Marvel Cinematic Universe favorite Loki will be getting his own series on Disney’s streaming service, Disney Plus (stylized as Disney+). There were rumors of a Loki series, as well as a potential miniseries about Scarlet Witch and Vision, but Disney officially confirmed the miniseries in a press release. It’s unknown where this Loki series will fall in terms of the MCU timelineDisney’s streaming service will challenge established streaming giants Netflix, Amazon and Hulu (although after the Fox

As the years went by, fans wanted a return to the original Azeroth and at BlizzCon 2017, Blizzard announced it would release World of Warcraft: Classic. World of Warcraft: Classic demands a player’s complete attention. On Battle for Azeroth’s toolbar, your abilities flash and glow when it’s the right time to hit them, a luxury Classic players are not afforded. It’s those rougher edges that define World of Warcraft: Classic. Classic is adopting the vanilla World of Warcraft experience, warts and

Patrick Soderlund, the former chief design officer for Electronic Arts and former head of Battlefield studio DICE, has founded and is the chief executive of a new studio which has backing from Nexon. Embark Studios is the name of Soderlund’s new venture, and it is based in Stockholm. Soderlund has also joined Nexon’s board of directors. “Connected players, big data, speech recognition, cloud computing, advanced AI and more will open up new play, enabling developers to build a wider range of expe

He also composed scores for one of the most popular anime series of all time: Dragon Ball Z. Cocanaugher was looking for a composer for the new release of Dragon Ball Z Uncut. This situation couldn’t have been more unexpected for Johnson who said, “I had never seen Dragon Ball, never heard of Dragon Ball Z in my life. But Barry and Robert apparently liked my music.”Johnson composed all 67 episodes of Dragon Ball Z Uncut, that Funimation broadcast in the U.S., as well as working on the English ve

Players who purchased a Virtual Ticket to BlizzCon 2018 have been able to enjoy a demo for World of Warcraft: Classic over the past week. Blizzard announced today that the demo is not long for this world, and will become unavailable after this weekend. The World of Warcraft: Classic demo allows players to choose their race and class. World of Warcraft: Classic will be released fully next summer, and will be included in World of Warcraft’s monthly subscription. For those with a Virtual Ticket who

Best Buy’s Black Friday ad has dropped, revealing a series of doorbusters that kick off on Thanksgiving Day. The best of those gaming deals from Best Buy’s Black Friday sale are below. But Best Buy has price cuts on both the Xbox One S and PlayStation 4 slim for Black Friday, and they’re steep. DualShock 4 controller — $39.99 ($20 off)Xbox One controller — $39.99 ($20 off)If you want a cheap-but-good pair of headsets, Best Buy has those covered too. While some of the bigger ones still run at ste

Notably, Walmart is also carrying the PlayStation 4 Slim bundle we’ve seen in Target and Best Buy Black Friday ads. Landing pages are up already for Black Friday deals, so you can bookmark any products you’re planning on snagging. We’ll be updating this post throughout Black Friday weekend when new deals drop and products sell out. Gaming PC and Hardware DealsThere are a few gaming PC deals at Walmart if you’re in the market for a new laptop or monitor. Video Game DealsA bunch of games for Switc

Netflix is increasing its partnership with Asian entertainment: The streaming giant announced 17 new Asian original productions Thursday, including five new anime series. The first of these new anime series will be set in the Pacific Rim universe and follow two siblings learning to pilot an abandoned Jaeger while searching for their parents. While Netflix is calling this series an anime, it has yet to announced an animation studio. The adaptation will be produced by Legendary Entertainment and s

Apocalypse’s penultimate episode jumped ahead to the near past, and revealed just how Michael finds the enigmatic Cooperative and sets off the apocalyptic events that kickstarted everything. Desperate, Michael sought out guidance from his father, before stumbling to a Church of Satan and revealing his true nature. They construct him the robot replica of Ms. Mead and want him to bring fire and fury onto the world, but Michael just cares about personal vengeance. Michael is furious and vents to Ms

Netflix has unveiled the first look at its new series Kingdom, which brings undead horror to medieval Korea, in a teaser trailer released Wednesday night. The series is set just after the death of a king in Korea’s Joseon period, which lasted from about 1400 to 1900. Kingdom comes as a part of Netflix’s ongoing partnership with Asian production studios, which has helped bring about a number of different shows. Kingdom is directed by Kim Seong-hun, who was award the Korean Grand Bell Award for be

