PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting a training map where players may practice all aspects of the battle royale game, the developers announced today. The PUBG Training Mode is part of PUBG Corp.’s “Fix PUBG” campaign to add new content, shore up the existing game, fix problems and respond to player requests and feedback. The mode has not yet launched; PUBG Corp. expects it will be added to the game sometime in September. Dave Curd, the world team lead for PUBG Corp., said training mode is me

Mario Tennis Aces’ next playable star will be Diddy Kong, who joins the game next month. He’s a free addition, but players will have to compete in the game’s online tournament to get him. Diddy Kong, most recently featuring in the Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze re-release on Nintendo Switch (and confirmed for Super Smash Bros. pic.twitter.com/0ZqFomZGYq — Nintendo Versus (@NintendoVS) August 21, 2018Diddy Kong is the first of three new characters coming to Mario Tennis Aces this fall. And

Hunt: Showdown is a first-person horror game where you team up with others, or play alone, to hunt monsters while fending off human players. But even better is the fact that the voice chat in the trailer sounds like real voice chat, not the sort of aspirational, role-playing talk that infects so many other multiplayer trailers out there. The trailer for Hunt: Showdown, on the other hand, nails the slightly bored, air traffic controller voice many players use online. It also doesn’t gloss over on

One month ago, Logan Paul told Casey Neistat he was a changed man. Paul told Neistat that he’s learned he needs to prove to people around the world — his fans and his critics — that he’s changed over the past eight months. Related YouTube creators reinvented diss tracks to make millions“It’s the new Logan Paul,” Paul answered. Everything Paul wants is reliant on people believing that he’s a changed person, which suggests Paul has learned nothing. The song, “Goodbye KSI,” which follows KSI own di

If a bunch of players want tokens and few people are buying gold, the gold value of a token will rise. Once Blizzard allowed players to redeem tokens for Battle.net balance, however, there was basically no limit to how many tokens players needed. Near the launch of Legion, commodity prices were very high, and Token prices were low, so a $20 token bought you only about 20 flasks. This represents a huge drop in the value players placed on time spent grinding. First, only a fraction of the players

Gamescom 2018, one of the largest gaming conventions in the world, is upon us. Hundreds of thousands of attendees, including the public and members of the media, will attend the show this week. Gamescom takes place annually at the Koelnmesse, or Cologne Exhibition Centre, in Cologne, Germany. Exhibitors at this year’s event include Microsoft, Bethesda Softworks, Epic Games, Blizzard Entertainment and Electronic Arts. Check out the StoryStream below for news, trailers and all the latest from Game

This week on The History of Fun, we look at the origins of this beloved activity: karaoke. Plus, Plante, Russ and I share our go-to karaoke songs. or do you refuse to do KARAOKE with an audience? tell me and you may be featured on an episode of @TheHistoryOfFun ~ — allegra frank (@LegsFrank) August 16, 2018Enjoying The History of Fun? New to The History of Fun?

The next line of Nvidia’s high-end GeForce graphics cards, the RTX 20-series, will be available in September, the company announced this week in a presentation at the Gamescom 2018 conference. B&H video is offering Polygon (and The Verge) readers an exclusive discount on the GTX 1070 Ti, GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti until Friday, or while supplies last. The GTX 1070 Ti is available for $399 (usually $519.99), the GTX 1080 for $449.99 (usually $579.99) and the powerful GTX 1080 Ti for $599.99 (usuall

Frank Castle, the former marine turned gun-toting vigilante known as the Punisher, has just killed a major Marvel supervillain. One Man War On TerrorThis week’s The Punisher #1 is a great place for new readers, even if there’s some history behind it. Garth Ennis’ groundbreaking Punisher MAX told the story of Frank Castle in as close to the real world as a Punisher story can get. There’s no-one saying the Punisher works excellently outside of the Marvel Universe, but The Punisher #1 shows us how

Beginning with the coming-of-age anime High Guardian Spice, Crunchyroll will kick off slate of original content starting in 2019. The series will be produced by Ellation Studios, which was launched in order to produce original content for Crunchyroll. The move toward original content isn’t without precedence — Crunchyroll has already co-produced over 50 series, including Kiznaiver and Laid-Back Camp. “With Crunchyroll Originals, we’re looking to showcase animation as an art form, delivering mean

