While your trekking boots, surfboards, and cologne continue to collect dust in these uncertain times, battle royale is up and running with muscle suits,...
The creators of the planned open-world zombie game Dying Light 2 have confirmed that the PS5 version will support ray-tracing.
Ray-tracing works for Dying Light...
2 people have actually submitted a class-action grievance versus Zynga following a 2019 data breach that reportedly affected more than 172 million people Zynga...
Valve’s Steam platform appears to be having a partial outage. Users are currently having difficulty reaching the Store and Community pages. An unnofficial website that monitors publicly available data shows the service is recovering, but still has less than half of its connections available. Polygon has reached out to Valve for comment. It’s unclear if…
Facebook expects its long-simmering oversight board to begin hearing cases this summer, with board members to be announced “in the coming months.” The announcement came on Tuesday, as the company released a set of recommended bylaws for the body and gave new details about how it will be structured. According to Facebook governance director Brent…
Xbox Live Gold subscribers and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get access to four free games in February as part of those subscriptions, thanks to Xbox Games With Gold, including Cyanide Studio’s Call of Cthulhu on Xbox One and Lionhead Studios’ Fable Heroes on Xbox 360. Rounding out the list of free games for…
These days, it might seem like algorithms are out-diagnosing doctors at every turn, identifying dangerous lesions and dodgy moles with the unerring consistency only a machine can muster. Just this month, Google generated a wave of headlines with a study showing that its AI systems can spot breast cancer in mammograms more accurately than doctors.…
Just over a month after announcing the end of support for Gwent: The Witcher Card Game on consoles, CD Projekt Red will launch another Witcher spin-off for the Nintendo Switch. Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales arrives on the hybrid console on Jan. 28. Gwent itself has an interesting history. Originally implemented as a mini-game inside The…
Everything sounds better in video games. This summer, I became hyper-conscious of the sound of gathering, or looting, or “picking things up.” I was editing a gameplay video from an pre-release build of The Outer Worlds, and I heard this Sound. To be fair, it’s several sounds all played in succession, when the player loots…
A few years ago, if you were a streamer, you were on Twitch — simple as that. Outside of a few select content creators, everyone who wanted to be a streamer had to use Twitch’s platform. It was the only viable game in town. But over the last year, the streaming landscape has changed. Twitch…
Polygon’s entertainment team is on the ground at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, bringing you first looks at what are sure to be some of the year’s best blockbuster-alternative offerings. Here’s what you need to know before these indie films make their way to theaters, streaming services, and the cinematic zeitgeist. Logline: Documentarian Matt Wolf…
Netflix is the new home of the Studio Ghibli collection, the company announced out of Singapore on Monday. But if you live in North America, you’ll have to look elsewhere. Beginning on Feb. 1, 21 films from the Studio Ghibli collection will begin rolling out on the streaming service globally — excluding the U.S., Canada,…
