Pop Blast’s channel was finally removed from YouTube after a series of unfounded and incorrect allegations made against one of the original YouTube stars, Shane Dawson, calling him a pedophile. In the hours between the original video being uploaded, deleted and Pop Blast’s channel being removed from YouTube, a series of creepy conspiracy theory videos about Dawson appeared, disappeared and reappeared on the channel. Over the course of a few hours, multiple videos that allegedly stole content fro

Pop Blast’s channel was finally removed from YouTube after a series of unfounded and incorrect allegations made against one of the original YouTube stars, Shane Dawson, calling him a pedophile. In the hours between the original video being uploaded, deleted and Pop Blast’s channel being removed from YouTube, a series of creepy conspiracy theory videos about Dawson appeared, disappeared and reappeared on the channel. Over the course of a few hours, multiple videos that allegedly stole content fro

I watched the first season of Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle when it came out. It was striking, enjoyable prestige television, adapted from a Philip K. Dick novel imagining that the Nazis had won World War II and occupied the United States. Polygon a sked some of our favorite game developers and writers to reflect on the games we played in 2017. Nazis are evil, white supremacy is a cancer and fascism must be destroyed at any cost. In 2017, Wolfenstein 2 was that.

On the strength of their complete lack of shame and common decency, brothers Logan and Jake Paul have risen to the heights of YouTube fame. Deemed two of the most influential YouTubers in 2017, the Paul brothers share close to 30 million subscribers between their two channels. Dammit.”But PewDiePie at least tries to explain why his mistakes were different than those of the Paul brothers. This is how he tries to draw a line around his work before heaping scorn on Logan Paul. Logan Paul was making

On the strength of their complete lack of shame and common decency, brothers Logan and Jake Paul have risen to the heights of YouTube fame. Deemed two of the most influential YouTubers in 2017, the Paul brothers share close to 30 million subscribers between their two channels. Dammit.”But PewDiePie at least tries to explain why his mistakes were different than those of the Paul brothers. This is how he tries to draw a line around his work before heaping scorn on Logan Paul. Logan Paul was making

YouTube’s parent company, Google, is looking into increasing the vetting process for which YouTube channels and videos receive top-tier ads through the company’s Google Preferred packaging, Bloomberg reports. Google Preferred refers to a group of YouTube channels that Google sells to advertisers at higher prices. The report comes just after YouTube confirmed it was removing Logan Paul from the Google Preferred group, which could reportedly slash his ad revenue by 50 percent. In addition to remov

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Marvel Studios has named a screenwriter for a potential Black Widow movie, reports Variety. By appointing a screenwriter and talking with execs and Johansson, Marvel Entertainment isn’t particularly close to green-lighting a Black Widow movie, but it’s still the closest it’s ever been. The studio’s history of open-ended comments, and brief windows into its process has only whetted interest in a possible Widow movie. Screenwriter Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel) has confir

Marvel Studios has named a screenwriter for a potential Black Widow movie, reports Variety. By appointing a screenwriter and talking with execs and Johansson, Marvel Entertainment isn’t particularly close to green-lighting a Black Widow movie, but it’s still the closest it’s ever been. The studio’s history of open-ended comments, and brief windows into its process has only whetted interest in a possible Widow movie. Screenwriter Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel) has confir

To say that Inhumans didn’t have the stellar reception and success ABC was hoping for would be an understatement. ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey addressed the show’s unsuccessful ratings during a television conference this week, admitting Inhumans did not perform as well as the network was hoping. If Inhumans does get cut from the network, Agents of SHIELD may be the only Marvel series to air on ABC this fall. Netflix currently has six Marvel series, and Disney is gearing up to laun

To say that Inhumans didn’t have the stellar reception and success ABC was hoping for would be an understatement. ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey addressed the show’s unsuccessful ratings during a television conference this week, admitting Inhumans did not perform as well as the network was hoping. If Inhumans does get cut from the network, Agents of SHIELD may be the only Marvel series to air on ABC this fall. Netflix currently has six Marvel series, and Disney is gearing up to laun

