Pokemon Home is live on Nintendo Switch and mobile devices, which means you can now transfer Pokemon from Bank to Sword and Shield (if you have a paid premium plan). While not every old Pokemon can be brought over into the Gen 8 games, a few more non-Galar-native monsters can now be added to your collection, including a handful of Legendaries.
35 Pokemon that weren’t previously obtainable in Sword and Shield can be transferred into the titles from Pokemon Home. These include the other two starters from Pokemon Red and Blue–Bulbasaur and Squirtle–as well as the three starter Pokemon from Sun and Moon: Rowlet, Litten, and Popplio.
On top of that, a few Legendaries and Mythical Pokemon can be brought into Sword and Shield via Pokemon Home, including Mewtwo, Celebi, Jirachi, and Meltan. You can also use Home to bring in regional forms that weren’t previously obtainable in the Gen 8 games, such as Alolan Vulpix and Kantonian Ponyta. You can see the full list of non-Galar Pokemon that can be transferred into Sword and Shield (courtesy of Pokemon fansite Serebii) below.
While you can argue that the battle royale craze is reaching its peak, it remains one of the biggest genres in games today. BR games like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and even PUBG are still some of the most-played games out there. And with rumors brewing around Call of Duty: Modern Warfare getting a standalone BR mode, it certainly looks like the genre is here to stay.
But what can we expect from battle royale games in 2020? It’s a new year, and that means there’s gotta be innovations and experiences on the way, right? Whether it’s Activision paving the way with whatever these rumors are around a new CoD battle royale, or a new contender introducing a flurry of new mechanics we didn’t know we wanted until now, 2020 could potentially be another exciting year for BR games. Still, we can’t help but dream and wonder about all the specific things we hope will happen.
Below you can find everything that the GameSpot team wants to see in a new BR game in 2020. We detail what we want to see change about certain aspects of the genre at large, its various modes, and the customization options in between. You’ll notice that some of our points are in opposition to one other, but these are the individual opinions of those on the team and we each share different views on how battle royale should evolve and change. What do you want to see in a new battle royale game in 2020? Don’t hesitate to shout your thoughts and feelings out in the comments section!
Billie Eilish is making the title song for the 007 movie No Time To Die, and now the singer has posted a brief teaser for it. The song is called “No Time To Die” after the movie, and it was written and performed by Eilish.
The full track will premiere on February 13 at 4 PM PT, but you can listen to a teaser below. It’s eerie and moody, not unlike many of Eilish’s tracks. Have a listen below:
The theme song for the 25th @007 film, written and performed by Billie, is titled “No Time To Die” and will be released globally tomorrow at 4pm PT. #NoTimeToDiepic.twitter.com/5QU9a3FPM0
Eilish wrote the song alongside her brother and frequent collaborator, Finneas. This marks a special occasion for the 007 series as Eilish is the youngest artist in history to write and perform the Bond theme song.
“So I’m not sure if even in two years I’d be — I don’t know what I’m doing in f***ing two days,” Waititi said to Variety. When asked if that means the film won’t happen, he replied, “I think eventually it will happen. I’m just not sure if I’ll be doing it.”
The filmmaker has a stacked slate ahead of him. He said he’s currently taking his time editing the Michael Fassbender comedy Next Goal Wins, but still hopes to release it by the end of 2020. After that, he’ll direct Thor: Love and Thunder, which is set for release on November 5, 2021. It was reported by Variety that screenwriter Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has been brought on to help with the Thor script before production begins in August. And somewhere during all of this, Waititi will play a role in The Suicide Squad. That film’s director, James Gunn, said on Twitter in early February that filming will be completed in less than a month.
Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN who highly recommends the What We Do in the Shadows TV series that Waititi directs. First season is on Hulu, second season airs on FX in April. But watch the movie first it’s free on Hoopla or Kanopy using your library card or school email. You have no excuse. Also, watch Flight of the Conchords. You know what, just watch everything.
Things are looking up for the X-Men lately. They have a new island nation of their own and have managed to overcome death itself (Thanks, Goldballs!). Still, we can’t help but wonder how things will inevitably go wrong for Professor X and the nation of Krakoa. Thanks to X-Men #7, we may have our answer.
Read on to learn how the X-Men may have just created their worst enemy, but beware of spoilers for X-Men #7!
Marvel’s Dawn of X relaunch has taken a dark turn of late, showing the many moral compromises necessary to keep the nation of Krakoa safe. The very existence of X-Force flies in the face of one of the three fundamental laws of Krakoa – Murder No Man. But perhaps no compromise casts a deeper stain on Xavier and Magneto’s creation than the fate of the precognitive mutant Destiny. And now that mistake may cost them everything.
Destiny played a small but pivotal role in 2019’s House of X and Powers of X. As a mutant with the power to see the future, she alone was able to sense Moira MacTaggert’s unique status in time. When Moira devoted her third life cycle to creating a cure for the mutant gene, it was Destiny who orchestrated Moira’s murder and ordered her to spend the remainder of her lives helping mutants, lest she suffer an even worse fate next time around.
