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Long ago, the pioneers of digital shooting pitted two teams against each other in a contest to earn the most frags. Thus, the perfect game mode was born.When an FPS features team deathmatch at or near the top of its playlists, that's the crucial clue that you're playing a good videogame. The mode's popularity has waned in our current era of battle royale and extraction, so it's nice that some...
Jeremiah Leif Johnson, a writer and editor for a number of gaming and tech websites including IGN, Vice Motherboard, Macworld, and PC Gamer, died suddenly of a cardiovascular event last Saturday, May 17. He would have been 46 in June.Leif started writing about games professionally in his 30s, at which point he had already lived at least two different, fascinating lives. In his youth in Texas he worked on a...
10 years after buying White Wolf from CCP Games, and seven years after eliminating it as a "separate entity," Paradox Interactive is bringing it back as "the official licensing and publishing entity for all its transmedia properties, including Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and Hunter: The Reckoning."White Wolf will also serve as co-publisher of the upcoming Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, which is set to launch in October."I’m...
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Blizzard Entertainment rolled out its hero ban feature for Overwatch 2 in April, and if you’ve been playing any competitive games during season 16, you’ve probably noticed that certain heroes (e.g., Sombra, Zarya, Symmetra, Ana, Mercy) are among the most consistently banned characters. Newly published data from Blizzard shows that to be the case, with some qualifications, and it seems the frequency of banning those heroes will ultimately have some consequences....
Hang out with a game developer in a casual setting for an hour and the topic of gamedev misconceptions is bound to come up. It's always fun to explain what people get wrong about your job, especially if it could lead to fewer misguided assumptions and mean comments on the internet.Such was the goal of a monster feature interviewing 32 game developers published today at GamesRadar, which included several choice...
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, Mickey 17, the science fiction comedy from Oscar-winning Parasite writer-director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson as an expendable clone, gets copied onto HBO Max following its March theatrical debut. Netflix has a full slate of releases, with the...
The Switch 2’s mouse functionality is a nifty idea, but let’s face it, the prospect of scrolling around for hours with something that wasn’t designed from the ground up with that functionality in mind sounds like a recipe for hand cramps. Fortunately, you’ll have options. In April, Polygon had a chance to take the Switch 2’s mouse controls for a test run. At the time we noted that the Joy-Con...
Snake Eater is special. And as much as I love Cold War Metal Gear, I'm not talking about the game. I'm talking about the song. From the first drum hits and horn blasts, the Snake Eater theme, sung by vocalist Cynthia Harrell, is in perfect alignment with the game it's introducing.It's bombastic; it's espionage-smooth; it's goofy when it tells you you'll feed on a tree frog and it's unflinchingly earnest...
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You’ll need to hide in hiding spots in Fortnite to complete one of the Chapter 6 Galactic Battle weekly challenges. Hiding spots are scattered all over the island, but some spots are easier to reach than others. In this guide, we’ll show you how to hide in hiding spots in Fortnite, plus list some of the easiest-to-reach hiding spots on the island. How to complete the ‘hide in hiding spots...
The Splitgate 2 open beta is not going well—in fact, it's not going at all. After running headlong into serious technical problems following the launch of the beta test on May 22, developer 1047 Games has taken the servers offline and is now "working around the clock" to get things fixed and back online."Obviously this is not the spot we thought we'd be in 24 hours after the launch of...