Sometimes, in #1 Comic of the Week, I recommend that you read a new first issue of a comic series. This week, I’m just going to scream at you to read The Kamandi Challenge. The Kamandi Challenge, however, was probably the weirdest of DC’s efforts — and therefore the most Kirby-reminiscent of the bunch. The Kamandi Challenge wasn’t just created to honor a Kirby character, but to honor Kirby’s dramatic, operatic, suspenseful, go-big-or-go-home style of adventure stories. And in The Kamandi Challen

This week’s episode is a weird one. Join us for some strange fruit talk, spoiler-free God of War mentions, the irreplaceable experience of Blockbuster and Jet Set Radio Future. The Polygon Show will be available for you to listen to every Friday on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. If you like what you hear, don’t forget to rate and review The Polygon Show on Apple Podcasts — seriously, every little bit helps! Email us at polygonshow@polygon.com and we might read it on the next episode.

Last week, the National Federation of State High Schools, the primary U.S. leadership organization for high school sports, announced that it would roll out esports nationwide. The move could add games such as League of Legends and Super Smash Bros. to the list of sanctioned high school sports such as football and water polo. Unlike traditional high school sports, esports is based on video games that are often brands owned by corporations. “There’s 8 million kids today who don’t play high school

The Masterwork upgrade for this weapon is apparently a massive range increase, taking the gun from 60 range to the max of 100. At this point, the weapon will function like any legendary Masterwork, counting kills and granting orbs of light on multikills. Bungie did announce that not all exotic weapons will have catalysts available right away. If a catalyst slot is there, the exotic Masterwork upgrade is available. Exotic Masterwork weapons will launch alongside Destiny 2: Warmind and Destiny 2 s

As foretold earlier this month, an update for Grand Theft Auto 4 released this week drastically changed the game’s licensed soundtrack, as licenses for songs expire alongside the game’s 10-year anniversary. And as expected, one of the game’s radio stations, the Russian and Ukranian music channel Vladivostok FM, was hit hardest. But the removal of certain songs will have an effect on the original atmosphere of GTA 4. When Roman Bellic comes to pick up his cousin Niko at the start of the game, “Sc

As foretold earlier this month, an update for Grand Theft Auto 4 released this week drastically changed the game’s licensed soundtrack, as licenses for songs expire alongside the game’s 10-year anniversary. And as expected, one of the game’s radio stations, the Russian and Ukranian music channel Vladivostok FM, was hit hardest. But the removal of certain songs will have an effect on the original atmosphere of GTA 4. When Roman Bellic comes to pick up his cousin Niko at the start of the game, “Sc

A special God of War panel moderated by Polygon managing editor Chelsea Stark is streaming live on the Tribeca Games Twitch channel today. Guests include game director Cory Barlog and three voice actors: Christopher Judge (Kratos), Jeremy Davies (The Stranger) and Danielle Bisutti (The Witch of the Woods). Here’s the panel’s official description:Cory takes players inside the creative process of reimagining the franchise and its Nordic inspirations. This in-depth discussion will, for the first ti

Attack on Titan’s third season will stream later this year, Funimation announced today. The first trailer for the season can be seen above. Season three will debut in Japan this July, according to Funimation, and will roll out in the United States around the same time. The second season premiered in April 2017, and was available to stream in North America almost right after. Fans have been clamoring with non-stop speculation ever since Wit Studio released a Season 3 teaser poster last October.

Attack on Titan’s third season will stream later this year, Funimation announced today. The first trailer for the season can be seen above. Season three will debut in Japan this July, according to Funimation, and will roll out in the United States around the same time. The second season premiered in April 2017, and was available to stream in North America almost right after. Fans have been clamoring with non-stop speculation ever since Wit Studio released a Season 3 teaser poster last October.

