These are parents tuned into the YouTubers that their kids, many of whom are teenagers, devote their time to watching. “I’m watching what she watches and we talk about it. The thing I’m more concerned about isn’t what she’s watching, but she does watch a lot of content. Wade said he trusts his daughter to be vigilant of what she’s watching and, if something does pop up, they talk about it. “She’s not attracted to the YouTubers who are doing bad things.”There are some parents, however, like Julie

Ah, the Steam Summer Sale: a week to remind you that you never really had any intentions of going outside, even when it was nice out. But if you’ve been patiently “waiting for the next Steam sale,” this is your moment! Every year, Valve adds a fun minigame to its sale — whether it be collecting badges or some kind of trading-card-palooza. Well, if you get overwhelmed, here are some of the best deals from this year’s sale. But you’ll need to act fast if you want to nab any of these; the 2018 Stea

The commercial for the latest Nintendo Switch update for Minecraft, which allows cross-platform play, does something that may be a first for the modern gaming industry: It promotes a competitor’s console in a positive way. Seeing the Xbox and Switch logos together in a single commercial, released on Nintendo’s official YouTube channel, is surreal. Which makes Sony’s decision to not allow cross-platform play look even worse. Sony’s response to the Fortnite situation was a disaster, and this Minec

A new accessory called the Flip Grip attempts to address that by giving Switch owners a dedicated dock designed with vertical orientation in mind. They’re bringing the Flip Grip to Kickstarter, hoping to raise $42,500 to kick off manufacturing of the device for later this year. Fangamer’s Kickstarter campaign page lists the existing Switch titles that support vertical orientation. The Flip Grip consists of a single piece of injection-molded plastic designed to house the Switch at a 90-degree cou

Earlier this week, PUBG Corp. announced the latest cosmetic unlock system for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: the Event Pass. The pass is designed to help commemorate the launch of Sanhok, the game’s third map, and is supposed to reward players with certain cosmetic items for completing challenges. The Event Pass itself has 30 levels of unlocks and around 24 cosmetic items — the other levels grant you things like XP or extra BP — which range from jackets and pants, to prison jumpsuits and police

World of Warcraft is currently playable without a subscription, thanks to a welcome back weekend Blizzard is hosting. First noticed in a Reddit thread — where players suspected it to be a bug — Blizzard announced that players can play WoW for free all weekend in addition to having a discount on account services. WoWHead also reported that players who have yet to buy Legion or Battle for Azeroth have had their accounts upgraded to include Warlords of Draenor, expansion five for World of Warcraft.

There have been a lot of questions about Destiny 2’s new loadout system coming alongside Forsaken, the game’s next expansion. It appears that weapons will now drop for a specific slot — either slot one or slot two. Destiny 2’s sandbox design lead, Josh Hamrick, answered a fan’s question regarding new slotting on Twitter. We’ll have to wait to hear more, but for now, the weapons system is looking to get pretty complicated. Destiny 2: Forsaken is launching for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox On

Week 8 of Fortnite’s Season 4 is upon us, and with it comes a new set of challenges. The toughest to piece together tasks players to “Search between a Bear, Crater, and a Refrigerator Shipment.”As always, you can piece this location together by tracking down all of these objects and going to the place where they triangulate. The spot you’re heading toward is just about straight west from a medium-sized crater. You’ll know you’re on the right track because there will be three large trees in kind

Æon Flux, a secret agent from the year 7698 who starred her own short-form animated series from 1991 to 1995, will again grace the small screen, courtesy of MTV. Announced by the network, the rebooted Æon Flux will translate animator Peter Chung’s muscular, pencil-thin animation style into a modern, live-action action vehicle from Teen Wolf creator Jeff Davis and The Walking Dead producer Gale Anne Hurd. Æon Flux 2.0 has to appeal to the masses (though a previous attempt to do that, 2005’s Charl

[Warning: this post contains major spoilers for The Incredibles 2]Beneath all the warm nostalgia and animation spectacle of Incredibles 2 is a knotted ball of thematic messages. With Bob Odenkirk’s character Winston Deavor, Incredibles 2 gave us a genuinely hopeful look at the concept of fandom, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. The Incredibles positioned its villain, Syndrome, as the ultimate example of a fan who broke bad. But Syndrome’s villainous turn fourteen years gone isn’t the

During my interview with game director Adam Badowski, the man leading the Cyberpunk 2077 team seemed apprehensive about the game’s reception. Inside that interview room, the first public showing of Cyberpunk 2077 was simultaneously a huge success and a catastrophic failure. He was, ‘La la la. Li li li.’ You know, factions, political groups. We served it properly to you, so that’s exactly what we want to do again with Cyberpunk.

