Sega today blocked its U.S. PlayStation Store demo for Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, after it became clear that the company had accidentally made the full game available for free. The demo was designed to include the full game, with only the first few sections available for play. Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is the latest game in the combat-adventure series, set among underworld criminals in Japan. Sega issued a statement from its Twitter account: “We apologize, but have had to remove the Yakuza 6:

I hate that we need to talk about this, but here we are, in the year 2018, having a heartbreaking discussion over whether Baby Groot is the same Groot that we first met. “Baby Groot is his son.”Wait … what? 2 where Baby Groot is instructed to push a specific button. The entire area they’re fighting in will blow up if he selects the wrong button, and Gunn says this is just further proof that Baby Groot isn’t the original tree character. Baby Groot is his son.

I hate that we need to talk about this, but here we are, in the year 2018, having a heartbreaking discussion over whether Baby Groot is the same Groot that we first met. “Baby Groot is his son.”Wait … what? 2 where Baby Groot is instructed to push a specific button. The entire area they’re fighting in will blow up if he selects the wrong button, and Gunn says this is just further proof that Baby Groot isn’t the original tree character. Baby Groot is his son.

To celebrate 25 years of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast is launching Masters 25. Another thing you won’t find inside packs of Masters 25 is anything on the Reserved Cards list. More than anything, Masters 25 is designed as a supplemental set for existing players and collectors. “People choose to play Magic in so many different ways,” Skolnik said. There are more than 20 different formats of play, and cards from this set complement nearly all of them in some way.”

SXSW is an annual gathering of tech startup wunderkinds, cinephiles, and indie musicians — and for a little corner of The Belmont in downtown Austin, it’s also home to a bar-turned-speakeasy-also-turned-arcade curated by us. Polygon’s parent company, Vox Media, is renting out The Belmont — 305 W 6th St, between Guadalupe St. and Lavaca St. — and has found room in the bar for us to set up a few games to play. Our lineup:MultibowlVolleygonWitchballThe Simpsons (yes, that one)Mortal KombatNBA JamPa

Amazon Alexa- and Google Home-compatible smart devices can now speak to you with Pikachu’s voice, courtesy of the free Pikachu Talk app. But now that Pikachu Talk is available stateside, we had to know: What’s it like to have an actual Pikachu talk back to you? I’m surprised by how invested Pikachu was in telling its totally inscrutable story, but it’s nice to know that Pikachu can get passionate about something. I asked Chelsea for a brief review of the Pikachu Talk app. It seems like using Pik

The letter provides an interesting look at how the industry itself views loot boxes — or at least the talking points it will use to defend them. Loot boxes are big business in video games right now, and the ESRB was created in the mid-1990s by what is now the Entertainment Software Association, the trade body that lobbies on behalf of the video game industry. “In fact, the UK Gambling Commission recently determined that loot boxes do not constitute gambling.”This is a fascinating argument, becau

Dragon Ball FighterZ is an amazing game, but one of its few weak points is its lukewarm tutorial content. Dragon Ball FighterZ . Its textbook might come across as intimidating, and I suspect that the developers of Dragon Ball FighterZ didn’t want to scare off newbies. Most players of Dragon Ball FighterZ are going to mash on square, and that’s a good thing. But a lot of players are going to want to take the training wheels off at some point, and Dragon Ball FighterZ needs to give them a bit more

Dragon Ball FighterZ is an amazing game, but one of its few weak points is its lukewarm tutorial content. Dragon Ball FighterZ . Its textbook might come across as intimidating, and I suspect that the developers of Dragon Ball FighterZ didn’t want to scare off newbies. Most players of Dragon Ball FighterZ are going to mash on square, and that’s a good thing. But a lot of players are going to want to take the training wheels off at some point, and Dragon Ball FighterZ needs to give them a bit more

Del Rey Books, the official publisher of Star Wars novels, printed a nifty timeline for all of the novelizations that have come out thus far. The events of Solo take place before Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars Rebels, the highly acclaimed animated series that’s in its fourth season, as pointed out by The Hollywood Reporter. That also means Solo takes place after Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, and just after the Empire’s rise. Tarkin takes place 14 years before the even