Avengers: Infinity War is packed to the gills with characters — which comes as no surprise to anyone who’s been watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe grow over the last 10 years. You’ll have to go see the film if you want to know which superheroes show up in Infinity War, because we’re not about to spoil that for you. [Below is the lightest Avengers: Infinity War spoiler ever. It’s because Infinity War co-directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo worked on Arrested Development in the early part of

Avengers: Infinity War is packed to the gills with characters — which comes as no surprise to anyone who’s been watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe grow over the last 10 years. You’ll have to go see the film if you want to know which superheroes show up in Infinity War, because we’re not about to spoil that for you. [Below is the lightest Avengers: Infinity War spoiler ever. It’s because Infinity War co-directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo worked on Arrested Development in the early part of

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. A situational PvP exotic doesn’t cut it when Hunters already have very good PvP catchalls like the Foetracer helmet. WINGS OF SACRED DAWNWings of Sacred Dawn is one of the weirdest looking exotics in all of Destiny 2. Wings of Sacred Dawn is very fun to use but requires you to equip Dawnblade.

Choose Your Own Adventure, the staple of grade-school book fairs in the 1980s and 1990s, is getting a film adaptation that will allow the audience to determine the story’s outcome using a smartphone app. It’s going to use an app called CtrlMovie, which debuted two years ago in a film called Late Shift. There’s a ton of nostalgia for the Choose Your Own Adventure series, but no word yet of what the story of the film is or who might star in it. Lacking that threat, a movie adaptation is going to b

Choose Your Own Adventure, the staple of grade-school book fairs in the 1980s and 1990s, is getting a film adaptation that will allow the audience to determine the story’s outcome using a smartphone app. It’s going to use an app called CtrlMovie, which debuted two years ago in a film called Late Shift. There’s a ton of nostalgia for the Choose Your Own Adventure series, but no word yet of what the story of the film is or who might star in it. Lacking that threat, a movie adaptation is going to b

The theme of Uniqlo’s annual T-shirt design competition, the Uniqlo T-Shirt Grand Prix (UTGP), is usually related to whatever’s going on in the pop culture zeitgeist. Uniqlo received over 8,500 submissions that a team of judges from Uniqlo and Marvel whittled down to the 17 designs now available on Uniqlo’s website and in stores. The winning design is a drawing of the Avengers’ uniforms (minus Black Widow’s; what else is new?) Check out all of the winning designs in the gallery below, or head ov

The theme of Uniqlo’s annual T-shirt design competition, the Uniqlo T-Shirt Grand Prix (UTGP), is usually related to whatever’s going on in the pop culture zeitgeist. Uniqlo received over 8,500 submissions that a team of judges from Uniqlo and Marvel whittled down to the 17 designs now available on Uniqlo’s website and in stores. The winning design is a drawing of the Avengers’ uniforms (minus Black Widow’s; what else is new?) Check out all of the winning designs in the gallery below, or head ov

The latest full-length trailer for Lara Croft’s next adventure, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, shows the adventurer facing off against the apocalypse as she climbs and jumps and falls (eep) her way through some brutally dark jungle environments. If she makes it out of this one, she will officially earn the title of “Tomb Raider,” according to Square Enix. Shadow of the Tomb Raider looks much more grim than its predecessor, Rise of the Tomb Raider, which launched in 2015. The other difference between

The latest full-length trailer for Lara Croft’s next adventure, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, shows the adventurer facing off against the apocalypse as she climbs and jumps and falls (eep) her way through some brutally dark jungle environments. If she makes it out of this one, she will officially earn the title of “Tomb Raider,” according to Square Enix. Shadow of the Tomb Raider looks much more grim than its predecessor, Rise of the Tomb Raider, which launched in 2015. The other difference between

Ludonarrative dissonance is not a problem unique to the Tomb Raider franchise, but the globe-trotting series has a particularly bad case of it. “This is Lara’s defining moment, the moment when she becomes the Tomb Raider,” Dozois said. Nothing felt like a departure from the mechanics of the two previous titles, 2013’s Tomb Raider and 2015’s Rise of the Tomb Raider. As with other cinematic adventure games, playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider for a short while felt like watching an episode of a mini

Ludonarrative dissonance is not a problem unique to the Tomb Raider franchise, but the globe-trotting series has a particularly bad case of it. “This is Lara’s defining moment, the moment when she becomes the Tomb Raider,” Dozois said. Nothing felt like a departure from the mechanics of the two previous titles, 2013’s Tomb Raider and 2015’s Rise of the Tomb Raider. As with other cinematic adventure games, playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider for a short while felt like watching an episode of a mini