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With 2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man, Insomniac Games began building one of the richest video game interpretations of the Marvel Universe that we’ve seen to date. The studio nailed the tone of Peter, Miles, and their supporting cast, but it was the care put into the rest of the universe that makes… Continue reading

April’s second batch of new Xbox Game Pass titles has been revealed. The headliner is the long-awaited Suikoden-inspired Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes, which hits the library on launch day. Other anticipated indies include the Soulslike Another Crab’s Treasure and the hotly anticipated strategy city-builder Manor Lords, which enters Xbox Game… Continue reading

With huge winter game releases behind us and huge summer announcements right around the corner, the games industry is set for a relatively quiet month or two. Luckily, Nintendo plans to briefly step in to fill that void. Today, it announced the next Indie World Showcase, a live stream event… Continue reading

Keanu Reeves is joining the cast of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter (and first broken by The John Campea Show). The outlet’s sources report that the John Wick and Matrix star is voicing Shadow the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is set to… Continue reading

Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion, Dawntrail, arrives this summer alongside the game’s first graphical update. As such, Square Enix has released a new benchmark software to let PC players test how well their machines will handle these new bells and whistles while getting a small head start on Dawntrail. Available… Continue reading

Despite currently being in the midst of a crossover event with Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fortnite is teasing an upcoming event with a returning collaborator: Star Wars. The details have yet to be disclosed, but attentive fans of the science fiction juggernaut will notice something about the start date right… Continue reading

The team at Mega Cat Studios, together with developer Ryan Carson/Refresh Games, have now opened the Flap Happy pre-order store.  In what could be the world’s first 8-bit Avian Roguelike Platformer, Flap Happy will have players taking on gravity, sharks, and more. Along the way, players will contend with hazards… Continue reading

The 2017 low-gravity hero shooter LawBreakers is coming back from the dead. However, this isn’t an official revival but rather due to the work of a dedicated group of fans. LawBreakers was created by Boss Key Productions, a team led by Gears of War lead designer Cliff Bleszinski. Upon launching… Continue reading

The gaming studio Possibility Space was recently closed due to leaks from its staff; was this response justified? Polygon Senior Reporter Nicole Carpenter (@SweetPotatoes) shared an email yesterday on Twitter/X penned by Possibility Space owner Jeff Strain. In it, he mentions that confidential all-hands information, disclosure of their publishing partner,… Continue reading

The rogue-lite and roguelike genres have been growing in popularity over the years They’re challenging games where players attempt runs with different abilities and random elements that generally force the player to restart from zero or near-zero for each attempt. They are born from the 1980 game Rogue which established… Continue reading