Armor has always been a point of contention in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout mode. The first change, which came last week as a part of title update 1.09, introduced armor plates to the game. In order to get armor plates, players can either loot it from the ground — though its spawn chances are low — or they can loot it from fallen players. Overall, this is definitely a nerf to armor plates, but repairing your armor and keeping a few plates in your inventory should still be worthwhile. The

Frostpunk, from the Polish team at 11 bit studios, is unrelenting and grim. Called “A Christmas Carol,” the free update launched today. The guts of it are an opt-in quest to throw a lavish Christmas party at the end of the world. They also get access to a beautiful, if spartan, Christmas tree that they can build in their settlement. If you’ve not tried Frostpunk out yet, you can read more about our impressions from earlier this year.

Russell Horning, also known as Backpack Kid, is the latest celebrity to sue Epic games over claims that the company used his dance in Fortnite without permission, according to Horning’s legal representatives. The dance Horning is claiming ownership over, “Flossing,” was what first helped him gain notoriety online. The Fortnite dance emote that provoked the legal action is called “The Floss,” and is instantly recognizable as the dance that Horning made famous. Horning joins actor Alfonso Ribeiro

Like other games, this will contribute to your overall power level or, as Anthem calls it, “gear score.” Gear score is an average of all your equipped gear put together. The higher your gear score, the higher the rarity of your Javelin. A gear score of 225 on a Colossus, for example, will make your Colossus rare. Every gear piece has “inscriptions”More akin to Diablo 3 or Tom Clancy’s The Division, each piece of gear in Anthem will have multiple inscriptions on them. Not all of the components ha

In the wake of several shootings in the United States, some politicians have made efforts to link the cause of those events to video game consumption. While several studies have shown there is no evidence linking the two, video games and gun violence have always been synonymous with one another. Several politicians have been vocal about both activities influencing one another, while several organizations have rallied against the evidence to the contrary. Below are several stories detailing the c

I assumed that Celeste, the extremely challenging platformer from Matt Makes Games, wouldn’t be for me. GOTY #5: CELESTEFor our 2018 guide to the best games of the year , Polygon will be counting down our top 10 each weekday. Patterns are consistent and established early on; everything does what the game tells you it will do. She’s in a bad brain place and, despite both ominous warnings and offers of companionship, she wants to climb Celeste Mountain on her own. Celeste Mountain isn’t literal —

In fact, the idea that Marvel Comics exists within the Marvel Comics Universe is almost as old as that Universe itself. And although The Fantastic Four #10 arrived in the early days in the Marvel’s history, the idea that a fictional version of Marvel Comics published true superhero stories in the Marvel Universe has been called back to. Right around that time, artist Neal Adams would attempt to form a “Comics Creators Guild” with several top Marvel creators onboard, to no avail. But the Marvel C

For a limited time, all Xbox One consoles will be discounted by $100, Microsoft announced yesterday. That includes both Xbox One X and Xbox One S official bundles. Microsoft offered $100 off Xbox One X consoles on Black Friday, but the only bundle discounted was the Xbox One S Minecraft Creators bundle. The $100 discount brings Xbox One X consoles and bundles down to $399 and Xbox One S bundles to $199 (Xbox One S is only available as part of a bundle). All Xbox One consoles and bundles include

It’s a rare attempt within the Japanese adventure game genre to reach the much larger audiences that play on PS4 and Steam. When it comes to planning Sound Novels like 428, Nakamura says, “it’s really hard to look at the scenario and its individual parts. “I thought that an adventure game or a role-playing game would be something that users would be interested in,” he says. “Even if we wanted to create a text adventure with visuals, we couldn’t have that many different unique graphics. “At core,

Fallout 76’s bi-weekly patch schedule and upcoming weekly events haven’t quite been enough to stem the tide of complaints about the survival-based open world title. Lunch boxes, the Fallout term for loot boxes, originated from Fallout Shelter, where they offer a host of small rewards. Lunch boxes have begun to show up in the changelog for Fallout 76’s latest patch, but they have not been implemented in-game. But Redditor despotak, who posted the changelog, notes that it looks like lunch boxes ar

