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Apple TV+ has announced that it will be offering a collection of its original series for free for a limited time.

Starting today, April 10, 2020, you will be able to stream eight Apple originals via the Apple TV+ app which is available on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, Mac, select Samsung and LG smart TVs, and Amazon Fire TV and Roku devices. Check out the list of free shows in the list below:

• The Elephant Queen – The narrative follows Athena, a majestic elephant matriarch, who leads her family across an unforgiving, yet cinematic natural landscape made up of grasslands and woodlands, dotted with seasonal waterholes.
• Little America – From Lee Eisenberg and executive producers Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon and Alan Yang, Little America is an anthology series featuring eight funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring and surprising true stories of immigrants in America, when they’re more relevant now than ever.
• Servant (check out our review) – A psychological thriller from M. Night Shyamalan that follows a Philadelphia couple in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.
• For All Mankind (check out our review) – For All Mankind presents an aspirational world where NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families find themselves in the center of extraordinary events seen through the prism of an alternate history timeline — a world in which the USSR beats the US to the moon.

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• Dickinson (check out our review) – Dickinson, starring Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld and created by Alena Smith, audaciously explores the constraints of society, gender, and family from the perspective of rebellious young poet Emily Dickinson.
• Helpsters – A new live-action pre-school series from the makers of Sesame Street. Join Cody and the Helpsters – a team of vibrant monsters who love to solve problems. Whether it’s planning a party, climbing a mountain or mastering a magic trick, the Helpsters can figure anything out — because everything starts with a plan.
• Ghostwriter – A re-imagining of Sesame Workshops’ 1992 series. Each episode story arc is grouped around literature, featuring classics and new works commissioned from popular authors like D.J. MacHale and Kwame Alexander.
• Snoopy in Space – Blast off with Snoopy in a series of 12 animated shorts featuring Charlie Brown and the beloved Peanuts gang. Snoopy fulfills his dreams and embarks on his next big adventure: becoming a NASA astronaut. Joined by Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang, Snoopy takes command of the International Space Station and explores the moon and beyond.

For more on Apple TV+, be sure to check out our review of the streaming service and some of its new series, like the video-game inspired comedy Mythic Quest and the moody crime-drama, Truth Be Told.

And in other streaming news, we also reviewed every Quibi show and movie at launch in the gallery below:

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Before you reach the last act of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, you’ll find a load of side-quests to complete in Chapter 14. Unlike earlier quests, these ones are a little tougher to figure out, with the people you need to talk to and the locations you need to visit being a lot less obvious than they have been in the past. For the “Secret Medicine” side-quest, you actually need to access a second quest to find everything you need.

We’ve run down where to find all three ingredients for the “Secret Medicine” quest, so you can complete it quickly and efficiently to get one of the better quest rewards in the game. Here’s everything you need to know.

Check out our Final Fantasy 7 Remake guide rundown for everything else you need to know about FF7 Remake!

Secret Medicine Side-Quest Guide

Talk to the doctor across from the community center, who will send you to find herbs to make medicine. You need three items, but the first is easy: drop by the Moogle Emporium in the Kids’ Hideout to purchase the Moogle Mortar key item.

Your second ingredient is located in the church where Cloud and Aerith first met. Head to the train station north and west of the Sector 5 Central District, then follow the path north to the church. Grab the Medicinal Flower key item growing there on the ground.

Finally, head to Evergreen Park and talk to Wymer to get the Subterranean Menace quest, which will take you to the underground lab. There, you’ll have to fight the Behemoth Type 0 miniboss.

Type 0 Behemoth Boss Fight

Crawl down through the underground passage in Evergreen Park to reach the lab. You’ll need to fight your way through it to get to the Behemoth Type 0 boss at the far end. There are some tough fights in here, including a Wrath Hound like the one you dealt with in a sidequest back in Episode 3, but nothing you haven’t faced before.

