In a vibrant collection of “essays on the future that never was,” Colette Shade takes a cold look at the cheery promise of ...

Faraway is one of Annapurna Interactive's 2025 releases, and after playing some of its opening stages, I got to appreciate ...

Video game consoles used to be as fun as the games that could run them, but th Switch 2 signals that the era of hardware experimentation is ending.

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As part of Polygon’s Culture Shock issue, we asked developer CD Projekt Red to shed light on the work involved in localizing ...

A Zelda fan notices an unexpected nod to Majora's Mask in a math workbook, delighting and amusing other gamers.

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There are a ton of free games on PS5, free games on Xbox, and free games on PC, but the ones that stand out offer players a lot of content without charging anything or at least allow you to ...

2024 was full of great games, with some bangers like Path of Exile 2 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle coming in hot in December. The first month of 2025 is comparatively quiet, but the calm ...

Quite frankly, about the only truly concrete criteria is you had to have played at least 400 regular-season games, starting with the 1999-2000 season and running to today. (To nip this one in the ...

The car industry of the 2000s suffered dissociative identity disorder. Technology marched forward while nostalgia had many of us looking over our shoulders. Conspicuous consumption was cool ...