Some players are finding the remastered Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy much tougher than the original games, and there may be a clear reason for that. Complaints that the collection, which includes the first three Crash Bandicoot platformers, ramped up the difficulty came not longer after its release. “The reason jumps feel harder in the N. Sane Trilogy isn’t really due to falling a bit faster,” tweeted Ding Dong, who’s been streaming the full collection following its launched last week. It req

Scuttlebutt is that Star Wars Battlefront 2 is currently in closed alpha. That lends credence to an anonymous leak that showed up on Reddit late last week that claims to show a list of hero characters datamined right out of the game code. What follows are potential spoilers for Star Wars Battlefront 2. The reptilian Wookiee hunter has recently cropped up on the Star Wars: Rebels cartoon series and his ship, the Hounds Tooth, remains a staple of competitive X-Wing Miniatures play. Star Wars Battl

Total War developer Creative Assembly is expanding 17-year-old strategy franchise with “a new class of historical Total War game on PC” called Total War Saga. “If you’ve enjoyed previous games, you’ll certainly be interested in Total War Saga games,” Lusted said. It was a standalone spin-off from Total War: Shogun 2, focussed on the pivotal event of the Boshin War. A concentrated Total War game which puts you right in the middle of a really dynamic moment of history, where the outcome could have

Our latest look at I Choose You revisits some of the most emotional beats from the start of Ash and Pikachu’s lifelong friendship, all scored with one heck of a heartbreaking song. Pikachu shocked Ash on their first meeting; Ash dragged the stubborn Pikachu through Viridian Forest on a leash in another seemingly out-of-character scene. And what’s even better is what happened next: Ash saved Pikachu from a pack of Spearow and Fearow, a major turning point in their friendship. Seeing Ash and Pikac

In the U.S., players can purchase prepaid cards for Riot Points, or RP; $10 gets you 1,380 points. U.S. players pay almost twice as much as those in the U.K. for less than two times the amount of points. When the new prices are implemented on July 25, players will get just 790 RP for their five pounds. As the publisher of the world’s biggest multiplayer game, Riot Games may be setting a precedent, however. It remains to be seen if other companies will follow suit in adjusting their in-game conte

Russia (LCL) and Turkey (TCL) will be clashing on the Rift to see who can walk away victorious for their Rift Rivals set! The LCL has brought M19, Vaevictis eSports, Vega Squadron and Virtus.pro. Fighting for TCL is 1907 Fenerbahçe, SuperMassive, Team AURORA and Crew e-Sports Club. The two commonly known teams are SuperMassive and Virtus.pro, who both made appearances at the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational. SuperMassive grabbed 7th place at MSI, with Virtus.pro ending in 10th with the OCE team Dire

It’s hard to imagine things going any better for G2 Esports than they did in game three of 2017 Rift Rivals, as they took down North America’s Cloud9 for Europe’s second win of the tournament. G2 showed their hand early when they selected a composition that emphasized picks over everything else with Elise and Blitzcrank as the team’s most crucial elements. C9, on the other hand picked a team that would focus on teamfights to allow Tristana and Viktor to get their damage out on the entire G2 team

It’s the Classic version, which was technically the sixth-generation iPod, that we can attribute our fondest music memories to (I’m speaking to those who weren’t born after 2000 and therefore have no memory attached to an iPod or iPod Classic). pic.twitter.com/0lV3LUlEtR — edgarwright (@edgarwright) July 2, 2017And just to show how much Baby Driver director Edgar Wright loves his iPod Classic, here’s another tweet from just last week. I still use my actual iPod Classic. pic.twitter.com/N0657wk9N

The SNES Classic Edition is an exciting release for people worldwide, and for European Nintendo fans in particular. Of the 40-plus Japanese role-playing games to hit Super Nintendo, less than half of them ever made it over to Europe. Hironobu Sakaguchi, former president of Squaresoft, called Final Fantasy 6’s (known as Final Fantasy 3 on its first release) U.S. sales figures disappointing in retrospect. That also happened to be the first Final Fantasy game to launch in Europe at all, and the reg

Generally speaking, guns aren’t funny. But this trailer takes so much pleasure in poking fun at America’s obsession with arms and weapons, it’s pretty much irresistible. The American Dream VR is coming out later this summer for various virtual reality platforms. It’s a journey through a world designed by gun manufacturers to show the benefits of using guns in imaginative and life-threatening ways. Don’t try anything you see at home.

