The PlayStation Classic is a boring product. “Intelligent Qube is simple, fun, and horribly addictive, just the way a good puzzle game should be,” GameSpot wrote in its review at the time. Gamers who’ve waited for a good original puzzle game should check it out.”Remember the days when being “horribly addictive” was a good thing? The game was interesting enough that it became a cult favorite of puzzle game lovers. There are plenty of reasons to complain about the game selection on PlayStation Cla

So when I was tasked with doing a video for one of my favorite game series, Castlevania, I knew I needed to do something big. So I spent multiple work days going through Castlevania’s full bestiary to learn every monster’s backstory, every enemy’s folklore, every demon’s mythology. And after three whole weeks of work, I can definitively say:I have found Castlevania’s hottest monster. Was this the most time-consuming video I’ve ever made (even more time-consuming than when I read all of Skyrim’s

Today is Cyber Monday, Black Friday’s online cousin, where holiday shoppers who missed any major deals this weekend get a second chance to save some cash on gifts, gadgets and games. Many Black Friday deals are just carrying over to Cyber Monday, but there are some new deals to check out as well. We’re rounding up the best Cyber Monday sales in gaming right here and will be tweeting highlights over at @PolygonDeals. Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One console dealsGaming PC and hardware

Amazon’s Cyber Monday sale is here and while the Nintendo Switch and PS4 Black Friday bundles have sold out, there are plenty of Black Friday gaming deals carrying over, with some additional discounts to check out as well. Notably, the excellent new game Hitman 2 is on sale for $29.99, half off its MSRP. Amazon is also taking an extra $5 off the already discounted PS4 DualShock controller, bringing it down to an all-time low of $34. We’re rounding up these and more of the best Cyber Monday sales

Twenty-four years ago next week, Ken Kutaragi walked through Tokyo’s electronics district, beaming with pride while fans treated him like a god. note: Ken Kutaragi did not respond to multiple requests to participate in this story.] He was like, “Hey, the U.S. guys are really, really bad.” He was really complaining about it. When Ken Kutaragi first pitched the idea for the system, he gave the pitch to [then-Sony CEO Norio] Ohga. And I had these sources and I started visiting people and talking to

Red Dead Redemption 2’s online multiplayer mode, Red Dead Online, will go live on Tuesday, Nov. 27, Rockstar Games announced today. Rockstar will launch Red Dead Online in beta form on Nov. 27 at 8:30 a.m. ET, and it will initially be accessible only for owners of the Ultimate Edition of Red Dead Redemption 2. The following day, the beta will open up to those who played Red Dead Redemption 2 on its first day of release — Oct. 26. Then, on Friday, Nov. 30, online multiplayer will open up for all

Connecting Poké Ball Plus to Pokémon: Let’s Go! with the Poké Ball PlusFrom there, you can start playing the game with the Poké Ball as your controller. Connecting Poké Ball Plus to Pokémon GoThe Poké Ball Plus is perhaps more useful for Pokémon Go users, presuming they can get it to work properly. Then click the Poké Ball Plus option to initiate a pop-up that will ask to enable the Poké Ball Plus. What the LED lights on the Poké Ball Plus meanYou must have Pokémon Go open in the background to u

Nintendo has announced a one-day-only deal on Nintendo Switch consoles, available just for Cyber Monday. If you failed to pick the console up in stores during Black Friday, this online offer is a good one: bonus eShop credit with your hardware purchase. All buyers of the $299.99 Switch will receive $35 in Nintendo eShop credit at no additional cost. The Nintendo eShop sale on games runs through Nov. 28 at 11:59 a.m. Related The best games on Nintendo SwitchFor more lingering Black Friday deals a

Darksiders 3 returns to those roots as a borrower of ideas, offering only a slightly updated version of the Darksiders formula. Darksiders 3 is a third-person dungeon crawler, just like the first two games in the series. Like so many action-RPGs in recent years, Darksiders 3 borrows liberally from the Dark Souls school of game design. Health no longer regenerates as it did in the other Darksiders games. The first was in the middle of the boss fight, while the second was during a post-fight cutsc

Ralph Breaks the Internet broke through to the second-highest Thanksgiving debut ever, second only to another Disney animated flick (Frozen in 2013) with $84 million at domestic box offices over the past five days. Also this holiday, Creed II landed a $55 million haymaker for MGM, the best Thanksgiving opening ever for a live-action film (topping 2007’s Enchanted for Disney). Ralph Breaks the Internet’s straight weekend take was $55 million, which still surpassed 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph, which pre

