Based on my experience, the Venn diagram of people who are currently playing Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and people who poured countless hours into Animal Crossing: New Horizons is pretty much a circle. We life-sim fans, after all, have a type. However, don't expect all of the tricks you used to progress in Animal Crossing to work in Nintendo's most recent simulation game. In fact, one of the most popular methods of leveling up your island, time traveling, actually does more harm than good.

Time traveling, in this instance, refers to when players go into their Switch's system settings and adjust their clock forward (or backwards) in time. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, this was a great way to refresh store offerings, skip construction times, or play the Stalk Market. Most recently, Switch players implemented this tactic in Pokemon Pokopia, using it to once again bypass construction or jump to a time of day in which a certain Pokemon is more likely to appear.

However, Nintendo has officially warned players this does not work in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. Rather than reaping financial rewards or progressing relationships, players who time travel will face a bevy of annoying consequences. After changing your console's time, shops will stop refreshing for 24 hours. If you try to change your time back to remedy your mistake, that 24-hour time will restart. It's important to note that this freeze affects all shops and weekly offers. Time travel also has no impact on Mii hunger, meaning no extra feeding opportunities and no farming happiness/rewards.

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Iron Galaxy Studios, the Illinois-based independent developer, has announced a round of layoffs that could affect as many as 90 people. It's the second round of layoffs in as many years, with Iron Galaxy cutting 66 staff in 2025.

The studio announced the news on LinkedIn, writing, "Iron Galaxy Studios regrets to announce that we are reducing our company size."

"We are terribly sorry to lose them as we take steps to adapt to the climate of the video game industry. It's time for us to evolve again," the studio said.

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Diana Pragmata Series Amiibo

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Pragmata makes its big debut on April 17 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, which is notable for a few reasons: it's a brand-new IP from Capcom, it's getting some pretty solid reviews, and it's a single player shooter, which feels unique in a sea of games designed for online play. Nintendo Switch 2 owners have to wait until April 24 for the game, which might be painful if you've been chomping at the bit to play it. But in the meantime, you can buy something that will make your Pragmata experience even better: the Diana Amiibo. Diana is already sold out via the Nintendo shop, but GameStop still has it in stock for now, so don't sleep on it if you want to add it to your collection.

Diana Pragmata Series Amiibo $30

The Diana Amiibo shows off a cute pose, wearing her signature puffy blue coat. But other than being a cool addition to your Amiibo collection, Diana also comes with major perks. Scanning her will give you up to three weapon and recovery items for in-game use. Since all weapons in the game are temporary except for your Grip pistol, this could come in quite handy.

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For those of you unfamiliar with Pragmata, Diana is an android that looks like a seven-year-old girl and one of the two protagonists of the game alongside system auditor Hugh Williams. She helps him on his mission to explore an abandoned lunar research station by hacking security systems and using a scanning ability that helps them map their path. The duo must face off against IDUS, a hostile AI guarding the station, in order to be able to return to Earth.

The game was originally announced in June 2020 during the Sony Interactive Entertainment PlayStation 5 event, and suffered some development challenges and delays before finally being confirmed for an April 2026 release date. If you haven't picked up your copy yet, you can do so right here.

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In the three weeks since I began playing Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, I have accumulated a frankly staggering amount of screenshots and clips. And when I say "frankly staggering," I don't mean a measly 100 or so. Oh no. As of today, my Tomodachi Life gallery consists of around 700 of my proudest and most depraved images and videos--and I don't intend to stop documenting my time at Anime Island anytime soon.

Yet despite Tomodachi Life being ripe with share-worthy moments and meme fodder, Nintendo has opted to block players from sharing their pictures and videos to smart devices. Why? According to Nintendo, it's because, "While these [humorous, surprising, or unpredictable] moments are often fun for players, we recognize that out-of-context scenes may be misunderstood or may not reflect the spirit in which the game is intended to be enjoyed." In other words, the company knows we're all a bunch of lil' freaks.

