Everything we know about Silent Hill: Townfall and its foggy Scottish town
Townfall's got medical trauma, fog, and a radio. Sounds like Silent Hill to me.
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Paramount-Warner Bros. merger creeps forward as US regulators approve
Paramount Skydances buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery has been OKed by the Justice Department, leading to a mega studio merger.
Mortal Kombat 2 and 9 more movies to stream on Netflix and beyond this weekend
I Am Frankelda plays on Netflix, They Will Kill You arrives on HBO Max, and Kraken is available to rent
Blood Message gameplay preview reveals an action game on par with God of War
NetEase's Blood Message impressed at Summer Game Fest with a demo that leaned into brutal combat and an impressive one-shot presentation
Microsoft is looking to speed up development of future Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Halo games
A new report suggests Microsoft may also be giving thought to spinning off its Xbox division or selling it entirely.
Tracing blueprints in Paralives is so easy it freed me from 25 years of The Sims' grid-based tyranny
One tiny mod for Paralives has finally made my childhood dreams of more realistic life sims floor plans possible.
Even a fantasy game like Skyrim won't let me be a trillionaire
I can be a werewolf or a vampire, sure, but nothing as far-fetched as a trillionaire.
RPG Maker forums are closing, nearly 15 years of knowledge and online culture are at risk of being wiped
Gotcha Gotcha Games is launching a new forum, which is good, but says it won't archive the old one, which is very bad.
What's new on Xbox Game Pass this week (June 8-12)
Here are some of the best new games to hit Xbox game Pass this week.
Shareholders Are Trying To Bully Elden Ring Maker FromSoftware Into Divorcing Bandai Namco
'We think the current arrangements with the game publishers like Bandai Namco and Activision are no longer good deals for the Company'
Xbox CEO Reportedly Wants To Speed Up Release Of Next Halo And Fallout Games, But Spinning Off The Business Entirely Isn’t Completely Off The Table
The Elder Scrolls 6 seemingly won't arrive for years still
Sea of Remnants gameplay preview: After 1 hour, it's no AC: Black Flag
NetEase’s upcoming PC and PS5 pirate game Sea of Remnants already feels confused about what kind of game it wants to be
Disclosure Day's ending gets one thing wrong that Spielberg nailed 49 years ago
Disclosure Day has a satisfactory ending, but its noting compared to the big payoff at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
One Of The Only Good Things Left About GameStop Is About To Get Worse
The Pro Membership is getting nerfed and staff are ready to revolt
All Of The God Of War Games, Ranked From Worst To Best
Before God of War Laufey takes us on Faye’s journey, let’s look back at the ups and downs of Kratos’
Worst possible people could be put in charge of Elden Ring studio
Oasis Management, a group infamous for suggesting that Nintendo should consider monetizing Mario's jumps wants to "fix" FromSoftware.
RPG Maker users could lose years of important history as official forums shut down
Gotcha Gotcha Games is deleting the existing RPG Maker forums and pushing users toward a hated alternative.
The Batman 2's surprise villain revealed in new report
Matt Reeves' The Batman Part 2 may have found its main villains: serial killer Victor Zsasz played by Sebastian Stan and a new Two-Face.
Over the Hill's Next Fest demo promises a stylized off-roading game for people who actually like to drive
Forza Horizon is fine, I guess, but for my money this is where it's at.
Best games from Summer Game Fest 2026
We played tons of upcoming games at this year's Summer Game Fest. These were 10 of our favorites.
The Call Of Duty Of It All
The mega franchise seemingly had one of its worst years in recent history
The Wolf Among Us 2 director reveals the sequel's darker tone
We saw The Wolf Among Us 2 in action, and got a glimpse of the long-awaited sequel's much darker tone.
Consumer rights champion and tech-whizz Louis Rossman is taking Samsung to court over a failed 990 Pro SSD it says it can't replace, even though Amazon has plenty of them in stock
The fact that they now cost $949 instead of $300 surely has nothing to do with it, right?
