket, which means you can’t keep resetting the game to try and get a different island with the same ticket.
What To Do On A Deserted Island
Depending on the type of island you get, there are a few different approaches you can take to make the most of your Mystery Tour. No matter what, we recommend emptying your pockets of everything except for your tools, as there is no way to send or otherwise keep any resources beyond your pocket capacity once you’ve left the deserted island.
Stock Up On Resources
Deserted islands are great for gathering resources. Each island can be completely emptied of resources with no repercussions; you’ll never return to an island you’ve already visited.
Like on your own island, on Mystery Tour islands, you can gather weeds, tree branches, wood, fruit, clay, stone, and iron, as well as catch bugs and fish. You may also find a fossil buried in the ground or a DIY recipe in a bottle on the beach. You can even eat fruit on the island to gain super strength and dig up trees to take home–including coconut trees you can plant on your own beach.
Mystery Tours are a great way to get all the resources you need to build Nook’s Cranny–which requires 30 iron and 30 of all three types of wood–in a short amount of time. Mining for these resources on a deserted island is a great option once you’ve depleted your own island’s resources for the day.
If your tools wear out, you can either craft some more with the resources on the deserted island or buy flimsy tools for 100 Nook Miles each from Wilbur, the Dodo Airlines pilot. The tools purchased can still be upgraded with an iron ore to the higher-tier tool.
Meet New Villagers
A great way to control who moves into your island home is by inviting specific villagers yourself. You can find potential new island villagers on deserted islands, usually with a campfire of some kind, who will glady move into your town if asked.
Villagers will only spawn on deserted islands if you have room for them to move onto your main island and a plot picked out for a new house. If you have 10 villagers living on your island or no open plots, you won’t find anyone on these islands.
Seek Out Better Weather
While it’s not guaranteed, the weather on any given Mystery Tour island can be different from that of your own island. This can be useful for finding different fish or bugs that spawn in different weather–say, if it’s raining on your island and you want to catch rain-shy bugs.
Make Money
Some Mystery Tour islands are rife with money-making opportunities, so you should be on the lookout for some of the more lucrative types of islands. Below, we’ve outlined the kinds of islands we’ve found so far and what different opportunities you can find on each.
Deserted Island Types
There are different kinds of Mystery Tour islands you can encounter, with some being rarer than others. No matter which island you get, we recommend at least hitting all the rocks–as iron and gold nuggets are a relatively scarce resource–and scanning the shore for DIY recipes before you leave.
Standard Islands
Sometimes, you’ll just get a pretty normal island. These islands will have your native fruit, a normal assortment of trees and flowers, and a basic river with no apparent difference in the type or frequency of bug and fish spawns. There will be a few rocks, all of which contain resources (no money rocks, in other words), and one tree will have furniture in it. Many of these islands will also have one fossil, while the rarer islands usually don’t.
Spiral Island
A kind of standard island, there’s a layout in which the river runs in a spiral with a rock at the center of the island. We haven’t noticed a big difference in what you can get on these islands, but maybe they’ll inspire some of your island designs down the road.
Cliff Island
Also apparently a subset of the standard island, we’ve found islands that are primarily cliffs, with most of the river up on the cliffs as well. While everything else about the island is pretty normal, you’ll have an easier time grinding for clifftop fish with this layout.
Rock Island
We’ve also encountered an island that just has a bunch of rocks at the center atop a cliff. All the rocks contain crafting materials, so again, no money rocks.
Foreign Fruit Island
This one is slightly more rare. It is otherwise a normal island, except all the trees are fruit trees–and it’s a different fruit than the one native to your island! You can pick the fruit and take it home to sell or plant (we recommend planting it first).
There are five possible fruits–apples, oranges, peaches, cherries, and pears–and the four fruits that aren’t native to your island sell for 500 bells each. Bringing back and planting these foriegn fruit trees can be a great way to make some real cash. If you want to dig up the whole tree and bring it back with you, we recommend eating coconuts to gain the strength to do so; coconuts are less valuable than foreign fruits.
Bamboo Island
Somewhat common, the bamboo island only has bamboo on it–no rivers or ponds, though it does have rocks, coconut trees, and sometimes fossils. You can dig up bamboo shoots and plant them on your island, or you can eat some coconuts and dig up the bamboo trees whole.
