The Philip DeFranco Show has become a YouTube staple in the past few years, with DeFranco’s charming greeting of “sup, you beautiful bastards” ringing out like a theme song for fans. Not all shows can last forever, though, and DeFranco has already started to look ahead at what the next few years means for The Philip DeFranco Show. “In my head, The Philip DeFranco Show, as a a four times a week news show, I think I’ll be doing it for the next three years,” DeFranco said. “By the time that I am 35

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Bethesda Softworks is suing Warner Bros. and Fallout Shelter co-developer Behaviour Interactive over the recently released Westworld, alleging that the mobile game based on HBO’s TV series is a “blatant rip-off” of Fallout Shelter. Fallout Shelter was originally released in 2015 for mobile devices. The game was later ported to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. Bethesda said in its suit that Behaviour uses “the same copyrighted computer code created for Fallout Shelter in W

Players falsely banned from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in mid-June will be compensated with in-game currency, the developers at PUBG Corp. announced on Wednesday, calling it an unfortunate mistake in their efforts to police cheating in the game. How many players were banned? PUBG Corp. simply said “a number of players were improperly banned and were unable to access the game for a period of time.” They were banned by the game’s internal cheat detection logic. The bannings occurred sometime du

The first episode of Life Is Strange 2, Dontnod Entertainment’s dramatic, story-heavy adventure game, will launch Sept. 27 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. The timing of this reveal seems premature, considering Square Enix is promising more information to come no sooner than August. Captain Spirit will tie into the overarching story of Life Is Strange 2, although it’s unclear how. All we know is that neither game will take place in Arcadia Bay, where the first Life Is Strange was set,

With the launch of Mario Tennis Aces, people who adore Nintendo’s sports franchise have a lot to be happy about. Specifically Wii Tennis. Much of the enormous success of the Wii is due to Wii Tennis. But Mario Tennis Aces, like most modern tennis games, allows for direct control over the character’s movement. Change it from “Standard” to “Simple — Beginner.”)We’re thrilled that Nintendo just dropped a high-quality Mario Tennis game on Switch.

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, the first single-player, first-person action game to be created in the BattleTech universe in 15 years, has been delayed. Piranha Games’ president Russ Bullock made the announcement on Twitter: Mercenaries is now expected sometime in 2019. “MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is being delayed,” Bullock said, “so that we can deliver the best single-player MechWarrior experience to date. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based independent game studio announced Mercenaries in 2016

Early on, players were able to datamine the exotic catalyst for Black Spindle, an exotic sniper rifle from the original Destiny. But for all the evidence that Black Spindle is somewhere in Destiny 2, players still can’t earn it for themselves. The Destiny secret-hunting subreddit, Raid Secrets, has been unable to find the gun in the game. It’s part of what makes Destiny Destiny, and it brings back that new excitement with every step toward another wild goose chase. Every out of place object or m

President Donald Trump’s Federal Commission on School Safety heard testimony this week from two psychologists. While they held differing opinions on how violence in entertainment impacts children, both were clear in recommending that the government take the time to consider the role that firearms play in school shootings. With regard to video games, the commission called on Dr. Rowell Huesmann from the University of Michigan and Dr. Christopher Ferguson from Stetson University. Ferguson countere

Earlier this month, Pokémon Go players mourned the loss of the biggest and best wild, Alolan-form Pokémon: the Alolan Exeggutor. and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!, featuring Pokémon Sun and Moon’s regional variants of Kanto Pokémon. The event wrapped up in early June, and the Alolan forms disappeared from the wild, Alolan Exeggutor among them. But there’s some good news — nay, some great news — for fans of the ridiculously tall Pokémon. Dragon-types are generally harder to find, but with Alolan Ex

