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Ten Years Of Rock Band, That Game Everybody Used To Play

One November 20, 2007, Harmonix, EA and MTV Games released the first Rock Band, a four-player, instrument-driven rhythm game that briefly changed the face of social multiplayer gaming. Where are your plastic instruments now? If you had told me in early 2007 that a $170 box packed with a game, guitar, drums and a mic…

Ultra Pokémon Sun and Moon Make Hunting Shiny Pokémon Way Easier

Pokémon fans know just how rare finding a “shiny” is: you can play multiple games across generations and never encounter monsters in a special coloring. Typically, you have a 1 in 4,000 chance of finding a shiny, which is pretty low. Ultra Sun and Moon change the odds by giving you another sure-fire way to…

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…

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…

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.

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…

Cannon Beach. Oregon, USA. By Steve Clock. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

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…

Mother 4, a fan-made sequel for Nintendo’s series that’s been in the works since 2010, isn’t out yet. Its soundtrack, however, is, and you can listen to it here

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.

Here Are The Platforms You Can And Cannot Play Skyrim On

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came out in 2011. It has been officially released on a bunch of platforms, which is probably where you’ve played it at least once over the last six years. Here are the platforms you can play Skyrim on: PC Xbox 360 Xbox One PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 Nintendo Switch And…

Rainbow Six Siege‘s Operation White Noise Adds Invisible Cloaks And Phone Hacking 

Rainbow Six Siege is getting three new characters and a new map as part of its Operation White Noise update that hits the game’s test servers on November 20. The details surrounding Rainbow Six’s last content drop before 2018 came at the season 3 championship tournament going on today in Brazil. The new map called…

Guy Finally Tries To Decode Skyrim Note Two Years Too Late

Sometimes you’re in a relationship with someone. Sometimes that someone decides to give you a note written in cryptic dragon runes from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. If that happens you should probably get to translating that note as soon as possible. Over the weekend, a person who goes by byeblee posted such a note…

Meet The Comedian Who Has A Problem With Apu

In the middle of talking to me about his upcoming documentary on The Simpsons, comic Hari Kondabolu described watching the show with his brother. It was a Treehouse of Horror episode, a Halloween-themed series of vignettes that The Simpsons does every year. In this episode, parodying The Most Dangerous Game, Mr. Burns hunts humans and…