The final moments of Jeopardy! are always riddled with anxiety, as contestants risk their winnings on just one last clue. Tuesday night’s Final Jeopardy was especially anxious, and for Pokémon fans in particular — players had to stake their earnings on a clue about the Nintendo franchise. The corresponding question should technically be “What is Pokémon Red and Green?” but Trebek would go on to allow a much more generic Pokémon. Only one person, Matt Preston of Alabama, answered correctly, and w

But it can only make money if it created and sold video games that people wanted to buy and continue to play. It has spectacularly failed to do so in the case of Star Wars Battlefront 2. It’s impossible to conceive that the game’s economy, which was horrid in the beta and upgraded itself into merely terrible during a series of emergency changes, was ever thought of as the most fun option possible. You can’t even pay real money for loot boxes anymore, and it still feels like a racket. Battlefront

This week, we’re running a big list of what we — and a group of trusted friends — recently voted as the 500 best video games of all time. Tennis for Two(1958, custom)Tennis for Two was one of the first video games ever developed. It wasn’t my gateway into video games, or to the gaming community. Mini Metro(2015, PC, others)Leave it to video games to make rapid transit planning a fun way to spend an afternoon. The game’s combat and stealth proved influential and made Arkham Asylum one of the grea

It’s the first single-player, first-person action game to be published in the BattleTech universe in 15 years. In part two, you’ll hear the latest on BattleTech, the third-person tactical strategy game from Harebrained Schemes. 2018 is shaping up to be the year of BattleTech, so here’s what every MechWarrior needs to know before they drop in. Know when to walk awayThe BattleTech tabletop game has been around for more than 30 years. Piranha GamesPiranha GamesPiranha GamesPiranha GamesPiranha Game

In the wake of the social media conversation, Cebulski admitted to Bleeding Cool that he was in fact Akira Yoshida. Cebulski only wrote a handful of comics as Akira Yoshida, but many of them featured Japanese characters, locations and culture heavily. Perhaps most troubling, Cebulski is credited as one of two editors on an X-Men: Age of Apocalypse one-shot that featured a story by Akira Yoshida. His full statement reads:“I stopped writing under the pseudonym Akira Yoshida after about a year. Upd

The first full trailer for Avengers: Infinity War focuses heavily on its heroes — and no wonder, there are approximately one million of them. Given that, they may well have a less creepy set of powers in Avengers: Infinity War. The Children of ThanosThat blue-faced lady who throws a fancy spear at Captain America is Proxima Midnight (I know, right? ), one of the Children of Thanos, and we’ve actually seen her before. In comics, she looks not dissimilar:The Children of Thanos consist of Proxima a

After successfully rebooting the Shadowrun franchise, the pair have teamed up with game director Mike McCain for BattleTech, a turn-based take on the classic third-person ‘Mech combat genre. “I think there’s something really raw and gritty about this period of BattleTech history,” Gitelman said. Harebrained SchemesHarebrained SchemesHarebrained SchemesHarebrained SchemesHarebrained SchemesHarebrained SchemesHarebrained Schemes“Fairly early into the game,” McCain said, “you come into possession o

Star Citizen, the ambitious collection of spacefaring games from Chris Roberts and his team at Cloud Imperium Games (CIG), is now offering backers the opportunity to buy plots of virtual land. “These claim licenses are being made available for pledging to help fund Star Citizen’s development,” CIG said on its storefront page. Pledging for these claim licenses now allows us to include deeper features in the Star Citizen game, and is not required for starting the game.”In a video released late yes

The final batch of games offered to PlayStation Plus subscribers this year includes Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition and, more importantly, Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends. Both Darksiders 2 and Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends will be available for PlayStation 4 owners to download. Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends is a Smash Bros.-like fighting game in which four players duke it out as protagonist panda Po and all those other anthropomorphic animals you lo

The final batch of games offered to PlayStation Plus subscribers this year includes Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition and, more importantly, Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends. Both Darksiders 2 and Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends will be available for PlayStation 4 owners to download. Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends is a Smash Bros.-like fighting game in which four players duke it out as protagonist panda Po and all those other anthropomorphic animals you lo

