Apex Legends players just got a closer look at the game's upcoming collaboration with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth via a new trailer for the event. The Apex Legends & Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Event was initially announced at 2023's The Game Awards on December 7, though the presentation didn't include many details, leaving fans of both games wondering what exactly the event would entail. According to the new trailer, the new event will give players access to a new limited-time mode, tons of Final Fantasy-themed cosmetic skins, and a new Buster Sword Heirloom Weapon that can be equipped by any legend, making it the first of its kind.

The event, which begins on January 9, will feature a new LTM that will replace unranked battle royale mode for the three-week duration of the event. Known as Final Fantasy Takeover, the new mode will see the game's maps littered with Cactuar-themed "Cacticks," special Loot Ticks that provide Materia Hop-Ups when destroyed. Materia Hop-Ups give players access to special buffs, including lightning AoE damage, HP absorption, and an AI-controller SOLDIER Nessie who will aid players in battle. The Final Fantasy Takeover mode will also give players the ability to wield Cloud's Buster Sword, which can be used to deflect bullets, dash, and even perform special Limit Breaks.

Of course, no Apex Legends event is complete without cosmetics, and the Apex Legends & Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Event will feature a whopping 36 cosmetic items (standard Collection Events usually include only 24 cosmetics). Applying these cosmetics will give the game's playable characters and weapons a Final Fantasy-themed makeover, with an Aerith skin available for Horizon, a Cloud skin for Crypto, a Moogle-esque skin for Wattson, a Vincent Valentine skin for Wraith, and more.

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Christopher Nolan is having one of the best years of his career and already won awards for Best Director across regional film critics associations for his work on Oppenheimer. This could be the year he finally takes home an Oscar and adds that to an already impressive catalog, but he found himself getting hit by an unsolicited review--while riding in a Peleton class.

The Oscar-nominated director told an anecdote while receiving Best Director for Oppenheimer during the New York Film Critics Circle awards. Nolan didn't confirm which film it was, but it was obvious the instructor had no idea who was in his virtual class at the time.

"I was on my Peloton. I'm dying. And the instructor started talking about one of my films and said, 'Did anyone see this? That's a couple hours of my life I'll never get back again!'" Nolan said (via Variety). "When [The Observer's film critic] Rex Reed takes a shit on your film he doesn't ask you to work out! In today's world, where opinions are everywhere, there is a sort of idea that film criticism is being democratized, but I for one think the critical appreciation of films shouldn't be an instinct but it should be a profession."

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Actress Amber Heard has released a statement following the debut of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, thanking fans for their support following her legal battle with Johnny Depp and her claims that her part in the sequel was scaled back.

She wrote, "After all this time, Aquaman 2 made its splash (sorry, it's too easy). Thank you to all of my fans for the overwhelming support and love in Mera's AQ return. Thank you so much."

Heard shared some behind-the-scenes photos from the making of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, along with some videos on her Instagram story showing her doing stunt training.

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Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth's release is right around the corner and we recently got invited to get some early hands-on time with many different parts of the game. Gripping emotional story? Check. Animal Crossing-inspired life sim mode that's going to take up countless hours of my time? Big check. A wild boss battle with a monster shark the size of a boat? You better believe it, fellow crime pals. Infinite Wealth is already my most anticipated game for 2024 so I was excited to dive right in.

Also, a small spoiler warning, there are going to be some story things mentioned in here for the series. Much like Gaiden before it, Infinite Wealth is a game that you should not jump into as your first game in the series as it relies heavily on knowing these characters. With that heads up out of the way, let's talk about Ichiban and Kiryu's Hawaiian adventure.

We began our day sitting down and getting an overview of everything new in Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. Ichiban and his found family crew are back along with some new faces, including a taxi driver named Eric Tomizawa and a mysterious housekeeper named Chitose Fujinomiya. Ichiban has made the trip to Hawaiii to find his biological mother Akane, who was originally thought to be deceased, but is apparently alive and somewhere on the islands. This revelation sets our adventure in motion and allows Ichiban to come into contact with the legendary yakuza, Kazuma Kiryu.

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Actor Patrick Stewart appeared in a cameo role in 2022's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as his X-Men character, Charles Xavier. Stewart recently reflected on the process of filming that cameo, saying it was not the best experience.

Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz, Stewart confirmed that he filmed this scene alone, just like John Krasinski (Reed Richards), Anson Mount (Black Bolt), Hayley Atwell (Captain Carter), and Lashana Lynch (Captain Marvel) did for their cameos in the movie's Illuminati scene.

"I was alone. I think each one of the leading actors had the same experience," Stewart said. "It was frustrating and disappointing but that is how it has been--the last few years have been challenging."

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The Ayer Cut of DC's Suicide Squad is officially dead. After eight years of attempting to get his version of Suicide Squad re-released under a director's cut banner, the filmmaker has given up and washed his hands of DC entirely. Even though the #ReleaseTheAyerCut movement didn't reach the height of momentum that Snyder's did, even Ayer was hopeful as recently as December.

"You know, there are a lot of people that are invested in certain narratives that don't want it to see the light of day," Ayer told Deadline. "So there's an immense political headwind against it because if that cut were made public, the cowardliness and the whole just general shittiness of how the film's been treated, and how the actors have had this great work that they'd done taken away...That narrative blows up once people see the movie."

That level of optimism officially died as Ayer went public Wednesday stating that he's "done with DC."

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Larian Studios is looking into reports that Baldur's Gate 3 players on Xbox have had their accounts banned for uploading nude and explicit media of the game onto Xbox Live, namely the intimate scenes with party members that you've built up romantic relationships with.

"We've seen the reports that some players got banned or otherwise faced issues on Xbox having uploaded screenshots/videos of their 'gameplay content'," said Larian director of publishing Michael Douse on Twitter. "We're in discussion with Microsoft, and we’re looking into it. Annoying and uncool."

While simply recording scenes doesn't get players banned, many Xbox players may have automatic uploads enabled on their consoles, so recording those scenes may accidentally upload them to Xbox Live. Some other players may record and upload these scenes intentionally for the sake of their own gameplay.

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Oscar-nominated actor Steven Yeun recently dropped out of the Marvel movie Thunderbolts, and now the Minari and Walking Dead actor has shed a little more light on the matter.

Speaking to Variety, Yeun confirmed reports that the delay in production on Thunderbolts due to the Hollywood strikes led him to drop out. "I think for me, time passing and things shifting kind of pulled me out of it," Yeun said.

He added that he believes director Jake Schreier will do an "incredible job" with the movie. Yeun went on to say that spent a good amount of time working on an email to the stakeholders expressing "the sincerity of how sorry I was to have to back out."

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Following the Xbox mini-fridge comes yet another official Xbox appliance: the Xbox Series S Toaster. This very real product aims to offer its user the "Optimal Carb Experience" with a number of nice-sounding features.

The two-slice toaster is designed to look like an Xbox Series S, and as a neat touch, it also imprints the Xbox sphere logo on your bread product. "It's the next generation toasting console," Microsoft said.

The toaster also has a "shade selector dial" that allows users to toast their goodies to their liking. What's more, the toaster has multiple profiles, so family members or roommates can quickly toast their bread to whatever level of toastiness they want each time without dialing in the settings again. It also has a "countdown timer" so you know when your bread product is done and ready.

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Marvel's latest show, Echo, is set to debut on January 9. While promoting the show, producer Brad Winderbaum teased how Vincent D'Onofrio Kingpin will be portrayed in the MCU by comparing him to Thanos.

In an interview with ScreenRant, Winderbaum was asked if Kingpin would play a more prominent role in the MCU and become the "Thanos of this street-level corner of the MCU" and Winderbaum had this to share about Fisk:

"Oh, man, you kind of hit the nail on the head. I can't say too much. Only that as a chapter in Wilson Fisk's life, this is a crucial one and sets the stage in some remarkable ways for what's coming next."

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If you missed watching Miles go toe-to-toe with every Spider-Person in the multiverse on the big screen, don't worry because Sony's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is returning to IMAX theaters on January 19.

On X/Twitter, Spider-Verse writer and producer Christopher Miller wrote that fans of the movie will be able to watch it again in theaters. The tweet reads:

"If you didn't get a chance to catch ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE on the big screen - where you can see the jaw-dropping level of detail & innovation lovingly put into every frame - you've got another chance! It's returning to IMAX for a limited release on January 19. Don't miss it!"

