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A new Legendary Pokemon has arrived in Pokemon Go. Thundurus, one of the three Legendary Forces of Nature from the Unova region in Pokemon Black and White, is now appearing in five-star Raid Battles, making this your first chance to capture one in Niantic’s mobile game.

Thundurus will only be available in Raid Battles for a limited time, so you’ll need to act quickly if you’re hoping to add one to your collection. If you need help capturing the Bolt Strike Pokemon before it leaves the game, we’ve rounded up some tips on how to battle and capture Thundurus below.

Thundurus Counters And Weaknesses

Thundurus is a dual Electric/Flying type, which means it’s only susceptible to two types of Pokemon: Rock and Ice. Rampardos, Tyranitar, and Rhyperior are all great choices to use when battling Thundurus; the latter in particular will be very helpful if you learned Rock Wrecker during February’s Community Day. Similarly, the Legendary Rock Pokemon Terrakion is another great counter if you were able to catch one while it was in Raids earlier this year.

As for Ice Pokemon, Mamoswine and Glaceon will be your best options. The former in particular is a great choice thanks to its high HP and Ground typing, which will reduce the damage of Thundurus’s Electric attacks. If you don’t yet have a Glaceon, you can quickly add one to your team by using the Eevee naming trick.

There are a few other things to keep in mind when facing Thundurus. While Ground-type attacks typically deal super-effective damage against Electric Pokemon, Thundurus is also part-Flying, which mitigates that advantage. Thundurus may also know the Fighting move Brick Break, which will deal super-effective damage against Rock Pokemon. Tyranitar is particularly susceptible to this move as it’s a Rock/Dark type, both of which are weak to Fighting.

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With its third and longest season, Netflix’s animated Castlevania show has finally hit its stride. At 10 episodes, Castlevania Season 3 is a far cry from Season 1’s truncated feel. And with a tighter plot and cast, more and better action, and just generally improved pacing compared to Season 2, it feels safe to say that Castlevania has cemented itself as the most awesomely metal show around right now.

Season 3 picks up within a few months of Season 2’s finale, which saw Alucard (James Callis) defeating his father Dracula, while Sypha (Alejandra Reynoso) and Trevor Belmont (Richard Armitage) hit the road together following the battle at Dracula’s castle. In Season 3’s first act, Alucard deals with his loneliness, while Trevor and Sypha, having begun a romantic relationship, enjoy adventuring with one another, slaying demons, and helping townsfolk.

These storylines go in very different directions in Season 3, as a pair of new characters complicates Alucard’s solitude, while Trevor and Sypha arrive in a town that appears to have been infiltrated by Dracula-worshipping cultists with a nefarious plan. These disparate groups of characters don’t intersect at all throughout the season, which is unfortunate–although it’s still far more interesting than the time the three protagonists spent cloistered in a library during Season 2. Season 3 does a better job of mixing in other characters, including existing ones like the Forgemasters Isaac (Adetokumboh M’Cormack) and Hector (Theo James), as well as new characters like Carmilla’s vampire sisters (particularly Jessica Brown Findlay‘s Lenore) and the residents of the village Trevor and Sypha visit. Season 3 strikes a healthy balance among its multiple separate storylines, devoting just the right amount of time to each. This goes a long way in offsetting the mild disappointment when they don’t actually converge in the end.

That will come, it seems, should Castlevania get a Season 4. Plenty happens throughout these 10 episodes, but the season also puts a lot of work into setting up later events. That makes the ending feel a bit abrupt, but all the pieces are in place for the future nevertheless.

