There are 10 skins in the Marvel Rivals season 2 battle pass, most of which fit into a black tie gala theme. While two of these skins are available for free, the other eight require you to purchase the paid “luxury” battle pass, just like in season 1 with the Darkhold. Below, we’ll show you all skins in the Marvel Rivals season 2 battle pass, plus details about what else...
Have you ever wished you could go exploring in Dark and Darker without worrying about getting ganked by a fellow adventurer who started playing the game 200 hours before you even discovered its existence? If so, good news: Season 6 of the game's early access release includes a new "Adventure Mode," a PvE-exclusive co-op format that gives players the opportunity for some risk-free dungeon crawling."Risk free," to be more specific,...
There are very few flaws with Blue Prince, a new indie puzzle game about exploring a mansion whose room layout changes daily — with said room placement decided by the player as they explore and discover the mysterious properties of each room and the mansion as a whole. The game does have a big problem for a certain segment of players, however, which is that it has color-based puzzles in...
This story was first published in Switchboard, a newsletter from Polygon that delivers all the latest Switch 2 news, reporting, and rumors directly to your inbox. Sign up here to get it weekly. One of the big new features that Nintendo touted at last week’s Switch 2 reveal was GameChat, a built-in communication system that — as long as you pay for Nintendo Switch Online — will let players communicate via voice and...
The Boiler Room provides power to certain rooms around the estate in Blue Prince. The Boiler Room will send steam power through the steam ducts on the ceiling to any connecting room, as long as they also have steam ducts. However, you’ll need to figure out how to activate the steam power first, which will require you to turn a lot of valves and pipes. Solving the puzzle can be...
In Blue Prince you've inherited a mysterious mansion, but the twist is you also have to build that mansion, one room at a time, while you explore it. The deeper you get, the more mysteries you'll find, and even as you unravel one you'll stumble across a few more to take its place.There's a lot to grasp in the early hours of this puzzle strategy adventure, and as you begin...
I'm a big fan of the Talos Principle games, and so was happy to hear that the original, now more than 10 years old, was getting the remaster treatment as The Talos Principle: Reawakened. And it's not just a graphical overhaul: The updated edition also features an entirely new chapter that takes players back to the very earliest days of the simulation that brought about the rebirth of humanity.The Talos...
OpenAI is countersuing Elon Musk, and claims the company's co-founder is engaged in "bad faith tactics" in order to gain control of its industry-leading AI technology. Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, his fellow co-founder, last year in an attempt to stop him changing the corporate structure from a non-profit to a for-profit company.OpenAI was co-founded by Musk and Altman in 2015. Musk left OpenAI in 2018 and...
For longtime movie-lovers Ryan Sloan and Ariella Mastroianni, the 2020 lockdowns turned a New Jersey attic into a welcome creative pressure cooker. The pair always dreamed of making a movie, but the uncertainty of the moment — not to mention the tight quarters — created a sense of urgency. Under duress, vibes came pouring out. The result was Gazer, an icy, paranoid neo-noir thriller peppered with elaborate horror visuals. It...
The original music for Minecraft, alongside the reboot jingle for Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, have been inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress and are now part of the American audio canon.These were two of the 25 recordings that make up 2025's additions (thanks AP), all of which were chosen for their "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.""These are the...