The Behemoth is a different question. This giant monster is powerful, dangerous, and quick. Make sure you’re fully healed before you slip through the door marked with the Shinra caution tape to fight it. First and foremost, try to stay away from the beast’s head; it’ll swipe at you with its claws, slam the ground to stagger your characters, and thrash them with its horns for big damage. You also generally want to try to keep away from it after you get in close for melee hits, as the Behemoth will occasionally spin in circles to slam everybody who’s nearby.

Your goal in bringing down the Behemoth is to cripple first one half of its body, then the other. A good way to do this is to take over control of Barret, so you can focus fire on either its Upper Body or Lower Body with a variety of attacks, while staying out of harm’s way. Anything you throw at the Behemoth will work, although unless you put a lot of punishment on the Behemoth’s horns, avoid spells–magic will trigger counterattacks until the horns are destroyed.

It’s going to take a lot of damage to cripple one of its body parts, but when you do manage it, quickly focus up on the other body part and lay down as much damage as you can, as quick as you can. Be careful, because the Behemoth will still be capable of attacking you, even if it can’t get away from you. If you can cripple both sides, you can stagger it for some massive damage.

Repeat the process until the job is done; it’ll take a while, but if you keep on top of healing spells, you should be okay. Use your best attacks but execute either with range or hit-and-run tactics to minimize the damage you take.

Defeat it and return to the doctor to get Teluric Scriptures Vol. III as a reward, which will give you some skill points for Aerith.

Robin of Sherwood is available on Amazon Prime, Tubi, and on DVD box sets.

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Decades before Vikings and Game of Thrones there was Robin of Sherwood. This imaginative British TV series owed far more to the moody and mythic 1981 feature film Excalibur than to the vibrant and merry swashbucklers that had come to define the legendary outlaw of Nottinghamshire.

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Running from 1984-86, Robin of Sherwood was a serious retelling of the Robin Hood saga, its New Age atmosphere established off the bat by Clannad’s enchanting opening theme song. The series was shot in a you-are-there style on location in the woods of England, which lent the show a grimy realism — especially in its fight scenes — yet it also utilized mystical and pagan elements to suggest sorcery might have really existed back then. For this Robin Hood is a prophesied figure — The Hooded Man, who has come to aid the oppressed — looked over by the forest spirit Herne the Hunter.

While less polished and, by modern standards, more languidly paced than contemporary viewers might be accustomed to sitting through, Robin of Sherwood is an intriguing forerunner to medieval fare like Vikings and The Last Kingdom as well as sword & sorcery series like Game of Thrones and The Witcher. It features a fine ensemble cast with several faces that may prove familiar to genre fans, including Ray Winstone, Excalibur’s Robert Addie, Watchmen and Altered Carbon’s Matt Frewer, Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones vet John Rhys-Davies, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s Richard O’Brien as a slithery pagan sorcerer.

Long before Game of Thrones made viewers accustomed to having main characters die, Robin of Sherwood did the unthinkable and — SPOILER! — killed off Robin Hood himself. Michael Praed played Robin of Loxley for the first two seasons before perishing in the final episode of Season 2. In Season 3, Herne the Hunter chose Robert of Huntingdon (Jason Connery, son of Sean) to succeed Robin as The Hooded Man. In this way, Robin of Sherwood addresses the varied accounts of Robin Hood by simply making the name a pseudonym assumed by different characters. It was a curious but effective choice that saw the second Robin Hood plagued with doubts about following such an iconic predecessor.

Robin of Sherwood never received a fourth season so the series ended with certain storylines left unresolved. But for its three-season-run Robin of Sherwood offered viewers some very cinematic television for its time, shot in a style that melded naturalism with mysticism. Robin of Sherwood wasn’t always great — not all the acting was solid and, again, its pacing may not sync with modern attention spans — but it was always distinctive and ahead of its time. It’s definitely worth discovering during these stay-at-homes times.

