Notorious League of Legends streamer Tyler1 returned to authorized play on Monday, Jan 8, 2018, after Riot Games lifted the extraordinary ID ban it imposed on him in April, 2016. Tyler leaned into his infamy, branding himself “the most toxic player in North America.” He started throwing games and raging on stream to entertain his fans. Riot responded with the ID ban, which meant any account Riot discovered Tyler using would be banned on sight. Tyler has since become an outlaw in League of Legend

Women are equally represented throughout the game’s world, as friends, antagonists, leaders, paupers and merchants. Where in so many video games, women serve as love interests or sex objects, Horizon captures a lifelike diversity of identities. There’s an undercurrent running through Horizon Zero Dawn, particularly in its stories involving women. The complex representation of women in different social spheres throughout the Horizon Zero Dawn is one of its best features. Horizon builds on games l

Women are equally represented throughout the game’s world, as friends, antagonists, leaders, paupers and merchants. Where in so many video games, women serve as love interests or sex objects, Horizon captures a lifelike diversity of identities. There’s an undercurrent running through Horizon Zero Dawn, particularly in its stories involving women. The complex representation of women in different social spheres throughout the Horizon Zero Dawn is one of its best features. Horizon builds on games l

YouTube doesn’t care about Logan Paul because, as far as we’ve seen, advertisers don’t care about Logan Paul. Follow the moneyFrom what I can tell, no one has threatened to pull their advertisements from YouTube over Paul’s video. To understand why members of the YouTube community are concerned by YouTube bending the rules for certain channels, let’s go back to February 2017. I don’t, however, find it difficult to believe that YouTube doesn’t care about Logan Paul’s mistake, because advertisers

YouTube doesn’t care about Logan Paul because, as far as we’ve seen, advertisers don’t care about Logan Paul. Follow the moneyFrom what I can tell, no one has threatened to pull their advertisements from YouTube over Paul’s video. To understand why members of the YouTube community are concerned by YouTube bending the rules for certain channels, let’s go back to February 2017. I don’t, however, find it difficult to believe that YouTube doesn’t care about Logan Paul’s mistake, because advertisers

YouTube has finally responded to the conversation around Logan Paul’s disturbing, rule-breaking video that featured the body of a man who committed suicide in Japan. YouTube published the open letter on Twitter through a series of five tweets. The channel violated our community guidelines, we acted accordingly, and we are looking at further consequences. YouTube’s statement follows Paul’s own apologies, which he posted on Twitter and YouTube last week. A YouTube representative confirmed to Polyg

‘Suicide is not a joke, nor should it ever be a driving force for views’

Or: “When frustrated, let go of the controller.” That’s what Everything, an elegant game from the Irish animator David OReilly, advises its players to do. For one, you really can drop the controls and let the game play on. That conceit is made numbingly explicit later in the game, but from the start a player’s identity dissolves. Mountain, which let players examine a mountain under zero instructions, was almost defiantly simple, and its stony, impenetrable surface made many players throw up thei

You don’t have to worry about cosmetics if you don’t want to, and rare items don’t do much to change the balance of the game itself. You can also buy items or crates from other players. A few fans will make a lot of money by finding the rare items, but PUBG itself is likely going to make a ridiculous amount of money enabling and profiting from this market’s existence. This isn’t a new idea, as rare items in games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or Team Fortress 2 have also been sold on the

In a refreshingly upfront set of patch notes today, the team behind Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds listed out the odds at which their newest line of cosmetic items show up in loot crates. It’s a first for them, and may be a response to their movement into the Chinese market where there are a different set of regulations about loot crates. In Battlegrounds, the only way to earn loot crates is by playing well. (The most common drops are in the new “Biker” crates: the Long-sleeved T-shirt (Red) and

