To celebrate the imprint’s 25th anniversary, DC Entertainment is announcing a line-wide relaunch and rebrand of its venerable Vertigo publishing imprint. Helmed by executive editor Mark Doyle, Vertigo — now called DC Vertigo — will focus on modern, socially relevant and inventive stories that capture a whole range of genres. “It’s time to rebuild DC Vertigo,” explained Doyle in a press release. “We’re returning to our roots by spotlighting the most exciting new voices in comics, as well as bring

As you creep up on a herd of horses in Breath of the Wild, you have to be patient and quiet. Orenstein said that girls like horses — and dolphins and unicorns — because “they’re all active, they’re all sources of power and motion and transformation.”It’s true that in Breath of the Wild, horses literally transform the gameplay. Childhood fantasyWhile the horse girl stereotype is certainly a powerful one, I don’t think the appeal of Breath of the Wild’s horses necessarily rests purely in the fact

While the Stage 4 playoffs are right around the corner for the Overwatch League it’s the League’s Season One playoffs that are looming large on the horizon for most teams. With just two weeks left in the regular season, it’s time to check in with where teams are at in their race for the playoffs. The San Francisco Shock aren’t far ahead of those three and would need nothing short of a miracle to reach the playoffs. With just four, or three for some teams, games remaining in the season, a lot can

Hitman 2 is coming to PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One later this year, developer IO Interactive and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced today. The sequel to 2016’s Hitman will arrive Nov. 13 and will continue Agent 47’s story. That includes a new Sniper Assassin mode that features cooperative multiplayer for two players. A trailer for the Hitman: Sniper Assassin mode can be seen below. Sniper Assassin is available to play now as a pre-order incentive for Hitman 2.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is going to bring back five fan favorite maps from previous games in the Black Ops series, developer Treyarch announced today during a livestream. The Black Ops series of Call of Duty games debuted in 2010, and has always been known for its strong multiplayer map design. All five of these maps will be available at the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. At E3 2018, attendees will be able to play four brand-new maps for Black Ops 4. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will be rel

Starting today, Moss is no longer a PlayStation VR exclusive. For the first time, PC players will be able to join tiny mouse Quill on her adventures on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Moss is a curious mix of first- and third-person gameplay, intertwining 3D sound and clever camera angles to convey diorama-like scenes. You’re known as the Reader, a powerful force that the residents of Moss are able to sense but not see. Moss encouraged me to move around and actually rewarded me for my curiosity, s

Nintendo snagged Rafael Nadal, the 16-time Grand Slam singles title winner and sure-fire Hall-of-Famer, to face Mario in a spot for Mario Tennis Aces, arriving June 22 on Nintendo Switch. Mario Tennis Aces apparently has a Hawk-Eye feature allowing players to challenge a ruling. The blasé Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash couldn’t feature this because of the Wii U controller, but with the ability to separate the Joy-Cons, it’s back. Anyway, it’s nice to see Nintendo put some marketing oomph behind this

Avalanche Studios, the team behind the Just Cause franchise and 2015’s Mad Max, is having a moment. Just a few weeks later it was purchased by the world’s oldest film studio. Now, just days before E3, it announced a new, self-published game called Generation Zero, an open-world action game set in 1980s Sweden. The trailer, embedded above, shows a foursome of stereotypical ’80s kids fighting off mechanized monsters with small arms and explosives. A description on YouTube says that “you’ll be able

Hi-Rez Studios’ fantasy hero shooter Paladins is coming to Nintendo Switch on June 12, the developer announced today. The Switch version will run at 60 frames per second and support cross-play multiplayer with the Xbox One version of Paladins. Next week’s release of Paladins on Switch will be sold in the form of a Founder’s Pack that costs $29.99. You can watch a new trailer for Paladins on Switch in the video above. Hi-Rez’s announcement lends further credence to an apparent E3 leak that outed

Days Gone, the open-world zombie adventure game from Syphon Filter developer Bend Studio, is coming to PlayStation 4 on Feb. 22, 2019. Sony also offered a new look at Days Gone in action, including the game world’s many threats: a human gang known as R.I.P. Days Gone was originally planned for release sometime this year, but was pushed to 2019 in March. Sony and Bend Studio announced Days Gone in 2016 at that year’s E3. Days Gone has been in development since early 2015.

