Summer movie season is starting earlier and earlier every year, and this one is no exception. This spring has all kinds of exciting movies, and maybe even a few of the best and biggest movies of the year.As you might expect, the biggest highlights are movies in the big franchises. The MCU is bringing out Thunderbolts* led by Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan, while Tom Cruise is returning for what could be the (or at least his) last Mission: Impossible movie ever. Meanwhile, Disney is all in on live-action remakes, with Snow White and Lilo & Stitch due out in the next few months. Thankfully, theres some exciting original movies coming too, like David Cronenbergs The Shrouds or Ryan Cooglers vampire horror movie Sinners.To help you keep track of all the fantastic-looking movies that are on the way, weve made a list of the 20 best movies of spring 2025.Plankton: The MovieRelease date: March 7Director: Dave Needham Cast: Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Tom KennySpongeBobs best character finally gets her due. Thats right even though this movie is called Plankton, its Karen, his computer wife, who rises up and decides to dump his lame ass and take over the world herself. Meanwhile, Plankton has to team up with SpongeBob and the rest of the heroes in order to win her back. Petrana RadulovicMickey 17Release date: March 7Director: Bong Joon-hoCast: Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Mark RuffaloWhats better than one Robert Pattinson doing slapstick comedy with a funny voice? Two Robert Pattinsons! Well, at least two. Bong Joon-hos newest movie has Pattinson playing a worker in a capitalist sci-fi hellscape whos signed up to test the limits of a new human colony and get cloned every time he dies.PRIn the Lost LandsRelease date: March 7Director: Paul W.S. AndersonCast: Dave Bautista, Milla Jovovich, Arly JoverThe latest in a long series of #powercouplegoals collaborations between spouses Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil movies, 2020s Monster Hunter, 2011s The Three Musketeers), In the Lost Lands is billed as the first feature adaptation of George R.R. Martins work. Adapted from Martins 1982 short story, its a dark fantasy about an infamous witch (Jovovich) who hires a grizzled hunter (Dave Bautista) to help her track down a werewolf through a post-apocalyptic landscape ruled by a tyrannical overlord and an even more tyrannical church. Just your basic future-fantasy Western slash monster movie, with a heavy side order of Furiosa in the setting and characters. Tasha RobinsonOpusRelease date: March 14Director: Mark Anthony GreenCast: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette LewisThe second of A24s eight scheduled genre-spanning 2025 movies (after Parthenope in early February), Opus follows a dedicated but frequently sidelined music journalist (The Bear and Bottoms co-star Ayo Edebiri) to the secretive compound of a cultishly adored pop star (John Malkovich) who wants her to hear his first album in 30 years. Mark Anthony Greens directorial debut, a horror-thriller about fame and power, got mixed reviews at Sundance, but the lead performers remain promising. TRThe Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes MovieRelease date: March 14Director: Pete BrowngardtCast: Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter MacNicolDaffy Duck and Porky Pig team up to save the Earth from an alien invasion. But considering their big personalities and generally dysfunctional working relationship, they might just drive each other crazy before they can save anyone. Wheres Bugs? Who knows? But Petunia Pig is also here.PRThe Electric StateRelease date: March 14Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe RussoCast: Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Stanley TucciOnce-and-future Avengers directors Anthony and Joe Russo are launching their new sprawling science fiction movie on Netflix: Loosely based on a 2018 novel from Swedish retrofuturist Simon Stlenhag (whose work also inspired the Tales from the Loop TV show, board game, TTRPG, etc.), The Electric State has a teenager (Stranger Things Millie Bobby Brown) on a road trip to track down her missing brother via a robot (Anthony Mackie) he sent to find her. The twist: Theyre living in a post-robot-apocalypse world where the robots have all been banned to a wasteland. Early looks at this one have a strong A.I. Artificial Intelligence feel, with a side order of Ready Player One and a whole lot of familiar names: Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Woody Harrelson, Jenny Slate, Giancarlo Esposito, and a lot more. TRSnow WhiteRelease date: March 21Director: Marc WebbCast: Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, Andrew BurnapIts another Disney live-action remake! This one is full of well, lets just say that the CG dwarfs are a choice. And they did Rachel Zegler so damn dirty with that haircut and Party City-esque dress. But Zegler has pipes, and maybe the fact she looks and acts like a literal Disney Princess might be enough to save this one.PRAshRelease date: March 21Director: Flying LotusCast: Eiza Gonzlez, Aaron Paul, Iko UwaisIn space, no one can hear you say Hey, whered all my crewmates go? Eiza Gonzlez (3 Body Problem) stars as a woman who wakes up in a space station, her memory missing and her companions all dead. Breaking Bads Aaron Paul co-stars as the ominous figure from her past who arrives to help. Directed and soundtracked by composer Flying Lotus (Kuso), this original science fiction thriller looks like a banger, hitting some discomfiting Alien vibes without being yet another derivative Alien movie. TRDeath of a UnicornRelease date: March 28Director: Alex Scharfman Cast: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will PoulterA24s new comedy horror fantasy is about the fallout of a man and his daughter hitting a unicorn with their car. The mans pharmaceutical CEO boss immediately wants to exploit the unicorns magical properties. But if theres one thing we should all take away from old legends, its that you should not fuck around with a magical animal with a spear on its head.PRThe Woman in the YardRelease date: March 28Director: Jaume Collet-SerraCast: Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, Russell HornsbyProlific director Jaume Collet-Serra has his hits and misses: He was behind the virally popular Netflix thriller Carry-On, the excellent shark-attack movie The Shallows, and the startling horror film Orphan, but also the infamous superhero flop Black Adam. Here, hes back with a mysterious Blumhouse movie that looks a bit like a creepypasta riff: A grieving woman (Danielle Deadwyler) and her family are haunted by a threatening apparition with an opaque warning.TRA Minecraft MovieRelease date: April 4Director: Jared HessCast: Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma MyersThe Minecraft movie is a little bit like Jumanji, but instead of being sucked into a jungle, the group of misfits gets pulled into the Minecraft world, where everything is cube-shaped and thrives on imagination. Also, Jack Black is here! So it is really like Jumanji.PRThe Ritual Release date: April 18Director: David MidellCast: Al Pacino, Dan Stevens, Ashley GreeneIt feels late in the game for a movie about an old priest (Al Pacino) and a young priest (Dan Stevens) facing a young woman whos allegedly possessed by a demon. The twist in this case is that the young woman was inspired by Emma Schmidt, aka Anna Ecklund, a real-life woman whose alleged possessionand monthslong exorcism in 1920s Iowa inspired several other horror movies. TRSinnersRelease date: April 18Director: Ryan CooglerCast: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles CatonThe exciting return of Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Fruitvale Station) stars Michael B. Jordan and, well, Michael B. Jordan as a pair of twins menaced by a supernatural force in the 1930s. The initial trailer looks slick, confident, and hard-hitting somewhere between a ghost story and a bootlegger crime thriller. But the marketing has deliberately kept most facts about the movie under wraps, leaving the real nature of the horror here thrillingly opaque.TRUntil DawnRelease date: April 25Director: David F. SandbergCast: Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa AzionThe sort-of movie adaptation of the 2015 horror game Until Dawn puts a few new twists on the story, uniting some squabbling characters against an immediately obvious supernatural evil, and setting the story in a time loop, where different horrific monsters kill the characters every night, setting up a scenario where they have to out-think the setting and escape the loop before their 13th and final death. The execution looks a bit like 13 different iterations on The Cabin in the Woods, due to the proliferation of creepy creatures, the self-awareness of it all, and the sense of a trap closing on a pretty familiar cast of characters, but it remains to be seen whether Until Dawn the movie has any such sense of humor to it. TRThe Legend of OchiRelease date: April 25Director: Isaiah SaxonCast: Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Willem DafoeIn a remote village in the Carpathian mountains, humans fend off the monstrous ochi. But when a lonely girl discovers a baby ochi, shes determined to return it to its family and discovers that maybe these strange creatures arent as vicious as she was led to believe.PRThe ShroudsRelease date: April 25Director: David CronenbergCast: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy PearceDavid Cronenbergs latest body-horror movie is a heavy one: It centers on a grieving CEO (Vincent Cassel) who invents a technology that lets people monitor their loved ones graves, using a phone app to watch their bodies decay in real time. When vandals destroy a cemetery featuring his technology including desecrating his wifes grave he has to figure out who and why. TRThunderbolts*Release date: May 2Director: Jake SchreierCast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David HarbourThe Marvel Cinematic Universes answer to the Suicide Squad forces a group of reluctant antiheroes including Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), and Red Guardian (David Harbour) to team up for a mission. Will they get a chance at redemption? Or, more importantly, will the MCU?PRFinal Destination BloodlinesRelease date: May 16Directors: Zach Lipovsky, Adam SteinCast: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard HarmonThe sixth installment in the Final Destination series has been pitched as a bit of a soft reboot for the series, not that continuity has ever mattered in movies built around people who escape death in a freak accident, and are then stalked by death via increasingly unlikely accidents. This time around, the action kicks off with a college student having recurring nightmares about death. Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, directors of the underseen, extremely fun 2018 sci-fi thriller Freaks, take the wheel this time out. TRMission: Impossible The Final ReckoningRelease date: May 23Director: Christopher McQuarrieCast: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon PeggTom Cruise takes up where he left off with Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, back in 2023, still fighting a world-spanning, all-powerful AI via lots of dangerous stunts. Expect the mission to be possible, just barely. TRLilo & Stitch Release date: May 23Director: Dean Fleischer CampCast: Maia Kealoha, Chris Sanders, Sydney AgudongMost of what weve seen of the live-action Lilo & Stitch hasnt exactly been live action. But hey, at least Stitch is cute. Well have to see how Lilo, Nani, and the rest of the human cast, not to mention the other, weirder-looking aliens, translate to this style. PR

I think I know the purpose of the asterisk in Thunderbolts*, the title of the next Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. And if Im wrong Ill OK, I wont promise to eat any articles of clothing. Ive seen how that can backfire. But I would lay money down on it.If youre a longtime comics reader, my answer is not going to surprise you. But with Captain America: Brave New World in the marketing rearview and Marvel Studios going full steam on promoting Thunderbolts*, its own Suicide Squad-like, its a great time to unpack the reasoning for everyone else.It seems obvious to me that Thunderbolts* is really a Dark Avengers movie.Its about past precedentOnce upon a time, Marvel Comics had an event called Dark Reign though it was less of a discrete crossover and more of a general era of storytelling, defined by Norman Osborns rise to significant power in the U.S. government. Osborn (you might know him better as the Green Goblin) used that power, and the public goodwill hed deceptively won, to go from director of the Thunderbolts to director of SHIELD to director of his own paramilitary force, HAMMER, supposedly an acronym, though Osborn declined to invent an actual name that the letters stood for. (It might be helpful context that Dark Reign was published in the waning days of the George W. Bush administration.)At the apex of his rise, Osborn made sure that when the federal government decided to end its support for the Avengers, he would be in charge of making a new, government-approved superhero team to replace them. He put together a team of (mostly) supervillains disguised in the masks of real, publicly adored members of the Avengers including Bullseye as Hawkeye, Moonstone as Ms. Marvel/Carol Danvers, Wolverines rebellious son Daken as Wolverine, and the Scorpion wearing the Venom symbiote as Spider-Man. He also built his own Iron Man-inspired suit, dubbing himself the Iron Patriot.The Dark Avengers went through ups and downs over their history, but were often closely associated with that other superteam made up of supervillains, the Thunderbolts. Osborn used both teams to further his personal agendas of fame and retribution. After his fall from grace, the remaining Dark Avengers were even pressed into a new, more redemptive Thunderbolts program, overseen by Luke Cage.Marvels ongoing Thunderbolts comics series even changed its name to reflect its new characters, from Thunderbolts to Dark Avengers. Do you see what Im getting at here?Its about current patternsThe Marvel Cinematic Universes Thunderbolts, under the thumb of CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, are already primed to fit the matchy-matchy style of the Dark Avengers, if perhaps not in a full-on fool the public into thinking this is the real Hawkeye sort of way.Between Bucky, U.S. Agent, and Red Guardian, the movie has three potential reflections of Captain America, and an easy successor to Black Widow in Yelena Belova. Who does Sentry stand in for? Take your pick: Hes got the godlike power of a Thor and the You wouldnt like me when Im the Other Guy factor of the Hulk. Also, Sentry was a founding member of Osborns original Dark Avengers.Thunderbolts* simply rhymes too much with Norman Osborns superteam to ignore. I fully expect that one of the movies final scenes will be its end title card resolving to one that says Dark Avengers. But theres one more reason Im so sure of my bet.Its about future plansYou cant have an Avengers movie without some folks who call themselves the Avengers. (Well, I suppose you could, but it would be silly.)Kevin Feige has said that fans should expect to see the heroes of Captain America: Brave New World, Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Thunderbolts* in Avengers: Doomsday, the first MCU crossover flick since 2019s Avengers: Endgame, hitting screens almost exactly a year after Thunderbolts*. So whos putting the Avengers in Avengers: Doomsday?Its not the Fantastic Four*.*Id bet money itll be the Thunderbolts I mean, the Dark Avengers.

