Not too long ago, Victorian stealth-em-up Gloomwood received a "research update" that lets players study dissected monsters and then inject their sweet juice directly into your veins for temporary powers. More recently, the early access immsim's latest update has expanded on those research options.Spending time at your lab gazing into the abyss now grants permanent passive bonuses. You can dissect crowmen for a holstered speed boost, bat barbers for added...
I didn't hate my time with Space Marine: Master Crafted Edition, because it's basically the same stompy action game I loved only with some more polygons so those oversized shoulderpads look a bit rounder. But I didn't love the way the new weapon-select menu blocks the middle of the screen and hangs around just long enough to be annoying, or the black-screen bug, or the crash to desktop that made...
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. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck fight sentient bubblegum monsters animated with John Carpenter-style body horror in The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, which pops onto Max following its March theatrical release. For a less zany, more psychological...
A new report by Ars Technica shows SteamOS matching or outright beating Windows gaming performance in a suite of five recent games on the Lenovo Legion Go S, while testing by YouTuber Dave2D showed an additional four games where SteamOS either handily beats Windows, or trails by just one frame.PC Gamer hardware writer Jacob Fox's review of the Go S adds yet another three games where SteamOS comes out on...
When I spoke to Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer earlier this year, I got his take on the apparent ultimate victory of turn-based combat over real time with pause (RTWP), as well as why he thinks turn-based fell off in the first place.This begged the question: With both Baldur's Gate 3 and Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity games serving as successors to the original, RTWP Baldur's Gates, how was Larian...
The first patient I killed was a mistake. A burly fellow named Victor Harlow walked into my surgery complaining about fatigue, but I was distracted by the little pig popping in and out of my cuckoo clock. This isn't a euphemism for anything—there really was a small pink pig where the cuckoo should have been.Anyway, I downed an entire bottle of laudanum and the pig went away. I gave Victor...
After revolutionizing the anime industry with one of the most popular first seasons in the genre’s history (followed by five more that were just as successful) and the highest-grossing anime movie of all time, the Demon Slayer franchise is ready for the beginning of the end. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, the first movie in the trilogy that will close up the story of Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the...
Free-running zombie survival extravaganza Dying Light is 10 years old this year, a fact that my rapidly rotting brain simply refuses to accept. Developer Techland is determined to hammer the news home though, dedicating an entire year to anniversary celebrations. Back in January, the developer gave away its first DLC for the game in four years. Now, it has given the game a big lick of graphical paint in what...
Two Point Museum is already one of the most enjoyable management sims I've played, spinning its theme down some wonderfully silly avenues that let you curate exhibitions of ghosts and giant carnivorous plants. Now, publisher SEGA has announced an expansion that will add another range of bizarre artifacts to discover and display, this time with the theme of swords, sorcery, dragons and quite possibly dungeons too.The Fantasy Finds DLC adds...
We’ve all seen our fair share of battle arenas, but a battle arena in the form of a floating, rotating, basically shape-shifting block? That’s new. It’s called (what else?) The Cube, and it’s a massive multiplayer shooter from Atomic Heart developer Mundfish. Of all the 2025 Summer Game Fest announcements, The Cube struck me, thanks to its ambitious hexahedronic design. To learn more, I recently sat down for a remote...