Two rhythm games — Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight — which star the casts of their respective Persona titles, are gearing up for an international release in early 2019. Both games were released late May in Japan and follow in the tradition of an earlier Persona dance title, Persona 4: Dancing All Night. Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight take the familiar characters of each Persona game and whisk them away to a mysterious room,

We’ve got one last Nintendo eShop update ahead of E3 2018, and it’s packed with a variety of games that have … very little in common. The biggest name on the list this week is Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido. The game will launch simultaneously on both Nintendo 3DS and Switch. On the complete other end of the spectrum is a game we’ve covered before, when it launched on the Japanese eShop earlier this year. There’s also the sequel to The Banner Saga, a follow-up to stone-cold classic Shaq-Fu

The studio’s next game, Stormland, is an open-world game that focuses on exploration, whether you’re playing by yourself or with other players online. That’s before the bad guys show up and wreck both your body and the environment you care so much about. Stormland is meant to be a game that’s played for longer stretches and in a more serious manner than past VR releases, which have often felt like demos or short tastes of what the technology can do. Insomniac sees it as an evolution of everythin

Crackdown 3 has once again been delayed, according to a report on Kotaku. Originally scheduled for release in 2017 and more recently set for a vague spring 2018 release window, Crackdown 3 is now scheduled for a 2019 release, with publisher Microsoft giving the project additional development time. But at E3 2017, a much-anticipated campaign demo was met with a lukewarm reception. In January, Epic Games acquired Jones’ cloud tech company Cloudgine, installing Jones as Epic’s director of cloud and

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There are also no stated mechanisms with which Valve will find games that are illegal or trolling. Valve doesn’t want to have to think about this stuff, it gets in the way of counting the money. This isn’t a free speech issue, because Valve isn’t a government entity. Valve isn’t picking a side, because that would mean turning down money from someone. This was probably a simple decision for Valve, and if you’re upset, just remember that your anger isn’t the anger that Valve cares about.

In each episode of Quality Control, a Polygon writer talks to a critic about a new game, movie or piece of gear. In this week’s special episode, Charlie Hall invites Polygon executive editor Chris Plante and Kotaku news editor Jason Schreier to preview this year’s E3, which kicks off next week in Los Angeles. All the major platform holders and some publishers will have their own press briefings before the convention even starts. How many days will it take Nintendo to dole out information on new

With Tales of Arcadia, the plan is for del Toro to finally get a trilogy of his own. The story of TrollhuntersTrollhunters is set in Arcadia Oaks, a suburban paradise in every respect except for the fact that it seems to be a magnet for the disastrous supernatural. There are two further installments left in the Tales of Arcadia trilogy that will expand on the mythos surrounding Arcadia Oaks. Regarding the inspiration for 3 Below, the second installment of the series, del Toro said:And for whatev

Fortnite could be coming to the Nintendo SwitchRumors abound that Epic Games will use E3 to announce that Fortnite is coming to Switch. Tired: Revealing new games during an E3 presentationWired: Announcing new games by pushing an update for them to the eShop. Expect Epic Games to crow about the numbers very soon after it’s over. We also know that Epic Games has been working on Fortnite’s replay functionality specifically to get ready for the Pro-Am at E3. E3 is a strange environment for Fortnite

Spotify playlists are essential to existing in 2018, and they’re also the subject of some pretty imaginative memes. Spotify memes based on breakups or confessing love to a longtime crush became a funny, short-lived fad in April 2017, but they’re finding new life following Avengers: Infinity War. [Warning: The following contains slight spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War.] Something like Avengers: Infinity War, for example. Avengers: Infinity War is still playing in theaters.