Month: May 2020

There are 80 bugs to catch throughout the year in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but none of them are as tricky to find as the mole cricket. It is the only bug in the entire game that requires you to play with sound on, and you won’t be able to see it when it’s around. It’s not the most profitable bug out there, but it’s still important for your Critterpedia, so here’s how to find and catch one.

How To Catch A Mole Cricket

• Requires: 1x shovel, 1x net, sound on

To catch a mole cricket, you’ll have to listen for, well, cricket noises. As you walk around your island, a friend’s island, or a Mystery Tour island, you might hear a rapid chirping sound. Walk around and listen for it to get louder; when the sound is at its loudest, you should take out your shovel and start digging in the immediate area. It will probably take a few tries, but once you find the spot, the mole cricket will pop out of the ground as you dig the hole. When this happens, quickly switch to your net and catch it.

Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to catch a mole cricket if you’re hard of hearing or can’t play with sound; you would just have to keep digging around your island until one pops out of the ground. You can, however, limit the areas a mole cricket could spawn by laying down paths, planting flowers, and placing items on the ground.

When To Catch A Mole Cricket

Mole crickets, unlike other crickets, are a winter and spring bug, but during the right time of year, they’re available all day. Mole crickets are one of the bugs leaving the Northern Hemisphere in May, so be on the lookout for one if you haven’t caught it yet; if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, May is instead the first month you can catch a mole cricket.

The full list of available months for both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is listed below.

Northern Hemisphere

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

Southern Hemisphere

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

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Mole Cricket Price

Mole crickets can be donated to the museum or sold to either Nook’s Cranny or the special visitor Flick, who will purchase bugs from you at 150% their usual market value.

• Nook’s Cranny price: 500
• Flick price: 750

More Rare Bugs

While the mole cricket is probably the trickiest bug in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it’s not the only one. Check out our guides for tips on how to catch the game’s rarest bugs.

In April, CD Projekt Red confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 crossed a major milestone when most of the world’s major ratings groups assigned ratings to the much-anticipated title. This includes Australia’s Classification Board, which is known for its strict ratings (remember South Park: The Stick of Truth and its crying koala censors?)

CD Projekt Red’s Kuba Kutrzuba tells GameSpot that Cyberpunk 2077 has received an R 18+ rating in Australia, which is classified as “high impact.” The game will feature sex, violence, and references to sexual violence. The big news here, however, is that Cyberpunk 2077 has not been refused classification, which was the case for Saints Row IV and State of Decay, among others. Those games needed to re-submit with edits to get approved for release.

Editing can be a controversial move, as fans want the full, unedited experience. Thankfully for Cyberpunk 2077 fans, that’s exactly what they’re getting.

“Receiving an age rating in Australia was an important milestone on our way to releasing the game in September,” Kutrzuba said. “We’re creating a mature title for a mature audience, so we were expecting R 18+. We haven’t had to alter the game in any way and Australian gamers are set to enjoy the full Cyberpunk 2077 experience.”

You can check out the box art for Cyberpunk 2077 in the images above, where you can clearly see the R 18+ rating description.

CD Projekt Red’s previous game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, also received an R 18+ rating in Australia. However, that game’s predecessor The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was banned in Australia and had to be censored to reach an MA 15+ rating.

CD Projekt Red’s John Mamais previously told GameSpot that he was expecting Cyberpunk 2077 to be approved for release in Australia.

“I was [concerned about censorship] because I know Australia has issues with drugs and the other thing is sexualised violence–those are the two things that can kill your product [in Australia],” Mamais said. “But I’ve been looking into it [over] the last couple of days. It seems like we’re safe. You don’t get rewarded for [using] drugs as far as I know in the game. The player doesn’t do any kind of sexualised violence at all where it’s really tasteless; we wouldn’t do anything like that.”

The full ratings description for Cyberpunk 2077 in Australia or other parts of the world has not been released yet, at least not officially. Brazil’s classification board published a rating for the game, and then deleted it, but not before people on Reddit captured it. The rating reportedly warned of sexual content, drugs, and extreme violence, as well as depictions of sex work and suicide.

Designer Paweł Sasko tweeted a screenshot of the leak saying, “You surprised? We don’t f**k around.”

The ESRB, the ratings group for the United States, has not yet published its rating, but it’s expected the game will carry an M-for-Mature rating.

Cyberpunk 2077 will be released on September 17 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia, and PC–and potentially the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.