Super Mario Maker 2 Announced for Nintendo Switch

Today’s Nintendo Direct opened with the surprise announcement of Super Mario Maker 2 for the Nintendo Switch, a sequel to the hit custom Mario level maker for Wii U.

Super Mario Maker 2 is set to come out sometime this June, and the Direct showed off a whole heck of a lot of new gameplay. In it, we saw the addition of a new visual style option based on Super Mario 3D World, as well as the inclusion of its iconic Lucky Bell power-up that puts Mario in a cat suit which lets him climb walls.

Other notable additions shown off include the option to finally place slopes that Mario can slide down, as well as the Angry Sun from Super Mario Bros. 3 that will chase the player. A whole lot of other new backgrounds and placeable objects were demoed, and much of what was in the first Super Mario Maker seems to be making a return too.

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Pokemon Go February 2019 Community Day: Start Time, How To Get Sinnoh Stones, And More

Pokemon Go‘s next Community Day is just around the corner. Niantic is hosting this month’s event on Saturday, February 16, and like usual, it’ll offer players around the world a chance to capture rare Pokemon and earn some generous in-game bonuses.

Each Community Day typically runs for only three hours, but the specifics of these events vary month by month. To help you prepare, we’ve rounded up all of the most important details about February 2019’s Community Day below, from the time it starts in each region to what bonuses you’ll be able to earn.

What Is The Featured Pokemon?

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Niantic typically designates one “featured” Pokemon for each Community Day. Not only will this monster spawn much more frequently than it normally does throughout the event, but players will also have a chance of finding its Shiny form. The Pokemon will be able to learn a special, otherwise unattainable move if it evolves by the end of the event.

For February’s Community Day, the featured Pokemon is Swinub, a Ground/Ice-type first introduced in Gold and Silver. For the duration of the event, Swinub will be much easier to find in the wild, and if players manage to evolve it into its final form, Mamoswine, up to an hour after the Community Day ends, it will know the Rock-type attack Ancient Power.

What Are Sinnoh Stones?

Swinub was one of several Pokemon to receive a new evolved form in the series’ fourth-generation titles, Diamond and Pearl. Niantic has been gradually introducing these Gen 4 evolutions in Go over the past several weeks, but they’re obtained a little differently than most others. Namely, they can only be triggered using a new evolutionary item called Sinnoh Stones.

Sinnoh Stones can be obtained a few different ways in Go, but the most common is by participating in PvP Trainer Battles. To make it easier to get a Mamoswine, Niantic is giving players a chance to earn up to five Sinnoh Stones from Trainer Battles during this month’s Community Day, on top of an additional five that can be earned from practice battles against Team Leaders.

What Time Does It Start?

Unlike many of Pokemon Go’s other real-world events, Community Days aren’t hosted at a specific location but rather during a designated window of time, which means you’ll be able to participate in the event from any local park or other gathering place. The time it begins varies depending on what part of the world you live in, but regardless of your region, the Community Day will only run for three hours. You can find the full schedule for each region below.

The Americas and Greenland

  • 11 AM – 2 PM PT
  • 2 PM – 5 PM ET

Europe, Middle East, and Africa

  • 10 AM – 1 PM UTC

Asia-Pacific

  • 12 PM – 3 PM JST (February 17)

What Other Bonuses Are There?

On top of increased Pokemon spawns, Niantic also typically offers a couple of other bonuses during each Community Day. For this month’s event, players will receive triple the usual amount of Stardust for capturing Pokemon. Additionally, any Lure modules you use will remain active for three hours, rather than their standard 30 minutes.

James Cameron Calls Aquaman ‘Great Fun’ But Criticizes Lack of Underwater Realism

James Cameron, known for films like Avatar, Titanic, Aliens and more, has gone on record saying he enjoyed Aquaman, but criticized the lack of realism in its underwater scenes.

In an interview with Yahoo, Cameron gave his opinion on the film, saying “I think it’s great fun,” but goes on to explain why he couldn’t have directed a film like it.