Video game adaptations have been going through a little bit of a renaissance recently. Arcane, The Last of Us, the Mario movie, and more have been both critical and commercial hits, and proven that Hollywood might finally have a handle on how to turn video games into movies and TV shows. Its easiest, or at least most obvious, to say this trend started around Detective Pikachu or Sonic the Hedgehog, but the real truth is that the canary in the coal mine was 2016s Assassins Creed (now on Max), a surprisingly good sign that surprisingly great things were on the way. And with a new game in the franchise around the corner, the timing couldnt be better to revisit what is an underrated video game adaptation.The movie follows Cal (Michael Fassbender), a man who is on death row but gets saved by a mysterious organization called Abstergo secretly a front for the Templars of old. The group think his DNA is the key to their plan for world domination, and throw him on a machine called the Animus, which connects Cal to his ancient relative Aguilar de Nerha, a 15th-century warrior who belonged to a secret order of Assassins. In other words, its the exact same plot as just about every Assassins Creed video game thats been released since 2007 (which will be up to 14 main-series video games later this year, if youre keeping track).While the reception to the movie wasnt great upon release, revisiting it in 2025 is a bit of a shock. Director Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, The Order) shoots the movies vision of 15th-century Spain beautifully, with moody shadows that bring out the sparse but gorgeous colors, particularly on the elaborate costumes, which are surprisingly faithful to the Assassin outfits in the games. More importantly, though, is the fact that the movies action looks great. At its best moments, it feels exactly like the Assassins Creed fantasy rendered into live action, with Aguilar encountering burly Templar guards and dispatching them with his hidden blade, then escaping to the rooftops of Madrid for some effortless parkour.The biggest flaw of the movie is that its a narrative nightmare, a fairly common issue with video game adaptations. The clash between the mediums comes mostly because of storytelling space, with games taking up dozens of hours at least, while movies and shows have to squish those overly expansive narratives into neat two- to 10-hour packages. But while earlier attempts often lost their way because they werent faithful to the games they were adapting, Assassins Creeds faults come mostly through its fealty to the earliest games in the series.The first five or so Assassins Creed games, in particular, have ridiculously convoluted narratives. Rather than just being set in their own unique historical setting, the series gives an absurdly complicated modern-day narrative about Assassins, Templars, Abstergo, and some magical/technologically advanced devices, created when the Garden of Eden was built by a forerunner race, to control all human free will. Now, if youve kept up with the franchise, youll know that recently this modern story has taken a pretty significant back seat to the historical action that dominates the series marketing material. The movie, however, went all in.It tries to balance its two storylines carefully, all while opening the door for more movie sequels in the future, tying into the games, and bringing in new fans. Its frankly way too ambitious; the rare video game movie that could have used a little extra shame about the complications of its source material. Ultimately, this results in the movies second half getting mired in modern action thats frankly just not nearly as cool as the historical stuff that came before.But even this narrative quibbling is pretty minor in the grand scheme of the movie. Sure it gets a little lost in the weeds, but like the early Assassins Creed games its emulating, its still a ton of fun. More importantly, like the games, it absolutely nails the historical side of things, not through accuracy, but through the fun of fantasy. The movies version of 15th-century Spain is wonderfully rendered, with excellent costumes, gorgeous sets, and fantastic practical action scenes. Sure, it might be filtered through a convoluted lens, but the Assassins Creed movie is one of the best historical action movies Hollywood has made in years.Despite all of this, Assassins Creed is almost certainly not part of the video game adaptation renaissance. But its still a surprisingly good movie, its still absolutely worth watching, and looking back, its easy to see how it was a sign of great things to come for video game movies and shows.Assassins Creed is now streaming on Max.

2025 continues apace with a whole new slate of highly anticipated anime premieres this spring. The spring anime season, which runs from April through June, boasts some of the years most exciting new series yet, including a brand-new sci-fi action anime from Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichir Watanabe and a new Mobile Suit Gundam series directed by FLCL creator Kazuya Tsurumaki and co-written by Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno!There are even more new releases to watch this season, including a new spinoff of My Hero Academia, the third and final season of Fire Force, and revivals of the beloved coming-of-age anime Anne Shirley and the action comedy anime Yaiba: Samurai Legend, among others! Well update this list in the future with premiere dates and confirmed streaming platforms as we get closer to the season.Lets dive in and see the anime coming this spring to look forward to!LazarusRelease date: AprilWhere to watch: Adult Swim, MaxCowboy Bebop director Shinichir Watanabe returns this year with his first new original anime since 2019s Carole & Tuesday. Set in 2052, Lazarus centers on a task force of agents assembled from across the world to hunt down an enigmatic genius whose revolutionary cure-all drug is revealed to be an existential threat to humanity. Produced by MAPPA, the anime will feature action choreography by Chad Stahelski (the John Wick franchise) and a score composed by Bonobo, Floating Points, and Kamasi Washington.Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuXRelease date: April 9Where to watch: TBAThe latest series in the Mobile Suit Gundam anime franchise is easily one of this years most anticipated premieres of 2025 on the strength of the talents assembled alone. Coming off the popularity and success of 2022s Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced as G-quax) centers on Amate Yuzuriha, a high school student living in a space colony who becomes embroiled in the underground fighting scene of Clan Battles after crossing paths with a mysterious refugee named Nyaan. The series will be directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki of FLCL fame, with scripts co-written by Yoji Enokido (Revolutionary Girl Utena) and Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno.My Hero Academia: VigilantesRelease date: April 7Where to watch: TBAVigilantes is a spinoff prequel to the ridiculously popular My Hero Academia series. While the main series is mostly focused on the law-abiding world of registered and highly trained Quirk users working as superheroes, Vigilantes, as you might have guessed from the name, takes a much less formal approach to saving the day. The series specifically follows Koichi Haimawari, who gets invited to join a band of vigilantes who save the day on their own terms. This series is a great look at the parts of My Heros world we havent seen before, and is starting up at the perfect time, considering the main series final season is set to begin at the end of this year.Austen GoslinFire Force season 3Release date: April 4Where to watch: CrunchyrollFire Force returns this spring for its third and final season! The first cour of 13 episodes will air from April to June, while the second is set to premiere in January 2026. With Tokyo in flames, citizens dying from spontaneous combustion, and the villainous White-Clad amassing more power, Shinra Kusakabe and the rest of Special Fire Force Company 8 must rally together to prepare for what will likely be their most difficult battle yet. TEWind Breaker season 2Release date: AprilWhere to watch: TBAComing off the propulsive finale of last years season, Wind Breaker is back this spring with season 2! After defeating Shishitoren, Haruka Sakura, Hajime Umemiya, and the rest of Bofurin face a new set of adversaries in the form of the rival delinquent gang known as KEEL. Toshifumi Akai, the director of the first season, will return to direct season 2 along with screenwriter Hiroshi Seko. TEYaiba: Samurai LegendRelease date: April 5Where to watch: TBAThis ones a revival of an all-time classic, by way of Wit Studio. Yaiba was first released as a manga in 1988 and tells the story of a young boy who was trained as a samurai in the woods and then moves to the big city. Eventually he battles another swordsman, Onimaru, but when the battle ends in a stalemate, Onimaru sulks off and finds a magical katana that convinces him to try to take over the world with an army of demons. And, of course, Yaiba and his friends are the only ones who can stop him. While this story was made into an anime in the mid-90s, Wits new adaptation looks absolutely stunning, and should be an excellent update on this classic. AGTo Be Hero XRelease date: April 25Where to watch: TBAA Chinese-Japanese co-production, this anime takes places in a world full of superhumans where the top few compete in a battle royale to be crowned X, the most popular hero. While we dont know much more about the series just yet, there is an early trailer that makes it look flashy, stylish, and extremely cool. AGYour FormaRelease date: April 2Where to watch: TBABased on a series of light novels written by Mareho Kikuishi and illustrated by Tsubata Nozaki, Your Forma is set in an alternate near future where, after a worldwide outbreak of viral encephalitis, a revolutionary new technology known as smart thread is developed to record and monitor peoples vital signs. The technology also records every sight, sound, and emotion its users experience, making it the perfect tool for crime-solving. After burning out all her previous partners, Electronic Investigator Echika Hieda is assigned a new one a brilliant yet sarcastic android known as Harold Lucraft to tackle a particularly dangerous case. TEAnne ShirleyRelease date: April 5Where to watch: TBAWhile perhaps not the flashiest of the shows premiering this spring, the new Anne Shirley anime is certainly one of the most intriguing premieres of this season. Based on Lucy Maud Montgomerys classic 1908 childrens novel Anne of Green Gables, and previously adapted by Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata in 1979, Anne Shirley centers on a 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly adopted by middle-aged siblings to help tend their farm. Following her growth through adolescence to adulthood, the anime will adapt both Montgomerys original novel and its sequels. TEVirgin Punk: Clockwork GirlRelease date: June 27Where to watch: TBAYasuomi Umetsu is a prolific animator with a reputation for three things: gorgeous character designs, thrilling and inventive action sequences, and OVAs with uh, questionable erotic content. The trailer for Virgin Punk, his first original project in over a decade, looks promising, delivering on the former in ample amounts and showing the utter apparent absence of the latter. Set in 2099, the series looks like a more explicitly futuristic take on Gunslinger Girl, centering on a cybernetic bounty hunter named Ubu who is thrust into a web of shady characters and deadly adversaries.The first installment in the series, Clockwork Girl, is set to debut in Japanese theaters in June. Heres hoping that audiences will have the chance to watch it stateside later this year. TE

Dapperwings are flying endemic life in Monster Hunter Wilds. Youll need to capture one as part of an early side quest, Samins Research Report, for the research team at the Windward Plains base camp.Its the follow up to Dareels Research Report, in which you need to capture tracktail lizards.Our guide tells you where to find dapperwings in Monster Hunter Wilds and how to get one to complete the quest.Where to find dapperwing locations in Monster Hunter WildsTo find a dapperwing, youll first need to head to the lush corners of the Scarlet Forest. A good place to start is around the Bower of the Great Tree (Area 7) pop-up camp location. From there, we headed over to Area 6, where we found three different spots with dapperwings.From what we gathered, dapperwings are usually in flocks and can be seen perching on fallen trees and branches. We found multiple of them during the daytime. A good cue is the sound they make, resembling regular birds.For some additional pointers, head east from the 6 on the map, and keep an eye out for the birds on the trees.How to catch a dapperwing in Monster Hunter WildsOnce youve spotted at least one dapperwing, all thats left is to capture them. You can equip your capture net either from the item bar or from your Essential Items radial menu. If you need some extra height to reach the target, mount your Seikret and use the capture net while on top of it.Approach the dapperwings slowly to prevent them from flying away. Unlike tracktail lizards, since dapperwings are usually far from the ground, they wont mind if you walk close to them. With the new rectangle reticle, approach the dapperwing slowly until the reticle turns yellow-orange and fire it.As always, make sure you hit L2/LT and not the usual square/X.Completing the Samins Research Report side mission rewards you with blue mushrooms (ten), honey (five), 50 guild points, and some experience for your hunter rank and palico level. To also help you understand Monster Hunter Wilds, we explain how to capture monsters, how to change weapons, and teach you how fishing and layered armor works.

The resplendent plumage of a Seikret is one of the first sights during your adventure in Monster Hunter Wilds.These are giant bipedal bird-like creatures that serve as your mount in the game. These wyvernsare like a jack of all trades, as far as adventuring goes. They can dash across the land, climb up vined walls, and even aid you during fights.Monster Hunter Wilds shows you early on how to call and ride your Seikret. However, the mount has several other practical uses in the game that you either learn about later or arent explicitly told about ever. Below, weve rounded up a variety of seikrets tips that will help you take full advantage of your Seikret in Monster Hunter Wilds.Seikrets can auto move to any icon on the mapSeikrets have an auto move feature where your mount will run to a specific point for a quest. Sometimes, the game uses this feature automatically for certain quests and assignments, but you can use it at any point to go to any icon on a map. This is by far the easiest way to find various resources in Monster Hunter Wilds.To use it, open the map and use the map cursor to highlight any icon on the map, like a particular monster or resource. Once you do so, press in on the right thumbstick to Set Waypoint on the map. Once you close the map, your Seikret will automatically run to that point.Seikrets can be actually useful in a fightSometimes an injured monster will run away and youll have to chase it. Riding your Seikret is the easiest way to pursue it, but your trusty mount can aid you in several other ways while hunting. If you are struggling with a particular fight, your Seikret can scoop you up and take you to a safe spot quickly. This is helpful if you need to use your Whetstone or heal, but I also used my Seikret to take a breather during certain fights and evaluate the attack pattern of the monster.Additionally, I found the dismount attacks you use by jumping off the Seikret to be incredibly helpful in fights (like against Doshaguma or Rathalos). As a sword and shield user, dismount attacks were an easy way to either get some damage in and get up close to a monster, or jump high enough to mount it and attack it that way.Seikrets can store additional equipment Your Seikret can store an extra set of equipment so you can change weapons during a fight. This is great for tougher hunts, like Rey Dau, because it means you can come prepared with a couple of weapons suited to exploit the weaknesses of a particular monster and that you can really make the most of the best weapon combos.You can customize your SeikretSimilar to how you can customize the appearance of your hunter and Palico, you can also edit the look of your Seikret. You can edit your Seikret after you fully unlock Junafa, Windsong Village and talk to Nona. After you do that, you can go to your tent to edit the color scheme and other parts of your Seikret.Our Monster Hunter Wilds guides can outline your progress with our main story walkthrough and monster list ahead of reaching High Rank, help you settle on an armament with our weapons list and best weapons explainers, uncover ores, bones, and monster tails, and teach you how to join friends in co-op multiplayer.

