Sony will no longer be participating at PAX East in Boston this year, due to concerns related to COVID-19, 2020’s novel coronavirus. “Today, Sony Interactive Entertainment made the decision to cancel its participation at PAX East in Boston this year due to increasing concerns related to COVID-19 (also known as ‘novel coronavirus’). This event was also scheduled to be the first public showing for The Last of Us Part 2. Polygon has reached out to both Sony and PAX organizers for comment. When reac

Xbox Game Pass subscribers will get access to games like Ninja Gaiden 2, Kingdom Hearts 3, and Yakuza 0 on console as part of the subscription this month. Those titles join recently added games like Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Final Fantasy 15 on Xbox One with Game Pass. Some Xbox Game Pass titles will soon leave the service, Microsoft warned today. Xbox Game Pass for PC, currently in beta, is priced at $4.99 per month. Microsoft is offering promotional pricing — just $1 per month — for Xbox Gam

Mama is returning to help you be the best cook you can be in Cooking Mama: Cookstar. A trailer for the cooking game showed off a bunch of the fun Cooking Mama minigames that we’re used to seeing, like mixing ingredients together or chopping up vegetables. The best part of the trailer showed off making an Instagram staple: the rainbow grilled cheese. It’s since been made private, but it has luckily been re-uploaded for us to bask in all its rainbow grilled cheese glory. Cooking Mama: Cookstar wil

PlanetSide 2, the multiplayer combat game that first launched in 2012, is getting a big update on Wednesday. For now that means “shoring up” the live version of PlanetSide 2 with new features and content. Rogue Planet Games, which Sites leads, is now solely responsible for the PlanetSide franchise. “There will be no PlanetSide 3 if we don’t continue supporting PlanetSide 2, and we don’t continue showing that the PlanetSide experience is unmatched and amazing,” Sites said. “So our focus right now

Pokémon Go has changed what hatches out of 7 km eggs. While normally the yellow and pink eggs host baby Pokémon, they’re now only hatching fossil Pokémon. With this shift, none of these will hatch out of any other eggs and Riolu will now hatch out of 10 km eggs. Note that this change does not affect any 7 km eggs you may have gotten before today. Those will still have older Pokémon in them, but any egg you get from friends starting now will hatch fossil Pokémon.

Nintendo will broadcast a new Nintendo Direct episode this week, revealing new, “in-depth” details about Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch. The new Nintendo Direct presentation will be broadcast on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT. Originally announced in 2018 during a Nintendo Direct presentation, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sends players on an island vacation planned by Tom Nook’s new travel agency. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is coming to Nintendo Switch on March 2

Nvidia has created a limited edition Cyberpunk 2077-themed graphics card, but it won’t be sold in stores. Units also come with a special edition box, which Nvidia says is “perfect for a collector’s shelf.” The partnership between CD Projekt and the PC hardware manufacturer was announced during last year’s E3 along with a fewcontroversial screenshots. The official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account seems to be hinting something like that might be on the horizon. This one is just the beginning 😉 — Cy

Nearly every Pokémon game includes something called a Safari Zone, a special area where rare wild monsters roam. And now, Temtem, the monster-collecting MMO, has something that’s clearly been inspired by the Safari Zone — except the concept has been updated for the age of games-as-service. A February 17 update to Temtem adds The Saipark, an end-game area that acts as a natural reserve. You need to pay a fee to enter, but, unlike the Safari Zone, there doesn’t seem to be a step limit. Luma encoun

CD Projekt Red is rolling out an update for the Nintendo Switch version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that adds some major new features, including new graphical options and support for save files from the Windows PC version of the game. The update was first spotted by players of the Korean version of The Witcher 3’s Switch port on the Nintendo Switch subreddit. Reached for comment, a representative for CD Projekt Red confirmed to Polygon confirmed that Tuesday’s update adds “touch control support,

The announcement was made this morning by organizers at Kickstarter United, who tweeted out a picture of beaming employees celebrating their win. pic.twitter.com/l6W91lILKU — Kickstarter United (@ksr_united) February 18, 2020″Today we learned that in a 46 to 37 vote, our staff has decided to unionize,” Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan said in a statement provided to Polygon. Kickstarter, which formally launched in 2009, has become a hub for the expanding tabletop games industry, which includes board g

