Whenever I tell friends that I'm still playing Halo Infinite in 2025, the reactions are usually somewhere between confusion and open laughter. No, it's not dead, and yes, 343 (now Halo Studios) still adds stuff to it—battle passes, the occasional gun, and frequent map packs created by the Forge community.This week kicked off a Halo 3 nostalgia event, marked by the return of 2007 armor sets and remakes of 11...
It's a scientifically proven fact that nothing good ever happens underwater, and that's especially true in videogames. Subnautica, SOMA, Barotrauma, Iron Lung, the list goes on: Basically, if you're in a videogame and you're underwater, you're in for a bad time. Which brings us to Siren's Rest, the newly announced DLC for The Chinese Room's oil rig horror game Still Wakes the Deep: That's right, it's going underwater.There are spoilers...
GTA Online's next major update is called Money Fronts, and it introduces a trio of new businesses that players can use to butter up their bottom line with some extra passive income.Landing on June 17, GTA Online's latest update is all about empowering small businesses and supporting the local economy with a little bit of money laundering. After 12 long years, we can finally buy the Hands On Car Wash...
(Image credit: Kong Orange, WiredFly)After yapping about nothing but videogames for three days at Summer Game Fest, I tried my best to talk about anything else, but I just couldn't stop bringing up Out of Words.It's a sidescrolling tale of young love brought to life by a charming handicraft world and striking stop-motion animation. Being the type of person who's always experimenting with amateur arts and crafts and playing Jim...
Sony has removed regional restrictions on at least four of its biggest games on Steam, making them available for purchase in dozens of countries where they were previously out of reach.The changes were noticed and shared by Wario64 on Bluesky, who said that four games—God of War Ragnarok, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, Spider-Man 2, and Helldivers 2—had their regional restrictions removed. You can see the changes for...
In order to save Overwatch's friendly neighborhood robot Bastion from getting demolished every time he steps out of cover, hero designer Scott Kennedy made an unusual suggestion: shrink him. Smaller targets are harder to hit and that could be all it takes to keep him alive a little longer.After some internal testing, the decision was made: Bastion will be 10% smaller in Overwatch's next season."Though I was initially (and correctly)...
When FromSoftware revealed the Revenant class in Elden Ring Nightreign, I was certain she’d be embraced by fans for her doll-like design, unique power set, and bare feet. But Nightreign players have latched onto the necromancer for other reasons entirely, transforming her into a rabid attack dog who wields colossal weapons and is ready and willing to destroy anything in her path — including her Nightfarer friends. Elden Ring Nightreign players...
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. Disney’s live-action Snow White was box office poison thanks to bad reviews, controversy about the dwarves, and a scaled-back promotional tour, but it could still find new life if viewers fall in love with it on Disney Plus. This is a...
The trend of the last decade is alive and well: Soulslikes are still all the rage. Even among the limited selection of demos at Summer Game Fest 2025, I saw numerous games that were either Souls down to their toes or took some degree of inspiration from them. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, a self-described Soulslike action RPG, does feel very familiar in those ways, but it's also trying a few things...
Nier: Automata producer Yosuke Saito and director Yoko Taro have both come out to deny a rumor about publisher Square Enix's restrictions over the game's character designs.A mistranslated English subtitle during a stream on Tuesday sparked news stories and social media posts suggesting that Nier: Automata had to adhere to Western standards to avoid being banned in countries outside Japan. The cause for the error was a double negative in...