Minecraft RTX Trailer Highlights a Shiny Makeover

Nvidia has revealed Minecraft awash in a coat of new pretty paint, with a new trailer on Monday that shows the before and after effects of Nvidia’s raytracing capabilities, with thoughts on the update by Minecraft’s development team.

Watch the trailer above to see all sorts of locales get the RTX treatment on Windows 10, including vibrant homes, glistening lakes, darkened tunnels full of glowing lava, and expansive caves with light filtering in from cracks above. We went hands-on to experience the improvements with Minecraft using RTX, and felt that it looks like an entirely new game. You can hear more of IGN’s thoughts in the video below.

The raytracing will include enhanced lighting, reflections, and shadows across the world, putting more depth and quality into the classic blocks that retain the same assets, but with better looking textures all around. Nvidia also mentioned that everything will be moddable to benefit players, which is a spot of good news after it was announced that the Super Duper Graphics Pack has been cancelled.

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Marvel’s Avengers Aims to Balance Comics History and Originality

With Marvel’s Avengers, developer Crystal Dynamics had the difficult task of balancing the old with the new. Marvel Comics is celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2019, giving the developer a rich history of character and story to draw from. But, according to Crystal Dynamics studio head Scot Amos, the development team wasn’t interested in simply retelling old tales: With encouragement from Marvel, Crystal is blending that history with original storylines, costumes, and abilities.

This week’s Gamescom provided the closest look at Marvel’s Avengers yet; Crystal allowed attendees to go hands on with the Marvel superhero game, in addition to releasing a 19-minute Avengers gameplay demo. During the show, IGN sat down with Amos to discuss the aforementioned balancing act, hero customization, games as a service, and more. You can watch the full interview above.

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Pokemon Go Jirachi Guide: How To Complete Thousand-Year Slumber Special Research

Pokemon Go‘s Ultra Bonus rewards have been revealed, and there are a lot of exciting things coming to the game over the next few weeks. Not only will players soon have their first opportunity to capture Gen 5 Pokemon, the Mythical Jirachi is also making its official debut in Go through the new Special Research questline called “A Thousand-Year Slumber.”

To catch the Mythical Pokemon, you’ll first need to complete a variety of Research tasks. There are seven sets of tasks in total, and many of them revolve around Pokemon that hail from the Hoenn region. A few of the quests, however, will require you to do some battling, so you’ll need to put in a lot of work to complete the entire line. Once you’ve cleared all of the Special Research tasks, you’ll earn the chance to capture Jirachi.

You can check out the full list of Thousand-Year Slumber quests below. This questline was previously available at this year’s Pokemon Go Fests; if you completed it while at one of those events, then you’ll earn extra Jirachi Candies instead. All players who complete the questline will also receive a special Jirachi shirt for their avatar.

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Thousand-Year Slumber Quests

Step 1

  • Catch 25 Pokemon — 1,000 XP
  • Spin 10 PokeStops or Gyms — Jigglypuff encounter
  • Make 3 new friends — Feebas encounter

Rewards: Glacial Lure, Mossy Lure, and Magnetic Lure

Step 2

  • Catch 3 Whismur — 10 Whismur Candies
  • Evolve a Feebas — 1,500 XP
  • Catch 90 Pokemon in the Hoenn Pokedex — 1,500 XP

Rewards: 2,000 Stardust, 10 Poke Balls, 3 Incense

Step 3

  • Take a snapshot of Loudred — Snorlax encounter
  • Make 3 Great throws in a row — 2,000 XP
  • Earn 3 Candies walking with your buddy — 2,000 XP

Rewards: 20 Silver Pinap Berries, 3 Star Pieces, 2,000 Stardust

Step 4

  • Catch 50 Psychic- or Steel-type Pokemon — 2,500 XP
  • Power up Pokemon 10 times — 2,500 XP
  • Send 10 gifts to friends — 2,500 XP

