This Just Cause 4 Easter egg is … well, I don’t know what I’m to say. Avalanche Studios is known to be playful with this series of sandbox, mass environmental catastrophe simulators, and Just Cause 4 is no different. Just Cause 4 players discovered that, in a certain area, Rico Rodriguez enters a building that has a secret second layer. The “Take On Me” video is still gorgeous more than three decades later, so the reference Just Cause 4 makes to it also strikes a chord. I just hope these clips

Even though The Game Awards 2018 clocked in at a Last Jedi-esque 167 minutes last night (more if you count the pre-show) the evening was densely packed with video games news and announcements, well more than the 10 premieres host Geoff Keighley promised in the run-up. Here’s a recap of the biggest buzz coming out of The Game Awards 2018, from straight surprises to splashy reveals that put this event in the company of an E3 keynote. The anticipatedUbisoft’s poorly kept secret leaked like a sieve

Suros RegimeSuros Regime is a fan favorite Destiny auto rifle that returned to Destiny 2 in the Warmind expansion. The second exotic perk is actually a choice between Spinning Up and Dual Speed Receiver. Ophidia SpatheThe Ophidia Spathe chest piece’s exotic perk is Scissor Fingers, which lets hunters throw two knives per charge. This week’s roll: This week’s roll has medium mobility, low resilience and low recovery, with a choice between recovery and resilience. This week’s roll: This week’s rol

The Epic Games Store is officially here, and it’s bringing a console war-like mentality to your PC. The Epic Games Store has a fighting chance because of FortnitePC gamers didn’t initially install Steam to buy games, they installed Steam to play Half-Life 2. Epic games right now pic.twitter.com/9NUcRbYy6l — Thanos (@CGCentralHD98) December 7, 2018Until Epic Games moved in, at least. Heck, the Epic Games Store has a bunch of games that Steam doesn’t! Steam has almost no curation, while the Epic G

Last night, The Game Awards saw the surprise announcement and launch of a new title from Supergiant Games called Hades. Think of it like God of War meets Binding of Isaac. And yet Hades offers up fully voiced dialog between you, the ever-dying son of Hades, and a classic pantheon of gods and monsters. But where the original God of War saw players taking a similar character progression path, each run of Hades can play very different from one another. I start every run at the bottom of The Underwo

Vikendi is PUBG’s first 6 km by 6 km map, making it directly in-between the sizes of Sanhok, the game’s newer smaller map, and Erangel, the original larger PUBG map. Shortly before the reveal, Polygon spoke with PUBG’s world art director, Dave Curd, to talk about Vikendi, the map’s unique gameplay and what exactly went into making the perfect PUBG snow map. Polygon: Since PUBG’s release, fans have been excited about the idea of and asking for a snow map. So our intention was, if you see the trac

More video game trailers were shown during The Game Awards 2018 than acceptance speeches, and still one of the best new game trailers released today didn’t air during the show. Devolver Digital gave another look at Ape Out, an action game with a Saul-Bass-meets-Hotline-Miami vibe. The ape sprints through increasingly complicated stages, slaughtering armed guards by punching them, splattering them and converting them into human shields. [Disclosure: I briefly taught Ape Out creator Gabe Cuzzillo

In the second episode of Netflix’s She-Ra, our hero Adora sees a horse for the first time and promptly loses her dang mind. So it made sense to me that she would meet the horse who would become Swift Wind somewhere outside the Horde.”It was a reasonable choice that spiraled into horse girl madness. It’s a recess thingIf you’re not a horse girl, this scene might be an educational revelation. Psychoanalysis aside, this scene in She-Ra accurately depicts how a horse girl sees a horse, Nature’s most

In anticipation of next week, Bungie has unwrapped the details for The Dawning — Destiny 2’s returning winter event. This time, Eva Levante — the holiday vendor from Destiny, yet unseen in its sequel — returns to the Tower to give out baked goods. Players will team up with Eva to deliver holiday treats to their favorite NPCs, and receive some rewards in the process. Players will need to jump into the world of Destiny to kill enemies and complete objectives in order to earn ingredients to fuel th

This has always been the way in Assassin’s Creed games. It’s given me a reason to look forward to the game’s series of DLCAs the story continues, it meanders off into tiresome foreshadowing of the Assassin’s Creed uber-arc. I level up and add skills that will come in useful when I go back and mop up some main game missions that I’ve left unattended. If, like me, you’ve become enamored of this brassy game, “Legacy of the First Blade” is a pleasing slice of extra stuff. “Legacy of the First Blade”

