Bunny Day is just around the corner again in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Nintendo has made some tweaks to this year's event. The holiday itself falls on April 4, but just as last year, eggs will appear around your island in the days leading up to it. Fortunately, they won't be around for nearly as long.As Nintendo detailed in a post on Switch's News channel, this year's Bunny Day will only run from March 28 to April 4. That's much shorter than last year's event, which ran for nearly two full weeks, from April 1-12. Players were quick to share their frustrations about Bunny Day across social media at the time, taking issue not only with poor Zipper T. Bunny (who is just doing his job), but also the prevalence of eggs.The eggs in particular were a common cause for complaint. Throughout the event, different types of eggs would be hidden in trees, rocks, the ground, and the ocean and river. These could be used to craft special Bunny Day furniture, but the problem was they spawned much too frequently, making it difficult to dig up fossils or catch fish without being inundated with eggs.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer CD Projekt Red has detailed what's in Patch 1.2 for Cyberpunk 2077, which makes some changes like letting players rebind keys and reducing NCPD's response time.One of the bigger adjustments is key rebinding. This specifically targets dodging, which is tied to double-tapping the movement action key. With Patch 1.2, players can turn that "dodging on movement" toggle off while still allowing the dodge to be performed by double-tapping the crouch key. On top of this, PC players can now rebind WASD to other spots on the keyboard. Tools programmer Wojtek Pankowski noted that though some key bindings "need to be addressed," these fixes should appear in upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 patches.Another tweak in Patch 1.2 is delaying the NCPD's response time. Previously, cops would seemingly appear out of thin air when players committed a crime like shooting a civilian. Now, to give the impression that cops take a while to appear at a crime scene after it's been reported, NCPD officers will respond in a staggered manner. There's also a new recon drone to present a feeling that the police are assessing a situation to determine how to respond.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Epic Games has released a new Fortnite patch across all platforms today, addressing issues fans may have bumped into since Fortnite kicked off its latest season. Fortunately for battle royale players, these issues shouldn't have affected you. They only apply to the Creative mode. The list of fixes is a short one, but fans in Twitter replies seemed thankful nonetheless since it's been some time since Fortnite issued actual patch notes anywhere. Typically, Epic prefers to hide its many secrets for fans to find on their own.This patch addresses:✅Missing textures in some galleries in Creative mode.✅Unable to drop specific stacks of materials or ammo in Creative mode.Please note that you will need to replace props with missing textures already placed in Creative islands. — Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) March 19, 2021We can probably expect another patch focused on Battle Royale in the days ahead. Players have reported issues unlocking the various Anomaly puzzles, such as the Lazy Lake Anomaly and the Catty Corner Anomaly. Prompts have been missing which means players have had to retry them in later rounds.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Echo Night Games has released a new update for Signs of the Sojourner, just in time for the game's launch on consoles. The update adds five new characters to the game.In a Steam blog post, Echo Night teases that the new characters will be a mysterious stranger, a caravaneer, a grumpy neighbor, a community organizer, and someone fighting to save their town. No further clues beyond that, and given the nature of Signs of the Sojourner, it's very easy to accidentally miss folks in the story. So you may need to replay the game once or twice to see all five new characters.Personally, I'm thrilled to have any excuse for jumping back into Signs of the Sojourner for another playthrough, now that it's also available for PS4, Switch, and Xbox One (as well as PS5 and Xbox Series X|S via backwards compatibility). Signs of the Sojourner was my Editor's Spotlight for 2020--it's one of the most intriguing games I've ever played, relying on deckbuilding to emulate conversations, code-switching, and cultural differences.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Simpsons marks a monumental milestone this weekend with its 700th episode in its 32nd season, and executive producer Al Jean recently told Variety he's not sure if he's bullish about the long-running series hitting its 1,000th episode. Earlier this month, The Simpsons got renewed for its 33rd and 34th seasons, meaning the animated comedy will now run through to 2023."We're going to definitely do 757," said executive producer Al Jean, referencing what the series is currently contractually on the hook for. "I wouldn't say that's the end, but I don't know how much further we can go."For fairweather fans, it may be something of a shock to learn that the series has not already produced a thousand episodes--a feat that Jean says would take The Simpsons another 12 years to accomplish. But, keenly aware of how many animated '90s shows that started parallel to the Fox series, have gone off the air, and are now being revived (Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, Rugrats, etc.), Jean says, "As soon as they cancel us, they'll reboot us. I'm confident, after I'm gone, there’ll be some sort of Simpsons coming. It's too ubiquitous to think that it'll just disappear."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

