Will you stick around for Westworld season three? Whether they’ve pushed their audience too hard is another matter; based on informal polling and social-media scanning, Westworld season two’s timeline-splicing story of A.I. The setup for Westworld season three promises even more layered storytelling. Westworld season two required a storytelling buy in and rewarded patience. “The hosts are testing for something,” she says, “and they have yet to find what they’re looking for in [William].”When doe

The strategies, which included helping creators to sell merchandise, channel memberships and providing subscribers with exclusive content, were instantly compared to Patreon and Twitch. Currently, YouTube’s guidelines state that the company takes 30 percent of creators’ channel membership revenue. There are two different programs for streamers to earn monetization revenue through subscriptions: affiliates and partners. Payout fees and payment processing fees are charged. What’s important to reme

Donut County is an upcoming game by developer Ben Esposito, known for Tattletail and Anamanaguchi’s Capsule Silence XXIV. Few mention its clear inspiration, Donut County. Esposito says that there is not much he can do about the situation and that he will focus his energy on finishing up Donut County. Ultimately, Esposito hopes that the “unique charm, sense of humor, and painstakingly handcrafted levels” will make Donut County stand out from its cloned knock-off. We’ve reached out to Voodoo about

For those who have been counting down the days until amusement park season, we have a great aperitif, if you will: the early history of the roller coaster. Roller coaster aficionado Russ Frushtick takes us on a ride through the early part of the 20th century, with occasional loop-de-loops and drops to jazz things up. You’ll find out just how high the first roller coasters went, as well as the first time they took people upside down. pic.twitter.com/2FmcaEYuik — Russ Frushtick (@RussFrushtick) Ju

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a deeply silly movie that warps the DNA of a franchise far enough to justify turning a monster-heavy adventure into gothic horror. [Warning: This article contains spoilers for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom]One of the major characters in the film is Maisie, the granddaughter of Benjamin Lockwood, a partner of John Hammond’s who is never mentioned in any of the previous films. The whole thing feels like a giant retcon to justify the bizarre choices made in Fallen

Junior detective Chris Cone responds to a fight call in a remote north part of Los Santos on a slow Saturday night. The development and proliferation of Grand Theft Auto Roleplay (GTARP) gives players a place to join together in creating their own living, breathing cities. “I started to act like Chris the character, think like Chris the character. Aftermath“I think Sully’s going to ask me to perma Chris,” Cone tells Polygon. Junior detective Chris Cone responds to another fight call on the outsk

Eight world record holders perform in their top events over the second 24 hours of Summer Games Done Quick (noon today until noon Tuesday). Pessimism’s world record was set in October, which is a lifetime ago in speedrunning. Mega Man, always a crowd-pleaser in speedrunning, features The Blacktastic in Mega Man 9 at 9:11 p.m.; he is No. As always, Summer Games Done Quick is a round-the-clock affair, so you may have missed something overnight. Summer Games Done Quick 2018 benefits Doctors Without

It takes 120 seconds for Luigi — the Mario universe’s most put-upon, unheroic sad sack — to screw everything up in Mario Tennis Aces. Despite all the excitement around it pre-release, Mario Tennis Aces’ story is told through missions on a map with the lightest RPG leveling features. Here’s how the story opens: Mario is playing tennis at the lovely Marina Stadium, kicking butt and taking names with his racket. They offer Mario a “legendary tennis racket from the Temple of Bask,” which obviously m

When new Sims expansion packs are announced, players immediately want to know what new places their Sims can WooHoo in. This time, it’s not so much a “where” but a “who.”You can WooHoo Santa Claus. To be clear, it’s not Santa exactly, but rather the in-game, secular representation of Santa, known as Father Winter. Not only can you WooHoo Father Winter, you can also bear his child. This promises grand things for future games — who knows what sorts of NPCs Sims will be able to seduce in the next e

The legal battle between the creators of the Star Control games and developer Stardock Systems, which acquired rights to the Star Control property in 2013, is likely headed to court. The original games’ creators, Fred Ford and Paul Reiche, are now turning to crowdfunding website GoFundMe to help pay their legal costs, which they say could run around $2 million. Stardock filed suit against Ford and Reiche in December 2017, shortly after the two developers announced a continuation of the Star Cont

