“That’s why it looks so much like her original Batgirl: Year One outfit — like, she’s with her dad. So the version that she was working on [back in the day] that she had stashed here just in case. Barbara is headed home to face off against a villain named Grotesque, who harkens back to Batgirl’s original New 52 era run. She had to think about things like ‘what if the language centers of my brain stop working? Batgirl’s new creative team kicks off in the back-to-back Batgirl #26 and Batgirl Annua

Dota 2 isn’t safe from the battle royale fad, as Valve has finally opened up its own take on the mode, The Underhollow. This mode combines elements from its original MOBA and the battle royale genre for a new, unique experience. Players choose any hero on the Dota roster and join a team of three in order to move through the depths of the Underhollow. Along the way, you move through different rooms and meet different threats — not just other players, but also different waves of NPC enemies and ev

Warsaw, Poland-based CD Projekt Red was on hand at this year’s E3 with a nearly hourlong demonstration of its next game, Cyberpunk 2077. But what many writers have overlooked is how much respect CD Projekt is giving to the game’s original lore, a tabletop RPG first published in 1988. Here’s what Cyberpunk 2077 got right about Pondsmith’s legendary tabletop RPG. But, in CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077, looking good will actually affect the player’s performance. The techFocal to the original tabletop

For weeks now, Marvel Comics has been teasing a mysterious new Spider-Man event to eager fans: Spidergeddon. The event will be a successor of sorts to 2014’s Spider-Verse storyline, which introduced now-fan-favorite characters like Spider-Gwen and Silk to the Marvel Universe. Today Polygon can exclusively reveal the identity of that Spider-Person: None other than the Spider-Man of Spider-Man, the upcoming action-adventure title from Insomniac Games, with his distinctive white spider-emblem. In S

Nintendo announced a brand-new action game called Daemon X Machina during its E3 2018 Nintendo Direct presentation, offering a tantalizing glimpse at the stylized mech action experience coming to Switch. Later, during Nintendo’s Treehouse Live stream, the game’s director, Kenichiro Tsukuda, took a deeper dive into the game’s mechanics. In the clip, Tsukuda walks viewers through character customization and a brief look at mech customization, but most of the gameplay presentation focuses on action

Compulsion Games, the developer behind We Happy Few and Contrast, was one of four studios recently acquired by Microsoft. That won’t change how they make games, Alex Epstein, narrative director on We Happy Few, told Polygon. The team at Compulsion will “continue making crazy games,” he said, adding that’s why “Microsoft is buying us.” The only difference Epstein sees moving forward is having more time to create polished games. “What we’ll be able to do is do everything with a little bit more pol

Ubisoft’s Trials games have always combined challenging physics-based motorcross challenges. Trials Rising leans in to the slapstick violence further, filling courses with bespoke pitfalls and traps designed to catch you off-guard. Trials Rising also adds a very silly-looking tandem mode where two riders share a bike. Two bikers means twice as many chances to get violently, completely ruined by the game’s pitfalls and booby traps. If you’re looking for impressions, hot takes, or just a touch of

We’ve had a few days to calm down from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s lengthy appearance in the Nintendo Direct, but in case you were looking for a quick guide to all the things we know about the game, here’s a list:The game features a roster of more than 60 characters. This includes EVERY character who has ever been in a previous Smash Bros. game. Pokemon Trainer can change Pokemon freely and won’t be penalized for not switching (and you can play as a girl trainer). Some of the new items: black h

After half an hour of hands-on time with Anthem, and I’ve got to give it one hell of a backhanded compliment:It doesn’t feel like a BioWare game. Anthem feels good. BioWare is a studio that built its brand on RPG storytelling, but if you look at the Mass Effect series you can see its gradual expansion into a more action-oriented approach. While each successive Mass Effect game came closer to matching the feel of modern action shooters, there was always just enough clunkiness to remind you that i

Epic Games’ Fortnite Pro-Am tournament is one of those rare places. ‘Fortnite is something unprecedented’Banc Stadium, home of Los Angeles’ soccer team, is the home to the Pro-Am tournament. “Esports feels like it’s going to be big when it’s figured out,” Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, a player in the tournament, tells Polygon. Dota 2 and League of Legends have their own high-profile players, but the Pro-Am tournament stands out as a mainstreaming of this breed of celebrity. The Pro-Am tournament wa

