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Dear Activision, please fix this trashy cult classic so everyone can play it

One of the gnarliest games ever published by a AAA studio is available at a steep discount on Steam. That’s great news… if you can get past the...

19.04.2025 4

Polygon

Chris Plante

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a slasher movie — and you’re the killer

The trailers for Assassin’s Creed Shadows teased elder millennial fans (read: me) who’ve stuck with the franchise for nearly two decades, yearning...

02.04.2025 9

Polygon

Chris Plante

The trick to playing the best Steam demos

Scrolling through last month’s Steam Next Fest was like visiting the local ice cream shop to taste the seasonal sweets — only to discover that the...

08.03.2025 3

Polygon

Chris Plante

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza is a minigame collection disguised as an open-world game

Within my first ten minutes of Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, I was tending to a garden. After an hour, I’d learned to cook. While I’d...

02.03.2025 5

Polygon

Chris Plante

The Monkey is the opposite of Longlegs — and most modern horror

‘Osgood Perkins’ appears in sharp, thick print across the promotional materials for The Monkey, the latest adaptation of the Stephen King story...

23.02.2025 9

Polygon

Chris Plante

2025 will be a stomach-churning turning point for video games

Polygon’s Editor’s Letter is a column from Editor-in-Chief Chris Plante that reflects on the video game and entertainment industries, their...

29.01.2025 5

Polygon

Chris Plante

Who shaved Hitler’s mustache? The localizer

When Bethesda released the slaughter-some-Nazis shooter Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus in 2017, thousands of copies featured an intentional, albeit...

14.01.2025 10

Polygon

Chris Plante

The Retroid Pocket 5 is the handheld I’ve been waiting for

How does anyone choose which handheld to buy when better, cheaper hardware appears nearly every week? The answer (at long last) is the Retroid Pocket...

12.01.2025 10

Polygon

Chris Plante

2025 is PC gaming’s victory lap

Sometimes a failure is just a good idea with bad timing. Consider the Steam Machine. In 2013, at the height of the console gaming era, Valve, the...

07.01.2025 6

Polygon

Chris Plante