biteho.com

The next update for Super Mario Maker 2 will be its last one, and the good news is it’s a big one–and it’s completely free. The update launches on April 22 for the Switch exclusive, and it introduces an ambitious-sounding “World Maker” mode, in addition to more items to use to create unique levels.

The World Maker mode allows players to string their user-created levels together from a starting point to an end-battle in the castle. In essence, Nintendo is giving you the ability to make a small-scale Mario game, as up to eight worlds featuring a maximum of 40 courses can be put together.

The new Mario Maker 2 update will also introduce new enemies–Koopalings, Phantom, and Mechakoopas. These should help level-creators make even more menacing maps.

More power-ups are included in the Mario Maker 2 update as well, including the mushroom from Super Mario Bros. 2. Obtaining this item will not only make Mario appear with his look from the 1988 game, but it will also let you pick up and toss items and enemies just as you could in the original. The frog suit from Super Mario Bros. 3 is also included in the update, along with the Power Balloon, the Super Acorn, and the Boomerang Flower.

Check out the Twitter video above to see the new Mario Maker 2 content in action.

In conjunction with this update, Nintendo is adding two new characters to the free-to-play Mario Kart Tour mobile game. Builder Mario and Builder Toad will be released in the mobile racing game for a limited time, between 11 PM PT on April 21 through 10:59 PM on May 5.

Super Mario Maker 2 scored an 8/10 in GameSpot’s review. Check out our full Mario Maker 2 review to get more details.

Call Of Duty Mobile‘s fifth season, Steel Legion continues this week with the Crescent Moon event, bringing a stack of new celestial-themed items. A new limited game mode is live now, and Steel Legion season rewards continue through the week.

The Crescent Moon items include Zero’s Sultana skin, The Metallic Mist RUS-79U skin, and a Crescent Moon-themed parachute, wingsuit, backpack, frag grenade and flashbang. Crescent Moon will launch on April 21, though Activision hasn’t specified yet how they’ll be unlocked, with Activision’s blog post instructing players to “jump in the game to learn how to get these themed goods.”

The intense Free-For-All game mode is available again for a limited time, daring players to test their skills without any backup from a team or partner. Free-For-All is only available until April 23 this time, so get in quick.

If you prefer playing with a team, check out Gun Game Team Fight, a new twist on Gun Game with the same rules, albeit pitting teams against each other through the gauntlet of rotating weapons.

To get your hands on more loot, the AK-47 Jade camo can be earned through the Tenacity Rewarded challenge until April 28, plus regular season rewards continue through the duration of Steel Legion for players who complete weekly and daily challenges.

Warning: This review contains full spoilers for Better Call Saul’s Season 5 finale, titled “Something Unforgivable.”

[poilib element=”accentDivider”]

At the end of its penultimate season, Better Call Saul has elevated itself far beyond the meager status of “just” a Breaking Bad spinoff, to one of the best shows on television, period. Showrunner Peter Gould has successfully expanded the franchise with standout characters like Nacho Varga (Michael Mando), Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), and Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton), while not leaning too heavily on Breaking Bad callbacks (no Walter or Jesse cameos here) to make the series feel more substantial. In this week’s finale, titled “Something Unforgivable,” Gould also reminds us that he’s a helluva director, giving each of those aforementioned characters meaningful storylines that should carry over into the sixth, and final season.   

Lalo Salamanca vs. Nacho Varga

The build-up around Nacho’s eventual betrayal of the Salamanca clan has been really suspenseful stuff, and Dalton’s portrayal of Lalo has been one of the surprising highlights in Season 5. He’s a fantastic villain, like Gus, but with a bit more charm. As soon as Varga lets those heavily-armed assassins into Lalo’s compound, it’s clear Gould is setting us up for a “let’s see how he gets out of this one” moment, and it doesn’t disappoint.

[ignvideo url=”https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/10/11/el-camino-a-breaking-bad-movie-review”]

Breaking Bad, as a franchise, has already established itself as a visually striking show. So whether it’s Jesse’s shovel-cam scene from Season 4 in the original series, or Lalo’s claustrophobia-inducing POV sequence as he crawls his way through a secret underground tunnel, we’re frequently treated to something unexpected and unique. The question now is (assuming Lalo doesn’t survive past the final season), who will take him down? While we don’t get an inner monologue from Lalo, he’s probably aware that Nacho betrayed him, and if that pissed off look is any indication, he’s gunning for Nacho first.

Although Nacho isn’t as verbose as Lalo due to the stoic nature of his character, his storyline has been gripping (if not also tragic) to watch this season. Gould and his team keep discovering ways for us to empathize with these “bad guys.” Nacho is a great example of this because even though he’s made his bed, so to speak, his desire to leave his life of crime behind in order to save his dad is an admirable trait that you can’t help but root for. As much as I love watching Lalo’s crazy antics week after week, I’m also rooting for Nacho to make it out of this alive.

Has Kim Gone to the Dark Side Because of Jimmy?

While Season 5 saw Jimmy McGill begin his transformation into sleazy attorney Saul Goodman, it’s Seehorn’s compelling portrayal of Kim who’s undergone the biggest metamorphosis. The last time we see Kim and Jimmy, the two are trying to figure out the best way to discredit Patrick Fabian’s Howard Hamlin. In a shocking twist, Kim actually tops Jimmy with a devious plan that even he thinks is taking it too far. It seems that just a short time ago, Kim was the moral foundation for Jimmy. But after last week’s toe-to-toe standoff with a psychopathic Lalo, Kim appears confident and poised to get her way at all costs.

