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It feels like everything is battery-powered now, and while batteries have come a long way over the past few decades, no battery lasts forever. If you find your charge beginning to dwindle, and you want to prevent future occurrences, or you just want to improve on your existing charging system, Amazon has a bunch of great deals on battery packs and wall chargers today.

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If you want a battery pack suitable for your newly preordered Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch, any of the ones on sale today should help extend your play time, although the RAVPower 32000mAh, with its 6A output, is the best choice.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons may not let you transfer your save data from one Nintendo Switch console to another.

That’s what it apparently says on the back of the game’s German download card, which was recently shared and translated into English in the ResetEra forums.

“The transfer of user- and save data between consoles is not supported by this software,” reads the translation of the download card.

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If this is true, that means you won’t be able to take your save game over to a newer Switch console should you buy one. Good to know if you already own a Switch but intend on buying the newly announced Animal Crossing: New Horizons special edition Switch at some point.

You better hope that your Switch doesn’t ever break so you have to buy a new one too, either. Especially as it was confirmed last year in an interview with Gamekult that Animal Crossing: New Horizons will not support cloud saves in order to stop people manipulating time to their advantage within the game.

The German download card also contains the second mention of Animal Crossing: New Horizons only allowing one island per console. The first mention of it was spotted on the Nintendo Australia webpage for the game.

“Up to 8 players registered as users on a Nintendo Switch console can live on one shared island, and up to four residents of one island can play simultaneously on one console,” reads the game’s description.

“Please note: only one island can exist per Nintendo Switch console, irrespective of the number of users registered to or copies of the game used on one console. One Nintendo Switch and one copy of the game is required for each unique island.”

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Only having one island may not seem that much different to Animal Crossing: New Leaf. However, New Leaf saved the game on the 3DS cartridge, meaning you could move it around. You won’t be able to do that with New Horizons as the game is saved on the console’s internal storage – something you can’t remove so easily.

Still, as we found out in our Animal Crossing: New Horizons multiplayer interview, at least you’ll be able to invite eight friends to your island via local wireless or online play – up from the four-player limit of New Leaf.

Hopefully we’ll hear confirmation on this news before Animal Crossing: New Horizons launches on March 20, 2020.

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Season 4: Assimilation is live in Apex Legends, putting an end to Year 1 and launching the battle royale game into Year 2. The new season adds a bunch of content to the game, including new playable character Revenant and the new Sentinel sniper rifle. It also makes numerous changes to how the battle royale works too, with most of the adjustments aimed at weapons. One weapon, in particular, seems to be screwed more than most: the Havoc.

The Havoc assault rifle was Apex Legends’ first new weapon, added to the game before the start of Season 1: Wild Frontier. An energy weapon, the Havoc set itself apart by being the only firearm to support two different hop-up attachments: the Select Fire and Turbocharger. With Select Fire equipped, the Havoc could change between an assault rifle and a sniper. Meanwhile, the Turbocharger removed the Havoc’s windup time, allowing you to quickly dispatch opponents at close- to mid-range with the gun’s overwhelming bullet output.

However, Season 4 removes the Turbocharger attachment from Apex Legends–much how Season 3: Meltdown removed Skullpiercer and Disruptor Ammo (and no, sadly, Season 4 does not bring either of those two back). The Havoc and Devotion were the only two Apex Legends weapons that supported Turbocharger, though the Devotion isn’t affected by the change. The Devotion and L-Star have been switched (the L-Star is now a standard energy weapon that can be found anywhere and the Devotion is now a golden energy weapon found in Care Packages) so the Devotion comes with a Turbocharger already. The Havoc is not as lucky.

This sucks for the Havoc in two ways. For one, the gun is no longer unique–the core of its identity was that it could transform in two different ways. And second, the Havoc’s default fire isn’t all that good. It needs a Turbocharger to be competent in the late-game. To make up for the nerf, Respawn has buffed the Havoc in other ways (most notably, reducing the horizontal recoil).

These changes should make the Havoc easier to control, but it remains to be seen whether this is enough to keep people going back to the energy assault rifle. If you want a long-range energy weapon, the Triple Take is a better option. Likewise, now that it’s a common gun that you can loot anywhere, the L-Star makes for a stronger close-range option. It’s difficult to discern where the new Havoc is now supposed to fit into Apex Legends’ meta.

