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Everyone hitting refresh on Bethesda's YouTube channel waiting for an Oblivion Remastered trailer got a surprise when a new trailer for Doom: The Dark Ages arrived auspiciously over the Easter weekend.It opens with a strong dose of story. A guy who looks like he stepped right out of Hellraiser is here to attack a divided humanity with a skyship that looks like it was designed by Warhammer 40,000's Imperium of...
Palia's big Elderwood expansion is coming in May with a new zone that reminds me of WoW's Teldrassil
Cozy MMO Palia is getting its biggest expansion yet, featuring the new Elderwood adventure zone, which might look familiar to World of Warcraft fans.Palia has received a steady stream of updates since it launched in open beta in 2023, but there's one major update fans have been waiting months for and it's finally here: the Elderwood expansion.This huge new zone will also arrive alongside Palia's long-awaited console launch on Xbox...
Ubisoft has announced that its internal tool to help developers make colorblind-accessible videogames is available for public use "after several years of internal use and development."Chroma lets developers replicate the experience of colorblind players in real time, as they actually play the game, by applying a filter over the screen that doesn't degrade game performance.Colorblindness may well be the most common disability affecting videogame players, with nonprofit Colour Blind Awareness...
Fans of Twister rejoice, there's finally a game that lets you take down tornadoes in the least realistic way possible—and it's free!Kill the Twister, a free indie game that's exactly what it sounds like, launched on Steam this month and you don't even need to add it to your wishlist since it's a free game at the time of writing. In this "self-contained FPS boss fight against a massive tornado,"...
Cephalofair Games, and other board game publishers like it, are in dire straits thanks to Trump administration trade tariffs, which could have a catastrophic impact on the entire board game industry.In an interview with CNN last week, Cephalofair Games COO Price Johnson shared some bad news about the second edition of the hit dungeon crawler board game Gloomhaven, which is now on hold due to the tariffs.Johnson explained that tariffs...
REPO's dev team loves its players and modders, but it's kindly asking everyone to optimize their mods so they don't fry the servers.The REPO devs answered some questions from players in a Q&A video posted on Saturday, including one question about semiwork's "stance on mods." Their response was positive, but with one small ask for modders:"We encourage mods. It's so fun to see people add their own personality to our...
The month of April has turned out to be a flashpoint for the isometric ARPG community. It's packed with updates: Path of Exile 2, Last Epoch, Diablo 4, and No Rest for the Wicked all have big new shinies out this month, and while it's natural to compare them, brawling over which is better obscures the bigger picture: This great genre now has tons of great games, each with its...
Here at Polygon, we aren’t strangers to the video game notebook. Handwritten notes can create a physical place that can serve as a guide and aid in our own game experiences. They can also enhance enjoyment of a game. Our staff has created assassination bullet journals and argued that taking notes can make games more fun. Now, Blue Prince — the hottest puzzle game of 2025 — has taken that...
Admit it, we all have an MMO of questionable pedigree that we could happily sink dozens more hours into. Unfortunately for me, mine was Defiance. Yep, the one that ran alongside the moderately popular sci-fi (sorry, SyFy) TV show. Defunct twice over as both a retail game and the F2P relaunch Defiance 2050, it’s now back from the dead once more under new publisher Fawkes Games, and I’ve got my...
There is something about the Lunar series—a classic JRPG duology by Game Arts, first released for Sega CD—that makes them an endless wellspring of nostalgia. Despite being archetypical fantasy adventures (or perhaps because of it), many ‘90s kids have been looking forward to the Lunar Remastered Collection, which landed on Steam and consoles this week. Unfortunately, the spectre of ‘90s localization still haunts the game, with the first wave of...