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Red Dead Online Beta’s latest Showdown Mode, Plunder, is now available. Along a new mode, new clothing, items, weapons and horses are available at lower ranks for limited time. In Plunder, up to 16 players can form teams and battle to capture supplies. Until April 15, all coats, holsters, boots and gloves up to rank 40 will be available to all players.

Easter is just around the corner, and Niantic is celebrating by bringing back its annual Eggstravaganza event in Pokemon Go. The week-long event returns next week beginning Tuesday, April 16, and this year it’ll give players their first chance to capture Shiny Buneary.

Throughout the Eggstravangaza, you’ll be able to hatch baby Pokemon like Pichu, Smoochum, and Magby from 2 km Eggs, and you’ll receive twice the typical amount of Candy for every Egg you hatch. On top of that, Incubators will be twice as effective for the duration of the event, while Lucky Eggs will last twice as long as normal.

Beyond that, Niantic will also be distributing special Field Research tasks revolving around Eggs at Poke Stops. Buneary will also appear in the wild much more frequently than normal, and if you’re lucky, you may come across its Shiny version. You can find more details about the event on the Pokemon Go website.

In the meantime, Pokemon Go’s second Legendary Lunch Hour event is set for April 10. Shortly after that, Niantic will host this month’s Community Day. The monthly event returns this Saturday, April 13, and will feature the rare Dragon Pokemon Bagon. Then, starting April 15, the Legendary Latios will make an encore appearance as part of a special week-long Raid event.

In addition to all of the upcoming events, Niantic has a couple of new features on the way for Pokemon Go, namely the Lucky Friends mechanic. Each day, you’ll have a chance to become Lucky Friends with a player you’ve become Best Friends with, which will guarantee you both receive a Lucky Pokemon in one trade. The developer is also adding avatar poses to Pokemon Go’s in-game store. These run for 500 coins apiece and let you customize your Trainer’s pose in the game.

It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard about Ubisoft’s long-awaited Beyond Good & Evil 2. Ubisoft isn’t sharing any further details about it yet, but now Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has at least provided an update on how the project is coming along.

He told IGN that he just recently spoke with creative director Michel Ancel, and in their discussion they might have discussed “another direction” for the game.

“I spoke with Michel last week about it to see where it was going; how we should move in one or another direction,” Guillemot said in a video that was apparently recorded in March. “We see the potential of this universe is fantastic, and Michel is really passionate [about it]. It’s going to be fantastic, I think.”

Ubisoft showed off a new look at Beyond Good & Evil 2 last year at E3, and the title could be among those that Ubisoft reveals more about at E3 this year.

In an intriguing bit of news, Joseph Gordon Levitt’s creative company, HitRecord, is partnering with Ubisoft for the tools so anyone can create content for Beyond Good and Evil 2.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 is a prequel to the 2003 original. It’s been in the works for a long time, but there is still no release date or announced platforms.

What are you hoping to see from Beyond Good & Evil 2? Let us know in the comments below!

This past weekend’s episode of The Simpsons ended in a very strange and amazing way. The world’s first Ned Flanders-themed metal band, Okilly Dokilly, aired a portion of the music video for their song “White Wine Spritzer” over the show’s end-credits.

This really happened. And it was incredible. Here’s the video:

Okilly Dokilly is a “Nedal” band from Phoenix whose members dress up like Ned Flanders. The lyrics are pulled from things Ned said on the show. White Wine Spritzer itself comes from the Season 10 episode where Ned throws caution to the wind and orders himself a white wine spritzer while in Vegas with Homer.

Simpsons showrunner Al Jean told Rolling Stone that the team noticed the White Wine Spritzer video and “knew they had to be on the show.”

“We do not endorse their message of indiscriminate drinking of white wine spritzers,” he said.

Frontman Head Ned, which is his stage name, told Rolling Stone that he’s “very much in disbelief” about his band appearing on The Simpsons in this way.

Okilly Dokilly is currently in the midst of a huge US tour with stops all around the country. You can see a list of tour stops and get more information about the band here on their website.

It appears Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is adding a new stage-builder mode. A new commercial for the game released by Nintendo shows what appears to be the new Stage Builder mode from the main menu. You can see this for yourself at 0:02 in the video below.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U also featured stage-builder modes, so it’s not a big surprise that it could be added to Ultimate. What’s more, the stage-builder mode was already leaked thanks to a data-mine. Another new mode, Home Run Contest, is also reportedly coming to Ultimate, according to Source Gaming.

