This biggest news from the Nintendo eShop this week is the release of Pokémon Quest, a stripped-down take on everyone’s favorite pocket monsters. The game is free-to-start on the Nintendo Switch, and will come to mobile devices this June. If you’ve ever wanted a version of Pokémon that has been squished through the aesthetics of Minecraft, you’re in luck. But now that we’ve got that out of the way, we can talk about the real big news in the eShop this week: West of Loathing. Just Shapes and Beat

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 just got a sizable, and free, content update that brings mod support to the game, plus a bunch of new cosmetics and a new challenge mode delivering loot prizes. The challenge mode is called Okri’s Challenges, which is now accessed through a book inside the keep that had previously just been a background decoration. Vermintide 2’s loot chests can’t be bought for real money; we found the system quite appealing when we played it back in March. Also in response to the communi

Pre-orders for a new Atari game console eclipsed $2 million in the first day they were offered through Indiegogo. Called the Atari VCS, the new console is available in three bundles. The $299 package features a real wood veneer on the front of the console and includes a Bluetooth-enabled, retro-styled Atari joystick controller. The $199 package includes an all-black version of the console, while a $229 package includes the black version with a joystick. The campaign for the Atari VCS runs throug

Destiny 2 is a game that’s all about grinding for gear, and the latest Nightfall strike offered the D.F.A. Heck, one of our writers played for hours and wrote an exasperated post about how the gun probably didn’t exist as a reward. We have confirmed that Nightfall exclusive rewards are not currently dropping for Destiny 2 base and Curse of Osiris strikes. We’ve reached out to Bungie to see how they plan on making this right for players who spent a lot of time grinding for a reward that never cam

With a single, under-the-table blaster shot, Han smoked Greedo, who hit the table as snail-headed onlookers gawked from around the bar. With every alteration, “Han shot first” morphed from dissection of creator intent into a lampooning meme, a scene easily spoofed by Family Guy, Robot Chicken and even Star Wars itself; “Han shot first” jabs appear in Star Wars Battlefront 2, the Star Wars Tales comic book, Angry Birds Star Wars and even The Force Awakens novelization. This month’s Solo: A Star W

Jaiswal became a sensation, but his commitment to the spelling bee competition and his involvement reaches far beyond a quick six second clip. The spelling bee is a truly worthwhile endeavor that has impacted my life immensely. Today he’s readying for his senior year at a specialized school in Mississippi, but still manages to get out to the Spelling Bee every single year. Jaiswal may only have placed fourth in the 2015 Spelling Bee, but his legend continues year after year. This year’s Spelling

After a slight delay, the Week 5 challenges for Fortnite Season 4 have landed, and with them comes another tricky treasure map to follow. The challenge: “Follow the treasure map found in Greasy Grove.” As always, we’re gonna go ahead and ignore the treasure map itself, just showing you where you should head for your end-goal. You’ll know it’s the right mountain because there’s a ridiculous missile silo poking out of the top of it. Yes, this location was added as part of the superhero theme for t

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey may be the next entry in Ubisoft’s time-bending action franchise. The report claims the image and additional info comes from a source that goes by the alias Arcticblue, and describes Odyssey as a follow-up to Assassin’s Creed Origins. Ubisoft will likely confirm the next Assassin’s Creed at E3. Now imagine an Assassin’s Creed game that builds off Black Flag and sets the story inside an oral myth (a story that changes depending on from whom Abstergo pulls the memories) wo

A few months ago, Destiny 2 developer Bungie added Nightfall-specific loot, which would only drop when a certain strike was featured as the weekly Nightfall. This week’s Nightfall in Destiny 2 is Tree of Probabilities, a bad mission-turned-strike with a brilliant reward. The Tree of Probabilities’ loot is the D.F.A., Destiny 2’s best perks rolled up into a single hand cannon. The first time that Tree of Probabilities was the Nightfall, a group of us heard tell of the D.F.A. How many languages co

The RuneScape Classic Twitch community isn’t competing for attention with Fortnite streamers or well-known personalities. Colonello, a RuneScape Classic YouTuber, is already planning his next steps once RuneScape Classic shuts down in August. “There’s a lot of people that care about [Classic] but prefer to play Old School RuneScape and RuneScape 3 instead,” he said. He wants to focus on creating educational videos about RuneScape Classic to keep the game’s memory alive, while also commenting on