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The prototype development kit for the original Xbox looks like an old desktop PC from the 1990s, which makes sense for Microsoft because the company is also the creator of Windows.

Original Xbox creator Seamus Blackley responded to a post on Twitter showing a user having a wrap on their Xbox Series X that made the console look like an old desktop PC from three decades ago. Blackley showed a picture of what the prototype development kit looked like for Microsoft's first console.

People who are unaware that this looks a lot like the prototype @Xbox devkits will not understand why I just aspirated my coffee. Here’s what they looked like: https://t.co/URhgKDH8Og pic.twitter.com/Iy7Y4UyxLh

— Seamus Blackley (@SeamusBlackley) January 3, 2024

It's shaped like a silver desktop PC with the words "Xbox development kit" on it, along with a power button and DVD drive. The middle of the prototype development kit sports a big green X logo, and the bottom has a small engraving that says "Alpha II."

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The first Humble Choice games lineup of 2024 is now live, offering eight awesome PC games for subscribers to download and keep forever. Humble is starting the year strong, packing this month with tactical strategy games, Marvel superheroes, fast-paced action games, and story-focused adventures. There's even some bonus DLC included this month as well.

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The biggest Elder Scrolls to date, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, has now been completely remade in Unity thanks to a group of dedicated fans. It features a number of quality-of-life improvements and graphical updates to the classic 1996 RPG that make it well worth diving into for Bethesda RPG fans, as well as extensive mod support.

A group of fans known as the Daggerfall Workshop began development on Daggerfall Unity over a decade ago, with the goal being to provide an open-source recreation of the game in a more modern engine. That goal has now become a reality with Daggerfall Unity's 1.0 release. All of Daggerfall is included, but with new bells and whistles to make the game more accessible for modern audiences, including revamped first-person controls, support for high resolution monitors, more translation options, enhanced draw distances, and modern lighting that makes the game's retro visuals feel new.

No Bethesda RPG would be complete without mods, of course, and Daggerfall Unity supports those, too. Optional mods like D.R.E.A.M. (the Daggerfall Remaster Enchanted Art Mod) upgrade the game's visuals, and according to the Daggerfall Unity site, "goes beyond a restoration and fixes the old quirks, bugs, and increases variety/fidelity everywhere possible." Fans have made new quests for players to discover, and brand-new guilds to join, such as the Archaeologist guild. There are even mods like the Physical Combat and Armor Overhaul mod that revamp how Daggerfall's combat works, replacing the original game's system of armor increasing the chance for a player to be missed by attacks to instead reducing the amount of damage a player takes.

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Alex Previty, a sound design lead who worked on God of War: Ragnarok, revealed that they used their baby's heartbeat while still in the womb to create the eerie noises made when players visit The Spark of the World.

The news comes from X/Twitter, where one user uploaded a clip of them playing Ragnarok and explained how they love the noises made when they visit this area. Shortly after that tweet was published, Previty explained how the noise the studio used for The Spark of the World was their daughter's heartbeat while she was still in the womb. And it was recorded using a "3.5mm output of a baby doppler."

This is one of my favorite sounds I made for the game! The heartbeat sound is actually my daughter's heartbeat while she was still in the womb - I recorded it via the 3.5mm output of a baby doppler. The longer tonal elements are from a children's choir warming up in a gymnasium! https://t.co/9PV8iPpzhP

— Alex Previty (@alexprevity) December 27, 2023

It's also worth pointing out that the noise players hear isn't just a baby's heartbeat. As a matter of fact, in addition to hearing that, there's also an edited kids' choir playing on top. In that same tweet, they explain that "the longer tonal elements are from a children's choir warming up in a gymnasium."

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Tetris, one of the most popular and recognizable games of all time, has finally been "beaten." The person to do it more than 30 years after the game's release? 13-year-old Willis Gibson from Oklahoma.

Gibson uploaded a video of his achievement to YouTube, and it's quite a sight to behold. He is demonstrably overwhelmed with excitement and astonishment. He exclaims, "Oh my god," before saying, "I can't feel my fingers."

As you can see in the video, Willis reaches level 157 (the video labels it as level 18, though). At this point, the game freezes. Willis reached the "kill screen," which is the point at which Tetris is no longer playable because it was not designed to reach that level. Technically speaking, Tetris is unbeatable because it could theoretically go on forever. But Willis is believed to have just set a world record.

