The biggest weekend of the year for professional wrestling is nearly upon us all. WWE's Wrestlemania 35 takes place on Sunday, April 7 and caps off a week of the highest-profile wrestling you'll find anywhere. From WWE's own shows--which include Wrestlemania, the annual Hall of Fame ceremony, and NXT TakeOver--to the likes of Ring of Honor, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and Impact running major shows, there's simply too much wrestling for you to keep track of alone--and most of it is streaming online for those that can't travel to Wrestlemania.
Luckily, you don't have to search high and low to figure out where to watch the most anticipated wrestling shows of Wrestlmania weekend, because GameSpot has that covered. After looking through the entire schedule of events, including dozens of non-WWE shows, we have tracked down all you need to know about how to watch them all from the comfort of your own home.
So while you may not be able to travel to the New York area to partake in the Super Bowl of professional wrestling, there's no reason to miss out on events presented by Evolve, Shimmer, WrestleCon, and WWN. There's even some wackier options like Kaiju Big Battel, which is essentially Godzilla meets pro wrestling. And if you're excited for NXT and Wrestlemania, you are certainly going to want to stream the Ring of Honor/New Japan Pro Wrestling combined show streaming live from a sold out Madison Square Garden.
Follow along as we dive deep into a week of wrestling insanity and find out where you can stream practically every show happening over Wrestlemania weekend.
Thursday, April 4
Independent Wrestling.TV's Family Reunion When: 12 PM ET Where to stream: Fite.tv
Much like Fortnite, Respawn's hit battle royale game, Apex Legends, will offer a premium Battle Pass every season, through which players will be able to unlock new cosmetic items and other rewards. The first pass is set to go live across PS4, Xbox One, and PC tomorrow, March 19, and ahead of its release, publisher EA has shared a load of new details about it, including how much it'll cost.
The Season 1 Battle Pass can be purchased through Apex Legends' in-game store for 950 Apex Coins (roughly $10)--the same price as Fortnite's Battle Pass. Similarly, EA is also offering a Battle Pass bundle that will instantly unlock the first 25 tiers, giving you immediate access to those rewards. That option will cost 2,800 Apex Coins.
If you do spring for a Battle Pass, you'll automatically unlock three special skins as an added bonus: Lifeline Revolutionary, Wraith Survivor, and Mirage Outlaw. Even if you don't purchase the pass, however, you'll be able to unlock a handful of rewards for free, including one Wild Frontier Legends skin and five Apex Packs.
The Season 1 Battle Pass features 100 tiers of rewards to unlock, including weapon skins, banner frames, XP boosts. You'll also earn up to 1,000 Apex Coins as you level your Battle Pass up throughout the season, which will potentially allow you to pick up next season's Battle Pass without spending any real-world money. You can read more about how the Apex Legends Battle Pass works here.
Launching alongside the Battle Pass tomorrow is Apex Legends' newest playable character: the previously leaked Octane. However, Octane won't be included as part of the Battle Pass; rather, he'll be available to purchase separately for either 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Coins, much like Mirage and Caustic were.
EA has announced that the Season 1 battle pass, titled Wild Frontier, for Apex Legends is launching tomorrow, March 19. The battle pass releases alongside Octane, the ninth and newest Legend to join the battle royale game. Octane is not a part of the battle pass and will release separately, allowing you to buy him with Legend Tokens or Apex Coins. He'll be the same cost as Mirage and Caustic--12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins.
Apex Legends' Season 1 battle pass can only be purchased with Apex Coins, one of the three in-game currencies. Buying into the battle pass will cost you 950 Apex Coins. However, you don't have to buy the battle pass right away to avoid missing out on rewards. "You'll receive all the rewards up to your Battle Pass level (which is your current level for the season) retroactively!" EA wrote in the battle pass FAQ. "For example, if you're on level 20 for the season when you buy the Battle Pass, you'll unlock all rewards for every level up to 20, plus three special Battle Pass skins."
