Overwatch’s anniversary event is coming Tuesday, May 22 (and running through June 11, all platforms) but it looks like a server bug-out originating in Taiwan has already spilled the beans on all the skins, cosmetics and a new map. There are 50 new cosmetics in the anniversary event, 11 of them skins. They also include new dance emotes for Brigitte, Doomfist and Moira, and all of that can be seen in the video above. The three characters were not around last year, so this marks their dancing-fool

Here’s a trailer-by-trailer recap:Board games for Paradox’s major seriesParadox Interactive said it’s working with established tabletop designers to bring out board games based on the Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis and Cities: Skylines franchises. Crusader Kings: The Board Game opened with a Kickstarter fund drive today and has almost doubled its original goal in a day. Crusader Kings: The Board Game is by Free League Publishing. in addition to a detailed game board, include

Last week we mentioned Green Man Gaming was running a birthday sale to celebrate 8 years of business. Phase two of the birthday sale includes major discounts on publisher-specific groups of games like Bethesda, Ubisoft and 2K. This is your last chance to take advantage of the Xbox digital download sale going on at Amazon over the last few weeks. Polygon Deals is a weekly roundup of the best deals on the internet, curated by Vox Media’s commerce team, in collaboration with Polygon’s editorial tea

NBA Playgrounds 2 was due to launch on Tuesday, May 22 but developer Saber Interactive delayed it at the last minute. We’ve got some news to share, but we want to start by saying ‘good things come to those who wait.’ There are exciting… Posted by NBA Playgrounds on Thursday, May 17, 2018Saber didn’t give any other reasons why the game was being delayed. Saber Interactive said the new game would get an online ranked competition called Playgrounds Championship and a Season Mode within the single

Paradox Interactive, makers of the grand strategy Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron series, will turn its attention back to the Roman Empire with Imperator: Rome. The game was announced at PDXCon 2018 in Stockholm, the publisher’s annual fan expo. In Imperator: Rome, players will have the opportunity to reshape history going back to the reign of Alexander the Great. Imperator: Rome will follow the Europa Universalis Rome offshoot Paradox launched for PC in April 2008. The las

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, Susana Polo and Dave Tach talk about Deadpool 2. Join us for a discussion that looks at Deadpool as a movie that almost didn’t happen to the current day where its sequel is poised to be a summer blockbuster. What’s the X-Force? You’ll find the answers to all of this and more on this episode of Quality Control.

Call of Duty found its success by bridging the gap between casual console shooters and ultra-competitive PC shooters. But with Black Ops 4, Treyarch is taking some cues from its competition and raising the skill ceiling on Call of Duty as a whole. And that seems like exactly the direction Black Ops 4 is moving in. Black Ops 4 is also the first game in Call of Duty history to use a predictive recoil pattern system. Based on what we saw in the reveal event, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is reward play

As Deadpool 2’s Russell Collins, an incarcerated mutant with pyrokinetic abilities, Julian Dennison is the youngest member of the Ryan-Reynolds-led cast and the new kid on the block. “Firefist” is a powerful, yet little-known character from the comics, and Dennison is a powerful, yet little-known actor from New Zealand. For anyone scorched by Dennison’s surprisingly complex performance in Deadpool 2, here’s a little about both Firefist’s comic history and how he wound up in the role. “I’m not li

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will not have a single-player campaign — but it will have a Battle Royale mode. What Call of Duty used to beCall of Duty was once the game known by people who don’t play video games. Call of Duty games didn’t die off in terms of sales, but their cultural importance certainly waned. That mode is called Blackout, and it’s a part of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the next iteration of the franchise. I guess we’ll find out when Black Ops 4 launches on Oct. 12, 2018, on PlayStat

With a single shot to the head — then another shot and another shot and another shot — Weapon XI is dead, the real Deadpool giggling over his body, triumphant. A second jump puts him in the warmly lit den of one Ryan Reynolds, who’s clutching a script for what will be his big break: The Green Lantern. Ryan Reynolds is being way too hard on himself. Green Lantern is good. In Deadpool 2, Deadpool murders Ryan Reynolds, preventing him from starring in the movie that would introduce him to his wife.