With most Switch titles, sharing an image or video is as easy as finding it in your gallery, selecting "Upload to Smart Device," and then sending it to your Switch online account. Once that's done, you can then download it directly onto your phone. However, if you try this with an image from Tomodachi Life, you'll be met with a message that says, "Can't upload screenshots or video from this software." Here's how you can get around that:

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David Burke, who performs professionally under the moniker "D4vd," has been arrested for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose decomposed remains were found in the singer and once-upon-a-time Fortnite gamer's Tesla after she went missing last spring, according to multiple news reports.

According to NBC4 Los Angeles, Burke was arrested on April 16 at a Hollywood Hills home on Marmont Avenue. The Hollywood Reporter corroborated NBC4's reporting, sharing a statement from the LA Police Department explaining the nature of Burke's arrest.

"[The] Homicide Division [has] arrested David Burke, a 21-year-old resident of Los Angeles, for the murder of Celeste Rivas. Burke is being held without bail," the LAPD said. "The case will be presented to the District Attorney's office on Monday for filing consideration."

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Actor Charlie Cox, who voices Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has finally played the celebrated game, but he's admitted he's not very good at it.

Speaking to GamesRadar, Cox said he's played "a bit of it," but mostly just the beginning of the popular game. "I've played the opening bit for a while and kind of walked around and met the people and garnered the information and all that kind of stuff. Not very well. I'm not very good," he said.

The Daredevil actor also reflected on what it felt like to play a character he himself performed. "It didn't really feel like me ... I didn't really think of it as me, I thought of it as Gustave," he said.

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Aside from Crimson Desert, one of the hottest games (on PC, anyway) is the pirate sandbox MMO Windrose, which is quickly sailing up the Steam charts with over 100,000 players swashbuckling three days after launch.

According to the player tracker SteamDB, Windrose has a concurrent player count of 102,999 players. That puts it at the No. 11 spot on the Most Played Games list, beating out the life sim Stardew Valley (~100,000) but trailing behind the action-adventure RPG Crimson Desert (~113,000). It's nowhere near the likes of Counter Strike 2 (~1.4 million) or Slay the Spire 2 (~286,000); however, for a game that hit early access on April 14, reaching an all-time peak of 113,930 and not just maintaining that but almost cresting that is an impressive feat to behold.

It makes sense, in a way. With over 4,500 reviews that amount to a "very positive" rating on Steam, Windrose harkens back to a game like Risen--if it were actually good--and proves gamers are desperate for more pirate adventures. Who doesn't like pillaging and plundering? And with the reports that the Black Flag remake, officially titled Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced, is launching on July 9, it appears now's the time for pirates to dominate just as ninja and samurai have.

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It's been a rocky road for Netflix's gaming output thus far, as the streaming giant was once invested in big, AAA games, but made drastic cuts and has since shifted toward mobile and party games. The company has been invested in gaming for more than five years already, and while the company said it's inspired by the results so far, there is still "tons more work to do" before Netflix really shows up in gaming in a way that it set out to do years ago.

During Netflix's latest earning briefing (via Motley Fool), co-CEO Greg Peters started off by answering the question, "Why are we doing this?" in regards to getting into gaming in the first place. As some may recall, Netflix once wanted to rent you games via a service called Qwiskter, but that did not pan out.

Netflix tried again for an obvious reason: There is money to be made. "At the highest level, we really see this as a significant market opportunity," Peters said, mentioning that there is a $150 billion gaming market--that doesn't even include China or Russia--that Netflix wants to tap into.

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Earlier this week, developer PocketGame announced that it was changing the name of its survival-crafting and creature-collecting game Pickmon to Pickmos. The game bears more than a passing resemblance to Palworld and Pokemon, and amidst heavy criticism of how flagrantly it appears to copy the homework of those games, its publisher, Networkgo, has decided to pull Pickmos from Steam.

In a Steam update, Networkgo explained that it'll be taking a more active hand in the development of Pickmos. "We've heard your feedback regarding the removal of our Steam store page and want to clear things up," the publisher wrote. "Networkgo has officially intervened in the development of Pickmos. We will be supervising the PocketGame team from a player's perspective to ensure the game keeps getting better."

Ever since it was first revealed last month, Pickmos has been accused of being an off-brand Pokemon clone. Claims of PocketGame stealing "Fakemon" designs from Pokemon fan artists to use in the game haven't helped its cause, and its reasoning for changing a single letter of the game title to "better align" with its brand identity has been met with skepticism.

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