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8 CommentsGrand Theft Auto 5 tops 75 million units shipped
Rockstar Games has shipped more than 75 million copies of Grand Theft Auto 5 worldwide, parent company Take-Two Interactive announced today.
The news came in an investor release for the third quarter of Take-Two’s 2017 fiscal year, which ends March 31; the third quarter ran from October-December 2016. The company’s most recent update on GTA 5 sales came in early November, when it said it had shipped over 70 million units. That means that Rockstar shipped approximately 5 million more copies of the game in the past three months, and about 15 million over the past year.
Take-Two said that both GTA 5 and its online component, Grand Theft Auto Online, have surpassed expectations in “every quarter since their release.” Rockstar originally released the game on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in...
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12 CommentsPlayStation Plus lineup for February includes LittleBigPlanet 3
PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive a slate of free games in February that includes the creation-focused co-op adventure LittleBigPlanet 3 and the pixelated shooter Not a Hero, Sony announced today.
LittleBigPlanet 3, which launched in 2014, was the first entry in the franchise to not be developed by series creator Media Molecule; it was made by Sumo Digital. Although the game was released on both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, it’s not a cross-buy title, so only the PS4 version is free this month on PlayStation Plus.
Roll7’s Not a Hero debuted in 2015 on Android and PC, and was released on PS4 and Xbox One last year. It’s one of the other four PS4 games for February. Breakfall’s Starwhal and the Extended Edition of Dreampainters Software’s Anna are the two free PS3 titles,...
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3 CommentsGrand Theft Auto Online character transfers end in March
If, for some reason, you still have and still are playing a character on Grand Theft Auto Online on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, you have a little more than one month to transfer that progress to the current console generation.
Rockstar Games announced the March 6 deadline along with its latest promotions and special events within GTA Online. Progress transfer — within a console family only — began after Grand Theft Auto 5 launched on the current console generation in 2014.
Updates and support for Grand Theft Auto Online on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 ended in 2015.
Those playing on the current generation can enjoy some steep discounts on in-game gear and bonus XP events from Feb. 1 to Feb. 13 in a variety of GTA Online game modes. Rockstar Newswire has more details.
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44 CommentsVideo game releases for February 2017
Here are some of the big video game releases for the month of February 2017. Be sure to check out the list we put together of our most anticipated games of 2017 and subscribe to Polygon's YouTube channel for tons of gaming videos. Also, here are the free games you get with your Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus subscriptions this month. Additionally, here's what is coming to your favorite video streaming services and here's what is leaving in February.
What are you looking forward to playing? Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Note: This is not a comprehensive list of releases and only games with specific dates are listed below. Some games are announced for February but have no firm release date.
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Fire Emblem Heroes (Android and iOS) — In...
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33 CommentsPlayStation Store flash sale has a bunch of games for under $5
Sony is holding a flash sale on the PlayStation Store this weekend, with more than 150 games for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita on sale for less than $5. The sale also includes nearly 80 movies to buy or rent at deep discounts.
There are some good deals on games you may have missed out on, like the Definitive Editions of Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs. And while it may not have been received well critically, $4.99 for The Order: 1886 certainly makes that very brief game a little easier to justify.
Here are some of the highlights from the sale. Note that some of the PS3 titles are cross-buy compatible with PlayStation Vita.
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Dark Cloud 2 - $4.94
Goat Simulator - $3.99
Hitman Go: Definitive Edition - $3.19
Injustice: Gods Among Us - $4.99
Limbo - $3.99
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3 CommentsSkyrim helped me fix my relationship with food
Roast chickens, venison stew, apple dumplings, cabbages … these are the items that fill my Skyrim character’s bloated pouches. Though certainly not the most efficient way to play, I’ve always opted out of purchasing potions to restore health — although I’d certainly use them if I had them — and instead turned toward the stuff that’s lying around everywhere: food. Found scraps of food in Skyrim are a cheap way to keep health up, although you’re going to need lots of it to heal completely.
And I had loads of it. Food is power in Skyrim, whether it’s boar meat stripped right from the bone or a pile of cheese wheels stolen from the vendor next door.
This didn’t extend to my own reality. My body was shriveled, and my bones were as brittle as ice at the dawn of spring. Anorexia plagued me...
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3 CommentsPersona 5 trailer offers new glimpse of stylish adventuring
Atlus has released a smart new trailer for PlayStation 4 adventuring role-playing game Persona 5.
The stylish slice of marketing shows teenage protagonists exploring palaces and fighting with enemies, while making use of their combat personas. A pretty graphical overlay gives the whole thing an extra zing.