A $27,000 bundle of spaceships and in-game content for Star Citizen caught the attention of backers and detractors of the massively crowdfunded space combat adventure earlier this week. What is different is the even higher price tag for the Legatus Pack, and the extra items thrown in. “Alright, this is getting ridiculous”“Alright, this is getting ridiculous,” said redditor Strykerx88 in the Star Citizen subreddit. Star Citizen, announced in 2012 with a $500,000 Kickstarter campaign, has been in

Fallout 76 is the next entry in the Fallout series, the long-running Bethesda Softworks franchise. The past few Fallout titles — including Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4 — have all been single-player open-world role-playing games from Bethesda Game Studios, set hundreds of years after a nuclear apocalypse. But it sounds like the developer may take the series in a new direction, at a different point in the Fallout timeline, with Fallout 76. Read up on the series’ history, and everyth

In Pokémon Quest, your journey takes you to Tumblecube Island, a bizarre region where voxel-style Pokémon roam free. Battles are semi- or even fully automated, which makes Pokémon Quest feel much different from its turn-based brethren. That’s not to say that Pokémon Quest is entirely an idle experience, although it can be if you’d like. I’ve owned every mainline Pokémon game since the franchise started, but I no longer want to devote the time to finish them. Pokémon Quest is out now on Switch an

Today’s Fallout 76 teaser is littered with visual detail, most of it homages to items and memories from earlier games in the series. There’s a little more information cobbled together about Vault 76 from various references, which date to 2008’s Fallout 3. The screen apparently is replaying the dedication ceremony when Vault 76 was entered and closed. Before we get to that, notice how everything is in good shape inside and around Vault 76. Still, in Fallout 76 we’ll be getting the fourth differen

Here’s everything we know about Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! Described by director Junichi Masuda as a remake of Pokémon Yellow, the first Pokémon titles for Switch will take us back to the Kanto region, where the original Pokémon games were set. Does Pokémon: Let’s Go have anything to do with Pokémon Go? There will be a way to transfer Pokémon caught in Pokémon Go to Pokémon: Let’s Go! Nostalgic elements that older players know and love combined with newer mechanics, revamped graphics and a conn

This first trailer for Netflix’s The Magic Order is deceptive. Despite the look of it, which mixes animation and sound effects along with images, The Magic Order is not something you’ll find on Netflix’s app. It’s a comic written by Mark Millar (Kick-Ass, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Ultimate X-Men) and drawn by Olivier Coipel (X-Men, Avengers, Thor). In February 2018, Netflix and Millarworld announced that The Magic Order would be the companies’ first collaboration. “Magic meets the mob,” is how N

In each episode of Quality Control, a Polygon editor talks to a critic about a new game, movie or piece of gear. In this episode, Charlie Hall invites Jenna Stoeber, Ben Kuchera and editor-in-chief Chris Grant in to talk about the success of Fortnite. Just how long has this game been in development, and what was it like when it was first released? Why is Epic Games one of the only developers in the world that could have made this game what it is today? What would a gritty reboot of Frozen sound

Warframe is a wonderful, free-to-play MMO. The first decision you make in the game is about which of three warframes (the titular suits of armor) you will use. If you choose one you don’t enjoy, you’ll either have to start from scratch or spend hours grinding to get a new warframe. But when I gave the game a few hours and worked alongside friends who were in a similar position, Warframe became overwhelmingly fun. The grind of Warframe can feel a bit repetitive, but the controls are slick, the co

The supervillains of the DC Universe are the star of the next Lego action-adventure game. Lego DC Super-Villains will let players assume the role of their own custom DC villain and team up with the likes of The Joker, Lex Luthor and Harley Quinn later this year. Even though you’re playing with some of DC’s baddest men and women in DC Lego Super-Villains, it sounds like you’re actually doing some good. The announcement for Lego DC Super-Villains reveals that classic DC villains like Lex Luthor’s

But it’s easy to forget that nuclear war is still a threat that hangs over us all. In the rich and voluminous Fallout lore, it’s said that Vault 76 exists in Virginia. The purpose of the facility was to function as the seat of power for the American legislative branch in the event of nuclear war. According to the official website, the 112,544-square-foot bunker is situated some 70 feet below the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Nevertheless, nuclear war still poses a ri