“I never could have made that film, because it requires this kind of total dreamlike disconnection from any sense of physics or reality,” said Cameron. “People just kind of zoom around underwater, because they propel themselves mentally, I guess, I don’t know. But it’s cool! You buy it on its own terms.”

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Logitech G935 Wireless Gaming Headset Review

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The G935 is Logitech’s newest cross platform, flagship wireless gaming headset, replacing the G933 Artemis Spectrum. Aside from ditching the silly model name this time around, the G935 (See it on Amazon) has received a host of welcome upgrades including updated surround technology, larger drivers, and an upgraded mic, all at a lower price ($169) than the previous model. They’re designed to work as a wireless gaming headset on PC and PS4, but can also be plugged into devices that require a 3.5mm headphone jack, such as an Xbox or mobile device.

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Devs, Publishers Upset Over Lack of PS4 Cross-Play Support

Developers and publishers are speaking out against Sony’s lack of cross-platform support, despite what Sony has publicly stated about the process.

Earlier this month, War Thunder and the new CEO of Hi-Rez, Stewart Chisam, asked Sony publicly to include cross-play support in their games through posts on Twitter.

Shortly after, in an interview with Game Informer, Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios chairman and former SIE president and CEO, Shawn Layden, said that Sony was open to cross-play but that publishers and developers just needed to take the necessary steps to get there.

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Batman And Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Team Up For New Animated Movie

Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles might not seem like the most obvious of comic book team-ups, but they do have their similarities. Both fight crime at night in a big city, are known to inflict considerable pain on their enemies, and have animal-based superhero names (of course, the Turtles ARE actually turtles). Fans can now enjoy their first onscreen team-up in the new animated movie Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

As reported by Syfy.com, the film is a collaboration between DC Entertainment and Nickelodeon. It’s based on the 2015 Batman/Turtles crossover comic by James Tynion IV and Freddie Williams II, and will see the heroes meet up via a “transdimensional encounter,” and end up fighting various villains from Batman’s rogues gallery.

Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles releases on 4K, Blu-ray, and Digital in late spring. The voicecast includes Troy Baker (The Last of Us), who will play both Batman and the Joker, Darren Criss (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) as Raphael, Kyle Mooney (Saturday Night Live) as Michelangelo, Baron Vaughn (Grace and Frankie) as Donatello, and Eric Bauza (The Woody Woodpecker Show) as Leonardo. A first image from the movie has been released–check it out below.

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The cast also includes Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom as Batgirl, DC animation veteran Tara Strong as both Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, Tom Kenny (Spongebob Squarepants) as The Penguin, and John DiMaggio (Adventure Time) as Mr. Freeze.

Attention Procrastinators: It’s Not Too Late to Order Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Flower

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This is obviously not something you expect to see on IGN, but my goal here is to help people, and if you’ve been dragging your feet on ordering flowers for Valentine’s Day, you need all the help you can get.

The following sites still have orders available that can arrive in time to save the day, but you should 100% absolutely check the website delivery options to make completely sure you can get them in time. The huge downside to waiting until the last possible day is you’re probably going to be paying more in shipping to get them delivered. Bummer all around.

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Just Ma Talks About Growing Up Around Video Games

In Episode 5 of Humans Who Make Games podcast, Co-Founder of Subset games and creator of FTL and Into the Breach, Justin Ma, chats with host and comedian, Adam Conover about following his family’s path into game design, how the best ideas never work out, what is essential to the learning process, and more.

Listen to Humans Who Make Games Episode 5.

Ma met with work partner, Matthew Davis, while he was in Shanghai working as a junior game designer for 2K games.

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Fan Theories – Tony Stark Will Die In Avengers: Endgame

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Nice Discounts on Red Dead Redemption 2 and Spider-Man

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Good news, pardner: Red Dead Redemption 2 is on sale for its lowest price ever. Amazon and GameStop have discounted Rockstar’s latest open-world western on both PS4 and Xbox One to $39.99. That’s a remarkable deal on one of the biggest games of this console generation – and it’s the lowest price we’ve seen since RDR 2 launched in October. And if superheroes are more your speed, you can grab PS4’s Spider-Man on sale for $39.99 from Walmart (with free two-day shipping).

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