Anyway, you’ll be too busy soaking up Season 3’s ample sex, debauchery, and carnage to wallow too long in that mild disappointment. Netflix’s Castlevania is extremely metal in every way. There are whole episodes that feel like extended Dethklok music videos, or like modern versions of those animated Heavy Metal movies from the ’80s. Trevor puts his family’s mythical whip to good use, while Sypha’s spells are more varied than ever, and all the season’s action is animated in the show’s signature, unique style blending elements of anime and video games. Demons pour out of portals to Hell, and then usually get exploded, shredded, sliced, diced, and/or bludgeoned in various spectacular, brutal, and hilarious ways. One character goes on an episode-long side quest to defeat a powerful magician who’s enslaved an entire city; the fight escalates into a full-on war between red-glowing demons and ensorcelled townsfolk wearing glowing green mind control crowns, eventually incorporating body horror Megazording action as the thousands of magical slaves conform into one kaiju-sized mass of pulsating, writhing, flying human flesh. And that’s the B-plot for that particular episode.

In the show’s animated form, the sex scenes can be somewhat uncomfortable. And although they may largely feel gratuitous, they usually tie back into the plot in some way, from a beautiful vampiress using sex to manipulate a gullible human, to the other way around. Castlevania often blends sex and violence together–sometimes cutting rapidly between battles and sex, and sometimes in the same, single scene–in ways that are discomfiting, but if you have the stomach for it, the depravity can also be a delight. There’s certainly nothing else quite like it on TV at the moment.

Netflix’s Castlevania is absolutely a guilty pleasure; a grindhouse cartoon for adults who grew up playing Symphony of the Night, listening to metal, and watching shonen anime. But it’s also an exceptionally well-made guilty pleasure, with a fantastic cast, unique animated action, mature tone, decent writing, smart pacing, and generally gorgeous look, feel, and sound. In the end, you’ll want to pick up a controller and revisit your favorite game in the series, which, in the troubled landscape of video game adaptations, is maybe the biggest compliment one can pay.

Castlevania Season 3 hits Netflix March 5.

Netflix has finally added Hunter x Hunter’s fourth season, aka the Greed Island Arc, for viewers in the States. 17-episodes long, the season can be watched in dub or sub. If you’re outside of the US, you most likely already have the Greed Island arc Netflix. The streaming service has executed a different rollout of Hunter x Hunter seasons for different regions. Some countries, including the US, only received seasons one to three, while other countries got more episodes.

The Greed Island Arc follows Gon and Killua as they get transported into a game no one has cleared before. They do it for the challenge (and the cheque, provided by a billionaire), but what transpires has a significant impact on Gon’s overall journey. Along the way, the duo finds a mentor, Biscuit–a middle-aged woman who masquerades as a young girl–and at one point, actually have to team up with Hisoka, an antagonist of sorts. While the infamous clown is present, two of the four main characters we started out with–Leorio and Kurapika–are almost entirely absent.

Beyond the Greed Island arc, Netflix still needs to add the Chimera Ant arc and the Election arc as well. And for those fans who have watched both and are wondering if there will be a new anime season in the near future, it’s looking unlikely. Yoshihiro Togashi, author of the manga, hasn’t released a new Hunter x Hunter chapter in over a year, making it hard for the anime to continue, given that there’s no material to adapt. A silver lining is that Togashi does want to finish and commented in an interview translated by VeraciousCake, “It has come to a point where either the story concludes first, or I die before that happens (lol). But I do intend to finish it.”

Netflix also added all the episodes for Akame Ga Kill, an anime released in 2014, and 48 episodes of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders. The remake of Pokemon: The First Movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution, also made its debut on the streaming service on February 28.

A new Half-Life game is almost here. It’s been 13 years since Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and this month, anyone with PC VR platforms (Index, Rift, Vive, Quest with Oculus Link) will be able to play Half-Life: Alyx. In anticipation of its March 20 release date, developer Valve dropped three separate gameplay clips, which we’ve compiled into one for the video above.

Judging from the gameplay footage, Half-Life: Alyx looks like the unification of many VR mechanics and features we’ve seen up to this point in other games, but in one full 15-hour single-player campaign. Since the game takes place prior to the events of Half-Life 2, we’re getting a new perspective on the struggle and oppression that litters City 17. You take on the role of Alyx Vance, who has been an important character throughout the Half-Life 2 saga–her father Eli Vance, genius scientist and good friend of Gordon Freeman, looks to be a centerpiece for the story as well. The Combine are onto her, and with a VR setup, you’ll be in her shoes for this latest chapter in Half-Life’s iconic universe.

