Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 campaign now has a trailer. The three-minute cinematic trailer stars Gillian Anderson, Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, Gary Oldman, Henry Cavill and Mark Strong. The trailer introduces the story’s existential threat, but not the actors by their names or characters. Star Citizen is the most crowdfunded campaign of any in history — video game or otherwise — collecting $195 million in donations since 2012. A portion of Star Citizen’s multiplayer module, its “persistent uni

During the keynote address at CitizenCon 2018, the fifth-annual Star Citizen fan convention, Chris Roberts and his team showed off an elaborate, new, multi-part mission type. Most of what was shown in the demo will be playable once the new update, referred to as 3.3, goes live. Since 2016, Star Citizen itself has not had a release date. The ship, which does not include access to the game itself, is a stand-alone item that costs $330. With more than $194 million raised since 2012, the Star Citize

If you’re aching to play Fortnite on your Android device, the time has come. Epic Games announced today that Fortnite is available for all players on Android devices — no longer just those who were invited to the earlier, private beta. Players who want to download the game will have to go to Epic’s specific Fortnite website, as the game isn’t available to download through Google’s Play Store. “Already you can purchase Fortnite V-Bucks or in-game items on PC, Mac, iOS, or Android and use them on

Return of the Obra Dinn — the next game from Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope — has a launch date. Pope bills Return of the Obra Dinn as “an insurance adventure with minimal color,” nodding to the low-res, digitized visuals of Macintosh adventure games in the late 1980s. In the game, players take on the role of an insurance company investigator piecing together the fate of the Obra Dinn, a ship in the East India Company. What we know is that the game is set in 1807, when a ghost ship called Obr

But one of the issues the team backed away from was children buying, and smoking, pot. “I think it was me quoted as saying we don’t have kids smoking weed in the game,” Scott Alexander, the game’s main writer, told Polygon. As far as they can tell, legalization doesn’t really affect kids smoking weed except to possibly slightly diminish it.”The data backs him up. But for now, the game doesn’t include teenagers in its groups of customers you see directly. “You can’t just sell weed to kids in the

Last week’s American Horror Story episode flashed back to a time before the apocalypse, when Cordelia Goode (Sarah Paulson) first encountered the demonic Michael Langdon (Cody Fern). As reigning supreme, Cordelia denies Michael the opportunity to perform the Seven Wonders. This, she says, is what prompts her to let Michael test for the Seven Wonders. In the same black and white flickering montage that explained the Seven Wonders in Coven, Michael undergoes the trials, completing each one with ea

Dance Floors have spawned around the Battle Royale island. The team that fills their meter the fastest by capturing and defending the dance floors will win the match! Emoting on a dance floor when no enemies are present will raise a disco ball in the center of the floor, and capture it for your team. The dance floors in the later stages of the match fill the bar more quickly, so don’t give up if your team is behind! It is not possible to build on or over the dance floors, but they can be protect

Hofmann posted a new message in the forum board on Oct. 8, announcing that he was working on a public beta and was asking those most active in the Vine community to sign up for testing. iPhone Xs), and anything else you’d like to share, and I’ll add you to the first public beta of the new app,” Hofmann wrote. Vine was 99 percent community and one percent the app we built for them. Don’t necessarily just use this app to become ‘famous,’ use this app to change someone’s life. “Learn from people wh

The Assassin’s Creed series is bowing under 11 years of canon at this point, and you can’t be blamed for forgetting some of it. In that vein, I’ve compressed the main storyline of the series into five minutes, so you can brush up on your lore before you start playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The draw of Assassin’s Creed is beautiful historical playgrounds, but if we’re looking at why these games exist, we have to admit that the connecting thread is predominantly in the modern-day storyline. It

Introduced in 2015 with a Fall Out Boy Q&A, Tumblr Answer Time is the platform’s equivalent to Reddit’s Ask Me Anything (AMA). Celebrities featured on Tumblr Answer Time have included astronaut Scott Kelly, musician Seth Everman, activist organization Black Girls Vote, and singer-songwriter Hayley Kiyoko. Enter: the cremation question. from me & tumblr user biggest-gaudiest-patronuses: if you were cremated & had your ashes made into a vinyl record, what song would you want on that record? A quic

