Four more games will be available for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in June as part of Microsoft’s Games with Gold program: Aven Colony, Project Highrise: Architect’s Edition, Super Meat Boy, and Raskulls. Aven Colony and Project Highrise are available for Xbox One and playable on...
Tekken 7 takes over Virtua Fighter 5 in new collaboration DLC
The cast of Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown is being reskinned as the cast of Tekken 7 as part of a new collaboration that turns Sega’s marquee fighting game franchise into what looks like an alternate reality version of Bandai Namco’s marquee fighting game franchise. Not only does the downloadable...
Stranger Things finally makes room for girlhood nostalgia — kinda
Stranger Things revels in the nostalgia and the aesthetic of the 1980s — but that nostalgia is presented in a very limited scope. Throughout its four seasons, the Netflix show celebrates what little boys who grew up in predominantly white suburbs in the ’80s loved, and not much else. It...
Meet the streamer who helps PS5 buyers beat bots and scalpers
Join one of Jake Randall’s streams and he appears, in the corner of the screen, sitting with his back against a bookshelf that’s overflowing with video game jewel cases. He’s staring down an online retailer in the nervy minutes before a PlayStation 5 restock. Today, the target is Amazon, and...
Polygon eats Bob’s burgers
The Bob’s Burgers Movie is hitting theaters this weekend (read our review!), giving us another opportunity to hang out with the Belcher gang. Here at Polygon, we decided the best way to commemorate the occasion was by picking a few burgers out of the official Bob’s Burgers Burger Book to...
10 more PlayStation titles in development for film and TV, Sony Pictures CEO says
Sony Pictures Entertainment is currently developing ten more PlayStation titles for film and TV, according to group chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra. The news comes via an investor presentation Vinciquerra gave on Thursday. In the presentation, Vinciquerra stressed the group’s desire to continue to pull from Sony’s pre-existing IP, not...
Mario Strikers: Battle League gives Mario’s soccer series a powerful jolt of personality
After a 15-year break, Mario and friends are headed back to the pitch for more full-contact, over-the-top soccer-style action. Mario Strikers: Battle League, coming June 10 to Nintendo Switch, intensifies the soccer-like game of Strike with new super moves, equippable gear, and an online Strikers Club mode that will let...
Top Gun: Maverick’s director explains how he convinced Tom Cruise to come back
Nearly 40 years ago, Top Gun made moviegoers feel a small fraction of the thrill that comes with being a fighter pilot — in part thanks to Kenny Loggins’ anthem “Danger Zone,” but also largely due to the talents of the cast and crew, under the direction of the late...
Fortnite’s Zero Build mode has new strategies — but the same loot. Why?
Fortnite is famous for its globally interactive community events, and recently the battle royale game hosted one that placed the destiny of two items in the hands of its players. The two items — simple party balloons and a bubble shield reminiscent of Halo 3 — had been in Fortnite’s...
Respawn reveals Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, its sequel to Fallen Order
Respawn Entertainment officially unveiled its sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on Friday at Star Wars Celebration. The sequel, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, will be released on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X in 2023, publisher Electronic Arts announced in a news release. The first teaser trailer...