A Nintendo Direct briefing is reportedly coming on Thursday, April 11, so it might be there that Nintendo officially announces new modes for Ultimate. Nothing is confirmed at this stage, however, so for now consider this a rumour.

Ultimate has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, making it the third best-selling Switch game of all. It’s only behind Super Mario Odyssey (13.76 million) and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (15.02 million).

On Sunday, April 14, the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones will premiere. If you don’t have cable, you can sign up for HBO Now, a standalone subscription that costs $15 a month. HBO Go is free, if you have HBO in your cable or satellite TV package. With Go or Now, you can stream Game of Thrones on supported phones, tablets and more. Game of Thrones airs in America on Sunday evening at 9 PM Pacific and Eastern time.

Inspired by the success of games like PUBG, Fortnite, and Apex Legends, a very rich person is looking to buy an island and bring 100 people to it for a real-life game of battle royale.

IGN spotted a listing on the luxury marketplace Hush Hush from an anonymous person who is looking to hire someone to design an arena for a 100-person battle royale game.

Contestants will compete with Airsoft guns, and shots will be detected by touch-sensitive armour. Under the current plan, competition will take place 12 hours per day over three days until only one person remains. Competitors can camp for the night, while food, camping gear, and all equipment will be provided to contestants.

The untitled contest is still in the early stages of planning, so there is no word on yet on how to sign up or other key particulars like a prize for the winner or what island will be used or details on the safety measures and rules to be implemented. Whatever the case, the person who gets hired as gamemaker will get £1,500/day for six weeks to create the event.

“Battle royale games have become incredibly popular over the last few years ago and our customer is a huge fan who wants to make the game a reality in the safest way possible,” Hush Hush founder Aaron Harpin said. “If the championship is a success this year, it’s something he wants to make an annual event moving forward, which is very exciting!”

IGN reports that the sponsor of the event is an anonymous millionaire; his identity is unknown.

HBO’s fantasy show Game of Thrones is ending. The six-episode eighth and final season premieres this Sunday, and fans are excited to see who lives and dies and how the story wraps up. Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss spoke with Entertainment Weekly about ending the show and the pressure of delivering a good ending.

Weiss said he and Benioff want people to enjoy the ending, but he’s sure it won’t please everyone. “There is no version where everybody says, ‘I have to admit, I agree with every other person on the planet that this is the perfect way to do this’– that’s an impossible reality that doesn’t exist,” he said. “You hope you’re doing the best job you can, the version that works better than any other version, but you know somebody is not going to like it. I’ve been that person with other things, where people are loving something and I’m going, ‘Yeah, that’s okay. I was hoping for more.'”

As for Benioff, he said he and Weiss have discussed from the very beginning how they wanted Game of Thrones to end. It’s been more than a decade in the making, and Benioff said he and Weiss worry about how it’ll be received.

“A good story isn’t a good story if you have a bad ending. Of course we worry,” he said.

At the same time, “part of the fun” with any show, and this would presumably include Game of Thrones, is seeing people debate and discuss the ending, Benioff said.

He said he personally enjoyed the ending to HBO’s The Sopranos–which surprised everyone and cut to black. That doesn’t mean Game of Thrones will end in a similarly dramatic way, but Benioff said he enjoyed the fervour that the ending created among fans.

“I was one of those people who thought my TV had gone out. I got up and was checking the wires, unable to believe my cable had gone out in the most important moment of my favorite TV series,” he said. “I think that was the best of all possible endings for that show. But a lot of people hated it.”

Benioff and Weiss are directing the Game of Thrones series finale. Weiss said he and Benioff trust the season’s other directors, but they wanted to direct the finale because they didn’t want to create a scenario where they micro-managed the director to make sure it was fitting their vision.

“When something has been sitting with you for so long, you have such a specific sense of the way each moment should play and feel,” he said. “Not just in terms of ‘this shot or that shot,’ though sometimes it’s that as well. So it’s not really fair to ask somebody else to get that right. We’d be lurking over their shoulder every take driving them crazy, making it hard for them to do their job. If we’re going to drive anybody crazy, it might as well be ourselves. At least if something goes wrong, he can yell at me and I can yell at him.”

Game of Thrones Season 8 premieres April 14 on HBO. There are six episodes in the final season, and one of them will showcase a massive battle that is reportedly the longest battle sequence ever committed to film.