After more than a decade, Rockstar Games will finally deliver a sequel to Grand Theft Auto 5, the open-world crime spree epic that has sold more than 200 million copies across multiple console generations. In 2023, GTA fans got their first official look at Grand Theft Auto 6 in the form of a teaser trailer. We already knew some details about GTA 6 before that, thanks to an unprecedented leak...
'The Epic Games Store launcher sucks less than it used to' is not very high praise but it's about as far as I'm willing to go. It has improved, undeniably, but it's still painfully slow, awkward, and just not pleasant to use—not to the point that I refuse to use it, but if I have a choice between Steam and Epic, all else being equal I'm going with Steam. My...
Netflix’s docu-series output is rarely a point of concern for those of us at Polygon, but when I get an email that says “Poop Cruise” is coming this summer to the streamer, I feel compelled to issue a warning. Consider yourself warned. Poop Cruise, from director James Ross, is one chapter of Trainwreck, a new eight-part documentary anthology rolling out on Netflix throughout June and July. According to a news...
Fortnite is in the midst of a month-long Star Wars celebration, complete with a free stormtrooper skin, a new battle pass and more. While a huge chunk of new Star Wars cosmetics dropped right at the start of the new season, there are still a few already-revealed skins that haven’t been released yet. Darth Jar Jar, for example, has not revealed his plans as yet. But thanks to some established...
The latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts*, closes out the franchise’s messy, delayed, heavily revised Phase 5, and points toward a cleaner direction for Phase 6 — one where every story might still be based in more than 15 years of MCU history, but where the creators know how important it is to keep appealing to casual viewers who can’t or don’t want to keep up on every new...
After a brutal year for the video game industry, 2025 is looking brighter and much busier — Nintendo promises to deliver the Switch 2 this summer with a bunch of new games to launch with it. While Grand Theft Auto 6 won’t make its previously announced 2025 release date, video game fans can count on big games like Ghost of Yotei, Elden Ring Nightreign, Death Stranding 2, Doom: The Dark Ages,...
For longtime Stephen King fans, “The movie version of The Long Walk is on its way” may sound like a cruel tease — and a familiar one, at that. King’s 1979 novel (written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym) has been heading toward theoretical film production since at least 1988, when Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero was reportedly attached to direct. King fan and filmmaker Frank Darabont (director...
The PlayStation Studios ranks are growing with the addition of TeamLFG, a development studio born out of Destiny 2 and Marathon developer Bungie, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hermen Hulst announced Wednesday. teamLFG was built as an incubation project at Bungie, Hulst said, and is “now fully formed and ready to be introduced to the world.” In a statement on Sony’s PlayStation Blog, teamLFG said it is “driven by a mission...
The previously reported Xbox-branded PC handheld seems to have appeared in leaked images linked to a Federal Communications Commission filing. Spoilers: It’s a black Asus ROG Ally 2, with a little Xbox button on it. The photos were surfaced by Videocardz and Indonesian site 91mobiles from an Indonesian certification filing, itself linked to a listing by the U.S. FCC. They show two new ROG Ally consoles: a vanilla model in...
Genshin Impact will require all its players in the U.S. to verify their age by July, in order to comply with a settlement between developer HoYoverse and the Federal Trade Commission over the game’s gacha mechanics. As part of the $20 million settlement, HoYoverse is forbidden from selling loot boxes to children under 16 without express parental consent. In a brief post, HoYoverse said the age-verification process would roll out...