Your daily audio tour through the world of video games, related technologies and pop culture like comics, movies and TV. Here's what we're covering today:

### THE BIG STORIES

- Star Wars Battlefront takes Gamescom's best-in-show honors (http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/10/9126177/star-wars-battlefront-takes-gamescoms-best-in-show-honors)

- We played Star Wars Battlefront's new Fighter Squadron mode (http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/6/9109813/star-wars-battlefront-fighter-squadron-mode-preview)

- Mad Max is the fight club I expected, but I wasn't ready for the wasteland (http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/10/9126133/max-max-game-impressions-hands-on-gamescom-2015)

### THE BEST OF THE REST

- Everybody's Gone to the Rapture review: signal to noise (http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/10/9120119/everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-review-ps4-playstation-4-chinese-room)

- A tour of Montreal's Game On exhibition (http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/10/9127269/game-on-exhibition-montreal)

- New Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer features one impressive new shot (http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/10/9126211/star-wars-the-force-awakens-new-trailer-new-shot)