In a refreshingly upfront set of patch notes today, the team behind Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds listed out the odds at which their newest line of cosmetic items show up in loot crates. It’s a first for them, and may be a response to their movement into the Chinese market where there are a different set of regulations about loot crates. In Battlegrounds, the only way to earn loot crates is by playing well. (The most common drops are in the new “Biker” crates: the Long-sleeved T-shirt (Red) and

Debmar-Mercury, a television syndication company and subsidiary of Lionsgate, announced today that it was offering BoJack Horseman reruns to basic cable networks on behalf of the show’s production company, the Tornante Company. That makes the critically lauded, dark, animated comedy one of the few Netflix original series to garner that kind of attention from the old guard of television distribution. “I’m very proud of BoJack Horseman,” Tornante founder Michael Eisner said in a statement, “Who kn

“But let us note at the outset that however many stops there are between here and human-level machine intelligence, the latter is not the final destination. One point of access that machine archaeologists may find interesting are the stories we humans once told ourselves about artificial intelligence. Click, click, click, and before long you’re moving along a curve, in fits and starts at first, inching forward only when you push. Playing Universal Paperclips feels like you’re being recruited as

Debmar-Mercury, a television syndication company and subsidiary of Lionsgate, announced today that it was offering BoJack Horseman reruns to basic cable networks on behalf of the show’s production company, the Tornante Company. That makes the critically lauded, dark, animated comedy one of the few Netflix original series to garner that kind of attention from the old guard of television distribution. “I’m very proud of BoJack Horseman,” Tornante founder Michael Eisner said in a statement, “Who kn

Tessa Thompson captivated audiences as the Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok last year, in a take on the character whose origin story had some significant differences from the comics. Now, Marvel has figured out the perfect way to bring Ragnarok’s Valkyrie to comics as well: She’s joining the Exiles. Think Sliders, crossed with Quantum Leap, populated entirely by Marvel characters — a perfect way to make a nod to the Marvel Cinematic Universe without actually crossing them over. Marvel” Khan; Iron Lad,

Tessa Thompson captivated audiences as the Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok last year, in a take on the character whose origin story had some significant differences from the comics. Now, Marvel has figured out the perfect way to bring Ragnarok’s Valkyrie to comics as well: She’s joining the Exiles. Think Sliders, crossed with Quantum Leap, populated entirely by Marvel characters — a perfect way to make a nod to the Marvel Cinematic Universe without actually crossing them over. Marvel” Khan; Iron Lad,

Losing my Nintendo Switch is one of my biggest nightmares: I can’t afford another one, let alone replace all of my games or save files (thanks again for that one, Nintendo). This is a fear shared by many Switch owners, which is why it’s great that the system’s biggest community has gathered to help reunite lost Switch consoles with their homes. The Nintendo Switch subreddit has become a haven for anyone who has left their Switch on a plane, a cab or elsewhere. Since the community helped one memb

Losing my Nintendo Switch is one of my biggest nightmares: I can’t afford another one, let alone replace all of my games or save files (thanks again for that one, Nintendo). This is a fear shared by many Switch owners, which is why it’s great that the system’s biggest community has gathered to help reunite lost Switch consoles with their homes. The Nintendo Switch subreddit has become a haven for anyone who has left their Switch on a plane, a cab or elsewhere. Since the community helped one memb

Your Xbox will eventually get a virtual “do not disturb” sign when a feature coming to the Xbox Insider program makes it to everyone’s systems. The option will allow you to play online while also showing friends and other people on Xbox Live that you’re not accepting messages nor interested in any other games. “Sometimes all you want to do is avoid all distractions and focus entirely on your game,” the official post states. You’ll now be able to choose from one, two, three, four, five or six hou

Your Xbox will eventually get a virtual “do not disturb” sign when a feature coming to the Xbox Insider program makes it to everyone’s systems. The option will allow you to play online while also showing friends and other people on Xbox Live that you’re not accepting messages nor interested in any other games. “Sometimes all you want to do is avoid all distractions and focus entirely on your game,” the official post states. You’ll now be able to choose from one, two, three, four, five or six hou