Kill la Kill the Game: IF, the video game adaptation of the anime series, will also launch on Nintendo Switch. Arc System Works, the studio behind the fighting game, announced the platform’s addition to the launch plans this weekend. When we previewed it at Tokyo Game Show in September, it was slated only for PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. Kill la Kill: IF is a 3D arena fighting game that Arc System Works is developing with APLUS. Four playable characters have been shown so far for Kill la Kill t

Chinese media has a weird ban on Winnie-the-Pooh, mainly because some Chinese netizens have trolled President Xi Jinping online with comparisons to the character. This actually has ramifications for Kingdom Hearts 3, which only two weeks ago confirmed Pooh Bear was joining the game. Kotaku pointed out that other coverage (including by the same site that ran the white-flash censorship) has run screenshots of Kingdom Hearts 3 featuring Pooh with no apparent blowback. Still, Chinese censors don’t p

Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed Odyssey and NASCAR Heat 3 also are listed for more than half off. As always, we’ll also be tweeting highlights from this and other Cyber Monday sales over at @PolygonDeals. HardwareXbox One S 1 TB Minecraft Creators bundle — $199.99 (usually $299.99). Free $50 gift card with the purchase of any new Nintendo Switch, Xbox One or PlayStation 4 (excluding the PS4 1 TB Spider-Man and Xbox One S 1 TB Minecraft bundles). Shadow of the Tomb Raider — $27.

Scrolling through Netflix horror movies, Sabrina looks like yet another film about a haunted doll — a really creepy one (those eyes! Yet the movie has its twists; along with echoing Annabelle, the Indonesian horror film also evokes the couple-hunting-demons dynamic of The Conjuring, and in its best moments, piercing the cultural particulars of the setting, serves as a horror version of Crazy Rich Asians. She is now married to another businessman and toymaker, Aiden (Christian Sugiono), who is la

Splatoon 2’s last content update is coming Dec. 5; after that, it will just be balancing and map tweaks and other minor adjustments for post-release support. A Splatoon fan account on Twitter picked apart all of the details and shared what’s coming earlier today. This update will be the FINAL update to include new weapons. Main Power Up is weapon dependent; for example, with it equipped, the Aerospray MG increases its ink coverage area, and the Splat Roller increases its damage. (1/2) pic.twitte

Black Friday has come and gone but for most major retailers that’s just the beginning. Welcome to Cyber Weekend, the two days between Black Friday and Cyber Monday when some of the hype has died down and you have a chance to check out some of the deals you missed in the rush to grab a Spider-Man PS4 bundle before it sold out. Most of the gaming accessory deals are still available, so if you were able to snag a new console, this is a good time to pick up a headset or extra controller. Our top pic

My enthusiasm for Fallout 76 dried up faster than you could say “always online multiplayer-only experience.” Trouble is, I love the franchise with the red, hot, plasma-like passion of a 30-megaton thermonuclear device. Amateur coroners take noteOnce you do begin wandering off the beaten path, extracting the narrative of Fallout 76 can be a bit of a challenge. Rebuild democracy through communismGetting over the hump early on in Fallout 76, especially if you’re planning on going solo, has a lot to

Shenmue 3 raised $7,179,510 over a three-year crowdfunding campaign, developer Ys Net revealed in an email to donors this week. The campaign had concluded in September; Ys Net hadn’t revealed the final tally until now. It means that the continuing crowdfunding, raised after the project’s 2015 Kickstarter, brought in about $800,000. In September 2015, Ys Net opened a “slacker backer” campaign that continued until this year. Yu Suzuki, the franchise’s creator, said in 2015 that the crowdfunding so

Video game publishers rarely say a project is abandoned or canceled outright — even if their actions have effectively made it so. That makes a trademark abandonment as close as it gets to definitively saying something that was once announced ain’t never gonna happen. Agent was (in)famously announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive at E3 2009, one of the last times, if not the last time, Rockstar Games made news at that expo. As noticed by DualShockers, Take-Two Interactive’s trademark is listed as

Obi-Wan Kenobi — Ewan McGregor, not Sir Alec Guinness, that is — will join Star Wars Battlefront 2’s roster of heroes on Nov. 28. The venerable Jedi arrives with two appearances, a “Jedi Master” look and a robed costume that more recalls his later incarnation. A General Kenobi appearance will join the game later. Both it and the Robed look are available for purchase with both Credits (the free in-game currency) or Crystals (the stuff bought for real money). Count Dooku and a light-side Anakin Sk