Source: AmazonRoss Miller (he/him) is Polygon’s Senior Commerce Editor for the summer. He has nearly 20 years of experience in media and was a founding editor of The Verge.Now that Microsoft has launched the Xbox app for Fire TV, you can play Xbox Game Pass games without any extra hardware aside from a Bluetooth controller — no Series X, no Series S, and no very long HDMI cable from your Windows PC to your living room TV required. It’s the future Microsoft has been hinting at for years, and now that all things Fire TV are on sale for Amazon’s October Prime Day, it’s a great time to embrace the future.Amazon Fire TV stick$25$5050% off$25Access all your favorite streaming services including Netflix, Max, and even Xbox Game Pass for cloud gaming. Video outputs at 4K Ultra HD with support for Dolby Vision, HDR10+, and Dolby Atmos audio.Read More$35 at Amazon (4K Max)$25 at Amazon (4K)The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max is 42% off for Prime members — only $34.99, instead of the usual $59.99. The 4K Max supports Wi-Fi 6E and Dolby Atmos, and includes a remote that you can shout “Alexa” into for ease of navigation (it also has normal remote buttons as well). There’s also the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K (i.e., not-Max) for $24.99, which is down 50% from its typical price of $49.99). The Fire Stick 4K supports up to Wi-Fi 6.To play Xbox games via cloud streaming, you’ll need Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a subscription that has hundreds of titles and is frequently updated with both first-party titles and some great third-party selections as well — like Inscryption, Polygon’s 2021 Game of the Year and a perfectly spoopy selection for October. You can pick up 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from Amazon for $44.99 (was $49.99) or try just one month for $16.99. And, of course, you’ll need that aforementioned Bluetooth controller — as luck would have it, the official Xbox wireless controller is currently 20% off from Amazon.Xbox wireless gaming controller$48$6020% off$48$48 at AmazonIf you’re also in need of a TV to use, might we suggest the 55-inch LG C4 — OLED TVs are a Polygon staff favorite — or the 65-inch Samsung Frame TV , which is great not just for displaying video game art.Looking for more deals? Check out all of Polygon’s favorite October Prime Day 2024 deals right here, and subscribe to our newsletter below to get great deals delivered to your inbox every week.
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To Refik Anadol, data is a creative force.
“For as long as I can remember, I have imagined data as more than just information—I have seen it as a living, breathing material, a pigment with infinite possibilities,” the Turkish-American artist said on Monday during his acceptance speech at the TIME100 AI Impact Awards in Dubai.
Anadol was one of four leaders shaping the future of AI to be recognized at TIME’s fourth-annual Impact Awards ceremony in the city. California Institute of Technology professor Anima Anandkumar, musician Grimes…
Read moreGrand Theft Auto V actor Ned Luke, who played Michael in the incredibly popular game, has spoken out about his thoughts on Grand Theft Auto VI. He said in an interview with Fall Damage (via Dexerto) that he’s confident the game will be “fantastic,” going on to say no one ever knows what to expect from Rockstar Games, and that’s part of the reason why he’s so eager to see what the studio is cooking up.
“You never know what Rockstar is going to do,” he said. “What I tell people is, be patient. It’s going to be worth the wait. From what I’ve seen, it’s going to be amazing. They’re going to blow our [GTA V] numbers away.”
By “numbers,” Luke was referring to the $800 million that GTA V earned in its first 24 hours back in 2013. Luke said he expects GTA VI to make $1.3 billion in …
Read moreWith the launch of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle around the corner, interest in the original film series starring Harrison Ford will probably spike. The first four movies are streaming on Prime Video and Paramount+, and 2023’s Dial of Destiny is on Disney+. If you prefer to own your movies, there’s a four-film collection on Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray. And the timing of the game’s release is kind of perfect, as Amazon’s Cyber Monday sale includes deals on the collections in both formats. You can even get a 4K collection with a steelbook case for each movie.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will have no DRM whatsoever. Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, the PR boss at developer Warhorse, confirmed this during a recent Twitch stream.
