Dailyposts

Late last week, Xbox announced that longtime CEO and face of the company, Phil Spencer, is leaving after 25 years with the team. His replacement, Asha Sharma, is the current president of Microsoft CoreAI. source https://www.polygon.com/xbox-new-ceo-asha-sharma-gaming-profile/

Discord announced Tuesday that it will delay the implementation of previously announced, but controversially received, age verification measures. source https://www.polygon.com/discord-delays-age-id-verification/

Blizzard Entertainment is working on a spinoff of Overwatch for mobile devices called Overwatch Rush , the company announced Tuesday. Overwatch Rush is described as "an entirely new game – not a port" that's being developed internally at Blizzard by a team separate from Team 4, the group that works on Overwatch . source https://www.polygon.com/overwatch-rush-mobile-game-blizzard-reveal/

I don’t actually remember when I first got into the franchise, but the anime began airing in the U.S. in early September 1998 when I was nine years old. We had a VCR attached to every TV in the house (sometimes two of them!) and were big on shooting home videos with my dad’s clunky video camera, so we had a stockpile of empty VHS tapes. At some point, I began recording every single episode of the Pokémon anime, as if documenting this cultural milestone was one of the most important I could do with my free time. Did I even rewatch episodes? Probably not. I hate rewatching things. Those tapes are also a total mess, with none of the episodes in the correct order. source https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-30th-anniversary-battle-for-mew/

Season 1 of HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 has concluded, and it was a huge success. The series launch was one of HBO’s top three most-watched premieres of all time . The show boasts one of the highest IMDB-rated episodes of any series in the Game of Thrones franchise. It also has something its predecessors didn’t: a fully completed story to adapt. That’s likely no coincidence when it comes to explaining why it's landed so well with critics and viewers. source https://www.polygon.com/knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-source-material-adaptation-hedge-knight/

The Pokémon franchise has often surprised me over the years — things like the introduction of real-time combat in Legends: Z-A and the open world of Scarlet and Violet were certainly a shock to my system, but I'd never been actively jump-scared by the series until today. In the process of writing an article, I did a quick Google search to remind myself of the release date of Legends Arceus , and was immediately greeted by a big Poké Ball hovering at the bottom of my screen and a pang of desire in my chest to catch 'em all. source https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-google-game-browser/