Nintendo will broadcast a new Nintendo Direct presentation on Thursday, March 8, at 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. The presentation will focus on upcoming games for Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch, including Mario Tennis Aces for Switch. The presentation will last “roughly 30 minutes,” Nintendo said, and will stream on YouTube. Nintendo’s currently announced lineup of games include Detective Pikachu for Nintendo 3DS, and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition, Nintendo Labo

The monster hunting of Pokémon Go meets dinosaurs in Jurassic World Alive, a new augmented reality, location-based game for Android and iOS coming this spring. Developed by Ludia, which has previously worked on Jurassic World: The Game and Jurassic Park Builder, Jurassic World Alive will let players track, collect and do battle with dinosaurs. Jurassic World Alive puts players in the role of a new recruit in the Dinosaur Protection Group (DPG). Universal and Ludia are currently accepting registr

The monster hunting of Pokémon Go meets dinosaurs in Jurassic World Alive, a new augmented reality, location-based game for Android and iOS coming this spring. Developed by Ludia, which has previously worked on Jurassic World: The Game and Jurassic Park Builder, Jurassic World Alive will let players track, collect and do battle with dinosaurs. Jurassic World Alive puts players in the role of a new recruit in the Dinosaur Protection Group (DPG). Universal and Ludia are currently accepting registr

Fortnite’s free Battle Royale game is being updated with a new mode that will pit five teams of 20 players each against one another to see who can survive the longest. The free update is coming to the game tomorrow, March 8. Fortnite: Battle Royale has previously experimented with a 50 vs. 50 mode, which also significantly altered the flow of combat if you were playing with organized groups. “We are planning to quickly spin up a dozen or so LTMs, some of these may be more straightforward (e.g. W

Fortnite’s free Battle Royale game is being updated with a new mode that will pit five teams of 20 players each against one another to see who can survive the longest. The free update is coming to the game tomorrow, March 8. Fortnite: Battle Royale has previously experimented with a 50 vs. 50 mode, which also significantly altered the flow of combat if you were playing with organized groups. “We are planning to quickly spin up a dozen or so LTMs, some of these may be more straightforward (e.g. W

Yesterday Ubisoft launched the third season of content for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and it’s already already paying dividends. The game’s three-year pass is coming in at number two on the Steam top-sellers list and, according to SteamCharts, player counts are at an all-time high. It includes two new playable characters, Frenchman Lion and Russian Finka, who are both veterans of anti-biological operations in the past. The new season includes new equipment and skins, as well as a host of bal

Yesterday Ubisoft launched the third season of content for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and it’s already already paying dividends. The game’s three-year pass is coming in at number two on the Steam top-sellers list and, according to SteamCharts, player counts are at an all-time high. It includes two new playable characters, Frenchman Lion and Russian Finka, who are both veterans of anti-biological operations in the past. The new season includes new equipment and skins, as well as a host of bal

Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets around the world are experiencing an outage this morning, including devices here at Polygon. Users are not sure what is causing the issue, and so far neither Facebook nor Oculus itself has provided a solution. At least one developer, Adam Boyne, was mid-demo at an event when his Oculus stopped working. Without a valid security certificate, some operating systems will prevent certain programs from running. Update: Following our article, Oculus went to Twitter

Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets around the world are experiencing an outage this morning, including devices here at Polygon. Users are not sure what is causing the issue, and so far neither Facebook nor Oculus itself has provided a solution. At least one developer, Adam Boyne, was mid-demo at an event when his Oculus stopped working. Without a valid security certificate, some operating systems will prevent certain programs from running. Update: Following our article, Oculus went to Twitter

There’s a Nintendo Direct presentation airing tomorrow, March 8, which is understandably a huge deal. Not only is the stream going to focus on upcoming Nintendo Switch and 3DS games, but it’s also expected to run 30 minutes — making it the first full-length Nintendo Direct of 2018. DefinitelyA Mario Tennis Aces release dateI’m an on-the-record Mario Tennis lover, albeit only the Nintendo 64 version. It seems unlikely that Nintendo would throw in a gameplay reveal or literally any info at all int

