Month: October 2024

Bungie has announced that starting in 2025, it’ll be switching to offering two “medium-sized” expansions for Destiny 2 per year, rather than the annual expansions it’d previously constructed its plans around. Why? Well, according the game’s director, things were getting “too rigid” and feel a bit “formulaic” in terms of these add-ons.This change comes not long after The Final Shape arrived to a pretty favourable reception back in June, but was subsequently followed by Bungie laying off 220 staff amid some other big changes. The cuts were reportedly in the works long before that expansion arrived and couldn’t have been prevented even if it had blown away all expectations, with Bungie asserting that it was still “committed to Destiny” after them.To see this content please enable targeting co…

Arrowhead added a couple of extra bullet points to the list of changes we know are coming as part of Helldivers 2’s big patch tomorrow over the weekend. The big one? The eruptor’s finally getting its shrapnel back, and hopefully in a form that should make you less likely to accidentally do yourself in when you fire it.That’s just one of the little snippets of the notes for Patch 01.001.007 Arrowhead’s shared, as it continues to build to the update dropping on September 17, followed by the Chemical Agents Warbond just a couple of days later. If you need to catch up, there’ve already been tweaks revealed for the likes of flamethrowers, the railgun, and rocket-toting enemies.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Arrowhead’s latest update note reveals centr…

An RGG Summit that’ll likely offer an inkling of what’s coming next for the Like A Dragon series is set to air today, September 20, and you can watch it here.This follows plenty of speculation, especially since RGG had previously said it’d be announcing the next game in the LAD/Yakuza saga at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, and a mobile spin-off called Yakuza Wars seemigly recently had its existence confirmed via a Facebook page.RGG Summit 2024 Watch on YouTubeYou’ll be able to watch today’s RGG Summit right above this text, once it goes live at 11AM BST/6AM ET/3AM PT on September 20. All you’ll have to do is click play right there, and you’ll have all the stuff about tough lads in suits who really love karaoke and getting up to shenangians blasted into your eyeballs.As to what to expect, the…

You there. Have you got a minute? Did you stay up for September 24’s State of Play broadcast from Playstation – the one that took place last night UK time? Well, Xbox has now let everyone know which of the games we saw at it are currently pencielled in to also be dropping on its platform, and if you’ll just stop trying to walk through me, I can give you a quick roundup of the other big news from the show too.Ok, ok, I’ll get to the point and start with those confirmed Xbox games, which the console maker shouted about via a handy tweet. Yep, just a big tweet that goes ‘these things, they’re a coming on over to greenville’.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Here’s the list, which includes some games you probably already know would be an Xbox thing too,…

Blizzard reportedly had adaptations of Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft in the works with Netflix prior to it filing a lawsuit against the streaming giant in 2020.This is according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, who’s still in the midst of promoting his upcoming book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, and has moved on from appearing on podcasts to hosting Reddit AMAs.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As part of the latter on r/wow, Schreier was asked by one fan “Any insights into why Blizzard hasn’t branched out into Movies/TV/animation? Yeah the 2016 Warcraft film happened.. but It seems strange how in the 20+ years of WoW and an even longer history of Blizzard’s story heavy IPs they’ve been incredibly light on expandi…

If you’ve been on the Silent Hill 2 Remake Wikipedia page recently and noticed the review scores seem a bit low, that’s because someone’s been tampering with them.Against all odds, the Silent Hill 2 Remake has been reviewing quite well. There are plenty who feel surprised by that fact, some reviewers included, but look, if the game’s good the game’s good. I’ve not had a chance to go hands-on with it myself yet, so I can’t offer you my opinion, but clearly there are some that are desperate to show theirs. As spotted by Eurogamer, it appears that someone (or perhaps someones) has been editing the Silent Hill 2 Remake’s Wikipedia page to give the game impossibly low review scores – nowhere gives games a zero, people – but it isn’t really clear why.Seriously? Trolls can’t handle SH2R’s success…

Toei Animation announced today that One Piece is taking a break from the Egghead Arc until next year, but you’ll still have some anime to keep you going.It’s rare that the One Piece anime takes a particularly long break, but after a long uninterrupted stretch of episodes, it’s finally taking one. As announced by Toei Animation earlier today, the anime is on break until April 2025, a full half a year, and during a One Piece News special, it’s apparently so the team can “recharge”, an understandable reason given how hard the anime has been going over the past year. I wouldn’t worry too much though, as Toei has also announced that you’ll still have some One Piece anime to keep you going, it’s just some anime you will have seen before. 📢 The Egghead Arc is now on break and will resume in Ap…

VariousThere are so many ways to be a Dungeons & Dragons fan these days. The tabletop RPG mainstay has been synonymous with pen-and-paper adventuring for 50 years now, and 2024 marks a major reworking of its core rulebooks to make the game more approachable. Anyone who’s played even just a couple of sessions knows how easy it can be to covet a friend’s set of custom dice, appreciate the care a Dungeon Master has taken in setting the right ambience for a crafted campaign, or even obsess over their choice of pen and notebook — after all, it’s what you’ll be spending a large chunk of time staring into as you ponder your character’s next heroic action.But what’s amazing is that you can be a huge D&D fan without ever touching a character sheet. D&D and the Forgotten R…

Traveller’s TalesAlice Jovanée (she/her) is a commerce writer, and she has been writing about gaming and tech since 2005. Prior to Polygon, she worked at publications such as The Verge.Regardless of how you feel about the current season of Rings of Power, if you’re looking for another way to satiate your Tolkien love you’ll definitely want to check out the current catalog of free games available to Amazon Prime members. Earlier this month, both Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY Edition, and Lego The Lord of the Rings were made available to Amazon Prime members for free through Sept. 30. However, you can now also pick up Lego The Hobbit for free through Oct. 23. Just head to the corresponding Prime Gaming page and you’ll be presented with a code that you can redeem on GOG.com fo…

Nintendo of AmericaCameron Faulkner (he/him) is Polygon’s commerce editor. He began writing about tech and gaming in 2013, and migrated from The Verge in 2023.One of the best unofficial October Prime Day deals has come early at Woot, where you can get a new Nintendo Switch OLED with either white or neon blue/red Joy-Con for $299.99 ($50 off). It’s not typical for this console to receive any kind of discount, so we’re usually skeptical that there’s something amiss when one pops up, like an iffy warranty, or that it isn’t the U.S. version, which includes a different power adapter. However, there are no strings attached; you’re just getting a great deal.Nintendo Switch OLED$300$35014% off$300Nintendo’s hybrid console still has plenty of staying power, especially with this year�…