If you want to buy yourself a little help in unlocking the Season 1 battle pass rewards, there's also a bundle--which you can purchase for 2,800 Apex Coins--that unlocks the next 25 levels for you. This bundle can be purchased at any time, so you can buy it at the start and instantly reach level 25 in the battle pass or nab it when you're, for example, level 40 and reach level 65. The Season 1 battle pass has 100 levels in total, and contains an assortment of weapon skins, stat trackers, Legend voice lines, and Apex Coin and XP drops as rewards. Leveling up is entirely XP based, as there are no challenges.
Like other games that feature seasonal battle passes, all rewards unlocked with Apex Legend's Season 1 battle pass remain during follow-up seasons. However, once Season 1 ends, you can no longer unlock the items included in this specific pass. Regardless, whether you buy the pass or not, you'll unlock free rewards during Season 1. You get 18 new stat trackers, five Apex Packs, and a new skin for Octane.
Apex Legends is available for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. In our Apex Legends review, Phil Hornshaw gave the game a 9/10, writing, "Apex Legends is a mix of smart shooter ideas that makes for a competitive, team-based game that gets at all the best parts of battle royale while addressing a lot of the weaknesses. Respawn's intense focus on team play makes Apex more than just a worthy addition to the genre; it's an indicator of where battle royale should go in the future."
WWE's biggest event of the year, Wrestlemania, is right around the corner, coming to PPV and the WWE Network on Sunday, April 7. The night will have some of the biggest matches of the year, including multiple championship bouts, wrapping up story lines that WWE has been building for months.
This year's event is coming to Metlife Stadium in East Ruthersford, New Jersey, on Sunday, April 7. You can watch the event for yourself on the WWE Network or on PPV through your cable or satellite provider. While the official schedule on the Network isn't out for April 7, Wrestlemania 35 is listed as starting at 7 PM ET. Like all other larger WWE events, there will more than likely be a kick off show starting two hours prior to the event.
Check out the start times for multiple time zones below.
Wrestlemania Start Time:
4 PM PT
6 PM CT
7 PM ET
12 AM BST (April 8)
The biggest match on the Wrestlemania card is none other than Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch for the Raw Women's Championship. Originally, Lynch was going to be suspended until after Mania, after her numerous attacks on Rousey forced the McMahons to punish Lynch for her actions. However, she's now been added to the match, after Rousey attacked her at Fastlane.
Additionally, Batista returned, beat up Ric Flair on his birthday, and demanded a match against Triple H. Although Batista had made a few appearances on WWE programming, he has not competed in the ring since 2014. This will be an interesting match to see these former stablemates fight each other in a No Holds Barred match.
Below, you'll find the match card for this year's Wrestlemania. We'll keep updating it as more matches are announced in the upcoming week's to the WWE PPV.
Wrestlemania Match Card:
AJ Styles vs. Randy Orton
Shane McMahon vs. The Miz
Triple H vs. Batista (No Holds Barred Match)
Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair (Raw Women's Championship)
Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Seth Rollins (Universal Championship)
Make sure to come back to GameSpot on April 7 for live coverage and a review of the event.
Bethesda has announced it will once again host an E3 presentation , eschewing the recent trend from publishers like Sony and Electronic Arts to step back from the industry event. It will take place Sunday, June 9 at 5:30 PM PT, and will be livestreamed for viewers at home.
The company teased the announcement with the #BE3 hashtag on Twitter. The theme for this year's presentation is "Be Together," and Bethesda says it will be inviting more fans to join in the live audience. The only game formally announced to make an appearance is Doom Eternal, though the teaser image shows silhouettes of lots of characters from across Bethesda's franchises. Last year the studio mentioned both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6, so we may hear more about those.
The teaser even includes a cheeky reference to Walmart Canada, which exposed several games planned for last year's E3--including Rage 2 from Bethesda. The company riffed on the leak, and then marketing director Pete Hines cracked a joke at the store's expense during the E3 2018 presentation.