There’s a Nintendo Direct presentation airing tomorrow, March 8, which is understandably a huge deal. Not only is the stream going to focus on upcoming Nintendo Switch and 3DS games, but it’s also expected to run 30 minutes — making it the first full-length Nintendo Direct of 2018. DefinitelyA Mario Tennis Aces release dateI’m an on-the-record Mario Tennis lover, albeit only the Nintendo 64 version. It seems unlikely that Nintendo would throw in a gameplay reveal or literally any info at all int

South Park: The Fractured But Whole’s first chapter extension of downloadable content, launching March 20, will introduce a new hero class to the game: The Netherborn. The new content comes in “From Dusk Till Casa Bonita,” aka Cartman’s favorite restaurant (and based on the real life Casa Bonita of Lakewood, Colorado. Casa Bonita is the scene of the showdown as the gang tries to rescue her from the vampiric cult. Our review of South Park: The Fractured But Whole found it rude and crude and obnox

South Park: The Fractured But Whole’s first chapter extension of downloadable content, launching March 20, will introduce a new hero class to the game: The Netherborn. The new content comes in “From Dusk Till Casa Bonita,” aka Cartman’s favorite restaurant (and based on the real life Casa Bonita of Lakewood, Colorado. Casa Bonita is the scene of the showdown as the gang tries to rescue her from the vampiric cult. Our review of South Park: The Fractured But Whole found it rude and crude and obnox

The goal is to collect 10 of the spineless creatures, so that you can get the material to craft the Wiggler Head Alpha armor. Basically, the Wiggler Head Alpha makes everyone who wears it look like they’ve mutated into half-human, half-creature. Streamers are really, really into wiggler dance parties. Now this is the only Wiggler Head Alpha content I can get behind. Whatever your feelings are about the Wiggler Head Alpha, we can all agree that it’s at least bringing Monster Hunter: World players

The Overwatch League has a player behavior problem — except it’s not just an Overwatch League problem. xQc, a professional Overwatch player who was suspended and fined $2,000 by the Overwatch League for making homophobic comments on his own channel, has long been regarded as an aggressive streamer. xQc spoke about his suspension from the Overwatch League in early February pointing out that fellow Overwatch player and streamer Jake gets away with telling other players to kill themselves without p

Marvel’s Fresh Start relaunch has already rolled out brand new creative teams and new #1 issues for heavy hitters like the Avengers, Thor, Hulk and Captain America — but what about the stranger corners of the Marvel Universe? Courtesy of Marvel Comics, Polygon can reveal that the Merc With the Mouth is getting his own minty fresh start with Deadpool #1, the beginning of a new series written by Skottie Young and drawn by Nic Klein. “Before I pitched Rocket Raccoon back in 2013, I tried to get Dea

Lost Sphear may be be a nostalgia-saturated throwback to classic Japanese role-playing games, but that doesn’t mean it’s a completely predictable (or easily understood) game. And for a game with as many moving pieces as Lost Sphear, that can make for a pretty bumpy ride. Don’t wait for save pointsLuminous blue save points are scattered around the world of Lost Sphear, and they allow you to alternate between several save slots. Not only is Lost Sphear guilty of burying itself in jargon and unnece

Some of Twitch’s most popular streamers wasted no time in mocking the company’s new community guidelines that went into effect yesterday. Tyler1, Summit1g and Forsen all chimed in when asked by their supporters how the new community guidelines will impact them. Forsen has become one of the more outspoken critics about Twitch’s new community guidelines because of the company’s ruling on how viewer behavior can impact streamers. “I’m the one that has to worry about shit.”Forsen first took issue wi

This week on The History of Fun, Allegra Frank walks us through the beginnings of America’s favorite childhood treat: the Happy Meal. Join us as we explore its origins in South America to the worldwide food juggernaut it has become today. Enjoying The History of Fun? New to The History of Fun? Every Monday, Russ Frushtick, Allegra Frank and Chris Plante explore the hidden backstories behind the things we love to do.

BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and writer Kate Purdy are headed to Amazon to tell a new story about the concept of reality. Undone is a “half-hour animated dramedy that explores the elastic nature of reality through its central character, Alma,” according to a press release. Amazon ordered Undone directly to series instead of testing the waters with a few episodes, and the show is already in pre-production. The series will be exclusive to Amazon Prime subscribers when it launches i