New characters on Animal Crossing selling fake art and shrubberies on your islands are available now! Nintendo confirmed that 160,000 accounts have been breached, and people need to enable 2FA and change their passwords. Fornite hosted an in game concert with Travis Scott that brought 12.6 million people to watch along in game breaking all concurrent records.

Guide to fake and real art with Redd:

https://www.polygon.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-switch-acnh-guide/2020/4/23/21231433/redd-jolly-museum-art-fake-real-forgeries-list-complete-painting-statue

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This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss the announcement of Cyberpunk 2077 DLC. Google Stadia goes free for 2 months to all users in order to try and save the platform. FF7 Remake is now out and is beloved by everyone except Victoria and Zzayphod. And, there’s some heat in the kitchen surrounding the fan-beloved game Cooking Mama recently “released” on the Nintendo Switch.

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This week, Victoria and Zzayphod discuss the announced delay to the Last of Us Part II due to Covid-19. Rumors came out this week that Nintendo plans to release remasters of Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, Mario Galaxy, and Mario 3D world, and Zzay can’t contain himself. Borderlands developer 2K reportedly is significantly reducing employee profit sharing from Borderlands 3 which is expected to break all sales records for the company.

If you’re bored at home and want to help out the science community, you can help by looking at pictures of penguins and space. Here’s a link to the article where you can find more information.

https://www.space.com/penguins-search-galaxy-zoo-citizen-science-during-coronavirus.html

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This week, Animal Crossing takes over the podcast. With Covid-19 running wild, a lot of people are stuck indoors and are enjoying the heck out of their islands. Victoria and Zzayphod are no different.

https://www.ign.com/wikis/animal-crossing-new-horizons/Villagers_and_Other_Characters

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This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss GameStop’s decision to remain open during the Animal Crossing release because they deemed themselves an essential business. Sony’s released the hardware specs of the PS5. Animal Crossing is out on the Switch and it’s everything we wanted, and the newest Shitpost of the Week: CATS has a cut of the movie in which they included CGI buttholes of the Cats, and we demand to know where it is.

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This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss a Minecraft library that allows countries with limited or restricted access to information a “library” of articles which may not be available in their country. Also, we talk about how Covid-19 has affected the games industry, sports industry, and many others.

the CDC just released these important guidelines on resisting coronavirus: pic.twitter.com/PJTmuJeyxB— crissy (@crissymilazzo) March 13, 2020

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This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss the streamer banned from Twitch and dropped from his stream team for accidentally firing a gun into his monitor on stream while intoxicated. The Last of Us is being turned into an HBO show by the creators of Chernobyl. TwitchCon EU was officially cancelled due to concerns from the Corona virus, and more Animal Crossing hype.

Credit to https://www.twitch.tv/rhymeswithrage

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This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss “what dumb thing did Ninja tweet out this week?” Nintendo had an Animal Crossing direct and we’re excited. Reggie Fils-Aime inspires youth. A new Mario romhack is in development, and here’s why you should care. A Vice reporter goes out of her way to investigate Jeff Bezos’ foot size.

Grand Poo World 3 Reaction

GrandPooBear’s reaction: https://clips.twitch.tv/RichFunnyTubersJKanStyle

Shitpost of the week:

Jeff Bezos’ Foot Size: An Investigation

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This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss one of the worst examples of clickbait in IGN’s history. Geoff Keighley decides to quit E3 this year. Uber is testing a 1-800 number. An Animal Crossing clone called Hokko Life is being released for PC in 2020.

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This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss how the Warcraft community is rightfully outraged at how Blizzard has “Reforged” Warcraft III and taken away a large number of features. Flashpoint is a project which preserves around 36,000 flash games by allowing you to run them on your PC locally. Dan Houser leaves Rockstar Games and the crunch and work environment seemingly improves in his absence.

Here’s where you can download all your flash game glory. There are a couple options: you can download every game in the archive, or you can download the launcher which will save games as you boot them up, saving a bunch of space

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

And as promised, here’s my Hanson brother’s photo with what Vic refers to as “hockey flow.”

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