This time, the suffering began when Cartoon Network released a promo video of Jones-Quartey and series creator Rebecca Sugar appearing on Drawn: The Story of Animation, a podcast from Cartoon Network and HowStuffWorks. In the video, their voices — talking about the collaborative process of making animation — are overlaid with footage from Steven Universe and OK K.O. Jones-Quartey’s tweets confirmed that the clips were not cleared by the Steven Universe team, expressing his own frustration that t

In each episode of Quality Control, a Polygon editor talks to a critic about a new game, movie or piece of gear. This week’s episode is a special preview of the newest comics from DC and Marvel that will be coming out all summer long. Joining host Charlie Hall is Polygon’s comics editor, Susana Polo. Today’s episode is just in time for Free Comic Book Day, which is this Saturday, May 5. Email: qualitycontrol at polygon dot comMusic: “Goodwill” by The Custodian of Records

Avengers: Infinity War is not for the weak of heart. [Warning: The following includes major spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War.] Infinity War claimed the lives of most superheroes, even grounding newcomers like Spider-Man or Black Panther into dust from Thanos’s disintegration attack. Her time spent on Tumblr, obsessing over Marvel’s adored superheroes, helped build the excitement leading up to Infinity War. I’m even in a group chat, and for like the first day we all just sobbed about Infinity

On one hand, even the name of the game seems to invite strife: It’s a sea of thieves. When your ship takes damage, holes open and immediately begin to let water in. Then, with a three-ship charge, seven players teamed up to take down the enemy galleon, steal the key and take the treasure. The key to successful PvP in a game like Sea of Thieves is that both sides need to have equal opportunities to succeed. We had sold everything, and the enemy galleon was still hot in pursuit.

When dealing with bad actors on YouTube, there’s “not a playbook for how open platforms operate at our scale,” according to CEO Susan Wojcicki. During YouTube’s upfront event for advertisers tonight in New York City, Wojcicki spoke briefly about YouTube’s efforts to tackle major issues on the platform. Those issues include growing conspiracy content that YouTube’s safety team is trying to battle, disturbing children’s content, terrorist content, scams and even problematic creators like Logan Pau

This time, the suffering began when Cartoon Network released a promo video of Jones-Quartey and series creator Rebecca Sugar appearing on Drawn: The Story of Animation, a podcast from Cartoon Network and HowStuffWorks. In the video, their voices — talking about the collaborative process of making animation — are overlaid with footage from Steven Universe and OK K.O. Jones-Quartey’s tweets confirmed that the clips were not cleared by the Steven Universe team, expressing his own frustration that t

Rex Dickson, the creative director of the Madden NFL series for EA Sports since 2012, has left the franchise and the company. I have left EA Tiburon and the Madden team. pic.twitter.com/4eiJlrkxUU — Rex Dickson (@RexDEAFootball) May 3, 2018“There is no drama or deeper story here,” Dickson said, though his departure is effective immediately. Under Dickson, Madden NFL introduced the Connected Franchise mode in 2012’s Madden NFL 13, brought aboard Brian Murray of NFL Films to oversee much-needed ch

Four landmark video games spanning 50 years of history have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame: Final Fantasy 7, John Madden Football, the first Tomb Raider and Spacewar!. The World Video Game Hall of Fame was established in 2015. John Madden Football and Tomb Raider had both been finalists consisdered in 2016 and 2017; Final Fantasy 7 was a finalist in 2017. The finalists and the inductees are chosen in consultation with scholars, historians, writers and others familiar with v

Four landmark video games spanning 50 years of history have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame: Final Fantasy 7, John Madden Football, the first Tomb Raider and Spacewar!. The World Video Game Hall of Fame was established in 2015. John Madden Football and Tomb Raider had both been finalists consisdered in 2016 and 2017; Final Fantasy 7 was a finalist in 2017. The finalists and the inductees are chosen in consultation with scholars, historians, writers and others familiar with v

The gameplay, which totaled about 45 seconds of footage, came from a very early build of Beyond Good & Evil 2 — a watermark on the clip described it as a “pre-alpha” version of the game. “It’s really systemic — it’s really epic things you can live with your friends.”The developers mentioned that Beyond Good & Evil 2 will offer battles between massive airships, dogfights between fighter pilots and — in an homage to the original Beyond Good & Evil — melee combat with swords. Ancel acknowledged tha

