Boy Kills World is a litmus test for fans of video game-inspired movies
Image: Roadside Attractions/Everett Collection What makes a video game movie fun? And does this movie’s incredibly brutal mortal combat make a difference? Continue reading…
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Anyone but You on Netflix, Monkey Man, and every new movie to watch at home this weekend
Image: Brook Rushton/Sony Pictures The Shakespeare-inspired rom-com finally comes to streaming Continue reading…
A new Stardew Valley patch is here, and we can all rest easy: it fixes Mr. Raccoon
Stardew Valley's 1.6.6 update is "mostly bug fixes and translation changes," but it still manages some whimsy.
Manor Lords Players Can’t Get Families To Stop Being Homeless
As its name suggests, Manor Lords is a city builder about managing a medieval village. You help it grow, fight off bandits, and eventually take part in larger military campaigns. But none of it amounts to a hill of beans if you can’t get families to move in and help your
Wait, how did I miss that you can finally preorder Armored Core 6 model kits?
Plastic Haze (Empty Wallet).
Beware: Another Crab’s Treasure’s Idle Animation Secretly Griefs Players
Another Crab’s Treasure is finally out, and if you’re as much of a sucker for soulslikes as I am, you’re likely picking it up. Good news: it’s pretty great and packed to the brim with charming nods to the Souls games, tight combat and skills , and funny-as-hell jokes. One of
Thanks to Fallout 4's disaster update, GOG's patch rollback feature makes it the best version of the game right now
Fixing Fallout 4 on Steam requires a delicate scaffolding of repository downloads and offline management. On GOG you just click two menu options.
Our favorite starter deck for Disney Lorcana is available for its lowest price ever
Photo: Charlie Hall/Polygon Start playing for just $14 Continue reading…
The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook
The studios behind these mega hits spent more than a decade iterating on their favorite design ideas until they went supernova.
The Tortured Poets Department Is The Dark Souls Of Taylor Swift Albums
In the days after the April 19 release of The Tortured Poets Department , the latest album from Taylor Swift , I came across a presentation explaining the artist’s relationship with 1975 frontman Matty Healy. It is over one hundred pages long, and it’s not the only
The solo developer of Manor Lords, Steam's latest smash hit, named his studio after a Witcher 3 meme
Sometimes all you need is Slavic Magic and vodka.
Why can’t I build a plot in Manor Lords?
Image: Slavic Magic/Hooded Horse via Polygon Sometimes flexible plots are too clever for their own good Continue reading…
Another Crab's Treasure sells 30,000 units within its first day
Aggro Crab's third game is yet another 2024 indie doing pretty well right out the gate.
Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today
"It's just a great constant in our industry that is [otherwise] really in f***ing panic mode."
Red Dead Redemption 2's Housebuilding Scene Has Been Recreated In Lego
A Lego YouTuber has recreated the housebuilding scene from Rockstar Games’ open-world western, Red Dead Redemption II , complete with the catchy tune, a curious bird, and a pesky cougar. Read more...
Why AI Isn't The New Crypto In Gaming
There is a corner of AI where the games tribe will find their Eden. Where creativity is enhanced and copyright is respected. What are these tools, what challenges can they help overcome and how will they positively impact and shape the industry in the near future?
Valuing Remote Employees in Hybrid (and Remote) Settings
This blog follows the GDC panel,'Building and Sustaining Fully Remote Teams' with speakers, Eve Crevoshay (Executive Director, Take This), Ahmed Abdullah (Co-Founder/CEO Decoy Games), Bryna Smith (CEO, Brass Lion Entertainment) and Sasha Boersma (Co-Founder/Producer, Sticky
Helldivers 2 Players Being Forced To Pick Between Two New Stratagems
Arrowhead Game Studios has enjoyed handing down some tough and consequential major orders for the Helldivers 2 community to beat, but its latest might be one of its thorniest yet. You see, major orders tend to focus the entirety of the player base on a single objective or set
How do marketplaces work in Manor Lords?
