Shiny Pokémon are the same as every other Pokémon, stat-wise, but sport a different color scheme. How to catch Shiny PokémonTo increase your odds of running into Shiny Pokémon, there are two things you have to remember: how many of that specific Pokémon you have battled and how many you currently have in a Catch Combo. Catch Combos stop adding to your Shiny chance after you catch 25, but doing this dramatically increases your Shiny chance from 1/4096 to 1/2048, according to Serebii.net. When usi

Getting your companions to evolve in Pokémon Sword and Shield is pretty straightforward. To evolve Pokémon using special stones, all you need to do is go into your bag, select a stone, and give it to your Pokémon. How to use stones to evolve PokémonTo evolve a Pokémon using a stone, it’s simple. Pokémon Sword and Shield stone evolution listBelow will show you which stone evolves which Pokémon. However, there is place where you can easily find evolution stones in Pokémon Sword and Shield.

To get Alcremie in Pokémon Sword and Shield, you have to “whip” Milcery into its whipped cream evolution. The first step is in finding a Milcery if you don’t have one already. The second step is acquiring some sweets to hand over to your Milcery — these are an essential part of the process. Time of day and spin direction both impact the look of your Alcremie. But if you want an Alcremie that’ll Gigantamax into a large cake, you’ve got to catch one from the Wild Area’s Max Raid Battles.

Pokémon Sword and Shield introduced the ability to run into Pokémon extremely out of your level range in the Wild Area and I cannot stop running into them. The Wild Area, an open and free wilderness where Pokémon run around, is a new addition to the Pokémon series. I’ll be minding my own business, biking through the Wild Area, picking up items and farming berries when I see a Gallade in the distance. Rinse and repeat with any of the powerful, tempting Pokémon in the Wild Area. I try to tell peop

Journey is such a seamless, timeless game, and it feels as though it was delivered fully formed by some ancient video game god. Composer Austin Wintory sat down with us for an interview to explain how this creative process gave us Journey’s memorable score. While the game’s first song was practically written the day Wintory was asked to join the project, the same would not be the case for the game’s last song, “Apotheosis.” Nothing would be harder for both the team and Wintory than nailing the e

If there’s an arrow in a video game pointing right, I’m going to start by running left. Golem was originally announced as a PlayStation VR exclusive back in 2015, and has since been delayed multiple times. When VR doesn’t workGolem is a nearly unplayable game, breaking multiple rules of VR game design, and suffering from bugs that make it just about impossible to play comfortably. This quickly gets uncomfortable, especially because of the small, but noticeable, extra weight of the VR headset tha

Disney Plus has a library full of beloved animated live-action films, but most importantly, the streaming service is now the official designated home of the Disney Channel Original Movie library. Disney Channel had live-action movies as far back as the 1980s, but Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM for short) as a name and brand didn’t start till the late 1990s, with 1997’s mummy comedy Under Wraps. Halloweentown premiered on the Disney Channel just a month after Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s

On Monday, a particularly provocative quote from Watchmen writer Alan Moore surfaced on Twitter, thanks to The Beat entertainment editor Kyle Pinion. He also made a tongue-in-cheek argument for calling D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film The Birth of a Nation “the first American superhero movie.” Alan Moore, never one to mince words. But they’ve also happened to put Moore squarely in the middle of the ongoing war between Martin Scorsese and Marvel. Where the arguments differ, however, is that while Scorse

With only a few weeks left in Destiny 2’s first season of Year 3, Bungie announced when it’ll launch the upcoming season nine for players. In its weekly blog post, the studio also revealed nerfs to two of Destiny 2’s most divisive items: The Recluse submachine gun and the One-Eyed Mask Titan helmet. Bungie revealed that players will lose access to some Season of the Undying achievements and ranks during the weekly reset on Dec. 10. It appears that Destiny 2 will officially transition from season

Amy Hennig, the former creative director of the Uncharted series and Visceral Games’ unfinished Star Wars game, is joining Skydance Media to develop “interactive series” for “emerging streaming platforms,” according to an announcement from the company. Joining Hennig at Skydance will be Julian Beak, a veteran of EA whose credits include Battlefield: Hardline, Need for Speed, and Visceral’s Star Wars game. Beak and Hennig will build a new team in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices at Skydan

