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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is a remake of the very first Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games (and the demo has been out for a while now) but of course there’s more to it than what we’ve seen so far. Though we didn’t get to check out the just-announced Mega Evolutions in action, we did go hands-on with a different story dungeon and some new features not shown in the demo or available in the originals.

Watch the video above for short break downs and gameplay clips of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX’s Rescue Team Camp system, new Rare Qualities, the Pokemon recruiting mechanic, a short boss battle, and more—some of which is completely new to the remake.

Rescue Team Camps 

The path to the left of your home base in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (as seen in the video above) leads to the Rescue Team Camps! You can purchase these camps from Wigglytuff, and each camp can be inhabited by certain species of Pokemon. You won’t be able to permanently recruit Pokemon unless you have the Camp where they’d reside, and there’s a limited number of Pokemon you can “store” this way. The higher your Rescue Team rank, the higher this limit.

Rare Qualities 

The Rescue Team Camps menu is also where you can manage your Pokemon and feed them Gummis  to raise stats or unlock a Rare Quality. Rare Qualities are new to Rescue Team DX and grant Pokemon abilities that affect the entire team – like Brawl, which increases your team’s damage with more enemies in the room.

Preparing for a Dungeon

The ability to manage your team, items, and money from the dungeon departure screen appears to be a new feature of the remake, and a handy one at that. You always want to make sure to store money and items you don’t need, or else risk losing them if you suffer a full party wipe inside the dungeon.

Recruiting Pokemon

Sometimes, there will be fainted Pokemon in a dungeon. Find it and give it an apple – there’s a chance it will want to tag along. Rarely, a Pokemon you defeat in a dungeon will ask to join you too. Once you leave the dungeon, you can let these Pokemon join your Rescue Team as long as you have the right camp.

You’ll get a notice if you don’t have a camp a Pokemon can reside in. In which case, you can use a Wigglytuff Orb to summon Wigglytuff and purchase the camp you need to recruit said Pokemon, another new feature!

Unlike the original Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team, you can have up to eight Pokemon with you at a dungeon at a time, increasing the number from a sad four before, so recruiting Pokemon in Rescue Team DX will be much more efficient. Speaking of efficiency, the new Auto Mode substantially increases the pace you can explore a dungeon, but automatically switches off when an enemy is encountered, so it doesn’t do everything for you.

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Watch the video at the top of this page for the boss fight and an extra minute of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX gameplay within the Sinister Woods. Otherwise, that’s about all the new stuff we saw so far. For more on Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, check out the first 15 minutes of it in the video above.
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With news that director Scott Derrickson has parted ways with Marvel Studios over creative differences on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Sam Raimi will reportedly take his place, the door to a very special opportunity can now be opened. While Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy has long since gone and passed, the nature of the Marvel multiverse would allow for the fan-favorite director to revisit the Wall-Crawler one last time to provide closure on the story he never got to finish telling.

The multiverse was first mentioned in the original Doctor Strange movie when Tilda Swinton’s Ancient One schools Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange. She explains how our universe is only one in an infinite number. “Who are you in this vast Multiverse, Mr. Strange?” she asks him. It looks like the sequel will answer that question. And while the film’s main plot has something to do with Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch teaming up to combat some threat spawned from the multiverse, Raimi could use it for the ultimate fan service: bringing back Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man.

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The parallel realities of the multiverse reflect our own world but with various differences. One world might be overrun by a zombie plague while another one is populated by cartoon animals. The world of the Raimi Spider-Man films could be one of these alternate universes, meaning that Doctor Strange could cross paths with Maguire’s Spidey during his journey through the multiverse. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse already showed various Marvel characters from different realities meeting one another, so Doctor Strange 2 would just be making that happen in live-action.

In 2004’s Spider-Man 2, Raimi even included a reference to the good doctor when J. Jonah Jameson’s assistant, Hoffman, pitched “Doctor Strange” as a name for the escaped Doctor Octavius. “That’s pretty good, but it’s taken,” Jameson says. While played for laughs, that moment seemingly confirms a Doctor Strange exists in the Raimi-verse, so it wouldn’t be a stretch for the MCU Strange to cross paths with that version of himself and bump into Maguire’s Peter Parker along the way.

Speaking of Jameson, the credits stinger for Spider-Man: Far From Home featured JK Simmons reprising his role in order to curse the name of Spider-Man. While this was technically the MCU’s version of the character and not the Jameson from Raimi-verse, it shows that Sony and Marvel Studios are certainly open to the idea of utilizing actors and characters from the Raimi trilogy.

Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy ended on a sour note thanks to Spider-Man 3, and Raimi’s plans for a fourth Spider-Man movie never saw the light of day because Sony decided to reboot the franchise instead, so revisiting that world via this Doctor Strange sequel would give him the chance to properly tie up loose ends.

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Raimi himself isn’t a very big fan of Spider-Man 3. In a 2015 interview with Collider he got out his feelings, saying, “It’s a movie that just didn’t work very well. I tried to make it work, but I didn’t really believe in all the characters, so that couldn’t be hidden from people who loved Spider-Man. If the director doesn’t love something, it’s wrong of them to make it when so many other people love it. I think [raising the stakes after Spider-Man 2] was the thinking going into it, and I think that’s what doomed us. I should’ve just stuck with the characters and the relationships and progressed them to the next step and not tried to top the bar.”

