This week on Polygon’s Quality Control podcast, senior reporter Colin Campbell stops by to talk about his time spent with Return of the Obra Dinn. developer Lucas Pope, it’s a bizarre tale with a singular art style that is definitely worth your time. In Obra Dinn, players take on the role of an insurance agent with mysterious powers. In many ways, the game is reminiscent of classic whodunit novels by the likes of Agatha Christie. Colin discusses why that’s so rare — and so important.

Designer Toby Fox updated both his personal and the Undertale Twitter accounts yesterday with a series of cryptic tweets: In 24 hours, something was coming. Those who guessed that it was a new game of some sort appear to be right, as the countdown has ended with the launch of Deltarune. Deltarune is a free download for Mac OS X and Windows PC. pic.twitter.com/qQStDfcMiI — tobyfox (@tobyfox) October 31, 2018It’s important to recognize that, according to the Undertale Twitter, this game is far fro

The first trailer for Sony’s remake of PlayStation classic MediEvil is here. “He receives a chance at redemption when his nemesis, the evil sorcerer Lord Zarok, accidentally resurrects him 100 years after that fateful day. Layden himself worked on the original MediEvil, which was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment’s now-shuttered Cambridge Studio. Sony’s Cambridge Studio previously reimagined MediEvil in the form of a PSP release known as MediEvil Resurrection. MediEvil for PlayStation 4 i

It’s been one year since the release of Bubsy the Bobcat’s last game, Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back, so apparently we’re due for a new one. Next year, we’ll get an all-new Bubsy — Bubsy: Paws on Fire, which is coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. Bubsy’s next game is being developed by Choice Provisions, the studio behind the Bit.Trip series and space survival game Tharsis. Choice Provisions’ take on Bubsy will include four playable characters (Bubsy, The Woolie, Arnold and

November’s lineup of free PlayStation Plus games includes People Can Fly’s hyper-violent first-person shooter Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition and Sega’s criminal underworld action-adventure Yakuza Kiwami, both for PlayStation 4. If you’re experiencing a tinge of deja vu right now, that’s because both titles were outed as November’s headlining PlayStation Plus games in a leak earlier this month. — for PlayStation 3; and Burly Men At Sea and Roundabout for PlayStation Vita. Expect November’s PS Plu

Fallout 76 may suffer from a weakness in its graphics code, one that’s present in other games in the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series. That weakness, when exploited in the multiplayer-only online game, could allow PC players to move faster than they otherwise should. Redditor watto33 claims that the same .ini exploit works in Fallout 76, but has yet to provide video proof to support their claims. Fallout 76 is currently in a closed beta period, although access is easy to come by. Fallout 76 laun

The streaming wars are heating up, and Marvel’s available Avengers are ready to fight. According to Variety, Marvel is actively developing a limited series starring Captain America cohorts Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky aka The Winter Solider (Sebastian Stan) for exclusive debut on Disney’s unnamed streaming service. The news arrives after whispers that spinoff vehicles for Tom Hiddleston’s Loki and Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch were also in the works. Marvel has recruited Empire writer Mal

Scary games are fun to play throughout the year, but they are especially effective on the holiday that celebrates all things spooky: Halloween. As the day of trick-or-treating have arrived, several retailers have discounted what we think are the very best games to play on and around Halloween. $15 on PC at Green Man Gaming (usually $59.99)Alien: IsolationImagine being alone on a derelict space station. For those uninitiated to horror games, Alien: Isolation is torturous. At $5.99, you absolutely

Hunting is a lot more than just a way to pass the time in Red Dead Redemption 2. Like a lot of Red Dead Redemption 2, though, hunting is only briefly explained in the game. This means that if you want to be efficient, you want to go for perfect animals and perfect kills every (or most of the) time. There are five sizes of animal in Red Dead Redemption 2: small, moderate, medium, large and massive. You’ve got a few options for what to do with the animals you’ve killed — or, more specifically, the

To celebrate the end of the Halloween-themed Festival of the Lost, Destiny 2: Forsaken has introduced the new “Journal of the Reef Cryptarch” exotic quest. Head to the EDZ and await a “Glimmer Extraction” Public Event. These Fallen have a high chance to drop the needed pages. We were able to find eight of the 10 pages in just one Public Event. Rinse and repeat until you have all 10 pages from the lost Cryptarch’s journal.