Monster Hunter Wilds allows hunters to equip a combo of primary and secondary weapons, opening up the possibilities for new and varied tactics in the middle of a hunt without having to retreat to camp.While youre free to mix and match from the 14 different weapon types once youve got your head around the best beginner weapon, of course getting the most out of this feature is to try and pair armaments which offer different benefits and playstyles, such as switching from melee to ranged attacks.In this Monster Hunter Wilds guide, weve selected what we think are some of the best secondary weapon combos for you to try out.How primary and secondary weapons workWhile they are referred to as primary and secondary weapons in equipment info, dont let the terms confuse you. The primary weapon is simply the weapon you are currently wielding while the secondary weapon is carried by your Seikret, and you can change weapons while riding, in which that then becomes your primary weapon.Its a great way to diversify your playstyle if you had largely focused on just using one weapon. However, know you can also choose to double down by having two of the same weapon types, such as two great swords, one with high raw attack power while the other specialises in dealing bonus elemental damage.Best secondary weapon combos in Monster Hunter WildsWeve selected three weapon pairings that compliment one another in Monster Hunter Wilds:Long Sword + Light BowgunWhy its recommended:Agile melee and ranged attack optionsCraft special ammo to inflict status effects from afar then close into attackHaving a weapon combo so that you can switch between close-up melee and ranged attacks is fairly straightforward, but the Long sword and light Bowgun are also both weapon types that allow for mobile movement. While you could also opt for even more agile weapons such as Dual Blades, you ideally want a melee weapon with high damage to compensate for the light bowguns low attack output.If you have a Light Bowgun that can use ammo that inflicts status effects such as poison or paralysis, you can fire at a monster while riding the Seikret, and once the ailments take effect, immediately swap to the Long Sword and leap off to focus on melee strikes.Be warned that if you have charged up your Long Swords spirit gauge, that gauge will still gradually run down while you have swapped weapons.While youll naturally want to forge Long Swords with increased attack power and / or ones with elemental bonuses depending on the target monsters weaknesses, if you want to take advantage of using the Light Bowgun for inflicting status effects, then the starting Hope Rifle in the Expedition Tree will let you use poison ammo as well as recover ammo if you also want the option to heal yourself or other hunters in a group hunt.If you want to use paralysis ammo, then you can forge Chain Blitz in the Ore Tree, Assault Conga in the Congala Tree or Rey Szelayta in the Rey Dau Tree.Insect Glaive + Sword and ShieldWhy its recommended:Covers both ground and aerial attacksDefensive on the ground and evasive in the airEssentially, the Insect Glaive is well paired with any melee weapon, so you can also opt for a Great Sword or Lance for more power while sacrificing agility on the ground, but Sword and Shield will give you a balance of offense, defense and speed. This pairing means you can switch from ground-based to aerial attacks pretty easily depending on the situation.While you can use your shield to guard from attacks on the ground, youre not vulnerable in the air, since the Insect Glaive ability to vault your hunter in the air means its easy to evade ground-based area-of-effect (AoE) attacks, and you can potentially use attacks to continue bouncing the air multiple times to stay out of danger.The aerial attacks are further enhanced when you have all three colored extracts, but be warned, this effect has a limited duration, and you may lose it if you switch to another weapon for too long.With the Glaives aerial abilities, youll more likely be able to mount your target monster and then once you perform a mounting finisher to bring the monster down, immediately switch weapons that can exploit this for maximum damage. In that case, you might opt to not bring a Sword and Shield as your secondary, but something much more powerful like the Hammer in which case, the Chata Clobberer can be forged after your first hunt.Early on, upgrading the Hope Glaive is ideal just for increased raw attack as well as increasing your kinsect level, but after fighting Ajarakan in the story, its worth crafting Ajara Trident in the Ajarakan Tree for bonus blast damage, while also offering the Power Prolonger level 2 skill that keeps your extract power buffs lasting for longer.Great Sword + Hunting HornWhy its recommended:Slow but powerful pairing with sharp and blunt damageOffense and defense paired with support buffsFor hunters who prefer to take things a bit slower while packing a punch, the Great Sword and Hunting Horn is a mighty weapon combination.The Great Sword offers power but still allows for defense and countering with offset attacks. The Hunting Horn can use offset attacks too, though requires a more complex melody combo first but it also has other melodies you can play, with each attack playing a note with set sequences that will offer buffs such as increased attack or increased elemental resistances, which youll then retain when swapping back to Great Sword (there are exceptions, such as self-improvement, which is exclusive to when using the hunting horn).While both are powerful weapons, theyre also different in that the Hunting Horn deals blunt damage, whereas the Great Sword relies on charged attacks, but its sharp attacks mean it can also cut monster tails. If you prefer to have a sharp weapon with more mobility, the Long Sword is also a good weapon to pair with Hunting Horn, and youll be able to get buffs to further enhance your spirit gauge.Conversely, if youre not bothered by buffs and just want high raw damage from sharp and blunt weapons, then a Great Sword and Hammer is perhaps a more ideal weapon combo for you.For Great Sword in the early part of the game, you can focus on upgrading the Hope Blade or forging the Quematrice Espada in the Quematrice Tree, which has similar raw attack power as well as bonus fire damage.For Hunting Horn, youre not just looking at attack power but the useful buffs each weapon has. Although its sharpness is lower, the Bone Horn in the Bone Tree has high attack power to start with, and has melodies that can provide attack and defense buffs. For more recovery focus however, forging the War Bongo in the Conalala Tree has melodies for increasing defense and health recovery, and even one that recovers health while curing you of poison.To get the most out of combat in Monster Hunter Wilds, learn how to mount, create wounds, capture monsters, cut tails and get fangs, and work around the your item pouch is full warning.

Legos next set inspired by the Marvel franchise pays homage to the final battle of Avengers: Endgame. The $99.99 set will be available starting May 1 and is a dynamic display that assembles all of the Avengers heavy hitters in a climactic showdown with Thanos.Announced at the 2025 Toy Fair, the 621-piece diorama set comes packaged with a total of nine different Minifigs, and one not-so-mini Thanos figure. While some of these Marvel characters have been available in Minifig form before, like Wanda Maximoff, Iron Man, and Black Panther, this is the first set to include Doctor Strange, Iron Spider-Man, and a normal size Ant-Man with his mech suit. Youll also find Captain America wielding Mjolnir, Falcon, and one of Thanos Chitauri henchmen.While this set wont arrive until later this spring, there are plenty of other Lego sets inspired by the Avengers and other Marvel properties. Below, weve highlighted a few of our favorites that you can buy off the shelves.

A brand new lineup of five Bluey Lego sets, inspired by everyones favorite precocious Blue Heeler and her family, are set to arrive on June 1. While the collaboration with Bluey was teased back in January, Lego officially unveiled the entire lineup at this years Toy Fair, which includes three traditional Lego sets, and a pair of chunkier Duplo sets, perfect for smaller hands. You cant pre-order any of these sets just yet, but youll be able to find them at Lego Stores and on Amazon starting June 1. Weve provided pictures of all the fully assembled sets, along with pricing info and other details, below.Blueys Family HouseThe two story family home of the Heelers is the largest set from the new Bluey lineup and will cost $69.99 at launch. Naturally, youll find Minifigs for Mum, Dad, Bingo, and Bluey, but this home also features a collection of Easter eggs from the animated series, including a Keepy-Uppy balloon, Chattermax, and the Queens Throne.Blueys Beach & Family Car TripThe modestly-sized Heeler hatchback is ready for a day at the beach. This $29.99 set includes Minifigs of Bingo and Bluey, who have assembled an array of sand-based fortification, along with Chili whos ready for a solitary stroll on the waterfront.Blueys Playground FunThe only set to include a Minifig of someone outside the Heeler family, this $19.99 playground set has invited over Chloe the Dalmatian for tea and cupcakes on the playground.Blueys Family House with Memory GameThe chunkier, Duplo version of the Heeler house is designed with play in mind. After assembling the $69.99 set, kids and parents can take turns hiding and finding items throughout the house using the included spinner.Blueys Ice Cream TripLearn colors and numbers with Bluey and Bandit as they go out for ice cream. This $29.99 Duplo set requires minimal assembly, but is perfect for anyone with developing motor skills.

At Toy Fair 2025, Wizards of the Coast debuted a Magic: The Gathering expansion that, frankly, Im surprised didnt already exist. Marvels Spider-Man is the latest collaboration to get the MTG treatment, with several products coming out on Sept. 26. Thats quite a ways out, but Amazon is already serving up pre-order links for a $69.99 bundle, $37.99 collectors booster packs, a $209.70 box of play boosters, and Spideys Spectacular Showdown, a scene box that costs $41.99. You can find some of the card artwork over at the MTG site.

February is finally behind us, and with it, the year marches onward with a new slate of exciting movie releases to look forward to. Weve got Bong Joon-hos satirical sci-fi thriller Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson, Steven Soderberghs spy thriller Black Bag starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, the monster horror film Death of a Unicorn starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, and a lot more!You dont have to leave the comfort of your home to enjoy some good movies, though, as weve once again gathered up a list of this months best new streaming picks for you to choose from. Weve got a Gen X classic starring John Cusack and Jack Black, an underrated schlocky mashup of two of the most terrifying movie monsters of all time, a beautiful romantic sports drama, and some other excellent films.Here are the best movies new to streaming services you should watch this month!Editors pick: High FidelityWhere to watch: HuluGenre: Romantic comedy-dramaDirector:Stephen FrearsCast:John Cusack, Jack Black, Lisa BonetIf ever there was a generational classic, High Fidelity is it. Stephen Frears adaptation of Nick Hornbys novel tapped into the zeitgeist of the waning 90s counterculture, and while it wasnt a runaway commercial success, it catapulted the profile of nearly everyone attached to it. John Cusacks turn as Rob Gordon, the lovelorn proprietor of an independent record shop in downtown Chicago, is easily one of his most iconic. Jack Blacks breakout performance as Barry, Robs outgoing and comical employee, set the course for the then-little-known musician and actors eventual stardom. As if all of that werent enough, Lisa Bonet delivers a standout performance as a talented musician and eventual fling of Robs whose down-to-earth wisdom sets him on the course for what is eventually the films heartwarming resolution. High Fidelity is a classic for all these reasons and more, and if you somehow havent seen it yet, take this as your opportunity to do so. Toussaint EganNew on NetflixSicarioGenre: Action thrillerDirector:Denis VilleneuveCast:Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh BrolinLong before we embarked on his nearly decadelong Dune odyssey, director Denis Villeneuve directed this much smaller masterpiece of paranoia and tension. Sicario follows a cop named Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) who gets caught up in the U.S. governments crusade against Mexican cartels. What she finds is Matt (Josh Brolin), a relaxed governmental operator with a limitless budget and no oversight; Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro), a veteran of the Colombia cartel with a grudge and an itchy trigger finger; and a whole host of legally dubious and incredibly violent covert ops.Its an excellent setup, and a fascinating story in itself, but the real highlight of Sicario is the way Villeneuve and legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins use the premise to create some of the most memorable and thrilling set-pieces of any movie in the 2010s. Midnight shootouts, apartment brawls, and car chases pop up all over the movie, but few moments in any movie have ever been as outstanding as Sicarios border crossing sequence, which is reason enough to watch this movie if you havent. Austen GoslinNew on HuluAlien vs. PredatorGenre: Sci-fi actionDirector:Paul W.S. AndersonCast:Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance HenriksenLets start with the most important information first: Most of the Alien franchise, and the first Predator movie, are now on Max. So, is Alien vs. Predator on this list because I secretly think its the best movie in either franchise? No. I do, however, think its a tremendously fun and very overlooked entry in the mid-tier horror canon of the 2000s. This movie is silly and schlocky, playing fast and loose with franchise canon, in a way that blockbuster IP movies rarely get to be anymore. There are probably four to five movies in these two franchises that you owe a rewatch to before you get to Alien vs. Predator, but my point here is that one way or another, you should make it to this movie, which also happens to be directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, making it great timing for his upcoming In the Lost Lands. They dont make em like this anymore, and were much worse off for it. AGNew on MaxLove & BasketballGenre: Romantic sports dramaDirector:Gina Prince-BythewoodCast:Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Alfre WoodardIm not all that into sports movies, nor am I particularly what one would call an enthusiast of romance. But something about Gina Prince-Bythewoods Love & Basketball tugs at my heartstrings. Maybe its the decade-spanning story of Quincy and Monica, two childhood enemies turned friends who bond through their shared aspiration for basketball greatness. Maybe its the supporting cast, featuring Dennis Haysbert and Harry Lennix, who bring dimension and depth to their depiction of two middle-class Black families in the 80s and 90s. Whatever it is, Love & Basketball is an astoundingly moving and thoughtful love story that never fails to have me cheering by the end. TENew on Criterion ChannelThiefGenre: Crime thrillerDirector:Michael MannCast:James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert ProskyMichael Mann is one of American cinemas preeminent auteurs, a director responsible for some inextricably memorable, visually remarkable, and fascinating crime dramas with films like 2006s Miami Vice, 1995s Heat, and 2004s Collateral. His 1981 debut, Thief, starring James Caan (The Godfather) as a professional safecracker and ex-con attempting to escape a life of crime and build a family with his wife stands as one of the many jewels in Manns long and storied career, packed with all the defining idiosyncrasies that he would go on to hone in the decades to come. From the films beautiful score by Tangerine Dream to its stunning nighttime cinematography of Chicago courtesy of Donald Thorin, Thief is a masterful neo-noir thriller charged with an overwhelming sense of inimitable style, character, and smoldering cool. TE