A monthlong slide in Electronic Arts’ stock price, which mainstream financial press has attributed to the Star Wars Battlefront 2 loot box controversy, has caught the company’s attention, and is likely to spur changes to EA’s microtransactions approach. And, it must be said, EA’s stock price today is still almost $25 above what it was a year ago. Pachter noted that EA’s stock price drop comes as major competitors’ shares have gone up, and the overall market is up. “Clearly, investors are voicing

A monthlong slide in Electronic Arts’ stock price, which mainstream financial press has attributed to the Star Wars Battlefront 2 loot box controversy, has caught the company’s attention, and is likely to spur changes to EA’s microtransactions approach. And, it must be said, EA’s stock price today is still almost $25 above what it was a year ago. Pachter noted that EA’s stock price drop comes as major competitors’ shares have gone up, and the overall market is up. “Clearly, investors are voicing

A dataminer with a history of digging up Star Wars Battlefront leaks has found what appears to be a character customization menu within the PC version of the game. The menu was discovered by a Redditor named uninspired_zebra, who apparently is combing through files in the PC version of the game. Polygon also reached out to an Electronic Arts representative to inquire when customization options would be coming to the game. Character customization was a part of 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront but not

A dataminer with a history of digging up Star Wars Battlefront leaks has found what appears to be a character customization menu within the PC version of the game. The menu was discovered by a Redditor named uninspired_zebra, who apparently is combing through files in the PC version of the game. Polygon also reached out to an Electronic Arts representative to inquire when customization options would be coming to the game. Character customization was a part of 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront but not

Square Enix will release an update for Final Fantasy 15 soon that will give players the ability to play the main game not just as Noctis, but as Ignis, Gladio and Prompto too. During an “Active Time Report” stream broadcast earlier today, Square Enix celebrated Final Fantasy 15’s one-year anniversary and talked about what’s still to come. That new feature is expected to hit around the same time as Episode Ignis, the story-based downloadable content that focuses on Ignis and drops on Dec. 13. Epi

Square Enix will release an update for Final Fantasy 15 soon that will give players the ability to play the main game not just as Noctis, but as Ignis, Gladio and Prompto too. During an “Active Time Report” stream broadcast earlier today, Square Enix celebrated Final Fantasy 15’s one-year anniversary and talked about what’s still to come. That new feature is expected to hit around the same time as Episode Ignis, the story-based downloadable content that focuses on Ignis and drops on Dec. 13. Epi

The community recently realized that Destiny 2 was misleading players about the amount of experience points they were earning. Legendary shards will also be the currency for purchasing a new consumable that grants increased rewards for strikes or Crucible matches. One of the biggest changes in Destiny 2’s Dec. 12 patch is the arrival of a new weapon tier, Masterwork. In addition to detailing Destiny 2’s two December updates, Bungie laid out plans for 2018. The studio also promised to keep player

The community recently realized that Destiny 2 was misleading players about the amount of experience points they were earning. Legendary shards will also be the currency for purchasing a new consumable that grants increased rewards for strikes or Crucible matches. One of the biggest changes in Destiny 2’s Dec. 12 patch is the arrival of a new weapon tier, Masterwork. In addition to detailing Destiny 2’s two December updates, Bungie laid out plans for 2018. The studio also promised to keep player

We’ve seen two recent announcements of surprising guest characters appearing in popular fighting games, and the fans have been … vocal. The dramatic character reveal is a big part of how fighting games are marketed, and guest characters are becoming the rule rather than the exception. It isn’t just Akuma and Geese, the guests from 2D fighting games, who are throwing around fireballs. Guest characters are good for the genrePutting the fit aside, guest characters — especially the big surprises —

After months of teasing the third installment in the Avengers franchise — and the first part of the current Marvel Cinematic Universe finale — Marvel has released its first public trailer for Avengers: Infinity War. Marvel brought out a number of its Avengers: Infinity War actors to debut the footage, at both D23 and SDCC, but that footage was never officially released. Prior to the trailer, Marvel debuted a behind-the-scenes featurette for Infinity War in February. We learned that Infinity War