Amazon Prime Day can be a little overwhelming if you don’t know what you’re shopping for and downright frustrating if you have something specific in mind, but don’t know where to look. One of the best deals for Nintendo Switch owners today, though it’s not the most flashy, is on a microSD. It’s pretty rare to find a Switch bundle (though Dell and Best Buy tried to get the jump on Prime Day this weekend by offering their own) so this will almost certainly sell out. Read on for all of the best Nin

Prime Day, Amazon’s fourth annual members-only sale, is officially underway. The Polygon Deals team will be sorting through the frankly daunting amount of Prime Day discounts both here and on our Twitter feed. We’ll update this post throughout the day on Monday and Tuesday with the best deals in gaming and pop culture, from consoles and PCs to physical and digital games. We’re separately rounding up the best Nintendo, Xbox and PS4 deals as well, plus our favorite digital comics you can get for f

The original series ran from 1991 through 2004, and spawned a spin-off series All Grown Up. Nickelodeon also ordered a live-action Rugrats movie. The Wrap describes the film as a “live-action film featuring CGI characters is slated to be released on Nov. 13, 2020. Rocko’s Modern Life and Invader Zim, two other popular ‘90s series, have specials debuting this year. There isn’t too much information about Rugrats’ new series or live-action film, but more information is expected to be given at San D

This week on The History of Fun, Chris Plante sits out so that we can have another fun-time expert join us: Jon Bois, our friend from SB Nation. If you ever took a high school math class, you might have had a Texas Instruments graphic calculator, and the TI-83 specifically. Share your favorite TI-83/TI-89 calculator gaming memories on this thread and we’ll pick out some of our favorites ❤️ — Russ Frushtick (@RussFrushtick) July 11, 2018Enjoying The History of Fun? New to The History of Fun? Ever

“You build a world to work perfectly for [light-skin] and sort of OK for everyone else,” said writer and motion designer Yussef Cole at this weekend’s Game Devs of Color Expo. It is a statement, however, that transcends to the larger world of game development, where the industry standard has historically excluded people of color. July 14 marked the third annual Game Devs of Color Expo (GDoC), a New York City-based gaming expo and conference designed to showcase the works and ideas of creators of

Designing a game to be welcoming for players who are hard of hearing might not be as complicated as you think, but it does take a bit of education. Learning how to take the information that’s often provided exclusively through audio and present it through other means has its challenges. Games force you to split your attention between the action on the screen and the subtitles at the bottom of the image, so why are so many games’ subtitles so small and hard to read? Turning on subtitles is a popu

Capcom and Square Enix are bringing the worlds of Final Fantasy 14 and Monster Hunter: World together this summer, with monsters, characters and items crossing over between games. Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood players will get access to Monster Hunter: World-inspired content on Aug. 7, when the legendary monster Rathalos invades the Final Fantasy MMO. The Monster Hunter: World-Final Fantasy 14 crossover content will arrive as part of the MMO’s patch 4.36 update. Grid View Final Fantasy 14: Stormb

Leader Spark of yellow-colored Team Instinct, one of three teams that players must pledge allegiance to, was seen as the dopey kid brother to Team Mystic and Team Valor’s strong, intimidating heads. What started as teasing of Team Instinct became bullying, as players who identified with Spark’s group often got shut out of gym battles and other features. I took cover in my own Team Valor’s tent for a while, but it was hard to find a seat there for the majority of the afternoon — Team Valor is hop

Patch 8.0, more commonly known as the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch, will finally hit World of Warcraft live servers on July 17. The Battle for Azeroth pre-patch brings more changes than usual. Orcs can stand tallWith the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch, players will be able to change the appearance of some of their characters with new customization options. War Mode has replaced PvP in the worldWorld PvP has been a problem in World of Warcraft for ages. Loot rules have changedThe Master Looter opti

The winners of the first Nintendo Labo Creators Contest have been announced — and the creations are just as creative and kooky as you’d expect. Released in April, the cardboard Nintendo Labo kits are Do-It-Yourself projects that encourage players to get hands on and build accessories for Nintendo Switch. There were three categories in the first Creators Contest: Best Decorated Toy Con, Best Toy-Con Mod Using Toy-Con Garage and Best Original Invention Using Toy-Con Garage. The full list of winner

