Psychonauts, Keeper, and Kiln developer Double Fine, like South Of Midnight studio Compulsion, is now officially free and clear of Microsoft. If you buy its games, you’re supporting an indie that ...

For every action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Sir Isaac Newton said this, presumably after a long day of scrolling whatever the social media platform of the time was. To wit, the ...

Grand Theft Auto VI is finally, seemingly almost here, which of course means it’s time for everyone to go completely insane. This week alone saw a hacker who monologues like Sephiroth leak portions of ...

When Dark Souls II came out in 2014, I previewed and reviewed it for Kotaku. After I played the Looking Glass Knight demo at E3, I gushed to a friend that they had not fucked it up. This had been a ...

Welcome signs on the road into Maryland bear a slogan chosen by the governor. The last guy went with “Open for business.” In 2023, the new governor updated the signs with his own motto, the one I saw ...

While playing Horses, I was filled with dread for a revelation that never came. “This is creepy,” I thought, “but surely there’s some big thing in the next scene that pushes the envelope too far.” Yet ...

Nintendo showed a preview of what to expect in the upcoming Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave on Tuesday. Apparently this includes a gun. Fortune’s Weave looks fucking fantastic. While there’s another Fire ...

Nvidia, the biggest company at the heart of an AI-driven hardware crisis that’s making everything unaffordable, has decided to return to its old stomping grounds, video games, and ruin those too.

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...

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The Steam Machine came out in sub-optimal times not just when it comes to storage and RAM pricing, but also when it comes to its basic configuration out of the box. The PC uses DDR5 SODIMM memory, the ...

Polygon is not dead, but under new owner Valnet, it has been forcefully contorted into something it wasn’t even just a few weeks ago. Websites are their people; laying off the majority of a site’s ...