Especially when a sandbox creation game apes another one. Yo dawg, here’s Super Mario Maker inside LittleBigPlanet 3, so you can have fun building levels while you have fun building levels. They got to work on it on MAR10 day (March 10) to celebrate the announcement a month before that Super Mario Maker 2 was coming to Nintendo Switch this June. “Think of this level as a demo of Super Mario Maker, so if you’ve never played the game before and you’re thinking about getting the sequel, then I’d re

Metro: Exodus and Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 both eschewed Steam for the Epic Games Store, similarly pissing off gamers but not to this degree. Borderlands 2 is the first game on Steam to make use of the “off-topic reviews” marking. Epic Games Store does not yet feature user reviews, and Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney has said the platform won’t add that feature until the company is confident it has measures in place that counteract review-bomb campaigns. Sweeney also said that when user review

Bungie themed Arc Week around the game’s different Arc subclasses. Stormcaller: Attunement of ConductionChain Lightning Melee : Currently, when you melee strike a target, you chain lightning to a nearby enemy. Chaining electric damage from either a grenade or the Chain Lightning Melee decreases grenade cooldown. Arc Soul: Currently, this perk summons an Arc turret to follow you around, and deal damage to enemies. There will be special Arc bounties and Arc damage will be more powerful in activiti

Fortnite may be in a controversial state of balance right now, but that hasn’t slowed Epic down from updating the game. The developer announced on Friday afternoon that next week’s Fortnite patch will include one of the biggest new introductions since launch with Reboot Vans. Fans have speculated about a respawn feature since the beginning of season 8, when vans were initially visible in the game’s replay mode. With the addition of respawns for squad mates, Epic may feel the game can support a m

PDP calls it “the best Nintendo Switch controller for serious gamers,” and they have a point. Switch owners have to go through a mobile app, which itself packs in all kinds of conditions. PDP partnered with Vivox, which developed the in-game chat for Fortnite on Nintendo Switch, to develop the integrated chat controller. Update: An earlier version of this post missed the condition that the controller’s chat support was limited to Vivox-supported games. Update, April 6: We reached out to a PDP re

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice may be the friendliest FromSoftware game, but friendlier doesn’t mean friendly. In Polygon’s Sekiro guides, we’ll fill in the gaps to help you understand the game. We’ve organized our Sekiro guides into a few categories. No matter where you are in the game, our goal is the same: to make Sekiro understandable without spoiling anything. In the same way Sekiro is friendlier but not exactly friendly, we want to make it easier, not easy.

Today, Nintendo announced that its upcoming Nintendo Labo VR Kit will support two of the Switch’s most prominent titles: Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with “bite-sized” experiences. The VR Toy-Con is meant to be an accessible way for families to test VR out without dropping the big bucks on systems like the PSVR or an Oculus. Related Nintendo brings VR to Switch with new Labo kitExperience 2 beloved games in new ways with the Toy-Con VR Goggles from the #Nintend

Niantic and The Pokémon Company have big plans for Pokémon Go Fest this year. Pokémon Go Fest Chicago 2019 will be held June 13-16, making the event a four-day affair this year. Niantic and The Pokémon Company did not announce dates or the location for the Pokémon Go Fest in Asia. Pokémon Go players who can’t attend the Go Fest events in person will still be able to take part in special challenges to unlock rewards. Niantic and The Pokémon Company also promise Pokémon Go Community days during Ju

The members of Board Game Geek, the largest online community of board game fans, have selected the winners of the 2018 Golden Geek Awards. Walking away with four awards this year is Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right. The asymmetrical strategy game looks cuddly on the surface, but in reality it’s an intense strategy game assembled from political and social metaphors. Related The top 10 tabletop games of 2018That ingenious crossover earned Root’s developers and publishers, Leder Games, load

The Witness is the latest free game available at the Epic Games Store, hitting digital shelves on Thursday, April 4. Released in 2016, The Witness is a Myst-inspired open-world first-person puzzle game. Other competitors like GOG and Humble have offered free games as well, though not at such a rapid pace. The Epic Games Store gives customers a new free game every two weeks. The Witness replaced the last free game, Oxenfree.

Team Meat, the creators of the Super Meat Boy sequel Super Meat Boy Forever, have announced that they are delaying the title, missing an April release date. In a statement on Twitter, the developer writes: “We’ve been knocking out the last bits of Super Meat Boy Forever at record speeds while keeping a healthy and sustainable pace. pic.twitter.com/vm7q10Xd0n — Team Meat (@SuperMeatBoy) April 4, 2019Super Meat Boy Forever was announced in 2014, and was originally intended to be a mobile-only vers

Massive Entertainment will release The Division 2’s first major content update, Tidal Basin, tomorrow. In a new video, Massive showed off gameplay of the upcoming Stronghold, revealed the release date for The Division 2’s first raid, and teased the fourth player specialization. Operation Dark Hours is the first raid in The Division franchise’s history. Massive will launch The Division 2’s first raid on April 25. There are already enemies with that kind of weapon in The Division 2.

From Software’s latest game, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, is only two weeks old. But that hasn’t stopped players like horheristo on YouTube from defeating every boss without getting hit. [Note: This post and the video above contain spoilers for the boss fights in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.] In a recent video uploaded on their channel, horheristo showed off speed running strategies for each of the main bosses in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Our review of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice called out how infur

This week on the Nintendo eShop, we direct the jury’s attention to Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy ($29.99). The high definition anthology of the crusading barrister’s first three adventures launched in Japan at the end of February, and now comes west on April 9. The trilogy comprises Ace Attorney (originally launched 2001 on DS), Justice For All (2002) and Trials and Tribulations (2004). These three have been rounded up before, in anthologies for mobile platforms and Nintendo 3DS. The full

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The Liberty sidearm is a powerful Exotic Desert Eagle in The Division 2. This guide will teach you how to find Liberty’s crafting materials and put the gun together. Liberty Perk DetailsLiberty an Exotic sidearm that works no matter what build you want to run. Kill the boss and you’ll earn your first pieces of the Liberty Exotic sidearm: the Trigger and Mechanism crafting materials. Use all your materials to build yourself a Liberty sidearm.

Apex Legends’ latest patch is here, but it came with a few issues. Instead, it reset some players’ account progress entirely. After early reports of this bug, Apex Legends’ official Twitter account noted that it was a known issue, but developer Respawn Entertainment took no further action at the time. For a full look at all the changes that came with this patch — or if you’re looking for something to read while the servers are down — here are the full notes for Apex Legends patch 1.1. Update: Ac

American Horror Story regular Evan Peters will reportedly not return for the ninth season of Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology show. His portrayal of sociopathic serial killer Tate Langdon in the first season was his breakout role, and since then Peters had a main role in every season of the show. The last season of AHS featured a number of returning cast members, the result of two previous seasons, Murder House and Coven, crossing over. The shared nature of the American Horror Story universe was r