It feels like forever since Atlus said anything about Persona Q2, the sequel to 2014’s dungeon-crawler crossover game, Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. Just like Shadow of the Labyrinth, Persona Q2: Cinema Labyrinth stars the leads of Persona 3 and Persona 4, as they mix it up in chibi-style versions of locations from their respective games. And, of course, there’s a dope theme song, as is the Persona series’ way. Atlus first announced Persona Q2 for a Japanese release nearly one year ago, in

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth’s lore has been heating up over the past week, with Horde players going on a rollercoaster of Warchief-related emotions. Today, Blizzard announced that the collector’s edition novella — which contains the stories “Elegy” by Christie Golden and “A Good War” by Robert Brooks — are now available for all to read online. Each story focuses on a specific faction: “Elegy” for the Alliance and “A Good War” for the Horde. Players who enjoyed watching Saurfang yell at

The big Nintendo news on Amazon Prime Day this year was a Switch bundle, so you may have overlooked an equally good (if not better) deal on another Nintendo product: the New Nintendo 3DS XL SNES Edition. You can get the retro-inspired handheld console for $50 off as part of Amazon’s Gold Box Deal of the Day. The New Nintendo 3DS XL SNES Edition is a long name, but it’s a pretty sweet-looking little device. That version comes with with an updated design and a download code for the classic SNES ga

A YouTube spokesperson issued the following statement concerning Jones’ removal:All users agree to comply with our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines when they sign up to use YouTube. YouTube’s decision to terminate Jones’ account comes after he tried to circumvent a 90-day livestreaming ban by promoting a different livestream on other channels. YouTube’s decision to shut down InfoWars’ channel follows the decision by a number of major tech platforms to begin removing Jones’ content. All

Dead Cells is often going to be called a combination of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Dark Souls. If Dead Cells is a Metroidvania, it’s one that has been filtered through Spelunky. [Note: Polygon originally reviewed the early access version of Dead Cells in May of last year. Other than that, it’s hard to find fault in Dead Cells’ many building blocks. Dead Cells comes to life on the Nintendo Switch, which is where I played it for this review.

More than a decade after breaking out in Superbad, Emma Stone and Jonah Hill star together in a new limited series that’s significantly less embedded in adolescence. Netflix’s Maniac casts Stone and Hill as participants in an experimental drug trial where they meet … then they meet again and again and again and again across a series of multiple universes and scenarios. The first trailer for the series, directed by True Detective’s Cary Joji Fukunaga, opens with Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and

Subscribers will soon be limited to seeing just three movies a month — a move that its CEO says is a cost-saving measure. MoviePass will switch over to the stricter three-film allowance, while offering viewers who purchase tickets for additional movies a small discount on full-priced films. As much as 85 percent of them see “three or fewer” films a month, the company said. For those who use MoviePass to increase their moviegoing — perhaps to see more niche films, classics or limited releases on

Not only is the star of Fatal Fury coming to SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy with a brand-new look, he’s also making an appearance as a guest character in Arika’s Fighting EX Layer, the company’s spiritual successor to the Street Fighter EX series. Developer Arika teased Terry Bogard’s cameo at the end of a new trailer for Fighting EX Layer that also confirms two more add-on characters: Pullum Purna and Vulcano Rosso. Those two fighters will be added as part of an update for Fighting EX Layer that

Epic Games has shaken up the world of mobile gaming by announcing it’s not going through the official Google Play Store to bring Fortnite to Android. I asked Epic Games’ CEO Tim Sweeney over email if this was, even partially, a reaction to all the unofficial Fortnite apps that already exist in the Google Play Store. “First of all, no payments are possible unless you define a payment method for your Fortnite account,” Sweeney explained. Hence, no reason to offer the game through Google Play if th

After hard-right commentators and conspiracy theorists resurfaced a series of offensive tweets written by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, some published as many as 10 years ago, Disney removed removed Gunn from the series. “[Guardians of the Galaxy] w/o @JamesGunn just isn’t GOTG. That’s just how I feel.”I will do what Im legally obligated to do but @Guardians without @JamesGunn is not what I signed up for. GOTG w/o @JamesGunn just isn’t GOTG. Its also pretty nauseating to work for

