A new game mode coming to Star Wars Battlefront 2 will let players relive the battle between the Ewoks and Imperial stormtroopers on the forest moon of Endor from Return of the Jedi. The new mode, dubbed Ewok Hunt, will go live in Battlefront 2 on April 18. In Ewok Hunt mode, players fight either as an Ewok defending their village or as a member of the Empire trying to survive an adorable ambush. Star Wars Battlefront 2 will get some new, Endor-themed cosmetic items for existing characters, name

A new game mode coming to Star Wars Battlefront 2 will let players relive the battle between the Ewoks and Imperial stormtroopers on the forest moon of Endor from Return of the Jedi. The new mode, dubbed Ewok Hunt, will go live in Battlefront 2 on April 18. In Ewok Hunt mode, players fight either as an Ewok defending their village or as a member of the Empire trying to survive an adorable ambush. Star Wars Battlefront 2 will get some new, Endor-themed cosmetic items for existing characters, name

Electronic Arts is bringing back real-money purchases to Star Wars Battlefront 2 next week. An update for the game arriving April 18 will let players purchase crystals, an in-game currency that players can spend on cosmetic upgrades. Battlefront 2’s crystals can be used to purchase “appearances,” in-game skins for playable characters, EA said in an announcement today. Crystals were originally in Star Wars Battlefront 2, but EA pulled the real-money currency at the eleventh hour in response to co

Electronic Arts is bringing back real-money purchases to Star Wars Battlefront 2 next week. An update for the game arriving April 18 will let players purchase crystals, an in-game currency that players can spend on cosmetic upgrades. Battlefront 2’s crystals can be used to purchase “appearances,” in-game skins for playable characters, EA said in an announcement today. Crystals were originally in Star Wars Battlefront 2, but EA pulled the real-money currency at the eleventh hour in response to co

The challenge: Dance on different Dance Floors. Dance Floor 2 – East of Retail RowJust east of Retail Row is a small RV park. The dance floor is in the barn (natch). Dance Floor 3 – Southwest of Pleasant ParkIf you head southwest from Pleasant Park, you’ll find a haunted house surrounded by trees. The dance floor is on the ground level.

Warfronts are one of the big new features in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. The first of these Warfronts will be Stromgarde Keep in the Arathi Highlands, an old Vanilla WoW zone. After Horde players turned in enough resources to their faction leaders, they would launch a Warfront. Over the next week or so, Horde players would then be able to jump into the activity and reap the rewards. Either way, players won’t have to wait long to try out Warfronts for themselves when Battle for Azeroth

In each episode of Quality Control, a Polygon editor talks to a critic after they review a new game, movie or piece of gear and allows them to add a little bit of extra context and insight. Why did they feel the way they did? What do they wish they had been able to discuss in more depth in their review? This week, Dave Tach joins Charlie Hall for a spoiler-free discussion of God of War. Email: qualitycontrol at polygon dot comMusic: “Goodwill” by The Custodian of Records

And then, somewhere between the blockbuster hits and miserable flops, you had the likes of Mega Man Legends, which cleverly reinvented the Mega Man franchise in the style of Ocarina of Time, yet found a lukewarm reception at best. Two decades ago, however, the developers of Mega Man Legends didn’t have the luxury of fresh examples to draw upon. Mega Man Legends didn’t fare especially well at launch, though. He was as much a valid take on the hero as the fan favorite Mega Man X. Mega Man Legends

Steam Spy is not technically shutting down, but an announcement on Tuesday was treated as such. The few times I used Steam Spy (or SteamCharts, which measures concurrent players), I always found the context I lacked from looking at the Steam ownership charts alone. Steam Spy was an effective hype buster, showing the ownership of a particular game on what is by far the dominant PC gaming marketplace. Maybe it’s because third-party publishers don’t want to alienate one hardware maker by revealing

Steam Spy is not technically shutting down, but an announcement on Tuesday was treated as such. The few times I used Steam Spy (or SteamCharts, which measures concurrent players), I always found the context I lacked from looking at the Steam ownership charts alone. Steam Spy was an effective hype buster, showing the ownership of a particular game on what is by far the dominant PC gaming marketplace. Maybe it’s because third-party publishers don’t want to alienate one hardware maker by revealing

