Even Chrissy Teigen is talking about Untitled Goose Game. pic.twitter.com/SNjsncW0Hs — Cabel (@cabel) October 1, 2019Given that Link’s Awakening is still fairly new and selling pretty well around the globe, Untitled Goose Game’s rise through the ranks is doubly notable here. But, more than that, Untitled Goose Game is a title that is easily legible to anyone who looks at it. Anecdotally, I’ve spoken to a number of people who say they’ve introduced non-gamers and children to Untitled Goose Game,

AlphaDream, the 28-year-old Japanese studio best known for developing the Mario & Luigi RPG series, is seeking bankruptcy protection. News story from Japan said the studio was crippled by high development costs and sluggish sales performances for the works AlphaDream had completed. The story said the studio listed debt of 465 million yen (roughly $4.3 million) as of March 2018. AlphaDream’s work on the Mario & Luigi RPG series began with Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga for the Game Boy Advance in

Angry Birds is coming up on its 10th anniversary — the puzzle game was released on iOS all the way back in December 2009. Now, Rovio is licensing out the rights to the next logical thing: sneakers. The holiday season, the company will release two Angry Birds sneaker designs in collaboration with footwear company K-Swiss. Two different options are available: one pair that’s red and plastered with, of course, variations on Angry Birds’ red bird, and another that features the green, red, and yellow

My first experience with The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim found me stepping out of a pastoral village for the first time to inspect a nearby ruin. And he’s not alone; Modiphius tells Polygon that there are more than 150 more sculpts already in the pipeline for its ambitious, hybrid miniatures game. That was my idea.”This is Latham’s second project for Modiphius and Bethesda Softworks, who created The Elder Scrolls. He also developed Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, a miniatures game based on the classic p

Sony is cutting the monthly cost of its PlayStation Now game streaming service by 50 percent to $9.99. PlayStation Now offers subscribers access to a massive, rotating library of games that can be streamed from the cloud and downloaded. Titles are pulled from legacy PlayStation 3 games as well as more current PlayStation 4 titles. The price change is likely a defensive move brought on by the pending public preview test of Project xCloud, Microsoft’s own game streaming service. Project xCloud’s t

Called the “X-ray Scanner,” it allows players to peek inside loot boxes before opening them. The change appears to be a hedge against the threat of government regulation of loot boxes in that country. In France only, the X-ray Scanner now allows every player to preview the contents of a single loot box before paying to open it. French users can no longer purchase loot boxes from other members of the Steam Community Market, but they can still sell them. Regardless of consumer sentiment, loot boxe

With the launch of a major expansion and a free-to-play offering, you would expect a pretty big patch from Bungie. Each mod comes with an energy cost, and you can upgrade each armor piece to have a max of 10 power. Some of Destiny 2’s most unique weapons in Year 2 came with the Pinnacle Weapon system — powerful Legendary weapons with unique perks. We still want it to feel like you can make meaningful progress not only through normal play but by augmenting super energy through teamwork, class cho

Overwatch heroes Symmetra and Genji are getting World of Warcraft skins ahead of BlizzCon 2019. Blizzard Entertainment announced the in-game items it’s handing out alongside its BlizzCon tickets, virtual or otherwise. For Overwatch players, the most valuable thing to be handed out is skins — and this year’s skins are good. “Commemorate 25 years of Azeroth as you fight for future Earth with a pair of Warcraft-themed legendary Overwatch skins,” Blizzard wrote in a press release. BlizzCon 2019 virt

The game’s new expansion, Shadowkeep, is also out, as well as a free-to-play version of the game called New Light. Now, players are finding that there’s a new intro available for new Destiny 2 playthroughs. Destiny 2 originally started with a campaign called “Red War”. After completing this mission, players will then be taken to Destiny 2’s main hub. Anyone who wants to experience the Red War campaign from Destiny 2’s launch, no worries — those quests are still in the game, and can be activated

The original Borderlands came out on October 20, 2009, which means that the franchise has been marching along now for ten years. Gearbox is celebrating the landmark with an in-game Borderlands 3 celebration, which will give players five events with different kinds of loot bonuses. The first event is Boss Week, which will run until Oct. 8. “Show Me the Eridium” is Week 3, and will run from Oct. 15 to the 21st. Finally, “Spooky Surprise” will be some kind of Halloween event from Oct. 29 through No