For more on this wildly anticipated VR game, you can read through our Half-Life: Alyx trailer breakdown to get a better idea of what to expect. We’ve rounded up everything you need to know about Half-Life: Alyx if you’re looking for pre-orders and info on how it works for VR.

The Seattle-based Emerald City Comic Con will proceed as planned, despite multiple confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the region. In the wake of the outbreak of the virus, organizers have cancelled or postponed several major gaming events, including San Francisco’s GDC, which prompted the statement.

The event is scheduled to take place from March 12 to 15. According to organizer ReedPOP, the team behind the event have “implemented enhanced cleaning and sanitation across the show, including adhering to the recommendations set forth in the US EPA’s Emerging Pathogen Policy.”

Coronavirus fears have the potential to severely disrupt events across the games industry, especially for important industry conventions like GDC and E3. So far, the 96 confirmed cases of the virus in the United States have been clustered on the West Coast, especially San Francisco and Seattle, two of the traditional hubs of the gaming industry.

Appearing at Chicago’s annual comic convention–C2E2–over the February 29 weekend, Mark Ruffalo revealed in a Q&A panel that there’s a chance he could make an appearance on the Disney+’s original She-Hulk. (He made no mention if Banner and Hulk will still be merged–which is what we really want to know.)

The She-Hulk series is slated for a 2020 production wrap and will be released exclusively on Disney+. The show is helmed by writer Jessica Gao, who wrote the famous Pickle Rick episode on Rick and Morty and has also contributed to Comedy Central’s Corporate and HBO’s Silicon Valley.

She-Hulk follows the story of Jessica Walters, who is Bruce Banner’s cousin. In the comics, Bruce saves her life with a blood transfusion, resulting in Walters getting a Hulk alter-ego of her own. Walters retains more of her personality and control while in Hulk form, in contrast to Banner’s more dramatic and unrestrained transformation. The She-Hulk TV series will apparently follow the comic material closely, but specific plot details at this point are scarce.

Additionally at the Q&A, Ruffalo also stated that he’s still in talks to play the father in HBO’s Parasite TV series, which was revealed in early February. Bong Joon Ho is set to the direct the TV show, along with Adam McKay. Details for how the HBO show will differ from the original movie are still unknown at this time.

There’s more than a year to wait for Tom Cruise to return for his best known action role, Ethan Hunt, in the next Mission Impossible movie–which recently halted production because of the coronavirus outbreak. But in the meantime, the star is set to reprise the character that helped make him a superstar–Top Gun’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Top Gun: Maverick arrives this summer, and it has now been announced that we’ll get to see it earlier than planned.

Admittedly, the movie isn’t coming to theaters that much earlier, but it will release two days ahead of its previous date. Top Gun: Maverick now arrives on Wednesday, June 24 instead of Friday, June 26. As Deadline notes, this follows Paramount’s traditional pattern of releasing big action movies on Wednesdays–previous examples include the Transformers series and an earlier Cruise movie, War of the Worlds.

Top Gun: Maverick also stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris. It’s directed by Joseph Kosinski, who previously directed Cruise in 2014’s Oblivion. The spectacular second full trailer was released in December, while the first promo arrived at San Diego Comic-Con last summer. There was also this shorter teaser revealed during January’s Super Bowl.

Kosinski has previously spoken about how the film will deal with the realities of combat and the military in an age of drones and advanced technology. “It’s just a different world now, so you can’t remake the first movie. It has to adapt,” he said. “The Navy is very different now than it was in 1986. Back then, they hadn’t been in any war for 15 or 20 years at that point. Now, the Navy’s been at war for 20 years.”

For more, check out GameSpot’s guide to the biggest upcoming movies of 2020.