The charity marathon Awesome Games Done Quick returns Sunday, offering a full week of video game speedruns. Once again, this year’s donations will go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Games Done Quick typically stages two events each year, both of them raising millions for charity: Last year’s Summer Games Done Quick raised $2.8 million for […]
PlayStation Plus offers Persona 5 Strikers, Dirt 5 in January
PlayStation Plus subscribers will get free access to three games in January: Deep Rock Galactic (for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5), Dirt 5 (PS4, PS5), and Persona 5 Strikers (PS4). All three games will be available for download via PS Plus starting Jan. 4. Deep Rock Galactic, from Ghost Ship Games, makes its PlayStation debut […]
Sliding and web-slinging make Fortnite feel fresh again
Fortnite is like a snowball. It’s a game that just keeps rolling and growing, picking up everything in its path. That’s the best comparison that I can think of with the recent launch of Chapter 3 of the long-running battle royale. With this new Chapter comes new upgrades to an already winning game system that […]
Square Enix suspends Final Fantasy 14 sales because Endwalker is too popular
New players will temporarily be unable to purchase and play Final Fantasy 14, or register for its free trials, Square Enix announced Thursday morning. The company is suspending sales to help ease the server congestion that many players have been experiencing since early December. Players have had trouble reliably logging into Final Fantasy 14’s servers […]
Dead by Daylight’s next chapter comes from Ringu
For the past five years, Behaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight has become home to some of the most famous horror properties, from Halloween to Hellraiser, from Saw to Stranger Things. The asymmetric horror game’s next licensed property is both inspired and perhaps a bit unexpected: Chapter 23 of Dead by Daylight will be based on […]
Fortnite Llama-Rama challenges guide – Rocket League Sideswipe event
Llama-Rama has returned in Polygon’s Fortnite Chapter 3. This event is a crossover with Rocket League Sideswipe. In this guide, we’ll tell you what rewards you’ll in Fortnite by playing the new Rocket League mobile game. Fortnite Rocket League Sideswipe challenges Image: Epic Games You can use the QR code in the image above to […]
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla expansion sends Eivor into a war of flame and ice
Ubisoft debuted a cinematic trailer on Monday for the upcoming expansion to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. The expansion is called Dawn of Ragnarök and is described by the publisher as the “most ambitious expansion in franchise history.” The new story will follow Eivor on a quest to save their son. Dawn of Ragnarök will launch on […]
The 29 biggest announcements from The Game Awards 2021
Hosted by Geoff Keighley, The Game Awards is most-hyped not for its awards, but for stuffing its show with world premieres. That hasn’t changed. On Thursday evening’s broadcast, more than half of the three-hour show consisted of new game announcements — everything from game updates and release dates to reveals of big games coming well […]
New Star Trek game revealed by former Telltale Games talent
A new game set in the Star Trek universe and developed by former Telltale Games veterans is coming in 2022 to consoles and PC. Dramatic Labs, the studio formed by those Telltale alumni, announced the game, Star Trek: Resurgence, Thursday at The Game Awards. Star Trek: Resurgence is described as an original story set in […]
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum trailer gets a precious moment at The Game Awards
In the early 2000s, Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies turned Gollum into one of the greatest screen characters of all time. Can the former hobbit make the same history in games in the year 2022? A new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which debuted out of The Game Awards 2021 […]