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For more than 40 years, Atari 2600 game Yars’ Revenge has endured. Atari has rereleased the 1982 action game multiple times, both in cartridge form and built into retro consoles. Multiple developers have attempted to remake it , reimagine it, or create an official sequel to the simplistic shooter. In September, developer WayForward Technologies will take another shot at Yars’ Revenge , but it’s zigging where others have zagged. WayForward’s Yars Rising is an action-adventure exploration game in the style of Super Metroid and Shadow Complex , and instead of starring a vengeful chrome alien fly, its protagonist is a young hacker — named Emi “Yar” Kimura — who is trying to take down a shadowy corporation from the inside. Yars Rising is definitely a swerve, but it’s being created “with as much reverence as possible” for the original Yars’ Revenge , game director James Montagna tells Polygon. “I did about the deepest of dives you could possibly do on the entire history of Yars’ Reve

Pokémon Go is having a Popplio Community Day event on Saturday, Aug. 31, from 2-5 p.m. in your local time . As expected with a Community Day event, Popplio will spawn in huge numbers with a high chance for it to appear shiny. There are also several other bonuses and perks, which we’ve list out below. How do I catch a shiny Popplio? As per old research by the now-defunct website The Silph Road (via Wayback Machine ), Shiny rates on Community Days are about 1 in 24, which means that if you keep playing throughout the three-hour window, you should find quite a few shiny Pokémon. If you’re short on time or Poké Balls, you can pop an Incense, then quickly tap each Popplio to check for shiny ones, running from any that aren’t shiny. Notably, any Popplio you’ve already tapped will face where your player is standing, so that should help identify which ones you may have already checked. What Community Day move does Popplio ’s evolution learn? If you evolve Brionne into Primarina f

Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week, the Shyamalan family dominates the list with not one, but two new movies on streaming and VOD! Trap , the latest horror thriller from M. Night Shyamalan starring Josh Hartnett, is available to purchase digitally this week, while The Watchers , the directorial debut from Ishana Night Shyamalan and starring Dakota Fanning, comes to streaming on Max. There’s lots to choose from beyond that though, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness on Hulu, The Fall Guy on Peacock, A Quiet Place: Day One on Paramount Plus, and more! Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend! New on Netflix The Deliverance Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix Genre: Supernatural horror Run time: 1h 52m Director: Lee Daniels Cast: Andra Day, Glenn Close, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor From Lee Daniels, the d

Remedy Entertainment has announced that it’s partnering with Annapurna to develop movie and TV adaptations of its much-loved supernatural game series, Alan Wake and Control . There’s no more detail on the projects than that — just the suggestion that the two companies are looking to turn Alan Wake and Control into multimedia franchises across “film, television and other audiovisual formats.” Or perhaps that should be franchise, singular; there are many references to the first Alan Wake in Control , suggesting that the games share a universe . Despite its reputation as a boutique movie studio with a focus on arty, auteur-led projects like Spike Jonze’s Her and Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk , it sounds as though Annapurna sees its deal with Remedy as a respectable way into the franchise business. “The way we tell stories is changing,” said Annapurna’s founder and CEO Megan Ellison in the companies’ joint press release. “Today people fall in love with characters and univ

Call of Duty returns to the conspiracy-laden Black Ops franchise with Black Ops 6 . While the latest Call of Duty title doesn’t launch until Oct. 25, pre-orders are already available. Black Ops 6 will launch with a total of 16 new multiplayer maps and also marks the return of a cooperative, round-based zombies mode. This new entry also introduces some substantial changes to player traversal with its omnidirectional movement — while players were previously only able to sprint, slide, and dive with forward momentum, they can now perform these actions in any direction. You’ll also have the option to enable a variety of intelligent movement settings to automate certain actions like sprinting and mantling. There are currently two different versions of Black Ops 6 available to pre-order: a standard edition and the more feature-packed Vault Edition. Below, we’ve detailed what you get with each version and where to reserve a copy. If you do place a pre-order, make sure to check out our de

