It was also announced that Halo: The Master Chief Collection will be added to Microsoft’s game streaming service, Xbox Game Pass, on Sept. 1. To celebrate, Microsoft is offering a month of Xbox Game Pass for $2 (usually $9.99) and throwing an extra month in for free. The new World of Warcraft baby carrier from manufacturer Líllé Baby is decorated with baby Murlocs, and comes in three sizes, including an adorable child-sized stuffed animal or doll carrier. World of Warcraft baby carriers are avai

Two of YouTube’s biggest and most controversial YouTubers, KSI and Logan Paul, weighed in for their fight Friday evening in Manchester, England. “I feel like for years, old media has always neglected YouTube, pushed back and felt like YouTube wasn’t a real media outlet,” KSI, the British YouTuber with 19 million subscribers, told Polygon. But for KSI — whose real name is Olajide Olatunji, but often goes by J.J. — the fight is just a stepping stone. (KSI has encountered his own issues in the past

If you hack the Happy Lucky Lottery in 2004’s Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door by altering the GameCube’s system date and time, you’ll get a scolding from Lucky (the Bob-omb who runs the game) that the lottery only works “because the players are happy and lucky.” This is ironic, because luck in fact has zip to do with the lottery. This assiduous breakdown of a side-game in a 14-year-old RPG comes courtesy of YouTube’s Stryder7x (with credit to Mario games researcher Jdaster64). In it, he lays

Dota 2’s newest hero, revealed overnight, is Grimstroke, and he’s playable right now. Phantom Embrace launches an inky ghost at the target, who grapples the enemy, silences and damages it. Ink Swell covers Grimstroke or an ally in ink, which silences them, gives them bonus speed and immunity to attacks. Soulbind, per its name, binds one enemy to its nearest ally within range. The bond can be broken, but it means that the originally targeted enemy will be bound to the next nearest ally within ran

Input-based matchmaking isn’t a part of Fortnite yet but, when it is, it will extend to the entire party. That means if anyone in the group is using a keyboard and mouse on a console, the whole party will be matchmade against keyboard-and-mouse players on PC or PS4. Keyboard-and-mouse users are considered to be at an advantage over gamepad players, particularly for the accuracy speed and improvement gained by aiming with a mouse. Epic’s development update didn’t say anything about PC players usi

Just Survive, the spinoff of H1Z1 that re-launched on Steam Early Access about a year ago, will be shut down at the end of October, Daybreak Games announced yesterday. Daybreak called it a difficult decision to retire Just Survive but said “the current population of the game makes it untenable to maintain.”Just Survive has a confusing lineage but it is effectively the original H1Z1, whose core mode put players on a large open-world map filled with zombies. After the game launched in Early Access

3 is on hold as Marvel Studios and Disney look for a new director to take over for James Gunn, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sources told The Hollywood Reporter the “timeline has been pushed out” following Gunn’s firing. Production was scheduled to begin this winter, but sources told the Reporter it’s unlikely that will happen. Gunn reportedly met with Disney chairman Alan Horn and Marvel Studios co-president Kevin Feige to discuss returning for the final installment, but Horn didn’t budg

The console, which comes with a 2 TB hard drive, is known as the 500 Million Limited Edition PS4 Pro, and it is very limited indeed: Sony is manufacturing just 50,000 units of the bundle, which also includes a matching DualShock 4 controller and PlayStation Camera. Pre-orders for the $499.99 package went live at midnight Friday, and as you might expect, most of them are already sold out. It feels like a throwback, evoking the ’90s fad of toys and tech with clear or translucent plastic shells. Th

A spokesperson for the San Diego County Department of Public Safety confirmed the driver involved in the crash was Heitmann. Heitmann was best known for owning a popular CS:GO trading site, CSGO Magic, and for participating in CS:GO’s skin trading community. He was known as the “king of skins” to other CS:GO YouTube creators. Many of his videos focused on skin trading. Some YouTube creators, and CS:GO skin traders, like Sparkles, suggested that Heitmann’s inability to trade could have cost him $

This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur Exotics on your highest level character. The exotic perk, Arc Conductor, causes any Arc damage you take to empower your weapon. While Arc Conductor is active, you’ll take reduced Arc damage. Without incoming Arc damage, this gun is essentially just a normal SMG, although still powerful. OPHIDIA SPATHEThe Ophidia Spathe chest piece’s exotic perk is Scissor Fingers, which lets hunters throw two knives per charge.