On a year when Halloween falls on a Wednesday, there are a lot of spooky comics coming out, including Wytches: Bad Egg, an 80-page one-shot story from the master storytelling duo of Scott Snyder and the artist known as Jock. Fans have been waiting a long time for Bad Egg. Bad Egg is their first Wytches story in three years, and it’s the best new horror comic you could read on this most spooky of new comics days. The setting has everything you could want from a horror story: Broken family dynamic

Axis & Allies & Zombies, first unveiled here in June, is finally on the shelf at your friendly local game store and on Amazon. Axis & Allies & Zombies doesn’t do all that much to change up the rules of the classic. With Axis & Allies & Zombies, however, the game has a sort of built-in doomsday timer. It’s less useful, however, at teaching you how to play Axis & Allies & Zombies. Overall, Axis & Allies & Zombies comes highly recommended.

We may not know exactly what the upcoming Game of Thrones spinoff series are going to be about, but we do know at least one cast member: Naomi Watts. While the exact story of this series hasn’t been revealed yet, HBO has given a brief description of the show, which is set thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones. (My vote would be THE LONG NIGHT, which says it all, but I’d be surprised if that’s where we end up. More likely HBO will want to work the phrase “game of thrones” in the

The great news about Diablo 3 on Switch is that it’s Diablo 3 on Switch; it’s as good as you might hope. Playing Diablo with a controller has always been a bit strange, but surprisingly playable, and the Switch offers a variety of controller and play styles. This is my favorite way to play Diablo 3, but it isn’t particularly feasible on the Switch. Due to the competitive, leaderboard-oriented structure of Diablo 3 seasons, a constant internet connection is required to play. If your Switch isn’t

ESPN Plus, the subscription-based streaming service from the sports programming giant, is now available to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One owners, ESPN announced Tuesday. ESPN launched ESPN Plus in April, and since then, the company has integrated the service into the existing ESPN app on platforms such as Amazon Fire, Android, Chromecast, iOS and Roku. However, although ESPN has been available on gaming consoles for years — via the ESPN app on Xbox One and the WatchESPN app on PS4 — ESPN Plus has no

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has been out for a few weeks now, and Treyarch has just released the game’s biggest patch yet. For a full look at all the changes coming to Black Ops 4, you can check out Treyarch’s official patch notes. Gun Game has arrivedOne of the most popular modes in the Black Ops series — and online shooters in general — Gun Game has made it’s way to Black Ops 4. This should make for not only an unpredictable mode, but also a great addition to Black Ops 4’s set of multiplayer mod

The latest patch for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout mode is here, and there isn’t anything too groundbreaking about it. Perhaps the biggest change is coming to the mode’s armor, which is going to let a little bit more damage pass through now. This patch was all part of Treyarch’s Oct. 30 update to Black Ops 4, which included a ton of other — non-Blackout — changes to the game. Adjusted footsteps for all Armor types in first-person and third-person to give better directionality and distance

There is a free companion app for Red Dead Redemption 2 that works on both iOS and Android phones and tablets. Make sure you’re getting the app developed by Rockstar Games — it helps to search for “RDR2: Companion” and not “Red Dead Redemption 2.” Or you can follow these direct links to the Android and iOS versions. This is counter-intuitive, but the companion’s usefulness is due to the design of the game, not the app. But skeuomorphism works well with the setting of Red Dead Redemption 2. Compa

“I haven’t had much time to play games,” he said. “I’m a big fan of Fallout and I haven’t played the latest one of those [Fallout 4]. I love Far Cry, but I missed the last Far Cry. I think there’s a lot of crossover from Hollywood and game making these days.”That said, it does seem like it’ll be a while before Jackson is tied to another video game project. I always feel sorry for those people that are good at playing games where they sit there and just kill, kill, kill, kill, bang bang.

Nintendo will broadcast a new Nintendo Direct presentation on Thursday, Nov. 1, that’s all about Super Smash Bros. The next Nintendo Direct — said to be the final Direct presentation focused on Super Smash Bros. Nintendo will broadcast on YouTube, Twitch and its Nintendo Direct website. Super Smash Bros. After the Nintendo Direct concludes, Nintendo will air a post-show Nintendo Treehouse: Live presentation.