Nintendo announced Daemon X Machina, a new mech action game coming to Nintendo Switch, at the top of its E3 2018 Nintendo Direct conference today. Daemon X Machina looks like a giant mech fighting game, with mechs called Arsenals punching, shooting and fighting each other out in the middle of a desert. Daemon X Machina gives off some serious dark Gundam vibes, as mech robots big and small fight one another with an assortment of weapons. Kenichiro Tsukuda, a producer on the Armored Core series, w

During Nintendo’s press conference at E3 today, the company revealed details about the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 story expansion. This new expansion focuses on the game’s antagonist, Jin, and the history of his birthplace, Torna. This is the final listed expansion on the game’s website, but this doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the last update for Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was released on Nintendo Switch on Dec. 1, 2017, and the game has received both paid and free updates since t

Nintendo’s new Poké Ball Plus controller will debut in November alongside the new Pokémon: Let’s Go! This controller is an actual Poké Ball that you can carry around and use to catch Pokémon in both Let’s Go! The Poké Ball plus will come with an exclusive Pokémon already inside: the legendary Pokémon Mew. The Poké Ball Plus accessory comes out with Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! A bundle with the Poké Ball plus will be available for $99.99 each.

The Mario Party series is coming to Nintendo Switch this fall in Super Mario Party, Nintendo announced today during its E3 2018 Nintendo Direct presentation. Super Mario Party, which is scheduled to be released Oct. 5 on Switch, will be the first entry in the long-running franchise on consoles since Mario Party 10, which debuted on Wii U in 2015. Nintendo has released two Mario Party games on Nintendo 3DS since then, 2016’s Mario Party: Star Rush and 2017’s Mario Party: The Top 100. The trailer

Fire Emblem’s Nintendo Switch debut is called Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Nintendo revealed during its E3 2018 presentation. Fire Emblem: Three Houses will launch on Nintendo Switch sometime in spring 2019, according to the game’s trailer. But outside of the battlefield, Three Houses will introduce another new facet of Fire Emblem. The storyline involves protecting a goddess who watches over the kingdom, although the rest remains vague for now. We’ll hopefully find out more about the story line a

Fans have been asking for Fortnite to come to Nintendo Switch for months, and the hints that it was going to happen piled up in the days leading up to E3. Nintendo and Epic Games have finally confirmed that it’s happening and, better yet, Fortnite is out today at 10 a.m. P.S.T/ 1 p.m. E.S.T. The game will be available for free on the Nintendo Switch eShop, and Epic updates the game weekly on the PC and existing consoles. We can expect Fortnite on the Nintendo Switch to stay on the same release s

Octopath Traveler, the Nintendo Switch-exclusive, turn-based role-playing game developed by Square Enix, is headed to the console in July, but fans will get a chance to try the game out a little earlier than that. Nintendo announced during its E3 2018 Nintendo Direct presentation that Octopath Traveler will get a brand-new demo released on June 14, and that all progress players make in the demo will transfer over to the full game when it releases a month later on July 13. Octopath Traveler is a

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the series’ first Nintendo Switch game, will have more than 60 fighters. And that includes every single character ever featured in a Super Smash Bros. game. The Super Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros.

Hollow Knight, the beautifully hand-drawn Metroidvania that was released early last year on PC platforms, is making its console debut on Nintendo Switch today, Nintendo announced during its E3 streaming press conference. The Nintendo Switch release includes “the new items, areas, characters and bosses from the currently released content packs.”After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014, Hollow Knight was released to wide acclaim in February 2017. Those four packs — Hidden Dreams, The Grimm

Super Smash Bros. (Think Pit and Dark Pit from Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.) Daisy has technically been in Super Smash Bros. before, but only as a trophy. Peach also had alternate colors, where she sports Daisy’s brown hair and yellow dress, in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Super Smash Bros.

After over a decade of fan requests, Ridley is finally making his Smash Bros. debut in Super Smash Bros. He uses his big, purple fists to smash other combatants — as one would expect from a Smash Bros. game — but he can also sweep his tale for powerful attacks. For his Final Smash, Ridley pins an enemy against Samus’ ship and blasts them with energy for high percent damage. Since then, players have fought him as Samus in Metroid Prime, Super Metroid, and even the ones we don’t like to talk about

Ultimate, the upcoming Nintendo Switch version of the classic fighting crossover franchise, during its E3 2018 Direct presentation. Splatoon’s playable characters, the Inklings, will uses weapons that players will recall from the painting-meets-shooter game. But just like in Splatoon, players must take care to pay attention to their ink gauges. The Inklings’ final smash attack is also pulled right from the Splatoon franchise. Ultimate is coming to Nintendo Switch on Dec. 7.

Super Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will include every single character from every previous Super Smash Bros. game, along with three new characters: Daisy, the Inkling from Splatoon, and Metroid’s ferocious villain Ridley. Nintendo plans to show off more Super Smash Bros. Ultimate all this week at E3 2018 on its Treehouse stream, and it at the Super Smash Bros. Invitational tournament streaming Tuesday evening.

Super Smash Bros. But Super Smash Bros. It’s easier to see what matters in battleThere have been lots of small user interface touches made to Super Smash Bros. Directional air dashes: Super Smash Bros. Melee had option to dash in the air in any direction, and it’s something players have missed in later versions. Super Smash Bros.

Killer Queen, the local multiplayer arcade platformer/strategy game from BumbleBear Games, is on its way to Nintendo Switch as Killer Queen Black, Nintendo announced today during its E3 2018 Nintendo Direct presentation. However, Killer Queen Black is “redesigned from the ground up” from the arcade game, said Fils-Aime, offering four-on-four play. It looks to have the same frantic 2D action as the original, and it’ll be the first time any version of Killer Queen has been playable at home. Reggie

Nintendo’s presence at E3 2018 was something to remember. The long-awaited announcement of Super Smash Bros. The new Super Smash Bros. may look familiar, but there are a few key differences that’ll set it apart from its predecessors. A brand new Super Mario Party showcased some interesting tablet orientation dynamics in a mini-game. For more announcements, details and analyses, check out our Nintendo E3 2018 storystream here.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was unveiled this week at E3 in Los Angeles. The main character will be a warrior in the service to a 10-year-old lord. Another unusual feature of Sekiro is its new death mechanic. In the demo we were shown, the main character died while fighting a large boss and several smaller enemies. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is expected to arrive in early 2019 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One.

We’re watching Sony’s E3 2018 press conference, and we’d like you to join us! Brian is anticipating a more in-depth look at Media Molecule’s Dreams, which has been teased for a few years now. I’m looking forward to whatever weird music video Hideo Kojima will show to make us more excited about Death Stranding. Tune into Polygon’s YouTube channel to watch the press conference with us, and make sure you subscribe so that you don’t miss any of our E3 2018 videos. Sony’s press conference will be Mon

Sony’s E3 2018 press conference is hardly under way, but it’s already brought us one of our favorite moments of the whole event thus far. The event opened up with a gameplay trailer for The Last of Us Part 2, which looked bloody and beautiful and a whole mess of other things. And as the opening of an E3 press conference, no less! The trailer then cuts away into gameplay, and the romance is shattered by a whole bunch of death. We hope to see many more of those kisses in the otherwise brutal, blea

Sony went into E3 2018 knowing that it had a strong software lineup of exclusives and VR titles, something that Microsoft couldn’t really match. Let’s take a look at what Sony did well, and explore where it stumbled. This was a lengthy look at the game, but it’s not like we learned much about what’s going on. But the lengthy pauses between games, the awkward live musical performances and listless audience destroyed any advantages the bizarre setting might have otherwise given Sony. Wrong: That C