Month: October 2024

Jason Damron, the voice actor behind The Storyteller – the main character of a long-running and popular fan-made Fallout lore video series on YouTube – appears to have died.This is according to a tweet posted earlier today by Damron’s account, which uses his online handle Kankennon and is the same one credited in the descriptions of the most recent Storyteller videos starring him.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “Hello everyone, I am Emily Damron, Jason Damron’s (the Storyteller) daughter,” it reads, “I just wanted to share that on Saturday September 7, my father passed away after a horrible year of health. He was diagnosed with stage four adrenal cancer that spread to the liver.”For those unfamiliar, The Storyteller series is one that holds a simi…

EA has finally started talking about the next Battlefield in no uncertain terms. The project, which is aiming for release sometime in 2025, will bring the series back to its modern day roots. Apart from the setting, the next game will ditch the Specialists/hero characters, which debuted with Battlefield 2042.EA also released the first piece of concept art for the game, showing clear Battlefield 4 inspirations.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The art, which EA revealed to IGN, doesn’t tell us much. You can see attack helicopters in the distance, and a city – seemingly somewhere in Europe – being ravaged by wildfires on one side and combat on the other.Vince Zampella, who took over franchise leadership in 2021, following a restructuring that t…

The PC version of God of War Ragnarok has officially arrived on PC. The game launched Thursday, September 19 on Steam, as well as the Epic Games Store. Ragnarok is the latest Sony first-party PlayStation title to make it to PC, but it doesn’t look like the audience showed up for this one.The game’s Steam numbers have been rising since Thursday, but its peak concurrent on Valve’s platform has plateaued without reaching the heights achieved by the original God of War.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As of the most recent count, God of War Ragnarok has achieved a peak concurrent of 35,615 players (via SteamDB), which isn’t a small figure by most accounts, but definitely makes it sit towards the lower end of Sony’s PC cata…

Good news, people who own an Xbox, like a good JRPG, and have all the time in the world. Xbox has announced during its Tokyo Game Show broadcast that four classic Square Enix titles that’re technically actually nine classic Square Enix titles are dropping on the platform today and in the near future.This isn’t confusing at all, what are you talking about. Here, let me explain. I played a bit of trick on you. Since, you know, the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster is actually the first six games wearing one big trench coat so they can sneak into a grown-up movie at the cinema.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As announced during today’s Xbox thing at the Tokyo Game Show, Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster arrives on Xbox Series X/S and PC as of September 26, but…

Hold those tears back, everyone, as Tom Hardy appears to have confirmed that Venom: The Last Dance is in fact the last dance.Look, I understand that the Venom movies are trash. They’re a mess, they’re everything a good story shouldn’t be in some ways, but I love them all the same – yes, even Let There Be Carnage. So when I say that I’m sad to hear that Venom: The Last Dance is the final film in the series, I’m honestly a little bit sad. Over on Instagram, Eddie Brock and Venom himself Tom Hardy shared a post with a trailer for the third film, with an honestly quite sweet caption that does confirm this will be the last film we’ll be getting about the character.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “Thank you for a great time – and 7 years,” wrote Hardy. …

Finally, it’s here, the announcement all you Mario and Zelda fans have been waiting for… the Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo.Nintendo Switch 2? Never heard of it, but what I have heard of is the freshly announced Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, a literal alarm clock from the Mario makers themselves. No, you haven’t just skipped a few months to April 1, this is a very real product that Nintendo has announced, and it is literally just an alarm clock. Well, that’s maybe being a bit reductive, because it’s an alarm clock done in a Nintendo Way, of course. You see, the alarm clock watches you as you sleep, and by that I mean it has motion sensors. Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo – Announcement Trailer Watch on YouTubeWhen the alarm goes off at your chosen time, it’ll play a theme from one …

Diablo 4’s Vessel of Hatred expansion has been pretty well-received by players and fans. Much of that love is owed to Blizzard’s design of the new Spiritborn class, but the new story chapter, major zone to explore, and the raid-like new endgame activity have all garnered praise from many in the game’s community.As with every new release/new season, however, the meta evolves to create powerful endgame builds for Diablo 4’s classes, and some – as expected – are going to be broken. This being the Spiritborn’s first foray into this world means the class is going to gets its first broken build adjusted soon.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The Spiritborn build in question isn’t broken because of the amount of damage i…

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�…