Jared Leto, a versatile actor who starred in two back-to-back Oscar winning movies (Dallas Buyers Club and Suicide Squad), is a top-tier edgelord. He is a certifiable Prince of Darkness. So I worked on it, worked on it, worked on it and came up with something that is… very strange, I have to admit. He’s a method actor, and that means parts of the Joker’s personality spilled over into Leto’s actual life while filming Suicide Squad. Off screen he’s a Prince of Darkness, too.

Ubisoft has returned to the universe of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle to take another stab at simplified strategy — this time with Donkey Kong in the leading role. Donkey Kong Adventure, a new expansion for Kingdom Battle, feels like a lengthy return trip to last year’s best strategy game. Donkey Kong Adventure has the same charming, simplified strategy of Kingdom Battle, albeit in a smaller, more limited campaign. Your crew this time around consists of only three playable characters: Donkey Ko

In this week’s episode of Quality Control, Dave Tach and Russ Frushtick talk about Westworld season two. Press play below to learn more about what we think the season did right and wrong. We talk about characters, plot and where it goes from here. And if you’re looking for more on Westworld, be sure to read our story that covers what we already know about Westworld season 3 (including that wild post-credits stinger and what it means). Email: qualitycontrol at polygon dot comMusic: “Goodwill” by

The Pokémon Company’s free-to-play, cube-shaped action RPG, Pokémon Quest, is now available for mobile devices. Players can now visit Tumblecube Island and play with blocky Pokémon on Android and iOS. We described the Switch version as a stripped-down but still enjoyable take on the Pokémon franchise, likening it to “Minecraft meets the simplistic Pokémon spinoff Pokémon Rumble.”In Pokémon Quest, players set up base camps on Tumblecube Island and lure in voxel Pokémon. Instead, Pokémon Quest lim

QuakeCon 2018 will be held Aug. 9-12 in Dallas to celebrate all things Quake, id and Bethesda Softworks, and registration for the event opens on Friday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m. CT. The registration window also includes ticket sales for the Bring-Your-Own-Computer LAN party (billed as North America’s largest) and a Swag Pack full of premium items. Seats at the BYOC event will range from $75 to $400; the Swag Pack is $150 and includes an inflatable rocket launcher (note: does not actually fire rocke

The upcoming Mega Man X Legacy Collection games will undo a contentious localization decision made during the development of Mega Man X5. The collection will drop the Guns N’ Roses-inspired names for the game’s bosses, known as Mavericks, and revert them to their original forms. It was a puzzling decision, even though Mega Man characters bear musical names (and Capcom borrowed Axl and Slash’s names for Final Fight’s rock and metal-inspired bad guys). A new trailer for Mega Man X Legacy Collectio

Super Bomberman R might have one of the weirdest rosters of this generation. A trio of Metal Gear Solid characters have entered the fray and received the requisite chibi-style Bomberman makeovers at the same time. Solid Snake, Naked Snake and Raiden (sadly sporting his Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance look) band together to form Super Bomberman R’s new Metal Gear contingent. Pro wrestler Xavier Woods joined the voice cast to perform a Bomberman character based on himself. All four characters and o

But this update also contained some new, interesting details about eight upcoming exotic catalysts. On the Destiny subreddit, user Eander posted a listing of new data taken from the Destiny API. The list was posted to Light.gg — an API tracker for Destiny — and copied into the Reddit post. There are eight exotic catalysts mentioned in the list: Fighting Lion, Hard Light, Legend of Acrius, The Prospector, Rat King, Sleeper Simulant, Suros Regime and Telesto. We’ll have to wait and see how this en

“Why I left the Clout House (i’m sorry)” finds RiceGum and his friend on a quick trip to Hong Kong. Multiple stories from Chinese outlets and a number of vloggers have called out RiceGum for his disrespectful behavior, drawing parallels to Logan Paul’s infamous vlog series in Japan. Whenever YouTubers publish disrespectful content, like RiceGum’s vlog, it reflects poorly on other foreigners living in the country, Fulinfang said. “Chinese people are hating on me right now, and it’s like, I’m Chin

While some people see the phrase “Twitch thot” as a meme, it’s most often used to insult a female streamer on a predominantly male platform. That extends to two particularly well-known Twitch streamers: Alinity and Amouranth. ‘That’s normal’Amouranth is the most recent high-profile Twitch streamer being targeted by a group of trolls, calling her a “Twitch thot” for her videos. “I didn’t hear the term ‘Twitch thot’ until a year ago,” Alinity told Polygon. “These aren’t even just the regular troll

