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39 CommentsNo Man's Sky is finally finished
Development on No Man's Sky has finished. Hello Games founder Sean Murray confirmed in a tweet that the game, which hits PlayStation 4 and Windows PC on Aug. 9, has finally gone gold.
"It’s happened," he wrote. "No Man’s Sky just went gold. I’m so incredibly proud of this tiny team. [Four] years of emotions."
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The announcement was anticipated by a cryptic tweet in which Murray claimed that "things were happening." Although some speculated that he was teasing a possible update on No Man’s Sky in virtual reality (or even another delay) seeing the disc in Murray’s hands confirms that the game’s long journey to print has ended.
No Man’s Sky was originally set to launch on June 21, but Hello Games delayed...
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13 CommentsDestiny’s Moments of Triumph are back for a second year
Bungie is bringing back Destiny’s "Moments of Triumph," a group of in-game feats ranging from the perfunctory to the elite, to close out Year Two of the game, the studio announced today.
The news again came on July 7, which is Bungie Day, a holiday of the studio's creation that celebrates the company's fascination with the number 7. This year also marks Bungie’s 25th anniversary, and the studio produced a video of all its games (see below) to celebrate the special occasion.
Bungie introduced the Moments of Triumph a year ago, during Destiny’s inaugural year. Guardians who completed all 10 of the original Moments of Triumph before the debut of Destiny: The Taken King in mid-September received a unique emblem. This time around, Bungie is offering multiple tiers of Moments — each with...
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StarCraft: Ghost: What went wrong
Dig deep into what happened behind the scenes with Blizzard’s canceled StarCraft action game.
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24 CommentsResident Evil 4 hits PS4 and Xbox One in late August
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ports of Resident Evil 4, one of the most acclaimed games of all time, will arrive Aug. 30, publisher Capcom announced today.
That’s a few weeks earlier than expected — when Capcom announced its plans for current-generation versions of Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6, the company said it would release the oldest game’s port this fall.
The other two are already available: Resident Evil 6 launched on PS4 and Xbox One at the end of March, while Resident Evil 5 arrived last week. Like those ports, the current-generation versions of Resident Evil 4 will cost $19.99 in North America, €19.99 in Europe and £15.99 in the U.K.
Resident Evil 4 tells the story of Leon Kennedy’s mission to rescue Ashley Graham, the president’s daughter, who has...
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6 CommentsFinal Fantasy 7 now available on Android
One of the most beloved role-playing games of all time, Final Fantasy 7, is available now on the Google Play store for $15.99.
Android users can now take advantage of the updated features the iOS, PlayStation 4 and Steam versions added to the experience, such as the ability to turn off enemy encounters and a max stats command which immediately brings player characters to their highest levels.
Square Enix's remake of Final Fantasy 7 was announced at Sony's E3 press conference last year. Currently slated as a PlayStation 4 exclusive, the remake will be designed from the ground up by several veterans of the first game like character designer and Kingdom Hearts creator Tetsuya Nomura and writer Kazushige Nojima. As of now, there is no set release date for the remake.
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41 CommentsHere’s everything that’s new in Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age
Fans have a lot of reasons to be excited for Square Enix’s upcoming HD remaster of Final Fantasy 12, not least of all that the massive game hasn’t been widely available since its 2006 release. The publisher released an updated version of the game, titled Final Fantasy 12 International Zodiac Job System, in Japan in 2007, but it was never ported West.
The HD remaster is subtitled The Zodiac Age, and as that suggests, it will be based on the International Zodiac Job System version of the game. Polygon recently had a chance to speak with Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Ageproducer Hiroaki Kato, who walked us through the four major improvements that this version of the game contains.
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Final Fantasy 12 was a difficult game. Kato believes part of this was due to presenting a...
Hands-on with the Battlefield 1 closed alpha
The general vibe amidst the mud and rubble of Battlefield 1's closed alpha this week is highly positive, as you'd expect from a game that enjoyed a good showing at E3, where the shooter impressed attendees and media.
This World War I-themed game follows the essential pattern evolved by developer DICE over its 15 years of making hit shooters, which translates into large battle spaces, lots of vehicles and environmental damage, dubbed "levolution" by Electronic Arts' marketing people. It's all familiar stuff, well-wrought and polished.
Based on this Conquest mode alpha, the Battlefield faithful are happy with how Battlefield 1 is shaping up. Most of the comments I saw during my 10 hours were glowing with praise. You can get a sense of the action from our video stream (below), posted...
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26 CommentsBlizzard releases major hint about Overwatch’s next character (update)
The Overwatch team just posted a major possible hint on Twitter about the next character coming to the hero-based shooter, further supporting player theories that a new sniper-support class is coming to the game.