[widget path=”global/article/imagegallery” parameters=”albumSlug=better-call-saul-season-5-gallery&captions=true”]

Kim might be the most fascinating character on the show, even surpassing Jimmy with her complexity. On one hand, Kim quit her prestigious law firm job to help people without the means to hire lawyers at her level, but on the other hand, she’s fine with Jimmy’s involvement with the cartels and is beginning to think of ways to defame someone who really doesn’t deserve it. Forget Jimmy going dark, will Kim break bad before this is all over?

And of course, we can’t forget about Jimmy, who still hasn’t quite gone full Saul Goodman yet. Watching him plead to Mike for Kim’s safety is a powerful indicator that he hasn’t quite turned into the crooked strip mall lawyer we know from Breaking Bad. This episode also effectively showcases Jimmy’s overall concern for Kim becoming like him, or even worse, a flat-out criminal. Since we already know the fates of Gus and Mike, some of the most significant questions surrounding Better Call Saul’s sixth and final season will be what happens to Kim, Nacho, and Lalo before this is all over? Thankfully, Gould ends Season 5 with some exciting possibilities instead of an infuriating cliffhanger.

Super Mario Maker 2’s final major update arrives on April 22, 2020, and will add a new World Maker mode, all seven Koopalings, a Super Mario Bros. 2 Mushroom, the Frog Suit, the Super Acorn from Super Mario Bros. U, the Boomerang Flower, the Cannon Box, the Propeller Box, and more.

The World Maker mode will allow players to create up to eight worlds that contain up to 40 of their courses, which can all be shared with others. Course icons can be changed and Bonus Stages are available, including the moving picture matching game.

[ignvideo url=”https://www.ign.com/videos/super-mario-maker-2-world-maker-update-trailer”]

Players can create a path, complete with Warp Pipes, bridges, hills, and more, and can place their levels on them in any order they wish.

Each World can either be Underground, Desert, Snow, Sky, Forest, Volcano, or Outer Space-themed. Furthermore, players can name their game after themselves, like the example given of “Super Ellie World.”

The Super Mario Bros. 2 Mushroom will turn Mario into himself from…well…Super Mario Bros. 2. It’s only available in the Super Mario Bros. style, but allows players to ride on and pick up/throw enemies as was done in SMB2.

[widget path=”global/article/imagegallery” parameters=”albumSlug=super-mario-maker-2-world-maker-koopaling-and-super-mario-bros-2-mushroom-update&captions=true”]

The Frog Suit will be added to the Super Mario Bros. 3 style and makes Mario a pro at swimming and allows our favorite plumber to run along the top of water.

Super Mario World creators will be able to add the Power Balloon that causes Mario to float with “the fluffy grace that only a balloon can muster.”

The Super Mario Bros. U style will add the Super Acorn, while the Super Mario 3D World style will add the Boomerang Flower, Cannon Box, Propeller Box, Red POW Box, Goomba Mask, and the Bullet Bill Mask.

[ignvideo url=”https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/06/26/super-mario-maker-2-review”]

All seven Koopaling – Larry, Wendy, Morton, Lemmy, Roy, Iggy, and Ludwig – are present and have their own unique moves and can be added to any style but Super Mario 3D World.

Other items will also be added, like the Cursed Key that will have a Phanto chase the key holder, an On/Off Trampoline that can be activated with a switch, and a wind-up automaton Mechakoopa (Red ones shoot homing missiles, blue ones shoot laser beams, and at night they both gain jet engines).

Super Mario Maker 2 was released in June 2019 and, in our review, we said “Super Mario Maker 2 does nearly everything better than its already excellent predecessor, keeping the charm of a Mario game while introducing some incredible new ideas.”

[ignvideo url=”https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/02/super-mario-maker-2-the-legend-of-zelda-master-sword-clip”]

This latest update will bring a close to a year of updates that included the addition of Link’s Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda which sort of made Super Mario Maker 2 into Zelda Dungeon Maker.

[poilib element=”accentDivider”]

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to [email protected].

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who loves this but is very sad we won’t be getting a Paper Mario style. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Hatsune Miku, the Japanese Vocaloid sensation, is coming to Nintendo Switch in English-language territories for the first time. The game, Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix, will releasing digitally on May 15, with over 100 songs and 300 costumes to choose from. Many of the tracks are taken from previous games in the series, but 10 are new.

The game, which is already available in Japan, is Hatsune Miku’s Switch debut. As with other games in the series, it mixes rhythm gameplay with plenty of fashion and dancing. A demo is available now on the Nintendo Eshop, so you can experience the game for yourself.

Alongside the base game, you can also buy the Mega Pack, which comes with six downloadable song packs, each containing six songs each. The base game costs $39, whereas the Mega Pack is $60; the individual song packs cost $7 each.

An additional free song pack, the Theme Song Pack, will be available at launch. It contains four tracks.

The game is now available for digital pre-order. There’s no indication of a physical release.

Journey developer thatgamecompany will be hosting in-game charity events in their most recent mobile title, Sky: Children of the Light. The game will host charity initiatives for both Earth Day and COVID-19 relief, the developer has announced.

For Earth Day, April 22, thatgamecompany is teaming with One Tree Planted, a charity focused on reforestation, to plant trees in the Amazon and parts of Australia affected by the recent bushfires that swept across the country. Players will be able to purchase a “Days of Nature” pack in-game, which will process a donation and award them with a wearable cape, seen below.

The developer will also be taking part in the “#PlayApartTogether” campaign, and more DLC will be released for Sky soon “to help support those affected by the pandemic.” The specifics of this plan are still being worked out, but 100% of proceeds will eventually go to a charity of the developer’s choosing.

Journey is already being used to help people suffering from the impact of COVID-19–the game is free on PlayStation 4 right now so that people stuck at home can experience it.

Sky: Children of the Light is due for Switch in Summer 2020.