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Marathon players are amassing way too much loot in Season 2, and the primary cause is a mystery: 'We're still unravelling the source'
"Progression and access to power moved much faster than the previous season."
Guild Wars 3 isn't the only new Guild Wars on the way: ArenaNet just announced a Guild Wars card game
Mistbound aims to give fans "a new way to play together."
Amazon Prime Day: The best gaming discounts of the year officially start in 3 days
Massive discounts are coming with Amazon Prime day, which is joined by sales from Target, Walmart, Best Buy, and more.
Crysis 2 had problems, but it got one thing right: destruction
Fancy a second helping of Crysis 2's big apple crumble?
The team behind bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss just got laid off, less than a month after the game's release
Another deluge of layoffs in a year full of them.
The Witcher 4 dev still not convinced it's fully redeemed for Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 had a tumultuous launch, and CD Projekt Red's CEO still doesn't believe that the studio's redemption arc after that is over.
Richard Garriott Wants To Take Ultima Back From EA Using Obscure Legal Quirks
The eccentric Lord British wants to retake the RPG series that made him a fortune without spending one
Entropy Is An Upcoming Vagrant Story Inspired RPG In A Nasty Kingdom
The anticipated follow-up from the Dread Delusion folks is filled with rot, rock and rule
8 best anime to watch if you like Solo Leveling (#3 will blow your mind)
Not every title has an overpowered protagonist, but all of them share Solo Leveling's DNA.
Xbox Clarifies Halo: Campaign Evolved Won’t Require PS Plus For Splitscreen After Massive Backlash
What a mess
The videogame market is as big as ever, with PC leading growth—global games revenue surpassed the $200 billion mark in 2025
Market analyst Michiel Buijsman reckons GTA 6 will be 2026's "defining commercial catalyst."
Arnold Schwarzenegger's underrated '90s action masterpiece required 3 key scenes, says director
Chuck Russell followed Jim Carrey's The Mask with Eraser, a 30-year-old overlooked action thriller that soars with a dash of sci-fi.
The Witcher 4 should take inspiration from the second game, not the third
The Witcher 4 must have more impactful decisions than the third game in the series, and the perfect example is how it was handled in The Witcher 2.
Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'
Part of the sales pitch for AI is that it can carve out tedious 'busy work.' Should it?
10 jaw-dropping discoveries from the world’s only museum entirely dedicated to The X-Files
10 awesome props from the X-Files museum in Saratoga Springs, NY
Halo: Campaign Evolved has ridiculous local co-op requirements on PS5
The PS5 port of Halo: Campaign Evolved requires players to have two PS Plus subscriptions in order to play split-screen co-op
Doom, Duke Nukem Composer And Overall MIDI Maestro Bobby Prince Dies At 81
From Commander Keen to Wolfenstein, many foundational PC games were brought to life with Prince’s soundscapes
The best D&D videogame you've never played is one guy's outsider art, personal Baldur's Gate saga
Realheads know Swordflight. Sickos love it.
5 promising games recently cancelled by Microsoft
If you wished for more pizazz at this year's Xbox Showcase, there's lots of it buried in an growing graveyard of cancelled Xbox games.
Spider-Man Brand New day won't ever beat the best Spider-Man movie ever
Spider-Man: Brand New Day looks great, but ther's no way it will be as good as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 from 2004 starring Tobey Maguire
I spent an entire day with a fan-mod of North Korea's homegrown operating system, and I'm sorry to say it's not a Windows killer yet
Not the year of RedStar on the desktop.
Stellaris celebrates 10 years (and a new DLC) with a free weekend and a 70% discount
The sci-fi strategy game is getting on in years, but it's no less active.
Dead Space, one of the best video game remakes ever, is just $6 on Steam right now
EA Motive's excellent 2023 remake of Visceral's Dead Space is just $6 on Steam right now during the EA Summer Sale.
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash
The chairman and CEO of Guillemot Corporation was 69.
Widow's Bay director Hiro Murai answers our 7 biggest questions
"There were a lot of questions about whether this could be pulled off, which was really exciting," Murai tells Polygon.
Where to find the Temple of Nachi Falls in Forza Horizon 6
Here's where you find the Temple of Nachi Falls in Forza Horizon 6, where you must visit to complete the "Temple of Zoom" daily challenge.
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dead after plane crash
Claude Guillemot, who co-founded Ubisoft in the 1980s with his brothers, has died in a plane crash
Steam’s New Military Sim Has You Spend 30 Minutes Loading A Big Cannon And It’s Awesome
The worst Steam Next Fest in recorded history also somehow features the best Next Fest demo I've ever played
Devs is still the perfect binge, and it's only gotten more relevant
Alex Garland's Devs is a brilliant sci-fi thriller that keeps getting better with age
WoW's got the right to close private servers—but in this industry layoff hellscape, I also feel like I'm watching the MMO genre's future get snuffed out
Private servers are a symptom, not the disease.
This GTA 5 filmmaker is livestreaming every step of machinima production, from location scouting to live debugging when the game inevitably crashes
The good, the bad and the totally expected.
Celebrating KPop Demon Hunters, the animated masterpiece that united the world
A year ago, Netflix and Sony Animation's KPop Demon Hunters became an overnight sensation, uniting audiences across generations.
Nintendo's Switch eShop update arrives 9 years too late
The latest Switch system update patches out the store's notorious lag, but why now?
Control Resonant Hands-On: Giving One Of The Most Consistently Surprising Developers The Benefit Of The Doubt
Remedy Entertainment refines its creepypasta world-building in a more conventional action-RPG
The creator of Ultima is reportedly reclaiming the series' rights back from EA, and it could happen as soon as next year
"Every decade or so, I tried to work with EA on a revival of Ultima."
Kenan and Kel hunt for classic games and find their childhoods
The SNL, All That, and Good Burger stars head to New York City to talk childhood nostalgia and video games on Polygon's Shelf Quest.
Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash
The 69-year-old Ubisoft co-founder is one of two reported victims, alongside the operator and owner of the aircraft
Toy Story 5 proves Pixar's biggest sequel problem isn't going away
Toy Story 5 repeats Toy Story 4's mistake in regard to its supporting cast, giving many of the core characters nothing to do
After losing over 30 pounds exercising in VR for six months, I can say it's worth the effort (and sweaty faceplates)
Here's to another six!
Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language'
"I have this tendency to dial up things to 11 when I really think I need to make a point."
9 best detective games with crime mysteries you really solve
If you can’t stand a game that doesn’t tie off its loose ends, check out these 10 narrative-driven mystery games that won’t leave you hanging.