Nintendo continues its E3 momentum this week with what is easily the highest-quality Switch eShop update in a long, long time. A new Mario game? The biggest name on the list is Mario Tennis Aces, which looks to be the most promising entry in Mario’s best sports spinoff series in … way, way too long. But if you just want some good, slightly hectic tennis action with your friends, Mario Tennis Aces has exactly that. Minecraft first launched on Nintendo Switch last year, but there’s a new, revamp

Although overshadowed by this week’s trading feature update, a new legendary Pokémon has arrived in Pokémon Go. The ice-type Regice, one of the more difficult Pokémon to obtain in the mainline games, will take part in Raid battles from now through July 19. It’s an inspired, if convoluted, way to find a legendary Pokémon. After finishing a certain number of quests over a set period of time, players are able to receive the legendary Pokémon Mew. The hope is that Niantic cycles in other legendary P

Arc System Works’ fighting game Dragon Ball FighterZ is coming to Nintendo Switch on Sept. 28 in the Americas, publisher Bandai Namco confirmed today. The Switch version of the game was revealed at E3 last week, but without a specific release date. Pre-orders will also come with early access to SSGSS Goku and Vegeta in Dragon Ball FighterZ. Dragon Ball FighterZ was originally released in January for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, and has since gone on to find a wide audience. The game w

Back then, my dad wondered why the heck I’d want the seasons expansion pack, when I could have a cooler one like the vacation-themed Bon Voyage. A lot of The Sims 3 expansion packs added RPG-style elements like visiting the future and exploring hidden temples. The Seasons packs add … seasons. The Seasons expansions come with more than seasons — The Sims 4 Seasons also introduces a calendar with customizable holidays, a beekeeping hobby and new gardening-related career tracks, among other things.

If the idea of being shut out by a 12-year-old in an online game doesn’t sound appealing, NHL 19 is being designed specifically to be welcoming to everyone. NHL 19 features a new online hub, World of CHEL, that contains four different modes of play. Outside of World of CHEL, EA Vancouver is also making some major gameplay improvements to the series in NHL 19. In NHL 19, you’ll have a separate scouting budget, and will have to hire and fire scouts with an eye on their regional specializations. Th

2018 marked the second year in a row that the public was invited to E3, arguably the game industry’s most important trade show. My last appointment of E3 was on Thursday, which also happened to be the last day of the convention. The result was that Badowski never had the chance to talk with Kojima after the demo. E3 is going through growing pains, but there’s no reason it can’t have its cake and let fans in too. E3 is learning how to be a show for everyone, but it’s not quite there yet.

E3 2018 went by in a sticky blur of exhaustion and hand sanitizer. There was a lot going on — stuff that even I missed — so I put together a digest of the required viewing to be the most cultured, up-to-date consumer of Polygon’s E3 Content (TM). And that we used the Cyberpunk RPGs to analyze the tidbits that CD Projekt Red dropped in the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer? Read on for the best of Polygon’s videos from E3 2018. Spider-Man Is GreatSpider-Man is gonna be a good, good game.

In this week’s episode of Quality Control, Charlie Hall, Dave Tach, Chris Plante and Allegra Frank look back at some of the best and most interesting games of E3 2018. Press play below to learn more about Cyberpunk 2077, Rage 2, The Last of Us Part 2, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice — plus a bit about what it’s like to be in the presence of Hideo Kojima. Email: qualitycontrol at polygon dot comMusic: “Goodwill” by The Custodian of RecordsFor more on the biggest video gam

Tencent and PUBG Corp. have announced the latest update to the extremely successful PUBG Mobile game, which will include a new perspective, new mode and new ways to earn rewards in the game. The biggest addition in this new update, called patch 0.6.0, is the first-person perspective, which is coming to PUBG Mobile for the first time. This patch will also add the Royale Pass to PUBG Mobile, which will give players a new way to unlock cosmetic items. The Elite Royale Pass is available for 600 UC —