Rewards: Fast TM, Charge TM, Premium Raid Pass

Step 5

  • Battle a team leader 3 times — Kricketune encounter
  • Win against another trainer 7 times — 3,000 XP
  • Win 5 Raids — 3,000 XP

Rewards: 3 Rare Candies, 20 Ultra Balls, 3,000 Stardust

Step 6

  • Take 5 photos of Steel or Psychic Pokemon — Chimecho encounter
  • Make 3 Excellent curveball throws — Bronzong encounter
  • Spin a PokeStop 7 days in a row — 4,000 XP

Rewards: 10 Silver Pinap Berries, 10 Star Pieces, 5,000 Stardust

Step 7

Reward: Jirachi encounter

Pokemon Go Ultra Bonuses

The Thousand-Year Slumber questline isn’t the only Ultra Bonus reward that Niantic is offering. Beginning September 2, the developer will be making a variety of other bonuses and special Pokemon available in the game for a limited time. There will be a new set of bonuses each week between September 2 and 23, and they include the appearance of new Shiny Pokemon as well as the first Gen 5 monsters. You can see all of the bonuses below.

September 2-9

  • Entei, Raikou, Suicune, and other Johto Pokemon will appear in Raid Battles
  • Unown U, L, T, R, and A may hatch from 10 km Pokemon eggs
  • Shiny Sentret and Shiny Gligar will appear in the wild

September 9-16

  • Farfetch’d, Kangaskhan, Mr. Mime, and Tauros may hatch from 7 km eggs. You may also hatch their Shiny forms
  • All four forms of Deoxys will appear in five-star Raid Battles
  • Pokemon effective against Deoxys will appear in other tier Raids

September 16-23

  • Klink and Shiny Klink will appear in Raid Battles
  • Shiny Patrat and Shiny Lillipup will appear in the wild
  • Mewtwo that know Psystrike will appear in five-star Raids, as will Shiny Mewtwo

WWE’s Braun Strowman Loves To Flip Stuff And Be A Goof On TV

WWE’s Braun Strowman is a complex character, believe it or not. Sure, on his surface, he’s a monster who flips things over and destroys everything in his path. But there’s another side to Strowman, a man who is constantly involved in comedic segments and hilarious storylines–and he doesn’t get enough credit for it.

This more comedic version of Strowman surfaced in April 2017, when the Monster Among Men flipped over an ambulance on Raw. It was a shocking segment meant to show off the power of the character, but in reality, it was goofy in an entertaining way, and fans wanted more of that. In the two years since that over-the-top moment, Strowman has flipped other vehicles, been crushed inside both an ambulance he didn’t flip and a garbage truck, come to the ring as his smarter twin brother “Brains Strowman,” won the Raw Tag Team Championship with a 10-year-old boy at Wrestlemania, and played a stand-up bass like a guitar, breaking all the strings during a performance. Strowman’s career, so far, is littered with exceptionally entertaining and memorable moments.

But how does Strowman feel about this? There’s always the question lingering in the back of fans’ minds as to whether or not these WWE superstars take themselves too seriously to be involved with comedy bits. In the case of Strowman, is that a reflection of who he truly is, outside of WWE? “Oh absolutely,” Strowman told GameSpot while promoting WWE 2K20‘s Bump in the Night DLC. “When you guys see the ha-ha stuff that Braun does, that’s my real life persona coming out. I’m a giant kid-man. I live life like there’s no tomorrow, and I look forward to everyday with the opportunities to travel around the world. And it’s really cool when I get to mix in a little bit of that comedic relief and show the world the range and personality that I actually have as a human being, and that I’m not just this monster that rips people in half and eats their souls or whatever people think.

“It’s fun to throw the comedic stuff in there because it helps with people being able to connect with my character. Because before, when I was just this cold, calculated killer, it was hard to relate to me, being the size that I am. Let’s face it. I’m larger than nature intended, and there’s not a lot of people walking around on this earth that know what it’s like to walk a mile in my shoes. So I think with the adding the little bit of comedy in there shows a little more of a human side, and it allows my fans to engage with me even more and know that I have traits that everyone else does. That I’m yeah, not just this giant that does whatever he wants to do, that I have personality.”

