A new breed of 'outsider AAA' studios is taking over the games industry
…Elsewhere in the region, there’s a class of studio that has been loitering around the edges of AAA development for quite a while, but has struggled to make the final step…
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PlayStation and Xbox are crawling back to the console wars
…of developing AAA games in the face of a market that isn't growing. For third-party publishers, that makes multiplatform publishing a no-brainer; I don't think Final Fantasy is…
Saw: Genesis makes some major changes to the Dead by Daylight formula
…The game announcements livestream Previous 9 revelations about Final Fantasy 7 Revelation straight from its director Next Halo: Campaign Evolved will include more than 4 trillion ‘skull’ combos Polygon Summer Game Fest…
Magic fixed Harry Potter's dumbest problem by inventing its own Hogwarts
…The Gathering community. Hasbro, the parent company of Magic and Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast, announced a partnership with Warner Bros. to license the Harry Potter franchise across its various…
Turns out cooking games and life-sims make a perfect pairing
…You'll make friends with locals, help develop the town, and hang out with your special friends. You can do the usual relationship thing of picking the right responses to deepen your…
Apple TV just secretly released the most ingenious thriller of the year
…The episode emerged organically as they developed the world of Widow's Bay. "I know it sounds really basic," Dippold adds, "but a lot of this show was just us following the…
Netflix's new Stranger Things show is the best it's been in nearly a decade
…Tales from ‘85 was executive produced by the Duffer Brothers and developed by animation veteran Eric Robles ( Fanboy & Chum Chum ), who also serves as the showrunner. The series follows Mike, Will, Lucas…
It's not just Mixtape: 2026 is unexpectedly the year of the music game
…Mixtape The most high-profile of this week’s new releases is Mixtape , the latest game from The Artful Escape developer Beethoven & Dinosaur. Mixtape is a teenage coming-of-age story that…
I played this 24-year-old MMO every day for a month. Here's what it taught me about modern games
…I wanted to keep up with my project, so I chose to create a third character, but this time on the old Brazilian server, where finally my thief flourished into a deadly…
Magic will crossover with anything — so here are 15 it should do next
…The three best-selling sets ever are Final Fantasy , The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth , and Avatar: The Last Airbender . But while those all fit relatively neatly into Magic…