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We learned a wealth of new details about Switch’s upcoming Pokemon Sword and Shield games during the latest Pokemon Direct broadcast, from the pair’s release date to their new Dynamax mechanic and more. One topic the presentation didn’t touch on was your Pokedex, but we’ve now gotten our first details about that as well thanks to the official Pokemon Sword and Shield website.

Just as in Pokemon Sun and Moon, your Pokedex in Sword and Shield contains a Rotom, a Ghost/Electric Pokemon that is capable of inhabiting electronics. However, rather than being its own dedicated device, it appears your Pokedex this time will be part of your character’s smartphone, which is fittingly dubbed the Rotom Phone. You can see how it looks below.

Interestingly, it appears the Rotom Phone has more functions than simply logging the Pokemon you encounter. According to the website, you’ll also be able to attach it to your bicycle, which will allow you to move faster and even cross water. During the games’ latest trailer, we can briefly see the player character pedaling across a lake using a water bike. It wasn’t clear if that bike was a separate item you needed to acquire or if it worked similarly to Sun/Moon’s Poke Ride feature, but the website makes it seem it’s a form your regular bicycle can take thanks to the Rotom Phone.

If that’s indeed the case, then it appears the Rotom Phone will effectively replace HMs, the special moves you needed to teach Pokemon in the past to navigate the region. Recent titles have been doing away with HMs, and it appears Sword and Shield will be continuing that trend. One of the new Gen 8 Pokemon, Corviknight, acts as a sort of taxi service and can ferry players back to towns they’ve previously visiting, much like the old Fly HM did.

Pokemon Sword and Shield launch for Nintendo Switch on November 15. You can catch up on all the other big news about the games in our Pokemon Direct recap. For more, be sure to check out our Pokemon Sword and Shield pre-order guide.

Black Mirror Season 5’s release date has finally arrived, with three new episodes of the hit anthology series arriving on Netflix worldwide. As always, the new episodes deal with some of the darker interpretations of futurism and technology.

Here, we take a look at the peculiarly named Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too, which stars Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana, Bolt), Madison Davenport (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Angourie Rice (Spider-Man: Homecoming). It’s helmed by Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky and was written by series creator Charlie Brooker.

The official plot synopsis reads: “A lonely teenager yearns to connect with her favorite pop star – whose charmed existence isn’t quite as rosy it appears.” We won’t say more than this so we don’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen the episode yet!

Once you have watched the show, watch the video above, in which Lucy James and Tamoor Hussain uncover all the Easter eggs and secrets they can find and break down the plot.

Black Mirror Season 5 is the first release from the show since the interactive special Bandersnatch, which came to Netflix in December 2018. Prior to that, Season 4 was released in December 2017. For more on the sci-fi series, check out our comprehensive breakdown of the Black Mirror universe’s timeline. For more on Season 5, meanwhile, you can watch our breakdowns of Black Mirror: Striking Vipers and of Smithereens.

Warner Bros Entertainment surprised fans today with the confirmation, via Wonder Woman’s director Patty Jenkins on Twitter, that the company will be skipping San Diego Comic-Con this year. With no Hall H presence, this means that highly anticipated movies like Wonder Woman 84 and the star-studded Dune reboot will not be featured at the convention at all.

But never fear, Jenkins gave the bad news with a spoonful of sugar by tweeting out a brand-new poster for Wonder Woman 84, featuring an all-new look for Diana in all its technicolor, golden glory. Jenkins also teased that the promotional campaign for WW84 will begin in earnest later this year in December–so don’t expect teasers or trailers for a while longer.

The poster showcases a familiar comic book inspired look for Diana, known officially as the “Gold Armor” from the alternate-reality miniseries, Kingdom Come. It was designed to be a ceremonial armor crafted by Pallas, an Amazonian armorer, for Diana specifically, and imbued with supernatural durability. The comic book version of the armor even included wings which allowed Diana to fly–but they seem to be missing from the live action incarnation. Though, with the poster as highly stylized as it is, it’s too soon to say if they’ve just been swallowed up in the rainbow effects. Given Diana’s permanent exile from Themyscria in the live-action universe, it will be interesting to see where the costume ends up coming from and who winds up making it, or if we’ve got a homecoming for the Amazonian princess on the horizon.

Wonder Woman 84 was recently delayed from November of this year to 2020, making it unlikely that the movie will have any major North American convention presence at all before release. It was, however, briefly featured in last year’s WB Comic-Con panel, where fans were treated to a short clip of Diana fighting a mugger in an extremely 80s-flavored shopping mall.

Wonder Woman 84 is set to release on June 5, 2020, and stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Robin Wright, and Pedro Pascal.

Earlier this year, Nintendo announced a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is coming to Nintendo Switch. While we don’t have a release date yet, that info will likely be revealed during Nintendo’s E3 2019 press conference on June 11, as the game is confirmed to release this year.

The Link’s Awakening remake looks stunning, with vibrant, colorful visuals that retain the top-down perspective of the original. The last time Nintendo released a new game inspired by a classic Zelda adventure–looking at you, A Link Between Worlds–the end result was fantastic, so we have high hopes for Link’s Awakening, which will be the first top-down Zelda title on the Switch.

If you’ve never played Link’s Awakening, which initially released in 1993 for the Game Boy Color, you’re in for even more of a treat, as you’ll get to experience the story for the first time. As you might have gathered from the announcement trailer (which you can watch above), the story begins with Link sailing into a giant storm that leaves him shipwrecked on Koholint Island, which is guarded by a giant sleeping Wind Fish. Throughout the course of the game, you’ll control Link as he solves puzzles and fights monsters to gather eight magical instruments that will wake the Wind Fish, the only one who can help him leave the island. Link’s Awakening shakes up the traditional Zelda formula a bit, as it doesn’t involve Princess Zelda, the Triforce, or Hyrule at all.

Link’s Awakening is already available to pre-order at a few different retailers, and we imagine more listings will go live when the release date is officially revealed. As of right now, no pre-order bonuses have been announced. We’ll update this story when we know more, but for now, here’s where you can pre-order Link’s Awakening for Nintendo Switch.

Pre-order The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

The base game is currently listed at $60, but we’ll see if that remains true after more info is shared on June 11. If you pre-order now and the price later drops, you should only be charged the lower amount when the game actually ships.