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Originally announced in April 2016, The First Omen--a prequel to the 1976 horror film, The Omen--dives into the mysterious origins of Damien's birth, and his mother. Tim Smith, Arkasha Stevenson, and Keith Thomas wrote the script with Stevenson making her feature directorial debut

The film follows Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), an American sent to work at a church back in Rome. She soon uncovers a sinister conspiracy to bring about the birth of an Antichrist. If you're familiar with the story of The Omen, you might see where this is going. Check out the teaser below.

Interesting choice of music, using Fever Ray's "If I Had A Heart," which should be recognizable to Vikings fans as that show's theme song, but it sets an eerie tone for things to come. There's even a glimpse of the 666 mark inside someone's mouth. In The Omen, that mark was found on Damien's scalp.

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In Lego Fortnite you will unlock many recipes as you play. These recipes can be used at different crafting machines to build various items, with more recipes being unlocked as you find new materials. Once you have found all of the needed materials for a craft, the recipe is automatically unlocked. Some recipes are locked behind certain upgrades and milestones, like upgrading the crafting bench or upgrading your village ranking. Below you can find every recipe in Lego Fortnite, sorted by the crafting machine the item is made at.

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• Building Recipes
• Crafting Station Recipes

Building Recipes

While you can build custom structures using individual pieces, you can also unlock prebuilt structure recipes. These structures require a large amount of materials, but you don't have to do the work of making a unique structure.

RecipeMaterialsLog Lookout

Wood x7

Plank x2

Simple ShackWood x13Double ShackWood x29Roomy ShackWood x50Porch ShackWood x51Log ShedWood x41Palisade GateWood x22Log CabinWood x83Log Watch Tower

Wood x103

Plank x10

Log HomeWood x169Bungalow

Granite x187

Wood x59

Pleasant Pavilion

Granite x52

Wood x48

Detached Garage

Granite x88

Wood x17

Grand Palace

Wood x223

Vines x219

Granite x152

Frostpine x91

Jumbo LodgeWood x218Lonely LodgeWood x367Palace Gates

Granite x31

Wood x19

Frostpine x12

Palace Tower

Wood x323

Granite x138

Vines x125

Frostpine x109

Palace Pavilion

Granite x52

Wood x48

Roomy Home

Granite x215

Wood x72

Knotroot x1

Spacious House

Granite x215

Wood x72

Knotroot x1

Starter Palace

Vines x36

Wood x41

Granite x15

Frostpine x10

Tiered Palace

Vines x100

Wood x100

Granite x31

Frostpine x20

Crafting Station Recipes

Crafting Stations are the various machines and tools you will use to refine materials and craft important items, such as food and tools.

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To kick off the new year, Activision has launched a new event in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. The Vortex event, as it's called, introduces spooky versions of classic maps, as well as a camo reward for people who complete all of the event's assignments.

The maps, which you can see below, are called Tetanus, Satan's Quarry, and Sporeyard. These are remixed versions of Rust, Quarry, and Scrapyard. Each has an eerie sci-fi vibe. The maps have a special and powerful Ray Gun that players can fight to control to get an advantage.

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The Vortex event wraps up on January 17. This is just the latest event for Modern Warfare III, following the recently concluded CODMas event that gave some of the maps a holiday makeover.

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The Switch 2 might look like the current hybrid console, according to analyst Serkan Toto. Toto also predicted the unannounced system will carry a bigger price tag when Nintendo launches the product, which is expected later this year.

Sharing his predictions with GamesIndustry.biz, Toto believes that Switch 2 will finally arrive in 2024 at a cost of $400. The founder of consultancy group Kantan Games added that Nintendo's next console is "likely to be an iteration rather than a revolution. Nintendo might add some bells and whistles to the device, but it will be similar to the current Switch." In other words, expect the same hybrid functionality with portability being an option for gaming on the go.

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Toto also thinks Nintendo might raise prices across the board for Switch 2 games as well, meaning they could be priced at $70. Keep in mind the company has already hit this fee with Switch. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom officially cost $70, becoming the first Nintendo-developed game for the system to cost that much.

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