Every week, Fortnite’s Battle Pass offers players a new set of challenges to complete. But, at the end of those weekly challenges is a hidden puzzle to solve, thanks to the Road Trip Challenge. Just like Season 4’s Blockbuster Challenge, Road Trip brings players a new secret challenge to be completed after they finish the regular weekly challenges. Finish a week’s worth of Challenges and the Season 5 Road Trip Challenge will reward you with a new loading screen, each with it’s own specific myste

Fortnite’s first Summer Skirmish event included a $6,500 prize for the team with the most kills, and that cash might have to be awarded to Team Lag. Constant lag is what best characterizes the tournament’s high-profile debut this weekend, when the event aired live on Twitch. It wasn’t just annoying; we’re talking about lag that kept players from moving or building. There are plenty of clips that illustrate just how bad the problem was throughout the event, like the one below. But the lag wasn’t

Jacksepticeye, one of YouTube’s most popular and beloved creators, is taking a short break from uploading daily videos, citing mental health concerns and burnout. McLoughlin said that his mental health issues, combined with an upcoming two-month trip to Los Angeles, seemed like the perfect reason to take time away from creating videos and refocus on himself. “My mental health has not been in the best place recently,” McLoughlin said. I love YouTube.”McLoughlin is one of several other creators, l

Capcom has finally added loot boxes to Street Fighter 5. This early promise is probably the single biggest reason that Street Fighter 5’s economy is such a mess, and Capcom never should have made it. As in other fighting games, you can spend Fight Money on all kinds of character customization goodies in the shop. Arcade Edition made it worseTwo years into Street Fighter 5’s lifespan, it was pretty clear that the Fight Money situation was a problem. Loot boxes, the natural next stepAnd so Capcom

While tech gets most of the attention on Prime Day, Amazon Prime comes with another great benefit that might get overlooked today — free comics. If you just signed up for Amazon Prime to take advantage of Prime Day deals, you can catch up with some of our favorite heroes like Deadpool, Black Panther and Captain Marvel for free as one of the perks that come with being an Amazon Prime member. Any digital comics you pick up at Amazon or Comixology can be read either on an Amazon Kindle or on Comixo

The Dark Knight challenged expectations, and as we know now, 10 years later, changed things … forever. Speaking at a BAFTA event last fall, Nolan admitted that the conditions under which he made The Dark Knight, even more controlled on The Dark Knight Rises after his sequel grossed over $1 billion worldwide, were abnormal, and unlikely to be replicated down the road. The Dark Knight is elegantly excessive, a confluence of Nolan’s film-tech obsessions, philosophical puzzles and wealth of popcor

His latest, The Dark Knight, would be the first feature-length, live-action motion picture to incorporate footage shot with IMAX film cameras. I was there in New York’s cavernous Lincoln Square Theater IMAX theater for that first screening of the “Dark Knight prologue,” the opening six minutes of Nolan’s sequel to Batman Begins. The prologue was an experience in sensual cinema with heavy emphasis on the “sin.”The Dark Knight is drenched in craft; wall-to-wall music, propulsive editing and a rush

Sony has been trying to make a film based on Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series for the better part of a decade, with multiple directors and screenwriters joining and leaving the project. In the meantime, there’s a slick new fan film from director Allan Ungar that stars Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Destiny) as Drake. As the short film explicitly states, Ungar and Fillion’s short film is neither authorized or endorsed by Sony or Naughty Dog. “I’ve wanted to do this ever since Uncharted first came out in

The hit anime series My Hero Academia is back to tackle the series’ Provisional Hero License Exam Arc, but despite the continuation of school and hero work, the show is irrevocably different because of a single character: All Might. A pillar of both the pro-hero industry and the plot itself, it’s hard to imagine My Hero Academia without our favorite all-powerful hero and his loose American aesthetic. At the end of the first cour of season three, things got dicey for the symbol of peace, and as a

It controls tactical position adjustment, patrolling and target zoning When a Xeno is spawned, it is attached to a zone tether. This zone tells the Xeno what area is its fighting space and where different exits are. (*disclaimer* this is inferred opinion, I cant see the actual code only bits) Whenever the game tried to do this, nothing happened. Five years after release, a single letter managed to overhaul the entirety of the enemy AI behavior in the game. Aliens: Colonial Marines, which launche