In Persona 5, players take on the lives of youngsters who go about ordinary lives in modern day Tokyo, but who also journey to a fantasy realm on a magical treasure hunt. Released in Japan last year, it's due out in the rest of the world on April 4.
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10 CommentsGuilty Gear’s newest fighter is a ninja businessman
Arc System Works will release a new version of Guilty Gear Xrd — the fighting game’s third iteration — called Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 this spring in arcades and later on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC.
The biggest additions to Guilty Gear Xrd are two new characters: Answer and Baiken.
As seen in the announcement trailer released by Arc System Works this weekend, Answer is a “business ninja” who emerges from hiding to take important phone calls. He also uses business cards bearing his contact details as projectiles in battle. Like any respectable video game ninja, he also boasts an izuna drop as part of his moveset.
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2’s other new fighter is Baiken, a longtime series staple. She appeared in the original Guilty Gear released way back in 1998.
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19 CommentsUncharted movie has a script, writer boasts it’s a ‘beast’
The Uncharted movie has a script, at last, possibly clearing the way for filming to begin this spring on the oft-delayed project.
Joe Carnahan (The A-Team) posted an image of its title page yesterday to Instagram, calling it "monstrously cool" and "a BEAST." Carnahan was brought aboard this summer to take a crack at an Uncharted adaptation, which has been chewed over since 2009.
Done and Dusted. Now the REAL work begins. If there's a more monstrously cool action script in Hollywood right now, I wanna read it, 'cuz this thing is a BEAST. A photo posted by Joe Carnahan (@carnojoe) on Jan 7, 2017 at 1:28pm PST
Sony and producers Avi and Ari Arad have gone through at least three potential directors and two writing teams since then, and was supposed to begin filming in 2015. The...
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10 CommentsPlatinum’s Ninja Turtles game pulled from digital stores after less than a year
PlatinumGames’ poorly received action game based on the Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan, is no longer for sale digitally. The game appears to have been pulled from all digital retailers less than eight months after it first went on sale.
Mutants in Manhattan was released on May 24, 2016 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. As of this week, the game is no longer listed or available for sale on the PlayStation Store, Steam or Xbox Games Store. The game is not available digitally through the Humble Store or Amazon, though physical copies of Mutants in Manhattan are still available for purchase from the latter retailer.
It’s not clear why Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan was unceremoniously delisted digitally, but...
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7 CommentsHow to protect your gaming accounts with two-factor authentication
Cybersecurity is of paramount importance these days, considering our ever-increasing dependence on cloud-based services. We store more and more data online, often for convenience but often because there is no other option, and we trust giant corporations to safeguard our sensitive private information — passwords, addresses, credit cards, Social Security numbers and more.
But paradoxically, our reliance on these systems is increasing exponentially even as our faith in them is dropping. It seems like reports of massive hacks are coming more and more frequently.
To hear our next president tell it, we live in challenging times.
Cybersecurity is of paramount importance
“I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly,” said President-elect Donald Trump last Wednesday, speaking to...
Video game releases for January 2017
Here are some of the big video game releases for the month of January 2017. Be sure to check out the list we put together of our most anticipated games of 2017 and subscribe to Polygon's YouTube channel for tons of gaming videos. Also, check out the free games you get with your Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus subscriptions this month. Additionally, here's what is coming and going on Netflix in January.
What are you looking forward to playing? Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Note: This is not a comprehensive list of releases and only games with specific dates are listed below. Some games are announced for January but have no firm release date.
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Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita) — Set after the events in...
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10 CommentsWalking Dead’s new season skips PS3 and 360 — and that could mean trouble for old save files
cThe third season of The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series, A New Frontier, won’t launch on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, Telltale Games announced on its website. That may not surprise newcomers to the series, but anyone who finished the earlier seasons on those older consoles may need to start digging them out.
That’s because importing saves from Season Two of The Walking Dead requires downloading a patch, which will then allow players to upload their files and bring them over to modern hardware. If they played the second season on PS3 or 360, they’ll have to plug those consoles back in to patch their games and get access to their old saves.
They’ll also need to have a Telltale account, which they’ll be able to upload their save files to and then download onto a new device. There’s a...
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5 CommentsTelltale’s Walking Dead returns a great video game hero to the spotlight
Telltale Games' adaptation of The Walking Dead returns Dec. 20 titled not as "Season 3," but A New Frontier. A two-part episode will be available at launch, reintroducing players to Clementine, and pairing her with a new protagonist, Javier.
