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Guitar Hero Live wants to immerse you in music with always-on Guitar Hero TV

By Samit Sarkar at 1:21p 06.16.15

To hear Activision and FreeStyleGames tell it, everything in Guitar Hero Live — which launches Oct. 20 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, as well as unspecified mobile devices — is designed with an eye toward the present and the future.Guitar Hero Live is built to take advantage of modern internet-connected gaming hardware; built to capitalize on new monetization methods; built for the way people consume music in 2015, as opposed to when the series debuted a decade ago. During a pre-E3 demo of the game in New York earlier this month, it became clear that that's a double-edged sword. This demo focused on Guitar Hero TV, the half of Guitar Hero Live that isn't the standard campaign. GHTV is a live service with a full schedule of music "programming," and...

Destiny veterans get VIP bonuses with Taken King DLC

By Justin McElroy on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

If you were going to wait to hop into Destiny until the Taken King DLC launches on Sept. 15, here's a good reason not to: Bungie will be doling out exclusive bonuses to players who head into The Taken King at level 30-plus or have purchased both previous expansion packs. Here are the details: Players who reach level 30-plus on at least one character or buy both prior expansion packs by August 31 and buy The Taken King by Feb. 1, 2016 will receive an exclusive commemorative "Founder's Fortune" Year 1 emblem, Sparrow, armor shader "and more." What's the "and more"? We'd guess that it's "Gjallarhorn 2: Gjallarhorner" if we hadn't just totally made that up.

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Destiny's next expansion is The Taken King, launching Sept. 15

By Samit Sarkar on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

Destiny's next expansion is The Taken King, and it will be released Sept. 15, developer Bungie announced today during Sony's E3 2015 press briefing. Today's announcement confirms a leak from earlier this month. The Taken King will introduce new subclasses for each Guardian type, along with new super moves. It will cost $39.99, which is twice as much as Destiny's first two expansions, and physical and digital Collector's Editions will be available for $79.99. Both Collector's Editions come with vanilla Destiny and the first two expansions as well as The Taken King, along with exclusive content. "Oryx is coming, Guardian," the narrator intones in the trailer, which you can watch above. "You got his attention. Now go get his head." In Destiny's first expansion, The Dark Below, players...

King's Quest: A Knight to Remember hits in late July on PlayStation and Xbox

By Dave Tach on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

The first chapter of developer The Odd Gentlemen's reimagined version of King's Quest is called King's Quest: A Knight to Remember and will arrive on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Windows PC in late July, publisher Sierra announced today. Polygon saw some of the first chapter during a recent visit to the developer's Los Angeles office, and it's clear that the adventure game series is being reborn in the hands of loving fans who want the broadest audience possible to play the game. King's Quest: A Knight to Remember is a family game — and not a children's game — the developers explained. They want to create something that the entire family can play together and enjoy. Think of it like a Pixar movie, the kind of entertainment that transcends age barriers. M...

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FIFA 16 is getting significant design upgrades

By Colin Campbell on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

Late last month, Electronic Arts heralded the arrival of women's soccer as a big change coming to FIFA 16. But there are also many significant design tweaks and improvements coming to this year's game.The company announced at E3 today that it has significantly upgraded defensive AI, so that strikers will find it more difficult to game the system. Chief among these is a much smarter system for intercepting through-balls from the midfield. I played a demo at a recent media event and found the alertness of AI players much enhanced and the overall experience greatly improved as a result. Players are less likely to stand around gawping as balls are played into open spaces, and are more likely to anticipate the sort of passes that we see in professional soccer all the time. They...

Madden NFL 16 gets fantasy football-inspired mode, upgraded passing game

By Colin Campbell on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

EA Sports' Ultimate Team, the fantasy team mode with virtual trading cards that's available in most of the publisher's games, is phenomenally popular — as is fantasy football. This year, Madden NFL 16 developer EA Tiburon is bringing fantasy football into Madden, in a way, with a new mode called Draft Champions."Fantasy sports and football go hand in hand," said Seann Graddy, senior producer on Madden 16, in an interview with Polygon. "People just love to draft. They like to get together in a room and pick their team. They think they have more insight about a certain player. We thought about how we could bring the draft experience into Madden." Draft Champions offers you a makeshift squad based on your favorite NFL team. You then take part in a series of draft rounds, picking one...

Here's the best of Microsoft's E3 2015 presentation, in just 8 minutes

By Owen S. Good on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

Microsoft didn't come to L.A. to mess around. Backward compatibility. Halo 5: Guardians. Hololens and Minecraft. Rise of the Tomb Raider. Rare's awesome 30-for-30 anthology. Even a new controller. And that's not all of it. Here is Microsoft's 90-minute E3 keynote condensed to a useful eight minutes, still hitting all of the high notes. There were plenty of crowd pleasers, so get up to speed with this video, and if you're interested in more, see our storystream.