This story was first published in Switchboard, a newsletter from Polygon that delivers all the latest Switch 2 news, reporting, and rumors directly to your inbox.Sign up hereto get it weekly.In the lead-up to Nintendos reveal of the Switch 2 in January, some game writers fretted that the company behind the Game Boy, Wii, and Nintendo DS mightbe playing it too safe with its next-gen console. All indicators pointed to a more powerful Switch that was, well, just a more powerful Switch.At Polygon, reporter Ana Diaz wrote ahead of Switch 2s reveal of her one desire from Nintendos next-gen plans: I hope that at least one thing about the Switch 2 is weird. Whether a wonky gimmick to the hardware or at the very least an adorable jingle, Diaz pleaded, I just want to believe that Nintendo can still make something that is at least a little bit goofy.In a similar piece for Kotaku, John Walker praised Nintendos bizarre innovation and its track record of being utterly impossible to guess what the company might create next, given the complete surprises of, say, a two-screen clamshell touch-screen portable gaming device, or a gesture-led under-TV console that shines best when the whole family is prancing around together.The Verges Andrew Websterwent so far as to call theSwitch2boring. (He framed that as a positive.)While the original Switch was a demonstration of Nintendos ability to surprise and swerve, the hybrid console was also lacking in some of the personality that made the 3DS, Wii, and even the Wii U appealing. There were no cute Miis, and no earworms to shop to.But the Switch was weird too, and its successor has ample room in which to get a little funky.Remembering the bizarre innovation of the Switch eraThe Nintendo Switch came on the tail of Nintendo doubling down on creativity. During Wii and DS/3DS era, there were dozens of wild experiments that took advantage of motion control and touchscreens, resulting in inventive oddities like Lets Tap, a game built around never directly touching a Wii Remote; Elite Beat Agents, a musical cheerleading rhythm game; and WarioWare: DIY, a microgame-making toolkit.Ahead of the Switch launch, some critics of Nintendo unifying its console and handheld gaming business into a machine that could accomplish both at the same time would put its game designers into a tighter box.But the original Switch fostered wild swings, too, mostly notably in 2018 with the release of Nintendo Labo, a series of build-it-yourself, cardboard-based peripherals that let players drive, fish, and experience lo-fi virtual reality. Two years later, there was Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, a real-world racing game that let Switch owners turn their console into a controller for an RC car and terrorize their pets.Thanks to the detachable Joy-Con controllers, game designers at Nintendo realized you could strap them to your thigh, giving us Ring Fit Adventure, an inventive fitness role-playing game. That idea was later applied to a Wii Sports sequel, albeit less successfully.On the software front, Nintendo has been exploiting the detachable, motion-controlling Switch Joy-Cons to great (and weird) effect. Even many years into the systems lifecycle, we got great experiments like Everybody 1-2-Switch, which integrated smartphones to let up to 100 people play that party game, and WarioWare: Move It!, a microgame collection that explored butt-wiggling as a game mechanic.Nintendo also continued to innovate outside of the Switchs boundaries during the handhelds eight years on the market. In the off years, when it wasnt pumping out Switch variants like the Lite and OLED model, it released interesting hardware: the Super NES Classic Edition retro console, Lego Super Mario sets, and Game & Watch handhelds featuring The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. Sure, those were less weird than they were shrewd business decisions, but those non-Switch hardware releases helped Nintendos Switch-era output be anything but stale.Where Switch 2 can get weirdWeve already seen one potential gameplay-changer from Switch 2: the Joy-Cons new mouse mode. Nintendo has a brief history with mouse controls dating back to the Super NES with Mario Paint, but I expect the company to go further with its new control scheme. While a mouse controller could certainly be additive for first-person shooters and DIY games like Super Mario Maker, but the potential for creativity is what excites me most: Nintendos game designers are probably already making hundreds of WarioWare microgame prototypes using mouse movement.Another rumored feature may be a longshot, but a recently published patent from Nintendo indicates that the console can be rotated, meaning the Joy-Cons can be attached in an upside-down position. While the main purpose of that patent seems to benefit players who might want the systems ports to be on the opposite side, Nintendo could exploit this functionality for gameplay, la WarioWare: Twisted! or Pokmon X and Y.Switch 2 has other hardware features that set it apart from the original Switch, including a new C button that might be used for a new social space and a second USB-C port. The latter may be used for something as dull as charging the Switch 2 or for connecting a set of USB-C headphones, but it opens up opportunities for Nintendo to invent weird little attachments.We cant discount all the other uses that Nintendo might have for its detachable Joy-Cons. Those tiny controllers are packed with haptics, motion and IR sensors, bigger buttons, and (hopefully) more reliable joysticks. While I dont expect Nintendo to release Labo 2, its barely scratched the surface when it comes to jamming Joy-Cons into other things to make funky controllers.But yes, like Ana, I desperately want the conservative era of Nintendo to end in one regard: Switch 2 better have a silly little jingle or some catchy, endlessly looping tunes for its version of the eShop.

Design codes in Monster Hunter Wilds allow you to load pre-made designs for your hunter during the character creator, formally called the character editor.Its perfect for people like me who cant design a character to save my life or for those who want to load a different kind of template character to edit to their liking. Taking the time to make sure you design a Monster Hunter Wilds character you like is well worth it. Once you start a new save file, you wont be able to access the full character editor again unless you use a limited item called a character edit voucher.This guide will show the best design codes weve found so far, and how to enter character creator codes for the character editor in Monster Hunter Wilds. We also collected some cool character designs we saw online.How to enter character creator codes in Monster Hunter WildsStart a new game or use a character edit voucher to enter the full character editor in Monster Hunter Wilds. Once you are in the character creator, tab to the icon in the menu that looks like a little notepad labeled Design and select the option Download Design. This prompts the pop-up window that allows you to enter the character editor. Now, all you have to do is enter the code. Each code is case-sensitive and uses a string of 12 numbers and letters.The game will automatically load up the character design associated with the code and give you a couple of options. Select the Save Design option if you would like to store this design; it will live under the Save/Load menu nestled under the Design menu. Otherwise, you can just click Change Appearance and your hunter will have its new pre-loaded look.From there, you are free to use the character as is, or you can continue to edit the design to your liking.How to make character creator codes in Monster Hunter WildsUploading a character design and creating a code is a bit more complicated than the menus make it seem. Before you go on, make sure you have at least have one character edit voucher before you begin. Every player gets one free voucher for the character editor at launch, and additional vouchers are sold for as paid add-ons. You wont need to use it, but it basically works like a key that allows you to upload your design. (This is because the game doesnt allow you to upload a design for a character with no save data.)Given all this, here is how Polygon uploaded a character design and created a code to share character in Monster Hunter Wilds.Go create a cool character that you want to share with other people and start a save file with said character. Once you create a save file, you need to return to the main menu and access the character creator using a character edit voucher. If you need help with that, Polygon has a guide on how to change your hunter appearance with vouchers.Once you enter the character editor using a voucher, you can now upload a character design. Just tab to the menu labeled Design and select the Save/Load option. Select an open slot and select the option Upload Design. This will prompt a window that creates a code that will allow other users to load that character. Polygon tested this on PlayStation 5 and we were able to use the voucher to accsess this screen and create a code to share a character. Afterwards, we discarded any changes to the character so we didnt use the voucher, but we successfully shared a character design in this way. In other words, the voucher allows you to accesss the screen to share your character after you create save data, but you dont need to use it if you dont make any changes.Best design codes in Monster Hunter Wilds weve found so farPlayers of Monster Hunter Wilds have already created an online community dedicated to sharing characters on the subreddit MHSliders. If you want a place to browse, that community is a great place to start. However a lot of those creators dont shared codes. Intead, many people have shared screenshots of all the settings people can use to remake the character. This can be helpful if you really want to remake a character that someone else has created, however, it can be super tedious to enter every setting section by section. If you would like some quick and easy codes to load, we got you covered. Here is a short list of some cool character creator codes for Monster Hunter Wilds. At time of publication, the game hasnt even been out a day, so that hasnt given players a lot of time to make new characters. We will update this story once some time passes and people continue to share their creations. With that, here are some cool codes we have found:Reddit user K_808 created Ciri from The Witcher series. The code for this design is: KT9ED6PS8TN4.X user 20per_asterisk created a new preset for people to edit. The code for this design is: RU6AK5S53FX4.Only Guides on YouTube created Kratos, from God of War. The code for this design is: 966EP8PU3P47.Redditer user Darkfire621 shared a character that looks like Yoru from Chainsaw Man. The code for this design is: XA7XR6KE7BP9. Reddit user Apprehensive_Put7432 created Sekiro (aka Wolf) from the Sekiro series. The code for this design is: NA3NB68D5RM4. If you would like to check out what some of these designs look like in the wild, then browse this image gallery to see examples of Kratos, Yoru, and Sekiro:Best Palico editor design codesYour hunter is only half the fun in Monster Hunter Wilds; you can also design your Palico buddy as well. Here are a handful of cool Palico character creator codes we found.Only Guides and PCGamesN created the PokmonSprigatito in the Palico creator. The code for this design is: QA8XN4KS4UK6.Jur-P on Reddit and PCGamesN created a raccoon Palico. The code for this design is: M97JG6867CU3.Once again, you can flip through the gallery to take a look at some of the designs we listed the codes for above.

The good video games train isnt stopping anytime soon. Even though 2025 has already given us Avowed, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Civilization 7, Monster Hunter Wilds, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, and Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, there are a bunch more highly anticipated games coming out in the next few months alone. The cozy genre is getting new entries like Two Point Museum and Wanderstop; Split Fiction will likely reignite Hazelights reign over the couch co-op space; and Assassins Creed Shadows is shaping up to be a winner. Thats not to mention perhaps the most important new title Doom: The Dark Ages, the first Doom game since Doom Eternal in 2020.Dig into the most anticipated games of spring 2025 below.Two Point MuseumRelease date: March 4Available on: Mac, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series XTwo Point Museum, the third installment in the goofy tycoon sim franchise, is a worthy addition to the lineup. Its filled with puns and jokes, just like Two Point Hospital and Two Point Campus both wildly popular and the management strategy required to win is truly satisfying. I found the game a bit too alluring while reviewing it, though, and quickly racked up 20 hours of play. But my museum was sooo beautiful. Zo HannahSplit FictionRelease date: March 6Available on: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series XThe newest couch co-op game from the developers that made the iconic It Takes Two which has sold 20 million copies as of last December, by the way Split Fiction is highly anticipated for fans of local multiplayer games. In this one, two players take control of a duo of writers who get stuck in some sort of simulation that lands them in a series of sci-fi-looking worlds they must escape. It seems quite reminiscent of It Takes Two, with the main characters initially mistrusting and maybe even disliking one another. But of course, they and you, with your real-life buddy must work together to ultimately prevail. ZHWanderstopRelease date: March 11Available on: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series XOf all the demos I tried during Februarys Steam Next Fest, Wanderstop is the one I am still thinking about the most. This mindful, relaxing tea shop sim is nestled inside a touching story about the expectations we hold ourselves to, and how those expectations prevent us from changing even if its for the better. Im not alone in my excitement for this title its the newest from writer Davey Wreden, who also wrote The Stanley Parable and The Beginners Guide, so anticipation is high. Even after just an hour of play, its clear Wanderstop is going to be another indie darling for the books. ZHLost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2Release date: April 15Available on: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series XSomething happened to a group of girls in the summer of 1995, and this is a narrative adventure game about the fallout from it 27 years later. From the creators of Life Is Strange comes a new two-part story full of punk rock, betrayal, and supernatural mystery. Its basically Yellowjackets with meaningful dialogue choices and (hopefully) far less cannibalism. Tyler ColpMLB The Show 25Release date: March 18Available on: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series XThe only MLB simulation series available on consoles for over a decade returns with MLB The Show 25, with a trio of cover athletes for the first time and plenty of new player animations and features that promise more realism. The series Road to the Show game mode, which allows you to take control of one players career, now starts in high school and college, and the card-collecting game mode Diamond Dynasty has added a new roguelike mode called Diamond Quest. As a fan of unexpected roguelike modes, I will surely be checking this one out. Pete VolkAssassins Creed ShadowsRelease date: March 20Available on: iPadOS, Mac, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series XIts Assassins Creed, but in feudal Japan. Must we say more? Actually, we must the development and release of Assassins Creed Shadows has been a bit fraught, with several delays and a lot of leaks already, despite being a few weeks away from release. Nonetheless, fans are excited for the title, myself included and if the game does well, itll be a big win for Ubisoft. Early looks at the game hint that it feels like earlier Assassins Creed games. Or, as our guides editor Ari Notis put it, Were so back, yall. ZHAtomfallRelease date: March 27Available on: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series XAtomfall is an upcoming action survival game that has drawn comparisons to the STALKER franchise, as both are set in post-nuclear zones. Atomfall is set in Northern England in an alternate-history 1960s, though, and the protagonist has to manage their health bar and heart rate while uncovering the mystery of a nuclear apocalypse. Fight or flee from mutated creatures, doomsday cultists, military operatives, and rogue robots when the game releases. Cass MarshallInZoiRelease date: March 28 (early access)Available on: PCThe Sims franchise has been the uncontested king of life simulations for years, and InZoi is one of the most promising challengers. Players create characters known as Zoi, customize their homes, and pursue a career. InZois character creator is capable of creating stunningly detailed Zoi. Theres also a custom furniture maker, easy modding, and the ability to share in-game patterns and objects with friends. CMKoiraRelease date: April 1Available on: PlayStation 5, Windows PCIts you and your little puppy against the world in this inky little adventure game. Hunters chase you through forests, animals help guide your way, and statues hold clues for puzzles. Limbo shares a similar aesthetic to Koira, but Studio Tolimas story seems brighter and poised for a conclusion that is far less dark. TCSouth of MidnightRelease date: April 8Available on: Windows PC, Xbox Series XThis is a third-person action game where you could mistake the whine of a demon for the twang of a guitar. Its the Deep South, and the bogs are full of monsters and trauma for you to lure out into the light as Hazel, a young woman searching for a home. South of Midnight has the same surreal atmosphere as the rest of Compulsion Games work, but imbues it with acrobatic traversal mechanics and tight melee combat. TCSkin DeepRelease date: April 30Available on: Windows PCSkin Deep is an immersive sim set on pirate-hijacked spaceships, where the player takes the role of an insurance adjuster sneaking through vents, dispatching guards, and freeing the hardworking cats of MiaoCorp. Youre outnumbered and outgunned, and every time you walk on glass you have to stop and pick the shards out of your feet, John McClane style. Its a compelling challenge dressed up in a silly retro wrapper, and the experience is equal parts gripping and goofy. CMDoom: The Dark AgesRelease date: May 15Available on: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series XAfter the shock and awe of Doom and Doom Eternal, the franchise is going to the past with Doom: The Dark Ages. The game tells the origin story of the iconic Doom Slayer, but there are still the wild weapons and fast-paced combat fans have come to expect. The Shield Saw is like the iconic Captain America tool, except it can take demons heads off with a mighty swing. Theres a gun called the Skull Crusher, and I feel like you already know what it uses for ammo. The Dark Ages turns the Doom Slayer into an unstoppable tank,too. CMOnimusha 2: Samurais DestinyRelease date: May 23Available on: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox OneThe fast-paced samurai action game series is back, and its starting with an update to an entry from 2002. Onimusha 2 has been catapulted into our modern era with a high-resolution makeover, a new brutal difficulty mode, and new quality-of-life features. The cutthroat combat and demon-infested feudal Japan setting remain as a reminder of a time before Soulslikes were all the rage. Think of it like a tutorial for whats coming with Onimusha: Way of the Sword next year. TCTo a TRelease date: May 28Available on: Windows PC, Xbox Series XHeres another charming game idea from a team led by Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi. Teen is a kid stuck with their arms outstretched in a T-pose in a world not particularly eager to accommodate that. Working with accessibility charity foundation AbleGamers, developer Uvula crafted a game where you help Teen navigate life with a disability by helping them get dressed, brush their teeth, and pet their dog. TCElden Ring NightreignRelease date: May 30Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series XAs if Elden Ring wasnt brutal enough, FromSoftware has made a multiplayer spinoff where youre against the clock and bosses from all of its games have a chance to show up. This three-player co-op adventure all takes place over three nights. You and your squad of heroes will hunt for supplies while the world crumbles around you. Unique hero abilities, like temporary invisibility, and randomized loot make Nightreign feel like a PC mod where all the dials have been turned to 11. TC