In the year of Dota 2 to come, its developer Valve will be shifting back towards one of its more renown strategies: organic tournament ecosystems. In a blog post published Monday, Valve announced a major overhaul to its competitive system that pushes the focus back towards—and even rewards—third-party events. Previously criticized for its lack of transparency regarding how it handles esports, the Dota 2 developers most notably reformed their pre-existing “tiers” of competitive events, redefining

It was only a matter of time before the Nintendo Switch made its debut on Conan O’Brien’s “Clueless Gamer.”The comedian went head-to-head with BoJack Horseman and Arrested Development actor Will Arnett in Arms, Nintendo’s new fighting game. O’Brien went with the first option, Spring Man, while Arnett chose Kid Cobra. “Clueless Gamer” is one of O’Brien’s post popular segments. “We’ve gotten to the point where video game companies are sending us their new product for us to play and make fun of bec

The series is being developed by YouTube host and personality Michele Morrow and Jesse Cox, another YouTube personality known for his games commentary. YouTube released a small snippet of the show as part of its highlight reel of series coming to YouTube Red. The show stars Arin Hanson and Dan Avidan as two of the main esports players trying to make it big. Much like other YouTube Red series, the show pulls from the platform’s own talents and pairs the duo with Hollywood veterans. This acts as a

But a Pokémon marriage registration form is making me seriously reconsider my choices, because it’s really, really precious. Japanese wedding magazine Zexy will include the pink, Pikachu-covered legal document in its August issue, now available on local newsstands. The Japanese Pokémon website refers to this marriage form as “very cute,” which is probably an understatement. Anyone who can translate what Pikachu is saying in the trailer for the Pokémon marriage form will win a personalized Pikach

Transformers: The Last Knight has been dubbed the beginning of a new start for the franchise by director Michael Bay and, even though he won’t be around for the next one, this means the post-credits scene is pretty important. [Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Transformers: The Last Knight.] Unlike most superhero movies, which make you sit through a nearly three-hour film just to wait another 10 minutes for the credits to finish rolling, this post-credits scene is revealed after

He was the lead animator for the first game before stepping up as director for God of War 2, and initially for God of War 3 as well. In the first game, Kratos is revealed to be a Spartan warrior who made a deal with Ares, the Greek god of war. It’s about existing in a world.”Though the early God of War games were largely linear, Barlog believes his design vision for God of War does tie back to them in some ways. But with this game [God of War 2018], it’s based on classic adventures from when I w

“We’ve reprogrammed Machinarium from the scratch,” said Amanita in its Steam Community announcement of the game’s Definitive Version yesterday. Amanita has replaced it with a custom DirectX-based engine that works well on modern high-resolution displays, even in fullscreen view. There are also 12 new Steam achievements, Steam Cloud saves, Steam leaderboard functionality and localization into 14 different languages. “We’ve reprogrammed Machinarium from the scratch”There’s one major drawback to th

You can now check out Raid Battles, Pokémon Go’s cooperative multiplayer feature — but only if you’re good enough. Players level 35 and up can start taking down super-strong Pokémon together, with lower-leveled trainers getting their chance in the coming days. While most are excited for some co-op play, level 35 is high up there — the game’s level cap is 40. (We at Polygon aren’t able to check out Raid Battles quite yet, for instance, because we’re just a lowly level 18.) Update: Players level 3

Roly-poly roguelike TumbleSeed has its fans, but the game didn’t turn out to be the success that developer aeiowu had hoped it’d be. In a postmortem for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC game, the team opens up about the “post-release depression, poor reviews and bad sales” that followed TumbleSeed’s launch. It looks unlikely that TumbleSeed will make back its budget, wrote Greg Wohlwend, lead designer at aeiowu. “We released TumbleSeed on May 2nd to the critical consensus that i

Activision will release a stand-alone version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered — available both physically and digitally — on June 27. The stand-alone release will cost $39.99 and will not include the Modern Warfare Remastered Variety Map Pack. Activision did not provide release dates for the Windows PC and Xbox One versions of the game. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered was originally released alongside last year’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Activision said in a release tha