The Crew 2PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox OneA sequel to Ubisoft’s open-world auto-racer from 2014, this isn’t just about racing cars. Dragon Ball FighterZPlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox OneArriving on Jan. 26, Dragon Ball FighterZ is a 2.5D fighter from Arc System Works. ExtinctionPlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox OneDeveloper Iron Galaxy is best known for fighting games like Killer Instinct and Divekick. Grasshopper Manufacture’s combat game will once again star Travis Touchdown, the star of the

Modest art, minimal animation, few colors: Baba Is You looks like a bare-bones MS-DOS game, a dusty relic from the early ’80s. But it’s one of the most inventive games I played in 2017, and one of my most anticipated releases of 2018. You could try “Rock Is Baba” and turn Baba to stone. Or you could just change the win state to “Rock Is Win,” safely move Baba to a rock and ignore everything else. According to Teikari’s Twitter, the complete Baba Is You will be available in summer 2018 on PC.

Modest art, minimal animation, few colors: Baba Is You looks like a bare-bones MS-DOS game, a dusty relic from the early ’80s. But it’s one of the most inventive games I played in 2017, and one of my most anticipated releases of 2018. You could try “Rock Is Baba” and turn Baba to stone. Or you could just change the win state to “Rock Is Win,” safely move Baba to a rock and ignore everything else. According to Teikari’s Twitter, the complete Baba Is You will be available in summer 2018 on PC.

Still, F1 2017’s management obligations made that game a sports video game as much as it is a pure racer, and forced the user into the hard choices and intrigue that define that series in ways other sports titles allow them to bypass. I say “reliable” because MLB The Show 17 was the sports game I spent the most time with in 2017. Longshot, more than any other sports video game I’ve played, earnestly and honestly celebrated process — and left the player valuing what they had learned about themsel

Still, F1 2017’s management obligations made that game a sports video game as much as it is a pure racer, and forced the user into the hard choices and intrigue that define that series in ways other sports titles allow them to bypass. I say “reliable” because MLB The Show 17 was the sports game I spent the most time with in 2017. Longshot, more than any other sports video game I’ve played, earnestly and honestly celebrated process — and left the player valuing what they had learned about themsel

But I think that an accumulation of 2017 news is already yielding useful lessons, possibly even revelations, about gaming’s future. And yet it’s made enormous strides forward in the past 12 months, making more than a billion dollars and passing the 35 million players mark. Having coined a fortune from its sports games’ Ultimate Team modes, the company proceeded to graft similar “loot crates” onto other kinds of games. But messing up a Star Wars game launch made EA the most prominent target of bl

But I think that an accumulation of 2017 news is already yielding useful lessons, possibly even revelations, about gaming’s future. And yet it’s made enormous strides forward in the past 12 months, making more than a billion dollars and passing the 35 million players mark. Having coined a fortune from its sports games’ Ultimate Team modes, the company proceeded to graft similar “loot crates” onto other kinds of games. But messing up a Star Wars game launch made EA the most prominent target of bl

SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman may not ring a bell for anyone but the most hardcore fans of the Nickelodeon cartoon. “I decided to offer a bounty for the two strats for a couple different reasons,” Cosmeme told Polygon. Uncovering these solutions wouldn’t just benefit Cosmeme and his fellow SpongeBob fans who are constantly trying to break a game that he admits isn’t all that good, he explained. It would also help to promote Revenge of the Flying Dutchman as a speedrun for

The great eye of Amazon digital comics sales has finally swept from Marvel Comics to DC. The retail giant has a huge swath of digital DC Comics collections for sale until January first, so snap them up while the going is good. The digital comics can be read on Kindle, or opened on a Comixology account. For example, three of the books on our best comics of 2017 list are on the sale. Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda’s Omega Men is the best Star Wars comic that isn’t actually about Star Wars.

Blizzard Entertainment is bringing back its homage to the original Diablo in Diablo 3 for 2018. The annual Darkening of Tristram event will return to Diablo 3 on Jan. 1, 2018, at 12 a.m. PT. The Darkening of Tristram, originally held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Diablo series, sends players back to the dungeons of Diablo — or a pretty good impersonation of them — to score some retro loot. The anniversary event first launched in early January 2017 in the Mac, PlayStation 4, Windows PC

Like many episodes of Black Mirror, “Arkangel” deals in ambiguity. [Warning: The following contains spoilers for the “Arkangel” episode from Black Mirror’s fourth season.] As traditional for Black Mirror, we’re left to wonder if it was the correct decision. It’s what Foster loves about the 90-minute episode Black Mirror structure; she can watch Marie change. The technology in Black Mirror isn’t always benevolent but at it’s core, most of it is about having more control over something.