Go Tour: Unova has a set of rotating habitat spawns and bonuses across the weekend of aturday, March 1 and Sunday, March 2 in Pokmon GoAs the name implies, the event focuses on the Unova region, including tie-in references specifically to the mainline games, Pokmon Black and White (and Black 2 and White 2, if were being specific). The event has loads of perks that arent behind a paywall though yes, there are a few bonuses behind a paywall, including boosted XP and Stardust from egg hatching and raiding. These tickets came as part of the Road to Unova event and the effects will carry out during Go Tour: Unova. Theres also the paid deluxe version of the Go Tour Pass, that gives you more rewards, but isnt necessary for enjoying the event.This is a great opportunity to fill in some of the blanks of your Unova Pokdex if youre still missing Pokmon, but you also will want to do your best to get a Black and White Kyurem with fusion, which make their debut with this event.Thats enough harping about Kyurem take a look at all the Go Tour: Unova perks, the rotating habitat schedule, egg hatches, and other event features below.Pokmon Go Tour: Unova event bonusesThis is a free-to-play event with no specific paid entry ticket to access the following bonuses:Five-star raid targets will have a chance to get a special event background based off of the mainline game theyre fromAll eggs placed into incubators during the event will have halved hatch distanceNo limit on remote raids all weekendUp to 6 special trades per day on Saturday and SundayHalved Stardust cost for trading all weekendThroh, Sawk, Heatmor, and Durant will appear as rewards for Party PlayBoth the red- and blue-striped form of Basculin will appear more often when doing routesUnova-region Pokmon will learn their legacy moves when evolved during the eventAll of that is in addition of the Its Not Over Yet Special Research that will rewards you with some candy and fusion energy for whichever specific Legendary you pick as well as the guarantee for one or the other to know Glaciate (required to get this years new Adventure Effects)in raids during the event.Pokmon Go Tour: Unova rotating habitat scheduleThe four Go Tour: Unova habitats, their times and spawns, are as follows:Winter Caverns (10-11 a.m., 2-3 p.m.)OshawottRoggenrolaWoobatDrilburTirtougaMinccinoVanilliteDeerling (Winter)JoltikKlinkTynamoAxewCubchooCryogonalSpring Soiree (11 a.m. until 12 p.m., 3-4 p.m.)SnivyPansageMunnaAudinoTimburrSewaddleVenipedeCottoneePetililDucklettDeerling (Spring)FoongusAlomomolaFerroseedSummer Vacation (12-1 p.m., 4-5 p.m.)TepigLillipupPansearPidoveBlitzleTympoleDarumakaDwebbleArchenTrubbishDeerling (Summer)EmolgaStunfiskRuffletAutumn Masquerade (1-2 p.m., 5-6 p.m.)PatratPurrloinPanpourScraggyYamaskGothitaSolosisDeerling (Autumn)FrillishElgyemLitciwkGolettDeinoIncense encountersUsing an Incense may net you one of these Pokmon, regardless of habitat:Unown AUnown NUnown OUnown UUnown VPokmon Go Tour: Unova boosted spawnsThe boosted spawns correlate with habitats, which change every hour. Each habitat will rotate in twice per day.All four habitats have special hat-wearing Pikachu. Theres four of them and theyre wearing the protagonists hats from the Unova games.Notably, Pansage, Panpour, and Pansear are regional Pokmon. Though they have appeared outside of their respective regions for other events, if you need more candy to evolve them or you dont have them yet, now is a good time to try to nab them.Deerling is also a special case where it usually only appears in its seasonal form in that respective season. So if you want to try to nab more Deerling for your collection without having to wait months for the form to swap around, you should keep your eyes out for them. Deerling and Sawsbuck are also available shiny for the first time.Pokmon Go Tour: Unova special legacy movesAs part of the event, these Pokmon will learn their respective legacy move when evolved:Servine Serperior: Frenzy PlantPignite Emboar: Blast BurnDewott Samurott: Hydro CannonBoldore Gigalith: Meteor BeamGurdurr Conkeldurr: Brutal SwingSewaddle Leavanny: Shadow ClawKarrablast Escavalier: Razor ShellEelektrik Eelektross: Volt SwitchLampent Chandelure: PoltergeistFraxure Haxorus: Breaking SwipeShelmet Accelgor: Energy BallZweilous Hydreigon: Brutal SwingPokmon Go Tour: Unova Field Research and rewardsSpinning a PokStop during the event may yield one of these Field Research Tasks:Power up Pokmon 5 times (Pikachu [any Go Unovan hat] encounter)Power up grass- or bug-type Pokmon 5 times (Deerling [Spring] encounter)Power up fire- or flying-type Pokmon 5 times (Deerling [Summer] encounter)Power up psychic- or ghost-type Pokmon 5 times (Deerling [Fall] encounter)Power up ice- or rock-type Pokmon 5 times (Deerling [Winter] encounter)Transfer 10 Pokmon (Red-stripe or Blue-stripe Basculin encounter)Theres also enigma research that cycles out with the habitats. The task for these is the same: Catch 10 different species of Pokmon first discovered in Unova and it rewards many different Unovan Pokmon, but with the special event background.Pokmon Go Tour: Unova egg hatchesAny eggs you get during the event period have the chance of hatching the following Pokmon.2 km eggsRoggenrolaTimburrKarrablastShelmetLarvesta5 km eggsThrohSawkHeatmorDurantLarvesta10 km eggsMaractusSigilyphBouffalantLarvestaNotably, Maractus, Sigilyph, Bouffalant, Throh, and Sawk are all also regional Pokmon that usually dont show up outside of their usual regions. Heatmor and Durant are migratory Pokmon, which follow similar rules, but they do swap locations sometimes. Maractus did show up during the 2024 Pokmon Go Fest, so you may already have one.Maractus, Sigilyph, and Bouffalant are also making their shiny debut with this event.Pokmon Go Tour: Unova raid targetsThe following Pokmon will be in raids during the event. Reshiram and Zekrom will rotate in and out of the raid cycle every other hour.One-star raidsThree-star raidsFive-star raidsPikachu (Hilbert's hat)DruddigonReshiramPikachu (Hilda's hat)ZekromPikachu (Nate's visor)Black KyuremPikachu (Rosa's visor)White KyuremIf youre diving deep into Pokmon Gos Go Tour: Unova weekend event, we have the information you need. Check out our guides on redeeming free fusion energy codes, how to get Black and White Kyurem with fusion, the Its Not Over Yet Special Research, the Go Tour Pass, and our Kyurem counters and weakness guide.While not 100% exclusive to Go Tour: Unova, we also have a guide with the Meloetta Masterwork Research steps.

