Tmant1234 is the developer behind Fort-Friend, an interactive website dedicated to keeping track of weekly Battle Pass challenges in Fortnite. Users can check in week-after-week to see all the Battle Pass challenges and their locations on the map. An interactive checklist makes it easy to track which ones you’ve done and which you have yet to do. When asked if people could jump on the project to help out, Tmant1234 said it’s certainly a possibility. Fort-Friend is still in an early stage of deve

Did Star Wars: The Last Jedi sour a large group of angry men online against the entire series? We knew the answers to all the questions Solo askedSolo: A Star Wars Story is a prequel, and it focuses on things we already knew. Han Solo grew up on Corellia, but became a smuggler and a scoundrel. Han Solo acts in a very Han Solo way, doing things we knew he did. Fans walk out knowing exactly as much about Han Solo as they knew walking in.

Anthony Hopkins’ Twitter feed is a beautifully odd place. The first video, which some people may have seen floating around Twitter, features Hopkins dancing in the most ridiculous fashion. A second video, published just two days later on April 24, finds Hopkins sitting at a piano, playing a classical song. Last night’s episode of Westworld ended with Bernard coming across a version of Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford playing the piano. The song he’s playing in that scene is the same song Hopki

Your inbox has likely been inundated with consent requests and privacy policy updates notices in the past few weeks. Each right is meant to give end users some level of control over the data companies collect. Others are setting up separate procedures for EU data subjects, especially where those companies rely heavily on consent. Exercising Your RightsCompanies are required to implement mechanisms through which its end users can exercise their privacy rights under GDPR. Companies have plenty of

The Lil Tay saga is YouTube and Instagram’s latest milkshake duck. Much like other, similar influencers (Woah Vicky, for example), Lil Tay is known for her outlandish tactics, not any particular or obvious talent. Just search “next Lil Tay” on YouTube; a wealth of videos from budding YouTubers with 30 subscribers pop up, the all of them acting like Lil Tay. Lil Tay is easy to point at, laugh and imitate, and many people do just that. One of the results is the “Lil Tay Challenge” — a series of vi

Avengers: Infinity War left audiences with a surplus of questions after the film ended, but that’s exactly how it was designed. [Warning: The following includes spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War.] Writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely spoke about their original plans for Avengers 4 in a new interview with the New York Times. Both Markus and McFeely are aware of the emotional impact Infinity War has on people, joking about mean tweets they’ve stumbled upon or messages they’ve read. Alt

Disney’s Star Wars and super-hero movies have delivered a series of record-busting box office performances but it does not look like Solo: A Star Wars Story will join them, even if it just had the best weekend of any film. Critically, Solo is coming in with Rotten Tomatoes’ lowest marks (71 percent “fresh”) since the Star Wars reboots began back in 2015. By comparison, spinoff Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Dec. 16, 2016) opened with $155 million. 1 and 2 all-time until Infinity War checked in wi

If you have an Xbox 360, you haven’t turned it on in a while and you want a silly twinge of nostalga, go boot it up. The console just got its first system update in more than two years. The last system update for Xbox 360 came March 29, 2016, about a month before Microsoft formally announced it was ending its production. While it’s still supported, with Xbox Live and Marketplace features and all the rest, backward compatibility and the proliferation of the Xbox One has moved a lot of old Xbox 36

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ development team for PC promised to be more responsive to player concerns — particularly over long running performance issues in the game — in a lengthy note to the community posted yesterday. Performance, server-side optimization and cheating are the top priorities, PUBG’s developers said, noting that “we’ve fallen short” despite some improvements to the game since its 1.0 launch back in December. Most of these are related to things like frame rate drops, sluggish

Killer7, the 2005 stylish adventure-thriller by Suda51, is getting remastered for Steam, Grasshopper Manufacture announced yesterday. It’s coming this Fall. The game’s Steam listing does not specifically mention remastering features but Game Informer reported yesterday that Grasshopper thinks “the game’s simple models and colors scale nicely to modern resolutions.” It will also have keyboard-and-mouse controls. A news release from NIS America, the game’s PC publisher (Capcom was its original con