After more than five years in early access, DayZ, the once-popular multiplayer survival game that directly inspired games such as H1Z1 and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, will officially launch next week. The team at Bohemia Interactive announced that it plans to release version 1.0 on Dec. 13. The post-apocalyptic zombie survival game began as a modification of Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead in 2012. DayZ is currently available on Xbox One through the early-access Game Preview program. A full launc

Devil May Cry 5’s battle theme for Dante, “Subhuman,” has new vocals after Capcom removed the original singer from the soundtrack in light of a controversy that quickly followed the song’s debut at Tokyo Game Show. The song is performed by Cody Matthew Johnson featuring Suicide Silence, whose frontman, Eddie Hermida, originally sang the main vocals. After Capcom revealed the song in September, Devil May Cry fans pointed out that Hermida had been accused by a 17-year-old girl of coaxing her into

Dead By Daylight, the asymmetrical horror game where survivors try to escape one dangerous killer, is releasing its 10th DLC chapter. This DLC brings original characters to the game, and the developers are also promising an answer to one of fans’ greatest requests in dedicated servers. Polygon spoke to Mathieu Cote, game director on Dead by Daylight, to learn more about the game’s design direction and the Legion, the terrifying new killer who will be stalking players. The idea is to invoke a mor

Typhoon Studios, founded in the spring of 2017 by a veteran of the Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed series, has announced its first game: Journey to the Savage Planet. It’s a lighthearted first-person adventure in which players have been sent off to an uncharted planet that they must explore and determine if it is habitable. Journey to the Savage Planet got its premiere trailer at The Game Awards tonight. Typhoon Studios was started in April 2017 by Alex Hutchinson, who had been creative director fo

The survival adventure game Among Trees was announced this evening at The Game Awards 2018. It launches in early access on Steam sometime next year. Details are scarce on what the game entails, other than it is a stylishly illustrated adventure “set in a colorful wilderness world teeming with life.”On the game’s Steam page, players are told they will settle in a cabin, craft tools, grow crops and cook food. The explorable world includes “dense forests and dark caves.” Deadly beasts and formidabl

Journey will be available on PC for the first time ever. The indie adventure game is on its way to the Epic Games Store. Journey follows a robed figure wandering through the desert, traveling toward a mountain in the distance, with a focus on a sense of wonder and smallness. The focus on visual and auditory art, as well as its emotional response, garnered thatgamecompany much acclaim, and Journey won several game of the year awards. Journey on Windows PC will be distributed by Annapurna Interact

The newest game from Human Head Studios, which recently launched The Quiet Man with Square Enix, is Survived By, an offbeat early access game that seems to tick all the boxes of genre development. Billed as “a free-to-play online bullet-hell style roguelite,” Survived By is a “massive online adventure” in which permadeath and one’s descendants play the largest role in the telling of a player’s story. Survived By was originally announced this summer and recently had a closed beta. The game launch

At the 2018 Game Awards, Double Fine and Starbreeze showed off the first story-based trailer for Psychonauts 2. While there is some light gameplay shown toward the end of the trailer, the main focus is on introducing the Motherlobe, a secret fortress of mind secrets that the sequel seems to focus on. Despite a newly announced 2019 window, we currently have little else to go off on when this long-awaited game will launch. Psychonauts 2 is expected to launch at some point in 2019. Backers pledged

First-person shooter Rage 2 got a new gameplay trailer at The Game Awards tonight, revealing how the action-heavy shooter has moved on from the original game’s gritty tones for a more colorful post-apocalypse. But it also revealed a piece of bigger news: The game now has a release date of May 14. The first Rage, released in 2010 to positive reception, was created by id Software, which is working on the sequel with Avalanche. In Rage 2, players take on the role of a Mad Max-style ranger who fight

It’s been a big week for Fortnite. The announcement came along with an extremely brief trailer that showed a giant concrete slab dropping into the area that was once Risky Reels. The trailer didn’t reveal much, the real information came from Epic Games’ worldwide creative director, Donald Mustard who announced that the area would tie-in closely to the new Creative mode. While there isn’t a way to share what players make in the mode at the moment, the best creations will be highlighted by Epic an