This weekend, on Sept. 1, players will be able to check out Gambit for themselves, thanks to a free Gambit trial. Banking motes in quantities of five, 10 and 15 will send extra enemies called Blockers to the other team’s bank area. At certain points in the match, players can even invade their opponents’ arena physically, giving them a chance to kill members of the enemy team. When you die in Gambit, you lose all of the motes you’re carrying. The Ogre offers the biggest bullet sponge, keeping the

Destiny 2: Forsaken’s new Gambit mode was one of the most intriguing additions teased in the expansion’s announcement in June. It sets out to marry Destiny’s two core pillars — PvE and PvP — in one mode. Gambit is Destiny’s first ever PvEvP game mode. “We started with this idea of hardcore PvE,” Bakken said. It fits nicely with Destiny, but isn’t like anything we’ve done in the past.”“We started with this idea of hardcore PvE.

Two Point Hospital, a new hospital management sim from two of the developers behind the cult favorite game Theme Hospital, launched today as the number one global top seller on Steam with “very positive” reviews. Steam is offering a 10 percent off launch deal on Two Point Hospital, but Polygon readers can get 25 percent off a Steam key at Fanatical with our exclusive discount code, POLYGON2POINT. Theme Hospital, the 1997 game to which Two Point Hospital is considered a spiritual successor, was d

Disneyland’s new Star Wars expansion, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, will bring something adults fans have wanted for decades: booze. Disney representatives told the Los Angeles Times that alcoholic drinks will be available for adult visitors in Oga’s Cantina. Here’s a detailed description of what Oga’s Cantina will have to offer:Visitors come to this notorious local watering hole to unwind, conduct shady business, and maybe even encounter a friend…or a foe. Oga’s Cantina is the kind of establishment

World of Warcraft’s world PVP was once considered one of the best things to do in the Vanilla version of the game. Then Battle for Azeroth hit, along with War Mode, and I fell in love with the concept all over again. War Mode is simple: Every server now has the option for players to choose whether or not they want to enter War Mode. World of Warcraft’s PVE content has been nothing to sneeze at, but War Mode is the perfect addition to the formula Blizzard built with Legion. I kind of hope the war

Hello Kitty is YouTube’s newest vlogger, and to be completely honest, her first video is surprisingly inspirational. It focuses on how she got to where she is andwhat she wants to do with her new YouTube channel. Hello Kitty ended her first video with a proper sign off, too, telling people to subscribe to her channel. Hello Kitty isn’t the first iconic figure to start her own YouTube channel. For more on Hello Kitty, be sure to listen to Polygon’s History of Fun episode below.

September is a great month for the “free games” racket (I know, you keep ‘em as long as you’re subscribed). PlayStation Plus started by announcing Destiny 2 is already available, barely a year after its launch. Microsoft also had plenty of news regarding Xbox Games Pass’ “free games” (which you keep permanently for a 20 percent discount off MSRP). Over the four years that I’ve looked at Games With Gold and PlayStation Plus, Septembers have been quiet, particularly for PlayStation Plus. No, these

And while the reception has been mostly positive, there’s one thing that players are almost universally unhappy with: Azerite Armor. Shortly after the expansion launched, criticisms of Azerite Armor started to emerge. In response, Blizzard simplified the two systems and combined them into Azerite Armor. But the effects changed the way classes played and the way players were once able to use abilities, which is a far cry from the mostly meaningless Azerite traits. Thankfully, in Battle for Azerot

Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg half-heartedly wants his “army of 9-year-olds” to stop a group called T-Series from becoming the biggest channel on YouTube. It’s YouTube videos are high-quality, impressive Bollywood music videos, from some of the country’s biggest musicians, artists and directors. Now, according to Social Blade analysts, T-Series will overtake PewDiePie as the most subscribed to channel (not counting YouTube Music, YouTube Sports, YouTube Gaming and YouTube Movies) in less than six