This is par for the course for Bethesda, which began having large-scale E3 presentations five years ago. It is swimming against the tide of the industry as a whole, however. Nintendo stopped giving press conferences in favor of pre-recorded Nintendo Direct presentations and week-long Treehouse streams. Sony announced this year it wouldn't be presenting at E3 at all. EA recently followed suit, still planning its E3-adjacent EA Play event, but declining to do a press conference.
That leaves Microsoft, Ubisoft, and now Bethesda as the last remaining publishers planning old-fashioned E3 stage shows. Microsoft, for its part, appears to be capitalizing on the opportunity and claims it will be "going big" this year.
Nintendo is giving Switch owners a chance to try out one of the console's best games free for a limited time. In an uncharacteristic move, the company is offering a special week-long demo of Splatoon 2, which lets prospective players dive into the colorful shooter and its suite of online modes at no charge.
The Splatoon 2 Special Demo will be available on the Switch Eshop later today, March 18. Much like the full game, you'll need an internet connection and a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to play the demo. If you don't already have the latter, you'll receive a code for a free seven-day trial for the service via email after downloading the demo, even if you've already tried the previous free NSO trial.
The Special Demo will run from March 19-25. During that time, players will be able to try out Splatoon 2's signature Turf War mode, which pits two teams of four against each other in a contest to cover the most terrain with your color ink, as well as the game's various Ranked Battles and the cooperative Salmon Run mode.
If you're interested in purchasing Splatoon 2 after your time with it, Nintendo of America is offering 20% off of the game in the Eshop until March 28, bringing its price down to $48. Players in Europe will get an even bigger savings; the base game will be 33% off, while the Splatoon 2 and Octo Expansion DLC bundle will be discounted by 25%. You'll also be able to carry any progress you've made during the free trial period over to the full version.
Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions run for US $4 / £3.49 / AU $6 for one month, US $8 / £7 / AU $12 for three months, and US $20 / £18 / AU $30 for one year. Along with online play, the subscription offers a handful of other benefits, including cloud saves for most games and access to a catalog of classic NES titles, including Kid Icarus and StarTropics, which were added to the library earlier this month.
It's a busy month for deals in the PlayStation Store: The Great Indoors Sale recently launched, offering major discounts on hundreds of games and a huge price cut for PS Plus subscriptions. But there's another PSN sale that might just have flown under your radar: an EA sale on over 60 PS4 and PS3 games, add-ons, and bundles from some of the publisher's best series. The sale ends Tuesday, March 26 at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET, the same time the PS Plus subscription sale ends.
Another notable deal is Titanfall 2's Ultimate edition, which is selling for only $7.49 and includes a huge amount of bonus content. First-person shooter Battlefield V, which released late last year, is marked down to just $30 and features not only several new multiplayer modes but also an episodic single-player campaign. Speaking of multiplayer: break out of prison and journey with your fellow escaped convict in A Way Out, which is discounted at $18. Unravel 2, another local or online co-op experience where you play as adorable yarn creatures, is only $5.
Many of EA's sports titles are marked down well over 50% this week, including Madden NFL 19, which is only $15; EA Sports UFC 3, which is just over $13; and FIFA 19, which is just under $20. The ultimate editions of Dead Space 2 and Dead Space 3 are also on sale for just $6 each on PS3.
By Anonymous on Mar 18, 2019 09:30 pm It's been a long time coming, but season 8 of Game of Thrones is almost here! Refresh your memory of season 7 with our full recap.
In Lovecraftian lore, horrors exist that the mind simply cannot comprehend. While the facade of our world usually keeps us safe from it all, on occasion, supernatural beings pierce through the veil. These Old Gods are creatures humankind was never meant to bear witness to; a reminder of our insignificance in a universe we don't have the capacity to fully understand.
Those who gaze upon the Old Gods are left broken. They are driven insane as they struggle to reconcile their understanding of how the world should be with the eldritch truths suddenly thrust upon them. In 2018, at a secluded location in England, I felt this same madness creeping into my own mind. I stood before otherworldly creatures that were deeply familiar to me, and yet also entirely alien. I locked eyes with them and my psyche began to fracture; my reality began to distort.