Square Enix’s latest patch for Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers introduces a smorgasbord of new content that should excite just about every player of the game. The next alliance raid itself isn’t out yet, alas, but it’s possible it will be included in patch 5.3. Some of the best additions to this patch are the quality of life updates, in fact. Wedding attire is no longer gender-lockedFemale characters can now wear suits and male characters can now wear the wedding gown. For the full patch notes,

An Amazon Gold Box deal on Tuesday is bringing discounts on Logitech gaming and audio accessories. This deal is a great opportunity if you’re looking to upgrade an entry-level gaming setup to something closer to the mid-tier. On the audio side of things, several speaker sets are discounted in Tuesday’s deal, but the biggest draw is the Blue Yeti USB microphone. The Blue Yeti is down to $89.99 from $129.99. For those who prefer Corsair to Logitech, GameStop is running a similar one-day-only promo

After numerous delays, it finally seems like Fortnite chapter 2 season 2 will start soon. As a lead up to the season’s launch, Epic is releasing teasers, just like it normally does. But this season’s teasers are a lot more confusing than they’ve been in the past. The teasers started on Monday morning with a few cryptic tweets from the Fortnite account. The posters had images similar to the Fortnite tweets, along with phone numbers.

Empire of Sin, the turn-based game from veteran game designer Brenda Romero, has been delayed until fall 2020. First announced during E3 2019, Empire of Sin is a turn-based game in the style of XCOM. The game calls to mind Romero’s work on the classic Jagged Alliance series, which feathered in strategic elements alongside turn-based action and a narrative campaign. We have an update regarding the release of Empire of Sin: pic.twitter.com/5EMq7QZYCU — Empire of Sin (@EmpireOfSinGame) February 18,

Blizzard Entertainment is known for exploring its games’ stories through in-game cinematics, but it looks like the Overwatch and Diablo series will be getting a new way to tell their tales. Nick van Dyk, President of Activision-Blizzard, posted an intriguing description of a new project on his LinkedIn page. Executive producer of Diablo, a TV adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s IP, rendered in anime style. The Diablo series may also be welcome news to fans who are waiting for the release of D

Destiny 2’s Season of Dawn only has three weeks left, and players know very little about the game’s next season. But after Destiny 2’s usual weekly reset on Tuesday, the game started showing players a short cutscene featuring Osiris and the Warmind, Rasputin. The cutscene doesn’t offer much in the way of story, but seems to suggest these two characters will go head to head in Destiny 2’s next season. Some people believe Rasputin was responsible for the collapse of that Golden Age, and based on t

The Nintendo Switch Lite, the company’s handheld-only Switch, was first introduced in three colors: turquoise, gray, and yellow. In April, the Switch Lite lineup is getting a new addition — coral. Nintendo of America announced on Tuesday that its Nintendo Switch Lite Coral will be released on April 3. When it’s released on April 3, the new Nintendo Switch Lite color will cost $199.99. The vibrant and playful coral Nintendo Switch Lite system arrives on 4/3!

Professor X, Magneto, and Moira MacTaggert have a secret pact to keep any precognitive mutants from setting foot on the island. All we know is that Mystique wants her wife back, and she’ll burn all of Krakoa to get it. X-Men #6It took almost 40 years for Mystique and Destiny’s relationship to be acknowledged in Marvel canon, despite it being the original intention of their creators. Claremont even originally wanted to reveal that Mystique and Destiny were Nightcrawler’s parents, conceived while

On paper, the game’s Fortress mode is a bit like what would happen if The Oregon Trail were to be set somewhere inside Middle-earth. But Dwarf Fortress also features another style of play, a grand roguelike experience called Adventure mode. According to the Dwarf Fortress wiki, goblins live on top of tall spires surrounded by a series of trenches. Dwarf Fortress is not compatible with a mouse, so every input is mapped to a specific key on the keyboard. It’s there in the menu system where my firs

I move fast and swing my blade even faster when I’m playing ScourgeBringer. This is what you go for when you want to feel like a badass quickly. After only a few strikes, the stone eye flashes an exclamation point above its head, signaling a massive attack. In my two hours with ScourgeBringer, it never asked too much of me, but I still feel comfortable with the controls, like I’ve played it for years. ScourgeBringer never failed to make me look and feel cool, and I can’t wait for the next patch