The RPG does not use Denuvo or any form of DRM, the developer said, as reported by IGN. Stolz-Zwilling said Warhose had “some discussions” about utilizing DRM to protect the game from piracy, but it was ultimately decided that “it will not have any DRM system at all.”
Stolz-Zwilling said he hopes this brings closure to the ongoing questions from the community about whether or not Deliverance 2 will have DRM.
“Stop texting under every post we do that Denuvo is in the game, because it’s not. We never announced… we never said it will be there. As I said, a bit of a misunderstanding,” he said. “Let’s bury that th…
Read moreIn retrospect, Deadpool 2 has the perfect setup for a MCU sequel after Ryan Reynolds’ title character “borrowed” a time machine and used it save his beloved Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) from an early grave before righting some other wrongs. But if fans were expecting Wade Wilson to have a happy ending, Deadpool and Wolverine is shooting that notion down a month before the film’s release.
Deadpool and Wolverine is the cover story for the latest issue of Total Film, which features new details about where things stand after Deadpool 2. According to the report, six years have passed since Wade changed history and prevented Vanessa’s murder Come from Sports betting site VPbet . But there have been some unpleasant e…
Read moreSince the beginning of The Boys in 2019, showrunner Eric Kripke has done just about everything to show audiences that Homelander (Antony Starr) is a villain. He may drape himself in the American flag, but Homelander has killed countless people through three seasons and he’s behaved in very un-heroic ways. Regardless, some fans continue to view Homelander as a hero. As The Boys heads into its fourth season, Kripke doesn’t know what he can do or say to change that perception among Homelander’s fans.
While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Kripke not only took on Homelander’s defenders, he also addressed fans who have accused the show of going “woke.”
“Anyone who wants to call the show ‘woke’ or whatever, that’s OK. Go watch something else. But I’m certainly not going to pu…
Read moreVinland Saga’s gorgeous new deluxe editions are on sale for their lowest prices yet at Amazon. Volume 1 of the superb historical manga, which released in February, is discounted to only $33. You can pair it with Volume 2, which was published in April, for $43. These hefty hardcover editions of Vinland Saga are 600-700 pages each and carry list prices of $55. The third and fourth volumes release in the coming months, and you can get a 10% discount on your preorder.
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At a glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking that The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom follows firmly in the footsteps of the 2019 remake of Link’s Awakening. Stick Zelda in as a playable character, give her a magic wand, sell an absolute shed-load of copies. Job done.
But having now played an 80-minute section from early in the game, this comparison seems only surface-deep. Although it shares the extremely cute, diorama-esque aesthetic of its top-down predecessor, Echoes captures much more of the systemic and improvisational joys of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom than you might expect.
As I write this, Black Myth: Wukong, the action adventure from China’s Game Science studio, is the most played game on Steam by player count. There are currently 1,400,932 players in-game (with a peak of 1,443,570), surpassing the likes of Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG and all the usual games that occupy Steam’s top five.Wukong’s launch was already predicted to be strong, with the game being Steam’s number one seller for several weeks, but the concurrent player figures are quite staggering for a single-player, offline game.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Though the number of concurrent players continues to rise, even as it stands, this makes Black Myth: Wukong Steam’s fourth most popular game in its history, having j…
Read moreWorld of Warcraft: The War Within is officially out today, which means you – yes, you – can boot up the game right now and get an espresso shot of that lovely new-expansion experience. It’s the best time to play an MMO y’know, before everything settles down and you’re stuck running raids on a weekly schedule.The expansion has you and other players venture down into Azeroth’s underbelly looking for loot, Xal’atath, and roughly a billion giant spiders who ironically aren’t too fond of you hanging around. It’s already been playable for those who bought special (and more expensive) version of the expansion, but now the gates have been thrown open for the entire playerbase to hop in.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As for what’s available right now, the…
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