Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ Bunny Day event revolves around collecting eggs in a variety of ways, and while you can eat them like fruit, their primary purpose is to be used in crafting. If you’re able to craft all of the new items from the event, Zipper T. Bunny promises a special gift of some sort, so there’s a reason to make even items you may not care for.
There are a ton of new DIY recipes you’ll earn during the course of the event, and they all call for the use of eggs. But how do you get recipes, and which ones are there to collect? We’ve assembled some tips on where to find recipes and amassed a list of every one we’ve seen so far so you can cross-reference with your own crafting list and see how many you might still need to hunt down.
How To Get Bunny Day Recipes
Much like eggs, recipes are acquired in a number of ways that mostly align with regular activities. You’ll want to scavenge your beaches each day, as you may find a special message-in-a-bottle with a recipe inside. Likewise, your neighbors may have some to share–if one of them excitedly approaches you, be sure to chat with them. You’ll make their day and potentially get something to show for it.
The most common source of recipes seems to be from presents popping balloons with a slingshot. During the event, in addition to the appearance of standard present-bearing balloons, you’ll see special Bunny Day-themed balloons appear. Shoot them down and you’ll find yourself with either a Sky egg or another recipe.
In addition to these recipes, which include things like wallpapers and furniture, there are clothing recipes. Collect enough of a specific egg type, and you’ll receive three corresponding recipes: a shell, an outfit, and shoes.
Zipper teases that more recipes will be hidden as Bunny Day proper–April 12–approaches, so it’s unclear if everything is already available.
With all of the visually stunning games on the way this year, such as Resident Evil 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, upgrading your PC can sound rather enticing, especially now that most of us are stuck inside. Over the past couple of weeks, Newegg has had a number of great deals that help with that, and their latest is one of the best. The Gigabyte RTX 2070 8GB is currently $380 with promo code 4NFJSPC54.
The RTX 2070 is great for 1440p gaming and shines at 1080p, especially if you’re looking for frame rates that exceed 60 FPS. I currently have a comparable RTX 2070 and run the vast majority of games at High to Ultra settings at 1440p with frame rates ranging from 60-144 FPS. Of course, performance will vary based on the rest of your PC’s hardware. Gigabyte’s RTX 2070 features three DisplayPort outputs and a fourth for HDMI, so make sure you have the appropriate cables if you’re looking to hook up multiple monitors.
Gigabyte RTX 2070 8GB
$380 with promo code 4NFJSPC54
Newegg has a number of other good deals as well. If you’re looking for a monitor to pair with your new RTX 2070, then a 27-inch Asus monitor is on sale for $200. It has a 144Hz refresh rate and FreeSync with G-Sync compatibility, meaning you’ll have an extra smooth experience when running games at variable frame rates. There’s also a great deal on an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X processor for $299, which comes with three months of Xbox Game Pass for PC. Be sure to check out Newegg for the rest of the great PC hardware deals.
If you’re looking for some games to play on your PC, you should check out all of the free games you can claim right now. Several developers have made their games free to help support those staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Landorus, the third and final member of the Forces of Nature trio from Pokemon Black and White, has finally arrived in Pokemon Go. The Legendary Abundance Pokemon will be available until 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET on April 21, so you’ll only have a limited time to capture it. If you’re hoping to add one to your collection before it leaves the game, we’ve rounded up some tips on how to battle and catch Landorus below.
Beyond that, Landorus will also be available as a Go Battle League reward encounter. You’ll have a chance to catch the Legendary Pokemon if you are able to hit rank 4 in the Go Battle League PvP mode. You normally need to walk 5 km before you can participate in the Go Battle League, but Niantic has dropped that restriction given the current circumstances.
Landorus Weaknesses And Counters
Landorus is a Ground/Flying Pokemon. This unique combination means certain types that normally have an advantage over Flying Pokemon–such as Electric and Rock–only deal neutral damage to Landorus. Similarly, while Grass Pokemon are normally strong against Ground types, they’ll only do neutral damage to Landorus thanks to the fact that it’s part-Flying.
However, Landorus’s typing opens up a glaring weakness to Ice Pokemon, so you’ll want to stack your team with monsters like Mamoswine, Glaceon, and Weavile when challenging it. Water Pokemon like Kyogre, Suicune, and Gyarados also have an advantage over Landorus, so you can round out your team with those for your best chance to defeat the Legendary.
Xbox Game Pass subscribers of both the Standard and Ultimate tiers have a brand-new quirky ragdoll game to play on Xbox One with the release of Totally Reliable Delivery Service.
