While most of the major discount events have come and gone, there are still plenty of great deals available. Microsoft is currently marking down dozens of games in the Microsoft Store, including some of the best games of the year like Destiny 2 and What Remains of Edith Finch. If you’re not in the market for games, there are console deals available, like a Nintendo Switch with a free carrying case at Walmart. New ReleasesLife is Strange: Before The Storm Episode 3 on The Microsoft Store and Play

Using supplemental media to flesh out smaller elements of the main Star Wars stories is nothing new to this franchise. [spoilers for The Last Jedi and Star Wars Battlefront 2’s campaign ahead]In the opening moments of The Last Jedi, the Resistance takes part in a bombing run to destroy a First Order dreadnought. By telling these stories, the Star Wars universe can develop new heroes and villains for its fans to help expand its already massive universe. Looking for more Star Wars news? Check out

Of the top 10 games we picked for 2017, I have finished exactly one of them. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the games; I just have a hard time willing myself to play something past the 30-hour mark. 2017 was a great year for games, and that made it very easy to pick up the next Shiny New Thing without finishing the current one. How refreshing to play a game that asks you to care for them, even after their life has left. It’s one of the few games here that I wish I had more time with.

Of the top 10 games we picked for 2017, I have finished exactly one of them. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the games; I just have a hard time willing myself to play something past the 30-hour mark. 2017 was a great year for games, and that made it very easy to pick up the next Shiny New Thing without finishing the current one. How refreshing to play a game that asks you to care for them, even after their life has left. It’s one of the few games here that I wish I had more time with.

The exotic perk, Arc Conductor, causes any Arc damage taken to empower your weapon. Their exotic perk, Illegally Modded Holster, allows you to ready hand cannons very quickly as well as increase accuracy for your first shot. Their exotic perk, Horns of Doom, cause shield bash kills to quickly recharge your shield throw while using your Super. If you like the top tree of Sentinel, this is a fun exotic that you can use in strikes. Wings of Sacred DawnYet another Sloane exotic, Wings of Sacred Dawn

But fear not, friends: We’ve still got some new podcast to listen to while you should be paying attention to your relatives during family dinner. On this week’s episode, we dip back into our sack of emails to answer all of your most pressing questions. The Polygon Show will be available for you to listen to every Friday on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. If you like what you hear, don’t forget to rate and review The Polygon Show on Apple Podcasts — seriously, every little bit helps! Email us at pol

New loot boxes! During the event, special dawning engrams are available from Tess Everis, the loot box vendor who runs the game’s Eververse. The items exclusive to The Dawning event boxes are:A cosmetically-unique legendary armor set for each class. That means that there’s a hard cap on how many event boxes you can earn, and no way to grind for extras. The bulk of the new stuff is contained in loot boxes, the loot boxes remain very expensive and packed with undesirable filler items.

These personal essays will examine the best, most important and weirdest moments that occurred in television, film, comics, streaming and YouTube/Twitch in 2017. Yes, RoyaIn 2017 I can say without equivocation that one of the best comic book stories I read all year was a work of erotica. Miracle as it is about anything else — a comic book for comic book readers. The fact that his Fourth World work was brazenly anti-fascist only helps, though I wish it didn’t. If you want to know why comics peopl

“I didn’t understand the scale of China when I first started this,” said Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene, the game’s creator. Amidst the rapid growth in the Chinese player base, racial slurs have begun flying on social media. Some have even called for Chinese players to be booted onto their own dedicated servers. “The Chinese player base is very passionate for Battlegrounds and they love our game. Yes, there’s some cheaters that come out of there, but the majority of our Chinese players just love

The draw is the emotional connection you get from games when you can feel the bass in your chest and back. But the addition of this kind of haptics to your gaming experience adds much more than I expected, even though I was a fan of the original hardware. The hardware runs for about eight hours on a three-hour charge, and comes complete with all the cables you need. Every audio source you’re already using is compatible with it, as long as you can connect via Bluetooth or a standard audio cable.