The Tour career mode will thread in features like rivalries against other players and sponsorship goals to help the player progress through their career and rank up. In a statement announcing the license this week, Alan Bunker, HB Studios’ chief executive, said his team was “absolutely ecstatic. Big name or no, it’s not hard to guess why EA Sports walked away from the Rory McIlroy PGA Tour series, which had only one version in 2015. EA Sports has since done well with a UFC license, and its NBA L

Madden NFL 19 has a special edition cover star and, like the player himself, it’s a provocative choice: Terrell Owens. He’s the star of the “Hall of Fame Edition” of Madden NFL 19, which will launch Aug. 10. The Hall of Fame Edition of Madden NFL 19 offers some extra digital content for Madden Ultimate Team. The standard edition’s cover star will be announced later, probably around EA Play 2018 coming during E3 week next month. The Aug. 10 launch date for Madden is the earliest since 2010’s Madd

Ted Dabney, who founded Atari with Nolan Bushnell in 1972 and developed the first commercially available arcade game, has died. I just learned that my good friend, Ted Dabney, the co-founder of Atari, passed away at the age of 81. Though Pong is often thought to be the first commercially available video game, Computer Space preceded its launch by a year. The game was a variant on Spacewar!, the landmark video game developed in 1962 on a PDP-1 computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Wolf Among Us 2 is now delayed into 2019, Telltale Games announced yesterday. The follow-up to the 2013-2014 narrative game had been planned for later this year. “The delay comes as the result of a few fundamental changes here at Telltale since we first announced the game last summer,” Telltale said in a post yesterday. The Wolf Among Us: A Telltale Games Series launched as a five-episode season in October 2013. Based on the Fables comic book series by DC Comics’ Vertigo label, it was nomina

The latest game in the franchise to be announced is Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, coming in October. Here’s what you need to know about Black Ops 4 and why it’s such a big deal. What is Call of Duty: Black Ops 4? This is the earliest date on the calendar the Call of Duty franchise has launched since 2005’s Call of Duty 2. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is climbing aboard the battle royale bandwagon with an idea called Blackout.

“We got positive praise about how The One [NBA Live 18’s single-player career], how we’re different in some ways and we really want to lean into that momentum. But we’re talking about NBA Live without using disparaging question marks. But Graddy’s transition from Madden to NBA Live suggests — to me, anyway — that the franchise is in a good-hands state and ownership isn’t panicked for a leader. Young’s baby was Longshot, Madden NFL 18’s foray into a story-based mode. EA announced Madden NFL 19’s

The Art of Solo is just the latest in an entire series of lavish art books covering all of the modern Star Wars films. You can see images from the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: The Last Jedi books here on Polygon. “The one that [costume designer] Dave Crossman and I liked at the very beginning is the one that we ended up with,” costume designer Glyn Dillon tells Szostak. Most of the time with Star Wars, you try to keep the lead characters on a simple line of changes. Finally, don’t

It can be daunting, but the good news is that there are so many resources out there for new D&D players. While Dungeons and Dragons is definitely the most popular tabletop roleplaying game, it’s not the only one. Dungeons and Dragons is somewhere in the middle of the spectrum — the rules are simple enough to follow as a beginner, but have a very clear structure to work within. For shorter one-off dungeons that can be finished in one sitting, you can check out the anthology Tales from the Yawning

Full Sail, in Winter Park, Florida, is known for a video games design program as well as an esports club in the emerging competitive collegiate scene. “In my first class, my introduction to sportscasting class, one of our guys is a big esports fan,” Ramsey said. “I told the class ‘Go home and critique the broadcaster of your choice.’ He did something on esports every single time. But I’m not preparing you for that as much as I’m just preparing you — if that’s what you want to do, I’m going to ma

Teenagers are gathering in high school bathrooms, often 20 or 30 at a time, to belt out the docile tones found within the score. Here’s another with a paltry 40 some boys in what appears to be a much tinier high school bathroom. It’s that intersection between goofy internet culture, professional sports and video games where the Halo meme exists. Philadelphia Eagles’, Ian Park, is the original Halo meme kid. A video posted that April, featuring another person singing the Halo theme song, racked u