The only thing worse than finding yourself trapped in a shadowy house with a knife-wielding serial killer is finding yourself trapped in the endless scroll of Netflix’s horror movie selection. Netflix’s horror subgenre breakdowns are as fun to wade through as a swim in Crystal Lake. Evil director Eli Craig, is a recent, ridiculous heir to the throne: Adam Scott (Parks & Recreation) stars as the newly married Gary, who quickly realizes that his stepson Lucas is the Antichrist. Creep (2014) & Cree

Go Vacation, the 2011 Bandai Namco game for Wii that resembled the Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort franchise, is being ported to the Nintendo Switch. Go Vacation’s suite of mini-games spans scuba diving, surfing, jet skiing, ski jumping, snowmobiling, parasailing, whitewater rafting, kayaking, equestrian events, tennis, skateboarding, mini-golf, hang-gliding — it’s kind of hard to keep up, really. Go Vacation is launching July 27. The game comprises four “resorts,” Marine, City, Mountain and Sn

Destiny 2: Warmind has been out for just over a week, and players are getting close to hitting the max power level. But despite the quick ascension some players are able to achieve through multiple characters, Destiny 2 still has a power problem. Destiny developer Bungie laid out how it plans to address this issue in a blog post yesterday, saying that changes are coming in less than two weeks. With this new system, players who still need 360 loot will be able to get some rewards from heroic stri

Valve has recently issued warnings to visual novel developers concerning adult content in their games, according to multiple game studios who say they were affected. The developers behind notoriously NSFW games Mutiny!! !” [sic] within 2 weeks for ‘reports of pornographic content,’” Lupiesoft, the studio behind Mutiny! Adult visual novels on Steam have always been an iffy subject, as the Steam platform is accessible to minors. Adult-themed visual novels have been on Steam for a long time now, wi

To gain access to the Family Business favor, you have first completed Sindri’s first quest, “Fafnir’s Hoard,” as well as the “The Sickness” Journey. Upon doing so, Sindri will give you a Northri Entry Stone and request that you grab a much needed whetstone at the Northri Stronghold. Upon picking up the scroll, a favor gets added to your Wayward Spirits tab called “Time Heals All.” To complete it, head back to Fafnir’s Storeroom. A note on God of War spoilers God of War is full of surprises, and

Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast, now celebrating the game’s 25th anniversary, has announced that it will return to the plane of Ravnica. Ravnica was announced on Wizards of the Coast’s official YouTube channel this morning, which is embedded above. Players first visited the plane in September 2005 with a three-set block titled Ravnica: City of Guilds. Wizards of the Coast revisited the plane in 2012 with the Return to Ravnica block, which included the sets Return to Ravnica,

The same rule-breaking lifestyle extends to actor Ryan Reynolds and his screenwriting cohorts Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. For the creative team behind the Deadpool franchise, there are no timeline continuity woes or laws of physics tying them down. The obscured villain turns out to be Juggernaut, the classic, oversized X-Men villain whose diplomacy methods include punching, clobbering, stomping, and breaking through walls. As you’ve probably guessed, it’s Mr. Ryan Reynolds, down-pitched and gr

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick knew they wanted Cable, the time-traveling mutant mercenary, to be in Deadpool 2 even while they were making Deadpool. In his backstory’s most simplified form, Cable is Nathan Christopher Charles Summers, the son of Scott Summers and (again, simplified) Jean Grey of the X-Men. Jean and Scott have custody of baby Nathan Summers, the son of Scott and a clone of Jean Grey. In 1991, Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio’s X-Factor #68 saw Nathan Summers become infected with the Te

If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly exotic item merchant. This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur exotics on your highest-level character. Suros RegimeSuros Regime is a fan favorite Destiny auto rifle that returned to Destiny 2 in the Warmind expansion. The second exotic perk is actually a choice between Spinning Up and Dual Speed Receiver. Their exotic perk, The Whispers, grants any Warlock that wears these gloves an extra melee ch

A trailer for The Happytime Murders, a movie about puppets and humans coexisting, is so uniquely bizarre that it’s hard to believe these are creatures from Jim Henson’s universe. There’s a joke 30 seconds in, for example, that finds a muppet offering Melissa McCarthy 50 cents to, well, we’ll let you watch in the trailer above. The Happytime Murders looks like it isn’t afraid to poke fun at the obvious comparison people will make between Henson’s lovable, completely PG muppets, Sesame Street and