The thrill of a bullet hell-type shooter is the last-minute escape — the act of careening through enemy hordes, a hair’s breadth away from disaster. Vampire Survivors takes that joy and fuses it with the intoxicating power creep of roguelikes such as Hades, Returnal, or Dead Cells. Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our […]
Bungie Offers Witch Queen Interactive Trailer For Confused Destiny 2 Players
The Witch Queen is less than two weeks away and that’s left some Guardians scrambling. Not to get weapons and armor drops that they might have been neglecting all year long, but to figure out just who Savathun is and why she suddenly has moth wings. To be honest, we still don’t know why she […]
Apex Legends Pros Scrimmed Storm Point Yesterday And They Hate It
In case you missed it, Storm Point is coming to the ALGS. Apex Legends esports has dabbled in alternative maps before, but always returned to World’s Edge. It may feel stale at this point, but it’s the map with the most competitive integrity and that teams are most used to. That shouldn’t be a huge […]
Bender Voice Actor Isn’t Returning For New Futurama Run After Apparently Being "Lowballed" By Hulu
Futurama fans were given quite the treat this week with news of a revival heading to Hulu. With a planned premiere sometime in 2023, the series will bring back most of the original voice cast including Katy Sagal and Billy West. However, one voice will be notably absent. John DiMaggio, who voiced Bender in the […]
Microsoft Might Fire Execs If It Doesn’t See Activision "Culture Evolve"
Activision Blizzard is in the process of being bought out by Microsoft, but it’s not something that happens overnight. Although the announcement was made last month, the deal isn’t expected to go through until the summer of 2023. That gives plenty of time for Microsoft to evaluate what’s going on inside Activision Blizzard and decide […]
Master Splinter Shows How Its Done In TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge Trailer
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is among the most exciting releases for nostalgic fans of beat ’em ups. We still don’t have a release date for the arcade-inspired brawler, we now know that the Turtles’ wise teacher, Master Splinter, is joining the fray. We also have confirmation that the game is heading to PlayStation […]
This Week In Modding: Cyberpunk Has Car Chases, Cloud Becomes The Joker, And More
While we don’t have as much as usual to cover this week, we do have a couple of mods from games we don’t usually cover. Kingdom Hearts and Spelunky don’t often make it into these roundups, but that doesn’t mean their modding communities aren’t busy. However, we open on a story of Cyberpunk fans yet […]
VeraEsports continues partnership with Axie Infinity for GalAxie Cup 2022 – Esports Insider
Esports and video streaming platform VeraEsports has extended its partnership with NFT-based video game Axie Infinity for the GalAxie Cup 2022. As a result, VeraEsports has been named the exclusive broadcaster and esports platform partner of the online tournament. RELATED: Bridging opposing schools of thought on NFTs in esports The online-only event will be exclusively […]
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Announced, Releasing This September
Nintendo has revealed Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the long-awaited sequel to 2017’s Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and it is scheduled to hit Switch this September. Closing out today’s Nintendo Direct, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 came as quite a surprise. That’s because it showed a lot of imagery that looked similar to Xenoblade Chronicles X, the spin-off to the first […]
Nintendo Direct February 2022: the biggest announcements
The first Nintendo Direct of 2022 dished up 40 minutes of new game announcements, though fans will have to wait a little while longer if they were hoping to hear from Metroid Prime 4 or learn about the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Fans of Splatoon, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Fire […]