Visitors had a lot of fun sitting down to it, looking grim and official as the most powerful person in the free world. The Oval Office has been recreated in movies, TV and pop culture time and time again. It really does look like Ubisoft went all in to buy or at least rent some film-quality props so that fans could live out their POTUS fantasies. The Resolute Desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879. It’s a very important symbol of the alliance of the United K

One of the more contentious conversations during E3 2018 focused on the partnership between Ubisoft and HitRecord for the upcoming Beyond Good & Evil 2. It’s hugely important to me that @hitrecord pays artists fairly. However, the partnership with Ubisoft isn’t the typical HitRecord project. In fairness, Ubisoft and HitRecord aren’t looking to hire anyone, or hunt for completed works from individual artists. This seems like a way to get a lot of spec work from artists without actually hiring any

Although E3 2018 has wrapped, many stores are still having huge sales in honor of the major event. The Nintendo eShop is doing 50 percent off select digital games and Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop are matching their prices. PlayStation is doing its Days of Play sale featuring a temporary PlayStation 4 Pro price drop available at Best Buy, GameStop, and Walmart. And of course the Microsoft Store is getting in on the savings as well with matches from the major retailers. NINTENDO SALEPLAYSTATION

Sony’s response to the Fortnite account controversy is weak in a number of ways, most notably that it doesn’t even discuss the problem itself or offer any solutions for it. We would love to have PlayStation players along with the unified Minecraft, hope that we can. But that feels very unlikely right now due to the ongoing nature of the complaints and the popularity of Fortnite. Every time they use their Fortnite account on another platform, players will be reminded of losing out on playing the

However, Netflix and Dreamworks TV’s sixth season of Voltron bucks that trend, and it’s arguably the best season yet. Season six brought plenty of resolution to several long-term subplots such as Shiro’s odd conduct since season three and the origin of Keith’s Galra heritage. After crash landing on Earth while trying to protect the Blue Lion from the Galra Empire, she and Keith’s father fell in love. Remarkably, season six of Voltron gives us something in its finale that we’ve never received: a

Blizzard announced today that World of Warcraft Classic will be set in patch 1.12: Drums of War. In a developer update, Blizzard said it chose patch 1.12 “because it represents the most complete version of the classic experience.”Players have been debating for months — since the reveal of World of Warcraft Classic last BlizzCon — about what “Classic” truly means. Is it the final patch of “vanilla WoW?” What is the true World of Warcraft experience for old-school players? Patch 1.12 was the final

We Happy Few partially is a game about drug addiction, and why people often choose to use drugs as a way to forget their past. Characters in We Happy Few use a drug called “Joy” to forget the past, and the discussion around drug addiction is one of the most popular surrounding the game. Alex Epstein, We Happy Few’s narrative designer, told Polygon that the team hopes to convince the ratings board their team isn’t trying to glorify drug use. “One of them is, he says, ‘Am I happy if I’m happy on d

If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly exotic item merchant. This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur exotics on your highest-level character. Its exotic perk, Repulsor Force, causes the weapon to fire powerful impulses that push enemies away from the user. Its exotic perk, Auto-loading Link, will constantly reload your auto rifles as you fire them. The StagA returning exotic from Destiny (in name and look at least), The Stag’s exotic p

Parties hosted by major corporations at annual industry events like E3 aren’t surprising anymore, which is why Epic Games’ Fortnite extravaganza — a carnival littered with happy, intoxicated adults and hyper teens — seemed more like a Coachella show than an E3 afterparty. Fortnite’s culture is synonymous with mainstream culture at this point, and that thought really comes to fruition watching strangers jump into a dance circle together and perform the exact same moves. Backpack Kid, whose real n

Naughty Dog stumbled on this fact with the early marketing for The Last of Us Part 2, but the E3 presentation was one of the most exciting demos I’ve ever seen. This is the whole thing right here: The violence means something, and it’s set up by the entirety of the demonstration. Getting animated characters to kiss without it looking like an awkward mess is a touch challenge, and Naughty Dog pulled it off spectacularly. This is the sort of thing that costs time and money to do well, but Naughty