YouTube creators want to get paid and, after dealing with demonetization problems for close to two years, YouTube is finally coming up with alternative payment methods. “We really spent a lot of times with creators,” Dhawan said. YouTube will get a cut of the $4.99 subscription fee. Most Twitch streamers earn 50 percent of the $4.99 subscription fee, which is a tantalizing offer for many people. Like Twitch, YouTube is a business, so it makes sense that it would collect a partial fee for providi

Merchandise isn’t a new concept for YouTube creators, but the company is partnering with Teespring to help creators design and sell merchandise straight through YouTube. Creators have sold a variety of merch for years, but this marks one of YouTube’s first foray’s into partnering with creators to help sell items. YouTube is a business, though, and that means the company will take a cut of the merchandise sold, much like Teespring. “There’s a $1 bonus for every product that’s going to creators,”

YouTube Premieres is what happens when creators want to incorporate tools designed for livestreaming and bolstering a community, but don’t want to necessarily livestream. Kurt Wilms, group product manager at YouTube, told Polygon that Premieres is YouTube’s answer to appointment television. All of the livestreaming products that creators like (super chat, cool emojis, etc) are now available for standard videos. Super chat is a way fans to send a paid message, and it stands out from the crowd. Th

If you can control the movement of the other player with your skillful building, or just put yourself in an advantageous position, you’re likely to win the game. You’re also probably going to use shotguns or explosives to finish things off. That’s something Epic Games would like to change — it’s just not clear how the studio is going to do it. “It’s important to support a variety of late game strategies, that don’t boil down to ‘just build lol,’” the Fortnite team wrote in a blog post today. “Yo

Developer Three Fields Entertainment, the studio founded by former Burnout creators Fiona Sperry and Alex Ward, are doubling down on games about cars wrecking and blowing up. The studio announced two games today — Danger Zone 2 and Dangerous Driving — both of which will deliver car crashes in excess. Danger Zone 2 is, obviously, a sequel to last year’s Danger Zone, the virtual crash testing facility that was inspired by Burnout’s Crash Mode. Danger Zone 2 is coming to PlayStation 4, Windows PC a

Many board game companies have recognized the demand for games that two people can play easily. In the mix are cooperative and competitive games, games that play quickly and games that are a little more involved, games that have the option to add more players and games that are specifically designed with two people in mind. Buy Pandemic here: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Target | WalmartBuy Forbidden Island here: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Target | WalmartBuy Forbidden Desert here: Amazon | Barnes &

Whenever a new technology debuts, media adjusts alongside the innovation, and this is especially true for survival horror games and 3D graphics and surround sound. The fear mechanics in survival horror games work because you know that if you can hear an enemy, they can “hear” you. Even though 3D graphics were possible for early survival horror games like Alone in the Dark (1992) and Resident Evil (1996), there wasn’t enough rendering power to create 3D characters and a 3D room model. Thus you ha

If there is one thing the Polygon video team is known for, it’s hard-hitting investigations into the seedy underbelly of video games. Or that’s what we’ll be known for after this important video. This past week, Patrick Gill and I purchased an Overwatch mystery box at E3 with the intention of uncovering the shady dealings of IRL (in real life) loot boxes. The advertisement stated that the box contained $100 worth of merchandise for only $40 ($43.70 in total with tax). We wore our wires discretel

E3 is an illusion, but at least it’s a pretty good one. E3 is like a concert where, instead of seeing U2, you see a commercial for U2’s next album. And those surprises are often how we judge whether E3 is “good” that year. And everyone saves big news for the dates around E3, because that’s when everyone is paying attention. E3 may be more of an illusion than the annual special event it’s cracked up to be.

The company doesn’t support cross-platform play between consoles, and limits the use of Fortnite accounts on other platforms if they’ve ever been used on the PlayStation 4. “BTW when I was at Sony, the stated reason internally for this was money,” industry veteran John Smedley tweeted. Having a Microsoft Account also enables the portability of your MINECOINS and marketplace purchases to other devices and platforms. The play part of cross-platform play is the least important aspect of this issue