The tweet shows a new blueprint for a weapon designed by turret master Torbjörn that incorporates the biotic technology used in Mercy’s Caduceus Staff and Soldier: 76’s Biotic Field healing ability. The weapon is a "prototype biotic rifle" that appears to offer its user the ability to heal allies from a distance — and potentially cause damage as well, if Mercy’s concerns are valid.
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26 CommentsThe Witcher 3 is getting a Game of the Year Edition
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developer CD Projekt Red is planning to release a Game of the Year Edition of the open-world action game, the studio confirmed today in a statement to Polygon.
"With all the free DLC and updates the game received so far, including significant changes to the game’s interface and mechanics, many gamers have asked us if we’re working on some sort of a ‘Game of the Year Edition,’" said game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz. "I’m happy to confirm – yes, plans are in motion to release such an edition. We’ll release more details, including the release date, in the future."
The news was first reported by Eurogamer, after a rating for such an edition was spotted on USK, the German ratings board. Citing an anonymous source, Eurogamer reports that The Witcher 3’s Game of...
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155 CommentsDeus Ex: Mankind Divided and the problem of 'mechanical apartheid'
When Square Enix began publicizing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the company used the phrase "mechanical apartheid," to illustrate and market a fictional world in which society is divided by governmental decree.
Apartheid (literally "separateness" in Afrikaans) was the brutal governmental system of political oppression and racial segregation used by white rulers in South Africa throughout much of the last century.
Some have questioned the use of a word like "apartheid" to sell a video game. And with more details of the game's story emerging, it looks like any similarities between its story and actual apartheid are fanciful, at best.
At the time of the game's first trailers in 2015, some objected to this allusion. The writer Austin Walker tweeted, "How might we feel if they called it...
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16 CommentsThe PlayStation Store's Mid-Year Sale's best deals will help you forget 2016 is almost done
The PlayStation Store's Mid-Year Sale heads into its second week with another round of deals. We've gathered up this week's best deals, highlighting below the cheapest, greatest games on sale. They're each a good way to ignore that the point of the sale is that 2016 is, somehow, more than halfway through.
All prices below are those for PlayStation Plus members, who receive an added 10 percent off. The deals are valid until July 12 at 11 a.m. ET.
Tearaway Unfolded (PS4): $7.99 (60 percent off)
Media Molecule revamped the Vita game for Sony's home console in 2015. There's a demo to check out in case you didn't try Tearaway in its handheld incarnation. Either way, expect a cute, inventive platformer.
God of War 3 Remastered (PS4): $7.99 (60 percent off)
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11 CommentsThe Warriors, Rockstar's classic adaptation of the cult film, available now for PS4
The Warriors, Rockstar Games' 2005 adaptation of the 1979 cult film, is now available on PlayStation 4 through the PlayStation Store.
This is not a remaster, but the game — originally launched on PlayStation 2 and Xbox — has full 1080p upscaling, and support for trophies, Remote Play and Share Play. The game was made available for PlayStation 3 over PSN back in 2013.
The Warriors on PS4 is $14.99.
The Warriors is both a prelude and an epilogue to Walter Hill's beloved adventure, recreating key encounters of a New York gang's battle through hostile turf, while embellishing the characters' personality and the context surrounding the film's main story.
The Warriors combines beat-em-up combo gameplay and an action-adventure narrative, with some limited open-world features. Players...
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33 CommentsThe Sonic series’ high point is not a game
Sonic the Hedgehog has been around for 25 years, and in that time the series has produced some totally fine games. Some of them (Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic Colors) even border on being great.
But in 25 years, Sonic has only managed to put forward one true masterpiece, and it’s not a game. We’re talking about "Escape from the City," the true artistic high point of Sega’s life in general and Sonic’s in particular.
[Note: This opinion piece is a collaboration between Allegra Frank and Phil Kollar.]
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To understand why this song qualifies as a masterpiece, you need to know its context. "Escape from the City" is the theme to the opening level of Sonic Adventure 2, the hedgehog’s final outing on Sega Dreamcast. That level is called, appropriately,...
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2 CommentsFIFA 16 patch is coming to fix Ultimate Team's hidden nerfs
EA Sports said Friday that FIFA 16 will soon be patched to address problems that users uncovered in its Ultimate Team mode, wherein the most valuable players and items did not deliver fully on the benefits promised.
"Our work has shown that there appear to be some differences in how fitness and chemistry apply to some [Football Ultimate Team] items," FIFA's community manager wrote.
"Fitness" and "chemistry" are attribute modifiers that Ultimate Team applies to the base ratings of all players in its population. Fitness is a match-to-match assessment that takes into account a player's prior performances and fatigue. Chemistry is where players in the card-collection part of the game can see bonuses to player attributes when they're matched with professional teammates or countrymen (or...
