Code Vein 2 was revealed this weekend at Summer Game Fest, and it's building quite a bit on the action RPG from 2019. There's time travel and a whole arsenal of abilities that can wreak havoc on your foes. Yet I can't stop thinking about one thing: its motorcycle.Taking place in two eras, Code Vein 2 follows two characters on a quest to save the world from ruin. In the...
I'll never forget the first time my friends and I played Phasmophobia. It was like nothing I'd ever played before, absolutely hilarious, and surprisingly terrifying—it still is. So it's rather funny to me that not only does Phasmo's creator not really play horror games but he didn't intend to make one either."I failed to make a co-op puzzle game," director and lead developer Daniel Knight told my colleague Andrea Shearon...
When a new game is released, it’s typical for publishers to partner with gaming personalities to promote their game. Mindseye, the debut narrative game by the studio formed by the ex-president of Rockstar North, Leslie Benzies, was no different in this regard — Twitch streamers teased playthroughs on social media for launch day, June 10. Some of these influencers showcased the game and its high-stakes AI adventure as planned. But...
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time seems to offer exactly what the cozy gaming community has been looking for. A community so eager to jump into a chilling, cute world of miniaturized characters that it helped Level 5’s newest title reach the mark of 1 million copies sold and flooded TikTok and Reddit with posts about the game. From cute characters to a whole island to customize, it...
Silent Hill fans just got a peek behind the scenes of the next title in the iconic horror franchise, Silent Hill f, via Konami’s Press Start livestream on Thursday, during which the game’s developers provided a detailed look at the major theme of the game: beauty in terror. “The setting of Silent Hill f has shifted from the town of Silent Hill to Japan,” series producer Motoi Okamoto said. “But...
Actor-producer Dave Bautista (Blade Runner 2049, Guardians of the Galaxy) and developer Titan1Studios have announced a major partnership to launch the multimedia Cat Assassin franchise that includes an animated series, publishing efforts, and a stealth-action video game already in development. Created by Steve Lerner, the mind behind hit games Stray and Twelve Minutes, Cat Assassin is set in a gritty neo-noir city populated by anthropomorphic felines. The story follows Hugh, a skilled assassin navigating...
Things are warming up as Remedy’s FBC: Firebreak approaches its June 17 launch on PlayStation 5 as part of the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. We chatted with Communications Director Thomas Puha, Lead Level Designer Teemu Huhtiniemi, Lead Designer/Lead Technical Designer Anssi Hyytiainen, and Game Director/Lead Writer Mike Kayatta about some of the fascinating and often hilarious development secrets behind the first-person shooter. PlayStation Blog: First, what PS5 and PS5 Pro...
Konami shared a new Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater gameplay trailer during its Press Start news event on Thursday, revealing that the series is returning to multiplayer with a new game mode called Fox Hunt. The new teaser showed a soldier character controlled from a third-person POV, blending elements found in the base game for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater while showing how the camouflage tech can be...
On Tuesday, Build a Rocket Boy released MindsEye after a pre-launch period that was anything but normal. From one executive alleging that bad actors were funding a pre-launch smear campaign against MindsEye to other executives departing the studio one week before it came out, everything surrounding MindsEye has been weird. A representative for Build a Rocket Boy and publisher IOI Partners confirmed that Polygon would not be receiving a review...
Even before the news broke about the unconventional rights-reversion deal Black Panther writer-director Ryan Coogler negotiated with Warner Bros. for his horror movie Sinners, the movie was already one of 2025’s most-discussed releases. Michael B. Jordan’s dual role as twin gangster brothers Smoke and Stack, the movie’s bold themes around racial identity and community, Coogler’s intense approach to creature-feature violence, and a particularly ambitious, gorgeous scene connecting the past and...