Nintendo acquiring the studio that ported Hogwarts Legacy is super interesting
Illustration: Inkee Wang for Polygon This feels like a clue to its Switch 2 plans Continue reading…
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The 10 Best X-Men Games Of All Time
You wouldn’t know it looking at Marvel’s video game output over the past decade or so, but the X-Men have a long and storied history in the medium. There are certainly some duds like The Uncanny X-Men on the NES from 1989, but by and large, the mutant team has been the star of
Pokémon’s coveted Japanese plush line is finally coming to the US
Image: Pokémon Center The first set of Pokémon coming are the Kanto starters Continue reading…
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door will make you mad Mario isn’t this weird anymore
Image: Nintendo Sometimes, the fans are right Continue reading…
Amazon Games opens Bucharest studio to support development and publishing ambitions
'Expanding our internal development teams into Europe was a natural next step for us.'
Ghost of Tsushima PC performance analysis: Your CPU will be fine, your GPU will whine, but there are settings for every gamer out there
Unless you happen to own an Intel Arc graphics card. You're out of luck, I'm afraid.
The best Valorant VPN in 2024
Improve your speeds, find better servers, and get easy wins with a VPN for Valorant
Bethesda won't make a game as cool as Morrowind ever again, so thank god an original dev has come back 20 years on to make quest mods for it
Douglas Goodall has returned to the game he helped make with a bunch of mods.
Starfield player jury-rigs 100+ Star Wars mods together to make a convincing Boba Fett simulator: 'I basically added every single Star Wars mod out there on Nexus'
A field of Star Wars.
Noctua's newest products will keep you, and your consoles, cool
Built using our favorite PC fan, the NF-A12x25.
All the big laptop makers are embracing Qualcomm's Snapdragon X, here are all the 'PC reborn' models available for pre-order now
There's something about you, Snappy.
What makes a greatsword great?
Image: Capcom Carrying its weight means making sacrifices Continue reading…
The freeform TTRPG Sword Loser gives adults a terrific excuse to play like kids again
Image: Tasha Robinson/Alice Steuer When the world isn’t giving you enough cool swords, play an arty TTRPG Continue reading…
On Cool Sword Day, celebrate the only thing cooler than dual-wielding swords…
Image: Netflix Three swords are better than one Continue reading…
It’s Cool Sword Day, so watch one of these cool sword movies
Image: Beijing New Picture Film Sometimes, the best action movies require cool swords Continue reading…
I talked to a swordmaker about the coolest swords he makes
Grinding down the edge of a claymore in central Michigan. | Photo: Sabersmith How Sabersmith’s cutting edge blades are born in rural Michigan Continue reading…
Happy Cool Sword Day to all who celebrate!
Photo illustration by Will Joel/Polygon | Images: Disney, Square Enix, Hakusensha/Dark Horse Comics, Nintendo Unsheathe and celebrate Continue reading…
Nintendo buys Switch port studio Shiver Entertainment from Embracer
Shiver worked on the Switch versions of Hogwarts Legacy and Mortal Kombat 1.
What time does Wuthering Waves release?
Image: Kuro Games Plus some details about the launch rewards Continue reading…
Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 exposes an uncomfortable truth about upscalers—it's all about what sort of compromises you're prepared to make to image quality
If you're anything like me, you'll be bouncing between graphics settings more often than you might like.
Draugar settlement rune puzzle solution in Hellblade 2
Image: Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios via Polygon Find the three runes in the ruined village Continue reading…
All Hiddenfolk puzzle solutions and stone ball locations in Hellblade 2
Image: Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios via Polygon Find the carved stone balls in all three hiddenfolk puzzles Continue reading…
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II: The Kotaku Review
I’m on a path to find reprieve from the suffering around me. But as I turn the next corner of clouding darkness, a bright red light paralyzes me as the forceful and commanding voice of my father tells me that not only am I doomed to fail in my struggles, but that I am actively
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is less personal, more spectacle
Image: Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Ninja Theory’s sequel has a much wider scope Continue reading…
Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 review
Visually spectacular but narratively limp, this cinematic sequel fails to find a new path for Senua.
After 3 years on the Epic Games Store, the Kingdom Hearts series is finally releasing on Steam
Fire up your Steam Decks.
Microsoft unveils the Copilot+ AI PC ecosystem, with Snapdragon X laptops exclusively leading the way
Intel and AMD don't yet qualify.
Can Elgyem be shiny in Pokémon Go?
Graphic: Julia Lee/Polygon | Source images: Game Freak/Nintendo, The Pokémon Company Yes, you can find shiny Elgyem in Pokémon Go Continue reading…
Super Mario 64 gets a Mario Maker-like romhack that runs on original hardware
Mario Builder 64 is "a toolbox letting you fulfill all of your SM64 dreams," say its creators.
Hand-drawn adventure game comes to Steam after being dropped from Apple Arcade, creator laments the way games 'can just vanish' today
"This is the sad thing about the way our kind of creative mediums are going: works don't have any kind of permanence."
Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 21
Trouble solving today's Wordle? Here's the help you need.
The $200 Fallout TV series Pip-Boy replica looks a lot better than the bulky Fallout 4 collector's edition toy
"When the alarm rings it'll be the bombs dropping."
The PC games market grew a lot more than the console games market last year, says research firm
PC game revenues increased by over 8% year over year compared to just a fraction of a percent for console games, according to market researchers.
The developer of exceptional 2022 sci-fi adventure Norco is following it up with a 'narrative micro-adventure' about an android exploring an AI-haunted oil refinery
You can play the demo for Silenus (and find all the tracks to Umbilical by Thou) right now.