Just then a nice Japanese man handed me a Pokemon goodie bag and thanked me for coming to the set of the Detective Pikachu movie. I politely smiled and nodded while still transfixed on a small furry Pikachu standing a few feet away. I wasn't ready to see that. As I wrestled with the ramifications of it, a guy with his arm up a Charizard's neck appeared and began aggressively waving its head around while making faint roaring sounds. Behind him was a shirtless dude jumping up and down shouting "attack."
I don't think I've been the same since.
For as long as I remember, Pokemon has been a part of my life. I've captured hundreds of them, battled dozens of Gym Leaders, and been crowned a Champion numerous times. But my immersion into the Pokemon universe has always been abstracted through the screens of video game handhelds and TVs. On that day, however, I stood at the center of it. More specifically, I was standing in an underground battle arena where some sort of Pokemon fight club was being held. Large WWE-esque displays teased the match-up, while teenagers dressed like trainers from the games--vibrant-colored shorts, baseball caps, backpacks and all--ambled around. Real-world representations of in-game monsters were also scattered around the location. It was weird, but once I managed to reclaim some sense of my grip on reality, it was also exciting.
Detective Pikachu is The Pokemon Company and Legendary Pictures' first stab at a live-action movie based on the incredibly popular Nintendo franchise. Although much of what audiences will see on screen will be CGI, those involved in its production have leaned heavily on the real world to both inspire the movie and execute on the vision for it, which is why there are so many Pokemon model stand-ins hanging around.
Over the course of the day, I got to immerse myself in a small slice of Detective Pikachu's world and speak with people key to bringing it to life. Whether the movie lives up to the high bar fans expect it to reach remains to be seen, but I can at the very least say that there was an overwhelming excitement about the whole thing--an enthusiasm for the production and an awareness of how much Pokemon means to millions around the world.
To Be A Master
"We're all very passionate about Pokemon at Legendary, and I think we've been talking about it for five years now, so it's been in our minds for a long time," said Ali Mendes, co-producer on the flick. "Detective Pikachu was this new idea from The Pokemon Company, and we were really excited about it because we felt this was a way to celebrate everything inside of Pokemon's legacy: 20 years of battling and these characters that people have fallen in love with, to sort of celebrate that but also do something a little unexpected, a little bit new, and kind of add a genre twist to it.
"The biggest thing was of course seeing Pikachu in live action, figuring out how these characters are going to come into our world--'What does a live Pokemon, a realistic, 3D Pokemon look like?' That was a really exciting challenge for us."
CGI versions of originally 2D animated characters in live-action movies have become prevalent with films like Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smurfs, and Garfield. And while these films were certainly considerations when Legendary began making Detective Pikachu, Mendes said its goal was to deliver something closer to Fantastic Beasts, a spin-off from the Harry Potter universe. In many ways, the Pokemon and Harry Potter universes are quite similar, both having massive worlds rich with history and character, but also driven by memorable stories. Successfully representing both of these aspects, according to Mendes, is the key to doing justice to Pokemon in the movie.
"These creatures are as photo-real as they can possibly be. We're working with the best visual effects team in the world. We thought about Fantastic Beasts a lot just in terms of the quality of that animation and how life-like [the creatures] were. But it was interesting; we worked very closely with The Pokemon Company. They've been wonderful collaborators through this, and we've really let them guide us, because they know their brand better than we ever will, and we want to make sure that we're giving fans exactly what they want, and they know that better than anyone.
"But when it comes to making a feature film, you really want to be led by story; you need to care about your characters, and you need to care about your story, and Detective Pikachu at its heart had this great story that we felt like, 'OK, this is a way to connect beyond just what the brand is.' This is a father-son story. There's something inside of these characters that we feel is really going to resonate and connect with a large audience, so it was actually the creativity of it that really drove us and made us feel like this could be something really special."