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Watch this 6 minute Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain trailer

By Christopher Grant on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

Hideo Kojima shared the latest trailer for his upcoming opus, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, on Geoff Keighley's YouTube E3 special. The trailer, set to New Order's Elegia, clocks in close to a hefty six minutes ... but did you expect anything less from Kojima? Keighley introduced the trailer with the following anecdote: About a month ago I went to Tokyo and had lunch with a good friend of mine, Hideo Kojima. He's been through a lot over the past few months as you've probably read online, regarding his relationship with Konami. But he's been there, working at the Konami office, sequestered away, working on Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. When I met with Mr. Kojima, he told me how proud he was of the game that he's finishing up under very difficult circumstances. He's...

Xbox One will be backward compatible with Xbox 360 [Update: Here are the first games]

By Owen S. Good on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

Xbox One will be backward compatible with Xbox 360 games, Microsoft announced today at its E3 keynote event. "The games you have invested your time and money in will be able to be played natively on your Xbox One," head of Xbox Phil Spencer said. Users will have to have the original disc, play it in the slot drive, and download a digital edition to the Xbox One. One hundred games will be supported by this holiday. "We won't charge you to play the games you already own," Microsoft said on stage. Members of the Xbox One preview program will have a selection games available now, with the general public seeing the feature by this holiday. Per Microsoft, here are the games initially available for backward compatibility. Banjo Kazooie: N n B Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Tooie BattleBlock...

The Walking Dead: Michonne coming from Telltale Games this fall

By Christopher Grant on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

Kicking off YouTube's E3 live coverage was a reveal for the newest project in Telltale Game's Walking Dead series, a three-episode miniseries titled The Walking Dead: Michonne. Telltale says that this story follows series favorite Michonne and "explores her untold journey during the time between issues #126 and #139 and "players will discover what took Michonne away from Rick, Ezekiel, and the rest of her trusted group... and what brought her back." "In many ways, Michonne herself is a reflection of the world of The Walking Dead. She is brutal and cold on the outside, but deep beneath what is broken, she remains hopeful, trying to claw her way out of the darkness that surrounds her," said Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead. "In our effort to bring the world of the comic and...

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Report: Rare classics like Battletoads returning in anthology

By Owen S. Good on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

Adding fuel to earlier talk that Rare classics like Blast Corps and Banjo-Kazooie would be resurrected, Kotaku reports that a retail listing for "Rare Replay" is an anthology that could feature up to 30 games. Earlier this year, Ken Lobb, the creative director for Microsoft Studios, said the company would bring back franchises like Perfect Dark, Viva Pinata and Battletoads at some point. He didn't specifically mention an anthology, but nothing rules that out as a first step, as Kotaku notes. Significantly, head of Xbox Phil Spencer also wore a Battletoads t-shirt at a Windows event earlier this year (pictured), which generated a lot of chatter but no response officially from Xbox. The number 30 is relevant because this is the 30th anniversary of Rare's founding. The company was...

Watch the Xbox E3 press conference live right here

By Brian Crecente on Jun 15, 2015 06.15.15

Microsoft's Xbox E3 press conference is today, Monday, June 15 at 9:30 a.m. Pacific / 12:30 p.m. Eastern. We'll be there live covering the big Xbox One news coming out of the event. You can also watch the event live in the video stream below. What do you think they'll be showing? Make sure to follow all of our E3 2015 news right here.

Rumor has it Transformers' next game is a cel-shaded brawler (update)

By Owen S. Good on Jun 13, 2015 06.13.15

If this shot of Optimus Prime duking it out with Devastator is any indication, the next Transformers game will be a brawler — for Xbox 360 — done in a cel-shaded art style evocative of the toy line's cartoons in the 1980s. Update: A listing from Amazon Canada shows Transformers: Devastation launching Oct. 6 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, with the following box art. Transformers: Devastation is the name of this game, according to Pure Xbox, which said the images and information came from unnamed sources. Activision is the publisher, says Pure Xbox, and more will be learned at E3. Pure Xbox was curiously specific about Xbox 360 as a platform for Transformers: Devastation, meaning this could be a downloadable title. Nothing rules out an Xbox One...

Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 set to kick off Sept. 15 in Americas, Sept. 17 in Europe (update)

By Colin Campbell on Jun 12, 2015 06.12.15

Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer is 20 years old this year, with the 2016 iteration coming on Sept. 15 throughout the Americas, Sept. 17 in Europe and Sept. 18 in the U.K., the company announced today. Some of the changes in PES 2016 are shown in this four-minute trailer, released by publisher Konami today. They include the usual upgrades to ball physics and more advanced visual representations of players and environments, as well as the following: A tweaked collision system with a greater variety of outcomes when players bump into one another. Aerial strength battles using the left stick, when the ball is lofted high and needs to be won. More feints and dribbles when players run at defenders. Better use of open space by AIs, allowing more combination plays. Smarter goalkeepers...

The big games of E3 2015

By Dave Tach on Jun 12, 2015 06.12.15

E3 2015 is just days away. Officially, it runs from June 16–18, although developers and publishers don't have to wait for then to start making news. But with so much expected to be announced, how do you keep it all straight? We're here to help. What follows is a list of the biggest games likely to become even bigger next week. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Call of Duty is returning to its most successful sub-franchise this year with developer Treyarch's Black Ops 3. Originally announced for a Nov. 11 release on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, it's also coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, thanks to developers Beenox and Mercenary Technology. Following in the footsteps of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Black Ops 3 is set in the future, where cybernetics change war. D...