Zero, the so-called “King of Smash 4” competitive play and the top streamer for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, has proposed a tier list for the latest Smash Bros. game, one of the first comprehensive, analytical rankings since the game’s launch earlier this month. Since his initial tier list at the start of last month, some characters have made some serious moves, as seen in the video above. There are plenty of other tier lists in the wild on YouTube, and the Super Smash Bros. It’s likely that we c

Just hours after teasing the existence of Fortnite’s newest, probably snowboard-like vehicle, Epic Games has announced that the vehicle, called the Driftboard, won’t be released with the game’s upcoming patch. The season 7 update came and went with no mention of the new vehicle. That wasn’t the end of the bad news for the patch, however. Just a half hour later, in a new tweet, Epic announced that it had found a larger issue that would delay the release of the patch altogether. Also unclear is wh

Games Workshop is making an animated series based on the popular Warhammer 40,000 franchise, the company announced Monday. Helming the project is the team behind the popular Helsreach series of fan-made cartoons and a live-action film released in October. “We’re bringing the grim darkness of the far future to life like never before,” Games Workshop wrote on its official community blog. The script will be penned by one of the many authors who contribute to Games Workshop’s Black Library series of

Kingdom Hearts 3 may have leaked a little (or a lot) early over the weekend, but for those of us who choose to remain unspoiled, the game’s newest trailer serves as an amazing way to hype us up. It’s nice that it’s not all death and destruction; Sora dances with some Tangled townspeople in this four-minute look. (Roxas, Sora’s nobody and the hero of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, also stops by.) Organization XIII very calmly wrecks Sora’s crew, and even someone as strong as Riku hardly withstands it

Sony recently launched a social media program called “My PS4 Life,” which automatically edits together a history of each player’s time on PlayStation 4 and releases some of the information in a video. Sony also releases the percentage of players who have earned each trophy through the PlayStation Network itself. Figuring out what seems to be the total number of players for each game is a simple math problem, once you have those two numbers. “Here, 33,764 players earned the ‘Photo Bomber’ trophy

A small studio in the Philippines hopes to change that, with a fighting game that remixes the personalities and histories of some of the country’s greatest heroes. In fact, a lack of knowledge about Filipino history was one of the catalysts for the game’s creation. That person was Anthony Dacayo, a Filipino artist who started mocking up designs for an imaginary fighting game based on historical figures from the Philippines. While the the developers could’ve taken any route to explore the history

More than a month before it is due to launch, several copies of Kingdom Hearts 3 have made it into the wild, with screenshots and videos of the game leaking into social media. Kingdom Hearts 3 director Tetsuya Nomura responded via Twitter last night, acknowledging the breach and asking the community not to share any videos or images, and to warn one another of spoilers. The Kingdom Hearts subreddit also swung into action, promising swift post removals and bans for those who post spoilers or part

Artifact, the Dota 2 card collecting game, got its first major update since launching Nov. 28. The 1.1 update, announced at the end of the week, brings in two new decks and three types of short-duration open tournaments, to streamline participation. So far, starting a tournament in Artifact has required players to set up their own, usually inviting players through forums or Steam chat. Other additions include a Bot Gauntlet mode pitting players against AIs using tougher and tougher decks. A Rand

If you sign up for and participate in Project Stream — Google’s foray into a streaming video game service, which launched a test back in October — you can get a free copy of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey to keep, on PC. Project Stream is currently only compatible with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which testers can already fool around with at will just by launching the service. If you already have Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on PC linked to your Uplay account, sorry, it’s not like you get a second copy or a

The creator of Stardew Valley, who recently split with the game’s original publisher and took back those rights just yesterday, told players in an update yesterday that he is prioritizing ongoing development of his farming simulator, and putting another project on hold while he does so. Stardew Valley has been a one-person show to this point. When that team is in place, Barone will then divide his time between Stardew Valley and his unannounced project. The two had partnered on all versions goin