The multiplayer physics game–which just launched on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One for $15–tasks you and up to three friends either online or offline with delivering packages across an expansive world using any means necessary. This includes taking to the skies in a helicopter, traversing the ocean on a speedboat, darting around the world on a rocket, and more.
TRDS was developed by We’re Five Games and published by TinyBuild. It features very cartoonish visuals akin to No Brakes Games’ Human: Fall Flat, hilarious ragdoll physics, and an irreverence to ensure it doesn’t take itself too seriously. You can push your duties to the side in favor of playing with the game’s many toys, complete deliveries on-time to earn various rewards, or otherwise just cause absolute chaos in totally bonkers ways.
From developer Cold Symmetry, Mortal Shell includes the deliberate combat that has been popularized by From Software’s Souls series, with role-playing elements that let you upgrades weapons and skills as you explore a non-linear open-world. The reveal trailer below sets its tone well, with a more horror-focused atmosphere than that of its influences.
One aspect of Mortal Shell that stands out is the shells themselves. You’ll physically wear the empty bodies of fallen warriors, each of which will play with different fighting styles and abilities. You can get comfortable with a shell and upgrade it further, letting you choose your style of play and adapt accordingly with items and weapons on top of it.
Mortal Shell has been in development for over two years, with Cold Symmetry comprising of only 15 employees. It’s three co-founders–Andrew McLennan-Murray, Anton Gonzalez, and Vitaly Bulgarov–are excited to finally show off the studio’s work. “The last two years have been a time of non-stop growth, full of shocking revelations of sheer complexity that goes into creating a video game that you, yourself, would really enjoy playing,” a press release from the studio reads.
Mortal Shell isn’t too far away either, with a planned launch in Q3 2020. You can apply to play the beta on the game’s official website, although details of the test are not yet known.
April is officially underway, which means Pokemon Go developer Niantic has once again refreshed the game’s Field Research list. Many of April’s Field Research tasks are the same as March’s, although some offer new rewards, and you won’t find many tasks that require you to hatch eggs (which is helpful as many part of the world are under lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Unlike the more story-focused Special Research quests, Field Research tasks are distributed via PokeStops. You’ll receive a random task when you spin the Photo Disc, and each one you complete will net you rewards, which can range from helpful items like Berries to encounters with certain Pokemon.
On top of that, the first Field Research task you complete each day will earn you a stamp. If you collect seven stamps, you’ll achieve what’s called a Research Breakthrough, which will net you additional rewards as well as an encounter with a special Pokemon. April’s Research Breakthrough reward is the rare Alolan Exeggutor; you’ll get a chance to catch the Pokemon each time you achieve a Research Breakthrough this month.
As previously mentioned, the Field Research tasks you receive from PokeStops will be randomly drawn from a larger pool. You can see the full list of April’s Field Research tasks, as compiled by The Silph Road, below.
In addition to these tasks, Niantic is offering a handful of Field Research quests that tie into Pokemon Go’s April Fools’ event, which runs from April 1-7. These can lead to encounters with Sudowoodo, Croagunk, and the debuting Gen 5 Pokemon Stunfisk. Niantic has also outlined some other Pokemon Go events happening in April.
Pokemon Go April 2020 Field Research Tasks
Catching Tasks
Field Research Task
Rewards
Catch 5 Pokemon with Weather boost x
Poliwag or Vulpix encounter; 200 Stardust, 3 Razz Berries, 1 Pinap Berry, or 5 Poke Balls
Catch 10 Pokemon with Weather boost x
500 Stardust, 6 Razz Berries, 2 Pinap Berries, or 5 Great Balls
With coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns continuing to mount and social distancing mandates getting extended, the organization behind the annual gaming convention RTX has rescheduled this year’s event.
Instead of taking place from July 3-5, entertainment production company Rooster Teeth has moved RTX to Labor Day Weekend: September 5-7. It doesn’t seem like any other changes are being made to the convention at the moment, but refunds will be offered to those who change their mind.
We have not finalized all of the details to announce, but the news is out. #RTXAustin is moving to Labor Day weekend (Sept. 5-7, 2020). We will offer refunds, and your current purchased badge will be valid for the rescheduled event. All the details will be coming soon.
“We are training and preparing to implement additional precautionary measures at RTX such as increasing the frequency of cleaning and disinfecting of commonly touched objects like door handles, placing prominent hand sanitizer stations throughout our venues, and placing educational signage reminding attendees to take precautions,” the company wrote in a blog post. “In addition to meeting the standards set forth by the city of Austin, we are also holding ourselves to the strict standards set by our parent company, WarnerMedia, who have already implemented several new policies in the last month to protect our staff at Rooster Teeth.”
