Dragon Ball FighterZ is going to be a big deal at this year’s Evo fighting game tournament, based on early registration figures. According to Evolution Championship Series co-founder Joey Cuellar, Dragon Ball FighterZ is currently leading the pack in registrants and is way ahead of its closest competitor, Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition. Cuellar tweeted out the “Evo 2018 Leaderboard” today, noting that Dragon Ball FighterZ is currently the top game at the tournament with a “big lead” in registe

Dragon Ball FighterZ is going to be a big deal at this year’s Evo fighting game tournament, based on early registration figures. According to Evolution Championship Series co-founder Joey Cuellar, Dragon Ball FighterZ is currently leading the pack in registrants and is way ahead of its closest competitor, Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition. Cuellar tweeted out the “Evo 2018 Leaderboard” today, noting that Dragon Ball FighterZ is currently the top game at the tournament with a “big lead” in registe

Despite setting off a firestorm of controversy among players after earning the ultimate title of “Pirate Legend” last week, Sea of Thieves streamer Robert “Prod1gyX” Paz has nothing but love for the game’s community. “Every game, there’s always going to be the positive and the negative,” Prod1gyX told Polygon in the wake of the backlash, which began after he streamed his lengthy attempt at becoming Pirate Legend. After streaming for days on end his Sea of Thieves quest to reach level 50 across a

Despite setting off a firestorm of controversy among players after earning the ultimate title of “Pirate Legend” last week, Sea of Thieves streamer Robert “Prod1gyX” Paz has nothing but love for the game’s community. “Every game, there’s always going to be the positive and the negative,” Prod1gyX told Polygon in the wake of the backlash, which began after he streamed his lengthy attempt at becoming Pirate Legend. After streaming for days on end his Sea of Thieves quest to reach level 50 across a

In a new Developer Update video, Blizzard announced Overwatch Archives, the new name of the game’s recurring springtime event that delves into Overwatch’s history. All we know now is the name of an upcoming Overwatch Archive: Retribution. Uprising was Overwatch’s historical event last year, and brought a new gameplay element to the game. Uprising was Overwatch’s first real PvE game type, after the defend the gate mission for Junkenstein around Halloween. The Uprising mission will be available to

Late last night, as people were getting ready to turn in after another successful April Fools’ Day, Adult Swim broadcast a message telling Rick and Morty fans to head over to its site. Bushworld Adventures plays on Rick and Morty’s abusive relationship, with Rick pointing a gun at Morty’s head and saying sexually explicit things while they wander around a forest. It takes place in an alternate universe, somewhere in Australia, and plays up the weirder aspects of Rick and Morty’s themes. While ma

FLCL (pronounced “Fooly Cooly”) isn’t an anime that makes a ton of sense on first viewing anyway, but more confusing was that Adult Swim chose to show the first episode of its planned third season, called FLCL: Alternative. If you’re a big FLCL fan and missed the April Fools’ gag, you’re outta luck. The third season won’t air until September, although FLCL: Progressive, the cult hit anime’s second season, will begin on June 2 at 11:30 p.m. That gives you plenty of time to rewatch the six-episode

YouTube is exploring new ways to alert subscribers about their favorite creators’ new videos after facing backlash last week over the platform’s current model. David Boyle, a product manager at YouTube, spoke to Creator Insider about the various methods YouTube has tried over the years for subscriber notifications. Boyle said YouTube doesn’t send push notification alerts to users for every subscriber because research data proved that constant push notifications led to more users actually unsubsc

YouTube is exploring new ways to alert subscribers about their favorite creators’ new videos after facing backlash last week over the platform’s current model. David Boyle, a product manager at YouTube, spoke to Creator Insider about the various methods YouTube has tried over the years for subscriber notifications. Boyle said YouTube doesn’t send push notification alerts to users for every subscriber because research data proved that constant push notifications led to more users actually unsubsc

Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp is League of Legends’ most notorious streamer and, even though his fanbase is one of the most dedicated on Twitch, they wanted to see Steinkamp do something different. “I swear to God, this type of creative stream has never been done ever before on Twitch,” Steinkamp said in the clip below. The production quality is poor and the jokes don’t land, but it’s also a pretty good encapsulation of Twitch culture, especially as it relates to Tyler1, and the problematic provocate

Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp is League of Legends’ most notorious streamer and, even though his fanbase is one of the most dedicated on Twitch, they wanted to see Steinkamp do something different. “I swear to God, this type of creative stream has never been done ever before on Twitch,” Steinkamp said in the clip below. The production quality is poor and the jokes don’t land, but it’s also a pretty good encapsulation of Twitch culture, especially as it relates to Tyler1, and the problematic provocate

Every year on April Fools’ Day, businesses do their best to capture the public’s attention by making silly, impractical or otherwise ridiculous brand announcements, to mixed results. You’d also find a survey asking which of this year’s fake products you’d like to see added to the store for real. In 2012, the Technomancer hoodie, with light and sound effects to simulate spellcasting, was listed as an April Fools’ Day prank. By far the most celebrated of ThinkGeek’s pranks-turned-actual-products i

Every year on April Fools’ Day, businesses do their best to capture the public’s attention by making silly, impractical or otherwise ridiculous brand announcements, to mixed results. You’d also find a survey asking which of this year’s fake products you’d like to see added to the store for real. In 2012, the Technomancer hoodie, with light and sound effects to simulate spellcasting, was listed as an April Fools’ Day prank. By far the most celebrated of ThinkGeek’s pranks-turned-actual-products i

Today I woke up to find four inches of snow outside my window, on this, the second day of April. Four inches of snow, at this time of year, in this part of the country? Here’s Polygon’s streaming schedule for the week. Right now it’s pretty light, and if we add anything we’ll update here, as well as on YouTube. They’re going to spend Wednesday morning “preparing” and I don’t know what that means, and it frightens me.

This week on Game Ogre we dive back into the cruel, beautiful Super Mario World, a game which introduces verticality to the Mario franchise and is very difficult to play with only one hand. Technically, we play with two hands, but because we’re sharing one controller, one body, and two brains, things get rough. Tune in to see the closest thing to two people not quite speed-running Super Mario World, and of course, to hear Pat commit an ear crime with the most horrendous burp I’ve ever heard in m

We’re reposting it to coincide with Mortal Kombat 2’s 25th anniversary. There he found an odd coincidence: Daniel Pesina, master of the guan, was in a former life a Mortal Kombat actor. Despite his name lending the cynical Mortal Kombat clone a speck of credibility, Tattoo Assassins wasn’t his chance to cash in. Given BloodStorm’s kitchen sink approach, Incredible Technologies asked Pesina to participate in a photo shoot attacking Mortal Kombat head-on. And maybe even 40 minutes.”“Daniel Pesina,

Late last night, as people were getting ready to turn in after another successful April Fools’ Day, Adult Swim broadcast a message telling Rick and Morty fans to head over to its site. Bushworld Adventures plays on Rick and Morty’s abusive relationship, with Rick pointing a gun at Morty’s head and saying sexually explicit things while they wander around a forest. It takes place in an alternate universe, somewhere in Australia, and plays up the weirder aspects of Rick and Morty’s themes. While ma

FLCL (pronounced “Fooly Cooly”) isn’t an anime that makes a ton of sense on first viewing anyway, but more confusing was that Adult Swim chose to show the first episode of its planned third season, called FLCL: Alternative. If you’re a big FLCL fan and missed the April Fools’ gag, you’re outta luck. The third season won’t air until September, although FLCL: Progressive, the cult hit anime’s second season, will begin on June 2 at 11:30 p.m. That gives you plenty of time to rewatch the six-episode

Ready Player One hit theaters this weekend, and now we can all exhale. [Warning: What follows touches on the final scene of the film — as the headline suggests.] This is to say, the movie (co-written by Cline) has been changed in ways that, consciously or not, make Cline’s work more accessible. Similarly to the book, the movie is about saving and preserving the Oasis from those who’d do it harm. When credits roll in Ready Player One, the film’s world isn’t better than how we found it.

Ready Player One hit theaters this weekend, and now we can all exhale. [Warning: What follows touches on the final scene of the film — as the headline suggests.] This is to say, the movie (co-written by Cline) has been changed in ways that, consciously or not, make Cline’s work more accessible. Similarly to the book, the movie is about saving and preserving the Oasis from those who’d do it harm. When credits roll in Ready Player One, the film’s world isn’t better than how we found it.