If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly Exotic item merchant. This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur Exotics on your highest level character. Its exotic perk, Upgraded Sensor Pack, will constantly provide you with a radar, even while aiming down sites. Its main exotic perk is Bring the Heat, which causes the Fusion Grenades used by solar Titans to explode immediately on impact and travel faster in mid-air. Its exotic perk, Planetary To

We have a set of free closed beta keys for the first 1,000 participants looking to try the Magic: The Gathering Arena closed beta. Our impressions earlier this year find that Arena “has that same addictive vibe as a good game of Civilization” with a fantastic ambient soundscape. Before redeeming the code, download the Magic: The Gathering Arena launcher here. After installing, boot up the client and enter in your key. If you’re viewing this page on mobile, use this link to enter.

Almost 25 years after it was released, Doom 2 has finally given up its last secret (with some qualification as to what the secret really is). Zero Master figured out that the way to trigger the secret was to be pushed into the secret area by an enemy (in this case, a Pain Elemental). Secret explained: A secret teleporter is marked as a discoverable “secret”, but when you touch it, you never enter the sector. So you would never get inside the teleporter sector to trigger the secret. As user mcc11

Destiny 2: Forsaken’s flagship feature is the PvEvP mode Gambit, where players fight enemies, bank motes and try to take each other down in the process. For 24 hours, starting at 1 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Sept. 1, all Destiny 2 owners will be able to check out the mode for free ahead of Forsaken’s release on Sept. 4. In anticipation for this free trial (and how tricky Gambit can be), we sat down with Gambit designers Lars Bakken and Robbie Stevens to get a better idea of how players should approac

NBA 2K began the story mode trend for sports video games five years ago. This year’s story, The Way Back, steps well outside the boundaries of the game’s namesake league, and goes international in search of the hero’s redemption. NBL games in The Way Back will even feature Chinese language commentary, further adding to the player’s sense of displacement. Stateside, the hero ends up in the NBA G League with — I mean, with a name like this, who else? Once again, the first chapter (The Prelude) of

Valve released a free version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive this week as part of the game’s latest update, letting players compete in offline matches against bots. It’s a good way to jump into the game if you’ve been wary about dropping $14.99 or are just hesitant about playing against more experienced players. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s free version — available for Linux, Mac and Windows PC from Steam — also lets players watch matches through GOTV, the game’s spectating client. Th

The keynote presentation for the annual Star Citizen fan convention, called CitizenCon, has long been free to stream online. Those rights were to include access to the keynote presentation and, for the first time ever, complete coverage of every panel and presentation held at the event. All streams of CitizenCon this October, including the keynote and its various sub-components, will be available for free to anyone with a free Star Citizen community account. In the Star Citizen subreddit, there

Agent 47 is heading to the jungles of South America for Io Interactive’s sequel, Hitman 2. In a new teaser video, we get a sneak peek of Hitman 2’s second confirmed location: Colombia. Unlike many of Hitman’s other recent locations, the game’s Colombia environment is not a developed, bustling city where Agent 47 can blend in with crowds. The rainforests of Colombia join Miami as the only two confirmed locations new to Hitman 2. They’ll join the six locations from the previous Hitman, which owner

Rapper Eminem dropped a surprise album at midnight Friday (titled Kamikaze), and the very last track on this late-night release is a track called “Venom,” which — you guessed it — will be featured in Sony’s upcoming Venom movie. Eminem had teased the track before the album’s release, tweeting a very short clip (in which he raps “VeNUUUUMMM”) and tagging the movie’s account. There’s also the repetition of “VeNUMMMM” — you know, just in case you weren’t sure who this track was about. The Genius ly

Shane Black’s The Predator looks like a throwback to the classic ’80s action films that many of us grew up with — and the upcoming movie’s latest trailer justifies the R rating. The trailer also shows us that the hunters have brought doglike creatures to Earth to make killing people that much more efficient. This is the last trailer before The Predator is released, and boy, does it lean into the violence. At the same time, this may not be the most serious entry into the series, judging by the ov