Jurassic World Revealed is a premium audio experience for Alexa-enabled devices, and there’s no way to say all those things without it sounding corporate and robotic. The stage is set through the lead character introducing herself, and of course you, before explaining what’s going on. You’re following a podcaster named Janet Best who is traveling to Isla Nublar to get the story of what’s going on with the dinosaurs on the island, and you’re there to back her up. It’s up to you help her make deci

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom debuted to a $150 million weekend, beating analysts’ initial projections but nowhere close to a top 10 club dominated by Disney’s Star Wars-Marvel-Pixar machine. The $150 million figure places Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom at 20th all time in domestic opening weekends, and is about $58 million less than 2015’s Jurassic World, Universal’s lone entrant in the top 10 (and former No. Three of the top 10 domestic weekends all-time came from this year: Avengers: Infinit

A Forza fan on PC who preordered the Ultimate Edition of Forza Horizon 4, yesterday discovered the game downloading through the Windows Store early. (The lineup changed between a similar leak and the launch of Forza Horizon 3 in September 2016). Another redditor on the r/forza subreddit, working from the filenames, posted a full list of what was found, organized by manufacturer. For now, 450 cars is a lot, even if that’s an incomplete list. For more on Forza Horizon 4, see our conversation with

Summer Games Done Quick gets underway at 12:30 p.m. with a half-hour pre-show, then rolls into seven straight days of speedrunning. You can watch all of it live right here. Summer Games Done Quick has set a contribution record each year, reaching $1.7 million last year. Today’s action kicks off at 1 p.m. with GarageDoorOpener in an Any% run through Banjo-Tooie; GarageDoorOpener is No. Polygon will be following the marathon all week and spotlighting the intriguing events coming each day.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake was, for fans, an agonizing no-show at E3 2018. With Square Enix staging a dedicated E3 livestream for the first time since 2015, we guessed (incorrectly) there would be something about this long anticipated work. What we do have, however, is at least the concession from director Tetsuya Nomura that, yes, this game was announced way too early. Nomura told The Verge that development on both it and Final Fantasy 7 remake are being developed in parallel, meaning Final Fantasy

That badge would have provided more security for Mongeau walking through public spaces near the convention. Still, Mongeau was upset about the perceived shade she was thrown, and her quip about running a convention quickly became a reality. Mongeau and her team started working on creating TanaCon, an event that came together in a couple of months. Even though TanaCon objectively went bad, Mongeau isn’t giving up on the idea of hosting another convention. It’s something that Mongeau told her fans

Spider-Man: Homecoming’s Tom Holland is bad at keeping secrets. In fact, throughout the Avengers: Infinity War press tour, Doctor Strange actor Benedict Cumberbatch was in charge of keeping the 22-year-old’s mouth shut as he fell time and time again into the press’ traps. The full title is Spider-Man: Far From Home, which Holland revealed while telling his Instagram followers that there was absolutely no news to share on the sequel front. Though — SPOILERS — Spider-Man disappeared into dust at t

Hannah, Epic said, provided that secret and others (including season four’s superheroes theme) to an intermediary (not named as a defendant in the lawsuit) who then published them to the subreddit. Hannah’s reply, however, admits that having the conversation and sharing the information did violate the non-disclosure agreement Hannah had signed, and made statements without Epic’s authorization or consent. Epic’s complaint seeks punitive damages under state and federal trade secrets laws, plus att

That badge would have provided more security for Mongeau walking through public spaces near the convention. Still, Mongeau was upset about the perceived shade she was thrown, and her quip about running a convention quickly became a reality. Mongeau and her team started working on creating TanaCon, an event that came together in a couple of months. Even though TanaCon objectively went bad, Mongeau isn’t giving up on the idea of hosting another convention. It’s something that Mongeau told her fans

Summer Games Done Quick, the second leg of Games Done Quick’s annual speedrunning marathon series, gets underway Sunday at 12:30 p.m. Where can I watch Summer Games Done Quick 2018? Who are the top performers at Summer Games Done Quick? World record performances at a Games Done Quick are rare — think of it as similar to a world record being set during an Olympics. GDQ VODs says the last time a Summer Games Done Quick saw a world record set was in 2016 (when there were four world record performan