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What’s Up With MultiVersus’ PVE Rifts Mode?
Earlier this year, developer Player First Games started rolling out information for the 1.0 launch-slash-return of MultiVersus (MVS), WB Games’ mascot platform fighter. The relaunch date of May 28, 2024 was paired with other new information, and one particular point of intrigue
This Dungeons & Dragons book is the world-building deep dive you’ve been waiting for
Graphic: Sadie Gennis/Polygon, Image: Ten Speed Press Take an exclusive tour inside Worlds & Realms with its author Continue reading…
The PC Gaming Show's 10th anniversary celebration features hosts of old, games brand new, bear exclusives, and Citizen Sleeper 2
Mica Burton, Sean 'Day9' Plott and Frankie Ward return to hosting duties on June 9
100+ Mods Turn Starfield Into The Star Wars Mandalorian Game We'll Never Get
Star Wars fans have long awaited the arrival of a truly great Mandalorian video game, just to have their hopes repeatedly dashed. First, it was the long-in-development hell (but still not technically canceled) 1313 , and most recently it was Respawn’s Mandalorian game , which
The messy DisplayPort 2.1 specs mean you could be limited to a monitor cable too short to be of any use if you want to hit 4K at 240 Hz
The devil is in the details, as the saying goes, but also in the wiring in this case.
You Can't Play Steam Games In Your New Tesla Anymore
Tesla, the electric car manufacturer run by social media website vandal Elon Musk, has announced that it’s rolling back Steam support in its vehicles. Booting up a video game on the scale of Cyberpunk 2077 from the comfort of your parked car is the definition of bougie and
Bluey Receives The Full Willy Wonka Experience, Making Kids Cry
This is a free country, or so I’m told. While that doesn’t mean your entitled to lifesaving healthcare without going bankrupt, it does mean that if you own a hot dog bar in Las Vegas, Nevada, you can host an unofficial meet-and-greet with world famous cartoon pup Bluey and piss
Life in Reterra is the highly replayable board game that now lives rent-free in my family room
Photo: Charlie Hall/Polygon We picked it up, we plopped it down, and now we may never put it away Continue reading…
Baldur's Gate 3 Devs Open Seventh Studio To Help With Two 'Very Ambitious RPGs'
Larian Studios, the enormous team behind recent smash hits Divinity: Original Sin 2 and the GOTY-sweeping RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 have announced they’re opening a seventh studio, this one in Warsaw, Poland. The new recruits will be joining the efforts to work on at least two RPGs,
The Taskmaster VR game is out in a few weeks, and Little Alex Horne is resigned to what his avatar can expect from you sickos: 'They will definitely do things to me'
But he's at least pretty sure you can't strip him like they do in the show.
Video game movies keep relying on the wrong kind of violence
Image: Roadside Attractions/Everett Collection Middling films like Boy Kills World have incredible fights, but they’re missing the point Continue reading…
Keywords wants shareholders to accept £2.2 billion buyout offer
Investment firm EQT Group is attempting to purchase the global video game service provider.
AMD Zen 6 could deliver a full 32-core chiplet, with Zen 5c reportedly set to offer its own 16-core CCX
Server-market EPYC models will see the most cores, but desktop Ryzens could get a bump too.
Bummer: Tesla's 'gaming computer' that it built a car around for some reason will be 'no longer capable of playing Steam games'
"They probably realised it's a car."
Google's new AI search feature has been recommending people drink urine ('light in color')
Thankfully there are a couple different ways to opt-out of the new Google AI service its automatically opting you into.
Ghost of Tsushima's PC port once again proves that PlayStation should do this sort of thing sooner, as player counts soar past every major Sony PC release (except Helldivers 2)
Glorious Nippon appeal, concurrently played over 77,000 times.
Top-down puzzle adventure Paper Trail is the kind of page-turner you can only get in games
After playing the Paper Trail demo I feel like a puzzle-solving aficionado and origami pro.
Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian opens new studio in Poland
The new studio will help Larian create 'genre-leading' RPGs.
Ubisoft's XDefiant system requirements are so low that even a manky old potato will run the game
Po-tay-toes. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a GPU.
TCL smashes the refresh rate barrier as it demonstrates a 4K 1000Hz panel
Now we await the RTX 7090 and Display Port 3 to drive it.
Capes is a superhero game about the legacy its heroes inherit, but also the legacy of turn-based tactics as a genre
"X-Men meets XCOM" may be a glib summary, but it's not totally inaccurate.
Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 20, 2024)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
Here's the dystopian cooking simulator about frying up illegal eggs in Antarctica that you've always wanted
Only the hottest physics-based cooking action will suffice.
Lootun is an auto-battling RPG for people who just really love managing their party's gear
The demo shows how Lootun pulls inspiration from idle and incremental games.
We don't have to live like this: you can set Chrome to default to Google's new nonsense-free 'Web' search, which also completely bypasses that awful AI answer box
Web search is great, and it's not too hard to set it to be your default.
Puzzle box game Machinika: Museum is free to keep on Steam
Visuals inspired by Myst with puzzle box unraveling gameplay.
Nothing is too niche for modders to remaster, not even a '90s Star Wars FPS expansion pack where you play as Luke Skywalker's weird non-canon wife rescuing my favorite Expanded Universe dork
Mysteries of the Sith Remastered just got a big 3.0 update.
Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie gave Thelma the Unicorn its gross ‘viral hit’
Image: Netflix Directors Jared Hess and Lynn Wang on conceiving ‘Here Comes the Cud’ as a catchy, disgusting centerpiece song Continue reading…
TikTok has brought back 2000s-era digital cameras — and it’s worth the hype
Graphic: Polygon | Source images: Sunnyxjpg, Vatteyarchives, Katelyn I like taking photos again Continue reading…