PlayStation worldwide studios head Shawn Layden is “departing,” according to a company tweet. The tweet reads: “It is with great emotion that we announce that Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden will be departing SIE. Thanks for everything, Shawn!”A graduate of Notre Dame, Layden, 58, has been with Sony for more than three decades. Layden began his tenure as head of worldwide studios in 2016. A spokesperson for Sony told Polygon that there is “no other information at this moment,” apart from

The trailers for Frozen 2 have been unfortunately bereft of the music that made the original movie so iconic. Thankfully, the latest sneak peek reassures us that Frozen 2 is indeed a musical. Elsa gets a belty new solo, designed to show off the full range of Idina Menzel’s pipes. Called “Into the Unknown,” Elsa sings this song in pursuit of adventure. Footage at D23 revealed that a mysterious voice keeps calling out to her and she wants to find the source of it.

Square Enix is bringing its Dragon Quest mobile game, Dragon Quest of the Stars, to the West next year and is accepting registrations to an open beta now. Dragon Quest of the Stars is not the recently announced Pokémon Go-like mobile game based on Dragon Quest — that’s Dragon Quest Walk — but a role-playing game that was initially released in Japan back in 2015. Based on the screenshots on the announcement page, it seems like your typical RPG gacha game, but with charming Dragon Quest elements.

Nintendo is bringing back the Brain Age series for Nintendo Switch. Nintendo of Japan announced a new entry in the brain-teaser series, known as Brain Age: Nintendo Switch Training in Japan, on Monday. A longer look at Brain Age: Nintendo Switch Training can be seen in the video below. Brain Age: Nintendo Switch Training is coming to Japan on Dec. 27. The Nintendo DS game came to North America in 2006 as Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!

After the latest episode of the Pokémon anime aired in Japan, a trailer for the upcoming season was shown, showing off new designs and hints about where the series is going. Ash’s new companion is a boy named Gou, whose dream is to find Mew and catch many Pokémon. The background shows a lot of iconic monuments from different regions: the Indigo Plateau from Kanto, the Bell Tower from Johto, Mt. Alola is represented by palm trees, and the upcoming Galar region is shown with a Big Ben-esque buildi

With Destiny 2: Shadowkeep and Destiny’s first free-to-play play offering, New Light, only a day away, Bungie is taking Destiny 2 down for 24 hours on Monday, Sept. 30. Starting at the normal reset time, 1 p.m. EDT, Destiny 2 will go down. If you’re trying to log into Destiny 2 today, you’re probably bumping into the “Destiny 2 servers are not available” warning. With the maintenance comes the last time PC players will be able to play Destiny 2 on Blizzard’s Battle.net client. Starting on Tuesda

It’s an intimate look into the weirdness of dating, and the humor that’s created through implicit collaboration while you’re getting to know your partner. We Met in May is a collection of “vignette games,” capturing four small moments in a relationship. The characters in We Met in May are called Nina and Jake, too, and seem to be created in the general likeness of the real-world developers. I’m not privy, exactly, to their significance, but I have enough of my own experience to fill in the blank

Over the weekend, the Pokémon Go Twitter account began teasing an upcoming update, leading to three new images posted today. There are three figures visible in the images, with the iconic Team Rocket R also shown. The prevailing theory is that these three figures are Team Rocket bosses, meant to foil the three team leaders we have now: Candela, Blanche, and Spark. Shadow Pokémon are rewards for taking out Team Rocket grunts, so the Shadow reward for taking down a boss should be something big and

When you’re rocking Death Stranding’s Bridge Baby to sleep via your DualShock 4 controller, you’ll be able to hear its cries from the device itself. In a tweet on Sept. 27, designer Hideo Kojima tweeted that BB’s voice will come through the DualShock 4 controller when playing Death Stranding. It sounds like a setting you’ll be able to turn off if you’re creeped out by your controller crying — we won’t judge you. The Death Stranding developer specifically called out this option with the special e

James Bond director Sam Mendes wants to put audiences right in the center of World War I with his new war movie 1917. To do that, he shot the movie in one long, perfectly choreographed shot. 1917 follows two soldiers in WWI on a mission to deliver a message that could save thousands of lives. “From the very beginning I felt this movie should be told in real time,” Mendes says in the featurette. Some mornings the sun would be out and we couldn’t shoot.”1917 isn’t the first movie filmed in just on