Two new world warriors are coming to Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition this week: G, the mysterious “fighting president,” and longtime Ryu rival Sagat. Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono debuted the two characters at Evo 2018 today, announcing that they’ll both come to Street Fighter 5 on Monday, Aug. 6. You can watch G in action, using his Maximum President and Dangerous President V-Trigger moves, in the gameplay trailer below. Joining G on Monday, Aug. 6 is Sagat, who first appeared as the f

Bandai Namco is bringing another new character to Dragon Ball FighterZ: Cooler. The brother of Frieza is coming to Arc System Works’ Dragon Ball fighting game sometime after the Aug. 8 release of Base Goku and Base Vegeta, which Bandai Namco confirmed were coming to the game last month. Cooler’s reveal trailer, which you can watch above, dropped after the conclusion of the Dragon Ball FighterZ grand finals at Evo 2018, at which Dominique “SonicFox” McLean handily defeated Goichi “GO1” Kishida, c

More characters are coming to Tekken 7 as part of a new season, including the return of veteran Tekken fighters Anna Williams and Lei Wulong. Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada and game designer Michael Murray announced a new season of characters coming to Tekken 7 after the game’s grand finals wrapped up at Evo 2018 today. She’s the personal bodyguard of Kazuya Mishima and the sister of another veteran Tekken fighter, Nina Williams. Lei’s been with the series since Tekken 2, and will retur

Nintendo will broadcast a new Nintendo Direct presentation on Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was teased during a memorable Nintendo Direct back in March, and then formally revealed in the Nintendo Direct at E3 2018, the last time the console maker held one of these livestreams. Shortly after the March Nintendo Direct, Sakurai revealed he would return to the franchise for Super Smash Bros. Tune in on Wednesday when Polygon will have more coverage of this week’s

Soulcalibur mainstays Astaroth and Seong Mi-na were both confirmed for the Soulcalibur 6 roster at Evo 2018 today, right before the Tekken 7 quarterfinal round got under way. Seong Mi-na whirls her signature naginata while rompy, stompy “axe golem” Astaroth powerbombs his foes and splits gourds with his giant axe. Seong Mi-na’s lineage goes back to the original Soul Edge (Blade) but she skipped 2012’s Soulcalibur 5, much to Soulcalibur fans’ disappointment. These two join a lineup that announced

Season 7 is called “Storm and Fury,” and the new map, Secluded Keep, is available in For Honor’s Tribute, Skirmish, Elimination, Brawl and Duel playlists. Warden, according to developers, got remade because players using a shoulder bash/guard break combination weren’t finding it effective against players who could roll-dodge out of the way. This forced Warden players into reliance on the Top Light and Zone Attack, where developers wanted players to use more of the moveset. To make Warden less pr

Less than two weeks after it launched, Super Mario Odyssey’s Any% speedrun world record was 1:11:48. Looking through speedrun.com, the world record progression through recent milestone times is (dates are when they were recognized on speedrun.com):Current world record: 1:01:34 by Suisaiga on Aug. 5. First sub-1:04:00 run: nedeahS on March 2. First sub-1:05:00 run: Vallu on Jan. 10. First sub-1:06:00 run: nedeahS on Dec. 9.

Mega Man: Fully Charged, the first animated series for the Blue Bomber since a two-season run from 1994-1995, is now fully available on Cartoon Network’s website. In the series, Aki Light — a “regular, upbeat robot schoolboy,” — has the power to turn into Mega Man. Fire Man is the antagonist for the first two episodes, whose summaries say culminates with Mega Man adopting his abilities (naturally) to put him out. Mega Man: Fully Charged premieres after years of discussion and delay. Plans were f

After an announcement earlier this summer that four new Star Trek series were in the works for CBS’ streaming service All Access, word leaked that the network was actively courting Star Trek: The Next Generation star Sir Patrick Stewart back to the Federation cloth for another voyage of boldly going where no one has gone before. He’ll next be seen in an untitled new Trek series set to debut on CBS All Access. According to an official tweet by the Star Trek account, the series “tells the story of

Stark, I don’t feel so good.”Avengers: Infinity War is packed with traumatic moments, but the saddest scene remains Peter Parker’s slow death in the arms of Tony Stark. This is especially true when you take into consideration how much that moment represents for Tony Stark. These videos are like tiny emotional releases that, in many ways, helps us come to terms with the trauma. Tony Stark was just starting to become happy, to overcome his demons, to feel whole — and then one of the people he care