A couple of weeks ago at the Game Developers Conference, League of Legends design director Greg Street gave a talk on the constant struggle to balance an incredibly complex game like League. Before that talk, Polygon spoke with Street on a wide variety of topics, from class updates to upcoming champion redesigns. During that conversation, we got onto the topic of the growing fandom surrounding different characters in League of Legends, and how some parts of the fan base may not see much representation in game yet. So will the game see champions who are openly identified as not straight? Street says yes, eventually. “We owe it to the players and, I think, to the world to do something like that,” Street said. “What I don’t want to do is be like, ‘Okay, team, next character, whatever you...

Eclipse: Edge of Light, a beautiful virtual reality exploration game being created by a team led by a former God of War designer, is now a Google Daydream timed exclusive. The game, which we first wrote about last year, is being developed by Jonathan Hawkins’ White Elk studio. During a talk today at SXSW in Austin, Jamil Moledina, game strategic lead at Google Play, showed off a short video for the game to highlight the sort of experiences that the company is looking for. He said the game doesn’t quite have a release date, but that it will be coming out soon, and that while Eclipse is initially exclusive to Daydream, it can later be released to other platforms. The game is a first-person exploration game set on a sentient planet with a “dark past,” according to White Elk’s website. A...

World of Goo is now out for the Nintendo Switch in North America for $9.99, and it’s one of the first games to take advantage of the Joy-Cons controllers’ pointer-style capabilities. While previous Nintendo systems required a sensor bar for this style of controls, the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Cons only require you to rest the controller on a solid surface for a moment before being able to use the controller as a sort of mouse on your television. You can watch the controller in action in the tweet below. This. is. NUTS. #NintendoSwitch #WorldOfGoo pic.twitter.com/KUqNeEUyNt— Daan Koopman (@NintenDaan) March 16, 2017 Here’s another quick video that shows how the controller works using only wrist movements. .@TheTetrodox pic.twitter.com/WoEaDGIJcl— Daan Koopman (@NintenDaan) March...

Fire Emblem Heroes’ metagame could see some serious changes for the worse, all because of its newest feature. Players are in uproar because of how skill inheritance seems to widen the gap between those who spend money on building out their teams and those who don’t in the free-to-play game. The inherit skill feature allows for characters to gain the skills of other heroes in a someone’s collection. Its basic function is familiar to longtime Fire Emblem players, as the recent mainline games encourage players to shack up characters in the hopes of passing along their best skills to offspring. But that’s not quite how inheritance works in Fire Emblem Heroes, based on what mobile users have gleaned from the update thus far. Instead, it comes with very few limitations — heroes can inherit...

Mass Effect: Andromeda will be released on March 21, but pre-release copies are already in the hands of critics and streamers. That’s not good news for BioWare, as people are having a field day capturing moments in which the in-game animation system breaks down. The facial animations, in particular, aren’t looking great. This isn’t the first time the game’s animations have proven to be a problem before launch. But the reports, videos and gifs that show off the game’s flawed animations have increased since review copies have been released. Reports are varied about how bad the issue is, and how much it affects players’ enjoyment of the game, but it does seem like the animations could have used a bit more time to be perfected. You can watch the game’s first hour if you’d like to get a...