If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly Exotic item merchant. Its exotic perk, Repulsor Force, causes the weapon to fire powerful impulses that push enemies away from the user. Its main exotic perk is Misdirection. This is a decent PvP exotic if you’re sick of running the classics. SANGUINE ALCHEMYSanguine Alchemy is a gorgeous Warlock chest with a pretty interesting PvP perk.

Is there such a thing as a legitimately good video game movie? Simone makes a case for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Allegra lists off five ideas for new video game movies and Ashley ponders the walking sim genre for TV and movies. Chelsea is absent for this episode, but stands by the Resident Evil movies. The Polygon Show will be available for you to listen to every Friday on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. If you like what you hear, don’t forget to rate and review The Polygon Show on Apple

Shrek: The Musical’s egregious omission of Smash Mouth hit “All Star,” has been rectified and then some. This month, All Star: The Best Broadway Musical, a four-act play written by and starring Allison Frasca, had its first public reading at the Davenport Theatre in New York City. But once Frasca had assembled her delightful presentation, they decided to join the party — All Star: The Best Broadway Musical is officially sanctioned by the band. All Star: The Best Broadway Musical sounds like the

Rent it on iTunes | Amazon | Google Play | VuduBLACK PANTHERMarvel movies have seen their ups and downs. Rent it on iTunes | Amazon | Google Play | Vudu | YouTubeFIRST REFORMEDFirst Reformed is one of the most remarkable artistic feats of the year. Rent it on iTunes | Amazon | Google Play | Vudu | YouTubeWON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? Rent it on iTunes | Amazon | Google Play | Vudu | YouTubeINCREDIBLES 2With Incredibles 2, Brad Bird reasserts his dominance as one of the best filmmakers around. Curren

Despite wrapping with a clear tease for the future, the second season of Netflix’s Iron Fist will be the show’s last. “Marvel’s Iron Fist will not return for a third season on Netflix,” Netflix confirmed in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. As Netflix does not release ratings for its shows, it’s unclear why Iron Fist got the boot (er, glowy hand? Will Iron Fist appear in a second Defenders team-up? Anything’s possible, but we won’t get the solo adventures of Danny Rand again, so savor those

The latest entry, Black Ops 4, lacks the traditional single-player campaign that has served as the series’ glue. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is the most 2018 game release you can imagine, and it might be one of Activision’s most forward-looking moves in recent memory. The lack of a single-player campaign may be a boon for Black Ops 4. MultiplayerTraditional Call of Duty multiplayer — there are many modes, some of them new — has been both busied up and slimmed down in Black Ops 4. Movement is much

Polygon Essentials is a collection of persistently updated lists of the best of the best games for each platform — from the hardware’s launch to its end of production — as well as the best entertainment across virtually every medium. Get it here: Amazon | Best Buy | GameStop | Walmart | PlayStation StoreHorizon Zero DawnFew PS4 games can match the scale and beauty of Horizon Zero Dawn. Get it here: Amazon | Best Buy | GameStop | Walmart | PlayStation StoreRatchet & ClankThe PS4 is overflowing wi

Silicon Valley had the same momentum as everything else seemed to be failing. The connection between Stark and Musk was only solidified in 2010’s Iron Man 2, which included an actual cameo from Musk himself. There were quite a few parallels between Musk’s career in 2008 and Stark’s arc in Iron Man. Tony Stark had to overcome his greatest challenge to become the superhero he’s known as today. The tech genius visionary Tony Stark was based on became a core issue of Silicon Valley’s critics.

Wendig attributed the move to online reaction to his personal social media presence. — Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) October 12, 2018Wendig’s first work in the Star Wars universe was 2015’s Star Wars: Aftermath, which was among the first stories in the new Star Wars Expanded Universe to be published in the lead up to The Force Awakens. I also started receiving TONS of harassment – harassment that has gone on for years, harassment that has required me to contact local police and warn them of SWATti

note: This article contains spoilers for Venom, as well as mild spoilers for various Venom comics.] Now, among the many other projected live-action Spider-verse films coming our way, there will obviously be a sequel (possibly sequels) to Venom. The post-credits scene of Venom finds Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) back in the journalism game, interviewing jailed serial killer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson). Well, Vengeance is basically that but if he also looked like the love child of Ghost Rider and De

Royal Never Give Up is undefeated in the Worlds 2018 Group Stages so far, and that’s partially thanks to mid laner Li “Xiaohu” Yuan-Hao. As a quick reminder, the Rift Herald Lightning Round is made up of questions from players that have already participated in our Lightning Rounds, Vox Media employees and me, your lovely Rift Herald site lead. I can’t touch them. The Rift Herald: Are you allergic? The Rift Herald: That’s fine!

