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

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 6

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 20

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 4

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 4

Polygon

Chris Plante

Reminder to the media: Research video games before reporting on them

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once pursued a career in video game development....

11.12.2024 7

Polygon

Chris Plante

What I learned from the 106 games I played this year

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

04.12.2024 5

Polygon

Chris Plante

2024 turned me into an RPG sicko

I began 2024 as a casual RPG dabbler. I enter December as a hollow-eyed obsessive, forgoing sleep to grind a few more dungeons in a remake of a NES...

30.11.2024 10

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Chris Plante

What’s your favorite game to play with the family on holidays?

This week, many of you will celebrate Thanksgiving with family and old friends. Meals fill relatively few hours, so what to do? Small talk is...

28.11.2024 5

Polygon

Chris Plante

What makes a Black Friday deal great?

What makes a Black Friday deal legitimately great? Decades ago, Black Friday deals were flashy. Local stores wanted their store to be customers’...

26.11.2024 10

Polygon

Chris Plante

How broken is too broken when you buy a game?

I have a question for you, Polygon commenters. How broken is too broken when you consider buying a game? The question’s been top of mind for me...

22.11.2024 8

Polygon

Chris Plante

You need an RPG to get through this year

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

08.11.2024 10

Polygon

Chris Plante

Megalopolis is a fantasy disasterpiece, but this book explains why it exists

I overheard the same question before and after seeing Megalopolis: What the hell is Megalopolis about? In press for the film, director Francis Ford...

25.09.2024 10

Polygon

Chris Plante

One person can’t solve 2024’s largest game(s)

When Derek Yu, the creator of Spelunky , partnered with a crew of brilliant designers to release a collection of 50 games (yes, 50 video games!) I...

20.09.2024 4

Polygon

Chris Plante

Two ways to save a video game industry on fire

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

04.09.2024 10

Polygon

Chris Plante