Such as: Pepper Potts (technically) killing more people than Iron Man. Others facts, like Pepper out-killing Iron Man are purely strange. She killed Iron Monger in the first Iron Man, and Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3. It’s hard to say what’s more impressive: that Pepper Potts killed two people, albeit acting on Iron Man’s behalf, or that it took 10 years for Iron Man to actually kill someone. Loki killed in Thor, Thor: The Dark World, The Avengers and Thor: Ragnarok.

Rather, What Keeps You Alive is a practice of building tension and bending common horror tropes to create something refreshing. note: this review contains minor spoilers]What Keeps You Alive finds Jules (Brittany Allan) and Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) headed to Jackie’s family cabin to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. “It was a blessing in disguise, but that’s how it ultimately came together.”That sentiment is particularly frustrating as a queer woman. What Keeps You Alive is an

After her reign ended and the Sundering tore the world apart, Azshara and her followers were swept under the waves. Since World of Warcraft’s debut, Azshara has been present on the fringes of the game. Pull up a seat, prepare for a jump scare or two, and settle in for the last of the Warbringers series. World of Warcraft’s first raid, Uldir, goes live on Sept. 4. Azshara is set to debut in a future raid, which will likely have more in-game events surrounding its launch.

Two new Clone Trooper skins will be available in Star Wars Battlefront 2 as part of the Elite Corps Update scheduled to launch on Wednesday, Aug. 29, EA DICE announced this week. These skins have to be unlocked, either with 20,000 credits or 500 crystals, the currency bought with real money. Elsewhere in the update, players will now have an option within the Home menu to prioritize Clone Wars maps within matchmaking. “This is our first steps to help improve matchmaking in the game,” DICE said. O

World War 3 is being made by the team at The Farm 51, a mid-sized independent developer out of Poland. The fiction of World War 3 posits a near-future global conflict with the European theater as its epicenter. In that respect, the game reminds of the ambitious Heroes & Generals, a World War II shooter with a similar strategic layer. With its ripped-from-the-headlines theme and a seemingly nuanced take at hardcore gameplay, it feels like World War 3 has the potential to appeal to a wider audienc

NBA Live 19’s demo is now available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users to try out. NBA Live 19 will, for the first time, allow users to create women players within The One, the game’s single-player career suite. Progress in the NBA Live 19 demo is transferrable to the full game (on the same platforms). The NBA demo involves the Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics; the WNBA’s features the Los Angeles Sparks and Minnesota Lynx. NBA Live 19 formally launches on Sept. 7 for PlayStation 4

After seven weeks, the mysterious skin behind Fortnite’s Road Trip challenge has been revealed and players can already unlock it. The skin, called Enforcer, was unlocked for players who completed step seven of the Road Trip Challenge. Just like last year’s Blockbuster Challenge, Road Trip required players to complete every challenge for each of the weeks that the Battle Pass has been live. The skin also comes with a back bling piece called Subjugator, which looks like a small shield and can be e

In each episode of Quality Control, a Polygon writer talks to a critic about a new game, movie or piece of gear. In this week’s episode, Charlie Hall chats with Patrick Gill about the amazing success of Capcom’s Monster Hunter: World on PC. This latest incarnation of the Monster Hunter franchise carved off many of the series traditional rough edges, but the console version for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One didn’t always impress fans with its performance. The PC version, which launched more than six

With all of that in mind, it says a lot that World of Warcraft’s story has gotten unusually bizarre. World of Warcraft has gotten weird as hell, and there’s no turning back now. This is probably the turning point for where World of Warcraft got really absurd. The more we have to shrug off or justify, the harder it is to buy into the World of Warcraft that it’s painstakingly building. As for the future of World of Warcraft, it seems obvious we’ll be heading back into some pretty out-there territo

The seventh set of challenges have dropped in Fortnite’s Season 5, and this week we’re tasked to “Follow the treasure map found in Dusty Divot.”We’ll go ahead and skip on over to the juicy part. Specifically where you should be heading for the Battle Star:The star is located northwest of Dusty Divot, in the center of a patch of three trees. This is a particularly big week for challenges as it’s the first week players will be able to earn this season’s Road Trip Challenge skin (for completing eve