Month: October 2024

When players found out they had only days to get Concord’s Platinum trophy, many got to work, but only a select few managed it.Last week, Firewalk Studios made the slightly surprising announcement that only two weeks after it was even released, Concord would be shutting down. It did so with only three days to spare, meaning trophy hunters had to work quickly if they wanted to get one of those coveted Platinum trophies. Considering how little time there was to do such a thing, some players took very drastic measures, like offing themselves to see which team can kill itself first. And it seems like those tactics only paid off for a very select, but very nice number of people: 69 people, to be precise.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As spotted by Gam…

Those of you hoping to go into The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom might want to be careful, as the ROM appears to have been leaked.It seems like you just can’t spend any amount of time on the internet without being wary of spoilers these days, and as leak culture just continues to dominate, it’s getting harder and harder to avoid them. Now, it seems like the ROM for Nintendo’s next entry in The Legend of Zelda series, Echoes of Wisdom, has been leaked online (via Eurogamer). Earlier this week, YouTuber Nintendo Prime posted a video claiming that they had seen a link to a ROM that contains the entire game online, and that they “have confirmed” it’s real. Nintendo Prime hasn’t shared any footage from the leak online, noting that they just confirmed it “as part of my job,” telling fans to …

UPDATE (19/09/24, 10:30 AM BST): The Chemical Agents Warbond has now been deployed in Helldivers 2.Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has revealed the next Warbond that’ll be arriving in the game. It’s called Chemical Agents, and will live up to that name by letting you douse enemies in horrible gas and unleash some similarly toxic odours on your teammates through a fart emote.The news of this Warbond comes as studio is building to the deployment of Patch 01.001.007 on September 17, which thus far looks to be bringing a heap of buffs in an attempt to get the game’s community back into their happy zone, following recent criticism over nerfs. Here’s hoping the follow-up to the Freedom’s Flame Warbond passes that same smell test.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie …

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has just got a brand-new gameplay trailer at Sony’s State of Play, featuring a tense boss fight against a big dragon, as well as some more cinematic peaks at the overall narrative. In it, you can see a bit of magic in-action, some more voiced characters, and a peak of the antagonistic force at play in The Veilguard. Not only is there a blighted dragon, there are two! It all seems very Dragon Age, albeit with a vastly different action system then we saw years ago. You can see it yourself below!Dragon Age™: The Veilguard | Blighted Dragon Gameplay Trailer Check out the trailer yourself here!Watch on YouTubeThe game, set to release on October 31, is set to be the biggest release from Bioware in some time. Previously, it hit a bit of a brick wall with Anthem, an…

A new preview trailer for Like a Dragon: Yakuza is here, and it shows off much more Majima tongue than I expected.We’re less than a month away from the latest live-action adaptation of the beloved Yakuza series, and a new trailer for the Japanese Prime Video YouTube channel has offered up another look at some of the already established characters like number one best man Kazuma Kiryu and his right hand man Akira Nishikiyama. But this trailer is also one for the Goro Majima lovers, as it revealed a first look at the fan favourite character in motion. This particular incarnation of the character is being portrayed by Munetaka Aoki, who certainly looks like he’s giving it his all in this very brief teaser trailer (especially in the tongue department).ドラマ『龍が如く～Beyond the Game…

Helldivers 2’s gotten another fresh Major Order, after the forces of Super Earth moved one step close to having a fuctional Democracy space station on their side by gaining hold of Turing. The next job in the mission to get the big thing built? Capturing a planet that’s home to an Automaton mining complex.If you’re out of the loop, the last few orders have been all about taking steps to assemble a new space station that players’ll be able to use in their Galactic War efforts once it’s comlete, with its construction in Gallivare’s orbit currently ongoing. Victory in that last MO, after a whole PSN outage, means it’s one step closer to finished.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “With the successful hold of Turing, Super Earth’s leading Terminid expert…

The “Bros” part of Super Smash Bros. has always been a bit of a mystery, but series creator Masahiro Sakurai has shed some light on what it means.For the most part, the name Super Smash Bros. title makes a lot of sense – super, because, well, Super Mario, Super Nintendo Entertainment system, Nintendo just used it a lot. Smash, because they’re hitting each other. But then you get to Bros. Yeah, sure, there’s Mario and Luigi, but I don’t think Link and Pikachu are brothers, at least not the last time I checked. But thankfully, in Masuhiro Sakurai’s latest video on his Creating Games YouTube channel, the creator of the series spoke of some of his memories of Satoru Iwata, the late former president of Nintendo Japan. In that video, he shared that it was actually Iwata who helped come up with 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�…