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Capcom has announced that the Full Bloom Fest seasonal event is now live in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

The event, which runs until May 7 at 4:59 PM PT / 7:59 PM ET / 11:59 GMT, gives players the chance to earn a variety of gear, including weapons, armor, pendants, and more. Every player will receive one special ticket for each day they log in to Monster Hunter World. These can be used to craft new equipment for yourself and your Palico, but that’s not the only way to earn them.

You can also get tickets by taking on Event Quests or assisting lower rank players via Hunter Helper, which will reward you with VIP tickets. These can be used to craft “the Layered Armor equivalent of your Rose outfit and various other weapon pendants following the same rose bouquet motif.”

Capcom also added a few new quests to Monster Hunter World with the arrival of the Full Bloom Fest, like the “Skyward Snipers” quest that gives you the opportunity to craft the Downy Crake layered headpiece. Those still after the Whetfish Sabers can take on the “A Fish to Whet Your Appetite” in order to add the bizarre weapon to your arsenal. Other quests, such as “50 Shades of White,” also make a return.

Check some of what the Full Bloom Fest will offer in the screens below.

In other Monster Hunter World news, Capcom dropped an update in March that added new variant monsters, implemented a “layered weapons” feature, addressed a number of bugs, and more. Not long after this update released, the team put out an update for PC that included the same additions and tweaks.

Easter is this weekend, and over the last few decades people went from hiding a few eggs and chocolates around the house and yard to what is essentially Christmas In Spring. Now people give actual gifts for the Easter holiday above and beyond just a few hollow-chocolate bunnies. However, things are dramatically different here in the year 2020, and a lot of the gift-exchanging is on hold due to responsible social distancing. What to do? If you know someone in need of a gift for any occasion right now, the best thing you can do is buy a virtual gift by way of a digitally-delivered gift card.

Best Gift Cards by Email

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With most online retailers completely swamped right now, and the majority of states under orders to close all “non-essential” businesses, sending someone an online gift card is a great choice for your gift-giving needs. For one, they don’t have to spend it right away, so they can hold off until things settle down again. Or not.

Another advantage to an emailed gift card opposed to a traditional, physical card, is it removes shipping from the equation entirely. Amazon isn’t alone in its warehouse woes, with many online businesses slowing down estimated shipping times due to massive demand. Sending someone a digital gift card ensures it arrives on time and doesn’t add to the shipping burdens currently in place. If the card is used for digital purchases, even better.

Whether you’re looking to give someone a little something for Easter, celebrate a birthday or other occasion, or just to be nice, definitely consider the convenience of a gift card right now.

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There are 80 bugs to catch in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but only a small handful of them have special conditions to show up. You can catch most of them flying and crawling about your island, around trees, on flowers, under rocks, and sometimes even swimming–in most cases, they’ll be out in the open for you to sneak up on with your net. But the flea is one of the most elusive. If you want to catch a flea, you have to get to know your neighbors.

How To Catch A Flea

The only way to catch a flea in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is off the head of a flea-infested villager. Talk to and check up on your neighbors every day–you should be doing this every day, anyway–until one of them complains about feeling itchy. Even before you talk to them, you might notice little black dots hopping around them.

All you need to do is pull out your net and hit their head with it. You might need to adjust the distance so you don’t accidentally pull them into conversation again, but no need to worry even if you do–the fleas aren’t going anywhere.

Villagers usually hate being hit with the net, but this time they’ll thank you for “lifting the curse.” And you’ve done it! You’ve caught a flea.

When To Catch A Flea

Fleas are available to catch all day, as long as villagers are out to catch them on, but they’re also seasonal, which means you can only catch them during certain times of the year. It’s April right now, so fleas are active in the Northern Hemisphere through November and in the Southern Hemisphere through May.

Find the list of months the flea is active in for both hemispheres below.

Northern Hemisphere

• April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November

Southern Hemisphere

• October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May

For a more comprehensive list of seasonal bugs, check out the new fish and bugs in April and which critters are going away at the end of the month.

What To Do With A Flea

Once you catch a flea, it will be registered in your Critterpedia like any other fish or bug you can catch in New Horizons.

