My first time playing Yu-Gi-Oh! was when I was about 10 years old, sitting in my neighbour's house. Neither of us knew how to play, but we did know that the Red-Eyes Black Dragon was obviously the best card ever made because it was a big dragon that looked awesome in 2004. We knew we […]

The thrill of a bullet hell-type shooter is the last-minute escape — the act of careening through enemy hordes, a hair’s breadth away from disaster. Vampire Survivors takes that joy and fuses it with the intoxicating power creep of roguelikes such as Hades, Returnal, or Dead Cells. Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our […]

In case you missed it, Storm Point is coming to the ALGS. Apex Legends esports has dabbled in alternative maps before, but always returned to World’s Edge. It may feel stale at this point, but it’s the map with the most competitive integrity and that teams are most used to. That shouldn’t be a huge […]

While we don’t have as much as usual to cover this week, we do have a couple of mods from games we don’t usually cover. Kingdom Hearts and Spelunky don’t often make it into these roundups, but that doesn’t mean their modding communities aren’t busy. However, we open on a story of Cyberpunk fans yet […]

Major spoilers ahead for Chapter 7 of The Book of Boba Fett. Everything in The Book of Boba Fett has been leading up to this moment: the final showdown between Fett and his allies and the spice-running Pyke Syndicate. It promised to be an exciting, explosive finale to a show that has, overall, been pretty […]

Recently, an insider leaked that 1-2-Switch would be getting a sequel, prompting an excited defence of the original game by our features editor Khee Hoon Chan, who I assume is the only person on the planet to have enjoyed the game. In fairness, it is somewhat decent, but it also felt a little bland, and […]

Major spoilers ahead for Chapter 7 of The Book of Boba Fett. Last week Luke Skywalker gave precious, tiny Grogu a brutal ultimatum. He could either forget about Mando, take Yoda's old lightsaber, and devote himself to becoming a Jedi. Or he could go back to his old friend with the nifty new Beskar armour […]

One of Take-Two's quarterly financial reports made its way to the public today, revealing a bunch on interesting numbers regarding some of Rockstar's most popular titles. We also found out the nominations for the Oscars, and that Platinum Games wants Phil Spencer and Xbox to help bring back Scalebound. More details below. The GTA Remaster […]

Exploring planets across Mass Effect is a strange business. Only the first game in the trilogy lets you actively explore the planets, putting you in the Mako and letting you drive across the terrain to your heart's content. The only issue with that, of course, is that the Mako sucks. Meanwhile Mass Effect 2 and […]

For me, the defining image of Half-Life 2 will always be those faded yellow tenement buildings being devoured by the violent, otherworldly architecture of the invading Combine. This anonymous Eastern European city, with its striking collision of faded Soviet modernism and jarring alien brutalism, is one of the most atmospheric, evocative settings in video game […]