Journey to the Savage Planet is a pretty straightforward game, but there’s still plenty of strategy for new players to learn. Return to your ship often to bank your resourcesWandering around an alien planet and scraping together resources is a dangerous job. Look above and below for hidden pathsThere’s a lot of verticality to the titular Savage Planet — even beyond all the floating islands. Not every path leading to hidden treasures like Alien Alloy or Orange Goo will be at eye-level. And that’s

In our Journey to the Savage Planet beginner’s guide, we’ll get help you get started with this game about slapping space-chickens. A yellow kite icon shows the next waypoint for whatever your active mission is. A yellow kite icon shows the next waypoint for whatever your active mission is. Cut grass to find Orange GooEating Orange Goo is how you’ll increase your health and stamina (for running longer) in Journey to the Savage Planet. Have funJourney to the Savage Planet is not an intense game, s

The full extent of that cruelty is the final note in Happy Happy Joy Joy. The structure of Happy Happy Joy Joy makes for insufficient exploration of Ren & Stimpy’s legacy. They are not chronicled in Happy Happy Joy Joy, save for one emotional follow-up interview with Coffey. Happy Happy Joy Joy did not have to deliver a verdict on the art-vs.-artist debate, but a more successful documentary might demand conclusions from its subjects. Happy Happy Joy Joy is an independent production that premiere

The heavily Oscar-nominated World War I film 1917 offers its audience some disorienting whiplash. But hitting this singular aesthetic goal doesn’t necessarily mean 1917’s story is effectively told. The focus falls on mostly on their faces and on Blake’s quickly reddening wound, as Blake takes his last breaths. Shortly afterward, however, Schofield boards a transport truck with a regiment passing through, and the camera hops in with him. 1917 is a journey from point to point, and distance is a vi

My first encounter with an alien life form in Journey to the Savage Planet establishes the game’s tone in no uncertain terms. Journey to the Savage Planet drops me onto an uncharted planet, unprepared and uninformed, with the goal of determining if the planet is safe for human habitation or corporate exploitation. Which may make Journey to the Savage Planet one of the more effectively absurd games in recent memory. The game doesn’t shy away from its cautionary parable of environmental exploitati

While many Twitch streamers have opted to leave, this new era has resulted in some streamers signing deals to stay with Twitch, such as Ben “DrLupo” Lupo, Squib “Lirik” Zahid, and Timothy “TimTheTatman” Betar. While not every streaming service may have the same dedicated audience as Twitch, Freytag explains that they each offer their own benefits that can attract streamers. At the height of his streaming, Blevins talked about working 12-hour days just to maintain his following. Twitch and Mixer

Archvile, which also appeared in Doom 2 26 years ago, occupies a role similar to the Summoner’s from Doom (2016), Martin explained. For more on Doom Eternal, check out our preview from earlier this month. Chris Grant says that for all of its over-the-top violence, the Doom series “is absolutely a Saturday morning cartoon. And Doom Eternal gets that, and leans into that, more than any Doom game I’ve ever played.” Doom Eternal launches March 20 on Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox

Here’s a heartwarming story to close out your weekend: A top flight Fortnite pro and streamer paid off all of his mother’s student loans. His livestream at the end of the week captured the moment, and his mom’s delighted, genuine surprise. As to that, Aydan Conrad’s mother sounds more surprised by her son’s ability to engineer the payoff, rather than coming up with the money for it. Besides, with regard to her student debt, “You can’t … it’s not a federal loan,” she says. The most recent statist

Announced this weekend at Evo Japan 2020, here is Haohmaru from Samurai Shodown crossing over into Soulcalibur 6. Haohmaru is the second of the four characters comprising Soulcalibur 6’s second season of downloadable content. He’s the protagonist of the Samurai Shodown series (and cover star for the 2019 game), first appearing with the franchise’s debut in 1993. He was announced way back in August when Namco put out its first trailer for the Season Pass 2 DLC. Soulcalibur 6’s Season Pass 2 is $3

Almost five years after launching, Batman: Arkham Knight is still getting free alternate costumes for the Caped Crusader. As promised last year, the Earth 2 Dark Knight Skin will be made available worldwide to players who own Batman: Arkham Knight on PS4. This costume was part of the Batman: Arkham Collection that launched last year in Europe. Early next year E2DK will be released as a free download for everyone who owns BAK on PS4 worldwide. The studio (makers of 2013’s Batman: Arkham Origins)