Del Rey Books, the official publisher of Star Wars novels, printed a nifty timeline for all of the novelizations that have come out thus far. The events of Solo take place before Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars Rebels, the highly acclaimed animated series that’s in its fourth season, as pointed out by The Hollywood Reporter. That also means Solo takes place after Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, and just after the Empire’s rise. Tarkin takes place 14 years before the even

Star Wars: Legion, the latest game in the Star Wars line from Fantasy Flight Games, is not a complete experience. The starter set comes with 33 unassembled plastic models divided between two factions, the Rebels and the Imperials. If you’ve played Star Wars: The X-Wing Miniatures Game, Star Wars: Armada or Star Wars: Imperial Assault, many of the methods and components inside the box will look familiar. Charlie Hall/PolygonCharlie Hall/PolygonCharlie Hall/PolygonCharlie Hall/PolygonCharlie Hall/

Star Wars: Legion, the latest game in the Star Wars line from Fantasy Flight Games, is not a complete experience. The starter set comes with 33 unassembled plastic models divided between two factions, the Rebels and the Imperials. If you’ve played Star Wars: The X-Wing Miniatures Game, Star Wars: Armada or Star Wars: Imperial Assault, many of the methods and components inside the box will look familiar. Charlie Hall/PolygonCharlie Hall/PolygonCharlie Hall/PolygonCharlie Hall/PolygonCharlie Hall/

Netflix will have 700 original television shows and movies on its service by the time 2018 draws to a close, says Netflix’s chief financial officer, David Wells. Wells expanded on the strategy the goal the company has been pursuing since 2016: to have a 50/50 split of licensed and original content on Netflix. Murphy will produce new projects exclusively for Netflix, but his ongoing franchises at FX, like American Horror Story, American Crime Story and Feud, will continue to run on 21st Century F

To celebrate 25 years of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast is launching Masters 25. Another thing you won’t find inside packs of Masters 25 is anything on the Reserved Cards list. More than anything, Masters 25 is designed as a supplemental set for existing players and collectors. “People choose to play Magic in so many different ways,” Skolnik said. There are more than 20 different formats of play, and cards from this set complement nearly all of them in some way.”

Each Into the Breach game starts you off with one named pilot and two anonymous ones. As a bonus, when you unlock a pilot you’ll be able to select that pilot from your hanger from here on out. REACTOR CORESI mentioned reactor cores earlier. Doing so grants you a variety of boons, from bonus reactor cores, to energy for your power grid to reputation. With it you can buy everything from new guns to passive abilities to bonus reactor cores.

Square Enix surprised everyone by releasing Chrono Trigger on Steam today, and everyone was happy … for about five minutes. It turns out that the Window PC version of the game is a rather direct port of the iOS and Android versions of the game. “All you need to know is that this is a straight port of the mobile version, and includes a horrible font and disgusting sprite filtering,” reads a review of the PC version. “There are no graphics options apart from resolution.”This isn’t a new strategy

Square Enix surprised everyone by releasing Chrono Trigger on Steam today, and everyone was happy … for about five minutes. It turns out that the Window PC version of the game is a rather direct port of the iOS and Android versions of the game. “All you need to know is that this is a straight port of the mobile version, and includes a horrible font and disgusting sprite filtering,” reads a review of the PC version. “There are no graphics options apart from resolution.”This isn’t a new strategy

Netflix will have 700 original television shows and movies on its service by the time 2018 draws to a close, says Netflix’s chief financial officer, David Wells. Wells expanded on the strategy the goal the company has been pursuing since 2016: to have a 50/50 split of licensed and original content on Netflix. Murphy will produce new projects exclusively for Netflix, but his ongoing franchises at FX, like American Horror Story, American Crime Story and Feud, will continue to run on 21st Century F

Hunting and foragingYou need to get good at hunting and foraging in Metal Gear Survive or you’ll starve to death. Instead, being a good hunter in Metal Gear Survive is about being on the lookout at all times. For the first several hours of Metal Gear Survive, your best bet is just to drink and hope that you don’t get poisoned. While it may sound hopeless, dirty water isn’t your only hydrating option in the early game of Metal Gear Survive. FarmingSeveral hours and single-player missions into Met