The first Pirate Legend in Sea of Thieves has been named — but after streaming his achievement, the game’s biggest thus far, Twitch user Prod1gyX has set off widespread backlash among the Sea of Thieves community. Prod1gyX began streaming his attempt to unlock the Pirate Legend title shortly after Sea of Thieves launched on March 20. Developer Rare said prior to the game’s release that becoming a Pirate Legend — which requires players to hit level 50 across all three of Sea of Thieves’ factions,

It’s really cool and all that Fortnite Battle Royale is now on iOS, but for teachers, it’s a nightmare. Hillman says stop playing in class.” Who’s Mr. Hillman? One problem, since mobile came out my students won’t stop playing in class. Hillman says stop playing in class.’”Well, Epic Games was paying attention — the studio is super active in the Fortnite Reddit community — and now the game says exactly that when you load it up. Whether or not that’s actually going to be effective in getting kids

It’s really cool and all that Fortnite Battle Royale is now on iOS, but for teachers, it’s a nightmare. Hillman says stop playing in class.” Who’s Mr. Hillman? One problem, since mobile came out my students won’t stop playing in class. Hillman says stop playing in class.’”Well, Epic Games was paying attention — the studio is super active in the Fortnite Reddit community — and now the game says exactly that when you load it up. Whether or not that’s actually going to be effective in getting kids

Several people were laid off at Twitch yesterday as the company readjusted certain teams in an effort to reprioritize specific areas, Polygon has learned. Twitch would not confirm how many people were laid off, but sources tell Polygon it was several, probably not exceeding 30. A statement from a Twitch representative said that certain teams were readjusted as the company focused on prioritizing areas that were most significant to the community. Some Twitch employees were fired by new Twitch VP

A longtime fixture in the gaming community, Pereira is best known as a host of Attack of the Show!, which aired on G4 from 2005-2012. Pereira ended up turning to view-botting, a practice that falsely inflates the number of viewers watching a stream or video. After being discovered, Pereira voluntarily took down the Twitch channel before it could get suspended. The issue, Pereira told Polygon, was that The Attack grew too fast, and he couldn’t support it. He told Polygon he’s going to take some t

The newest map in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which is now being called Codename: Savage, is going to be revealed in a few short days with the map’s first private alpha test, developer PUBG Corp. announced today. Unlike the two existing PUBG maps, which are both 8 km by 8 km, Savage will be the game’s first 4 km by 4 km map, creating the conditions for a much more intense and fast-paced game. Because the map is in such an early alpha state, PUBG Corp. will only make the first test available t

Guacamélee! 2, which was announced in October at Paris Games Week, is coming to Windows PC in addition to PlayStation 4. Guacamélee! It’s coming back in Guacamélee 2, which will support four-player cooperative gameplay. launched in 2013 for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.

A longtime fixture in the gaming community, Pereira is best known as a host of Attack of the Show!, which aired on G4 from 2005-2012. Pereira ended up turning to view-botting, a practice that falsely inflates the number of viewers watching a stream or video. After being discovered, Pereira voluntarily took down the Twitch channel before it could get suspended. The issue, Pereira told Polygon, was that The Attack grew too fast, and he couldn’t support it. He told Polygon he’s going to take some t

Fortnite Battle Royale isn’t merely the biggest game of 2018; it’s a genuine cultural phenomenon. What is it about Fortnite Battle Royale that has driven it to such heights? My friends and colleagues at Polygon put our heads together and came up with more than 25 reasons why Fortnite Battle Royale reigns supreme. Fortnite Battle Royale is free. Social glueEpic keeps Fortnite Battle Royale feeling fresh with interesting timed events and new modes.

Fortnite Battle Royale isn’t merely the biggest game of 2018; it’s a genuine cultural phenomenon. What is it about Fortnite Battle Royale that has driven it to such heights? My friends and colleagues at Polygon put our heads together and came up with more than 25 reasons why Fortnite Battle Royale reigns supreme. Fortnite Battle Royale is free. Social glueEpic keeps Fortnite Battle Royale feeling fresh with interesting timed events and new modes.

Several people were laid off at Twitch yesterday as the company readjusted certain teams in an effort to reprioritize specific areas, Polygon has learned. A statement from a Twitch representative said that certain teams were readjusted as the company focused on prioritizing areas that were most significant to the community. Some Twitch employees were fired by new Twitch VP of Content Michael Aragon who wasn’t even in the office and did this via a remote Google Hangouts call. Update: The story ha

It also helps that he directed the 2017 critical darling action game Nier: Automata. TT: I think that it’s just because a lot of people like being in the public eye. Did that have a ripple effect where the rest of the game changed because of the script arriving late? The game only tells you that you can move between the tabs with the circle button and the X button. Polygon: Do you have any final thoughts on the last 12 months of Nier?

Hello and welcome to one of the last live versions of the Polygon Show! Allegra is back and we’re talking Detective Pikachu, Dragon Ball, more Overwatch League and your lovely emails. 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! Have any serious or just plain strange questions that you want answered on the show?

HBO teased Westworld’s upcoming second season today with a brand-new trailer, but the more exciting and disturbing element was the commercial hidden within it. Like previous ARG Easter eggs used for Westworld, the website belongs to Delos, the company behind the juggernaut theme park. What starts out as a Delos commercial for Westworld quickly dissolves into a series of frustrating glitches (also a staple of Westworld marketing) and disturbing, graphic scenes. One particular scene shows James De

Hello and welcome to one of the last live versions of the Polygon Show! Allegra is back and we’re talking Detective Pikachu, Dragon Ball, more Overwatch League and your lovely emails. Tune into the Twitter Live cast to see the after show where we tell each other bad jokes, and hit each other with Nerf guns when one of us laughs. 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 Polyg

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Spec Ops: The Line is free for PC owners for the next two days, courtesy of Humble Bundle. But, as we stated in our review, Spec Ops: The Line tries to do something different:The story that Spec Ops tells goes so far beyond the jingoistic odes to nebulous war-time duty that it almost seems necessary to play. I don’t know if I can say Spec Ops: The Line is fun, exactly. And against very steep odds, Spec Ops: The Line succeeds in what it’s trying to do. I wasn’t happy that I played through Spec Op

Shevat’s interests lie in figuring out how to bring the connection between streamers and viewers even closer, and he believes the next step is increasing interactivity tenfold. Shevat’s plans for bringing more interactivity to Twitch within the next couple of years extend to even more elaborate design and engineering choices. If an extension is being used by streamers or developers for nefarious reasons, Twitch will investigate. Bits are cheering tokens that viewers can purchase and give to thei

Unfortunately, MLB 18’s Road to the Show suffers from a lack of consistency that often makes it a frustrating exercise, despite all the improvements Sony San Diego has delivered this year. The other reason is one of the major changes that Sony San Diego has made to Road to the Show this year. MLB 18 will apply this system if you bring in a career playthrough from MLB 17. But however admirable the goal of realism is, something feels off about the way that Sony San Diego accomplishes it in MLB 18.

HBO teased Westworld’s upcoming second season today with a brand-new trailer, but the more exciting and disturbing element was the commercial hidden within it. Like previous ARG Easter eggs used for Westworld, the website belongs to Delos, the company behind the juggernaut theme park. What starts out as a Delos commercial for Westworld quickly dissolves into a series of frustrating glitches (also a staple of Westworld marketing) and disturbing, graphic scenes. One particular scene shows James De