Following the release of the first two trailers for Detective Pikachu, the internet has buzzed with discussion about how the Pokemon are depicted. Twitter has exploded with GIFs of Mr. Mime getting involved in an imaginary traffic collision, clips of a bartending Ludicolo screaming abruptly, and pictures of Lickitung's unfurled tongue that are, quite frankly, unnerving. While Legendary has stuck close to the source material when it comes to the design of Pokemon--guided by the The Pokemon Company to ensure they remain faithful--it has had more freedom in depicting the world the movie is set within.
Like the video game it's loosely based on, Detective Pikachu takes place in Ryme City, where protagonist Tim Goodman (Justice Smith), a former Pokemon trainer and son of detective Harry Goodman, investigates the disappearance of his father. Joining him is an amnesiac Pikachu voiced by Ryan Reynolds. Tim happens to be the only human who can speak to the Pikachu, who is also caught up in the mystery of Harry Goodman's disappearance, as well as strange goings-on with other Pokemon in the metropolis.
It's in Ryme City that the meeting of the real and surreal is at its most striking. Nigel Phelps, production designer on Detective Pikachu, also called Fantastic Beasts to mind when discussing taking the familiar and giving it a strange, otherworldly twist.
"It's all very focused on being believable, that's a very important characteristic to the film," he explained. "So for the most part, we'll be shooting in and around London … the streets and the exterior stuff is in and around the city of London and Shoreditch. It has to be familiar to everybody. So some amalgam of Vancouver, in terms of the landscape, Manhattan, in terms of the scale of the architecture. So really, if you mash Manhattan with London and Tokyo, that's kind of the world that we are setting this in.
"We've kind of shied away from [using landmarks and architecture from the games]. There are little clues with the street names, and stuff like that, there's references to the Pokemon universe, without being specific to it. So we've shied away from the animation [because] the cartoons and stuff felt much too cartoon-y and unreal, and it was important to everyone making the film that this was a realistic universe."
Naturally, taking strange creatures and attempting to put them in realistic environments throws up numerous challenges, and this is something that has shaped the construction of sets that Pokemon appear in. Take the aforementioned screaming Ludicolo, for example, who is four feet wide, but still needs to fit behind a bar.
"Everything has to get moved down," Phelps said. "You know, you have to be familiar with, obviously, with the creatures in the scene, because they're not all six foot tall, eighteen inches wide, they're all sorts of shapes and sizes.
"We stopped including Pokemon into the [set production visuals] very early on because [they] became distracting. [We were] drawing this great-looking sets, and everyone's like, 'Oh, yeah, but, no, this Pokemon's ears are too big,' and no one's looking at the environments. It became all about what the Pokemon are doing ... That became what the illustrations were all about, and not the scenery. We'd still be doing [sets] now otherwise. So that's gonna be a post-production layer."
I Choose You
The responsibility of bringing Pokemon to life in a realistic way and integrating them into Ryme City fell upon VFX producer Greg Baxter and his team. And the challenges in doing so were apparent from the very outset, as Baxter found that, although there was an abundance of Pokemon material to look to for inspiration, the stylistic difference of Detective Pikachu meant they couldn't entirely rely on other Pokemon projects..
"The Pokemon world that has existed before, whether it's in the games or the traditional anime, has been a very different style of performance," Baxter said. "And so, even just getting a first image of what it might be has been a long process. To get so many cooks, if you will, to try to weigh in on what it would look like and then performing as a three-dimensional character, walking and flying, and there's so many of them so the movements are just vast.
"And then, coming out here onto a film set or out into the city and trying to figure out how to film all of that movement when it doesn't actually exist in front of a camera and when it's so different--I mean, you've got, one-foot- to 20-foot-tall Pokemon and some fly and some slither, some are fast, some are slow, and shot to shot, you may have 12 of those. And you have to accommodate for all of them.