After yet another suspension, the Trials of Osiris is back this weekend in Destiny 2. With the Iron Banner set to return next week, it's yet another great time to visit Xur and pick up some new Exotic weapons and armor before you get your PvP on.Head to Nessus, to the Watcher's Grave area, to find Xur this week. For his weapon, Xur is offering Trinity Ghoul. Hunters can pick up the Aeon Swift gauntlets; for Titans, there are the Khepri's Horn helmet; and for Warlocks, Xur has the Sanguine Alchemy chest armor.Xur LocationSpawn in at the Watcher's Grave transmat zone and hop on your sparrow, heading north. Look for a big pink tree at the north end of the area, where you can climb up and find Xur standing on one of its huge branches.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The upcoming Mortal Kombat movie was inspired in part by another gigantic Warner Bros. property, The Lord of the Rings. Producer Todd Garner said in an interview that the filmmakers on Mortal Kombat turned to The Lord of the Rings early on in the process of mapping out Mortal Kombat. Just like Lord of the Rings has numerous characters with their own interconnecting stories, so does Mortal Kombat. "When we really researched all of the lore and fantasy and rules and mythology to Mortal Kombat, we really looked at it like Lord of the Rings," Garner said, as reported by GamesRadar.He added: "[Creators] John [Tobias] and Ed [Boon] have created this tone that's so thick and complex and amazing in terms of all the crazy, different characters--you have ninjas, and you have soldiers of fortune, and you've got clones and aliens and ex-police officers. There's so many different characters. The challenge, then, is: how do you bring them all together?"Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fans of 4X strategy games have a big release to look forward to in April with Humankind, an upcoming turn-based strategy game where you build your civilization up over the course of six major eras, starting in the nomadic age. Releasing April 22 on PC, Humankind is available to preorder now, and we have an exclusive deal with PC games store Fanatical that makes securing your copy early even more tempting.Compared to Steam, which is selling Humankind: Digital Deluxe Edition preorders for $49.79, Fanatical already has the cheapest price on the game at $42. However, we have an exclusive promo code that drops it even cheaper to $40, saving you an even $20 on your preorder. To take advantage of the deal, you can add Humankind: Digital Deluxe Edition to your cart and use promo code GAMESPOT33 in checkout (the promo code box is located on the right side of the page underneath your cart summary--it's easy to miss). You'll receive a Steam key via email closer to release day, so you'll still be able to add the game to your Steam library while paying less than you would directly on Steam. This deal is only available until April 1. Humankind: Deluxe Edition $40 (was $60) | use promo code GAMESPOT33 See at Fanatical Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Sharon Stone has spoken about the most notorious moment in the hugely successful 1992 thriller Basic Instinct, and revealed that she had no idea the scene would end up the way it did.The scene occurs during a scene in which Stone's character, bestselling author and serial killer Catherine Tramell, is interviewed by police. At one key moment, Tramell uncrosses her legs, revealing to the cops--and the audience--that she is not wearing underwear. In her new memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, which has had sections printed by Vanity Fair, Stone states that she had no idea how graphic this moment would be."After we shot Basic Instinct, I got called in to see it," she said. "Not on my own with the director, as one would anticipate, but with a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project. That was how I saw my vagina-shot for the first time, long after I'd been told, 'We can't see anything--I just need you to remove your panties, as the white is reflecting the light, so we know you have panties on.'"Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

This week's big next-gen update for Marvel's Avengers had plenty to share about the future of the game, but it doesn't look like Spider-Man will be factoring into those plans until after Summer.The current content roadmap that developer Crystal Dynamics released this week features Black Panther as the next playable character in the upcoming summer expansion, but Spider-Man won't arrive before the War for Wakanda content is made available to players in Summer. Missing from the roadmap entirely, Spider-Man's absence had fans speculating on the whereabouts of the fan-favorite character."I can tell you that, formally, officially, people are working on him right now," studio head Scot Amos said to IGN. "So it is still on our roadmap for the future. But there are people working on [him] and we still fully expect Spider-Man to come to PlayStation."