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Netflix announces Rebel Moon: Blood Line, a surprisingly fun mobile spinoff game

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The world of Rebel Moon is about to get a little bigger. Not with another movie just yet , unfortunately, but with a new mobile game from Netflix Games. The new game is called Rebel Moon: Blood Line , and while Netflix announced that the game was in development over a year ago , it wasn’t until Thursday’s Geeked Week presentation that we got our first look at the squad-based action game.  Netflix’s Geeked Week presentation showed off a little bit of gameplay from Blood Line , along with a few words from the developers at Super Evil Megacorp. The trailer also showed off some footage, including the top-down shooting that makes up most of the core gameplay loop.  Ahead of the Netflix event, Polygon had the opportunity to play some of Rebel Moon: Blood Line , and chat with the developers about what it was like to take on a video game project in this original sci-fi world.  The game is set within the universe of Rebel Moon, but is largely separate from the plot of Zack Snyder’s movies.
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Wow, January 2025 looks absolutely stacked with movies for genre fiends

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January is no longer solely the playground for movies studios want to sink. And the start of 2025 is gearing up to be very exciting for people who like fun genre movies. Consider the last few years of January releases: In 2023, we got the genre thriller Underwater and a fun franchise return in Bad Boys for Life ; M3GAN , Plane , Sick, and Missing ; 2024’s crop included action standouts Mayhem! and The Beekeeper . But January 2025’s lineup takes the month to a whole new level. There’s Mickey 17 , Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi comedy with Robert Pattinson doing a delightfully weird voice. There’s Den of Thieves 2: Pantera , the follow-up to the LA heist thriller Dirtbag Heat Den of Thieves , which looks like an absolute blast. (See the new trailer at the top of this story.) Steven Soderbergh has a new ghost movie coming out ! Horror master Leigh Whannell ( The Invisible Man ) continues his run through classic monster remakes with Wolf Man ! Guy Ritchie, who has been on an absolute heate
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 stuns in first hands-on experience

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When the reboot of Microsoft Flight Simulator launched in the summer of 2020, I called it the most remarkable new game in a generation . By combining data from Bing Maps with a next-generation physics-based flight model, real-world weather data, and live air traffic, Xbox Game Studios and its partners at Asobo Studio succeeded in creating something extraordinary. But the software was not without its flaws. At launch, fans complained of the monstrous install size of more than 120 GB just to get started. There were graphical hitches early on as well, including rivers that tried to crawl up mountainsides and cavernous holes in the Earth that seemed to defy explanation. But the biggest oversight by far was the lack of any real in-game progression, or even a series of engaging missions to fly. Four years later and these development partners are back with a sequel, titled Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 , and I am once again floored by the scope of their ambition.  The marquee featur
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Nintendo and Pokémon Co. sue Palworld for patent infringement

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Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, the developer of Palworld , for patent infringement. In response, Pocketpair has said that it is “unaware” of the patents it is accused of infringing and will begin its own legal proceeding to investigate. Late on Wednesday, Nintendo issued a joint press release with The Pokémon Company (which it co-owns) saying it had filed suit against Pocketpair in the Tokyo District Court seeking injunction and compensation “on the grounds that  Palworld … infringes multiple patent rights.” “Nintendo will continue to take necessary actions against any infringement of its intellectual property rights including the Nintendo brand itself, to protect the intellectual properties it has worked hard to establish over the years,” the company added. Responding on Thursday , Pocketpair, a Tokyo-based indie studi0, said it was “unaware of the specific patents we are accused of infringing upon, and we have not been notified of such
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Agatha All Along brews together WandaVision, Doctor Strange, and Darkhold lore

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[ Ed. note: This post contains end spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and WandaVision, and setup spoilers for Agatha All Along ’s premiere episodes.] When Disney Plus’ new Marvel Cinematic Universe show Agatha All Along picks up the story WandaVision started, protagonist Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) isn’t quite in reality — or even the MCU’s version of reality. As WandaVision ended , Wanda bested Agatha in a battle of explosive CGI magic , and locked her away in her “Agnes” persona . Wanda went on her unhappy way, headed for a different showdown in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . And Agatha apparently simply went along as Agnes, trapped in a spell.  But the premiere of Agatha breaks her out, dangling a tantalizing detail along the way by teasing the importance of the Darkhold. If you remember your MCU factoids, you’ll recall that this is the book Wanda turned to in the teaser at the end of WandaVision , and the thing that ultimately corr
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UFO 50 was terrible to review but incredible to play

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The issue I had reviewing UFO 50 is not the issue you will have playing it. Presenting itself as an anthology of all 50 games developed by UFO Soft, a fictional game studio active from 1982-89, UFO 50 is all about breadth and variety. The player is presented with the entire catalog of games from the outset, and they can choose to play them in any order, and for any length of time. These are not WarioWare-style microgames, mind you. They are fully-fledged titles of varying length, ranging from arcade-style side-scrollers to fully developed dungeon crawlers, all presented in the 8-bit style of the imagined “LX” console on which they were first released. I chose to play the games in chronological order, which is how they are presented by default. In order to review the game, I felt it was important to play all 50, in part because it felt important to at least sample the entirety of what is presented here, but also because, as I quickly came to realize, the unique joy of UFO 50 comes
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Wild Indigo Ranch balances cozy ranching with cowboy action

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Wild Indigo Ranch is built out of two great concepts: a chill, Stardew Valley -esque ranch simulator, and the core gameplay loop of survival sandbox games. The player arrives on the Western frontier to collect their inheritance from a mysteriously deceased uncle. Turns out that inheritance is Wild Indigo Ranch, a run-down shack on a patch of dirt surrounded by bandits, coyotes, and the nefarious Grit Corp. This game has co-op for up to four players, and while I played it solo, I can see myself returning with my husband or a good friend in tow. This town, luckily, is big enough for the both of us. The early game is very familiar to anyone who has played a crafting game; I have to punch trees and pick up stones to build basic tools, which allow me to build a workbench and start fixing up the ranch. The graphics are super stylized, with an isometric angle. Each character looks like a little egg, and the animation for my rancher’s run cycle consistently gave me a giggle. Unfortunately
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