"We've done movies before where you have one or two ways to film that, ways to get space for the Pokemon or light for the Pokemon or for the character. [But] in this one, when you have so many in one shot, you have to make sure that the camera is not just capturing the faces in front of them, but also all of the creatures that will be added after the fact. It's been a circus, but it's a lot of fun."
According to Baxter, the decision to render Pokemon as realistically as possible suited the vision director Rob Letterman had for the movie, which, like every other aspect of production, reinforced the theme of having the fantastical amidst the familiar.
"Rob Letterman's vision for the movie is to ground it in reality, even though Ryme City is kind of a made-up city. It's supposed to feel present-day and feel like all these creatures that you've seen mostly in very bright colors and anime style are sitting in the room with you. And so Pokemon to Pokemon, they have different textures--some are furry, some are kind of leathery or snakey or whatever. But for every creature, we took real-world animals and drew from that. You take the skin of a snake, the eyes of a different kind of character, we put all these pieces together to form what that Pokemon would look like.
"We would send that back and forth to The Pokemon Company, so that they would understand where we're going with it and it wouldn't be a big shock when it landed. But really, that's how all of them have come together. Each one, even though they're a creature that doesn't exist in our world, all of the elements of what makes them up in this movie are drawn from animals that do exist in our world."
My first exposure to Detective Pikachu's vision of Pokemon in the real word wasn't being eased into it through brief glimpses of concept art, or even the short trailers that first debuted long after my visit to set. Instead I was thrown into the midst of it all, shown pieces of a bigger picture, and left to let my imagination try and figure out how it all fits together. Having watched the trailers, the sight of realistic Pokemon is no less strange today. However, being able to take a step back and get a wider view of the world in which they exist certainly makes it less jarring. Like many other fans, I have been charmed by the Pokemon featured in the trailer and warmed to the idea of a live-action movie. If the rest of the film is able to sustain the sense of wonder those trailers inspire, this could be an entirely new Pokemon universe to get obsessed with.
Apex Legends developer Respawn promised that the game's first battle pass would launch in March, and now we know exactly when. The game has announced that its Season 1 Battle Pass will hit on Tuesday, March 19 at 10 AM PT, offering a new character and loads of new loot to collect. It will cost you 950 Apex Coins (roughly $10). A Battle Pass Bundle is also available for 2800 Apex Coins, which also instantly unlocks the next 25 levels for the season.
As suspected, the new character is Octane. The PlayStation Blog outlined his powers, including an Adrenaline Junkie ability to trade health for speed, and a limitless supply of Stim health. He also has his Launch Pads as an Ultimate Ability, giving himself and teammates a serious vertical boost. Octane will be released alongside the battle pass but will be a separate purchase. He will cost the same as Mirage and Caustic did at launch--12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins.
Octane appeared in an accidental update on the Origin storefront, which Respawn later acknowledged was an "unintentional update about Season 1." Later jump pads began appearing in the game, all but confirming the rumors about the new character's power set.
Purchasing the battle pass will also unlock other rewards, including the Lifeline Revolutionary skin, Wraith Survivor skin, and Mirage Outlaw skin. Plus, everyone who plays during Season 1 can earn a Wild Frontier skin, five Apex Packs, and 18 Wild Frontier stat trackers, regardless of whether they bought into the battle pass.
Each battle pass will include about 100 rewards, including seasonal items for all players and some exclusive kit for battle pass owners. Rewards will apply retroactively if you decide to buy your battle pass later. Purchasing the battle pass will also net you extra Apex Packs as part of your rewards, giving you more chances for random skins and other cosmetics.
Season 1 is slated to last through June, when it will be replaced by the next seasonal battle pass. Two more are planned for 2019, in September and December.