Zekhan, the beloved troll from World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth’s cinematics, will finally find a place in-game in its next patch. In the upcoming Tides of Vengeance patch, players have datamined voice lines for Zekhan. [Warning: This post contains potential spoilers for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth patch 8.1, Tides of Vengeance.] It seems that the quest with Zekhan will revolve around finding Lord Saurfang after he escapes the Alliance stockades. Zekhan first became known to World

This week on Polygon’s Quality Control podcast, Mike McWhertor joins Dave Tach to discuss Mega Man 11, which is available now on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. In this episode, you’ll learn very little about Mega Man lore, a lot about how Mike played the game and (maybe most interestingly) what Capcom seems to have figured out across a bunch of franchises lately. Much of the discussion centers around what Mike wrote recently in his Mega Man 11 review, like this:Now, wit

Netflix’s Witcher series has officially found its female leads. Joining Henry Cavill as Geralt are Freya Allan (The War of the Worlds, Bluebird) as Ciri, and Anya Chalotra (Wanderlust, The ABC Murders) as Yennefer. Though various comic books, tabletop games and Polish-language film adaptations of the Witcher series exist, the video games have certainly become the primary visual representation of the characters to an audience outside of Eastern Europe. “We needed to create our own visual represen

Studios and Cartoon Network’s new, canon-approved comic, Adventure Time: Season 11, offers a haunting and hopeful message. “The future version of Ooo is not that cheery of a place,” Adventure Time executive producer Adam Muto told Polygon after the finale. If you came of age in the wake of 9/11, or are feeling especially empathetic as climate change reports prognosticate our own slow-burn apocalypse, the writing in Season 11 may strike a particular chord. When you’re catapulted into a new, dange

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey base gameBuy Assassin’s Creed Odyssey s tandard edition here: Amazon | Best Buy | UbisoftAssassin’s Creed Odyssey Deluxe EditionThe Deluxe Edition costs $79.99 and includes boosts to help you progress faster, along with some exclusive skins and weapons. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey base gameTemporary XP and Drachma (in-game currency) boostsKronos Gear Pack, Herald Gear Pack, Capricornus Naval PackBuy Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Deluxe Edition here: Amazon | Best Buy | UbisoftAs

Incredibly, everything in the game world can be manipulated through your tiny bird’s meager abilities. The Messenger(Steam/Switch, 2018)At first glance, The Messenger doesn’t look like a metroidvania game. Iconoclasts(PS4/Steam/Switch/Vita/Xbox One, 2018)Most indie metroidvania games look to Nintendo’s Super Metroid for inspiration. Yes, all metroidvania games ostensibly emphasize discovery, but the La-Mulana series feels unique in its application of that discipline. Axiom Verge(PlayStation 4/St

While the final remix might not be the most ideal version of The World Ends With You, it’s still that same odd journey at its core. The World Ends With You starts with an amnesiac teenager named Neku waking up in the middle of a fictional Scramble Crossing in Shibuya. When I first played The World Ends With You in ‘07, that system was a huge stumbling block. In the years since, The World Ends With You has been ported to mobile devices, systems without the signature dual screens. It’s a fun way t

The first trailer for Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s adaptation of Stephen King’s beloved horror novel, Pet Sematary, has arrived. Jeff Buhler, one of the film’s screenwriters, told Dread Central that Pet Sematary will be “the scariest Stephen King adaptation ever.”It should come as no surprise that production companies and studios are interested in revisiting King’s exhaustive catalogue of material. Following last year’s well-received It, this year’s Castle Rock series on Hulu and Netflix’s

If you’ve seen Venom, you know there’s a pretty memorable scene involving a sweet little puppy — but if you haven’t read many Venom comics, you might not know that that scene is totally within the realm of possibility for Marvel Comics’ infamous symbiotic goo monster. The alien’s bonded with a dog … and so much more. The Symbiote takes over a dog. And yes, this has precedence in Marvel Comics canon. Ivan, despite the tell tale tongue, was Venom going incognito — but there are other, wilder exa

In fact, when I first planned to write this article about the “best” Pokémon, I was only going to mention the Special Pokémon briefly before discussing other Pokémon. But it turns out that Special Pokémon are more permissible than they used to be in Pokémon’s premier competitive format. Some Special Pokémon are more special than othersWhile all the Special Pokémon have overpowered states compared to standard Pokémon, some of them are more overpowered than others. The best Pokémon is less arguabl