Image: Slavic Magic/Hooded Horse via Polygon And what does “family request more market area” mean? Continue reading…
Discord Takes Aim At Bots Mining User Data
Last week, journalist co-op 404 Media reported on Spy Pet , a site that was mining billions of Discord messages from nearly 620 million users and selling access to that data for as little as $5. After investigating the matter, Discord has announced that the accounts connected
Disney Lorcana introduces the rest of Encanto’s Madrigal family
Plus a look at their magical home, Casa Madrigal Continue reading…
Recall Initiated For Mario Kart Ride-On Racers After Stuck Accelerators Cause Multiple Crashes
Tesla was recently forced to recall every Cybertruck it’s ever built — all 3,878 of them — because the cover on the accelerator pedal could come loose, causing unintended acceleration. As it turns out, though, you don’t even need to be old enough to get your driver’s license to
Case closed: Dead Boy Detectives is a hell of a good time
Photo: Ed Araquel/Netflix You don’t have to be a dead teen to enjoy this weird supernatural procedural Continue reading…
Facebook Has Lost $1 Billion Every Month On VR Since June 2022
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, made a lot of money in its last financial quarter. However, its virtual reality and augmented reality division, Reality Labs, lost over $3 billion. That means that since June 2022, the metaverse-focused division has lost a billion dollars per
Metro Exodus is the perfect post apocalyptic game to play if you're tired of Fallout's wasteland
What a splendid world we ruined.
Remedy adds Control director Mikael Kasurinen to central management group
Working with Alan Wake 2's Sami Järvi, Kasurinen will help guide Remedy's future and ensure the Control and Alan Wake games meet the studio's goals.
The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series: 'We're not going to do a piss poor job with a game that's part of an IP that we care about'
Publishing coordinator Kieron Kelly on Larian's enduring love for Divinity and tabletop gaming.
The Divinity: Original Sin board game is like a huge new Larian RPG in a box, and it's one of the coolest games I've ever played
Cards and dice and all things nice.
Never Have I Ever’s Maitreyi Ramakrishnan says Twitch will give her chill ‘creative control’
Graphic: Matt Patches/Polygon | Source Images: Manny Carabel/Getty Images: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo The Never Have I Ever star has serious opinions on Mario Kart and needs to share them Continue reading…
Stellar Blade Has An Incredibly Moving Side Quest You Shouldn’t Miss
Stellar Blade is a good game. If you wanted Nier: Automata without all the heady themes, then Shift Up’s latest PS5-exclusive character action game fits the bill perfectly. It doesn’t tell as good a story as PlatinumGames’ 2017 character action game, and its characterization
Bulletstorm studio's mysterious Project Dagger is officially dead
People Can Fly continued to work on the game after losing a publishing deal with Take-Two in 2022, but has now decided to pull the plug.
17 Options, Settings, And Tricks To Get More Out Of Your Xbox Series X/S
Don’t shoot the messenger, but even if you’ve played your Xbox consistently for the past four years and you think you know it inside and out, you may still be surprised by what your console is capable of. Just like the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch , the Xbox Series X and
TSMC looks set to hit Intel where it hurts, announcing its A16 node with 'Super Power Rail' backside power delivery
The battle of the backsides. At least, that's what I'm calling it in my head.
One Year After Launch, You Should Really Check Out Honkai Star Rail
As soon as Honkai Star Rail launched on April 26, 2023, I immediately downloaded it on my phone. The turn-based sci-fi RPG from HoYoverse, makers of gacha juggernaut Genshin Impact , was already an anticipated release after I had read impressions from the game’s beta. A year
Fortnite fans are losing love for the airbending mythic as it continues to dominate the endgame
I thought air nomads were meant to be peaceful.
What you need to know about biomes in Pokémon Go
Image: Niantic Backgrounds in Pokémon Go got a refresh with biomes Continue reading…
Why Doesn't Everyone See the Importance of Preserving Our Past?
The Entertainment Software Association recently came out against the preservation of past games. This short post is a plea for common sense and a recognition of the importance of videogame history.
What happens when your game gets delisted?
Graphic: Polygon | Image sources: Yager Development/2K Games, Remedy Entertainment/Microsoft Game Studios You might be able to get it back online, but that’s not always the case Continue reading…
The Knuckles TV Show Has A Wild Reference To Sonic ‘06
I didn’t love the Knuckles show , but as a long-time Sonic fan, one of its six episodes stuck out to me for a few reasons. One, it’s easily the most representative of the show’s problems with excluding its titular hero , but it also drops a huge lore bomb in the wildest way
