New Mario and Sonic Lego sets arriving are this summer

It’s a great time to be a gamer Lego fan. This summer you can look forward to eight new Mario Lego sets and three new Sonic sets, all of which are due in August.
What are the upcoming Mario Lego sets?
The eight sets being released in collaboration with Nintendo’s prize plumber are expected to be released on August 1 and have a wide range of styles.
There are three sets that share a theme, the ‘Adventures With Interactive LEGO’ sets. There’s one each for Mario, Luigi, and Peach. These feature interactive figurines of the characters with voice lines that trigger as you play with the buildable environments. The Adventures With Interactive LEGO Mario set includes several iconic characters – Bowser Jr., Yoshi, and a Goomba are all part of the set.
The five other sets are all environments inspired by Mario levels and enemies and can be used alongside the interactive figures to create real-life Mario levels to guide the characters through. The sets are:

Soda Jungle Maker Set, which includes a pink Shy Guy, a Wriggler, and a Pirhana Plant
Goombas’ Playground, which includes three Goombas
The Bowser Express Train, which is a train set that has a Hammer Bro and several other characters
King Boo’s Haunted Mansion, featuring King Boo and his mansion
Battle with Roy at Peach’s Castle, which has a catapult and a Chain Chomp

Get more details and see prices for each set on Lego’s website.

What about the upcoming Sonic Lego sets?
In collaboration with Sega, three new Sonic sets are coming, also due to release on August 1. They center around iconic Sonic characters and you’ll be able to snag your own Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and Amy in the sets, which are:

Tails’ Adventure Boat, a boat featuring its own dance floor, plus Sonic and Tails figures
Knuckles and the Master Emerald Shrine, where Knuckles and Amy defend the shrine against Eggrobo
Super Sonic vs. Egg Drillster, where Sonic and Shadow work together to defeat the Egg Drillster

See more information about each set and the prices on Lego’s website.
While the sets are great for kids, Lego is truly an ageless toy that appeals to everyone. The huge success of Lego Fortnite and the upcoming Lego Fortnite Star Wars collaboration shows just how appealing it is to all ages.
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Gray Zone Warfare: How to complete the New Neighbours task

Every time you just want to sit down and listen to some old Motown and crack open a ration pack like in the best ‘Nam movies, up pops Handshake in Gray Zone Warfare with a new mission for you. This time it is New Neighbours, and for this one, you best have your wits about you at all times.
How to complete New Neighbours
Once you have tidied up all the first batch of tasks from handshake he will require you to head out to a complex. Obviously, there is going to be more to it than that if we know game designers, and we think we do!
Yomp out to the complex which is marked YBL-1 on your map. You will see it if you head for map coordinates 143, 121. As you close in on the complex you will get the next part of the mission and find out you will need to recover some intel.
Head inside via one of the multiple entrances. You are looking for a security room with plenty of CCTV gear and, more importantly, a video cassette on a desk that you need to grab for Handshake.
Now this all sounds so far, so vanilla but obvious the compound is guarded by AI, but for extra fun and games the area is a popular PVP zone so you are likely to come under fire from other real humans playing for other factions too.
Outside this may not be too bad but don’t just go charging around inside or you could run into a nasty surprise around any corner. Make sure you and your squad do a solid job of clearing rooms, offer covering fire where needed, and decide who is on point and who is mopping up at the rear.
You can be sure if you don’t do this, some other squad in there will be doing it.
If you are playing alone, this can be a tough mission to get past to try and squad up, even if it is with randoms for the best chance of success.
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