Month: October 2024

I cannot begin to wrap around my head how the absolutely awful Silent Hill: Ascension has won an Emmy.We all know that Silent Hill: Ascension is a bad “game” right? I put game in air quotes there because it’s hard to call it one, really, when all you got to do was vote on what cutscenes played out. And yet somehow, against all odds, it has won an Emmy. Yes, the same Emmys that give out awards to actually good TV shows as opposed to whatever Ascension actually is. The award it specifically won is for “Outstanding Innovation In Emerging Media Programming” and I don’t know about you, but I don’t think either the word “outstanding” or “innovation” belongs anywhere near that mess of a Silent Hill game.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings I’m not actually su…

We already know Helldivers 2’s upcoming patch will be bringing with it some pretty beefy buffs to the weapons you can wield as a diver, but Arrowhead’s also taking on the task of makinbg certain enemies easier to fight. With that in mind, rocket devastators and gunships are having some extra limits put on their explosive potential.The studio is offering little snippets of the notes for Patch 01.001.007 at the moment, building on what it shared in last week’s blog post and building up to the update dropping on September 17, followed by the Chemical Agents Warbond just a couple of days later.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Arrowhead’s latest update note reveal concerns rocket-toting foes, which have been the subject of some criticism from players, e…

Warning: Spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3, specifically the bits Wyll is involved in or can be present for, lie ahead.Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 7 and the huge array of other post-launch additions and tweaks Larain has made top the game – it’s not quite done either – have fulfilled a lot of the things fans wished were in the base game, or wanted to be improved. However, some Wyll uber-fans don’t reckon the studio did as much for him as it could have, with a couple of modders having now decided to try and rectify that themselves.This isn’t the first instance in the BG3 community of folks taking stock of the situation post Patch 7 and wishing that Larian had done more with an aspect of the game they love. Just the other week, a bunch of Durge mains started petitioning the developer to revamp some c…

Good news, folks who bought God of War Ragnarok’s PC port and were immeditely a bit cheesed off by the PSN account sign-in/linking requirement that’s been a point of contention between Sony and players for a good while now. There’s now a mod that may well be able to help you get around the need to do that.As you might remember, this kind of thing’s been a big talking point around a lot of the PC ports and releases of PlayStation titles we’ve seen this year. Helldivers 2 had a whole review-bombing mess over PSN account linking becoming mandatory on PC, leading that to be walked back. Ghost of Tsushima and God of War Ragnarok have then ended up living under that shadow, with both facing questions and/or negative reviews over how they handled the same kind of thing.To see this content please …

Astro Bot has more cameos than you probably realised there were PlayStation games, but there’s one game that feels conspicuously absent: Final Fantasy 7.I feel like it probably isn’t hyperbole to say that Final Fantasy 7 is the quintessential PS1 game, right? I mean, it’s the second best selling game on the platform throughout its entire time on the market, only beaten out by Gran Turismo (another classic, but even with those sales I doubt most would look back to the PS1 and immediately think of it). Despite how popular a title it was at the time, and how embedded it is into the history of PlayStation, neither hot boy Cloud Strife nor any other Final Fantasy, or Square Enix character as a whole, made it into Team Asobi’s Astro Bot. It’s an odd omission, and one you can only assume is down …

Yo. Do you know someone that’s say, a bit too into true crime stuff, or just likes making replicas of their entire social group/family that eventually end up meeting sticky ends? Well, very carefully wake them up, EA’s just revealed The Sims 4’s next expansion, Life and Death, which’ll let you take on being a Grim Reaper as a job.After teasing this’d be a thing last month when it announced its plans for the Season of To Be Continued, which includes the Reaper’s Rewards Event that kicked off on September 24, the publisher’s now put out a first trailer offering everyone a first look at what the DLC – which’ll be arriving on October 31 to coincide with Halloween – has in store for you and that virtual version of your now former romantic interest that you’ve done unspeakable things to.To see t…

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�…

PaizoAlice 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.While everyone is busy poring over their new $49.99 Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook, I’ll be over here, sitting on a fat, figurative (it’s digital) stack of Pathfinder Second Edition content that costs $15 less. Pathfinder is our favorite alternative to D&D, and right now, you can pick up a bundle that features over 50 rulebooks, adventures, and other extra content for just $35 from Humble.Pathfinder Bundle of the Dead$35$35$35 at HumbleIn addition to boasting the basics, like the Beginner Box, Bestiary, and Gamemastery guide, this bundle includes a generous helping of content from the Lost Omens campa…