From there, you can donate it to Blathers at the museum or sell it to Timmy and Tommy at Nook’s Cranny. You can also sell it to the special visitor Flick, who will buy bugs off of you for 150% their market value.

• Nook’s Cranny price: 70 bells each
• Flick price: 105 bells each

If you don’t want to sell any extra fleas, placing them as an item generates a unique display item that’s different from the standard tank that other bug displays have. If you have a spare one, try it out!

You’re not going to make a fortune off selling fleas–they’re mostly just a fun rare critter. For another rare bug that is worth quite a bit of bells, check out our guide on how to farm tarantulas.

The Final Fantasy 14 patch 5.3 update, which was planned for a mid-June release, has been delayed due to the recent state of emergency order in Japan. Director Naoki Yoshida says it’s unclear at this time whether the patch will be delayed a few weeks or a month.

In a blog post on the official Final Fantasy 14 website, Yoshida announced that because of the recent state of emergency developers have been ordered to work from home. This, in turn, has put the development timeline for the next big FF14 patch into question.

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Patch 5.3 was supposed to be the next major update in the Shadowbringers content cycle. While Square Enix didn’t officially reveal what would be a part of the update, many players were expecting the next chapter in the Alliance Raid cycle which is a collaboration with Nier: Automata and its director Yoko Taro.

In his message, Yoshida detailed exactly what has been delayed by the work from home order including, “Delayed delivery of graphical assets due to the lockdown of cities in East Asia, North America, and Europe. Delayed voice recording due to the lockdown of cities in Europe. Delayed to development tasks performed by Tokyo staff due to work-from-home/shelter-in-place limitations. Production and QA teams operating well below normal capacity due to work-from-home/shelter-in-place limitations.”

“We are terribly sorry for the disappointment this may cause our players, as we know you look forward to new patches. However, it is also important to prioritize the physical and mental health of our development team, without whom we would never be able to release the quality updates and features you expect from FFXIV[.]”

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Alongside the 5.3 patch delay, Yoshida says that players can expect longer than usual responses from the support desk, and a slowed implementation for bug fixes both as a result of the work-from-home orders.

This is the newest game delay as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic. Other major releases like The Last of Us Part 2 were also delayed because of the pandemic. Check out IGN’s Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers review for more coverage.

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Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN. He mains a Monk on Final Fantasy 14.

After years and years of waiting for the Final Fantasy 7 Remake, did you think after all this time you’d have just as much fun playing a game of Darts as shutting down Shinra? Neither did we! If you’re wondering what to expect, or more specifically, are curious about the rewards you get from FF7’s various mini-games, then look no further! We’ve got all the info you need below.

Look to the Table of Contents to find the information you’re most curious about. We detail where each mini-game is, as well as offer some tips to ensure you nab those rewards in no time.

For more guides, check out our feature highlighting some essential tips to know as you play the game, as well as our guide on how to best spec your characters. You can also see everything we have in our full guide roundup, which also includes our walkthrough. Otherwise, you can read our FF7 Remake review.

Darts

Location: Sector 7 Slums, Seventh Heaven

During Chapter 3, there’s a dartboard where you can throw darts in Seventh Heaven. You can find a scoreboard detailing people’s best scores. If you beat Wedge’s top score, he’ll give you a Luck Plus Materia before the end of Chapter 4. You also have the opportunity to earn the Materia by playing the mini-game at that point in the story. To get the top score, try to get as many bulls-eyes as you can by making sure to throw the dart right when the circle closes in on the center. Just watch for the inner circle timer, because if you wait too long, you’ll lose your chance for a swift throw.

Whack-a-Box

Location: Sector 5 Slums, Kid’s Hangout

You may have the rest of the Sector 5 Slums fooled, but everyone knows you aren’t cool unless the kids think you’re cool. The only way to do that is to smash some boxes. If you’ve been following our other guides to find Moogle Medals, you should already know what you’re doing here! Some general tips are to make sure Cloud is using the Deadly Dodge Materia to smash multiple boxes at once and save your strong attacks like Braver for the big, 1500 point boxes!

