A new update for Call of Duty: WWII rolls out today that adds a brand-new map and the option to play as little green toy soldiers. The map, named Sandbox, drops players into an actual sandbox where players can wage war on a much tinier scale. Call of Duty: WWII’s new Sandbox map — it’s available first on PlayStation 4 — is just one part of the game’s Days of Summer event, which also includes the return of Leprechaun Hunt and aerial dogfighting mode. Sandbox will also support Call of Duty: WWII’s

A fast fan is a loud fan, and the fan inside the PS4 — especially the original model released in 2013 — is about as loud as they come. First, you’ll need to get a special screwdriver. It’s called a T8 Torx bit, and you’ll need the security version with a little dimple carved into business end of it. PS4 Slim and PS4 ProThe latest iterations of the PS4 do not require tools to clean the fan. Face the console away from you, grasp the bottom front of the console’s top plastic cowling with your finge

Yesterday, Valve removed indie platformer Abstractism from the Steam store. Steam users have been more vehemently complaining about Valve’s lax stance on trading items ever since. When users reported fake items, scammers would start to notice and take action to avoid being detected. Now, if you receive an item offer from a game you’ve never played or a new Steam game, warning windows for each scenario will pop up. On a Reddit thread, Valve employee Tony “Drunken_F00l” Paloma also stated that Val

Bungie announced today alongside a new trailer for Destiny 2: Forsaken that the entire game will now be purchasable in one complete package. The Destiny 2: Legendary Collection will come with the base game, Curse of Osiris, Warmind and Forsaken, the game’s upcoming expansion. This collection should come as a welcome offering to new players and those that wish to switch platforms with the launch of the upcoming expansion. The Destiny 2: Legendary Collection will set players back $59.99 and is ava

Destiny 2’s Solstice of Heroes event is live now, and will continue until Aug. 28. While adventuring through the Solstice, players will be able to upgrade a new armor set to level 400. This is the only way to get 400 power armor before Forsaken is released on Sept. 4. Solstice of Heroes will also offer new cosmetic rewards from Eververse, just like with Destiny 2’s other holidays. For help getting to 400 power, check out our Solstice of Heroes guide.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf is the perfect, condensed version of the original hidden role-playing game, in which a group of villagers try to suss out who among them are secretly werewolves. In One Night Ultimate Werewolf, the players perform their roles as narrated by a handy app. We played One Night Ultimate Werewolf for Overboard, our monthly series about enjoying board games with friends. Or former friends, as it turns out, because these play-throughs of One Night Werewolf are rife with backs

Google’s mysterious games console division has hired virtual reality leading light Richard Marks, whose previous work includes designing PlayStation VR’s hardware. Marks had been with Sony since 1999, working in its Magic Lab department, dedicated to new technologies. Earlier today, Harrison tweeted: “Delighted that Richard Marks is joining Google. Exciting addition to the ATAP team!”Little is known about Google’s console, which is rumored to be a piece of hardware dedicated to streaming games.

There’s this old episode of Friends where Ross’ ex-wife is having a baby, and Rachel starts hitting on the gynecologist, Dr. Franzblau. For the past few years, ever since I became Polygon’s Guides Editor, I’ve made a bad habit of missing games. My job is to keep up with new releases, but there’s often more work to be done than there is time to play the games we write about. So I made a decision: It was time to carve out some time to play games for myself. And here’s the thing: It was some of the

In some cases the backlog is an issue of money, although ever-lowering game prices make this situation more rare in 2018. An issue of longingThe Vectrex was a self-contained video game system that was released in 1982, and came with its own vecter graphics display instead of connecting to a television. There was a light pen that was released at one point so you could draw on the screen itself. I’m unlikely to ever clear out the Vectrex games from my backlog, but I’ve made peace with this fact. I

This time on History of Fun, I take my History Brothers to a world they’ve never been to: manga. While Russ and Plante don’t seem to know much about Japan’s mega-huge comic book genre, at least they know a little bit about its biggest franchise, Shonen Jump. Shonen Jump has been the home to series as big as Dragon Ball, One Piece and Naruto over its long life. do you read yr fave japanese comics chapter by chapter by chapter? tell me and you could me featured on an episode of @TheHistoryOfFun ~~

