The Truth about Gandalf

A look at the origin, powers, death, and rebirth of a mysterious-but-beloved character | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Sony announces Playstation 5 VR headset

Next-gen PlayStation VR won’t launch until at least 2022 | Continue reading


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In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one can find her – Polygon

The search for Ban Tran | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Spilling the secrets of the canceled Curse of Monkey Island movie

Behind the Lucasfilm/LucasArts collaboration that might have been | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Unreal Engine’s next job: NPC creation in a fraction of the time

MetaHuman Creator shrinks character development and illustration to a matter of hours, says Epic | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Robert A. Altman, founder of Bethesda parent ZeniMax Media, dies at 73

Well-liked chief executive mourned by makers of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Doom | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Google shuts down internal Stadia game studio

Stadia will now focus on third-party games | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

‘Meme stock’ rally rescues AMC theaters from $600M debt

Theater chain gets unexpected lifeline when private equity trades a corporate IOU for stock | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

The Vtuber Takeover of 2020

3D anime girls are everywhere now — and they’re making big bucks | Continue reading


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Sci-fi and fantasy books of 2020 to catch up with

Stretching from the expanse of space to sagas right here on Earth | Continue reading


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Sea Shanty TikTok

Soon may the Wellerman come | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Twitch removes PogChamp emote after Capitol Hill violence controversy

The face behind the popular emote used social media to spur civil unrest | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

How Sega Built the Genesis (2015)

Polygon presents an interview excerpt from Read-Only Memory’s Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works book. | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Class Action Lawsuit Againt Cyberpunk 2077 Developer CDPR

A New York-based law firm filed the lawsuit on Thursday | Continue reading


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Peter Jackson explains the changes he made for Lord of the Rings’ 4K edition

A new 4K Blu-ray set updates the nearly 20-year-old trilogy | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese

Which is weird, because ... isn’t it just nonsense? | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Cyberpunk 2077 sold 13M copies – even with refunds

Despite its catastrophic PS4 and Xbox One debut, it’s reportedly 2020’s biggest launch | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Startup makes an Xbox dongle that will keep watch against cyberbullying

Kidas takes on a huge problem with a tiny box | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Epic starts selling “normal” apps through their Games Store

Epic looks to be creating its own app store | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Sony will offer Cyberpunk 2077 refunds, pulling game from Playstation Store

PS4 owners who purchased Cyberpunk 2077 digitally can get a full refund | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Polygon’s top 50 videogames of 2020

From big to small, we rank them all | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Cyberpunk 2077 has already recouped its development costs, CD Projekt says

That’s one hell of a memo, choombas | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Twitch bans Confederate flag, racist emote usage in new conduct policy

There are new rules for harassment and sexual harassment, too | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft Flight Simulator arrives for Xbox Series X summer 2021

The game is included in the Xbox Game Pass program | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Sony acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll for $1.175B

The move consolidates the anime industry in a major way | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Cyberpunk 2077 involved months of crunch at CD Projekt Red, despite promises

The practice is evidence of poor management and disregard for the people who make our games | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Jeopardy to film new episodes with Ken Jennings as guest host

‘Alex believed in the importance of Jeopardy! and always said that he wanted the show to go on after him’ | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Street Fighter Alpha: An oral history

We continue our Street Fighter history series with a look at the moment Capcom went back in time | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Nintendo sues more hack sellers, ‘a worsening international problem’

Another lawsuit filed in Seattle court | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Grand Theft Auto Publisher Take-Two Buys Codemasters for $994M

Racing game developer joins publisher of 2K Sports, Grand Theft Auto | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

What game cameras learned from movie cameras

And what movie cameras are learning from games | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

PS5 save files can effectively only be backed up to Playstation Plus cloud

If you don’t subscribe to PS Plus, you don’t have a great backup option | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

How the PS5’s ‘adaptive triggers’ work

Complicated, but genius, design leads the newest form of haptic feedback | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Twitch streamers were issued tons of DMCA takedown notices today

The company has deleted offending content and given warnings to many users | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

PS5 won’t actively monitor or listen to your voice chat, Sony says

Recording is only for complaints sent to moderators, and you can’t opt out | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Can science fiction map a positive future?

Drama favors dystopias, but there are ways to revel in hope | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Baldur’s Gate 3 devs built a testing AI. Then, they tried to defeat it

Inside the bot that helps build the next generation of RPGs | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Cloud gaming’s history of false starts and promising reboots

From OnLive to Google Stadia, the cloud gaming trend has had a wild ride in the video game industry | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

What ‘science fiction’ means today, and how the genre has radically changed

The pros explain how everything in the genre is changing | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

What if cloud gaming doesn’t catch on?

A good technology that’s unlikely to go mainstream for a long time | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

How does cloud gaming work?

A picture book explanation of the latest gaming trend | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Polygon reviews Spelunky 2

It isn’t the sequel you’d expect | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Classic Neo Geo game stripped of references to Taiwan

1992’s Baseball Stars 2 updated with apparent Chinese censorship | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Apple can’t revoke Epic Games’ Unreal Engine developer tools, judge rules

But Fortnite stays off the App Store for now | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Interview with the programming team behind Phantasy Star Online

We continue our retrospective interview series for Phantasy Star Online’s 20th anniversary | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Spiritfarer

It’s based on classical Greek mythology | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

The Fortnite fight isn’t just Epic squeezing more money from Apple

‘Epic Games just wants more money’ is too simple of a narrative | Continue reading


@polygon.com | 3 years ago

Apple removes Fortnite from App Store

Epic’s recent change to V-Bucks purchases is to blame | Continue reading


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