Despite being about the lives of a bunch of cute, sympathetic bunnies, Richard Adams’ Watership Down is full of harrowing danger, betrayal, death and hard-won bloody triumphs. And that holds true in the first full trailer for the new miniseries adaptation. Watership Down has been adapted numerous time, into animated television and theater — but undoubtedly its most famous on-screen incarnation is Martin Rosen’s 1978 film version. Famous, at least, for having quite a bit more blood and terrifying

Funimation, one of the largest anime distributors in America, has partnered with Hulu to bring a number of new series to the streaming service at the same time as their Japanese release, the companies announced on Tuesday. Though, Polygon has reached out to Funimation and Hulu for clarification. This news comes at a time when many streaming services are attempting to differentiate themselves in the anime market. This announcement helps position Hulu as one of the premier services for simulcasted

Today’s patch, available now on consoles and Windows PC, comes not only with bug fixes, but meaningful balance changes. The game’s framerate has been uncapped again, and Bethesda has increased the stash storage limit to 600 pounds — a 50-percent change. For the rest of December, Bethesda is looking at weekly patch drops. Next week’s will be smaller than today’s patch, based on early details, but will introduce the bulldozing feature to the game. The entire log of patch notes is on the Fallout we

The Forsaken are currently getting a whole lot of spotlight in World of Warcraft, because their leader Sylvanas Windrunner is now the Horde’s Warchief. Sylvanas has already done some pretty alarming things, including setting the Night Elves’ capital city on fire and invading the Kul Tiran village of Brennadam. We then go about raising Night Elves from the dead, which is rubbing salt into the wound for many Alliance players. In fact, we can only raise Night Elves who are “willing” in some way, al

Tumblr announced Monday that it would be cracking down on NSFW content as of Dec. 17. Well, herein lies the problem: Tumblr’s algorithm is botched. pic.twitter.com/IGckljHlqB — Anne Sullivan (@annetropy) December 3, 2018Tumblr has decided that fractals and yellow test characters count as adult content and flagged some of my posts. Still, considering how many false positives are coming up, the looming onset of the new policies is unsettling, even for those who don’t post much NSFW content. We rea

Not only can they fight each other one-on-one, but trainer battles introduce competitive trainer leagues as well, so that Pokémon masters can truly be named. Trainer battles are one-on-one fights, either pitting a player against another, local trainer, or letting two friends compete online. Pokémon battles otherwise work much the same way as they do for Raid Battles and Gyms. But in trainer battles, Pokémon have two different charge attacks to choose from (although that second charge attack must

Mission: Impossible – Fallout’s star and director — Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie, respectively, who were taking a break on the set of Top Gun: Mavericks — have a message for you: They want you to know about your TV’s motion smoothing, and why it’s bad. pic.twitter.com/oW2eTm1IUA — Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) December 4, 2018Motion smoothing is a feature on newer TVs that interpolates frames and adds them into the content you’re watching. With motion smoothing, you can see the entire process

Elite: Dangerous, the multiplayer spacefaring game from Frontier Developments, is on the verge of releasing its fourth chapter of new content. One of the options for generating income is to journey out into the unknown, gather data on some of the game’s 400 billion procedurally generated star systems, and sell it back to characters in-game. Instead, they can just park in orbit around the system’s main star and pop open their Full Spectrum System Scanner, or FSS. “People are very, very fond of wh

The easy grabsThe PlayStation Store has several of these PS1 games available to purchase under its, uh, PSone Classic brand. These games are available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable, neither of which are the most convenient platforms to play on these days. The crapshootsThe remaining seven games on the PlayStation Classic are harder to come by. Related PlayStation Classic reviewYes, but only if you desperately want all 20 of these games. And if you’re a casual PlayStation fan, you’re

These are the five most important things to take away from today’s patch notes, and how they’ll affect your play in Appalachia. CAMP stash storage increased; stored item fixesMaximum CAMP stash storage is up from 400 pounds to 600 pounds, which is a 50-percent upgrade. This is just the first big set of balance changes in Fallout 76’s history. Bethesda announced today that there will be weekly patches, with the Dec. 11 patch making major changes to CAMPs. The following patch on Dec. 18 has yet to

