Making PUBG run on the Xbox One platform at all, complete with its elegant new control scheme, had to have been a challenge. That all being said, playing the game on the Xbox One X is a delight if you have your expectations managed properly. It feels like you’re playing on a high-end PC, and the HDR support is a nice visual advantage. I had plenty of fun in my first few matches once I got over the initial disappointment about the game’s performance, however. Update: Digital Foundry has weighed i

Resident Evil 7 biohazard is one of Polygon’s favorite games of 2017. The gist: Resident Evil 7 is an encapsulation of the Resident Evil franchise as a whole. The series has gone through evolution after evolution since its debut more than 20 years ago, some great, some not-so-great. Resident Evil 7 is hard proof that Capcom has learned from its years of experimentation to figure out what makes the series work best. For the rest of Polygon’s Game of the Year 2017 coverage, check out our dedicated

Here is a short list of bizarre things that never would have worked for Microsoft or Sony, but that Nintendo made look easy. Then Nintendo stopped making the damned things, because why make money by selling something when you can enrage your fanbase instead? This year, Nintendo proved them wrong with Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem making big splashes on iOS and Android. Nintendo knew the idea was good however, and returned to the same concept with the Nintendo Switch, untethering the tablet fro

Here is a short list of bizarre things that never would have worked for Microsoft or Sony, but that Nintendo made look easy. Then Nintendo stopped making the damned things, because why make money by selling something when you can enrage your fanbase instead? This year, Nintendo proved them wrong with Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem making big splashes on iOS and Android. Nintendo knew the idea was good however, and returned to the same concept with the Nintendo Switch, untethering the tablet fro

Less than a month after its Netflix debut, Marvel’s The Punisher has been renewed. “He’s just getting started. The Punisher will return for Season 2,” read a characteristically terse post on the show’s Facebook page, accompanied by a brief video:He’s just getting started. Posted by Marvel’s The Punisher on Tuesday, December 12, 2017The Punisher’s first season picked up where the character was left after his introduction in the second season of Daredevil. Not much is known about where a second se

The Boss Baby is one of 2017’s most underrated movies, but the Golden Globe nominee is getting its due with a new, companion TV series on Netflix. Netflix announced today it had ordered an animated series based on The Boss Baby, called The Boss Baby: Back in Business. The original She-Ra was a syndicated counterpart to the popular He-Man cartoon series, running on UHF TV stations in the mid-1980s. Descriptions of other series Netflix has ordered — six in total — can be read below. Harvey Street

For Winter Wonderland 2017, Blizzard is bringing back last year’s skins — Rudolph Roadhog, Nutcracker Zenyatta, Jingle Tracer, etc. Grid View Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2017 Blizzard EntertainmentOverwatch Winter Wonderland 2017 Blizzard EntertainmentOverwatch Winter Wonderland 2017 Blizzard EntertainmentOverwatch Winter Wonderland 2017 Blizzard EntertainmentOverwatch Winter Wonderland 2017 Blizzard EntertainmentOverwatch Winter Wonderland 2017 Blizzard EntertainmentOverwatch Winter Wonderland

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Geoff Keighley had a hunch that this year’s Game Awards would see a bump in viewership, following last year’s successful show. “There are probably a lot of factors at play,” Keighley told Polygon of the ceremony’s ratings success. And The Game Awards had plenty of them this year, from Bayonetta 3 to a mysterious project by FromSoftware. But the thing to keep in mind is that The Game Awards is an awards show, not another E3 keynote, he explained. The Game Awards are distinct and successful on the

Geoff Keighley had a hunch that this year’s Game Awards would see a bump in viewership, following last year’s successful show. “There are probably a lot of factors at play,” Keighley told Polygon of the ceremony’s ratings success. And The Game Awards had plenty of them this year, from Bayonetta 3 to a mysterious project by FromSoftware. But the thing to keep in mind is that The Game Awards is an awards show, not another E3 keynote, he explained. The Game Awards are distinct and successful on the