Clementine is one of the all-time great slow-burn video game heroes, emerging from the frightened grade-schooler for whom you put your life on the line in Season One, through an expedited adolescence where she accepts very hard lessons about people in Season Two. Now, as a teenager, she's acting first, and no longer being acted upon by this cruel world. Zombie stories are best when people realize the will to live and fight for it, and that is the truth of Clementine’s character.
Javier is her companion and another playable character, the first time...
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8 CommentsBatman: The Telltale Series concludes next week (update)
The finale of Batman: The Telltale Series will arrive Dec. 13, publisher Telltale Games announced today.
Here’s the synopsis from Telltale for “City of Light,” the fifth and final episode of the series’ first season:
In Episode 5, the leader of the Children of Arkham prepares to execute the final act of a plan to destroy the Wayne family name, and the people closest to you are in their path of vengeance. Can Batman’s ultimate secret be kept — his very identity — when it is causing chaos and death in Gotham? The fate of the Wayne family and of the city itself rests on your choices. What will you do? How far will you go? Which mask will you wear?
Telltale noted that the finale will begin in “very different places” depending on the choice that players made at the end of the fourth episode.
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13 CommentsTelltale’s Walking Dead season 3 premiere will be the first two episodes
The third season of Telltale Games’ acclaimed Walking Dead series of adventure games looks to be as heart-wrenching as ever, as seen in footage the studio debuted tonight at The Game Awards 2016.
The premiere of A New Frontier, the third season, is called “The Ties that Bind.” Clementine, the hero of the first two seasons, will return alongside a second playable protagonist, a new character named Javier.
A New Frontier takes place four years after the zombie plague began. But part of the episode offers a glimpse of the moment of the outbreak, with a devastating death in the family that gets even worse when Javy’s grandfather, well ... you can figure it out for yourself.
Here’s the synopsis from Telltale:
When family is all you have left... how far will you go to protect it? Four years...
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66 CommentsPlayStation Plus gave out $1,150 in free games in 2016. Were they any good?
On Wednesday, PlayStation announced the last batch of free games to PlayStation Plus subscribers for December, bringing to 72 the number of titles it offered in 2016. Were they any good? What would they cost otherwise? In short, what do the numbers say about the value of this PlayStation Plus benefit?
We’ll try to answer that question this year as we have before. To that, however, we’ve added a few more questions: How old is the game? and Did Sony also publish it? Did these appear earlier on Xbox Live Games With Gold?
These questions may shed light on where these free games programs are headed are headed, particularly as the previous console generation ages.
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18 CommentsPlay Red Dead Redemption on PS4 and PC next week, thanks to PS Now
Red Dead Redemption, the beloved open-world Western from Rockstar Games, will join the PlayStation Now lineup on Dec. 6, the company announced today.
Both Red Dead Redemption and its Halloween-themed zombie expansion, Undead Nightmare, will be available to play on Sony’s full-game streaming service. They debuted on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in May and October 2010, respectively.
The news makes good on a promise from the week Rockstar announced Red Dead Redemption 2 in late October, when Sony said that the original game would be released “soon” on PlayStation Now. The service is available on PlayStation 4 and Windows PC, which means that Red Dead Redemption will be playable on PC — if only through PS Now. (Rockstar never ported Red Dead Redemption to PC, to the great dismay of the...
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41 CommentsPlayStation Plus games for December end the year with indies galore
Sony has revealed the final set of free games for PlayStation Plus members this year, capping off 2016 with two underground hits for PlayStation 4 owners. For December, PS Plus subscribers can try out Invisible, Inc. and Stories: The Path of Destinies, among other games.
Invisible, Inc. launched on Steam Early Access last year, receiving cult acclaim for its stealth- and turn-based strategy gameplay; the game hit consoles in the spring. Stories: The Path of Destinies was an even smaller project, but one that action-heavy role-playing game fans who did check it out enjoyed.
On PlayStation 3, there’s Hyper Void and Tiny Troopers Joint Ops; the latter is cross-buy with PS4 and Vita. Vita owners also get the popular platformer VVVVVV, as well as the PS4-compatible Color Guardians.
All six...
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12 CommentsVideo game releases for December 2016
Here are some of the big video game releases for the month of December 2016. Be sure to check out the list we put together of our most anticipated games of 2016. Also, check out the free games you get with your Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus subscriptions this month. Additionally, here's what is coming and going on Netflix in December.
What are you looking forward to playing? Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Note: This is not a comprehensive list of releases and only games with specific dates are listed below. Some games are announced for December but have no firm release date.
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Android and iOS) — The fourth entry in the visual novel series was the first not to have Phoenix Wright in the lead role, f...
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