Those were the hard choices we faced as children deciding on a new backpack for school. Now as nerdy adults, if you want to add some personality to your everyday bookbag, the choices are a little more complicated. When it comes to pop culture-inspired bags and backpacks, it can be hard to find options that don’t make you look like a fourth grader. From subtle Star Wars ships to splashy Studio Ghibli illustrations, we’ve rounded up our favorite grown-up backpacks, tote bags and yes, one fanny pac

To better understand this oddity, Polygon convened a panel of some of the most popular meme creators and aggregators to make sense of Johnny Johnny Yes Papa’s recent resonance. The video featured a strange animation of a baby and father singing a mashup of “Johnny Johnny Yes Papa” and the “Baby Shark” song, which seems to have been a winning combination. As for Johnny Johnny Yes Papa (JJYP), my assumption is that the source is a similar one: an amateur animator stemming from the subcontinent of

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With this game, CD Projekt Red is drawing from a long tradition, one that — unusually — is named right there in the title: cyberpunk. There’s an oft-quoted maxim by Sterling that sums it up nicely: “Lowlife and high-tech.”In 1988, cyberpunk made its first move to the tabletop with the release of Cyberpunk, a pen-and-paper roleplaying game written by Mike Pondsmith. The cyberpunk crash“What happened to cyberpunk fiction was what happens to every successful new thing in any branch of pop culture,”

Enormous bugs will invade North America on PlayStation 4 later this year in Earth Defense Force 5, the sequel to D3 Publisher’s cult hit series. The Earth Defense Force series is well known for its campy, B-movie tone, and Earth Defense Force 5 carries on that tradition. Earth Defense Force 5 will launch as standard and deluxe editions, the latter coming with all of the game’s future DLC, plus extra missions, weapons and more content. Earth Defense Force 5 will feature 100 new missions, split-sc

Gwent: The Witcher Card Game’s single-player campaign, Thronebreaker, is a role-playing game some 30 hours long and will be split off into a stand-alone title, CD Projekt Red said yesterday. The game is now called Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, and it will launch alongside Gwent sometime this year. In April, CD Projekt Red announced a six-month delay to Gwent’s launch as the developer overhauled the game, admitting that “we [had] started slowly drifting away from our original vision,” for the

Dragalia Lost, Nintendo’s newest mobile game that’s set for a Sept. 27 launch, is perhaps the prettiest smartphone exclusive from the company yet. A live Nintendo Direct presentation on Wednesday introduced us to its world of dragons, royal warriors and action-based combat. But as any free-to-play mobile game does, there’s plenty of premium content that Dragalia Lost incentivizes players to drop money on. All told, Dragalia Lost sure looks like a major shift from games like Super Mario Run and e

Today the team behind No Man’s Sky launched its first batch of promised weekly content and community activities. Fans of the spacefaring game will now be able to participate in a new quest, and earn in-game cosmetic items for their effort. Seasonal content was just one of the promised features enabled by Hello Games’ recent, game-changing update, Next. According to today’s announcement on the game’s official website, the first bit of No Man’s Sky season one will focus on Specialist Polo and Prie

But as of the 2.0 pre-patch update, some players are getting exclusive rewards a bit early. Forsaken-only weapons and armor pieces — complete with random rolls — have found there way into multiple players’ inventories, including our own. While we weren’t lucky enough to earn a new weapon, a new piece of Forsaken leg armor did drop in our inventory. We are aware of an issue where players are receiving Forsaken items earlier than intended. Until then, it seems like the Flashpoint will reward peopl

Not only does Japan get the more attractive versions of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System — it’s true! — but Japanese customers are also getting a chance to buy the miniature versions of the consoles in one go. A similarly stylish bundle, composed of the Famicom and Super Famicom Classic Editions, is coming to Japanese stores in September. While this deal is only available in Japan, this could be good news for the rest of us. The bundle is available for Ja

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