An ‘Actual Burning Of Alexandria Moment’: RPG Maker Users Scramble To Preserve 14 Years Of Important Resources
An unquantifiable amount of RPG Maker resources are now at risk of being lost forever as a result of RPG Maker Forum's closure
You need to hear this Valve vet's rant on why TF2 could never be made by AI
Chet Faliszek, one of the key writers for franchises like Left 4 Dead, Half-Life, and Team Fortress 2, has some strong opinions on game development
Crimson Desert's new patch lets you recruit even more pet companions
Crimson Desert's 1.11 patch from Pearl Abyss lets you register up to 100 animals, turning Kliff into a cat lady.
Former Destiny 2 CM claims Bungie was 'very close to shutting its doors' before the buyout
"It was an emergency acquisition."
I Hate What Stranger Than Heaven Is Doing With Tupac But At Least They’re Being Honest About It
The developers say Tupac's character will be who the man might be 30 years after his death
Taliesin Jaffe just answered one of Critical Role's biggest mysteries in the latest Campaign 4 episode
There are many mysteries surrounding Critical Role, but Taliesin Jaffe just answered one of the biggest in the latest Campaign 4 episode.
Dutch non-profit set to take Valve to court for keeping game prices high
Someone else has a bone to pick with Valve's commission on Steam
George Miller wants to make one more Mad Max movie
Mad Max has been around for almost 50 years, but creator George Miller still has a couple more stories he wants to tell.
Fans Hate On Switch Sports Resort’s New Sportsmates For ‘Colonizing’ Wuhu Island’s ‘Sacred Mii Territory’
'It's been ethnically cleansed and gentrified,' one fan wrote
Stuntman: Hollywood is a brilliant idea, with an uneven execution
Saber Interactive is reviving Stuntman with Back to the Future, Fast & Furious, and Miami Vice-themed stunts for Stuntman Hollywood.
Erosion preview: the best thing to happen to roguelikes since Hades
Erosion is a Wild West-themed roguelike that plays with the genre in fascinating way. Read Polygon's Erosion preview for more.
Re:Zero season 4 takes back Subaru's progress to go back to the series' roots
A big twist in Re:Zero season 4 undoes all the growth the protagonist went through to rely once again on the series' main gimmick.
Berserk returns with a crucial chapter Kentaro Miura wrestled with for 20 years
Berserk is back and it's not slowing down again with three new chapters on the way following the hotly anticipated release of chapter 384
Kagurabachi anime gets first main character trailer and visual
We have our first look at Chihiro Rokuhira in the upcoming Kagurabachi anime.
A Taskmaster movie could be on the horizon
In an interview with Greg Davies and Alex Horne, the pair confirmed they want to see a Taskmaster movie soon, like a Batman Begins-style origin story.
The art of game writing in 'non-narrative' games ft. Emma Kidwell and Harrison Pink
This week senior editor Bryant Francis sits down with narrative designer Harrison Pink and game writer Emma Kidwell for a conversation about the craft of creating narrative content in games that don’t strictly have a narrative focus.
After 8 years, Steven Spielberg is finally returning to the genre he helped define
Here's how Spielberg's sci-fi filmogrophy is still unmatched today despite an 8-year hiatus from the genre.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake's biggest challenge is voice acting and music
Nintendo's 2026 version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time faces changes to one of the all time great game soundtracks
The Adventures Of Elliot Devs Were ‘Surprised’ That Fans Think The Game’s Fairy Companion Talks Too Much
'I think we may have become a little biased'
Judging by how well Gothic Remake has sold, we still love eurojank
The remake of the creaky 25-year-old RPG has already hit 500k sales.
I'm sad, I'm angry, I'm interested: Destiny's final cutscenes are a painful end to a new saga cut short
Finish the fight.
In An Incredibly On-Brand Move, Kingdom Hearts 4 Has Characters From A Game You Can’t Play Anymore
Characters from Kingdom Hearts Union X Dark Road appeared in the latest trailer
Possibly the first instance of Asus' anti-melting 12V-2×6 power cable…err…melting shows up, adding more fuel to the fire that is Nvidia's connector
Normally I'd suggest burning such things to the ground but they're doing that themselves.
OpenAI says it busted a shadowy Chinese operation that used ChatGPT to whip up data centre hate (and that achieved basically nothing)
Hey, it's a living.
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Calls Watching Streamers A ‘Crisis’ For RPGs That Don’t Offer Enough Choice
He fears some people won't bother playing a game if they think they can get the same experience from just watching it
