At first glance, Of Orcs and Men, the upcoming RPG co-developed by French teams Cyanide and Spiders, may look like another generic fantasy game. It has the various races and locations, the tactical combat, and the loot fixation that you've seen in hundreds of games like it before. But something...
A quest to stop orc genocide
Square Enix has, recently, transformed itself from a mostly Japanese-centric game maker to a studio creating some of the more interesting Western games on the market.
Where Square was perhaps once best known for games like Final Fantasy, Dragon...
John Edwards, Lead Designer at NetherRealm, the creators of the recent Mortal Kombat reboot, said the studio's upcoming DC Comics superhero fighting game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, won't include decapitations or disembowelment.
"There's a place for Mortal Kombat," said Edwards, "and there's a place for this, also."
Injustice includes a bit more comic book goofiness than its viscera-stewed...
Thundercats fans might be head-over-heels for the reboot of the 1980s cartoon series, but those who were hoping for a cool show tie-in game will, unfortunately, be disappointed.
Unless, of course, the appeal is all in the retro-ness. Thundercats for the DS - yes, the DS - is a side-scrolling action game that looks like a 90s Game Boy title. The game has been rendered to look old - a nod to the age of the series. Instead, what I assume should have been charming gave an air of being uncomfortably out of date. I wasn't, after all, playing a Game Boy game port. I was playing a game made in 2012 for a 2004 handheld meant to look similar to Disney's 1993 Aladdin game, but with one fourth the content and even less of the fun.
The game follows the first six episodes of the rebooted show, beginning with the Lizard army's invasion of Thundera....
Thunder, thunder, thundercats... nooo
"Nuns, Guns and Agent 47," the Hitman Absolution trailer that ignited a firestorm of controversy surrounding accusations of rape culture and sexualized violence, "truly represented the vision of the developer," the president of Square Enix's Americas tells Polygon.
"I'll tell you the one thing...
According to a tweet by Xbox Live's Larry Hryb, Microsoft is rolling out an update containing "behind the scenes improvements" to a few select Xbox 360 owners this week with a full release next week. The update, version 2.0.15572.0, will...
The thrills in Sony Online Entertainment's new free-to-play shooter Bullet Run are awfully cheap — which, I suppose is appropriate, given that the game is pretty cheap too.
Bullet Run gives its players a suite of ridiculous special powers which complement the genre's...
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The decision to turn classic tabletop game Cyberpunk 2020 into a video game comes with a pleasant surprise: A brand new edition of the...
The reps from Criterion Games were the happiest people I met at E3, passing around beers to friends, joshing with the racers getting demolished in their new game, Need for Speed: Most Wanted. They...
Down the right-hand side of Sony's E3 booth were waves of wrist-flapping and bicep-jerking while E3 attendees tested Portal 2's motion controls.
This is the new iteration of the game as imagined by developer Sixense, which results in one of the better uses of the Move controller as a whole - a literal interpretation of the Portal gun that begins...
After a painfully short weekend, E3 is far behind us and Teams Polygon and The Verge have, once again, spread to the four corners of the globe. This was our inaugural E3 and, even then, it's sort of pre-inaugural.
Hence the title of our E3 kick-off party on Sunday night: Polygon on The Verge....
Developers Monolith could have been content with bringing the highly complex, nearly exclusively computer-based MOBA genre to the console. But with Guardians of Middle-Earth, the developers didn't just transport the gametype to a new platform, they also tweaked and improved it.
Commanding well known, and some lesser known, heroes and villains of the Middle-Earth saga, players find themselves leading a constantly spawning army of underlings against a like-sized force out to take down the enemy base. The maps upon which you do battle are all symmetrical, littered with the same number of upgradeable defense towers.
The ability to upgrade...
Though not on the E3 show floor last week, developer Zeboyd Games set up in a hotel across the street with an almost-final version of Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness — Episode 3. And during an appointment, Zeboyd programmer/designer Robert Boyd broke down the main differences he sees between working on an original product and a licensed game.
You may recall a bit of a development hiccup when Penny Arcade Episode 2 developer Hothead Games moved on to other projects, and Zeboyd picked up the story with a dramatically different art style and approach, mirroring a 2D...
Polygon scoured the floor of E3 last week, drinking in all the show had to offer before regurgitating it into your waiting mouths like beloved baby birds. Then we delivered our Editor's Choice Awards to the best of the bunch. Check out all of the...
Polygon scoured the floor of E3 last week, drinking in all the show had to offer before regurgitating it into your waiting mouths like beloved baby birds. Then we delivered our Editor's Choice Awards to the best of the bunch. Check out all of the...
The spectacular tech behind the Unreal Engine 4 demo shown off during E3 will start powering playable games next year, Epic Games vice president Mark Rein tells Joystiq.
Asked when the first Unreal Engine 4 game will ship Rein said he didn't know...
The Kinect functionality built into Madden NFL 13 is built around the assumption that, hey, you're already shouting at your TV while you play, so why not make those shouts mean something?
This year's Madden will allow you to select and alter plays...
Sure, you know you should be reading. All your friends keep saying how inspired they were by Eat, Pray, Love or Tuesdays With Morrie or The Bible, but to you, it all seems to be just staring at a bunch of squiggles on a page! Is that really the best way to spend this precious gift of life? We submit it is not.
Luckily, Sony used its E3 keynote to announce the Wonderbook, an augmented reality application for the PS Move that makes those boring squiggles into a toy begging to be played with.