After kt Rolster polished off MAD Team on day three of the 2018 World Championship Group Stage, AD carry Kim “Deft” Hyuk-kyu sat down for the fastest Lightning Round we’ve had so far. Some of the questions are from Vox Media employees, some are from players we’ve already thrown into our Lightning Round and some of them are just completely random ones from my brain. We toss the jar to the players and have them pick questions and answer as many as they can in a short time. Deft: I want to go as a

Our Lightning Rounds are composed of questions asked by players we’ve interviewed already, Vox Media employees and me, your favorite(?) Rift Herald editor. We blast through the questions and try to answer as many as we can in the short interview time block we have with the players. Meiko: A kitty, because they’re really free. The Rift Herald: What is your favorite skin?

2016 World Champion Lee “Duke” Ho-seong, a.k.a Invictus Gaming’s top laner, joined The Rift Herald for a Lightning Round, fresh from a win against Fnatic. Duke: Back in 2016, I made the Ekko skin, so it’s unfortunate that I couldn’t make a Gnar skin. The Rift Herald: Like doenjang-jjigae (fermented bean paste soup)? Duke: I’d like to retire to a country side where the air is fresh and it’s not very crowded. The Rift Herald: Not even juice?

Our Lightning Rounds are comprised of questions submitted by players we’ve already interviewed, Vox Media staff and yours truly. Sometimes players will pull only questions unrelated to League and sometimes they’ll pull a lot of their fellow players’ questions — like Ssumday did. The Rift Herald: -proudly- Everyone would be a fan of it. The Rift Herald: Squirtle? Ssumday: I’m going to be Yasuo because he looks so cool!

Now, at the 2018 World Championships that conversation finally seems to be coming to a head, as the LCK has faced its worst ever start to a world tournament as a region. The LCK’s second and third seed teams — Afreeca Freecs and Gen. G, respectively — only have one win combined after five games. It might just be that the LCK’s second and third place teams are closer to the other teams in the world than ever before. So, exactly how bad have the losses been for the LCK teams so far? After all, thr

We pulled jungler Liu “Mlxg” Shi-Yu after his match to do a quick Lightning Round with us. Our Lightning Round questions come from pros we’ve interviewed already, Vox Media employees and my brain. We’re looking to ask those really hard-hitting questions … like, the ones about Pokémon and stuff. Mlxg: I don’t think I could play another game competitively, because I’m not good at other games. Mlxg: Who talks the most shit on your team?

Hitman 2 will let players battle each other in a one-on-one, real-time competitive mode, a challenge to see which player can assassinate five targets before their opponent can. You can see the game’s new competitive Ghost Mode in action in the trailer above. Two players will start each match of Ghost Mode side-by-side, both playing as Agent 47 (one’s a lot paler). Ghost Mode will join Hitman 2’s cooperative Sniper Assassination mode in the suite of multiplayer options in IO Interactive’s next ga

In its place there’s a new mode called Blackout, a battle royale-style game based loosely on hit titles such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite. It deviates from the traditional model of the battle royale genre, all but abandoning its roots as a survival game. The first true battle royale games, H1Z1 and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, were effectively designed by the same person: Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene. In Black Ops’ Blackout, expect to do a hell of a lot more shooting. Unlike

This reduces the amount of content players need to purchase before jumping into Forsaken, as they can now simply purchase Destiny 2’s standard edition and Forsaken to be all caught up. Previously, players were required to own Destiny 2, both previous expansions and Forsaken before they could play. Players who play Forsaken before this Tuesday will receive a bonus from Bungie. Two exotic emotes — knife trick and coin flip — will become available through Eververse at another point, but will presum