When I went to Bellevue, Washington, in early April to visit Bungie’s headquarters and take a gander at Marathon, the studio’s upcoming extraction shooter, I remembered the first time I played a PC copy of Halo as a teen. Despite logging hundreds of hours on Xbox before, I was terrible with my mouse and keyboard until a patient stranger spent hours guiding me to victory. I had another guide with...

Marathon, Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter, has been officially rerevealed via a Saturday stream out of the developer’s main offices in Bellevue, Washington. As part of a preview event for press and creators, Bungie flew me out to Washington to spend about six hours with the game, see the reveal event early, and speak to some of the creatives who are working to put everything together ahead of the game’s Sept....

You’ll come across a pair of pictures (or paintings, or drawings, or whatever you want to call them) in every Blue Prince room. This pair of pictures (or paintings or drawings) serves as the basis for one of the most baffling puzzles in the game. Our Blue Prince guide will tell why there are two pictures in every room and tell you everything you need to know about how to...

This story was first published in Switchboard, a newsletter from Polygon that delivers all the latest Switch 2 news, reporting, and rumors directly to your inbox. Sign up here to get it weekly. One of the big new features that Nintendo touted at last week’s Switch 2 reveal was GameChat, a built-in communication system that — as long as you pay for Nintendo Switch Online — will let players communicate via voice and...

The Boiler Room provides power to certain rooms around the estate in Blue Prince. The Boiler Room will send steam power through the steam ducts on the ceiling to any connecting room, as long as they also have steam ducts. However, you’ll need to figure out how to activate the steam power first, which will require you to turn a lot of valves and pipes. Solving the puzzle can be...

The Marvel Rivals tier list is proof of an inherent truth: not every hero (or villain) is built equally. In the competitive shooter (which added four characters, three maps, a battle pass, and skins), every character is technically viable, but there are some who are obviously more powerful than the rest. Below, we’ve compiled a tier list showing the current Marvel Rivals meta (as of the release of season 1.5),...

Marvel Rivals is a competitive game set in the multiverse, so it’s fitting that you play on a number of different maps. As of season 2 (which added a new character from the X-Men comics, Emma Frost), there are now 11 maps in Marvel Rivals, all inspired by locations from the Marvel Comics universe. You’ll play three modes across those maps. There are also two arcade modes and maps, which...

Larian Studios is finally ready to say goodbye to Baldur’s Gate 3 with one last update set to go live next Tuesday, April 15. Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 8, as the expansion is called, focuses on three major updates: an additional sub-class for every main class, cross-play between all platforms, and a photo mode. The developer conducted a handful of community stress tests over the last few weeks, and, ignoring...

Blue Prince, an engrossing puzzle game about exploring a mysterious mansion that is never the same from one day to the next, is the first breakout indie game of 2025. It’s also currently the best-reviewed game of 2025 outright. You would think that would put it in contention for Game of the Year at The Game Awards, and you would probably be right, if it were November and not April....

Nintendo has spent the last few weeks providing us with a ton of information about the Switch 2, but I’m sad to say that’s old news. The tech-y, business-y types of the world are already looking ahead to the Switch 3, baby. Buckle up. While sharing his insights on the current strength of Intel Corporation stock, KeyBanc Capital Markets senior research analyst John Vinh shared a small —and I mean...