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...
When I first fired up The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, I didn’t expect to get sucked in. I’d never played the original 2006 version, and while all the chatter surrounding the remaster piqued my interest, I didn’t see That One Game With The Horrifying NPC Faces becoming a favorite of mine. It was just something on Game Pass I thought I’d try. I certainly didn’t expect it to challenge...
Don't worry if today's Wordle has left you scratching your head, we've got a wide range of help ready to go. Take a look at our tips—a general refresh is never a bad thing. Faced with a generous helping of yellow letters but no real idea what to do with them? Our clue for the June 12 (1454) game will soon turn that around. And if you're really stuck, or...
A whole decade is a solid run for an RPG ruleset, but the success of Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, released in 2014, was such that replacing it would be an obviously terrible idea. Instead, Wizards of the Coast did something more akin to 4th edition's Essentials line—a refresh that's compatible with the previous rules, but makes changes to address criticisms that have emerged over the rules' lifespan.The 2024 update...
As if Elden Ring character stats weren't confusing enough, FromSoftware further obfuscated their purpose in Elden Ring Nightreign. Each Nightfarer has letter ratings instead of numbers to denote their relative proficiency with each stat, but the real values are hidden. You just have to trust they're going up a meaningful amount each time you level up.Dataminer and YouTuber Zullie the Witch went under the hood to figure out how stats...
From The Flash to Avengers: Endgame to 2002’s The Time Machine, time travel movies often follow characters hoping to prevent a present personal tragedy or larger calamity by tweaking some event in the past. The sweetly funny Our Times, now streaming on Netflix, breaks that mold by sending its characters to the future and focusing on how they make the most of their present — a novel, forward-looking reframing of the...