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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.

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

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

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

[ 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

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

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

Wobbuffet , the patient Pokémon from Johto, can be found in the wild in Pokémon Go . Yes, Wobbuffet can be shiny in Pokémon Go ! Neither Wynaut nor Wobbuffet see use in PvP or PvE, but it does sport a great pink shiny. Notably, female Wobbuffet have lipstick on (which you can see in the lead image) and male Wobbuffet don’t (which you can see in the image directly above). Hilarious. What is the shiny rate for Wobbuffet in Pokémon Go? As per old research by the now-defunct website The Silph Road (via Wayback Machine ), the shiny rate for Pokémon on a regular day is approximately one in 500. Wobbuffet is not a confirmed Pokémon that gets a “permaboost” (meaning that it’s a rare spawn and thus gets a boosted shiny rate). What can I do to attract more shiny Pokémon? Not much, unfortunately. It appears to be random chance. Shiny Pokémon catch rates are set by developer Niantic, and they are typically only boosted during special events like Community Days or Safari Zones, or in Legen

Robert Pattinson loves to play a weirdo, so it’s no surprise that he jumped at the chance to play more than a dozen of them in his new movie Mickey 17 . The first trailer for the sci-fi comedy directed by Parasite ’s Bong Joon-ho arrived on Tuesday and it’s exactly as strange, funny, and gruesome as we were hoping. The movie takes place in the future, when humanity has taken to the stars for long journeys into space. But space is a dangerous place for regular people. Enter Pattinson’s character, Mickey Barnes, a man who is cloned over and over again and sent on the kind of horrible, life-threatening missions that no regular person would sign up for. The trailer gives us just a taste of these missions, and the variety of awful ways Mickey dies, but each of them seems weirder and funnier than the last. This keeps going in an endless cycle for Mickey, until one day two of his clones find out they’re alive at the same time — something that was never supposed to happen. The trailer is mo

Rubik’s Match 50 years ago, Ernő Rubik invented his first working prototype of the Rubik’s Cube, the irrepressible little shifting box that is still a mainstay for puzzle fans around the world. And out now, there’s a new free-to-play mobile game with the inventor’s stamp of approval, titled Rubik’s Match , developed by Nørdlight Games. “Puzzles have always been close to my heart and mind,” said Ernő Rubik, via a news release about Rubik’s Match . “As a child, I spent hours on end with the tangram or the 15-puzzle as well as enjoying solving chess-problems. Some puzzles fascinated me by their complexity; some by the simplicity of their core ideas; and others by their beauty or novelty. I always preferred difficult puzzles, not the easy ones.” According to PR, Rubik “was involved in early testing of the game in Stockholm and collaborated on one of the levels.” Rubik’s Match is somewhat different from the original Rubik’s Cube puzzle, as it’s primarily a match-three puzzle ga

The journey to create the 2024 version of the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook has been long and almost comically rocky. Where to even begin… Should we start with the OGL debacle , an attempted rug-pull that would have irrevocably damaged the franchise’s biggest third-party creators? Should we instead focus on the gutting layoffs that came a year later , right before Christmas, that torpedoed morale and reduced headcount during the final push to publication? Or should we instead focus on the poorly conceived attempt to rebrand 5th edition as “One D&D,” a gaffe that still lingers in the air like a troll fart? Yet despite it all, the Player’s Handbook (2024) — out now at major retailers — is an exceptional document, fat and rich with precisely the kind of materials that the community has been clamoring for. The team at Wizards of the Coast should be commended for creating something so extraordinary while under such immense and absurd pressure. This new 384-page tome is

Amazon has announced its next Prime Day, and it’s just weeks away. The two-day October Prime Day sales-a-thon starts Oct. 8 at 12:01 a.m. PT / 3:01 a.m. ET and runs for 48 hours through Oct. 9. Expect steep discounts across Amazon’s entire storefront — which, if past is prologue, should include great deals on video games, board games, toys, Blu-ray box sets, Lego, and more. The biggest and best deals will be exclusive to Prime members — which is also the case year-round, as we’ve seen even this week with this adorable $33 charger that’s around $50 for non-Prime members. Amazon Prime costs $14.99 per month or $139 annually, which equals out to about $40 in savings if you pay for 12 months upfront. (There’s also 30-day free trial available for new members.) A Prime membership also gets you free delivery and access to Prime Video, which just won Emmy Awards this week for Fallout and Mr. and Mrs. Smith — both very great series, I’ll add. One of the best Prime perks for many a Polygo

Jabba’s resplendent Sail Barge is the next addition to Lego’s Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series. Made up of a whopping 3,942 pieces, the $499.99 set will be available to purchase first for Lego Insiders members on Oct. 3. It will then be available to everyone starting Oct. 6. As an added incentive to sign up for a free Lego Insiders account , those who purchase the set before Oct. 6 will get a free 145-piece recreation of Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber from A New Hope . The last time Jabba’s Sail Barge was made into a Lego set was back in 2013, but featured just 850 pieces. This much larger version is certainly more intimidating, and its massive size affords a far greater level of detail than previous iterations. When fully assembled, the side of the Sail Barge can be lowered to reveal a cutaway profile of the interior, featuring the cockpit, prison cells, armory, kitchen, and a throne for Jabba himself. This set includes exclusive minifigs of some of the biggest names in Star Wars,

One of the best deals on Steam is back. Through Sept. 22, you can grab the three-pack of Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham games on Steam for just $8.99 (normally $59.99). This trio includes the respective Game of the Year editions of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City , plus Batman: Arkham Knight and its season pass. Fans of Batman have likely already played these titles because they are each excellent in their own ways; Arkham Asylum is a relatively linear game that trudges into horror by way of the Scarecrow, City spreads out to an open-world that gives Insomniac’s recent Spider-Man games a run for their money in terms of fun factor, and Knight adds a sheen of graphical polish and a bad-ass Batmobile with satisfying tank combat. This multi-pack of titles comes from a time when Rocksteady could do no wrong, long before the early 2024 launch (and unfortunately speedy crash) of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League live service game. The only potential downside to this

In 2021, Nintendo added an additional tier to its Nintendo Switch Online subscription service in the form of its Expansion Pack , which brought Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games to the already extensive list of NES and SNES titles. In February 2023, during a Nintendo Direct presentation, that list got even bigger: Nintendo added Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games to the mix. We’ve updated our list of the best retro games on Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. Some of these games are historically significant, more are just damn fun, and others may be hidden gems you’ve never played. Our latest update added Dr. Mario , F-Zero , Panel de Pon , Pokémon Snap , Star Fox 64 , and Yoshi’s Island . Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Kazooie is the greatest 3D platformer to ever grace the Nintendo 64 — yes, even better than Super Mario 64 . [ Ed. note: I do not condone this.] Rare’s masterpiece follows a bear named Banjo and his best friend Kazooie, the bird who lives in his backpack. When Ban