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Microsoft is still planning to bring its xCloud streaming functionality to PC and iOS devices, and it may be coming sooner than you'd think. A new overview video from Xbox features xCloud Platform VP Kevin LaChapelle dropping a not-too-subtle hint that the rollout is getting close.The video is formatted as an overview, so most of it reviews the basics of everything we know about the cloud gaming functionality. Near the end, though, it raises the question of cloud gaming on iOS, prompting a response from LaChapelle."Oh yes. We've already announced that we're bringing it to iOS and PC early this year. So I won't give you specific dates, but it's not--not very far." In case that wasn't enough, he visibly winks at the camera.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The new romantic action adventure comedy The Lost City of D has added another big name to its cast, as Harry Potter alum Daniel Radcliffe has joined. He comes aboard the Paramount movie that already has Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in major roles, according to Deadline.Patti Harrison (I Think You Should Leave) and Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Office Christmas Party) are also set to appear in the film, which will be directed by Adam and Aaron Nee (Band of Robbers, The Last Romantic).The Lost City of D follows a romance novelist (Bullock) who is on a book tour with her cover model (Tatum) and they get kidnapped and taken into the jungle. Throughout the course of the film, Bullock learns that "life can be so much stranger, and more romantic, than any of her paperback fictions." This sounds a lot like the plot to The Proposal.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Developer Lucid Games has released a general Reddit FAQ for Destruction AllStars. In the FAQ, Lucid says that it does notice that Bluefang and Ratu are the game's strongest AllStars, and is planning to address balancing concerns in a future update."We have been hard at work fixing various bugs and ensuring new content patches are ready, we will be doing a balance pass soon, on a variety of aspects of the game," Lucid Games community manager George Rule writes in the Reddit post. "Rather than doing small sporadic updates to balancing, we want to address several things in one go."In the post, Rule also responds to complaints about "phantom hits," instances where players are seemingly hit randomly by something that wasn't on screen. Lucid Games is currently investigating the case of these phantom hits--the team doesn't yet know whether the game is poorly communicating a hit came from Shyft (whose hero vehicle can turn invisible), or whether it's something more game-breaking, like lag and vehicle replication.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If you're looking for something new to play this weekend, PC games retailer GOG has an awesome sale on Deep Silver games running all weekend. On top of that, if you buy something from the sale--or already own one of the publisher's games--you can snag a free digital copy of Deadlight: Director's Cut. If you don't own any of Deep Silver's games, all you need to do to claim your copy of Deadlight is take advantage of one of this weekend's deals and complete your purchase--once completed, Deadlight will be available for free.One of the highlights of the Deep Silver weekend sale is the Metro franchise, an excellent series of story-focused, first-person shooters. All three games are discounted: Metro 2033 Redux is $4, Metro Last Light Redux is $4, and Metro Exodus is $13.59.Quick look: Deep Silver sale at GOGIron Harvest -- $32.49 ($50)Killer Is Dead: Nightmare Edition -- $4 ($20)Metro 2033 Redux -- $$4 ($20)Metro Last Light Redux -- $4 ($20)Metro Exodus -- $13.59 ($40)Metro franchise bundle -- $67.89 ($97)Outward -- $12 ($40)Painkiller: Black Edition -- $2 ($10)Painkiller: Overdose -- $1 ($5)Red Faction -- $2 ($10)Red Faction II -- $2 ($10)Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered -- $4 ($20)Saints Row: The Third - The Full Package -- $3 ($15)Saints Row IV: Game of the Century Edition -- $4 ($20)Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell -- $3 ($15)Shenmue III -- $17 ($50)Wasteland 3 -- $36 ($60)Other notable deals include last year's Wasteland 3 for $36. The post-apocalyptic RPG is set in snowy Colorado, a stark change in setting for the series. You'll take on quests, build a squad of six characters, and bring them into turn-based battles against raiders and other baddies.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Marvel boss Kevin Feige is developing a new Star Wars movie, but that is the extent of his involvement and impact on the wider Star Wars series. He told EW in a new interview that his deal with Lucasfilm does not cover any of the new Star Wars TV shows in the works."No. That's all Kathy Kennedy," Feige said about Lucasfilm's president. "I'm involved in as much as I stay up until midnight L.A. time to watch new episodes of The Mandalorian when they drop."The question came up because Feige is known for his work on the MCU, which is a vast and interconnected universe with characters and stories that reference and impact each other. Some might have wondered if he would be charged with doing the same for Star Wars, but it appears that is outside the scope of his new deal with Lucasfilm.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com