Then I watched the trailer for Mandy. “Cosmatos’ unforgettable Mandy is a midnight movie that should never be seen at midnight,” Village Voice critic Bilge Ebiri wrote out of Sundance. “With its deliberately paced, mesmerizing and sensuous first half, Mandy grounds itself in the idea of desire and peace, and their subsequent loss and perversion. Colors and blood splash across the screen as Cage goes full-on apocalyptic warrior. I believe it’s now clear: all movies are better when Nicolas Cage be

2015’s Ant-Man and this month’s sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp, can agree on one thing: Scott Lang is a skilled burglar and a dedicated father with a big heart. Where Ant-Man mostly used shrinking to make the tiny into huge environments, The Wasp does so much more. If it hasn’t been clear yet: Ant-Man and the Wasp is the funniest movie Marvel has made yet. As a narrative theme, Ant-Man and The Wasp chose Scott’s need for a partner to help him be a hero. It might take a village to raise a child, bu

I got to play with the Poké Ball Plus twice in as many weeks, playing Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! That’s a reasonable fear, because tossing the Poké Ball Plus at wild monsters during a battle sure does feel nice. With a limited selection of inputs, the Poké Ball Plus also seems like it could leave players unable to delve into all of the games’ features. I won’t pretend like carrying around a fancy Poké Ball isn’t a rad experience, though. with the Poké Ball Plus when they’re both out Nov. 16, ho

Fortnite’s Playground Mode was released today as part of patch v4.5. The mode was out for about an hour and a half and despite some pretty long queue times, people seemed to be having a good time. While this provides a much smoother experience for players, it also means a much bigger load for Epic’s servers. In fact, Epic tweeted a notice about long queue times just a few minutes after the mode first launched. Hopefully, after Epic brings the mode back online, its matchmaking functions will be i

PUBG Corp., the developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has withdrawn its lawsuit against Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, according to a report from Bloomberg. PUBG Corp. sued Epic earlier this year in Korea over concerns that Fortnite Battle Royale infringed PUBG’s intellectual property. Epic Games was originally upfront about Fortnite Battle Royale’s inspiration. “We love Battle Royale games like PUBG and thought Fortnite would make a great foundation for our own version.”Both Epic Ga

You used to be able to peek through structures you built by entering the edit mode and removing a square. “Blocks that are removed while in edit mode are now opaque rather than clear,” the Fortnite team wrote in the patch notes. “Adjusted to limit player’s ability to peek through structures while editing.”This is what players see in edit mode now that the patch is live:Professional players are already weighing in. “As a person who used this often it’s a needed change,” one player wrote on the ga

This week saw the launch of a Kickstarter project to fund The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls. Using characters, enemies and items from the long-running action rogue-like, Four Souls is hoping to make the franchise more of a social experience as a multiplayer card game. Franchise creator Edmund McMillen has long been a game designer, but for Four Souls he wanted to try something new. Speaking with Polygon, he mentioned that he “always wanted to design something physical.” He had experimented with s

The latest update for Fortnite, patch 4.5, was a doozy, adding the brand-new Playground mode and a bunch of quality-of-life improvements. But hidden among the data files was also a glimpse of the skins, backbling, gliders and emotes we can expect to see in the coming weeks. Twitter user @TwoEpicBuddies ripped the data files from the version 4.5 update and discovered quite a number of new unlockables. Here you can see the skins that are coming:There are also new backblings, gliders and pickaxes.

The fourth 24 hours of Summer Games Done Quick packs in 33 events, the most of any day so far. At Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 six months ago, he did a speedrun of the notoriously impossible Battletoads (where he has five of seven category No. As always, Summer Games Done Quick is a round-the-clock affair, so you may have missed something overnight. For that, we recommend checking out the continually updated VOD thread at r/speedrun and the official Games Done Quick channel at YouTube. Summer G

“We’re hearing it,” Shawn Layden, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, told a Eurogamer reporter whose question indicated the company hadn’t been listening to players on this issue. You can imagine that the circumstances around that affect a lot more than just one game. This question isn’t about whether Sony should let PlayStation 4 Fortnite players play against Xbox One players, but whether the company should reverse its long-standing policy that seems to prohibit items