Ser Tethras has adventured across the four corners of Thedas — as an operative of the Inquisition and, notoriously, as an ally of the Champion of Kirkwall. Ser Varric Tethras: It’s not finding time that’s the challenge. But of course, we’re here to talk about Hard in Hightown, your breakout novel, which has outsold even Genitivi’s ubiquitous Travels of a Chantry Scholar. Ser Tethras, several employees in the Polygon offices who will remain nameless must know: Do you expect to return to the Sword

Brand Slam takes beloved sitcom characters and smashes them together in the wrestling ring of WWE 2K18. With the rumors of a potential Frasier reboot coursing through the internet, Pat Gill and Brian Gilbert have taken it upon themselves to create perfect replicas of the Crane brothers. Will the Crane brothers be at each others throats both literally and figuratively in the reboot? New episodes of Brand Slam will arrive every Monday at 3 p.m. You can watch Brand Slam on Polygon’s YouTube page.

Until Aug. 28, players will be able play through Solstice of Heroes and earn themselves some exclusive power-level 400 armor. Participating in Solstice of Heroes is actually the only way to earn 400 armor before Destiny 2: Forsaken is released on Sept. 4. These arc, solar and void orbs will drop when wearing your Solstice of Heroes armor set. When you log in, you’ll be given the Scorched armor set by the Solstice of Heroes statue vendor. Here is what each class needs to do to upgrade their Respl

In early 2017, the Attorney General of the state of New York filed suit against the internet service provider formerly known as Time Warner Cable in that state. The scathing 87-page complaint alleged that TWC (now commonly known as Spectrum in the New York market) defrauded consumers by providing internet service that was much slower than advertised. Now, a public commission is demanding that the ISP create a plan to turn over its network, effectively kicking the company out. “In addition, the C

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer beta starts later this week, and the event’s launch trailer has a lot to show off. On top of some of the franchise’s new features, the trailer gives us our first look at Blackout, Black Ops 4’s battle royale mode. Blackout mode only shows up for about 15 seconds in the trailer, but there’s plenty we can learn from the brief glimpses we saw. Another notable part of the trailer is how different the characters look from the operators that will be playable i

With World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth only two weeks away, Blizzard has teamed up with popular YouTuber Bellular to help teach new and returning players the ropes. The first episode starts out very simply, answering the question “What is World of Warcraft?” in the most digestible of ways. From there, Bellular goes into how to get a Blizzard account and install World of Warcraft to your computer. Over the 10-week series, he should be able to hit all aspects of what players have loved about W

The fifth edition of Vampire: The Masquerade, the classic tabletop role-playing game first released in 1992, is set to launch later this week. A new content warning, applied to page one of the digital document, is unflinching in its stance against fascism and in favor of a mature gaming experience that tackles tough issues. At the time, White Wolf producer Jason Carl said that this information was slated for a separate, paid release. Again, White Wolf is explicit about why this section was added

There’s been an unfortunate increase in the amount of illegitimate games on Steam. The latest title to come under fire, however, reportedly had a more nefarious scheme in mind: turning players’ computers into cryptocurrency miners. The game is called Abstractism, which was said to not only infiltrate players’ computers with mining software, but also dupe them through falsified items on the Steam Marketplace. “We currently use Abstractism to mine only Monero coins.”Right after that statement, Oka

Museyci is not like many other planets in No Man’s Sky. That and the the fact that you can see the hexagons from space:This is just one of the strange “exotic biome” planets you can find in No Man’s Sky. No Man’s Sky generates these planets, like all of its planets, procedurally. Hyperdrive upgradesSpecifically, you need the Cadmium, Emeril, and Indium Hyperdrives (before the No Man’s Sky Next update, these upgrades were called Warp Reactor Sigma, Tau, and Theta.) I was able to secure my Cadmium

Thanks to a vast library of games available on Steam and frequent sales on those games, many PC gamers find themselves with a Steam library overflowing with things to play. Organize your Steam libraryIf your Steam library is so overwhelming that you just don’t know where to start, use Steam’s “categories” feature to get organized. Steam Backlog lets you sort your library (and your wishlist) with tags and other metrics (like Steam user score and Opencritic score) that aren’t built into Steam nati