The gameplay, which totaled about 45 seconds of footage, came from a very early build of Beyond Good & Evil 2 — a watermark on the clip described it as a “pre-alpha” version of the game. “It’s really systemic — it’s really epic things you can live with your friends.”The developers mentioned that Beyond Good & Evil 2 will offer battles between massive airships, dogfights between fighter pilots and — in an homage to the original Beyond Good & Evil — melee combat with swords. Ancel acknowledged tha

Personal item trading for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on Windows PC has been temporarily halted due to third-party item-selling sites, developer PUBG Corp. announced today. “We’ve seen a few cases of players using the personal trade function to sell items using third party sites,” PUBG Corp. said in a statement. Once we figure out a way to prevent abuse, the restriction will be lifted.”The PUBG Steam Marketplace does not appear to be affected. Like Marketplaces for other Steam games, the PUBG

Personal item trading for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on Windows PC has been temporarily halted due to third-party item-selling sites, developer PUBG Corp. announced today. “We’ve seen a few cases of players using the personal trade function to sell items using third party sites,” PUBG Corp. said in a statement. Once we figure out a way to prevent abuse, the restriction will be lifted.”The PUBG Steam Marketplace does not appear to be affected. Like Marketplaces for other Steam games, the PUBG

One of the most popular event modes in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds — War Mode — is headed back to the game this weekend. This time, War Mode, which will be called Desert Knights, will take place on Miramar. It will be the first time PUBG’s second map will host the team deathmatch-style game mode. While the last version of War Mode featured three, 10-person squads duking it out, Desert Knights will feature 10 five-person squads competing for victory. The new Desert Knights version of War Mode w

One of the most popular event modes in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds — War Mode — is headed back to the game this weekend. This time, War Mode, which will be called Desert Knights, will take place on Miramar. It will be the first time PUBG’s second map will host the team deathmatch-style game mode. While the last version of War Mode featured three, 10-person squads duking it out, Desert Knights will feature 10 five-person squads competing for victory. The new Desert Knights version of War Mode w

Nintendo kicks off May with a slate of games from well-known franchises launching on the Switch eShop, including a famous one of its own. Death Road to Canada has found a small but loving fanbase since it launched on Steam in 2016. Rocketcat Games’ roguelike tasks players with running over zombies with their car as they race through the apocalypse. Today, Ukiyo revealed on Twitter that Death Road to Canada would come to Nintendo Switch (and PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) May 8, alongside a 20 perce

Nintendo kicks off May with a slate of games from well-known franchises launching on the Switch eShop, including a famous one of its own. Death Road to Canada has found a small but loving fanbase since it launched on Steam in 2016. Rocketcat Games’ roguelike tasks players with running over zombies with their car as they race through the apocalypse. Today, Ukiyo revealed on Twitter that Death Road to Canada would come to Nintendo Switch (and PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) May 8, alongside a 20 perce

Sony’s PlayStation Vue streaming television service no longer offers any local broadcast stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, leaving customers in nearly two dozen U.S. media markets without certain broadcast networks. All Sinclair-owned local broadcast stations on PlayStation Vue, including ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS affiliates, disappeared from the service on May 1. The PlayStation Vue subreddit is currently filled with complaints from aggrieved Vue users, who have lost local affiliates incl

Sony’s PlayStation Vue streaming television service no longer offers any local broadcast stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, leaving customers in nearly two dozen U.S. media markets without certain broadcast networks. All Sinclair-owned local broadcast stations on PlayStation Vue, including ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS affiliates, disappeared from the service on May 1. The PlayStation Vue subreddit is currently filled with complaints from aggrieved Vue users, who have lost local affiliates incl

Avengers: Infinity War leaves fans with only one question: What happens next? While the upcoming film is coming out after Infinity War, the time period it’s in is exactly the opposite. According to the movie’s official synopsis, Ant-Man and The Wasp is set after Captain America: Civil War — which is the last time we saw Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man in a Marvel movie — and before Avengers: Infinity War. [Warning: The rest of this post contains some spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War.] Hm … so it’s