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38 CommentsKickstarter seeing steep decline in money pledged to video games in 2016, says analysis
Crowdfunding for video games on Kickstarter is down sharply for the first six months of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015, suggesting that roughly the same number of video games projects are successfully backed, but at much lower amounts.
Kickstarter backers pledged $8.2 million to video game projects in the first six months of 2016, says ICO Partners, a U.K.-based consultancy specializing in market analysis for online games. Donors pledged more than $20 million to video games in both the first and second halves of 2015. That's despite roughly the same number of projects being successfully funded overall in all three periods.
It's true that Shenmue 3 raised $6 million dollars in a campaign spanning June 15 to July 15, 2015, and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, took in $5.5...
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15 CommentsBlizzard pays tribute in Overwatch to fan killed in tragic accident
The good guys in Overwatch are a group of heroes who band together to protect the world from evil. A new in-game memorial from developer Blizzard Entertainment remembers a Chinese Overwatch fan who died tragically while doing the same.
Wu Hongyu, 20, a student at Guangdong University of Technology in Guangzhou, China, saw someone stealing a classmate's motorcycle on the campus, according to the Guangdong New Express Daily. Wu got on his own bike and attempted to chase the individual, but was severely injured when the two bikes collided; he died from his injuries in a hospital shortly afterward. The police eventually arrested the alleged thief, and the government of Guangzhou posthumously gave Wu a "Courageous Citizen" award for his bravery.
According to a screenshot of a group chat...
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6 CommentsEvo 2016's Street Fighter 5 finals to be televised on ESPN2
The Evolution Championship Series, the long-running annual tournament for fighting games that's better known as Evo, is hitting the big time: The Street Fighter 5 World Championship from the Evo 2016 finals will be broadcast live on ESPN2, the network announced today.
ESPN2's coverage from Evo 2016 will begin at 10 p.m. ET on Sunday, July 17. Interested parties will also be able to watch live via WatchESPN, the network's streaming service.
"The Street Fighter V World Championship will be one of the must-see competitions from the Evo finals," said John Lasker, vice president of programming and acquisitions for ESPN Digital Media, in a statement. "We are always exploring ways to serve the growing and passionate audience of competitive gaming, and we look forward to delivering this event...
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6 CommentsPixies' 'Where Is My Mind?' comes to Rock Band 4 next week
Harmonix is kicking off July's additions to the Rock Band 4 library with "Where Is My Mind?" by Pixies, the studio announced today.
"Where Is My Mind?" is a song so ubiquitous that we're shocked it wasn't already available in the Rock Band library. (Pixies' "Wave of Mutilation" was in the original Rock Band, and the rest of the album Doolittle was released as downloadable content in June 2008.)
Watchers of Mr. Robot and The Leftovers may remember Maxence Cyrin's haunting solo piano cover of "Where Is My Mind" from episodes of those shows last year. But Rock Band 4 doesn't support Rock Band 3's keyboard peripheral, so that song wouldn't work well as current Rock Band DLC.
The other new Rock Band song coming next week is "Lips of an Angel" by Hinder. Both tracks will be released July 5...
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3 CommentsCapcom is well aware of your Resident Evil 7 finger frustrations
The mystery surrounding the dummy finger in Resident Evil 7 biohazard's demo isn't over yet, according to a flier sent out to Resident Evil Ambassadors today.
Several players have taken to Reddit to share the same cryptic message, which includes the teaser below:
Reminiscent of the good ol' P.T. days, Capcom released a Resident Evil 7 playable teaser following the game's reveal at E3. Players flocked to places like Reddit to swap theories and tear the demo apart for clues. What is the ax actually good for? Who's that ghost lady? Is that finger a key, or nah?
Many surmised that the demo itself wasn't meant to be puzzled over in the same way P.T. was, despite it being a stand-alone experience. It would appear, however, that the dummy finger has more of a role to play....
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11 CommentsBlizzard finally fixes Overwatch’s basketball hoop
One of Overwatch’s more captivating activities — punching and shooting the basketballs in the game’s transports while waiting for a round to start — is now out of beta. The latest update to the game finally recognizes when you successfully score a basket.
Prior to the most recent update to Overwatch, tossing a basketball through the game’s basketball hoop was a bit ... anticlimactic. Personal satisfaction from scoring a rare shot was your only reward. But now, landing a two-pointer elicits a burst of confetti and appropriate sound effects.
Here’s a peek at Overwatch’s important new development, captured from a stream from Twitch user AnneMunition:
As part of the basketball hoop patch, Blizzard also released a minor update to Overwatch that adds Competitive Play to the team-based...
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