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Cowboy Hat Caterpie mock up

Why won’t Niantic put Cowboy Hat Caterpie in Pokémon Go?

By XTINA GG
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Colorful cone shaped board game pieces sit on grid with a colorful gradient of greens, blues, purples, and pinks. A cardboard square with numbers on it encompasses nine squares on the grid, with some cones inside it and some outside.

Hues and Cues is the party game that’ll make you question your color knowledge

By Clayton Ashley
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Messmer from Shadow of the Erdtree, the cloth of his cloak very bright red against a desaturated background.

Elden Ring’s secret weapon is cloth

By Simone de Rochefort and Patrick Gill
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SungWon Cho superimposed over a screenshot of A Very Difficult Game About Climbing

SungWon Cho joined us for an absolutely chaotic climbing stream

By Tara Long
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The Twenty-Sided Tavern is a new interactive D&D show — just off Broadway

By Simone de Rochefort
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An image of Alan Wake and Dale Cooper superimposed over a dark forest. Simone is on the right side of the image, yelling.

Why’s the Pacific Northwest always so creepy?

By Simone de Rochefort
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An Armored Core wielding an assault rifle faces a giant mecha in a screenshot from Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon

This Armored Core 6 lore video is the best mecha movie of 2024

By Clayton Ashley
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Three people sitting at a table with a colorful backdrop. Two players are stacking animal shaped blocks in the game Beasts of Balance while one waves at the camera.

Toppling towers in Beasts of Balance is a genius blend of old and new

By Clayton Ashley
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Crowd Control dashed our dreams of a future career in esports

By Tara Long
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Standing in front of the Dragon’s Dogma 2 title card with its numeral 2 conspicuously missing, a bearded man in glasses and a white shirt holds his hand up with two fingers showing in the exact spot where the 2 should be.

You can’t trust Dragon’s Dogma 2

By Clayton Ashley
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A man sitting behind a desk stares directly to camera while wearing a black suit and a chainmail hood. Behind him is a paint, record, and photograph and in front of him sit a book, a Blu-ray DVD, and a statue.

A New Video Plus about New Game Plus

By Clayton Ashley
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A settlement in Against the Storm. It looks like a small collection of buildings around a large, warm hearth.

Against the Storm perfected the city builder by breaking the city builder

By Clayton Ashley
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The floating heads of Polygon Video Team members over a blue background, with text reading “The “The Game Awards” Awards.” The team members seem happy and are smiling.

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Watch The Game Awards with us

By Simone de Rochefort
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A Stardew Valley character modeled after Ernest Hemingway fishes at the end of the dock. Superimposed over that image is an Animal Crossing: New Horizons character based on Simone, a white woman with brown hair. She is holding a fish.

How I learned to love Stardew Valley’s terrible fishing

By Simone de Rochefort
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A screengrab from Armored Core 6 shows the large mech Balteus, which has a jetpack larger than its body and a ring that encompasses its entire body. In the image, lightning crackles around Balteus and fires rage behind it.

What makes Armored Core 6’s Balteus such an effective gatekeeper?

By Clayton Ashley
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A pair of hands places a cardboard game piece for the game The Night Cage on top of the game board, which looks like a black and white 6 x 6 grid with a number of tiles and game pieces on it.

The Night Cage makes co-op board gaming scary fun

By Clayton Ashley
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Simone posing in front of Volcano Manor, saying “dang, you like like this?” to Rya, a hunched woman in a green dress.

How Elden Ring uses architecture to freak you out

By Simone de Rochefort
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Why Tears of the Kingdom’s physics are so mind-blowing

By Simone de Rochefort
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A bearded man in a pink hoodie is in the center of an art collage with a stunned look on his face. Surround him in a circular pattern are gears, the character from Satisfactory, the Evergiven cargo ship, a red diesel train, and a blue cargo container.

What logistics games can teach us about the supply chain crisis

By Clayton Ashley
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The component for Heat, including a modular track and plastic cars, laid out for display.

Heat: Pedal to the Metal is a tabletop racing masterpiece

By Clayton Ashley
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A scale model of the Constellation Frontier starship from Starfield, as designed and built by Adam Savage and the crew at Tested. It’s about two feet long, and sitting backlit on a workbench. It’s immaculately filthy.

Adam Savage is probably having more fun with Starfield than you are

By Charlie Hall
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VTubers, explained

By XTINA GG
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Tekken boss confirms iconic fighter King’s strange origin

By Owen S. Good
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A logo reading Polygonathon 2023 on a pink background with green leaves poking into the frame. Underneath, the text reads “In support of Foster Love.”

Polygon is hosting a 24-hour charity livestream for Foster Love

By Simone de Rochefort
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a crop of XTina GG tipping her Mario hat while sitting on stairs

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I lived like Mario for a week

Running, jumping, kart racing, dining on mushrooms — the Mario lifestyle!

By XTINA GG
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Four people sit around a table in a studio with a backdrop of pink, blue, and purple. On the table is a small board game city made precariously of popsicle sticks and small blocks. Three of the four players look prepared to demolish the city with their hands.

Tokyo Highway is a tense board game about building roads

By Clayton Ashley
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A composite image of a car accident in the video game JFK Reloaded. Cut-out images of JFK and Simone de Rochefort, the video’s host, are overlaid on it.

Video games keep complicating JFK’s death

By Simone de Rochefort
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A view of a board game from directly above shows a large number of small green discs and medium brown discs, and four colorful beetles all on a log themed platform sitting on a wooden table. I the lower right two hands hold a blue insect shaped piece up to the board as if to measure a piece between the blue mandibles.

Kabuto Sumo brings wrestling thrills to tabletop gaming

By Clayton Ashley
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The board game box for Concept sits on top of it’s colorful board of icons with little game pieces and scoring tokens strewn across the table.

Concept reboots the whole concept of a guessing game

By Clayton Ashley
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Simone de Rochefort, a brunette white woman in a black t-shirt, points at the original 1925 cover of The Great Gatsby.

These developers want you to steal The Great Gatsby

By Simone de Rochefort
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Sungwon “ProZD” Cho and XTina GG face each other down across a table, holding hands of cards and laughing.

We challenged ProZD to a card game

By Simone de Rochefort
A notebook with blue ink drawings of puzzles and codes from the video game Fez, which includes tetrominos, directional arrows, and an alphabet translation.

Taking notes makes gaming more fun

By Clayton Ashley
A lot of papers and ephemera on a black background. A green target is overlaid on the objects.

How the most ambitious cult game of the ’90s got made

By Simone de Rochefort
Pat and Simone looking concerned over the prospect of playing a racing sim

We built the ultimate racing rig

By Simone de Rochefort
A whale dungeon in Nobody Saves the World

We’re streaming the best games of the year on Twitch all month long

By Tara Long
Polygon employees Simone de Rochefort and Samit Sarkar share a victorious high five as Patrick Gill looks on approvingly. They are standing behind a newly constructed PC with its side panels removed. A monitor on the table shows the PC’s BIOS screen, indicating that it is working— in theory.

We built a PC live on Twitch

By Patrick Gill
A broadcast shot of Ted Lasso as he appears on the sideline in FIFA 23. His arms are folded and he looks displeased.

FIFA 23 pits Ted Lasso against Ryan Reynolds’ soccer club, and it ain’t pretty

By Owen S. Good

The next level of puzzles.

Take a break from your day by playing a puzzle or two! We’ve got SpellTower, Typeshift, crosswords, and more.