2026's biggest RPG just became a pet simulator
Sign in to your Polygon.com account Crimson Desert has a lot going on, including the ability to recruit animal buddies. The game’s latest update, patch 1.11 , has doubled down…
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5 new near-perfect sci-fi books fans will want to read this May
…Thomas Elrod Billed to readers as “ The Truman Show meets Game of Thrones ” (with a little bit of Westworld sprinkled in), The Franchise by Thomas Elrod, promises to be one of the…
Xbox's new CEO officially marks the end of an era
…This goodwill-generating move went hand-in-hand with something a little more hard-headed for the business crowd: Call of Duty games will no longer see day-one launches on Game…
Actually, Marathon kind of launched in 2023
…Marathon ’s live-service experience began years before the game even launched, when Bungie and creative agency Kurppa Hosk started building the game’s systems in the spaces around it. Through a…
It's not just Mixtape: 2026 is unexpectedly the year of the music game
…community, especially in the age of algorithms and AI. Rounding out this week’s trio of music games, there’s Dead as Disco . The beat-’em-up, which launched in early access…
Call of Duty's popular mode making an Arc Raiders-inspired comeback in MW4
Sign in to your Polygon.com account Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. In Call of…
12 hidden gem games that will become absolutely huge this summer
…But video games aren’t just all AAA titles with budgets in the tens and hundreds of millions. We’re swimming in hotly anticipated indie games that have filled up our wishlists…
Stranger Than Heaven's combat is so good it (almost) makes up for that Tupac reveal
Sign in to your Polygon.com account This article is part of a directory: Summer Game Fest 2026: The game announcements livestream Previous Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis studio confirms AI use…
The biggest announcements from the jam-packed Triple-i Initiative Showcase
Sign in to your Polygon.com account Several new games were revealed today at the third Triple-i Initiative Showcase , a livestream dedicated to highlighting independent games. The show gave us a…
If you're looking for the next Mixtape game, try this criminally underrated gem next
…I started to feel like a real connoisseur when I was so familiar with the game’s fictional bands that I could nail a recommendation in an instant, just from someone asking…