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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 something about animation here 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.
Blizzard addresses Diablo 4's gold problem in a patch, but nobody is quite sure if it's solved yet
Players are torn on having to spending millions of gold to upgrade your items.
GTA 6 Could Be The First Game To Push Past $70
It’s only been about two years or so since the video game industry began charging $70 for big games instead of the usual $60, due to game development costs increasing (and greed). This shift, understandably, didn’t go over well with players as the cost to stay up-to-date with
25 Years Later, I Am Now A Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Apologist
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is historically significant for many reasons: it was the first Star Wars movie in nearly 16 years, the last Star Wars movie shot on film, and a polarizing, pulpy entry in the storied space fantasy franchise. It debuted on May 19, 1999, 25
Pokémon YouTuber Gets $157 From GameStop For $328 Worth Of Cards
In a surprise twist, GameStop recently announced internally that some of its stores would begin buying and selling graded collectibles like Pokémon cards. There were immediately a bunch of questions like “how?” and “why?” One YouTuber recently tested exactly how the process
A new native port of Majora's Mask might change how we play N64 games on our PCs
A new way to play a fan favorite.
Call Of Duty’s Next Crossover Brings Gundam To The Game
Each season of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and free-to-play battle royale Warzone includes crossovers with other pop-culture franchises. The games have seen King Kong , Dune , and more in past seasons. None of them have been that enticing to me, but then again I’m not the
Take-Two CEO says he's 'highly confident' GTA6 will make its release window, gets all philosophical about it: 'Perfection is indeed hard to measure, it really is more subjective than objective'
Says if you want to know what's new… just watch the trailer again.
I Saw the TV Glow is a powerful call to action — any action
Image: A24/Everett Collection Digging into the ending of Jane Schoenbrun’s powerful, painful, personal movie Continue reading…
Just 2 weeks before its early access release, Life By You is delayed again, this time without a new date
The Sims-style life sim from Paradox Tectonic is no longer launching in June.
Ardán launches development fund for Irish indie studios
The IndieDev program will grant €15,000 to the seven studios in the island of Ireland to generate ideas and create game prototypes.
Stellar Blade dev Shift Up eyes PC port and sequel in studio growth plans
Shift Up wants to build Stellar Blade into a franchise as it actively begins to start up a new project to become a hopeful cross-platform giant.