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power made good on its title in the final episode of its first season, but it also may have left fans with a lot of questions about what happens next. What does one do with a Ring of Power once you have it? How did all this play out in the books? And the most important question of all: Who’s actually gonna own this magical jewelry? They’ll have to start planning a wardrobe update. [ Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for the first three episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2.] Season 2’s premiere episodes step in to answer some of these questions, and give viewers a better sense of why exactly the elves would even bother with their rings, given how much Sauron was involved in their creation. The answer, as with many of Tolkien’s stories, has to do with the limits of nature and their own changing place in it. What powers do the 3 elven rings have? There’s a bit of a bait-and-switch with the elven rings, for moder

Timo Tjahjanto is a gift. The Indonesian director has carved out a career minting propulsive, relentless action at every filmmaking price point. 2018’s The Night Comes for Us was a major breakthrough on Netflix, kicking off a deal that has made him a low-key star on the platform — and his next thriller is headed to the platform this fall. If you love sword fights, tight-corridor throwdowns, chaotic shootouts, and other assassin revenge movie shiz, The Shadow Strays must be on your radar. Indonesian actor Aurora Ribero stars as 13, a member of the assassin organization known as “The Shadows.” During some downtime, she bonds with a young boy who recently lost his mom in a crime syndicate hit. When the boy goes missing, 13 jumps into action — but finds herself at odds with The Shadows. Slicing, dicing, and cracking skulls ensues. The first teaser for The Shadow Strays , which is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, is all adrenaline, as it should b

A tension inherent in massively multiplayer role-playing games like World of Warcraft is that a lot of the biggest narrative moments, the coolest scenarios, and the most refined design — not to mention the best loot — goes into content that isn’t so easy for all players to enjoy. Multiplayer dungeons and raids are nearly always the pinnacle of an MMO’s endgame and the North Star that things like character class balance are organized around (with apologies to player-versus-player fans). But they can be intimidating, too: intense, time-consuming, and socially daunting, especially considering the community around them, which is not known for its chill. The WoW team at Blizzard has tried to get around this by offering various solo-friendly or small-group versions of World of Warcraft ’s dungeon experience in the past, like Mists of Pandaria ’s Scenarios and Shadowlands ’ roguelike-inspired Torghast tower. None of these has really stuck, and the developer has seemed reluctant to risk di

Daniel Weyman as the Stranger, aka ??? | Image: Prime Video Who is the Stranger? The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power creators J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay laid the groundwork for an overarching mystery in season 1 and don’t seem keen to reveal anything too early in season 2. But actor Daniel Weyman tells Polygon an encounter later in this season may not bust open the mystery box, but promises to shake up whatever’s inside.  When The Rings of Power picks back up with the magical man who fell to Middle-earth in a meteor, the wizard and his harfoot companion Nori (Markella Kavenagh) are trekking to the land of Rhûn to [ checks notes ] find a star pattern that will unlock his memories? Wizard Business. The deeper the Stranger — and the series itself — delves into Rhûn, the more Payne and McKay are carving out what J.R.R. Tolkien left to the imagination in his original writings and threading in more mystery; the trio of premiere episodes also introduces a new Dark Wizard (playe

Fantasy author Garth Nix isn’t primarily known for his connection to Dungeons & Dragons, but it’s something geeky journalists can’t stop asking him about . Best known as the author of the Old Kingdom YA novels   ( Sabriel , Lirael , Abhorsen , and more), Nix has also written everything from children’s picture books to adult short fiction — and articles about Dungeons & Dragons . Nix ran a D&D game throughout high school and carried on as a tabletop role-player from there, and it shows in his upcoming middle-grade novel We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord , which follows a group of kids as they multitask between navigating an alien invasion and playing D&D. (An excerpt from the book follows this interview.) That premise may remind savvy readers of Stranger Things ’ obsession with Dungeons & Dragons, and the title may call to mind a certain quote from The Simpsons . In an interview ahead of the book’s Oct. 15 release, Nix told Polygon he didn’t have either