Even with Netflixs recommendation algorithm serving you new movies, new TV shows, and original programming tailored to your viewing habits, the streaming services fire hose of content makes whats coming difficult to parse. Were here to help.This month, we get Meghan Markles show, along with a John Mulaney live event. Its celebrities all the way down! Theres also a new Netflix animated show about a werewolf prince which looks super cool, more episodes of Sakamoto Days, and a new SpongeBob Squarepants movie all about Plankton. From the back catalogue, we have the 2005 Pride & Prejudice, Ma starring Octavia Spencer, and Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.Editors Pick: Pride & PrejudiceDirector: Joe WrightCast:Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Rosamund Pike, Donald SutherlandPeriod drama queen Keira Knightley stars as Elizabeth Bennett, with Matthew Macfayden as Mr. Darcy in the 2005 version of Jane Austens Pride & Prejudice. Its a gorgeous adaptation that also plays up the class difference between the two leads (and interjects some more dramatic moments than the more subdued scenes in Austens original work, but thats cinema, babyyyy). Besides, is there a scene in modern film that does yearning like Darcys hand flex? Available nowNetflix Stories: Love is Blind NYC (Netflix Games) From Netflix: Returning to a Southern town full of childhood memories, will you find something or someone to stay for? You decide in this choice-driven gameSecrets by Episode (Netflix Games) From Netflix: Explore a world of sweet and spicy romance. Youre the main character in these interactive stories, and your choices shape how each chapter unfolds.Available sometime in MarchKhakee: The Bengal Chapter (Netflix Series)From Netflix: When upright cop Arjun Maitra takes on Kolkatas feared don Bagha and his henchmen, he must battle a broken system and navigate bloody gang wars.Available March 1The Potato Lab (Netflix Series)From Netflix: A passionate researchers life takes a turn when a strict director arrives at her potato lab proving that love can sprout in the most unlikely places.SAKAMOTO DAYS (Netflix Anime) From Netflix: Once the greatest hitman of all, Taro Sakamoto retired in the name of love. But when his past catches up, he must fight to protect his beloved family.50 First DatesAnnie (2014)BeginnersBlack Hawk DownBlade Runner: The Final CutBlood and BoneCell 211Do the Right ThingFridayHigh-RiseThe HolidayMaNational SecurityNext FridayPride & PrejudiceRunaway JurySee No Evil, Hear No EvilSicarioTedVampiresWedding CrashersAvailable March 3Hot Wheels Lets Race: Season 3 (Netflix Family)From Netflix: Coop and his friends have trained for this moment their whole lives. Now, three epic races will decide who wins the Hot Wheels City Ultimate Garage!Available March 4Andrew Schulz: LIFE (Netflix Comedy Special) From Netflix: In this razor-sharp yet heartfelt special, Andrew Schulz unpacks the wildest moment of his life becoming a father.The Graham Norton Show: Best Bits: Week of February 21, 2025With Love, Meghan (Netflix Series)From Netflix: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex invites friends and famous guests to a beautiful California estate, where she shares cooking, gardening and hosting tips.Available March 5Just One Look (Netflix Series)From Netflix: When an ominous photo mysteriously surfaces, Greta must confront buried truths and her hazy memory to save her husband from his dark secrets.The Leopard (Netflix Series)From Netflix: Amid the unification of 1860s Italy, a Sicilian prince grapples with the collision between his familys ancient privilege and revolutionary change.Medusa (Netflix Series)From Netflix: Somebody wants to kill CEO Brbara Hidalgo. Can she find the culprit as her family schemes ruthlessly for control of their Colombian business empire?Available March 6Barbie & Teresa: Recipe For FriendshipTyler Perrys Beauty in Black: Season 1 Part 2 (Netflix Series)From Netflix: The ruthless, backstabbing family behind a beauty brand and an underground trafficking ring will face a reckoning. Kimmie, the once-unassuming sex worker in their employ, becomes an unstoppable force of vengeance on a mission to rescue her kidnapped sister.Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta (Netflix Documentary)From Netflix: Brazilian pop star Anitta reveals her most intimate world yet in this documentary that explores her dual identity, personal struggles and search for joy.Love is Blind: Sweden: Season 1: After the Altar (Netflix Series)Power RangersAvailable March 7Chaos: The Manson Murders (Netflix Documentary)From Netflix: In August 1969, Charles Mansons followers killed seven people on his orders. Why? Explore a conspiracy of mind control, CIA experiments and murder.Delicious (Netflix Film) From Netflix: During their vacation in the French countryside, a wealthy German family becomes entangled with a young hotel worker harboring sinister intentions.Formula 1: Drive to Survive: Season 7 (Netflix Documentary)From Netflix: Familiar faces make a comeback, team stalwarts defect to arch rivals, and new champions emerge in one of Formula Ones most tumultuous seasons yet.Nadaaniyan (Netflix Film) From Netflix: When a misunderstanding turns her friends against her, lovable rich girl Pia hires Arjun, a career-focused new student, to pretend to be her boyfriend.Plankton: The Movie (Netflix Family)From Netflix: Planktons tangled love story with his sentient computer wife goes sideways when she takes a stand and decides to destroy the world without him.When Life Gives You Tangerines (Netflix Series)From Netflix: In Jeju, a bold girl and a devoted boys fated bond blossoms into a lifelong tale of setbacks and triumphs proving love can endure across generations.Available March 10American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden (Netflix Documentary)From Netflix: Featuring rare footage and interviews with CIA insiders, this edge-of-your-seat documentary series traces the epic hunt for Osama bin Laden.Available March 11Everybodys Live with John Mulaney (Netflix Live Event)From Netflix: John Mulaney unleashes his one-of-a-kind comedic genius on late night with a spontaneous and sidesplitting live weekly show. (Live event in English.)Temptation Island (Netflix Series)From Netflix: In this spicy update to the hit reality series, four couples test their relationships by shacking up with eligible singles on a tropical island.Welcome to the Family (Netflix Series)From Netflix: A struggling single mom rallies her quirky family to outsmart a mafia boss after her estranged, wealthy father dies, leaving them with his debt.Available March 13Adolescence (Netflix Series)From Netflix: When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?Love is Blind: Sweden: Season 2 (Netflix Series)From Netflix: A new group of singles arrives for the ultimate dating experiment: finding true love and lifetime commitment, all before laying eyes on each other.Available March 14AudreyThe Electric State (Netflix Film) From Netflix: Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt star in this retro-futuristic adventure about an orphaned teens journey to find her brother after a robot rebellion.Available March 17CoComelon Lane: Season 4 (Netflix Family)From Netflix: Follow JJ and friends on everyday adventures fueled by the power of imagination as they try new things, celebrate special moments and more!Inside: Season 2 (Netflix Series)From Netflix: Content creators take on a series of challenges to win a huge cash prize in this reality series from viral British YouTubers, the Sidemen.The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 1Available March 18Bert Kreischer: Lucky (Netflix Comedy Special) From Netflix: Losing 45 pounds. Getting parenting advice from Snoop Dogg. Bert Kreischer knows hes the luckiest guy around and hes recounting his blessings.Love & Hip Hop New York: Seasons 3-4The OutrunAvailable March 19Twister: Caught in the Storm (Netflix Documentary)From Netflix: In May 2011, a massive tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri. Through pulse-pounding firsthand footage, this documentary goes inside a deadly twister.Woman of the Dead: Season 2 (Netflix Series)From Netflix: Two years after avenging her husbands death, Blum has found a measure of peace but secrets never stay buried for long.Available March 20Bet Your Life (Netflix Series)From Netflix: A down-and-out sports betting writer is roped into teaming up with the ghost of a bossy business tycoon demanding to crack his own murder case.Den of Thieves 2: PanteraThe Residence (Netflix Series)From Netflix: When a White House state dinner becomes a crime scene, detective Cordelia Cupp must investigate dozens of staff members and guests to catch a killer.Wolf King (Netflix Family)From Netflix: A young commoner comes of age and learns hes the last of a long line of Werewolves and heir to the throne in this epic fantasy adventure series.Available March 21Go! (Netflix Series)From Netflix: A young runner is given a second chance at life when he is offered a track scholarship, but can he chase his dreams without tripping on his lies?Little Siberia (Netflix Film) From Netflix: A pastors faith turns upside down when a meteorite lands in his small Finnish town, its impact stirring up chaos and criminal intentions.Revelations (Netflix Film) From Netflix: A pastor who believes in divine revelation and a detective haunted by visions pursue a missing person case exposing their own demons in the process.Available March 25Chelsea Handler: The Feeling (Netflix Comedy Special) From Netflix: From ruining Thanksgiving to a wild summer fling, Chelsea Handler recounts coming of age, unexpected encounters and that time she met Bill Cosby.Available March 26Caught (Netflix Series)From Netflix: In Argentinian Patagonias city of Bariloche, journalist Ema Garay rises to prominence in digital media by exposing criminals who manage to evade the law. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Leo Mercer, a respected community figure who becomes the prime suspect in her investigation into the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl. As she searches for the truth, Ema finds herself forced to confront her own demons.I Survived a Crime: Season 2Million Dollar Secret (Netflix Series)From Netflix: This is a game of wit, cunning and deception. Twelve strangers enter a sumptuous lakeside estate and in each of their rooms is a mysterious welcome gift a box. Eleven of them are empty and one contains $1,000,000, and its for that guest to keep as long as they keep their identity hidden. Devilish games will reveal clues about the millionaires identity, and they must do whatever it takes to keep their Million Dollar Secret.Available March 27Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenns Treasure (Netflix Documentary)From Netflix: An eccentric man named Forrest Fenn sets off a real-life treasure hunt when he hides a chest of gold in the Rockies and hides clues in a cryptic poem.Survival of the Thickest: Season 2 (Netflix Series)From Netflix: With her styling brand on the rise and her love life on the rocks Mavis takes ambitious risks to make waves in the world of high fashion.Available March 28The Ladys Companion (Netflix Series)From Netflix: Hired to find husbands for three wealthy sisters, chaperone Elena Bianda is drawn into a late 19th-century world of love, scandal and comic intrigue.The Life List (Netflix Film)From Netflix: When Alex Roses mother sends her on a quest to complete her childhood bucket list, it takes her on a journey that will make you both laugh and cry as she uncovers family secrets, finds romance, and discovers herself along the way.Available March 31Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer (Netflix Documentary)From Netflix: Young women who worked in the sex industry were disappearing from New York City and Long Island, and no one was looking for them. Then in 2010, female remains were found in the Gilgo Beach area of Long Island, leading to a string of additional discoveries, all of which seemed to be connected. The case of the Long Island Serial Killer remained unsolved for 13 years until July 2023 when the police arrested a suspect. From Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (Lost Girls) comes the definitive look at the twists and turns in a case that dominated headlines and is still developing in real time.Promised Hearts (Netflix Film) From Netflix: A young womans future is jeopardized by a secret arrangement that throws her life into chaos but it may be the only way to save her family.Rhythm + Flow Italy: Season 2 (Netflix Series)From Netflix: New talent. New locations. Young artists from north to south and even overseas battle it out for a grand prize and the title of Italys next rap star.

Francis Ford Coppolas Megalopolis will not be receiving any awards at the Oscars this weekend, but Coppola is taking his bows anyway, in an Instagram post graciously accepting the movies nominations and awards from the 2025 Razzie Awards.Megalopolis a loose adaptation of an incident in Ancient Roman history, an autobiographical bid for the directors own opinion of his legacy, and a sci-fi epic about an architect who can stop time has been puzzling audiences and film distributors since it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. And it seems that the folks behind the Razzies feel similarly, nominating it for no less than six Razzie Awards: Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting Actor (dual nominations for Shia LeBeouf and John Voight), and Worst Screen Combo (for The Entire Cast of Megalopolis). It was only awarded Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor (John Voight), however, being beaten in most of its other categories by Madame Web. I am thrilled to accept theRazzieawardin so many important categories for @megalopolisfilm, Coppola wrote on Instagram, and forthe distinctive honor of being nominated as the worst director, worst screenplay, and worst picture at a time when so few have the courage to go against the prevailing trends of contemporary moviemaking!Its not exactly a surprising response, from a guy who released a trailer for Megalopolis that doubled as a roastfest for critics whod panned his better-regarded films. May we all be as confident in our deeply personal creative bullshit as Coppola is in his and may all our deeply personal, incredibly niche, long-gestating creative bullshit be received more like The Shape of Water.

Good news: Monster Hunter Wilds is finally out. Bad news: It runs like garbage, especially on PC.Its so bad that, for some players, the graphics have reverted to 1996. Reddit user Impressive-Cry-3448 posted screenshots of blurry, polygonal characters who look like they came from a Nintendo 64 game. Many of the graphical issues that were present during the beta playtests are still present in the final game, and players arent happy about it.On Steam, where the game reached over a million concurrent players just hours after its release, the user reviews are flooded with low scores due to the performance problems. If it isnt blocky characters, its crashes or single digit frame rates. Out of over 16,000 reviews, there are enough poor scores to give it a Mixed rating.Very immersive game, wrote Sgt. Walker Rhymes in one of the most upvoted Steam reviews, You can cook a well-done steak on your GPU while you play, and the hot blasts of air from your PC fans truly make you feel like you are in the desert.My air fryer is more optimized than this, wrote Steam user WaterBottle.There are several posts on the Monster Hunter subreddit discussing similar problems, and people are trying to troubleshoot them in the comments. Some players have seen improvements by turning frame generation off or updating the games version of Nvidias DLSS upscaling tech to the latest one with a tool called DLSS Swapper but your mileage may vary. Officially, Capcom says players should update their graphics card drivers and make sure their version of Windows is up to date.Console performance is reportedly more consistent, but plagued with stuttery frame rates and low-resolution textures. Digital Foundry did a preliminary performance analysis on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S versions and said all of them feel undercooked for a modern game. Even the PlayStation 5 Pro version struggles to run well.Its a shame that so many players are stuck fighting performance issues instead of monsters in a game that theyve been waiting years for, and one that had multiple beta tests where these issues were reported. Despite the troubles, the concurrent player count on Steam hasnt dipped by much, hovering around 700,000 at the time of this writing. Dragons Dogma 2, another Capcom game rife with performance issues, has significantly improved on consoles and moderately on PC since its launch last year, so hopefully Monster Hunter Wilds will get the same if not better treatment in the coming weeks.

In 2022, Zach Barth announced that his studio, Zachtronics, was closing. The team, which had built a reputation for beloved puzzle games like SpaceChem and Opus Magnum, and had released critical-favorite visual novel Eliza, was ready to try new things.We felt it was time for a change, Barth told Kotaku in 2022. This might sound weird, but while we got very good at making Zachtronics games over the last twelve years, it was hard for us to make anything else.Since then, Barth and other former Zachtronics team members have formed Coincidence, a flexible business framework thats produced card games, an educational math-themed racing game, and announced today a new puzzle game that will look familiar to Zachtronics fans. Not that were complaining!Kaizen: A Factory Story is an open-ended puzzle automation game set in Japan in the 1980s. Youll spend time designing, building, and optimizing production lines in factories to build calculators, camcorders, arcade machines, and more as you attempt to rise through the ranks, according to a press release.Weve always wanted to make a game about the heady days of the Japanese bubble economy, said Barth in the release. With Kaizen: A Factory Story, were aiming to bring the open-ended design were known for to a broader audience without compromising on depth or complexity.Kaizen will be released on Windows PC later this year.