The end of Moira’s third life. Art by Pepe Larraz. (Image Credit: Marvel Comics)
Moira has done as Destiny asked. Now in her tenth life cycle, she’s guided Xavier and Magneto as they’ve built Krakoa and established a better future for the mutant race. However, she’s done so from the shadows. No one else is aware Moira is still alive, much less that she’s died and been reborn in utero nine times.
That arrangement has worked so far, but there’s a big catch. Now that Xavier has the technology to resurrect dead mutants, there’s theoretically no reason he couldn’t bring Destiny back to life. In fact, the prospect of seeing her wife resurrected is the only reason Mystique has been cooperating with Xavier and Magneto. But Destiny’s resurrection is something Moira fears above all else. She refuses to allow any precognitive mutants to live on Krakoa, for fear her secrets will be exposed and a target will be painted on her back. What’s the point of all this hard work if someone can assassinate Moira and reset the X-Men timeline back to square one?
Art by RB Silva. (Image Credit: Marvel Comics)
In order to safeguard Krakoa, Xavier and Magneto have elected to deny Irene Adler her second chance at life. But that hasn’t stopped them from dangling the prospect of Destiny’s resurrection like a carrot on a stick in order to force Mystique to toe the line. X-Men #7 shows Mystique risking her life by returning to Orchis’ orbital space station. There she discovers the X-Men failed in their mission to stop the creation of the futuristic Sentinel Nimrod. Xavier and Magneto order Mystique to return again and assassinate Orchis scientist Dr. Gregor before Nimrod is completed, telling Mystique she has to “earn” Destiny’s resurrection.
After reluctantly agreeing, Mystique reflects back on a conversation she and Destiny shared years before. Destiny warned her wife that an island would be created and Mystique would be offered a new home, only to be denied the one thing she craved most. Destiny urged Mystique to do everything in her power to bring her back. And if that fails, Destiny made one simple request – “Burn that place to the ground.”
Art by Matteo Buffagni. (Image Credit: Marvel Comics)
Mystique may have been confused by that conversation at the time, but now she understands what her wife was trying to tell her. Xavier and Magneto are never going to resurrect Destiny, leaving Mystique with no recourse but to destroy the home they worked so long and hard to build. It’s not as if Mystique doesn’t have a track record of throwing the X-Men under a bus for the sake of her own selfish desires. And in this case, can you really blame her?
X-Men #7 strongly hints Mystique will become one of the major antagonists in Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men run, potentially bringing an end to the new mutant nation. We could even see her defecting to Orchis, as recent chapters of X-Men have shown that organization has found its own pathway to immortality. Maybe they can offer Mystique the one thing Professor Xavier is unwilling to provide.
On this week’s episode of IGN’s weekly PlayStation show, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Lucy O’Brien, Ryan McCaffrey, and Tom Marks to take a look at PS4’s exciting 2020 lineup of exclusives.
Kicking off with Dreams, Jonathon and Lucy are joined by Abbie Heppe and Siobhan Reddy of Media Molecule to discuss Dreams’ imminent launch, its early access beta period, and its encouraging community.
Then, the rest of the cast dives into Ryan’s MLB The Show 20 preview, thoughts on FF7 Remake, The Last of Us Part 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Predator: Hunting Grounds, and much more!
The hugely popular first-person shooter CrossFire is becoming a movie. Variety reports that Sony Pictures has landed the rights to make a movie based on Smilegate’s shooter, which by some accounts and definitions is the world’s most popular FPS.
Fast & Furious producer Neal Moritz is producing the movie, which is written by Chuck Hogan. Hogan wrote the Benghazi movie 13 Hours. He also wrote the book Prince of Thieves, which Ben Affleck adapted into the Oscar-nominated movie The Town.
Tencent Pictures, the movie arm of the Chinese internet giant that owns shares in numerous video game developers, is co-financing and co-producing the movie. The film was actually announced back in 2015, but as is often the case in Hollywood, things can move slowly.
Disney’s Aladdin remake is reportedly moving forward on its sequel and writers John Gatins and Andrea Berloff have been hired to write the script.
In August, one of the Aladdin remake’s producers said that Disney was looking into a sequel. Now, Variety reported that these producers had spent the past six months trying to work out the sequel’s story and have supposedly settled on a new idea instead of simply adapting the original animated movie’s sequels.
The producers are also hoping that actors Will Smith, Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott will return, but there won’t be any deals made until a script is completed. It’s not known at this time if the first film’s director, Guy Ritchie, is being pursued.
This would be the fourth of Disney’s recent live-action adaptations to receive a sequel. Alice in Wonderland and Maleficent have already received sequels in theaters, and Disney officially announced a Jungle Book sequel to be directed by Jon Favreau.