Way back in January of 2017, Nintendo revealed that they were working on a brand new Fire Emblem game on Switch. After 18 months of radio silence, an E3 trailer has been dropped, and it contains a heck of a lot of interesting details about the game we now know as Fire Emblem: Three Houses. One might assume that the next Fire Emblem game will carry forward a lot of the mechanics introduced in Awakening and Fates, but Three Houses seems to be pulling more from Fire Emblem Echoes, a remake of one o

Specifically, what’s with all the deer? A lot of game trailers have had appearances from deer, most of which end with them skittering away. The Division 2 has several appearances of deer, while Just Cause 4 had a beautiful buck in the cinematic and gameplay trailer. The use of deer in The Division 2 trailers clue us in to what’s happening. In the gameplay trailer, the player character stumbles upon a deer while wandering through a building in a botanical garden; that deer represents wilderness h

Initial plans had the first Call of Duty movie set to drop in 2018 or 2019. The “first” Call of Duty movie being a key takeaway. It would be hard to imagine a better practice run for a Call of Duty film. While he’s unable to talk any specifics about the Call of Duty film franchise, he was willing to answer when asked about what sort of movie he’d like to make as an entrée into a Call of Duty film franchise. So not a war movie, but a soldier movie.

Fortnite on the Nintendo Switch is here, and it’s already very popular. So … how is Fortnite on the Nintendo Switch? Digital Foundry’s testing pretty much confirmed what I wrote in my initial hands-on report: You lose a lot of visual fidelity on the Nintendo Switch, but you can play just fine. But in general, this is a very strong, very playable version of the game, and you can play it on the go. You shouldn’t jump on the Switch version if you’re worried about giving yourself every advantage,

Tetris Effect is a game that seems so obvious, even simple, if you describe it one sentence: Tetris, set to music, inside of virtual reality. I played Tetris Effect for 15 minutes, clearing four stages that ran the gamut from manic to calming, and left feeling much more relaxed than almost any other E3 demo in recent memory. Because EA held the license to publish Tetris games at the time, Mizuguchi worked on creating Lumines instead. “A lot of people when they hear that you can play a Tetris gam

The team at CD Projekt Red came to E3 this year with an enormous demo for its next game, Cyberpunk 2077. For some of them, I’m sure it was because they were uncomfortable with or perhaps prudish about nudity. Adding those white boxes to the menu system at E3 was a tactical decision by the team at CD Projekt Red, game director Adam Badowski told Polygon. “Nudity is important for us because of one reason,” Badowski said. It’s one of the most important themes in cyberpunk, as a genre.”

So you’ve seen Rage 2, and these games have been possible thanks to Apex. If you’ve seen this demo, you’ve probably realized that actually, Just Cause 4, it’s so much more than Just Cause 3. You’ve seen the rainforest and part of the grasslands. You’ve seen, probably, a bridge being torn apart by the tornado. But you’re Just Cause; you’re not Breath of the Wild.

Copies of Destiny 2: Forsaken will come with a character boost — called a Spark of Light in Destiny — to help new players quickly level up and get right to the DLC, Bungie said in an interview with Mashable. The Spark of Light in Destiny was first introduced in The Taken King. It allowed players to boost up to the max level just before the most recent content update. Players with only two characters, returning players who stopped playing after Destiny 2’s main campaign, or brand-new players who

Can the virtual world leave a footprint on our tangible plane of existence? Now that virtual technology is more prominent than ever, the answers seem closer and further away all at once. A new six-episode UK import, Kiss Me First, will delve into the metaverse to find new answers when it debuts later this month on Netflix. Within the pixelated walls of Azana, Leila meets Tess (The Night Manager’s Simona Brown), a cool, collected arbiter of the virtual space. That familiarity works to the show’s

He says he chose Sony’s Kaz Hirai simply because Hirai ran the company he knew the most about. Since Hirai didn’t have a Twitter account, Doherty’s fake account was the one many landed on. “It’s just a weird conversation to have.”Two unexpected fans of the Fake Kaz Hirai account, though, are Doherty’s parents. Tied into the end of the Fake Kaz Hirai account was a crowdfunding campaign for the charity SpecialEffect. Besides, the Fake Kaz Hirai Twitter is where Doherty follows all game-related stu