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A recent study concluded that players who put more of their time into a game may be prone to leaving a negative review on Steam. The studio, available on Researchgate, analyzes what might cause this paradoxical relationship between users and games they sink a lot of hours into, proving that reviews aren’t an infallible indicator […]
Patch Notes is a weekly newsletter bringing you the best of Polygon, sent on Fridays and published on the site on Sundays. You can subscribe here. Gamescom is just around the corner, which means previews of video games due in the late summer and fall are now coming thick and fast. This is a different […]
After a torrid affair with the NCAA during my college years, I only really started following the NFL a few years ago when I was conscripted into my family’s fantasy football league. Upon claiming back-to-back championships in 2022 and 2023, I felt like it was safe to say I was “pretty into football.” I willingly, […]
There’s something strangely appropriate about how Armored Core 2 isn’t remembered with the same affection as other entries in FromSoftware’s long-running mech series. It is, after all, a game all about machines caught between old and new worlds. Released for the PlayStation 2 in October 2000, the fourth outing in the franchise (despite its name) […]
If you’ve been looking for a new app that lets you stream your PlayStation games without bringing new hardware into the mix, you’re in luck: meet Asobi: Remote Play. Being able to stream your games onto other devices isn’t anything new in gaming. There’s the Logitech G Cloud for Xbox and the PS Portal, both […]
The best thing about an anthology show is that, if one season or episode is bad, there’s no reason not to skip it. After all, nobody can force you to watch True Detective season 2 or that one Black Mirror episode with Miley Cyrus in it. But sometimes, the most underrated entry in a beloved […]
Before CGI spectacles took over in the 2000s, action movies in the 1990s were still chasing the success of 1988’s Die Hard. Steven Seagal’s Under Siege was basically Die Hard on a battleship. Wesley Snipes’ Passenger 57 was Die Hard on a plane. And Harrison Ford’s Air Force One was Die Hard on a very […]
Savage Hulk is back. In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) is no longer the chill, confident “Professor Hulk” we saw in Avengers: Endgame. Instead, he’s the Hulk everyone wants, the rampaging rage machine that just likes to smash. The return is a welcome one, but it does feed into a bigger Hulk […]
As a lifelong Spider-Man reader, I’ve spent more than my share of time on comic book discussion boards. Sooner or later, someone on those forums always asks one of the traditional questions: If you had the chance, what characters would you bring back to life? Since I was a kid, one of my big answers […]
Summer is sometimes a slow season for new video games, but that hasn’t been the case for 2026. July had plenty of must-play games get released, like Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced and Halo: Campaign Evolved. August is no different as exciting games are coming out one after another, and the month is bookended by […]