Obviously Doctor Strange going on a full-fledged side-adventure with Maguire’s Spidey would detract from the main story, but a lot could be done even with a small cameo. Even if we just get a short scene that shows that everything turned out alright for Peter and Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson, it would mean a lot to fans who were left unsatisfied with what went down in Spider-Man 3. Raimi could finally give us a taste of how he would have progressed those character relationships after all these years. His take on Spider-Man is beloved by millions of fans and is remembered for helping kick off the modern superhero movie craze, so if he doesn’t use Doctor Strange’s jaunt through the multiverse as an opportunity to give that world a proper send-off, then that would just be, well, madness.

For more on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, check out our video primer below:

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The illustrated hardcover editions of the original four Harry Potter books have been on sale this week, and they’ve been a massively popular set of items with you (the IGN readers). The sale prices are beginning to cool off, but not entirely, and now the best deal on the first three books is the illustrated boxed set.

Harry Potter Illustrated Book Deals

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Some of the books are also available as paperbacks, and some are available on Kindle, so if you’d rather just read the books and enjoy their illustrations without the bother of a hardcover (for whatever reason), you could buy them on Kindle and enjoy them on your PC or your iPad. But honestly, why deprive yourself?

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Quibi has released the first trailer for its upcoming thriller, The Stranger, which is set to premiere on the new mobile streaming platform on Monday, April 6, 2020 — the same day the service launches.

Here’s how Quibi describes the movie: “A rideshare driver (Maika Monroe) is thrown into her worst nightmare when she picks up a mysterious Hollywood Hills passenger (Dane DeHaan). Her heart-stopping ride with ‘The Stranger’ unfolds over 12 hours as she navigates a spine-chilling game of cat and mouse.”

For a sneak peek at The Stranger, check out the teaser trailer in the video below:

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Quibi, which is short for “quick bites,” is a mobile streaming app that will feature (among other things) short-form videos, and will cost you $5 per month with ads ($8 for no ads). The Stranger falls under Quibi’s “Movies in Chapters” umbrella. Each chapter will run around 10 minutes in length, with all of the episodes available for viewing in portrait or landscape modes via your cell phone.

The Stranger is written, directed and executive produced by Veena Sud (Seven Seconds, The Killing). Zombieland: Double Tap’s Avan Jogia will star alongside DeHaan and Monroe. Watch the first chapter of The Stranger on Quibi on April 6, 2020.

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Not making the delay to April any easier, Square Enix has revealed the opening cinematic for Final Fantasy VII Remake, just shy of two months before the game is set to release.

The opening to Final Fantasy VII is memorable, giving you a glimpse of the Midgar skyline and the oppressiveness of Shinra’s establishments over the city. It’s also the first time you see protagonist Cloud, as he pulls off some daring maneuvers to board a moving train and kick-off the Avalanche mission at the start of the game. The remake is incredibly faithful to the original, as you can see for yourself below.

Square Enix has been teasing Final Fantasy VII Remake extensively over the past few days. An assortment of screenshots released yesterday gave us new looks at the main cast, some initial shots of series favorites such as the Chocobo, and a glimpse at some side-quests you’ll be able to undertake off the beaten path.

Final Fantasy VII Remake is scheduled to release on PS4 exclusively on April 10. It’s limited-time exclusivity is expected to last for a year, with releases expected thereafter.

With the April 15 tax deadline approaching for Americans, some might be wondering about what they do and do not need to disclose on their Form 1040 as it relates to gaming. The situation just got a little more complicated due to a change by the IRS.

The IRS recently removed wording from its website that said Americans needed to disclose whether or not they received, sold, exchanged, or acquired a financial interest in Fortnite or Roblox virtual currency during the 2019 tax year. Millions of Fortnite and Roblox players would presumably be impacted, as they would need to disclose this as taxable income.

The wording was discovered by Coin Center director Jerry Brito. The IRS removed the language after Bloomberg Tax followed up with the government group, though it has yet to comment officially on the matter.

A spokesperson for Epic Games told Bloomberg Tax that Fortnite’s virtual currency, V-Bucks, should not be included as a taxable interest because they cannot be exchanged for money. Roblox, however, allows players to cash out their virtual currency–Robux– for real money. A spokesperson for developer Roblox Corp. clarified that Roblox users who want to cash out must have IRS forms on file with the developer. The company also reports all payouts to the IRS.

It’s a complicated situation. While the IRS has removed Fortnite and Roblox from its wording for virtual currency taxable income, taxpayers might still be scratching their heads because the definition of “convertible virtual currencies” is still the same.

The Entertainment Software Association chimed in with its own statement that in-game currency that cannot be cashed out, as is the case in many games, and should not be treated thee same as Bitcoin and other virtual currencies that hold more real-world cash value.

“Game economies are typically closed economies where currencies cannot be cashed out or traded,” the ESA said. “Financial regulators who have considered the status of game currencies in detail have treated them distinctly different from Bitcoin and similar virtual currencies precisely because they cannot be cashed out. We think that is the appropriate approach and are hopeful that on closer consideration the IRS will correct its guidance.”

If you’re wondering what you should disclose on your taxes, you should talk to a tax professional.