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, Venom: The Last Dance, the latest symbiotic antihero film starring Tom Hardy, slithers its way onto Netflix. Thats not all thats new to streaming this week, as The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim makes its way onto Max, and the Oscar-nominated drama Nickel Boys arrives on MGM Plus just in time for this weekends awards ceremony. Theres tons of other exciting new releases on VOD as well, including Steven Soderberghs supernatural drama Presence, the action comedy Love Hurts starring Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once), and the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown starring Timothe Chalamet.Heres everything new thats available to watch this weekend!New on NetflixVenom: The Last DanceWhere to watch: Available to stream on NetflixGenre:Superhero actionRun time:1h 50mDirector:Kelly MarcelCast:Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno TempleTom Hardy returns for one last outing as the long-tongued parasitic antihero Venom. Following the events ofVenom: Let There Be Carnage, Eddie Brock (Hardy) and the Venom symbiote are still on the run. Hunted by both the military and a mysterious extraterrestrial threat known as the Xenophage, Eddie and Venom must work together once more to survive and clear their name.From ourreview:The originalVenomfound success in the mess of Hardys gutsy performance straining against stakes as mundane as Eddie interacting with his ex and her aggressively normal new boyfriend, after they watched him feverishly climb into a restaurants lobster tank.Last Dance, however, removes every human consideration from the equation of Eddies life every social tie, every personal goal, every stake smaller than aliens and the government are trying to kill us.New on MaxThe Lord of the Rings: The War of the RohirrimWhere to watch:Available to stream on MaxGenre:Fantasy epicRun time:2h 14mDirector:Kenji KamiyamaCast:Brian Cox, Gaia Wise, Miranda OttoSet hundreds of years before the War of the Ring,The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrimcenters on the story of Hra (Gaia Wise), the daughter of King Helm Hammerhand (Brian Cox). When Wulf (Luke Pasqualino), a ruthless Dunlending lord, embarks on a campaign of revenge against her father, Hra and her family must make a last stand to protect their kingdom.From ourreview:Director Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus) takes on the task of making an animated Middle-earth that feels like part of the same tapestry as Jacksons Lord of the Rings movies. This attention to detail and reproduction is the movies greatest strength The War of the Rohirrimlooks and feels like Jacksons LotR in the best way. Its packed full of sword-swinging adventure, kingly drama and riveting monster mayhem. Unfortunately, it also reproduces the aspect of the Jackson movies that has aged most poorly.n hac habitasse platea dictumst quisque sagittis purus. Vitae suscipit tellus mauris a diam maecenas.New on Paramount PlusSeptember 5Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount PlusGenre: Historical dramaRun time: 1h 35mDirector: Tim FehlbaumCast: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben ChaplinNominated for Best Original Screenplay at this years Academy Awards,September 5is a historical drama about the Munich massacre of 1972. The film follows the events of the tragedy through the eyes of the ABC crew in charge of reporting on the Munich Olympics but the uneventful sports event takes a turn when militant organization Black September takes the Israeli team hostage.New on MGM PlusNickel BoysWhere to watch: Available to stream on MGM PlusGenre: Historical dramaRun time: 2h 20mDirector: RaMell RossCast: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish LinklaterBased on Colson Whiteheads novel, RaMell Ross Oscar-nominated drama centers on Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young African American teen who is sentenced to a brutal reformatory school in the Jim Crow South. Struggling to hold on to his hopes of attending college, Elwood befriends Turner (Brandon Wilson), a fellow student, who helps him in navigating the harsh realities of their new home together.New to rentPresenceWhere to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and VuduGenre: Supernatural dramaRun time: 1h 25mDirector: Steven SoderberghCast: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina LiangSteven Soderberghs supernatural thriller flips the script on horror tropes: In this haunted house story, the first-person point of view is the enigmatic entity haunting the house. A fractured family moves into a new house, and they soon realize that theres something seemingly malevolent lurking in its halls. Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan star as the parents, with Callina Liang and Eddy Maday as the surly teenagers.From our review:For audiences expecting breathless tricks out of the usual found-footage horror playbook the kinds of barely glimpsed threats and dimly lit shocks a fast-moving, low-fidelity camera enables Soderberghs approach may seem perverse. The houses bright, open airiness and richly appointed rooms make it seem like an unlikely and even ill-suited space for a haunting. Theres no chance the camera will ever abruptly capture some unexpected, horrifying specter, because the cameraisthe specter.Love HurtsWhere to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and VuduGenre: Action comedyRun time: 1h 23mDirector: Jonathan EusebioCast: Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose, Daniel WuKe Huy Quan stars as Marvin, an assassin turned realtor whos just trying to live a normal life. But when he receives a valentine from the target he let go, hes pulled back into the criminal world. Former killer colleagues hound him, trying to find the location of his former mark, who he still harbors feelings for! While the movie is unfortunately light on the love, it still goes hard on the action.From our review:Leitchs most memorable action movies all take place outside of familiar reality, and within pocket worlds with their own clear, strange, often comedic rules. The only rule at work inLove HurtsisLets not commit to anything except the fights. Its as though everyone involved except Quan himself felt like it was uncool to show up for this movie. And hes trying to show up for everyone, everywhere, all at once, but it still isnt enough.A Complete UnknownWhere to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and VuduGenre: DocudramaRun time: 2h 21mDirector: James MangoldCast: Timothe Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle FanningTimothe Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in this heavily Oscar-nominated docudrama from director James Mangold (Ford v Ferrari). After arriving in New York City, the 19-year-old folk music prodigy navigates the pitfalls of fame as his meteoric rise to stardom coincides with the political and social upheaval of the 1960s.The KillerWhere to watch:Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu; streaming on PeacockGenre:Action thrillerRun time:2h 6mDirector:John WooCast:Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam WorthingtonLegendary action directorJohn Wooreturns with an English-language reimagining of his 1989 action thrillerThe Killer, this time starring Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones) and Omar Sy (Lupin). Emmanuel portrays Zee, a notorious assassin known and feared in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. After refusing to kill a witness who was blinded during her latest assignment, Zee becomes the target of her former employers. Her escapades draw the attention of Sey (Sy), a savvy police detective with whom she reluctantly allies.Its certainly a departure from the original film starring Chow Yun-fat, but hey: If Olivier Assayas can successfully remakeIrma Vepnearly 26 years after the fact, why shouldnt Woo be capable of doing the same with his own work?From our review:The shootouts are tense and balletic, with terrific sound design punctuations of gunfire, something that was also a strength inSilent Night. The loud bangs play well off the dramatic, moody score from composer Marco Beltrami, which, like the movie, balances romance and excitement with shades of classical orchestration and jazz. And the movie justlooksgreat, even though its a straight-to-streaming production: The colors pop, the city of Paris buzzes with life, and the way Woo moves his camera to follow and augment the action is unparalleled.

Despite all the massive improvements in Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom will still charge you money to edit your character or Palico more than once.Once you create your character during the intro sequence, youll only have one opportunity to fully change them using a free character edit voucher. After that, itll cost you at least $6.99 to even enter the customization menu again although thatll net you three vouchers. Palico edit vouchers are the same deal, but you can also buy a three-pack of both for $9.99.Theres currently no way to earn character or Palico edit vouchers by simply playing the game, just as it is in Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter World. In your tent, you can edit minor aspects of your character without a voucher, like their makeup, facial hair, and clothing, but everything else is locked behind the full customization menu.Not being able to repeatedly change your hunters features for free hasnt surprised longtime players, but it also hasnt made them any less frustrated that Capcom still wants to charge for it. Given that Monster Hunter Wilds features some of the series most stunning outfits which you can swap between for free its a bizarre choice.Polygon has asked Capcom why it decided to keep character edit vouchers. Well update this post when we hear back.Over a million people were playing Monster Hunter Wilds hours after it launched on Steam today, and thats not counting all the people on consoles. If youre planning to spend the weekend on the hunt, make sure your character looks exactly the way you want them to early on when you can still restart. Otherwise, you might have to take out the credit card.

They say all you need for a good time is dice, money, or camels. Dont believe me? Camel Up has all three and won the 2014 Spiel des Jahres award. If you or your family would like to try your hand at the exotic sport of camel racing, Camel Up is currently on sale for just $25.60 on Amazon (was $39.99). A family-friendly board game for three-to-eight players, Camel Up has you and your fellow bored aristocrats betting on a series of races featuring desert-dwelling dromedaries. The speed of each animal is typically determined by the dice, which are released from the pyramid at the center of the board one at a time. However, the camel is known to be a fickle beast, and can behave in some unexpected ways, such as racing around the track backward or piggybacking (camelbacking?) its way across the finish line. The action is quick and chaotic, with games typically lasting under an hour, making this title an ideal way to spend an afternoon at the races.

Its not all about living up to grandpas legacy in this farming simulator. In fact, grandpas probably long gone, because in this post-apocalyptic farming sim, your neighbors are the folks who live in the trailers and shipping containers near your tent. This is Doloc Town, a community thats grown out of necessity during life after the end of the world. Here, your crops are your contribution to the towns survival some residents cook, some catch fish, some build new infrastructure. You farm crops and become the towns source of food, delivered by your drone, of course.The free demo for Doloc Town, developed by RedSaw Games Studio, is available to play through Steam Next Fest from Feb. 24 to March 3. In the demo, you learn the mechanics of the farming sim with a refreshing sense of trust in the players knowledge of the genre the gameplay is self-explanatory and typical, but the setting and story make it a fresh addition to the genre. Theres a cast of neighbors to meet, all of whom hint at the towns troubled past surviving a falling society and standing up to an authoritarian regime of some sort. I havent quite figured out the plot, but thats not a bad thing; I just want to play more Doloc Town.The game doesnt have a release date yet, but the demo is plenty to enjoy for several hours. While the devs advertise it as a two-hour demo, I easily stretched that by optimizing my farm and upgrading as much as the demo build allowed. Even if only for a few hours of post-apocalyptic coziness, pick up the demo for Doloc Town while its still available.

For a limited time, the Red Rising board game, and adaptation of the novel by Pierce Brown, is just $10.99 (was $24) at Amazon. Thats a significant discount on a game that should hold over fans who are waiting ever so patiently for the books sequel, Red God, which still doesnt have a release date. This is the biggest price drop so far in 2025.Our reviewer enjoyed the game on its own merits, but as a self-described delirious fan of Browns series, thinks that it shines particularly bright for fans of Red Rising because of how well it adapts the source material. The game was published by Stonemaier Games in 2021, and was designed by Jamey Stegmaier and Alexander Schmidt. Hopefully, playing this game will make the wait a little easier for Red God, but perhaps, itll only make the wait harder.

Sharp fangs are some of the earliest crafting materials youll need in Monster Hunter Wilds, but they dont come from any of the larger monsters in the game. Instead, youll need to hunt some smaller wildlife if you want to build the Talioth Vambraces or pieces of the Chatacabra set.In this Monster Hunter Wilds guide, well teach you where you can find a sharp fang in the Windward Plains map and what you can build with it.How to get a sharp fang in Monster Hunter WildsThere are several low-rank monsters that drop sharp fangs in Monster Hunter Wilds, although by the time you get to areas outside of the Windward Plains, you wont need them as much.Here are the monsters weve been able to confirm drop sharp fangs:Gajios (Windward Plains, Scarlet Forest)Talioth (Windward Plains)Piragill (Scarlet Forest)Kranodath (Oilwell Basin)The Gajios are very easy to find early in the game, so well focus on them (although the other monsters will appear on your map as little pink diamonds, so you can track them that way if youre in another area). Gajios are part-crocodile, part sawfish creatures that hang out in the rivers of the Windward Plains and Scarlet Forest. Sharp fangs are also the only items in their low-rank loot pool, so youre guaranteed to get one when you kill a Gajios. Look for them in the rivers of Area 8 and 10 in the Windward Plains and you should find several.What can you craft with sharp fangs in Monster Hunter Wilds?There are two early armor pieces that youre likely looking into crafting if youre hunting for sharp fangs, the Talioth Vambraces and the Chatacabra Coil.Both of these are low-rarity pieces that will give you a modest bump to your defense ahead of some of the more challenging monsters in Chapter 1 of the main story. The Chatacabra Coil specifically comes with some water resistance, which will be helpful when facing a Balahara in the Windward Plains or the most difficult fight in Chapter 1, the apex beast of the Scarlet Forest. Once you have the sharp fang, youll need a Chatacabra Certificate (which you should have from the first story mission), as well as two Chatacabra Scales and a Chatacabra Jaw to build the Chatacabra Coil, the later of which you can get by breaking a Chatacabras face in te middle of a hung.To also help you understand Monster Hunter Wilds further, we explain how to change weapons, provide some Seikret tips, and cover how fishing, cooking, and layered armor works.

After years of touchscreens taking over car dashboard, cellphones, and laptop keyboards, buttons are having a moment. Apple is bragging about its new buttons, European cars will now need more buttons to achieve a higher safety ranking, and were all obsessed with the Nintendo Switch 2s new button whatever it does. This so called touchscreen backlash is a big deal, but its also not the first time buttons were at the center of a technological controversy. In fact, the very invention of buttons was a hot topic.I learned all about this fascinating history when I read, Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing, whos author Rachel Plotnick spoke to me for the video above. The book dives deep into the earliest years of this technology, when there were worries about the technologys ability to hide labor and reinforce existing social hierarchies. If that sounds familiar, its because these are still issues we reckon with today, touchscreen or no.These days, touchscreens have replaced many of the buttons in our daily lives and their ambiguity is whats at issue. That can make typing on a phone frustrating and driving a car downright dangerous, but when it comes to video games, its not so black and white. Check out the video above to learn more about the humble history of buttons and why video games have been more resilient to the touchscreen take over. If you enjoy this video, be sure to check out the rest of our deep dives on YouTube!

Games Workshops 60-plus-book Black Library series The Horus Heresy may have come to an end recently with the three-part epic The End and the Death by Dan Abnett (Warhammer 40,000: Darktide), but the internecine conflict shows no signs of slowing down. Thats because publisher Cubicle 7 (Wrath & Glory, Imperium Maledictum) has plans for Warhammer The Horus Heresy Roleplaying Game. A press release pegs the release for spring of 2026.The Horus Heresy is the founding story of one of gaming and science fictions best-loved settings said Cubicle 7 owner Dominic McDowall in a news release. The epic scale of the Heresys tragic tale is as big as it gets, and the legends your characters forge in the roleplaying game will rival those found in the classics.But if you, like me, had your heart set on taking up the picter of a lowly remembrancer (which includes the grimdark futures version of a journalist, among other creatives and historians), know that the stakes will be a fair bit higher right out of the gate. Also? Youll start the game out as Legionary Consuls, a type of Space Marines, so get used to calling your fellow players brother a lot.The game opens with the betrayal at Isstvan an act of vile treachery that tears the Imperium in two, Cubicle 7 wrote. You are thrown straight into the maelstrom as Legionary Consuls leading a rag-tag warfleet fighting desperately for survival and vengeance. Your first priority is to escape, harried by traitors warp-bent on your destruction. But what then? How will you survive and regroup? How do you overcome the shock of betrayal and keep your forces supplied? Perhaps most importantly who can you trust?Expect multiple core rulebooks and a starter set to go up for pre-order this summer.

