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Marvel and I have mutually agreed to part ways on Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness due to creative differences. I am thankful for our collaboration and will remain on as EP.

— N O S ⋊ Ɔ I ᴚ ᴚ Ǝ ᗡ ⊥ ⊥ O Ɔ S (@scottderrickson) January 10, 2020

Niantic’s location-based AR game Pokemon Go is still lighting up the charts, years after release. Estimates from SensorTower show that the free-to-play mobile game brought in $894 million in microtransaction spending in 2019, which marks its best year ever since it released in 2016. The game grossed $832 million during launch year, followed by $589 million in 2017 and $816 million in 2018.

In total, Pokemon Go has raked in $3.1 billion since 2016, which is a tremendous result. The game makes money through its in-game store, where players can buy PokeCoins to spend on eggs, lure modules, and upgraded bags, among other things.

SensorTower said Pokemon Go’s growth over the years is thanks, in part, to Niantic’s commitment to growing and evolving the game with new events both in the game and in the real world. The launch of Team Rocket in July 2019 led to huge increases in spending, SensorTower reported.

Pokemon Go’s biggest market in 2019 was the US, which accounted for $335 million or 38 percent of total spending. Japan ($286 million; 32 percent) and Germany ($54 million; 6 percent) followed as the second- and third-largest contributors to revenue.

Android was bigger than iOS, with Google Play store spending hitting $482 million in 2019 compared to $412 million for the App Store. Across iOS and Android, the average player spending per download for Pokemon Go is $5.70.

Looking at the wider mobile game market, Pokemon Go finished 2019 as the No. 5 top-grossing game. The top performer of 2019 was Tencent’s Honor of Kings ($1.5 billion).

Pokemon Go‘s first Community Day of 2020 is set for Sunday, January 19, and now we know what Pokemon you’ll be able to catch during the event. Niantic has announced that Piplup, the Water-type penguin from Diamond and Pearl, will be the featured Pokemon for January’s Community Day.

In other Pokemon news, the newest Pokemon Nintendo Direct took place this week. In it, the developers announced new DLC for Pokemon Sword and Shield.

Stories Untold is coming to Switch next week, bringing No Code’s horror anthology to a console for the first time. The game’s release is right around the corner–it’ll be available on the eShop on January 16.

The game collects four short horror experiences in one package, each of which involves interacting with strange in-game objects and narratives that make inventive use of the game’s mechanics.

The original release was designed specifically with a keyboard in mind, and required a lot of typing. The controls have been reworked for Switch, so you can play the game using Joy-Con without issue. The trailer below shows a simplified control system for The House Abandon, the game’s excellent opening text adventure.

GameSpot gave the game a 7/10 in its original review, published in 2017. In my review, I praised the first three of four parts of the anthology, calling the game a “unique package with a strong sense of identity, one that finds a new, exciting way to weaponize nostalgia.”

No Code followed up Stories Untold with Observation, an excellent horror adventure set on an abandoned space station.

Star Wars legend Mark Hamill will join the cast of What We Do in the Shadows for its second season, which is set to premiere on FX on April 15, 2020.

At the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, series creator and executive producer, Jemaine Clement, let the news slip, but would not reveal any further details about which character Hamill will be playing. Based on the 2014 film of the same name, What We Do in the Shadows follows three vampires living in Staten Island who have been roommates for hundreds and hundreds of years.

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Back in Season 1, the series famously featured an insane list of guest stars, each of whom have played vampires at one point in their careers: Wesley Snipes, Tilda Swinton, Danny Trejo, and more all made cameo appearances in one star-packed episode.

In other TCA news, FX greenlit American Horror Story for three more seasons, as well as revealing the premiere date for Fargo Season 4 starring Chris Rock. For more on What We Do in the Shadows, find out why the concept is perfect for TV and how the show crammed in so many vampire cameos into one episode.

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David Griffin still watches DuckTales in his pajamas with a cereal bowl in hand. He’s also the TV Editor for IGN. Say hi on Twitter.

Reddit user Altimor has taken the task of fixing Street Fighter V’s long lambasted netcode themselves. They developed a patch allegedly in just a little over two days that dramatically improved the online performance for PC Street Fighter 5 players.

This is a huge deal for the Street Fighter 5 community who have been clamoring for Capcom to address the netcode issues for years. But there is a notable quirk that goes along with the mod. While the patch reportedly works great in PC to PC connections, tests have not been so positive for PC vs PS4 matches, and many PS4 players are complaining that online matches have been even worse since the PC fix went live.

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Details on how the netcode fix works are a little jargony, but here’s the explanation straight from Altimor:

“SFV has a bug where one player’s game can lag behind the other’s online. This can cause artificial lag and a one-sided rollback for the other player.

When the players’ “clocks” are synced, if there is e.g. a 4 frame packet round trip time between them, each player should be 2 frames ahead of the time of the last received input from their opponent, and experience 2 frame rollbacks.

If one player lags, the other player will receive inputs from farther “in the past” (up to 15 frames!) than they should, causing unnecessarily big rollbacks and artificial lag, while the player that’s behind may even be receiving inputs that appear to be “in the future” to their game and never experience rollbacks at all.

This fix ensures your “clock” never gets more than half of your packet round trip time ahead of your opponent’s so that you never experience more rollback than them.”

To decipher some of that, I highly recommend checking out Infil’s fantastic explainer on fighting game netcode, which does a great job of breaking down complex netcode concepts with easy to understand examples and animated diagrams.

Reaction to Altimor’s patch among the FGC has been mostly positive, though many PS4 players are not happy about how it has affected their experience in both playing against and finding matches with PC players.

IGN has reached out to Capcom for comment.

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Mitchell Saltzman is an Editorial Producer at IGN and lover of fighting games.

Sometimes it almost seems like every monitor in existence features FreeSync including your basic home or office screen. That’s exactly why AMD decided to clarify its variable refresh rate branding with two new designations.

The first new tier is FreeSync Premium, which is a certification only granted to display that maintain a 120Hz refresh rate at 1080p or higher. FreeSync Premium displays are also required to include low frame rate compensation (LFC) technology that ensures your frame rate remains smooth even if it peaks above the screen’s own native refresh rate. When you see a monitor labeled with FreeSync Premium you can be confident it was optimized and vetted for gaming.

The new highest-end version of FreeSync will be called Premium Pro and it only applies to gaming monitors that can output an HDR picture at least a Full HD resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. This new standard essentially replaces FreeSync 2 HDR.

Aside from computer monitors, AMD tells us it will also validate televisions for these new titles. Given that more than half of the new 4K TVs announced at CES 2020 support FreeSync, HDR, and feature high-refresh rate panels, we expect to see a lot of and FreeSync Premium Pro screens come to stores soon.

The regular FreeSync designation will still exist and be applied to any monitors that feature AMD’s variable refresh rate technology. But at least these new designations will make finding a FreeSync gaming monitor a little bit easier going forwards.

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Kevin Lee is IGN’s Hardware and Roundups Editor. Follow him on Twitter @baggingspam