Ex-DICE developers’ very un-Battlefield shooter goes into open beta (The Finals) (www.polygon.com)
Fallout-themed cards are coming to Magic: The Gathering (www.polygon.com)
Releases March 8, 2024...
Arcane is officially League of Legends canon now, according to Riot (www.polygon.com)
TIL that Sandman was created in 1974 (www.polygon.com)
HOLY SHIT...
Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan at his most complex, powerful, and human (www.polygon.com)
Judge rules for Microsoft in FTC fight over Activision (www.polygon.com)
Rainbow Six Siege cheater sentenced for swatting Ubisoft Montreal offices (www.polygon.com)
French gamer gets three years of community service from Paris court...
Metaphor: ReFantazio, Persona devs’ next game, headed to PlayStation and Xbox (www.polygon.com)
The game known as Project Re Fantasy is finally here....
Cat game “Stray” coming to M1 Macs (www.polygon.com)
The biggest sci-fi/fantasy award held in China for the first time has been accused of censorship on the part of China (www.polygon.com)
The 2023 awards saw several nominees mysteriously declared ineligible....
Kongregate, Digital Bros. cut jobs in a growing wave of video game industry layoffs (www.polygon.com)
More than 6,000 people in the video game industry have been laid off in 2023
While D&D reckons with its racist past, this actual play is way ahead of the curve (www.polygon.com)
Article by Polygon: It reports on the “Transplanar” campaign, run on a podcast of the same name that focusses heavily on inclusive stories of trans characters and dismisses D&D’s dated system of “racial traits”.
Russian studio fled country to finish game (www.polygon.com)
Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years (www.polygon.com)
‘We were talking about representation very early on in a mainstream way’
Cartoon Network & WB Animation staff file to unionize (www.polygon.com)
PS2’s Two Towers was the coolest way to miss the whole point of the Lord of the Rings (www.polygon.com)
Sega’s new Yakuza spinoff leaks, turns Kiryu into secret agent Spider-Man (www.polygon.com)
Why Lucasfilm decided the High Republic is the future of Star Wars (www.polygon.com)
StarStar Wars doesn’t really have a future right now. The franchise itself does — it will keep getting new entries forever if Disney has anything to say about — but the story can’t escape the Skywalkers or imagine a future beyond the franchise’s most-featured family. In fact, most of the recent TV spinoffs, like The...
Activision sued by Uvalde school shooting victims, family - Polygon (www.polygon.com)
Lawyers allege Activision is ‘chewing up alienated teenage boys and spitting out mass shooters’...
We’re living in a golden age of Star Wars board games, and these are the best ones (www.polygon.com)
They are:...
Hellblade 2 will finally show us what an Unreal Engine 5 game can do (www.polygon.com)
The first game genuinely surprised me with how good it was and I am excited to see how the second turns out.