Underneath His Cloak, The Sims 4‘s Grim Reaper is Pretty Cute

Once you get over the whole “harbinger of death thing,” The Sims’s the Grim Reaper is kinda hot. Over on the r/Sims subreddit, the simmer Corveaux said she was able to add the Grim Reaper to her family and remove his hood. The screencap she posted was of a young adult sim who was pretty…

The Best Part Of Oblivion Was The Absurd Poison Apples

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an awkward game that feels a little bit like world full of Disney World animatronics. One piece of poison food highlighted the game’s silliness while also forcing players to get intimate with their targets. The poison apple was a very special and highly deadly item from The Elder Scrolls…

The League of Legends Free Agency Hot Stove Is Officially Ablaze

Tomorrow is the start of the free agency period for the 2018 League of Legends Championship Series, and the stove is delightfully hot. This season is kind of like the NBA or NFL offseason, with one exception: there’s blessedly no draft. Contracts expire or get bought out; whoever isn’t on a team is fair game.…

Now that the two canceled Avengers Alliance games are a distant memory, FoxNext Games and Marvel Entertainment unveil Marvel Strike Force, a squad based mobile RPG in which players battle it out with collectible heroes and villains from the comics, due out in early 2018. How long you think this one will last?

The Live-Action Fullmetal Alchemist Movie Is Actually Good

Fullmetal Alchemist is an anime I often say has everything. There’s civil war and political intrigue. There’s a well-wrought alchemy system. There’s brotherly competition and young love. There’s killer fight scenes. There’s even all seven of the deadly sins, except they’re incarnate. The Fullmetal Alchemist live-action movie was never going to have everything. It would…

Why Women Don’t Report Sexual Harassment

In March 2015, at a party at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Megan Farokhmanesh met a developer from the respected studio Naughty Dog. As they were talking, she says, he asked if she “fucked all her sources like on House of Cards.” Farokhmanesh, who had been working at Polygon since 2012, had just…

The Week In Games: River City Giving 

They are still making these games. The Kunio-kun series has been going on for over two decades now and shows no signs of slowing down. Whatever other strange projects Ark Systems gets itself involved it appears little pixel dudes beating up each other will remain constant. Rival Showdown is the latest game in the series…

Inside Tokyo’s Godzilla Store

Recently, the world’s first official Godzilla store opened in Tokyo. It’s called Godzilla Store Tokyo. Clever! Located in Shinjuku, the store is filled with loads of limited edition items.

Japanese Fast Food Restaurant Sticks Two Steaks Between Buns

Lotteria, themost ridiculous fast food chain in Japan, is releasing a striking steak burger later this month. Dubbed the Sticking-Out Steak Burger, the sandwich is stuffed with 100-gram Angus beef steaks from the USA. The meat is a shoulder roast, so it’s reportedly soft. If one steak isn’t enough, Asahi News reports that there is…

Dragon Ball Super Has A Touching Message For Bulma’s Voice Actress 

At the end of this week’s Dragon Ball Super episode, there was a short message memorializing Hiromi Tsuru, who passed away last week. One of Tsuru’s most famous roles was Dragon Ball character Bulma. Here is the message that appeared on screen at the episode’s conclusion: In English, it reads: Hiromi Tsuru, who voiced the…

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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been testing things out in Australia for a little while now, but the game now has an official worldwide release date: November 22 (which is this Wednesday!).

Sega Announces Valkyria Chronicles 4 For PS4, Xbox, And Switch

If you’re still reeling from this year’s disappointing Valkyria spinoff, here’s some welcome news: Valkyria Chronicles 4 is happening, and it’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Switch in 2018. Don’t worry: publisher Sega says the game is coming to North America and Europe, too. Like its predecessors, Valkyria Chronicles 4 will be set within…

Everyone Shot First

Helder Almeida is an illustrator and concept artist based in France. You can see more of Helder’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of…

Streamer Suspended From Twitch For Playing Pokémon Game That Came Out Early In Australia

Australian streamer Mark “Werster” McKenzie received a temporary ban from Twitch last week, because the service said the Pokémon game he was playing was “unauthorised pre-release content”. Even though he’d bought the game from Nintendo’s own store. Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon were released in the US on November 17, but because of time…

Cuphead Fan Makes His Own Cartoon

Cuphead, a video game that looks like a cartoon, now has a cartoon based on the video game, courtesy of fan and animator hotdiggedydemon It’s more Ren & Stimpy than Max Fleischer, I know, but I guess that’s the point. If the game draws on other animation for its inspiration, no reason a fan-made cartoon…

Some Of The Best Scrabble Moves You’ll Ever See

There are professional Scrabble players. Here are some of the best of them, recounting toThe New Yorker some of their favourite moves. I expected to watch this and be floored by the words. Which I was, but my main takeaway is that professional Scrabble players seem like the nicest people on Earth.