Clayton Ashley, polygon.com

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Tokyo Highway is a tense board game about building roads

We play Tokyo Highway, a competitive road building game that feels as precarious as Jenga, on the latest episode of our board game show Overboard. → Read More

Kabuto Sumo brings wrestling thrills to tabletop gaming

Kabuto Sumo is an easy-to-learn but tough-to-master board game for casual and hardcore tabletop fans, with a unique style of gameplay centered around shoving discs out of an arena. We played the four-player game on the latest episode of Overboard. → Read More

The Great British Baking Show: The Professionals is better than just a spinoff

The Great British Baking Show has a 2023 spinoff subtitled The Professionals, and it is better than GBBO and its Paul Hollywood handshake. Here’s why you should be watching this instead. → Read More

Concept reboots the whole concept of a guessing game

We play Concept the board game on the latest episode of Polygon’s board game show, Overboard, and thoroughly enjoy this modern guessing game that draws inspiration from Charades, 20 Questions, and Pictionary. → Read More

Taking notes makes gaming more fun

Note taking video games like Fez, Return of the Obra Dinn, and The Case of the Golden Idol are uniquely fun games that show how taking notes can make the experience of gaming more fun. → Read More

Marvel Snap is at its chaotic best when it breaks

The new Marvel card game Marvel Snap has a lot of potential for great plays, and also for pure chaos when it breaks. Here’s an example of the Black Panther card going off. → Read More

Gundam Evolution welcomes Gundam and Overwatch fans with big metal arms

Gundam fans with a taste for Overwatch should try Gundam Evolution, a free-to-play 6v6 shooter available on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. → Read More

Why do we multitask while gaming?

Media multitasking where people consume at least two pieces of media at the same time has become the way many of us play video games. In this video we explore how this became a trend and what games are best for playing in the background. → Read More

Last Friday brings Friday the 13th vibes to Camp Overboard

On this special campfire-themed episode of Overboard, we play the spooky hidden movement game Last Friday, which is inspired by Friday the 13th and 80s horror movies. → Read More

Who will win our Camp Overboard Kan Jam tournament?

We play Kan Jam in a special episode of Overboard with eight players forming the first official Camp Overboard Kan Jam Tournament → Read More

Why Elden Ring’s skeletons have such good bones

FromSoftware games have always had good skeletons, but Elden Ring has the best yet, thanks in part to some fascinating historical inspirations, including Japanese folklore and Dungeons & Dragons. → Read More

Ben Schwartz is an iPad helmet in our Sonic 2 interview sequel

A normal interview with Ben Schwartz about the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie involving an iPad duct-taped to Ryan Simmons’ face. → Read More

Why FromSoft fans should be excited for Armored Core

FromSoftware’s rumored next game is Armored Core 6, and even though it doesn’t look anything like Dark Souls, Bloodborne, or Elden Ring, fans of those games still have reason to be excited for the next Armored Core game. → Read More

Nebulous: Fleet Command captures the immensity of The Expanse’s space battles

Nebulous: Fleet Command, a space-battle real-time strategy game in early access on Windows PC, captures the complexity and thrills of The Expanse’s epic space battles. → Read More

Why power creep is a good thing in Vampire Survivors

Vampire Survivors, much like Risk of Rain 2 and Hades, uses power creep to make each run an over the top crescendo of enemies and power ups, so much so that you almost feel like you are breaking the game. → Read More

Drifting is cool, and it’s even cooler in video games

Drifting is cool, and it’s even cooler in video games, where it never slows you down like in real life. We explore the history of drifting and just what makes it such a cool way to turn. → Read More

What if Halo had been a Mac exclusive?

What if, instead of launching on Xbox, Halo: Combat Evolved had been released on Mac — exclusively? We explore this “iVerse” in the latest episode of Polygon’s alternate history show, Versus. → Read More

In Herd Mentality, it pays to be a part of the crowd

Let’s play Herd Mentality on the latest episode of Overboard. In this game, players are rewarded for guessing what everyone else will answer. → Read More

How I got into Gunpla, building plastic Gundam models (and you can, too)

A guide for understanding why Gunpla are cool, what Gunpla grades are, and how to put together these Gundam models. → Read More

Fiasco proves how fun it is to role-play without a DM

Patrick Rothfuss joins us for some collaborative storytelling → Read More