How Microsoft can 'win' E3

By Ben Kuchera on Jun 12, 2015 06.12.15

We tackled Nintendo yesterday, and now it's time for Microsoft. What's it going to take for Microsoft to win E3? What we mean by "win" For the purposes of this article we'll define a "win" as a press event that energizes existing fans and will help to bring in new fans while helping the company in question improve their bottom line. If the show gets everyone talking about games and initiatives that will cause both existing and new fans to get out their wallets, that's a "win." This isn't a zero-sum game, where one win means that someone else loses; it's very possible at the end of the show that each company will have "won." Microsoft in a nutshell Microsoft announced the Xbox One with a disastrous event that showcased all the worst aspects of the company's digital strategy...

Disney Infinity 3.0 adds Star Wars Rebels to its lineup

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Jun 12, 2015 06.12.15

Disney Infinity 3.0 is adding four characters from Star Wars Rebels, the animated TV show, Disney Interactive announced today. The four characters are Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren and Zeb Orrelios. Ezra is the Padawan of Kanan, a Jedi turned rebel fugitive. Both use their lightsabers and the Force when in trouble. Sabine uses blasters and is talented in demolitions, while Zeb is a brawler. "In an effort to thwart the evil plans of the Galactic Empire, these characters are key players in the fight against the forces of the dark side, providing a unique addition to the Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition experience," the announcement reads. Disney Infinity 3.0 and its starter pack, which includes a base, the Star Wars: Twilight of the Republic play set and more, launch this fall....

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Tales from the Borderlands episode 3 arrives June 23

By Samit Sarkar on Jun 11, 2015 06.11.15

Tales from the Borderlands developer Telltale Games expects to release the series' third episode, "Catch a Ride," starting June 23, the studio announced today. Here's the episode's synopsis straight from Telltale: After a dizzying escape from a very-near-almost-certain-death scenario (involving statuesque buttocks), Rhys and Fiona find themselves looking for another piece of the puzzle that will lead them to the untold riches of Vault key ownership. Lost in the mysterious jungle of an Atlas terraforming facility, Fiona finds help from an unexpected mentor, Rhys continues to share brain-space with the disembodied mind of a dead dictator, and love is in the air. Pursued by the ruthless criminal 'Queenpin' Vallory, and with very little help from Vaughn's accountancy skills (or stellar...

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, one of 2013's best games, headed to PS4, Xbox One

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Jun 10, 2015 06.10.15

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons will launch for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this holiday season, 505 Games announced today. The game will also launch for mobile devices via the App Store and Google Play. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is the story of two brothers searching for a cure for their sick father. Players control both brothers simultaneously; while players might use one brother to hold a lever, for example, they'll move the other, and so forth. The game was developed by Starbreeze Studios and launched in 2013 for PlayStation 3, Windows PC and Xbox 360. Earlier this year, 505 Games purchased the game, its trademarks and domain names. Rumors of a re-launch have been circulating since German ratings were spotted for PS4 and Xbox One. For more on Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, read o...

Minimap June 10: Halo 5, Black Ops 3, NBA Live 16, Dark Souls 3, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Mirror's Edge

By Dave Tach on Jun 10, 2015 06.10.15

Welcome to Polygon Minimap, a daily audio podcast tour though the latest news about video games, related technologies and culture. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe to the podcast (RSS) Download this episode directly as an MP3 Here's what we're covering today: THE BIG STORIES Halo 5's campaign stars multiple Spartans, and one ODST, in both single-player and co-op All Halo 5: Guardians maps free, Xbox Live Gold not needed for co-op Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 to launch on Xbox 360, PS3 as well NBA Live 16 announced, has a cover star but not a launch date Report: Dark Souls 3 hits ‘early 2016' Ubisoft wants the public to help playtest Assassin's Creed Syndicate, give feedback Obsidian chief creative officer and co-founder departs studio (update) Apple Design Awards 2015...

Minimap June 9: Hands-on with Fortnite and Metal Gear 5: The Phantom Pain, Xbox One, Witcher 3, Destiny

By Dave Tach on Jun 09, 2015 06.09.15

Welcome to Polygon Minimap, a daily audio podcast tour though the latest news about video games, related technologies and culture. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe to the podcast (RSS) Download this episode directly as an MP3 Here's what we're covering today: THE BIG STORIES Hands-on with Fortnite, Epic Games' curious survival construction shooter Xbox One gets $349 price drop, new 1 TB version with new controller The Witcher 3 sells 4 million copies in two weeks Report: Destiny's The Taken King expansion hits Sept. 15, adds new raid, new subclasses Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain feels like the end of an era, a stealth game triumph THE BEST OF THE REST Cali: A story of love and prostitution in VR Is Blizzard about to add a new game mode to Hearthstone? You...

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