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Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week, there’s a packed lineup of VOD options for viewers looking to enjoy their Fourth of July weekend from the comfort of their air conditioned homes. After years of lackluster films, the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets back to basics with...
Last week, we asked you to connect in Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, and share moments from Sam’s new journey using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Dande_Lion55 shares a detailed close portrait of Sam. darkalienstar shares a zoomed out shot of Sam atop a mountain, with a massive moon cresting. calisarah1998 share Sam and Lou balanced on a rock overlooking the landscape. F1Str4nd shares Sam fighting...
I love graphics cards. They're absolutely my favourite PC component. That's not a hot take; I'm a simple man and thing-makes-pretty-pictures-flow-faster-in-front-of-eyes is an easy thing to become obsessed with. And I've had a long time to get nerdy with them, too, having built my first PC in the early '90s and been professionally testing PC gaming hardware since 2005.This generation has been a bloody nightmare.But this year... well, this year...
It's become my solemn duty to keep tabs on the whole Silksong situation. The "we announced a game several years ago and barely talk about it" situation. The "we have people coming up with conspiracy theories including Napoleon" situation. The "every time there's a showcase, we bet it all on red and lose" situation.Imagine my surprise, then, when I walked into the r/Silksong subreddit this bright, sunny day only to...
Remember last year when leaked documents from a court case between Valve and indie dev Wolfire Games revealed that—per the calculations of its own data scientist Kristian Miller—Valve makes more money per head than Facebook, Apple, Netflix, and any other tech titan you care to name?That was remarkable, as news days go, but there was some info missing: Miller's calculations for Valve's net income per employee was redacted, meaning we...
During the pandemic, while most of us were stuck inside, the RocketWerkz dev team, including former DayZ creative director Brian Hicks and head honcho Dean Hall, were roaming around in Eco—an early access sandbox that Hicks describes as a "little educational game for middle-schoolers".Hicks was there at the birth of the modern survival genre, becoming smitten with DayZ when it was still an Arma 2 mod, before eventually leaving his...
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What really goes into fine-tuning a roguelike, according to Lost in Random: The Eternal Die director
Balancing a game’s difficulty, especially one that’s meant to challenge the player, presents its own challenge for developers. Sometimes, the final game ends up being easier than some developers desired. Such is the case with Lost in Random: The Eternal Die, a roguelike spinoff of 2021’s Lost in Random that casts players as a remorseful queen fighting her way out of the ancient artifact that has trapped her. “I do...
I've played Marvel Rivals almost every day since launch, and while I'm far from the best, most consistent player, I've hovered around the Grandmaster regions in competitive, peaking at Celestial 2. At times, trying to take Rivals seriously and play competitively has been an act of self-targeted psychic damage, largely because the hero balance has historically been absolutely terrible.With Season 3 almost here, finally seeing Phoenix and the vampiric vampire...
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Content warnings have become, if not standard, then at least more common in entertainment media over the past decade. Films and video games dealing with sensitive topics add small messages alerting viewers and players that they might encounter something troubling. Two highly sensitive topics that would fit the bill are an integral part of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach‘s opening hours, but there are no such warnings in sight....
It’s hard to reinvent the wheel when the wheel opens the way to success in a billion-dollar industry. But even with well-established, successful genres like shonen anime, some creators aren’t afraid to get creative. Enter Gachiakuta, an anime series that follows the shonen formula, but frames it with a fresh setting that becomes an immediate hook. Based on the manga by Kei Urana, the anime adaptation by Bones Film will...