Battlefield 5‘s big new update, Into the Jungle, has arrived–a bit ahead of schedule. The free expansion’s biggest and most notable addition is the huge new map, Solomon Islands. It’s now been discovered that this map contains a deadly surprise–a crocodile lurking in the water.

A new video from Battlefield content creator Westie shows off this crocodile–and as you might have guessed, it bites! This croc will probably kill you if you don’t swim away fast enough, as it appears to do 35 damage when it bites.

The crocodile isn’t the first underwater animal threat in Battlefield 5, as the game also features sharks in some of its waters. Previous games featured even bigger creatures, including a Megalodon easter egg.

The Solomon Islands map isn’t the only part of Into the Jungle that went live early. The M2 Carbine rifle and the Model 37 shotgun also dropped in ahead of schedule. Instead of removing them, DICE has decided to not only keep them in the game but make them instantly unlocked for all players. They will become default weapons, so you will find them in your loadout menu the next time you log in.

Also now available in Battlefield V are two new gadgets–the M1A1 Bazooka and the Lunge Mine–and a new Elite character, Misaki Yamashiro. For more, check out the full patch notes on EA’s website.

Fallout 76 famously bypassed Steam when it released in October 2018, instead opting to launch through Bethesda’s own launcher. The publisher has now confirmed a release date for Steam–and it’s (relatively) soon.

Fallout 76 will debut on Steam on April 7 alongside the free Wastelanders update, which adds NPCs to the game. Bethesda is stocking the Steam store with the base game and the Wastelanders Deluxe Edition.

Additionally, Bethesda will sell the game’s microtransaction currency, Atoms, as well as subscriptions to the Fallout 1st program, along with the Tricentennial Pack and the Raider and Settler content bundles (more on that below).

One important thing to know is that Atoms and Fallout 1st memberships for Fallout 76 on Bethesda.net will not transfer to Steam. Atoms do not move between platforms, but Bethesda confirmed that items purchased with Atoms will be shared across Steam and Bethesda.net.

Fallout 76 New Content Bundles:

Descriptions via Bethesda

• Raider Content Bundle
  • Mine Car Planter – A small planter for your crops when no dirt is available (buildable in your C.A.M.P.)
  • Raider C.A.M.P. – Change the look of your Vault-Tec C.A.M.P. deployable to give it a Raider edge
  • Raider Stash Box – Raider-themed Stash box for your C.A.M.P.
  • Raider Faction Flag – New flag for your C.A.M.P. that show off your allegiance to Crater
  • Raider Pathfinder Outfit – Look like another resident of Crater with this outfit (includes mask and bandana)
  • Raider Conquest Loot Bag – Raider-style Loot bag, complete with skull
  • Raider Pillager Backpack – A Raider-style backpack
  • Raider Marauder Power Armor Skin – Unique appearance for your Power Armor based on the Crater Raiders

• Settler Content Bundle
  • Garden Truckbed Trailer – A small planter for your crops when no dirt is available (buildable in your C.A.M.P.)
  • Settler C.A.M.P. – Change the look of your Vault-Tec C.A.M.P. deployable to give it a Settler appearance
  • Settler Stash Box – Settler-themed Stash box for your C.A.M.P.
  • Settler Faction Flag – New flag for your C.A.M.P. that show off your allegiance to Foundation
  • Settler Mechanic Outfit – Look like another resident of Foundation with this outfit (includes hat)
  • Settler Traveler Loot Bag – Settler-style Loot bag that looks like a travel case
  • Settler Relief Backpack – A Settler-style backpack
  • Settler Vigilante Power Armor Skin – Unique appearance based on the Foundation Settlers

Fallout 76 launched to a pretty rocky start, and Bethesda has been implementing several large content updates since the game’s release in order to address player concerns. Prior to Wastelanders, Fallout 76 saw new quests added in Wild Appalachia, a battle royale mode in Nuclear Winter, and challenging team-based raids.

In GameSpot’s Fallout 76 review, Edmond Tran wrote, “Bethesda has stated it intends to continue supporting the game for a long time, but at launch, Fallout 76 is a poor experience. There are echoes of the series’ admirable qualities, but look past that facade, past the cute Vault Boy animations, past the familiar radio tracks, and you’ll find no heart–just an inconsequential wasteland doomed to be nuked over and over again.”