Rewards: (Normal Mode)

• Participation Prize – A Moogle Medal
• 10,000 – Elixir
• 20,000 – Crescent Moon Charm
• 30,000 – Spectral Cogwheel

After beating the game, you’ll unlock Hard Mode. When you get back to the Kid’s Hangout, Cloud Strife should already have some of the strongest abilities in the game available to him. If you’re having a tough time, try to equip some Materia that grants you bonus ATB charges, focus on boxes that grant you more time, and again, only attack the big boxes with your strongest attacks.

Rewards (Hard Mode):

• Participation Prize – A Moogle Medal
• 10,000 – Elixir
• 20,000 – Crescent Moon Charm
• 30,000 – Transference Module

Squats

Location: Wall Market, Training Gym

This isn’t your grandpa’s squat mini-game this time around! The FF7 Remake has considerably upped the ante in terms of difficulty. One tip we can offer is once you have the rhythm down, pay less attention to the exact timing of your presses, and more to your character’s animations. You’re granted more time than you think to time your button presses, so a couple of milliseconds lost are not worth risking breaking your whole cycle!

Rewards:

• Trainee – 3 Mega Potions
• Amateur – Orb of Luck-Up Materia
• Pro – Champion Belt

Combat Coliseum

Location: Wall Market, Coliseum

The Coliseum in the Wall Market has challenges for individual characters, two-person, and three-person teams of varying difficulty. They aren’t too tricky, so play smart, heal your party, and enjoy earning some bonus SP point items, new Limit Breaks for your party, and more! Once you unlock Hard Mode after beating the game, be sure to come back to take on some end-game challenges!

Events + Rewards (Normal Mode):

• Cloud vs. Wild Animals – Legacy: Ascension
• Aerith vs. Wild Animals – Legacy: Planet’s Protection
• Two-Person Team vs. Slum Outlaws – Clarity Pendant
• Barret vs. Wild Animals – Legacy: Catastrophe
• Tifa vs. Wild Animals – Legacy: Dolphin Flurry
• Cloud vs. Shinra Thugs – The Art of Swordplay Vol. II
• Barret vs. Shinra Thugs – Sharpshooter’s Companion Vol. II
• Tifa vs. Shinra Thugs – Way of the Fist Vol. II
• Three-Person Team vs. Shinra Warriors – Tarot Cards
• Two-Person Team vs. Team Payback – Moogle’s Amulet

Events + Rewards (Hard Mode) – Will update soon!

Shinra HQ Combat Simulator

Location: Shinra HQ, 63rd Floor

Similar to the Coliseum, stop by the 63rd floor in the Shinra building to take on challenges only slightly more complicated than before. Seriously, you should have no trouble here! Scenarios are broken down for Cloud, Tifa, and Barret, as well as some that test your teamwork. Some end-game bosses away those who return here on hard mode!

Rewards:

• Cloud vs. SOLDIER Trainees – Cog Bangle
• Barret vs. SOLDIER Trainees – Supreme Bracer
• Tifa vs. SOLDIER Trainees – Rune Armlet
• Two-Person Team vs. High Flyers – Gil Up Materia
• Three-Person Team vs. Team Ragbag – EXP Up Materia

Hellpoint, the sci-fi souls-like RPG, has been delayed due to COVID-19, moving the release date back to Q2 2020.

Taking the RPG elements of Dark Souls and the creepy sci-fi elements of Event Horizon, Hellpoint takes place in the aftermath of a massive quantic cataclysm. Play as a mysterious character and mold the story to your own will with decision making having a big effect on how the game progresses.

Cradle Games announced the delay on Twitter, saying that the COVID-19 pandemic was the reason behind the delay. Hellpoint was originally supposed to release on April 16, but due to issues from the events occurring around the world currently, the team is going to take a few more months to improve the quality of the game before release.

Hellpoint will release on PC, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, OSX and Linux later this year.