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Until the other day, what I knew about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was that: It's a French RPG with some Persona-inspired flairIt's got turn-based combat with real-time mechanicsIt's coming out in April Based on the screenshots of forlorn young adults, I also expected a melodramatic story about a quest to save the world, but I realized recently that I'd never actually read the game's premise.It's more bonkers than I expected....
You wouldn't know it by looking at Animalkind, a cozy and colorful town-builder where you play as a cute little corgi driving a mech, but it got its start in a different genre altogether. The game about building houses for a bunch of adorable forest animals was originally a hardcore survival game.I met with Steven Jian, CEO of Uncommon Games, at GDC in March because I was curious how the...
The Netflix boost is a phenomenon so predictable that it should qualify as legitimate economic theory. It follows a simple pattern: Netflix releases a videogame adaptation, and the people who watch it want an excuse to linger in that world, causing related game sales to spike shortly afterwards.We saw it when Henry Cavill's Geralt performance drove a 554% increase in people tossing coins to their Witchers. It drove increases in...
The first "proper update" for everyone's favorite drug-dealing simulator Schedule I is now available in a Steam beta branch, where it will stay for a day or two for testing before it goes into full release.The update comes as Schedule I faces potential trouble from Drug Dealer Simulator publisher Movie Games SA, which has launched an investigation into possible copyright infringement. No action beyond the investigation has been taken on...
Nintendo uses a bitterant called denatonium benzoate applied to its Nintendo Switch cartridges to dissuade people from putting cartridges in their mouths. It’s a substance that tastes absolutely foul, often used in similar situations — to keep people from consuming things they shouldn’t be, like antifreeze. While a Nintendo Switch cartridge might not be poisonous, you could choke on it. Children, especially, are at risk; they put all sorts of...
A long-hidden piece of film history trivia has finally been uncovered. On April 5, New York Times visual investigator Aric Toler announced on Bluesky that he and British academic Alasdair Spark found the original photo that was doctored for the ending of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Despite the fact that this photo is one of the most famous images from any horror movie, its actual origins, and the real-world location...
For those of us who grew up in the 1990s or early 2000s, A Goofy Movie was everywhere. Substitute teachers showed it during the last lazy days before summer vacation. Disney Channel played it during prime cartoon-watching hours. And friends loaded up the VHS tape during sleepovers. The 1995 blockbuster disappointment deserves the cult classic status it eventually attained: It has great music, heartfelt scenes, and a poignant message about...
We cover a lot of things at Polygon, but nothing gets us more excited lately than the Nintendo Switch 2. And now you have a chance to win your very own Switch 2! All you need to do is take a few seconds to submit an entry. If selected, you’ll win a new Switch 2. Nintendo’s upcoming console boasts a 7.9-inch screen and 256 GB of storage, plus plenty of...
Good news: Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be locked to the first account or console that uses them. “[Game-key cards] will start up on the console or system that it is slotted into, so it’s not tied to an account or anything,” Tetsuya Sasaki, general manager of Nintendo’s technology development division, told GameSpot. Unlike regular game cartridges, game-key cards simply allow access to a digital download of the game in...
Three seasons in and the best guns in Black Ops 6 continue to shake up the meta, with plenty of new additions joining the pack. There isn’t a whole lot of variety here — as usual, the best guns in this Call of Duty game are typically short to mid-range automatic weapons, due to their versatility, and since Black Ops 6 stripped back the loadout system, there aren’t as many...