Sony on Thursday moved the film from a Dec. 18, 2020 release date to March 5, 2021. Deadline reports that Masters of the Universe already had the March 5, 2021 date; now it simply has no release date. Rafe Judkins (TV’s Chuck and Agents of SHIELD) is writing, along with Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, who also wrote Masters of the Universe’s screenplay. At the beginning of the year, Travis Knight (Bumblebee) left the Uncharted movie, joining Dan Trachtenberg, David O. Russell, Neil Burger, Seth Go

A federal court of appeals shot down a Pennsylvania man’s complaint that getting muted from an online video game (in this case, most likely RuneScape) violated his civil rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit tossed out Amro Elansari’s claim in a Jan. 22 ruling. Elansari, a serial litigator who has filed 15 lawsuits in federal district court in the past five years, sued Jagex, the maker of RuneScape after getting muted last July. A federal district court judge promptly dismissed

Speedrunners of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time have discovered a way to summon an Arwing — that’s right, the spacefighter from Star Fox 64 — without using mods or a cheat device. And the method that allows them to do this has also dramatically cut the world record time for Ocarina, one of the community’s most speed-run games. The two things — the Arwing and the speedrun record — aren’t necessarily related to each other. This means that the game can be forced to load and execute a save file

Activision Blizzard and Google have teamed up for a deal to exclusively stream live esports broadcasts, including Overwatch League, Call of Duty League, and Hearthstone Esports, on YouTube. Blizzard Entertainment previously had a deal with Twitch to broadcast esports and live tournaments. As part of the deal, Activision Blizzard’s online games will also employ Google Cloud to “deliver superior, low-latency player experiences,” according to a joint news release from the companies. Activision Bliz

I’m always a bit reticent to cover flight simulation here on Polygon, but sometimes modern-day virtual fighter jocks make themselves impossible to ignore. While some folks might be more familiar with the flight simulator known as DCS Warthog A-10C, this free-to-play product is much more recent. It’s more of a platform, with multiple modules for sale that allow virtual pilots to tackle everything from WWII fighters and Korean War-era jets to the latest models in the U.S., Russian, and European in

Epic Games is changing up Fortnite’s physics engine. The popular battle royale game will move to the Unreal Engine’s new Chaos physics engine with the 11.50 update, which is currently scheduled for early February. While a change in the game’s physics engine may sound like a big deal, in the announcement of the change, Epic says that the main goal is to make sure that “Fortnite still feels like Fortnite.” Because of this new update, Epic has also pushed back the start of Fortnite Chapter 2’s seco

There are always a ton of moving pieces in big-budget, complicated games, that somehow have to all fit together. “GAMES ARE VERY UGLY, FOR A LONG TIME, UNTIL THEY ARE NOT,” he wrote on Twitter. — Cory Barlog Little Creep League (@corybarlog) January 22, 2020″We are, more often than not, going on passion and belief that the vision of this buggy + duct taped together ‘thing’ is going to come together in the end,” Barlog continued. “A lot of game development is just having faith that you’ll get the

Logitech is launching another special edition of its G Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse, with proceeds again benefitting organizations that promote accessibility in video games. Related Xbox Adaptive Controller gets a toolkit full of assists from LogitechLogitech partnered with all three to develop the Logitech G Adaptive Gaming Kit for the Xbox Adaptive Controller; Logitech’s kit launched in November. Last month, Logitech launched its first special edition of the G Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse, called Pi

Steam’s annual Lunar New Year Sale kicked off on Thursday evening, with daily freebies, Year-of-the-Rat-themed backgrounds and emoticons, and, of course, plenty of discounted games. Steam also offers daily free tokens, which are activated by clicking a red envelope on the sale’s homepage once per day. (Traditionally, small red envelopes are filled with money and given to children as gifts during the Lunar New Year.) A few other digital PC game marketplaces are throwing Lunar New Year sales of th

World of Warcraft’s most recent expansion, Battle for Azeroth, has been controversial from the explosive start. But fans have issues with Battle for Azeroth’s story, specifically regarding changes to both the world and their player characters. “Like there are in the real world, and people interpret things differently and convey things differently.” In the Chronicles lore books, the canon retelling of World of Warcraft’s history, raids are usually assigned to one faction or another. In short, it’