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PlayStation VR2 is making me fall in love with VR again
We get our first chance to try out four games on Sony’s new PSVR2 headset, including Horizon Call of the Mountain and Resident Evil Village. → Read More
SNK brings a pair of obscure Mega Man games to Switch
SNK’s Neo Geo Pocket Color versions of two Mega Man arcade games came out originally in 2000 — and now, 22 years later, you can play them on Switch. → Read More
Strange new Philip K. Dick biopic sounds like something Philip K. Dick would write
A look at what might have happened if Philip K. Dick’s real-life twin sister hadn’t passed away at six weeks old, Jane will twist reality to show what could have been. → Read More
Yars: Recharged is Atari’s latest 50th anniversary surprise
40 years later, Atari is bringing back Atari 2600 classic Yars’ Revenge with a new look, new features, and new approach to what it means to fly around as a bug and shoot things. → Read More
2021 game of the year Inscryption heading to PS4 and PS5 with bonus features
The expectation-defying card game heads to consoles, with PlayStation 4 and 5 versions of the way. No release date has been announced, but the ports will come with bonus features like in-controller voice and (on PS5) haptic feedback. → Read More
See what Tekken looked like before it became Tekken
Early footage of Tekken shows a game more reminiscent of Virtua Fighter, and early design docs show a much different cast for Bandai Namco’s marquee fighting franchise. → Read More
Into the Breach is getting a big update, coming to mobile thanks to Netflix
Developer Subset Games announced that its strategy game Into the Breach is headed to mobile platforms via Netflix, and that an Advanced Edition of the game is headed to all platforms. → Read More
30-plus Xbox indie demos bring Summer Game Fest home, starting June 21
Get a taste of Batora: Lost Haven, Severed Steel, Broken Pieces, Tinykin, and others during the now-annual Xbox indie game demo week running alongside Summer Game Fest. → Read More
Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel brings the Spengler family back to New York
On Ghostbusters Day, we got news of an animated movie, a new location-based virtual reality game, a new comic book, and a new platform for another VR game. → Read More
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is the next Dragon Age game
BioWare reveals a new title for the fourth mainline Dragon Age game, which it teased with a trailer in 2018. The game will be called Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, named after the enemy “Solas.” → Read More
Red Earth, Capcom’s forgotten fighting game, gets a second chance
More than 25 years after its initial release, Capcom’s fantasy boss-rush fighting game Red Earth comes to consoles, and I get to finish what I started in an arcade in Northern California. → Read More
Marvel Snap is a new card game from ex-Hearthstone devs
Second Dinner, a studio former by former Blizzard staff, has revealed its first game → Read More
EA combines two studios to make new Need for Speed games
Criterion Games and Codemasters Cheshire are now both under the Criterion banner, which brings staff with experience working on racing classics like MotorStorm to the Need for Speed franchise. → Read More
Survival MMO The Day Before delayed to 2023
Fntastic’s open-world survival MMO has been delayed to 2023 and is now running on a new engine: Epic’s Unreal Engine 5. → Read More
Warcraft mobile game reveal coming Monday
Blizzard has set a date and time to show its next big mobile game, an entry in the long-standing Warcraft universe that has been dominated for the past two decades by MMO juggernaut World of Warcraft. → Read More
Call of Duty: Warzone getting Godzilla and King Kong crossover
Or more specifically, Godzilla vs. King Kong. The 2021 movie returns in the latest example of a big game franchise crossover. → Read More
The next generation of everything 2022
In these stories, Polygon digs into the trends that are right on our doorstep, in the worlds of entertainment, games, and fandom. → Read More
Hacks season 2 trailer teases what Deborah Vance does next
The Emmy-winning HBO Max show Hacks returns to continue the adventures of aging comedian Deborah Vance and young writer Ava Daniels. Hacks season 2 will start on May 12. → Read More
Pikmin Bloom remains great six months later
Niantic’s walking companion app has become a daily habit, and shows the appeal of how real-world maps can work when combined with smart interactive mechanics. → Read More
The Cub is a post-apocalyptic platformer reminiscent of The Jungle Book
Shown via a trailer as part of GamesRadar’s Future Games Show on Thursday, The Cog is an upcoming post-apocalyptic platformer from developer Demagog Studio and publisher Untold Tales. Fusing a heavy narrative with a light visual style, the game seems to take inspiration from the classic ’90s Disney platformer The Jungle Book — including genre staples like swinging on vines and riding on a mine… → Read More