The first poster for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has been released. The latest movie from the revered director of Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained arrives in July, and as the title suggests, is a sprawling LA-set drama that stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
The poster itself isn't exactly the most striking one released for a Tarantino movie, but it does have a suitably retro look. It shows DiCaprio as fading Western star Rick Dalton and Pitt as his stunt-double and pal Cliff Booth. They are shown posing in front of a car and the Hollywood Hills... and that's basically it. The good news is that the first trailer is set to arrive very soon, but in the meantime here's the poster:
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood hits theaters on July 26 and features probably the most ridiculously star-studded cast of the year (outside of Avengers Endgame of course). As well as DiCaprio and Pitt, it stars Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, the actress who was murdered by the Manson family in 1969 and in Tarantino's movie lives next door to Dalton and Booth. There's also roles for Al Pacino, Dakota Fanning, James Marsden, Scoot McNairy, Damian Lewis, Emile Hirsch, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Lena Dunham, plus Luke Perry, who shot a role before his death earlier this month.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino explained the origins of the movie. "I've been working on this script for five years, as well as living in Los Angeles County most of my life, including in 1969, when I was seven years old," he said. "I'm very excited to tell this story of an LA and a Hollywood that don't exist anymore. And I couldn't be happier about the dynamic teaming of DiCaprio and Pitt as Rick and Cliff."
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Tarantino's ninth movie as director. In 2016 he said that he would quit directing after his tenth movie, but it remains to be the seen if this is still the case. There were also rumors last year that he was working a new Star Trek movie, but with the future that entire franchise on the big screen uncertain, there has been no further news about this.
Spring is just around the corner, and Niantic is celebrating the start of the season with a special event in Pokemon Go. Beginning tomorrow, March 19, the developer is holding an equinox event in the hit mobile game, which will feature increased Grass-type Pokemon spawns, new Field Research tasks, and more.
During the equinox event, Grass Pokemon such as Oddish, Exeggcute, Shroomish, and Sunkern will appear in the wild more frequently than normal. On top of that, the rare Rock/Psychic-types Lunatone and Solrock--each of which is typically exclusive to certain parts of the world--will swap regions for the duration of the event.
In addition to the increased Pokemon spawns, Niantic is doling out a special set of limited-time Field Research tasks centered around Grass Pokemon during the event. Grass Pokemon will also appear as Raid Bosses, and two moves--Acid Spray and Leaf Tornado--are being added to the game permanently.
The Pokemon Go equinox event kicks off at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET and runs until the same time on Tuesday, March 26. You can read more details about it on the official Pokemon Go website.
In addition to the equinox event, Niantic is holding this month's Pokemon Go Community Day this Saturday, March 23. That event will also feature a Grass-type Pokemon: Treecko, one of the three starters from Ruby and Sapphire.
Update: Epic has reinstated its Baller vehicle into Fortnite. "We've collected the data we were looking for and have re-enabled The Baller," the developer stated on Twitter. Original story follows.
Citing an unexpected technical issue, Epic Games has disabled Fortnite's latest vehicle, the Baller. The hamster ball-like vehicle went live recently with the 8.10 update, and sported a Boost and Grappler to let you swing around trees or climb cliffs.
In a tweet, Epic Games said it is investigating a stability issue surrounding the Baller and will issue a status update once it knows more. This could be related to an apparent exploit that allowed players to launch themselves high into the air. Until the issue is fixed, you'll just have to look elsewhere for your deadly hamster ball fix.
The Baller protected players from damage while inside the enclosure, but enemy fire could destroy the vehicle itself with its 300 health. It's fairly common for Fortnite updates to hit an unexpected issue and be temporarily disabled, as in the case of dynamite and guided missiles, among others.
The 8.10 update introduced a few other changes besides. Those included a change to the Vending Machines, which became free to activate, but self-destruct after a single use. Another significant change was to cross-play cross-play matchmaking. Nintendo Switch players were changed to the pool with mobile players, while Xbox One and PS4 players remained together in their pool. Players can still opt-in across platforms to play with their friends.
This is part of Fortnite's recently launched Season 8, which offers new battle pass cosmetics for completing challenges. Check out our challenge guide if you need a hand, or read up on how to take part in the High Stakes Challenge for additional rewards.
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