One day in 1985, while Jim Henson was wrapping up Labyrinth, a young Swedish filmmaker entered a boardroom to pitch Henson and his straight-laced British producer Duncan Kenworthy on a new movie. The filmmaker wanted Jim Henson Creature Shop to build fantastical-yet-lifelike animals for a movie called Animal Farm. Brian Henson describes it as the most adult thing his father ever did, but it wasn’t truly his. Brian Henson made it clear that The Muppet Show was in some ways the apotheosis of his f

After debuting a full-length trailer for Life is Strange 2 earlier this week, developer Dontnod Entertainment and publisher Square Enix are now showing gameplay. The original Life is Strange was first released as a series of short episodes in 2015. Life is Strange 2 is similarly composed, telling the story of 16-year-old Sean Diaz and his 9-year-old brother Daniel who are are forced to flee their life in suburban Seattle after discovering a similarly mysterious supernatural power. As with previo

This week at the Gamescom convention in Germany, Capcom unveiled new gameplay for its upcoming remake of Resident Evil 2. The new clip highlights a section of the game featuring Claire Redfield, one of the main characters from the classic game, first released in 1998. The Resident Evil 2 remake was first announced in 2015, but not shown publicly until Sony’s PlayStation E3 press conference earlier this year. Grid View Resident Evil 2 CapcomResident Evil 2 CapcomResident Evil 2 CapcomResident Evi

Ubisoft’s mostly annual Assassin’s Creed series is taking next year off, CEO Yves Guillemot said in an interview with Gamespot. Ubisoft released a new entry in the Assassin’s Creed franchise every year between 2009 and 2015. The company took a year off in 2016, after the bug-plagued launch of Assassin’s Creed Unity and a tepid reception to Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. This year’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey takes the series to ancient Greece. For more on the game, check out Polygon’s Assassin’s Cree

BattleTech, the turn-based strategy title from Harebrained Schemes, turned a lot of heads when it was released in April. The base game tells a complete story, which, as we noted in our first impressions of the game, raises the bar considerably for narratives in a turn-based strategy game. Harebrained cleverly set the events of that game in an unexplored region of the massive BattleTech universe. BattleTech isn’t the only new game set in the classic tabletop universe that’s out right now. MechWar

Overwatch’s newest animated short is here and this time it’s centered around D.Va, the game’s star mecha pilot. The short, called “Shooting Star,” debuted at Overwatch’s Korea Fan Festival. Undeterred, she launches off into the fight and shows off the skills that make her Overwatch’s best pilot. While the short gives us plenty of mech vs Omnic action, its real focus is on Hana, the girl behind the D.Va name. Alongside this new cinematic short, Blizzard also announced the new Busan map that takes

Epic Games likes to tease items coming to Fortnite by showing them off in the informational screen that pops up when you first log into the game, and right now that screen is showing off a new item called the Rift-To-Go. Imagine the rifts that currently allow you to teleport above your location on the map, but carried in your pocket and deployed on command. The static rifts, one of which is shown at the top of this post, appeared in the game at the beginning of season five. Turning the rifts int

Where FromSoftware’s previous action games could feel like tense memory games, the developer’s next effort instead seems to crib from a different genre entirely: fighting games. These more demanding battles, whether against bigger foes or bosses, demand the kind of fine attention that I’m used to tapping into when playing fighting games. Combined, all of these features made each of the tougher encounters feel as nuanced as a one-on-one showdown in a fighting game. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice may c

The initial charm of Nintendo Labo, the Switch’s cardboard cutouts-turned-peripherals, may have already worn thin. That’s where Nintendo’s third stab at producing a Labo set, September’s Vehicle Kit, already feels like an improvement. We tried out the Vehicle Kit at a media event, where it was clear that Nintendo’s priorities had shifted. That’s not the case, as Nintendo has introduced a new mode called Custom Controls into this latest Labo set. The Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit for Nintendo Switch

The PlayStation Store search feature on PlayStation 4 is about to get much better, addressing a long-standing annoyance with Sony’s digital store, based on screenshots from a new beta release of the console’s firmware. Here’s what the new PlayStation Store search feature looks like, according to screenshots of the latest in-development firmware (version 6.0 beta 3) from ResetEra forum poster Kyoufu. It’s slow, it’s clunky and the search results can sometimes be hard to parse. (Try searching for