The story of Spider-Man games is one of Herculean technical achievement and problem solving, and to delve into its history is to begin seeing countless echoes, in-jokes and homages. From Monster-Ock in Neversoft’s Spider-Man to the Atrocity in Edge of Time, or Mysterio’s fun-house games in the Sega CD Spider-Man vs. The 8-bit webheadThe years haven’t been kind to the Spider-Man games of the 1980s. helped to forge the template for what superhero games, and especially Spider-Man ones, would look l

This week’s Web of Venom: Ve’Nam (yes), a one-issue tale from writer Donny Cates and artist Juanan Ramírez, shows us exactly how badly that went, in a story about Nick Fury and Wolverine fighting five Venoms in the jungle. But more importantly, it is a story about Nick Fury and Wolverine fighting five Venoms in the jungle. So Nick Fury and Wolverine head out into the jungle and fight five Venoms. And Web of Venom: Ve’Nam, despite its Predator-esque plotline (and, let’s be real, its hate-it-or-lo

Both Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Shovel Knight Showdown are due on April 9, 2019, with several options for buyers. The Shovel Knight journey has been an especially long one. Meanwhile, Shovel Knight Showdown is a different kind of DLC altogether. The complete Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove set will retail for $39.99. Meanwhile, Shovel Knight Showdown will launch only on PC and consoles.

Fortnite’s Summer Skirmish competitive series has almost come to an end, and to celebrate, Epic Games is heading to PAX West for a massive blowout event. Across all four days of PAX West 2018, Epic will be hosting a huge final tournament for Summer Skirmish, and this time it’s open to everyone — as long as you’re at PAX. The top 32 players from each qualifier will move on to the nightly qualifier, where they will once again face off. While only players who are actually in attendance at PAX West

Publisher Devolver Digital has apologized and said it is reviewing the game for similar imagery. Two days before its launch, Scum sat in third place on Twitch behind the world premiere gameplay demo of Cyberpunk 2077. The result of that hype was, according to publisher Devolver Digital, the most successful game launch that it’s ever had. The inclusion of Nazi symbology has, nonetheless, caused some outcry among fans on Reddit and Steam. Publisher Devolver Digital provided the following statement

Rebel Galaxy, developed by Double Damage Games and released in 2015, is getting a sequel. Called Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, it’s also being developed by Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer, the two-man team with roots in the Diablo and Torchlight series, Hellgate: London, Fate and Mythos. Fans of spacefaring games may recall that Rebel Galaxy, which was revealed here on Polygon in 2014, was a three-dimensional game locked to a two-dimensional plane. Not only is it a prequel, taking place 34 years prior

It’s called Emerald Coast, and it’ll have Cabal and Fallen enemy types during the trial. The Emerald Coast consists of three fronts: Trees (northwest), Ruins (north), and Beach (northeast). To succeed on this map, players will need to move quickly between the fronts. Although it’s difficult to see on the map above, there are several high and low points in the Emerald Coast, leaving enemies a place to hide from you. Bungie’s goal is to make Gambit feel different each time, even if you seen the sa

Destiny 2: Forsaken’s Gambit mode will be available to everything during the Sept. 1 free trial. Before you can dominate in the field, you’ll need to have the right tools and right powers for the job. For a broader look at how to win in Gambit, check out Bakken and Stevens’ 13 Gambit tips. But also consider that Gambit is a hybrid mode, meaning that you’ll be doing a bit of both most of the time. It’s unlikely that you’ll ever find the perfect loadout for both facets of Destiny 2: Forsaken’s Gam

Destiny 2: Forsaken’s new Gambit mode is mostly focused on PvE, but its small taste of PvP is crucial to success. It’s a tough world out there, making sure you’re ready to go over to the other side. Here are some key tips to invading in Gambit. If you’re looking for more broad Gambit tips, we’ve already got you covered in our 13 tips to dominate Gambit guide, from the people who made it. Make sure you’re preparedWhen the invasion portal pops, it can be very exciting.

After eight years on air, beloved Cartoon Network show Adventure Time is wrapping up with a season — and series — finale this Monday. Showrunner Adam Muto says that if the show had ended any earlier, however, the finale would’ve been different. “[We] didn’t have a definite, ‘This is the exact story that’s going to be in the end,’” Muto told Polygon. But with the end of Adventure Time just around the corner, what of the much-rumored Adventure Time movie that has been supposedly in the works since