In celebration of E3 and the return of Super Smash Bros., the Nintendo eShop is having a huge sale. The theme of the sale is Super Smash Bros., so a lot of the games offered are ones that feature characters on the Smash roster. For the 3DS, older games like the Mega Man Legacy Collection ($5.99) and Wario Land 3 ($2.49) are going for super cheap. Newer titles like Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia and Poochy & Yoshi’s World are also reduced to $26.79. But there’s loads of other titles not

On June 13, 14-year-old Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown deactivated her verified Twitter account, @milliebbrown. omg this is the origin of the millie bobby brown being racist/homophobic meme. These tweets, however, were only moving in supposedly “insular” Twitter communities — namely, so-called “Stan Twitter” and “Gay Twitter.”What is “Stan” Twitter? Both Stan Twitter and Gay Twitter signify individuals congregated around certain, specific interests ranging from queer identity to K-pop g

Smash Bros. isn’t really his game, Roiland sheepishly admitted, joking that he never got the hang of it when playing with friends. All Roiland really wants to know is when we’ll get another proper 3D Castlevania game for the 3DS, one of his all-time favorite consoles (the Game Boy Advance is another favorite). “I’m sad we only got one 3D Metroid game. ‘Cause it feels like the 3DS is sort of done, they’re not really making 3D games anymore. I’m such a fan of classic side-scrolling Metroid, and I’

The Last of Us publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment has sold more than 17 million copies of the post-apocalyptic action game, developer Naughty Dog announced today. Within the game’s first 13 months on store shelves, Sony sold 7 million copies of it. The Sony spokesperson confirmed to Polygon that the 17 million figure includes PS3 and PS4 copies. Today’s announcement suggests that The Last of Us has had an incredibly long tail in terms of sales, with nearly 10 million copies sold after the

Dozens of superhero movies have come and gone since The Incredibles movie came out in 2004, and yet the Pixar film remains a — if not the — paragon of the genre. Suffice to say that most of the superhero movies that have come out in the intervening years haven’t quite managed that gauntlet. So what a delight it is that Incredibles 2, which picks up exactly where its predecessor left off, is full of the same verve. As the legality of superheroes comes into contention, the Parrs are brought into c

The original arcade version of Donkey Kong is now available for Nintendo Switch as part of the Arcade Archives line. Arcade Archives Donkey Kong costs $7.99 and includes three versions of Donkey Kong: the original Japanese arcade game; a later version that fixed a few bugs; and the international version, which featured a different stage order. Nintendo also announced today that Sky Skipper, an extremely rare arcade game that was never officially released in North America, is also coming to the A

When Resident Evil 2 was released in 1998 for the original PlayStation, its story leaned into the fantastical. So when Capcom finally showed off its Resident Evil 2 remake at E3 this year, which took on a more realistic tone, fans quickly wondered if its more ridiculous, fantastic elements could fit into that re-imagined world. Tofu is just like his name implies: a living block of tofu with a knife. Hirabayashi confirmed Tofu and Hunk will return to Resident Evil 2 as well. Resident Evil 2 is co

I‘m not ashamed to admit that Jump Force — a fighting game starring heroes from the beloved Shonen Jump manga magazine — is an extremely jarring game to look at, especially at first. Unlike previous Shonen Jump fighting games, Jump Force sees the developer transposing favorite manga characters from their black-and-white pages into our real world, with new designs to match. After half a century, Bandai Namco has decided that it’s time for manga characters to live in the real world. There’s a reas

Since the beginning of Fortnite’s fourth season, one mystery has kept the community coming back week after week trying to complete challenges: the Blockbuster skin. For those of you who don’t remember the beginning of the season seven weeks ago, or were never quite up to speed to begin with, Blockbuster is the name of a challenge that appears in Fortnite for any player who buys the Season 4 Battle Pass. To complete the challenge, players had to complete the weekly Battle Pass challenges for seve

IGN reported today that The Last of Us Part 2 creative director Neil Druckmann told the audience in the private presentation that “Ellie is the only playable character in the game.”But despite the on-the-record comment, it’s speculative. Joel isn’t playable at all, so as to focus strictly on Ellie’s arc. We’ve known since The Last of Us Part 2 was announced that Ellie is the game’s main character. And for now, Naughty Dog itself has said Ellie is the only one who’s playable in The Last of Us Par