I pulled the duvet over my head, and thought about how I needed to spend the day playing a game — any game — that might ease my anxiety. Foundation from developer Polymorph is an early access game about setting up and maintaining a peaceful, prosperous medieval town. There is no conquest in this game, no complex hierarchy of soldiery to be upgraded, no acts of imperial violence. The building themselves, and the detail of them, have a lovely European medieval feel of rough-hewn rocks and wonky ch

No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games released another trailer for its new update to space-faring adventure No Man’s Sky on Thursday. Called Beyond, the three-pronged update is due for free release on Aug. 12 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One, as well as virtual reality platforms. The new trailer follows a teaser video released last week, though this time there are plenty of visual clues that augment information already known. Beyond will also include a VR release for Oculus Rift, PlayStat

Ever needed to do your homework while also playing video games at the same time? Super Mario Maker 2 is here to help. If this sounds familiar, you might be thinking of the calculator built in the first Mario Maker, back in 2016 — except this time around, Mario Maker 2’s calculator has increased number-crunching capabilities. Mind, after you input your choices, Mario Maker 2 takes a few minutes to provide an answer. During this time, you travel through the computer that is doing the calculations,

Konami announced the final final lineup for its TurboGrafx-16 mini retro console on Thursday, bringing the total list of games from 50 to 57. The seven newly confirmed games includes TurboGrafx-16 horror beat-’em-up Splatterhouse and Japanese-language PC Engine arcade shooters like Dragon Spirit and Galaga ’88. Here’s the list of new additions coming to the TurboGrafx-16 mini (and PC Engine mini for Japan):Seirei Senshi Spriggan (PC Engine)Spriggan Mark 2 (PC Engine)Dragon Spirit (PC Engine)Gala

The team over at Genki is Kickstarting a new project for Nintendo Switch: a portable dock. The current Nintendo Switch dock is clunky and isn’t that great if you want to travel with your console. Genki is offering a simple charging brick that also serves as a dock for the Switch. While the HDMI cable doesn’t seem to be included, the USB-C cable is included with the base pledge of $59. The team at Genki is also known for their USB-C Bluetooth adapter made for the Nintendo Switch, so players could

Sega’s HD remaster of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz — originally released for Wii in 2006 — will do away with the motion control of the original in favor of “tightened analog controls” that have been optimized for each platform, Sega said in a press release today. When Banana Blitz was released for Wii, the game was criticized for its reliance on motion controls via the Wii Remote, giving the already challenging Super Monkey Ball gameplay an even more difficult learning curve. New gameplay foo

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Yuke’s Co. is no longer developing WWE video games. “We thank Yuke’s for their years of partnership and are excited to see what the Visual Concepts team brings to the franchise moving forward,” 2K said in a statement to Polygon. The news was first reported Tuesday by Video Games Chronicle. Her company has made professional wrestling video games for four generations of consoles going back to 1995; its history with the WWE dates to 2000’s WWF SmackDown! WWE 2K20, developed by Novato, California-ba

All three major console manufacturers — Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony — have agreed to require games with paid loot boxes to include the chances of winning randomized in-game items from them, the Entertainment Software Association announced Wednesday. Michael Warnecke, the ESA’s chief counsel of tech policy, made the announcement during a workshop on loot boxes hosted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. “I’m pleased to announce this morning that Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have indicated to

That’s because the prequel was released just last week, in the form of a pen-and-paper RPG system called Cyberpunk Red. Polygon was given early access to the Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit, a starter set from the universe’s original creators at R. Talsorian Games. At the core of the Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit is a slim volume called the World Book. Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit demands more from the group that comes together around the table. Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit is available online via Drive

This story is part of a group of stories calledTess Everis is the owner and operator of the Eververse store in Destiny 2. Each week, Tess sells a new inventory of items for Bright Dust, the currency you earn just from playing Destiny 2. She also rotates a grouping of items for Silver, the game’s real-money currency. You can always find Tess in the Tower, standing next to the postmaster. Bright Dust shopHere is Tess’ Bright Dust offerings for this week.

That word is “cringe,” and competitive Overwatch fans need to reevaluate how we use that term. I’m referring to something like the face-melting embarrassment we all felt watching DJ Khaled aggressively footsie himself on the Overwatch League Grand Finals stage. Compared to DJ Khaled, calling what Hangzhou Spark’s introductory montage (or any other slightly awkward pose or interview moment from the Overwatch League, really) “cringe” feels inaccurate. These performances comes with being in an Over

Outside of his ultimate, Sigma doesn’t have any movement abilities to help him traverse the battlefield. Sigma’s ultimate, Gravitic Flux, also counters bunched team compositions. Sigma is going to wreak havoc on team compositions that want to stay as close together as possible. It’s also important to note that once a hero is affected by Sigma’s ultimate, very little can interrupt its effects. Sigma’s ability to zone and control areas of the map means he’ll be difficult to flank.

There comes a point in Fire Emblem: Three Houses when players are asked to participate in the White Heron Cup, a dance competition involving all three houses. Twitter user HangryEli, for example, picked Felix “because he hated it AND he excelled at it,” they said. There have also been male dancers in Fire Emblem Heroes.) Dancers wear a free-flowing costume, and they twirl about in battle, like so:dimtiri fire emblem as a dancer is the only thing i need pic.twitter.com/lLuVyeboij — ☆ @ dimitri fi

This weekend saw the end of the penultimate season of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. We now know the answer answer Coulson is going to be a Life Model Decoy, or LMD, in season seven. That’s right: for its last adventure SHIELD is going back, back to the past. The Coulson LMD was killed when May’s LMD had an existential crisis and blew the two of them up. What’ll happen next for this new Coulson LMD will have to wait until Agents of SHIELD returns for its seventh and final season next summer.

Developer Arc System Works is making a new, untitled Guilty Gear game. The new Guilty Gear will be released sometime in 2020, according to a teaser trailer shown at Evo 2019 on Sunday. The teaser appears to hint at one new feature coming to the next Guilty Gear: stage transitions. The most recent entry in the Guilty Gear franchise is Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator, which was released in 2016 and received a major update, Rev 2, in 2017. That game is based on the 2014 release, Guilty Gear Xrd Sign.

And, like some Republican leaders who discussed the issue over the weekend, the president partially placed the blame on video games. “This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. Trump’s comments about video games follow a wider trend among top Republican leadership, who have recently used video games as a scapegoat for mass shootings. Dan Patrick both made comments this weekend that mentioned video games as a factor contributing to mass shootings. “The video games

At Evo 2019, Bandai Namco revealed first details about season 3, revealing that Tekken 6’s ancient martial artist Zafina will return for Tekken 7, and that the game is getting a brand-new fighter, Leroy Smith. But perhaps the biggest reveal was a teaser video that hinted that Metal Gear Solid’s Snake might be coming to Tekken. Bandai Namco has locked down some impressive guest characters, with Street Fighter’s Akuma, Final Fantasy 15’s Noctis, and The Walking Dead’s Negan appearing as Tekken 7 f

Bandai Namco confirmed two new characters coming to Soulcalibur 6: series veteran Cassandra Alexandra and Haohmaru from SNK’s Samurai Shodown franchise. The two characters and a second season of downloadable content were announced on Sunday at the Evo 2019 grand finals. Cassandra, the younger sister of Soulcalibur fighter Sophitia, first appeared in the weapons-based fighting game series in Soulcalibur 2. Soulcalibur 6 is also getting a second season of content, which will include four additiona