It’s called Tony Hawk’s Skate Jam and looks to follow the formula of Hawk’s numerous skateboarding games: Skate through parks. Tony Hawk’s Skate Jam is being developed by Maple Media, which has already released a handful of action sports games in the Skate Party and Snowboard Party series. According to the developer, “Tony Hawk’s Skate Jam will set a new bar for authentic tricks, controls and music in a mobile skate game, thanks to Tony.”Skate Jam will be Tony Hawk’s second attempt at a mobile s

“We are in the process of removing Kareem Hunt from the Madden NFL 19 roster, Madden Overdrive and Madden Ultimate Team,” an EA representative said in a statement. (Madden NFL Overdrive is EA’s football game for mobile devices.) EA is using a slightly different solution for Madden Ultimate Team, the mode in which players put together teams of virtual trading cards. In Ultimate Team, Hunt will be replaced with a “generic player with identical stats,” according to EA’s statement. Related What we k

And while the Android version of Steam Link will continue, Valve has released something for low-cost hardware as well. Steam Link is now in beta for Raspberry Pi, the tiny, affordable computer aimed at hobbyists and aspiring programmers. Valve is currently supporting the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+ running Raspbian Stretch, and Steam Link is free to install. That is, if you missed the clearance pricing on Steam Link, which was as low as $2.50 (plus shipping) at certain points. Valve launched Steam L

Lockpicking, a staple activity in the Fallout franchise, is a little different in Fallout 76. This guide will explain how to pick a lock, how the Picklock and other Perk Cards work, and where to find Bobby Pins. Players need a Bobby Pin to attempt a pick, and the pin can break. There are some Level 0 locks which anyone may attempt, but the basic Picklock perk, which lets players attempt to pick Skill 1 locks, is not unlocked until a player reaches Level 5. The Expert Picklock perk (for Skill 2 l

The second trailer for Captain Marvel has arrived, offering cats, surprisingly spry old ladies and the opportunity for viewers to go “Wait, was that Annette Bening?”Yes, it was. Bening, the four-time Oscar-nominated star of American Beauty, The American President and The Kids are Alright, is in Captain Marvel. Now, with the second Captain Marvel trailer, we don’t know much more about who Bening’s character is — but we do know a lot about what she is, and what she does. “Your life began the day i

But in 2018, I’m having a much different experience replaying the game’s PC remaster — especially as a more politically savvy adult. While the game’s visual polish is as good as it’s ever been, compared to today’s political climate, the complex and twisted plot struck a wholly different tone this time around. The game’s take on political intrigue is intense and a bit confusing, but the basic plot doesn’t deviate too far from what you’d expect from political fiction. But that’s what makes the gam

And with Oryx’s sister Savathun lurking in the background, it’s never been a more dangerous time to be a Guardian. A leaked cutscene pulled from the files of Destiny 2: Black Armory has revealed a new Guardian that’ll be joining the fight for the Light very soon. Most players believe this ghost to be Pulled Pork — a ghost that has been looking for a Guardian for ages. If you’ve played Forsaken, this probably already seems like a pretty big deal to you. While Guardians remember their life as a Gu

The new Captain Marvel trailer, which dropped during halftime on Monday Night Football, brings us more Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) and the interplanetary fight she finds herself caught up in. The previous glimpse of Captain Marvel was more of a teaser, setting the stage for the epic ’90s sci-fi adventure, interspersing Carol Danvers’ intergalactic life with the mysterious mundane past that she can’t quite remember. There’s more de-aged Nick Fury, glimpses of Jude Law’s mysterious character, and

The final trailer for Black Armory — the first of the Destiny 2: Annual Pass’ three expansion offerings — hit today ahead of the expansion’s Dec. 4 release date. While this isn’t the first time we’ve seen most of these weapons, the final clip of the trailer finally confirms the return of Destiny’s Last Word hand cannon. In the video revealing Black Armory last week, Bungie teased Last Word’s return, but it wasn’t until this final trailer that we got to see it in action. The rest of the trailer f

The first Marvel superhero movie featuring an Asian protagonist is being fast-tracked by the studio, reports Deadline. Focused on martial arts hero Shang-Chi, the film will be penned by Chinese-American screenwriter Dave Callaham (The Expendables, Wonder Woman 1984) and Marvel is looking for an Asian or Asian-American director to helm. Marvel allegedly wants to create a film with as much impact for the Asian and Asian-American communities as Black Panther garnered with the African and African-Am