New Mutants’ original release date of April 13 has reportedly been blasted back nearly a year to Feb. 22, 2019. Polygon has reached out to 21st Century Fox to confirm the new release dates. Under their old release dates, for example, Deadpool 2 and The New Mutants would have been in international theaters at the same time. Deadpool 2 has moved from a release date two weeks after Solo — and well within the box-office dominance of a modern Star Wars film — to the comparatively sleepy weekend befor

New Mutants’ original release date of April 13 has reportedly been blasted back nearly a year to Feb. 22, 2019. Polygon has reached out to 21st Century Fox to confirm the new release dates. Under their old release dates, for example, Deadpool 2 and The New Mutants would have been in international theaters at the same time. Deadpool 2 has moved from a release date two weeks after Solo — and well within the box-office dominance of a modern Star Wars film — to the comparatively sleepy weekend befor

The folks behind the film released the first official photo of Tom Hardy as the titular anti-hero today, but it might not be what you were hoping for. When a movie production offers you a first look at Tom Hardy in Venom, it wouldn’t be too much to expect a look at the Symbiote itself, in all its toothéd and oozing midnight glory. Instead, Sony offered this, first revealed on IGN:Well, it is technically Tom Hardy in Venom. It’s just Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, the merely human half of the interste

The folks behind the film released the first official photo of Tom Hardy as the titular anti-hero today, but it might not be what you were hoping for. When a movie production offers you a first look at Tom Hardy in Venom, it wouldn’t be too much to expect a look at the Symbiote itself, in all its toothéd and oozing midnight glory. Instead, Sony offered this, first revealed on IGN:Well, it is technically Tom Hardy in Venom. It’s just Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, the merely human half of the interste

Players can also buy loot crates (or keys to open them) with both in-game and real world currency. The issue of loot crates came to a head late last year with the release of Star Wars Battlefront 2. Now EA has made a priority of moving this mechanism to action games, where loot crates are part of all modes. In November, as two Hawaii state lawmakers announced they were investigating loot crate practices and considering legislation regulating them, the ESA released a statement calling loot crates

Players can also buy loot crates (or keys to open them) with both in-game and real world currency. The issue of loot crates came to a head late last year with the release of Star Wars Battlefront 2. Now EA has made a priority of moving this mechanism to action games, where loot crates are part of all modes. In November, as two Hawaii state lawmakers announced they were investigating loot crate practices and considering legislation regulating them, the ESA released a statement calling loot crates

The original Dark Souls is coming to Nintendo Switch, Nintendo and publisher Bandai Namco announced today. Dark Souls: Remastered includes the Artorias of the Abyss downloadable content, as well as improved framerate and resolution, Nintendo said in a release. Dark Souls: Remastered for Switch will mark the first time the franchise will appear on a Nintendo console (and the series’ first portable entry). Watch the debut trailer for Dark Souls: Remastered on Switch below. The most recent entry in

The original Dark Souls is coming to Nintendo Switch, Nintendo and publisher Bandai Namco announced today. Dark Souls: Remastered includes the Artorias of the Abyss downloadable content, as well as improved framerate and resolution, Nintendo said in a release. Dark Souls: Remastered for Switch will mark the first time the franchise will appear on a Nintendo console (and the series’ first portable entry). Watch the debut trailer for Dark Souls: Remastered on Switch below. The most recent entry in

Assassin’s Creed Rogue debuted in November 2014 as the previous-generation counterpart to the ill-fated Assassin’s Creed Unity. Assassin’s Creed Rogue tells the story of Shay Patrick Cormac, a New Yorker of Irish descent who starts out as a member of the Assassin brotherhood. The remaster of Assassin’s Creed Rogue is being developed by Ubisoft Sofia, the same Bulgarian studio that made the original game. Assassin’s Creed Rogue is something of a forgotten chapter in the long history of the franch