Just after Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s first weekend, streamer Dylan “Rudeism” Beck built himself a dang motion controlled lightsaber and Force glove. He’s been streaming his Fallen Order playthrough on Twitch, complete with a fully body camera to show off his bizarre control scheme. The Force glove is very simple looking, but a bit more complex. The Force powers use an IMU (inertial measurement unit) to determine which Force power Rudeism wants to use based on his movements. Rudeism is curre

Valve will officially return to the Half-Life series with a new episode designed for virtual reality called Half-Life: Alyx. The full reveal for the “flagship VR game” will happen later this week, the company announced today. We’re excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our flagship VR game, this Thursday at 10am Pacific Time. It’s not clear if Half-Life: Alyx will clear up what happened after that cliffhanger, which Half-Life fans have been reeling from since 2007. If the announcement of a new Half

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is getting a paid subscription service soon, similar to the one in Mario Kart Tour. An in-game notice said that there will be two different plans for the subscription service. At this time, we don’t know the specifics of what the warehouse is or what the camp caretakers do exactly. If it’s anything like Mario Kart Tour’s subscription service, it’ll be a $4.99 price tag on getting monthly special goodies. More details about the subscription service will be revealed th

Much has been said about Pokémon Sword and Shield’s limited Pokedex compendium — fans are disappointed, and Game Freak says it has no plans to change the situation. Since release, Pokémon hackers have been tinkering with Sword and Shield’s game files to see what is hiding inside. Apparently, some cut Pokémon are technically contained within the game, even if they’re not currently useable. In this case, known hacker @SciresM tells Polygon that he added another entry to the files which dictate wha

Oculus Link, a feature which allows VR users to connect their standalone Oculus Quest headsets to their gaming PCs to play Rift games without buying additional hardware, has entered its open beta, allowing anyone with the necessary hardware and a USB 3.0 cable to give it a try. “To use Oculus Link starting today, Quest owners who own a compatible gaming PC can simply plug their headset into a USB 3 port, then use the Oculus desktop app to browse and purchase Rift apps and games to play on Quest

The Expanse is back for a fourth season, and today it dropped a wild new trailer on YouTube. Season 4 takes place during the events of Cibola Burn, the fourth book in The Expanse series of novels by James S. A. Corey (the pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). Opposing them are the corporate security forces of Royal Charter Energy, working under the authority of the United Nations. For a series that has spent so much time in space, this next season will be quite a departure for fans.

Tetris Effect’s beloved soundtrack is coming to vinyl, publisher Enhance Games announced today. Developed by Enhance Games, Monstars, and Resonair, Tetris Effect was released in November 2018 for PlayStation 4. The two-disc release will include 17 tracks from Tetris Effect’s Journey Mode, and includes songs like “Connected (Yours Forever)” and “World of Colors.” Pre-orders begin on Nov. 22 on the Limited Run Games website. The second version is $99.99 — the five-LP Tetris Effect Original Soundtr

That makes it the first new class players have had in more than five years. Artificers are craftsmen who make magical items, using either existing tools or by creating magical tools on the fly. Magic items are thematically very rare, and often serve as the reward for completing a quest or raiding a challenging dungeon. The Artificer class will be the first to allow players to attune to more than three magical items at one time. In fact, by 18th level they’ll be able to attune to up to six magic

In one of the weirdest video game bugs to date, Pokémon Sword and Shield started plaguing Roku devices in players’ homes. When some users were playing the new Pokémon games, they noticed their Roku devices going on the fritz. In an email to The Verge, Roku explained that it pushed an update to its systems to prevent Sword and Shield from interfering with Roku devices. Roku recommends players place their Switches in airplane mode until their streaming devices finish updating. For Roku, it’s to se

In this Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order guide, we’ll show you how and where to find every chest and secret location on Ilum’s map. Shattered Lake chest and secret mapThere is one secret and one chest in the Shattered Lake. Secret 1 // Force essenceGrid View Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts via PolygonRespawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts via PolygonFrom the Landing Pad, head to the right. Crystal Caves chests and secrets mapThere are two chests and two secrets to find in the Crystal Caves. Che