Fortnite Battle Royale’s week 8 challenges are upon us, and there are a few tricky ones that might stump you. One of them is Search between Three Boats, which rewards you 10 challenge stars, or a full rank’s worth of stars. The key to the challenge is in the clue: “three boats.” There aren’t very many boats on the Fortnite map at present. There are, however, three of them floating in Loot Lake, surrounding the large house on the middle island. Simply head to the southern part of the middle islan

Disney’s live-action remake of the company’s 1998 hit, Mulan, cast several major roles this week, including its main villain. But that main villain might look a little different than fans of the 1998 animated hit, based on the Chinese folktale, might expect. Disney’s Mulan gave us Shan Yu, a ruthless — but not particularly multifaceted — leader of the Huns as an antagonist. For its 2020 remake, Disney’s screenwriters are significantly resetting the story’s forces of evil. Donnie Yen (Ip Man, Rog

Disney’s live-action remake of the company’s 1998 hit, Mulan, cast several major roles this week, including its main villain. But that main villain might look a little different than fans of the 1998 animated hit, based on the Chinese folktale, might expect. Disney’s Mulan gave us Shan Yu, a ruthless — but not particularly multifaceted — leader of the Huns as an antagonist. For its 2020 remake, Disney’s screenwriters are significantly resetting the story’s forces of evil. Donnie Yen (Ip Man, Rog

Nicki Minaj dropped two new tracks today, including the relevant-to-this-website “Chun-Li” — the other is titled “Barbie Tingz” — which you can listen to on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes and elsewhere. In it, Minaj name-checks Street Fighter’s leading lady — alongside Lara Croft, Storm from the X-Men and a half-dozen brands — who, when she first appeared in Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior, was the sole female fighter in the game’s roster. Minaj’s references to Chun-Li seem to point her as “the ba

Nicki Minaj dropped two new tracks today, including the relevant-to-this-website “Chun-Li” — the other is titled “Barbie Tingz” — which you can listen to on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes and elsewhere. In it, Minaj name-checks Street Fighter’s leading lady — alongside Lara Croft, Storm from the X-Men and a half-dozen brands — who, when she first appeared in Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior, was the sole female fighter in the game’s roster. Minaj’s references to Chun-Li seem to point her as “the ba

The challenge: Dance on different Dance Floors. Dance Floor 2 – East of Retail RowJust east of Retail Row is a small RV park. The dance floor is in the barn (natch). Dance Floor 3 – Southwest of Pleasant ParkIf you head southwest from Pleasant Park, you’ll find a haunted house surrounded by trees. The dance floor is on the ground level.

God of War is still a God of War game, but it isn’t like the others. Here are the biggest ones you’ll see in God of War. Instead of the more linear hack-n’-slash of the previous entries in the series, God of War now emphasizes and rewards exploration. Kratos is not aloneThe final huge departure in the new God of War is Kratos’ constant companion. And that might be God of War’s biggest change yet: Kratos isn’t trying to become a god to punch other gods in their collective faces — he’s trying to b

God of War is still a God of War game, but it isn’t like the others. Here are the biggest ones you’ll see in God of War. Instead of the more linear hack-n’-slash of the previous entries in the series, God of War now emphasizes and rewards exploration. Kratos is not aloneThe final huge departure in the new God of War is Kratos’ constant companion. And that might be God of War’s biggest change yet: Kratos isn’t trying to become a god to punch other gods in their collective faces — he’s trying to b

In each episode of Quality Control, a Polygon editor talks to a critic after they review a new game, movie or piece of gear and allows them to add a little bit of extra context and insight. Why did they feel the way they did? What do they wish they had been able to discuss in more depth in their review? This week, Dave Tach joins Charlie Hall for a spoiler-free discussion of God of War. Email: qualitycontrol at polygon dot comMusic: “Goodwill” by The Custodian of Records

Beyonce’s “Naughty Girl,” as seen below, is a lustful tale of power and sexuality, of control and domination set within a world she controls. Both Just Dance 2018 and Mario + Rabbids is about none of these things; and Rabbid Peach isn’t, either. Rabbid Peach is instead almost like a mascot for Generation Z. It’s a captivating video because, well, we’ve all either encountered, supported or been Rabbid Peach at some point in our life. She may not be the pure, Nintendo-fied version of Beyonce’s “Na