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Rhythm Heaven Groove review: Nintendo's wacky music game sticks to the hits

A lot has changed between the launch of Rhythm Heaven Fever in 2011 and Rhythm Heaven Groove , the latest installment in the quirky music series on Nintendo Switch. While the series once felt like the wackiest thing in the world, Rhythm Heaven Groove is now fairly average on the weird-o-meter. Its brand of musical minigames isn’t unique anymore either; plenty of games inspired by Rhythm Heaven have sprouted out in the past 15 years, and even raised the bar it set in every way. source https://www.polygon.com/rhythm-heaven-groove-review/

Mario Kart World update 1.7.0 adds new Knockout Tour routes

Mario Kart World , the flagship Nintendo Switch 2 game that so many people own thanks to it coming bundled with consoles at launch, has received a new update today. source https://www.polygon.com/mario-kart-world-update-1-7-0-knockout-tour-new-routes/

Who is Mother Askani in X-Men ’97? The truth behind season 2's most important, most mysterious character

If there's one thing the X-Men love, it's getting caught up in time-travel shenanigans. Dating back to the formative 1981 comic storyline Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont, science-fiction tropes like alternate timelines and temporal displacement have been a mainstay of the franchise. X-Men '97 season 2 is no exception. source https://www.polygon.com/x-men-97-season-7-mother/

Wardogs cheaters will be easy to deal with, claims CEO

FPS games on PC have had cheaters and players using unfair hacks for as long as they've been around. Various anticheat solutions have come and gone, to varying degrees of success. One of the latest, that almost every modern FPS game is implementing, are hardware-level protections, such as enabling secure boot and TPM 2.0. Wardogs will follow suit with that requirement, Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer told Polygon. He wouldn't go into much more detail about the studio's specific anticheat plans, but when it comes to exploits, he thinks the game itself will protect players from unfair behavior: source https://www.polygon.com/wardogs-interview-cheaters-exploiters-wont-succeed/

Call of Duty reminds players that Modern Warfare 4 won't be coming to Game Pass this year

In 2024, Xbox added Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to its Game Pass subscription service, granting everyone who uses it access to the latest entry in the series. This didn't arrive until July, however, which meant the game had been out for around nine months already by that point. A few months later, Black Ops 6 joined Game Pass at launch , and the following year, Black Ops 7 did the same. Microsoft pledged that this would be the protocol going forward: all new Call of Duty games would be on Game Pass at launch. source https://www.polygon.com/modern-warfare-4-not-on-xbox-game-pass-ads/

Netflix is adapting Atlus Persona for new live-action TV series

Netflix is developing a live-action TV series based on Atlus' Persona role-playing game franchise, according to a new report. The series is being developed by production company Story Kitchen , which produces the Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise for Sega, and 21 Laps, the production company founded by Shawn Levy ( Deadpool & Wolverine , Free Guy ), who produced Stranger Things . source https://www.polygon.com/persona-tv-series-netflix-atlus-sega/

X-Men: The Animated Series original director reveals why Cable is so different in X-Men '97 season 2

Back in the early 1990s, X-Men fans knew Cable was cool, but they didn't know exactly why. (Besides that fact that he was a badass, battle-hardened, time-traveling super soldier, of course.) Turns out, neither did the creators of X-Men: The Animated Series . source https://www.polygon.com/x-men-97-season-2-cable/