Resident Evil 7 biohazard is one of Polygon’s favorite games of 2017. The gist: Resident Evil 7 is an encapsulation of the Resident Evil franchise as a whole. The series has gone through evolution after evolution since its debut more than 20 years ago, some great, some not-so-great. Resident Evil 7 is hard proof that Capcom has learned from its years of experimentation to figure out what makes the series work best. For the rest of Polygon’s Game of the Year 2017 coverage, check out our dedicated

I had deep reservations about the port of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds for Xbox One, but after a long night on the couch I’m a believer. The secret to Battlegrounds’ success on Xbox One is its controller support. The movement and inventory systems have been carried over in their entirety to the Xbox controller. No more pecking at the WASD keys to get your nose pointed in the right direction, as the analog sticks on the Xbox controller were literally made for this. Battlegrounds’ port is an achi

I had deep reservations about the port of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds for Xbox One, but after a long night on the couch I’m a believer. The secret to Battlegrounds’ success on Xbox One is its controller support. The movement and inventory systems have been carried over in their entirety to the Xbox controller. No more pecking at the WASD keys to get your nose pointed in the right direction, as the analog sticks on the Xbox controller were literally made for this. Battlegrounds’ port is an achi

Hearthstone got much pricier in 2017Blizzard used to release a new batch of Hearthstone cards every four months. Hearthstone cards can be common, rare, epic or legendary. The only use for duplicate cards in Hearthstone is to destroy them to create dust, a currency that is used to craft new cards. It costs 1,600 dust to craft a legendary card, but a duplicate only yields 400 dust when destroyed. That isn’t guesswork, here is how I arrived at my numbers:Players who spend a lot of money on Hearthst

I’d always kind of sensed that Nier fans were intense, but at this year’s Tokyo Game Show I had a chance to see it up-close. On the first day of the show, I met with Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro in a hotel across the street, doing some research for an upcoming story. GAME OF THE YEAR 2017#4: Nier: AutomataFor Game of the Year 2017 , Polygon will be counting down our top 10 each weekday, beginning on Dec. 4. Previously: #5 – Resident Evil 7Still, as an onlooker watching this unfold, it drove

Playing the game on an Xbox One X connected to a 4K display, for me, showed a graphical improvement from the experience on my middling gaming PC running a GTX 970 graphics card. Making PUBG run on the Xbox One platform at all, complete with its elegant new control scheme, had to have been a challenge. That all being said, playing the game on the Xbox One X is a delight if you have your expectations managed properly. I had plenty of fun in my first few matches once I got over the initial disappoi

Disney and 21st Century Fox are expected to close a deal this week giving Disney ownership over Fox’s TV and film properties. This means Disney will own the rights to certain Marvel franchises, such as The X-Men, Deadpool and The Fantastic Four. Both Deadpool and Logan benefited from the creative freedom to explore adult topics and use vulgar language, which many Marvel movies by definition can not. There are a few actors, however, who are more than happy to see if the deal can reunite friends o

A Japanese trailer for Disney and Marvel Studios’ upcoming Black Panther expands on the rivalry between T’Challa and Erik Killmonger. The trailer, which can be seen in the tweet below, sets up the battle for the throne. T’Challa, better known as Black Panther, doesn’t share Killmonger’s emotional stance, and instead chooses to try a more diplomatic approach. We know that Killmonger, whose actual name is N’Jadaka, previously competed as an exiled outsider for the Wakandan throne. There are a coup

A Japanese trailer for Disney and Marvel Studios’ upcoming Black Panther expands on the rivalry between T’Challa and Erik Killmonger. The trailer, which can be seen in the tweet below, sets up the battle for the throne. T’Challa, better known as Black Panther, doesn’t share Killmonger’s emotional stance, and instead chooses to try a more diplomatic approach. We know that Killmonger, whose actual name is N’Jadaka, previously competed as an exiled outsider for the Wakandan throne. There are a coup

The chief complaint against Star Wars: The Force Awakens was that it reveled too much in its own past, repeating the themes and dynamics of the Star Wars franchise too closely. With good ideas, it turns out, and good acting and good writing and good direction and, most of all, good humor. The Last Jedi might be, scene for scene, the Star Wars movie that attempts the most jokes. Yes, it’s safe to assume this deft tone blending got Rian Johnson the job of helming an entire new Star Wars trilogy. T