Bamboo is an important resource in crafting, so it’s also a good idea to take a flimsy or stone axe to the bamboo trees and harvest as much bamboo as you can while you’re there.
Hybrid Flower Island
Even more rare is an island covered in hybrid flowers–pink, black, orange, purple, or blue flowers whose seeds you can’t buy from Timmy and Tommy. They’ll usually be accompanied by butterflies, many of which only spawn around these rare hybrid flowers. In addition to catching these butterflies, which should fetch a good price, you should dig up and take home a few of each color so you can keep catching rare butterflies at home.
Money Rock Island
If you ever find an island where there’s a group of rocks in the center, surrounded by a river, then you have hit the jackpot. Those rocks are all money rocks, just like the one rock that spawns every day on the main island.
To reach the middle, you’ll need to smash the one rock blocking the path; you can do this by eating a piece of fruit and hitting the rock with a shovel. Once you’ve smashed the rock you can use your vaulting pole to reach the middle. Make sure to dig some holes directly behind you before you start hitting each rock–this will ensure you can hit them in quick succession and get the whole 16,100 bells from each rock.
Tarantula Island
An island to fuel your nightmares, the tarantula island is inhabited by a seemingly infinite number of tarantulas. They sell for 8,000 bells each, so catch as many as you can carry. This is absolutely one of the jackpot islands, even if it’s a little creepy.
Trash Island
This island appears normal and consists of regular trees and flowers like every other island; the catch is that the river, lake, and ocean are full of trash. Fishing on this island will only yield trash items (cans, tires, and boots). The upside is that, by catching a bunch of trash, you’ll at least unlock some DIY recipes.
One of Netflix‘s more popular animated series, Castlevania, is coming back to the streaming service, as it was announced the show is getting a Season 4. The news was revealed in a three-second video on Twitter. There’s not a lot to go on here, just some typical summoning of Sir Mirror. Check it out for yourself.
The original tweet asks you to reply with the clapping hands emoji. We’re not sure if anything is supposed to happen if you do, as we’ve replied to the tweet and have not received a response. So it doesn’t seem this is like the recent Candyman promotion, where if you tweeted something specific, you’d get to see a clip from the movie as a reply to the tweet.
The third season of Castlevania hit Netflix on March 5, and in his review, Mike Rougeau said, “Netflix’s Castlevania is absolutely a guilty pleasure; a grindhouse cartoon for adults who grew up playing Symphony of the Night, listening to metal, and watching shonen anime. But it’s also an exceptionally well-made guilty pleasure, with a fantastic cast, unique animated action, mature tone, decent writing, smart pacing, and generally gorgeous look, feel, and sound. In the end, you’ll want to pick up a controller and revisit your favorite game in the series, which, in the troubled landscape of video game adaptations, is maybe the biggest compliment one can pay.”
While we’re still a long ways off from seeing the latest season, you can still look and see what’s coming to Netflix this April, which includes a bizarre new WWE/Netflix movie about a kid wearing a luchador mask that gives him superpowers, so he uses these abilities to wrestling professionally.
When it comes to playing the Nintendo Switch in handheld mode, it can be a bit difficult for those with big hands. Whether it’s cramps or my hands falling asleep, it’s not a very comfortable experience. Thankfully, there are a lot of great options, including Switch grips and one particularly great controller. The Hori Split Pad Pro was released alongside last year’s Daemon X Machina, but thankfully, it works great with almost every single game on the Switch–and right now, it’s discounted on Amazon.
The Hori Split Pad Pro is currently $40.54 on Amazon right now, down from its original price of $50. It comes with free Prime shipping, though depending on your location, it may take a while to arrive. It’s unclear how long this deal will last, so if you’re interested, it’s best to act sooner rather than later.
Hori Split Pad Pro
$40.54 ($50)
Hori Split Pad Pro
The Split Pad Pro is my preferred way of playing the Switch in handheld mode. Its ergonomic design makes it a more comfortable experience, and its analog sticks are more similar to a standard controller than what the Joy-Cons feature. It also boasts bigger face and shoulder buttons as well as an excellent D-pad and programmable back paddles–and to top it all off, the Switch still fits perfectly into its dock. It’s important to note that these controllers only work in handheld mode.
If you’re interested in more great pads, be sure to check out the best Nintendo Switch controllers for 2020. There are a bunch of excellent options, no matter what your budget or preferred genre is. If you game on the Switch, there’s an awesome controller that’s perfect for you.