The value of a Rotten Tomatoes score is once again a hot topic, thanks to a widening divide between how critics view a movie and how audiences see it. The latest movie to experience a noticeable difference from critics and fans is also one of Rotten Tomatoes’ biggest divides: Netflix’s Bright. Rotten Tomatoes’ method of data collection isn’t viewed in the same light. Dive into the actual audience reviews left on Rotten Tomatoes for any of the aforementioned films and there’s a consistent message

Imaginary Fiends is DC Comics’ best new horror comic in a long line of horror comics that came before. In a nutshell, the comic has a simple hook: What if imaginary friends were real? That’s not necessarily a horror story — at least, not until writer Tim Seeley and artist Stephan Molinar also asked: What are imaginary friends? Maybe Imaginary Fiends is a self-aware supernatural action procedural in the tradition of the Hellboy films. Imaginary Fiends feels like DC’s Vertigo imprint in its classi

When role-playing game Project Phoenix first hit Kickstarter in 2013, it sounded a dream project. Sony’s indie publishing label, Unties, launched Tiny Metal on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC earlier this month. Now, Tiny Metal is mired in the ongoing controversy that has surrounded Project Phoenix for nearly past five years. You will notice progress reports on the Project Phoenix Kickstarter blog, as well as their official Project Phoenix blog. Lacy’s statement concerned both Proj

When role-playing game Project Phoenix first hit Kickstarter in 2013, it sounded a dream project. Sony’s indie publishing label, Unties, launched Tiny Metal on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC earlier this month. Now, Tiny Metal is mired in the ongoing controversy that has surrounded Project Phoenix for nearly past five years. You will notice progress reports on the Project Phoenix Kickstarter blog, as well as their official Project Phoenix blog. Lacy’s statement concerned both Proj

Blizzard Entertainment is bringing back its homage to the original Diablo in Diablo 3 for 2018. The annual Darkening of Tristram event will return to Diablo 3 on Jan. 1, 2018, at 12 a.m. PT. The Darkening of Tristram, originally held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Diablo series, sends players back to the dungeons of Diablo — or a pretty good impersonation of them — to score some retro loot. The anniversary event first launched in early January 2017 in the Mac, PlayStation 4, Windows PC

Imaginary Fiends is DC Comics’ best new horror comic in a long line of horror comics that came before. In a nutshell, the comic has a simple hook: What if imaginary friends were real? That’s not necessarily a horror story — at least, not until writer Tim Seeley and artist Stephan Molinar also asked: What are imaginary friends? Maybe Imaginary Fiends is a self-aware supernatural action procedural in the tradition of the Hellboy films. Imaginary Fiends feels like DC’s Vertigo imprint in its classi

The great eye of Amazon digital comics sales has finally swept from Marvel Comics to DC. The retail giant has a huge swath of digital DC Comics collections for sale until January first, so snap them up while the going is good. The digital comics can be read on Kindle, or opened on a Comixology account. For example, three of the books on our best comics of 2017 list are on the sale. Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda’s Omega Men is the best Star Wars comic that isn’t actually about Star Wars.

One of Twitch’s ongoing etiquette issues is at the forefront of conversation again in the wake of one streamer calling out a group of trollish viewers. The issue, Cyanide told Polygon, is that it’s easy for streamers to be “viewed as purely entertainment as opposed to human beings,” and this comes out in Twitch chat. Tanya DePass, founder and director of the non-profit I Need Diverse Games told Polygon that it all comes down to tone. “If a viewer absolutely must comment, they could frame it as,

One of Twitch’s ongoing etiquette issues is at the forefront of conversation again in the wake of one streamer calling out a group of trollish viewers. The issue, Cyanide told Polygon, is that it’s easy for streamers to be “viewed as purely entertainment as opposed to human beings,” and this comes out in Twitch chat. Tanya DePass, founder and director of the non-profit I Need Diverse Games told Polygon that it all comes down to tone. “If a viewer absolutely must comment, they could frame it as,