Andy Serkis’ Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle for Netflix gets its first trailer, showing off a darker version of The Jungle Book. The familiar characters of Baloo (Andy Serkis), Bagheera (Christian Bale) and Mowgli (Rohan Chad) himself are all present in the trailer, but this version of the film puts more of a focus on the human characters than Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book from 2016. Mowgli stumbles into the village, where he’s taken care of by a kindly woman named Messua (Freida Pinto) and encoun

Gris is a game that wants to teach us something about these fears we hold inside. In Gris, you play as a woman (also named Gris) who has lost her voice and, with it, her agency. If you’ve seen promotional art or trailers for the game, you’ve likely seen the main character flounce her dress up into a cube to weather these storms. Gris is simply packed with little details like that, tiny things that, when considered, blossom into meaning. Gris will only take you a handful of hours to play from sta

Injustice: Gods Among Us — NetherRealm’s 2013 fighting game featuring the heroes of the DC Universe — opened with Superman murdering the Joker. And yet, the digital tie-in comic to the game spent its recently wrapped five-year run morphing into a love letter to DC Comics. The Injustice: Gods Among Us comic is one of the best superhero comics of the last five years. If Injustice: Gods Among Us was about how the DC Universe can slide into a fascist state, Injustice 2 was about people willing to st

66This week on Polygon’s Quality Control podcast, we’re joined by Jenna Stoeber and Tara Long. Between the two of them, they’ve spent dozens of hours in the Fallout 76 beta, so who better to bring onto the show to discuss it. Fallout 76 is a departure for Bethesda, which traditionally makes games that it proudly refers to as “massively single-player.” So how does the presence of other players impact the atmosphere of the game? And, perhaps most important of all, how has it been holding up techni

Three of the next four character-focused add-ons for Final Fantasy 15 have been canceled, Square Enix announced today, and game director Hajime Tabata has left the company. One of the add-ons, Final Fantasy 15 Episode Ardyn, will still be released in March 2019, but episodes based on the characters Aranea, Lunafreya and Noctis have been scrapped. All four episodes were previously planned for release in 2019, and would have offered side stories and an alternate finale to Final Fantasy 15. Episode

World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Battle for Azeroth, was released earlier this year, while the Hearthstone team revealed its own new expansion, Rastakhan’s Rumble, at BlizzCon 2018. Both the World of Warcraft expansion and this new Hearthstone pack deal heavily with the Warcraft race of trolls — the titular Rastakhan himself is, in fact, a new character introduced in Battle for Azeroth. And what appeals to us on the Hearthstone team about trolls is that the fantasy is so broad.”The troll va

On Monday, Reddit user teetharejustdone alleged there were five ways to hack and break Fallout 76, basing that on a 4,000-hour playing history in Fallout 4 and two years of experience modding it. “In conclusion: Bethesda should not have just made Fallout 76 by throwing mods on it from Nexus and solid it as a new game,” they wrote. “Have fun in the wasteland gamers [sic].” They included a link to Nexus Mods, where users are already making and uploading mods for the Fallout 76 beta concluding toda

When Heroes of the Storm was first released in 2015, the game drew comparisons to its MOBA peers, Dota 2 and League of Legends. The MOBA genre had been born from Blizzard’s level editors, but the company had missed the boat on popularizing the genre. “This year, we’ve released a lot of non-assassins,” said Kyle Dates, a game designer on Heroes of the Storm. At the end of the day, I’m finding that when I want to scratch my itch to just play a MOBA, Heroes of the Storm is the game I reach for. In

DayZ, the influential multiplayer survival game that debuted in 2012 as a mod for Arma 2, will soon leave early access. The mod that would become DayZ was inspired by an experience he had during joint survival training exercises with the Singaporean military. Within months there were over half a million players, prompting BI to spin the game off as its own stand-alone product. But the development team has since struggled to fulfill the promises it made to devoted fans. But, in the same announcem

Mass Effect will cameo in Anthem thanks to a set of N7 armor a BioWare producer showed off Wednesday evening on Twitter. BioWare’s Michael Gamble, lead producer on Anthem, was celebrating “N7 Day,” the unofficial Mass Effect holiday (Nov. 7, of course). The tweet shows an N7 Javelin (that’s the codename for the battle suit players wear in Anthem) hanging around in Fort Tarsis, the game’s hub area. Last week, Gamble and fellow lead producer Ben Irving held a livestream showing about 45 minutes of