Your Guide to This Year’s Summer Video Game EventsWith E3 gone, a bunch of events have taken its place, including Summer Game Fest, Gamescom, the PC Gaming Show, and more.
Scrabble, Anonymous“I’m not bragging. I’m confessing to being addicted to an ostensible word game that occupies more space in my brain than I’d prefer.”
Indus, Garuda Saga, Detective Dotson, Kamla: How Devs Are Putting 'India' First In Their GamesGaming worlds are a fascinating place to get lost in.
Not sure what game to play? Leave a comment, we’ll helpShare All sharing options for: Not sure what game to play? Leave a comment, we’ll help Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course.
Your Life Is Ruled by Games You Don’t Even Know You’re PlayingOur overreliance on the simplicity of game logic explains why capitalism got out of control.
What’s Even The Point Of Xbox Game Pass Now?On May 7, Microsoft closed down four first-party development studios it had acquired from Zenimax Media in 2021 including Tango Gameworks, developer of The Evil Within series and 2023’s surprise hit Hi-Fi Rush.
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megabudget New Movie Is a Journey Into the Heart of MadnessFrancis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis took 41 years to make. It might take as long to understand. Coppola’s magnum opus, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival last night, is a movie of extraordinary highs and baffling lows, alternately dazzling and confounding.
ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativityWhen digital computers were invented, the first task was to instruct them to do what we wanted. The problem was that the machines didn’t understand English – they only knew ones and zeros.
Microsoft’s Surface AI event: news, rumors, and lots of Qualcomm laptopsMicrosoft is expected to bring Windows, AI, and Arm processors together at a new Surface event on May 20th, and we’re tracking all the announcements here.
Don’t spoil Animal Well for yourselfYou are an egg person. You wake up in a large turnip. The world around you is alien, with an eerie, neon glow. But there’s a familiarity to it. A nearby squirrel beckons you to chase it, and lazy reeds sway in an unseen breeze.
Keeping Up With the Trump Trials: The Classified Documents Trial Is off the CalendarKeeping up with Donald Trump’s court schedule is a dizzying task, since he faces two federal trials, a criminal trial in Georgia, and two separate civil and criminal trials in New York. (Oh, and he’s running for president.
Scientists Taught Bees To Play With Legos, Then Marveled At What HappenedExamples of insect collaboration pop up often in nature, but do the critters’ tiny brains have anything to do with their teamwork or is it merely instinctive behavior? Curious to explore that question as it relates to bumblebees, researchers in Finland got the winged buzzers to play with one of th
Rogue Waves: New Tech Captured This Elusive, Freakish Phenomenon In Ocean WavesWe used three-dimensional imaging of ocean waves to capture freakish seas that produce a notorious phenomenon known as rogue waves. Our results are now published in Physical Review Letters*.
The animated sci-fi mystery Mars Express aims high and lands among the starsScience fiction has always been a fertile genre for telling stories that revolve around mysteries. From Ridley Scott’s classic Blade Runner to Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell, sci-fi and mystery go together as perfectly as a culprit’s hand in a blood-stained glove.
What Is Tucker Carlson Even Doing?This is part of Sly as Fox, a short series about the perils of underestimating Fox News in 2024. It is always sort of heartwarming when a person fulfills their peak potential.