The Triumphant Light cards are out now Pokmon TCG Pocket, adding 96 new cards to the competitive mobile game.The Triumphant Light expansion offers one new booster pack with Arceus as the figurehead Pokmon plus a new battle mechanic in the form of Link Abilities. This expansion is roughly the same size as the Mythical Island expansion, so there are a lot of new cards for you to earn and learn!Below, weve created a table outlining all new cards in the Triumphant Light expansion for Pokmon TCG Pocket along with their typing, HP, and any attacks or abilities. And if youre looking for older expansions, heres how to change booster packs.All Triumphant Light cards in Pokmon TCG PocketHeres every new Triumphant Light card in Pokmon TCG Pocket, laid out in a handy table:Card #CardTypeHPAttack/Ability1HeracrossGrass100Single-Horn Throw (50+) — Flip 2 coins. If both of them are heads, this attack does 70 more damage.2BurmyGrass50Ram (20)3MothimGrass90Gust (50)4CombeeGrass20Bug Bite (20)5VespiquenGrass100Reckless Charge (120) — This Pokémon also does 30 damage to itself.6CherubiGrass50Leafage (20)7CherrimGrass80Worry Seed (40) — Your opponent's active Pokémon is now Confused.8CherrimGrass80Leach Seed (60) — Heal 20 damage from this Pokémon.9CarnivineGrass80Vine Whip (20)   Power Link (Ability) — If you have Arceus or Arceus ex in play, attacks used by this Pokémon do +30 damage to your opponent's active Pokémon.10Leafeon exGrass140Solar Beam (70)   Forest Breath (Ability) — Once during your turn, if this Pokémon is in the active spot, you may take a grass energy from your energy zone and attach it to 1 of your grass Pokémon.11HoundourFire60Flare (20)12HoundoomFire100Corner (60) — During your opponent's next turn, the defending Pokémon can't retreat.13HeatranFire110Ragin' Mad Strike (40+) — If this Pokémon has damage on it, this attack does 40 more damage.   Speed Link (Ability) — If you have Arceus or Arceus ex in play, this Pokémon has no retreat cost.14MarillWater60Water Gun (20)15AzumarillWater100Waterfall (60)16BarboachWater60Mud-Slap (30)17WhiscashWater120Thrash (80+) — Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 60 more damage. If tails, this Pokémon also does 20 damage to itself.18SnoruntWater60Icicle (20)19FroslassWater90Blizzard (40) — This attack also does 10 damage to each of your opponent's benched Pokémon.20SnoverWater70Corkscrew Punch (30)21AbomasnowWater120Mega Punch (80)   Vigor Link (Ability) — If you have Arceus or Arceus ex in play, attacks used by this Pokémon cost 1 less colorless energy.22Glaceon exWater140Freezing Wind (90)   Snowy Terrain (Ability) — During Pokémon checkup, if this Pokémon is in the active spot, do 10 damage to your opponent's active Pokémon.23Origin Forme PalkiaWater120Zone Smash (60+) — Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 60 more damage.24PhioneWater60Water Pulse (40) — Your opponent's active Pokémon is now Asleep.25PikachuLightning60Spark (10) — This attack also does 10 damage to 1 of your opponent's benched Pokémon.26RaichuLightning90Spark (40) — This attack also does 20 damage to 1 of your opponent's benched Pokémon.   Resilience Link (Ability) — If you have Arceus or Arceus ex in play, this Pokémon takes -30 damage from attacks.27ElectrikeLightning60Zap Kick (20)28ManectricLightning90Flash (40) — During your opponent's next turn, if the defending Pokémon tries to use an attack, your opponent flips a coin. If tails, that attack doesn't happen.29ClefairyPsychic60Smack (30)30ClefablePsychic100Moonblast (60) — During your opponent's next turn, attacks used by the defending Pokémon do -30 damage.31GastlyPsychic50Astonish — Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent reveals a random card from their hand and shuffles it into their deck.32HaunterPsychic80Mumble (40)33GengarPsychic140Hypnoblast (70) — Your opponent's active Pokémon is now Asleep.34UnownPsychic60Hidden Power (20)   CHECK (Ability) — Once during your turn, you may choose either player. Look at the top card of that player's deck.35RotomPsychic70Dash Attack — This attack does 20 damage to 1 of your opponent' benched Pokémon.   Speed Link (Ability) — If you have Arceus or Arceus ex in play, this Pokémon has no retreat cost.36SudowoodoFighting80Fighting Headbutt (20+) — If your opponent's active Pokémon is a Pokémon ex, this attack does 30 more damage. 37PhanpyFighting60Rollout (20)38DonphanFighting120Rolling Spin (60) — During your next turn, this Pokémon's Rolling Spin attack does +60 damage.39LarvitarFighting60Corkscrew Punch (30)40PupitarFighting80Speed Attack (50)41TyranitarFighting160Land Crush (130)   Power Link (Ability) — If you have Arceus or Arceus ex in play, attacks used by this Pokémon do +30 damage to your opponent' active Pokémon.42NosepassFighting80Tackle (10)43MedititeFighting60Kick (20)44MedichamFighting100Kick Shot (80) — Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.45GibleFighting60Tackle (20)46GabiteFighting80Sharp Scythe (30)47Garchomp exFighting170Linear Attack — This attack does 50 damage to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon.   Dragon Claw (100)48ZubatDarkness50Bite (20)49GolbatDarkness80Bite (30)50CrobatDarkness110Darkness Fang (50)   Cunning Link (Ability) — Once during your turn, if you have Arceus or Arceus ex in play, you may do 30 damage to your opponent's active Pokémon.51CroagunkDarkness60Beat (20)52ToxicroakDarkness100Toxic — Your opponent' active Pokémon is now Poisoned. Do 20 damage to this Pokémon instead of the usual amount for this Special Condition.53MagnemiteMetal60Tackle (20)54MagnetonMetal90Rolling Attack (30)55MagnezoneMetal140Power Beam (80)   Resilience Link (Ability) — If you have Arceus or Arceus ex in play, this Pokémon takes -30 damage from attacks.56MawileMetal70Iron Beam Breaker (20+) — If your opponent's active Pokémon is a metal Pokémon, this attack does 30 more damage.57Probopass exMetal160Defensive Unit (90) — During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon takes -20 damage from attacks.58BronzorMetal60Ram (10)59BronzongMetal120Psychic (50+) — This attack does 20 more damage for each energy attached to your opponent's active Pokémon.60Origin Forme DialgaMetal120Time Mash (100) — Flip a coin. If tails, during your next turn, this Pokémon can't attack.61GiratineDragon120Crisis Dive (120) — Discard 2 random energy from this Pokémon.62EeveeColorless60Tail Whap (30)63SnorlaxColorless140Collapse (100) — This Pokémon is now Asleep.64HoothootColorless60Peck (20)65NoctowlColorless100Silent Wing (50) — Your opponent reveals their hand.66StarlyColorless60Glide (20)67StaraviaColorless80Wing Attack (30)68StaraptorColorless150Brave Bird (130) — This Pokémon also does 20 damage to itself.69ShayminColorless70Flap (30)   Sky Support (Ability) — As long as this Pokémon is on your bench, your active basic Pokémon's retreat cost is 1 less.70ArceusColorless120Power Blast (100) — Discard a random energy from this Pokémon.71Arceus exColorless140Ultimate Force (70+) — This attack does 20 more damage for each of your benched Pokémon.   Fabled Luster (Ability) — This Pokémon can't be affected by any Special Conditions.72IridaSupporter—Heal 40 damage from each of your Pokémon that has any water energy attached.73Celestic Town ElderSupporter—Put 1 random basic Pokémon from your discard pile into your hand.74BarrySupporter—During this turn, attacks used by your Snorlax, Heracross, and Staraptor cost 2 less colorless energy.75AdamanSupporter—During your opponent's next turn, all of your metal Pokémon take -20 damage from attacks from your opponent's Pokémon.76HoundoomFire100Corner (60) — During your opponent's next turn, the defending Pokémon can't retreat.77MarillWater60Water Gun (20)78UnownPsychic60Hidden Power (20)   CHECK (Ability) — Once during your turn, you may choose either player. Look at the top card of that player's deck.79SudowoodoFighting80Fighting Headbutt (20+) — If your opponent's active Pokémon is a Pokémon ex, this attack does 30 more damage.80MagnemiteMetal60Tackle (20)81ShayminColorless70Flap (30)   Sky Support (Ability) — As long as this Pokémon is on your bench, your active basic Pokémon's retreat cost is 1 less.82Leafeon exGrass140Solar Beam (70)   Forest Breath (Ability) — Once during your turn, if this Pokémon is in the active spot, you may take a grass energy from your energy zone and attach it to 1 of your grass Pokémon.83Glaceon exWater140Freezing Wind (90)   Snowy Terrain (Ability) — During Pokémon checkup, if this Pokémon is in the active spot, do 10 damage to your opponent's active Pokémon.84Garchomp exFighting170Linear Attack — This attack does 50 damage to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon.   Dragon Claw (100)85Probopass exMetal160Defensive Unit (90) — During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon takes -20 damage from attacks.86Arceus exColorless140Ultimate Force (70+) — This attack does 20 more damage for each of your benched Pokémon.   Fabled Luster (Ability) — This Pokémon can't be affected by any Special Conditions.87IridaSupporter—Heal 40 damage from each of your Pokémon that has any water energy attached.88Celestic Town ElderSupporter—Put 1 random basic Pokémon from your discard pile into your hand.89BarrySupporter—During this turn, attacks used by your Snorlax, Heracross, and Staraptor cost 2 less colorless energy.90AdamanSupporter—During your opponent's next turn, all of your metal Pokémon take -20 damage from attacks from your opponent's Pokémon.91Leafeon exGrass140Solar Beam (70)   Forest Breath (Ability) — Once during your turn, if this Pokémon is in the active spot, you may take a grass energy from your energy zone and attach it to 1 of your grass Pokémon.92Glaceon exWater140Freezing Wind (90)   Snowy Terrain (Ability) — During Pokémon checkup, if this Pokémon is in the active spot, do 10 damage to your opponent's active Pokémon.93Garchomp exFighting170Linear Attack This attack does 50 damage to 1 of your opponents Pokmon. Dragon Claw (100)94Probopass exMetal160Defensive Unit (90) — During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon takes -20 damage from attacks.95Arceus exColorless140Ultimate Force (70+) — This attack does 20 more damage for each of your benched Pokémon.   Fabled Luster (Ability) — This Pokémon can't be affected by any Special Conditions.96Arceus exColorless140Ultimate Force (70+) — This attack does 20 more damage for each of your benched Pokémon.   Fabled Luster (Ability) — This Pokémon can't be affected by any Special Conditions.

Polygon sat down with writer Kelly Thompson earlier this week to discuss her best-selling Absolute Wonder Woman, which she co-created with artist Hayden Sherman but we couldnt help asking about another of her comics co-creations who has been making a big splash lately: Jeff the Land Shark, who appears in Marvel Rivals.We asked Thompson how she would respond to Marvel Rivals players who find themselves frustrated with Jeffs disruptive ultimate ability, Its Jeff!, in which he gobbles up all his foes in a large range and then spits them out wherever he wants.What they call annoying, Thompson replied, laughing, I call a skills issue.Before Jeff became a Marvel Rivals phenomenon, he was the team pet of Thompson and artist Daniele di Nicuolos 2018 West Coast Avengers run. After the cancellation of that series, Thompson continued to weave the little guy into her Marvel comics, and illustration partners Gurihiru fanned the flames by including references to him in their own work for Marvel Comics. Eventually, Jeff got his own adorable, digital-first silent gag comic, Its Jeff!, from Thompson and Gurihiru, and the rest is history.Polygon has previously reported on Jeffs combination of extremely cute and extremely annoying qualities for the Marvel Rivals audience. Thompsons (joking) advice for anyone frustrated by Jeff gameplay is simple:I think they should get better at the game. Sounds like a skills issue to me, if my boy is beating your ass every night. I mean, listen, he has an incredibly powerful ult; just accept it, become zen about it. Everyones got upsides and downsides, right?We also asked Thompson which of Jeffs many different cute outfits shed like to see as skins in the game, where hes already debuted with at least one direct lift from the comics. His Incognito Dolphin skin is a reference to the third issue of Its Jeff!, in which he becomes worried that he will frighten people by enjoying a swim at the beach, and gets himself a dolphin costume so that strangers will know hes friendly.Hes been a taco, hes been a sheep, hes been Grogu, hes been Wolverine, hes been everybody. Hes been Spider-Man. Thompson considered her options. I do think Im not usually super into the Venom-ification of everything, because it can really overwhelm, but he has merged with Venom in the comics [in Venom War: Its Jeff!] and he grew giant, punchy arms. So that would be fun to have in the game.And the business suit, Thompsons Absolute Wonder Woman collaborator Hayden Sherman chimed in, if we can get him in the suit with the briefcase, referring to Its Jeff! #37, where Jeff dresses up in a little business suit with his own briefcase in order to look professional at his self-created job of eating a bunch of park vendors food waste for tips, which he uses to buy a briefcase full of ice cream.Thompson immediately agreed: It was editor Sarah Brunstad who actually added the suit. She was like, I think we should add this panel with him with the suit and a briefcase. And I was like, Oh my god. Im so mad at myself for not coming up with that first. It was awesome.Whether or not Venom Jeff or Business Jeff are directions that NetEase wants to explore, one things certain: Jeff is cute no matter how he dresses.

Capcoms Monster Hunter Wilds has soared to a peak of over 1 million concurrent players on Steam just hours after its launch, catapulting it into the Steam record books. The game launched to an immediate audience of 880,806 players at midnight EST / 9 p.m. PST, and has climbed to a peak of 1,076,024 players at time of writing, just over seven hours later.Amazingly, this puts Monster Hunter Wilds inside the top 10 most-played games on Steam of all time in terms of concurrent players. It sits at number 7, ahead of the all-time peaks of smash hits Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, and Baldurs Gate 3. Currently, only Counter-Strike 2 has more players on Steam, and Monster Hunter Wilds number is climbing steadily. Perhaps even Dota 2s record of 1.295 million players is within reach.But, as scorching as it is, Monster Hunter Wilds initial peak player count is a long way short of the record of 3.26 million set by PUBG in 2018. Capcoms game is also unlikely to climb to the 2-million-plus numbers recorded by Palworld and Black Myth: Wukong during their launch weeks in 2024, both driven by huge swells of interest from Chinese gamers.Monster Hunter Wilds could well improve its position over the weekend; typically, games hit their peak audiences on Steam on Saturdays and Sundays. And even better may be yet to come, as both Elden Ring and Baldurs Gate 3 hit their all-time peaks on the second weekend after launch. The achievement is even more remarkable given the timing of Monster Hunter Wilds launch outside of peak gaming hours: late at night in North America, in the early hours of the morning in Europe, and in the early afternoon in east Asian countries.The launch of the PC version of Monster Hunter Wilds hasnt all been plain sailing for Capcom, however. User reviews on Steam are currently mixed, with many players complaining of performance issues. Capcom advised players experiencing problems to update their graphics drivers, turn off compatibility mode, and readjust their settings.