Game Freak’s highly unpopular decision to limit Pokémon Sword and Shield’s Pokedex spawned a rumor that the studio was reusing models from recent 3DS games, making it too much trouble to include older models. Somehow, this wasn’t noticed (and Game Freak didn’t repeat these explanations in their response two weeks ago), but developers rebuilt from scratch all of the models for Pokémon Sword and Shield, meaning the reused-assets rumor is bunk. It was made with Sword and Shield, so everyone’s getti

It’s an experimental project in which players use facial expressions to control a canoe, as it navigates obstacles along a river. Here’s how In the Same Boat works: A camera is placed on top of a PC, which monitors my facial expressions. We have to coordinate our facial expressions in order to beat the game. At first, I find it odd to simulate facial expressions, but after a few mishaps and triumphs, I find myself having a lot of fun. It makes me feel the way I do when I play a fun new board gam

If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly Exotic item merchant. This week, you can find Xur on Titan, taking shelter in a building on the eastern part of The Rig. This week’s roll:Slot 1: Scout rifle dexterity, enhanced sniper rifle loader, machine gun dexteritySlot 2: Hand cannon scavenger, scout rifle scavengerHelm of Saint-14Another returning Destiny exotic, the Helm of Saint-14 is rarely useful in Destiny 2. Its exotic perk, Tome of Sacred Dawn, allows you to hover whil

Polygon and TCL are teaming up to bring you a day (and night!) of spectacle worthy of pop culture’s biggest fan event. Before our rooftop party, our Managing Editor Chelsea Stark will be sitting down with Emmy Award-winning Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky, whose new show Primal is coming this fall to Adult Swim. All our live sessions and the party are happening at the TCL Chinese Theatre at the Theatre Box in San Diego’s famed Gaslamp Quarter, just minutes away from the convention center

This fall, legendary director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) will take on one of the greatest horror-tinged villains in the action movie canon: The Joker. Carpenter’s The Joker: Year of the Villain #1 will be a part of DC Comics’ Year of the Villain event, in which Lex Luthor makes every villain — and some heroes! But nobody likes to be upstaged, especially not the Clown Prince of Crime. According to DC Comics’ announcement, the Joker isn’t waiting around for one of Lex’s handouts. “I’m p

There are so many animated movies on Netflix that the 2018 breakout Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won’t even show up when you search through the genre. To make sure you don’t miss it — as well as other animated gems currently available on the service, we’ve rounded up the 10 best animated movies you can watch right now. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)Doing something new in the realm of superhero movies is nigh impossible, and yet Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has pulled it off.

Now that History’s Vikings is scheduled to end their final season sometime next year, its like Odin himself willed it that WIT Studio, the animation studio behind Attack on Titan, should helm the anime adaptation of Makoto Yukimura’s popular manga series Vinland Saga. From the opening scene, the audience is thrown into a cruel and violent world, as Vinland Saga starts right in the middle of the actual Battle of Hjörungavágr in the year 987. Vinland Saga doesn’t shy away from showing the horrors

The way chat works in Eve Online changes today, throwing a wrench into an entire strategic layer of the game. While highsec and nullsec are referred to as Known Space, Wormhole Space is also commonly called Unknown Space. Related One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve OnlineUp until today, communications worked differently in Known Space and Unknown Space. Trouble was, and still is, that once they enter Unknown Space it’s sort of hard to get back out again with any certainty. It

The trailer for Crawl makes that blatantly obvious, promising a creature feature about a girl trapped inside a house with a murderous alligator. Everyone — human or animal — in this movie makes incredibly stupid decisions, and that’s the beauty of Crawl. At its core, Crawl is a disaster movie, and some of the most tense moments come not from the swarming gators, but from the rising waters, failed communications, and hasty wound treatments. Give us the frenzied chase scenes in the confined crawl

Last night, after falling into a rabbit hole of communities that have decompiled video games, I stumbled across an old Pokémon glitch that sent me reeling. In the second generation of Pokémon games (Gold, Silver, Crystal) it’s possible to have a Pokémon fall asleep, be hit by the “Nightmare” move, wake up, and then continue to be hit by nightmares. Bulbapedia makes the meaning of the move explicit by stating that Nightmare gives Pokémon bad dreams. If Pokémon can think and feel, then it follows