Now you’ll have to deal with the harsh deserts of Miramar, which is being cycled into play randomly as of this week. The more remote the location, the betterDespite the dire nature of the desert biome, Miramar has a large amount of cities that provide densely packed buildings. The first thing you’re going to want to do before dropping into Miramar is take a look at the map. They’re just more spread out, much like the tiny shacks in the original map but even more visible from above. In Miramar, b

Now you’ll have to deal with the harsh deserts of Miramar, which is being cycled into play randomly as of this week. The more remote the location, the betterDespite the dire nature of the desert biome, Miramar has a large amount of cities that provide densely packed buildings. The first thing you’re going to want to do before dropping into Miramar is take a look at the map. They’re just more spread out, much like the tiny shacks in the original map but even more visible from above. In Miramar, b

New loot boxes! During the event, special dawning engrams are available from Tess Everis, the loot box vendor who runs the game’s Eververse. The items exclusive to The Dawning event boxes are:A cosmetically-unique legendary armor set for each class. That means that there’s a hard cap on how many event boxes you can earn, and no way to grind for extras. The bulk of the new stuff is contained in loot boxes, the loot boxes remain very expensive and packed with undesirable filler items.

These personal essays will examine the best, most important and weirdest moments that occurred in television, film, comics, streaming and YouTube/Twitch in 2017. Yes, RoyaIn 2017 I can say without equivocation that one of the best comic book stories I read all year was a work of erotica. Miracle as it is about anything else — a comic book for comic book readers. The fact that his Fourth World work was brazenly anti-fascist only helps, though I wish it didn’t. If you want to know why comics peopl

But fear not, friends: We’ve still got some new podcast to listen to while you should be paying attention to your relatives during family dinner. On this week’s episode, we dip back into our sack of emails to answer all of your most pressing questions. The Polygon Show will be available for you to listen to every Friday on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. If you like what you hear, don’t forget to rate and review The Polygon Show on Apple Podcasts — seriously, every little bit helps! Email us at pol

Destiny 2 developer Bungie revived the game’s winter event, The Dawning, this week, seeking to bring some holiday cheer to the cosmos. Generally, during seasonal events in other games — including Overwatch — the event-specific loot boxes replace the ones normally given to players. But those boxes only offer a subset of the full Dawning loot table; the event’s most desirable items, including exotics, are available only in Dawning Engrams. players are limited to three Dawning Engrams per weekThose

Destiny 2 developer Bungie revived the game’s winter event, The Dawning, this week, seeking to bring some holiday cheer to the cosmos. Generally, during seasonal events in other games — including Overwatch — the event-specific loot boxes replace the ones normally given to players. But those boxes only offer a subset of the full Dawning loot table; the event’s most desirable items, including exotics, are available only in Dawning Engrams. players are limited to three Dawning Engrams per weekThose

Hints that Rin, who makes her debut in the upcoming game, is a trans woman have fans concerned that her storyline may not handle representation well. Catherine: Full Body again stars nightmare-prone Vincent, who finds himself torn between — and cheating on — women named Catherine and Katherine. A character named Erica plays a significant part in the storyline, and over the course of the game, there are several clues that she’s a trans woman. Even IF Rin is trans + Vincent IS horrified at surpris

Hints that Rin, who makes her debut in the upcoming game, is a trans woman have fans concerned that her storyline may not handle representation well. Catherine: Full Body again stars nightmare-prone Vincent, who finds himself torn between — and cheating on — women named Catherine and Katherine. A character named Erica plays a significant part in the storyline, and over the course of the game, there are several clues that she’s a trans woman. Even IF Rin is trans + Vincent IS horrified at surpris

Ubisoft studio Red Storm released an update for Star Trek: Bridge Crew this week that removes the requirement that players must have a virtual reality headset in order to play the game. The free update lets Star Trek enthusiasts live out their tactical space command fantasies regardless of whether or not they have PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift or HTC Vive hardware. Star Trek: Bridge Crew’s new update lets VR and non-VR trekkers play cooperatively “seamlessly across all platforms,” Ubisoft and deve