This means that Clair Obscur ’s GOTY 2025 victory lap is not yet over. In all likelihood, developer Sandfall Interactive and ...

It’s hard to know what to carve every year! Sure, you can just put some spooky eyes and teeth on your jack-o’-lantern and call it a day, but this year we decided to be a bit more ambitious and ...

It felt like magic. The Steam Deck played practically everything when Valve launched the handheld in 2022. By toggling to low graphical settings, even Elden Ring ran on the diminutive screen. But in ...

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Microsoft is preparing to add “artificial intelligence” — a complete misnomer that everyone continues to use nonetheless — to its video game platforms via the upcoming Copilot for Gaming program. An ...

When Polygon sat down with Dimension 20 stars Brennan Lee Mulligan and Ally Beardsley last week, we mostly talked about the elephant in the arena — their sold-out Madison Square Garden show, “Gauntlet ...

Joe Tung, the CEO of indie studio Theorycraft Games, is cool as ice when we meet amid the tense chaos of GDC 2025. Emphasis on tense: From panels to chitchat at local San Francisco bars, developers ...

Our daily mission at Polygon is to put on a great show. We’ve undergone immense change over the last year — and so has the internet — but in the age of AI Overviews and “slop” competitors, our values ...

This weekend, Sony’s PlayStation Network was down for more than 24 hours, one of the longest unscheduled outages for a major gaming network in recent history. Many of PlayStation’s online services ...

“Personally, I think Xbox hardware is dead," decried Laura Fryer, one of Microsoft Game Studios’ founding employees, in a recent YouTube video. Many have tried to predict where Microsoft Gaming is ...

The era of getting off your couch to play a video game is alive and well, thanks to the Nex Playground. Designed as a family-first gaming device, Nex Playground exclusively uses motion controls and ...

In anticipation of the Meta announcement, Microsoft sent Polygon a Quest 3S Xbox Edition for testing, and I was eager to finally give Xbox Cloud Gaming a spin on the device. By all accounts, there is ...