One month after revealing its TurboGrafx-16 Mini console and just five of its games, Konami has shared two videos detailing the final lineup, and the console’s release date. There are 24 game for the TurboGrafx-16 and 26 for its Japanese variant, the PC Engine, and a release date of March 19, 2020. It seems unlikely that this release will be localized, but Konami is sure to get the request. It also features retro mini console mainstays like CRT scanline and quick save features. With eight months

Great user interface design is invisible. User Inyerface, a short web game created by Bagaar, is an example of what happens when every frustrating element of user interface design is jammed together. User Inyerface perverts this challenge by demonstrating how one simple word can complicate the whole function of the test. While User Inyerface is just a simple marketing tool for a design agency, it doesn’t take away from how hilarious and effective it is. But, as User Inyerface proves, one bump un

Red Bull will be hosting another Race to World First as World of Warcraft guilds gear up for Patch 8.2’s Mythic raid, Azshara’s Eternal Palace. Red Bull will be hosting 24-hour coverage, beginning on July 16, and the event will run until the final encounter, Queen Azshara, is completed. Red Bull’s Race to World First was originally leaked by Method raid leader Scott “Sco” McMillan, who claimed that Red Bull was attempting to assume ownership of the community-run Race to World First. Having multi

Yasuyuki Honne, a developer and board member at Nintendo-owned studio Monolith Soft, revealed that Nintendo considered making an EarthBound game for GameCube with Namco. Mother — also known as EarthBound in North America — is a retro video game franchise that first came to the Famicom in 1989 with the game Mother. Nintendo later released the original Mother as EarthBound Beginnings in 2015 for the Wii U Virtual Console. Years later, Nintendo published a third Mother game, titled, Mother 3, for t

The challenge doesn’t take skill or time to unlock; in fact, it should have been one of the first achievements that Killer Instinct players on Steam earned. He had no idea this would turn into an adventure that spanned over a year, and would involve the Better Business Bureau as well as the publishers of Killer Instinct. It started online when Gordikk posted on a Steam forum that the achievement had a bug. No one helped him there so he went to the Killer Instinct forum. A community moderator res

Infamous fictitious criminal Arsène Lupin III has stood the test of time across decades, mediums, and technological shifts. Now, the heist-master has crossed over from his characteristic and long-standing 2D animation style for a CGI film that looks … pretty great, actually! The trailer for Lupin the Third: The First brings together the classic cast of Lupin III. The trailer features plenty of unbelievable Lupin stunts, ranging from car chases to dogfights, and we even catch a glimpse of Lupin

Zack Snyder is not releasing the Snyder Cut of Justice League. He is, however, bringing a new anime project to Netflix alongside frequent collaborator Jay Oliva, adding to Netflix’s growing anime slate. The series is set within the world of Norse mythology, and there’s not much information beyond that. Both Snyder and Oliva are currently involved in Netflix projects. Oliva is in production on Trese, an anime series set in Manila, Philippines.

“We looked into a lot of houses in Florida and there are indeed a lot of crawl spaces. Most of the crawl spaces are usually not higher than two to three feet,” he said. Smaller, submerged crawl spaces — defined as an area of limited height under a floor or roof — can be found in Florida. Quick research indicates that houses in the Tampa area can indeed have crawl spaces, judging by the numerous “Crawl Space Repair” services that populate Google. We found this house that had a deeper crawl space.

Heading into the second season of HBO’s Succession, one thing has been clear: The season is all set to deal with the ramifications of the season one finale, which rocked Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) to his core, and fundamentally altered the dynamics of the family. Exactly how that’s going to play out becomes clear in the official trailer for the second season, which sees ruthless patriarch Logan (Brian Cox) bringing Kendall’s sister Shiv (Sarah Snook, sporting a new power haircut) into the famil

At long last, we know the full cast of the upcoming season of American Horror Story. Co-creator Ryan Murphy revealed the main cast via Instagram with a post made up of short videos of the actors in snazzy ’80s gear with equally snazzy ’80s music playing in the background. Fitting for the retro American Horror Story: 1984, which will harken back to slasher flicks of the ’80s — bring on the Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers homages! Last season of American Horror Story was the high