The basic concept for Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s boss battles originated in Yonkama Manga, a classic comic style based around telling a story in four panels.
The insight was revealed as part of the Inside Final Fantasy VII Remake docu-series, a set of videos from Square Enix that offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the development of the Remake project.
Near the end of the video, Lead Battle Designers Tomotaka Shiroichi and Kosuke Sakane talk about how the boss battles in Final Fantasy 7 Remake were inspired by Yonkama, a four-panel manga style from Japan.
Yonkoma is usually seen as a comic style made up of four panels in a vertical column, which follows a famous structure known as Kishotenketsu. As Shiroichi explains, the core parts of this structure include an introduction, a middle part, a development and a conclusion.
The developers go on to explain how this works in the context of Final Fantasy, their words supplemented by footage of the Abzu boss fight from Final Fantasy 7 Remake. In the footage, the player encounters the beast and is on the back foot, but then studies its special moveset and counters with targeted attacks, leading to its defeat.
“Encounter the enemy and start the battle in Phase 1, show each other’s hand and the boss takes lead in Phase 2, In Phase 3, the boss shows you the signature attacks and the players start fighting back,” Shiroichi explains. “That’s when bosses start revealing their weaknesses – Phase 4 is the climax and introduces the next part of the storyline!”
The battle designers note that the boss battles in Final Fantasy 7 Remake follow this pattern and as such, connect key events within the story by following those four steps from Yonkama manga.
According to Shiroichi, each phase should also display Jo-Ha-Kyu, a Japanese concept of movement that he describes as a “slow start, swift break, and rapid end.” The video contains a number of other details about how the team behind Final Fantasy 7 Remake approached the game’s combat, including a section interviewing the game’s director Tetsuya Nomura about balancing the old-school hallmarks of Final Fantasy 7’s ATB system with the demands of a modern audience.
Rockstar Games has announced that it will donate 5% of its online revenue to COVID-19 relief efforts.
The news was revealed in a post from the Rockstar Games Twitter account, where the company explained that, from April 1, 5% of in-game purchases in GTA Online and Red Dead Online will go towards COVID-19 relief. The donation period will last until the end of May.
This means that a percentage of the price of Rockstar’s in-game microtransactions like Gold Bars in Red Dead Online and Shark Cards in GTA Online will go towards helping aid those who have been affected by COVID-19.
“These funds will be used to help local communities and businesses struggling with the impacts of COVID-19, both directly and by supporting some of the amazing organizations who are on the ground,” the statement reads.
The decision was made after the team had noticed that communities around Rockstar offices in “North America, the UK, India and beyond” were facing hardship due to the pandemic, with small businesses closing doors and those who need government support unable to access it. “The road ahead will be challenging, and we want to help where we can,” the statement reads.
You know the name, but how much do you really know about Blade? Marvel’s sunglasses-clad vampire hunter has been slaying bloodsuckers in comic book pages since 1973. He hit the mainstream with the release of his Wesley Snipes-starring horror-action film in 1998, although the character went through quite a few changes from his comic counterpart in that adaptation. Two more blockbuster movies would cement his status as the monster who scares the monsters.
At 2019’s San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel set Hall H ablaze with the news that Mahershala Ali would be taking over the iconic character in the MCU. So let’s learn more about Blade and his comic book roots to get an idea of where a new direction might take him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. These are the topics we’ll be covering here:
Blade, whose real name is Eric Brooks, was practically born a vampire slayer. His mother was turned into a vampire mere moments before his birth, which granted him supernatural abilities including long life and immunity to vampire bites. He became a hunter of the undead with the driving desire to claim vengeance on Deacon Frost, the monster that bit his mother.
“For me, it’s only ever been about makin’ them pay,” he said in Blade: Crescent City Blues. “I’m a vampire hunter. I never claimed to be a hero.”
His quest for revenge would not only lead him to Frost, but ultimately into fights against the undead and other supernatural horrors alongside allies like Doctor Strange, Wolverine, Gwenpool, the X-Men, and the Avengers.
In 1929, Eric was born in England to a woman named Tara Brooks. (His father was Lucas Cross, a Latverian dissident who was arrested for treason; he had sent his wife away for her safety.) Eric’s mother died in childbirth when the “doctor” called in to assist with labor drained her of blood instead—with the help of two very sharp fangs. The fiend’s name? Deacon Frost.
Eric was born with an immunity to a vampire’s bite thanks to his dual nature of both human and vampire, but he was already an orphan. His mother’s friends raised the young boy until he was old enough to learn how to fight under the tutelage of Jamal Afari. The elder vampire hunter taught him everything he knew about the undead, investigation, and close combat. Eventually his prowess with weapons earned young Eric the nickname Blade.
