Cameron Kunzelman
polygon.com
Atlanta, GA, United States
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How The Last of Us became ‘the greatest story that has ever been told in video games’
HBO’s The Last of Us TV show comes off a decade of gamers minting Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 1 and Part 2 as masterpieces. Here’s how zombie movies, The Walking Dead, and Sony helped put it on a pedestal. → Read More
The Witcher 3 hits even harder in a post-Cyberpunk 2077 world
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s free upgrade will be released Dec. 14 on PS5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X. It adds a performance mode, ray tracing, community-made mods, and content from the Netflix series. → Read More
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow Digs Up New Ground for the Horror Game
Hob's Barrow plays in a familiar space for genre fans, but it spirals out from that over and over again. → Read More
Gotham Knights buries a great Bat-family under a combat slog
Gotham Knights, which will be released on Oct. 21, can’t match the originality of its Arkham predecessors with Batgirl, Red Hood, Nightwing, and Robin following Batman’s death, on PS5, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC. → Read More
How to end a tabletop campaign with karaoke
The creator of The Ground Itself is back with World Ending Game, a tabletop role-playing game about endings, available as a PDF or physical book. → Read More
Grand Theft Auto 5: A 2022 re-review
Following reports about GTA 6, we look back at GTA 5, which was released on PS5 and Xbox Series X in March, marking 9 years since Rockstar kicked off GTA Online and introduced the world to the city of Los Santos. → Read More
Streets of New Capenna Is a Cool, Mobbed Up Take on Classic Magic: The Gathering
What if the mob were demons? That's the idea behind the latest Magic set. → Read More
Cyberpunk 2077: a 2022 re-review
CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG is now available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X following the massive Patch 1.5. We reevaluate its sweeping updates, improvements, and quality-of-life fixes. → Read More
The Greatness of ‘Norco’ Is Found in the Tenacious Weirdos Who Live There
An embarrassment of narrative riches and a triumph of thoughtful worldbuilding. → Read More
Behold the birth, and resonance, of walking simulators
The games garnered substantial attention in the video games press, in part because it was controversial to consider them games in the first place. → Read More
Flower Picking Is My Favorite Part of Elden Ring
Is Florist a class in Elden Ring? If not, it should be. → Read More
Crusader Kings 3, coming to PS5 and Xbox in March, plays surprisingly well on console
Paradox Interactive squeezes Crusader Kings 3 onto a game pad just fine for the upcoming console release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. → Read More
Hideo Kojima Reveals His Creative Process in The Creative Gene
The Creative Gene gives us a glimpse into a particular kind of human machine. → Read More
Placement games were 2021’s most calming video game trend
From Unpacking to Dorfromantik, placement games told some of 2021’s best video game narratives through a simple mechanic on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC. → Read More
Grand Theft Auto trilogy’s Definitive Edition misses the point of a remaster
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition is laced with visual hiccups on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch, and misses the point of a remaster entirely. → Read More
‘Age of Empires IV’ is the History Channel in game form. Just don’t take it literally.
“Age of Empires IV” mixes magical in-game systems with 2 a.m. brain-off edutainment. → Read More
'Sable' Asks You to Find Your Place in a World With Few Signposts
For mostly better and occasionally for worse, 'Sable' is a game of wanderings, not of missions. → Read More
The emotional rollercoaster of retro gaming magazine collecting
If you’re looking for meaning when collecting video game magazines like EGM and PC Gamer, you might find what you’re looking for ... or you might not. Either way, it’ll be quite the journey. → Read More
Wildermyth tells incredible stories that hit surprisingly hard
Wildermyth combines procedural generation and player-controlled narrative to create one of 2021’s best games, and one of the best games on PC in general. It also blends tactical combat with fantasy storytelling to great effect. → Read More
'Humankind' Tries to Reimagine Civilization, but Mostly Overcomplicates It
We heard you like decisions. → Read More