Strowman’s finishing move during his WWE battles is the Running Powerslam; however, if you ask most fans, he’s just as well known for flipping over things. From tables to cars to even a semi, Strowman has been seen on WWE television performing superhuman feats of strength. And this begs the question, what could Strowman flip over next? “I’ve pitched a couple of times in battle royales where I come out of nowhere and lift up the ring and dump everybody out of the ring before, so that I think would be a fun one,” explained Strowman. “I don’t think there’s much left to flip unless I ripped a whole roof off the stadium or something like that. I think I’ve destroyed about everything they’ve put in front of me. And Lord knows I’m glad I don’t have to pay for all the stuff that I break.”

One of his most talked about moments came from Wrestlemania 34, where he picked a kid from the audience to be his partner for the Raw Tag Team Championship match. Strowman and his partner, Nicholas, ended up being victorious. But will the two ever reunite to battle for the titles they were forced to vacate? “Right now, Nicholas is doing Nicholas. He’s been taking karate classes, staying in school, and doing his schoolwork, which I told him is the most important. He’s got his whole adult career to come back and wrestle if he wants to wrestle. Right now, he needs to worry about being a kid and having fun and continuing to ride that high of winning those tag titles a couple of years ago with me in New Orleans and enjoying life. But you never know man, at WWE we like to keep you on your toes, and you never know what’s going to happen.”

You can see Strowman turned into the horrific monster FrankenStrowman in the first WWE Originals DLC pack titled “Bump in the Night” this October in WWE 2K20, which will be available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. This year’s game should have an incredibly large roster, and here is who is confirmed so far.

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Death Stranding Gets Reimagined As Mario 64

Death Stranding has no shortage of Hideo Kojima’s oddball sense of humor, but on the whole it appears to deal with fairly serious subject matter. A video from GameXplain takes the edge off of some of that dire seriousness by mixing and matching it with the bright and colorful world of Super Mario 64.

More precisely, it mixes in the music and sound effects of Mario 64, but that’s enough to drastically change the tone of the game. Instead of the quiet serenity of nature, we get the Whomp’s Fortress song. Sam “wah” and “wahoos” his way up the hillside to make a delivery. There’s even a magic mushroom. Of sorts.

An extended gameplay demo debuted at Gamescom Opening Night Live. The event shed a lot more light on how Death Stranding controls and plays, including a surprise cameo from the event’s host, Geoff Keighley. Kojima hinted at more cameos in the game, and we may be able to guess some of them based on who has been visiting Kojima Productions.

Death Stranding is releasing on April 16, 2020. The Collector’s Edition for $200 includes a ton of extras like a life-sized BB Pod statue and Ludens keychain. Check out our pre-order guide for more details.

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Netflix’s Big Mouth Season 3 Returns This October

While everyone’s busy with Gamescom, things are still happening over at Netflix. The streaming platform’s puberty-focused comedy Big Mouth is set to finally return, as Netflix has confirmed Big Mouth Season 3 will air on Friday, October 4.

The show’s official Twitter account shared the news and a photo with the words “equal parts shock and aww” written above hormone monster Maurice’s hand. The tweet, captioned with a simple “shook,” features nothing else apart from the October 4 release date for Big Mouth Season 3

Big Mouth Season 3 premiering on October 4 makes it one day shy of a year after the show’s second season, which streamed in its entirety on Netflix on October 5, 2018. Back in February, Big Mouth debuted an approximate 50-minute Valentine’s Day special dedicated to everything love and heartbreak.

We chatted with series creator Nick Kroll (who voices Nick Birch) and various voice actors during New York Comic Con 2018 about how nothing is off limits in Big Mouth Season 2. “I think that’s what we’re always trying to do in the show, which is take some big swings, do some kind of raunchy, dirty stuff,” Kroll said. “But also be saying these larger things about trying to get people to fall in love with their own bodies and who they are and what’s happening to them, and demystify a lot of that stuff.”

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