True to his name, Blade brandished blades of all types, from teak wood daggers for staking to a lethal double-edged sword. He used them without mercy against any vampire who got in his way, whether the undead was an ancient horror or a recently turned innocent child.
Blade’s Powers and Abilities
Due to his dual nature as a dhampir — also called a Daywalker — Blade has a heightened awareness of the supernatural and he cannot be turned into a vampire. While not immortal, Blade ages much more slowly than a human.
Morbius and Blade clashed on more than one occasion; Morbius bit the hunter on the arm in one confrontation (Peter Parker: Spider-Man #8). Blade was not immune to the living vampire’s unique physiology. As a result, Blade gained even more vampiric abilities like super strength and agility and regenerative healing, but also fangs and a thirst for blood.
He is highly trained in martial arts and is an expert marksman—especially with silver bullets locked and loaded.
Blade vs. Dracula
Blade’s Signature Villains
No matter the vampire he faced, Blade was undaunted. As he hunted Frost, Blade crossed paths with vampires from the smallest lackey all the way to Dracula himself. He took out the Lord of Vampires more than once. The two have a long history of facing off (and even occasionally teaming up) ever since Blade’s original appearance in 1973, including as part of the X-Men event Curse of the Mutants and in the 2019 Avengers storyline War of the Vampires.
But he remained single-minded in his pursuit of Deacon Frost. The vampire had the unique ability to create doppelgängers of anyone he had turned and was capable of making a decoy of himself as well. Any doppelgänger he created was under his complete control. Blade would battle against copies of himself, his friends, and Frost before their final confrontation in 2005’s Tomb of Dracula #4.
Later, in the aftermath of the Infinity storyline, Eric Brooks joined the Mighty Avengers to fight against an old foe, the immortal Deathwalkers. He wished to remain anonymous so his undead enemies wouldn’t find him; he donned a store-bought Spider-Man costume and posed as “Spider Hero.” Later he would find Ronin’s costume in a box that belonged to Clint Barton and assume that masked identity for a time. He revealed his face to both his foes and readers in Mighty Avengers #9.
Most moviegoers picture Blade in the form of Wesley Snipes thanks to his incredibly successful trilogy of explosive movies that began in 1998. In the film version of the character, Blade was born with all of the vampire powers such as super strength and reflexes but with none of their weaknesses. He was born in Detroit, and, true to his comics history, his mother was bitten by Frost while pregnant.
In another nod to his comics past, Blade works with an older mentor in the trilogy. Eventually he teams up with other bad-ass vampire hunting allies, including Hannibal King (played by Ryan Reynolds), a classic Marvel character that originally made his debut in the Tomb of Dracula comics alongside Blade.
The Blade films are often credited with electrifying audiences and kicking off the superhero movie surge that has dominated the box office in recent years.
Wesley Snipes played Blade in three films, beginning in 1998.
Marvel’s Blade in TV and Games
TV: A short-lived Blade TV series made its debut on Spike TV in 2006 following the third movie. In the series, Blade’s roots are again in Detroit, where he hunts a vampire named Marcus Van Sciver with the help of a new vampire named Krista. Only twelve episodes of the action-packed series were produced. Blade has appeared in animation as well, from the 1990s Spider-Man cartoon to Ultimate Spider-Man and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. ( where he was voiced by Terry Crews). He even starred in his own anime.
Games: He’s also shown up in several Marvel video games, including movie tie-in games, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Marvel Puzzle Quest, Marvel Heroes, Marvel Contest of Champions, Lego Marvel Super Heroes 1 and 2, and most recently Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order.
As Marvel wrapped up another earth-shattering panel in Hall H at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con, they had one last surprise for the ecstatic audience. Mahershala Ali joined Kevin Feige on the stage to announce that a new Blade film is in the works for the near future. While the vampire hunter probably won’t be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe until after Phase 4 is complete, excitement is already growing for his introduction.
Given Blade’s early stories with Doctor Strange, the two could make for a magical movie team-up that adds supernatural horror to the MCU. Blade also has a long comics history with both Spider-Man and Morbius, easily opening the way for his entry into the Sony side of the Marvel movies. No matter who he takes along on his blood-filled quest for vengeance, we can’t wait to see how his introduction will change the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Kelly Knox is a freelance writer who also contributes to StarWars.com, DCComics.com, Nerdist, and more. Follow her on Twitter at @kelly_knox to talk Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons, and comics.
