Often times, stories come and go on game sites without a sense of permanence or a proper archive. Especially so when you're crashing on another site's couch while building your own. This is our attempt to change that -- a collection of all the in-depth, research-based feature stories we've been...
Our one-stop guide to all of Polygon's in-depth game industry feature stories.
Sony's official spec sheet for its upcoming NSZ-GS7 with Google TV reveals that the set-top box is compatible with the OnLive Gaming Controller and USB dongle. Google previously announced that OnLive game streaming was coming to Google TV, but...
Gears of War: Judgment is being written not by Gears of War 3 scribe Karen Traviss, but by Extra Lives author Tom Bissell and Rob Auten, Epic Games revealed to Eurogamer.
Traviss told IGN earlier this month that she was no longer working on the Gears franchise.
This extends Bissell's years-long collaboration with Epic — he profiled design director Cliff Bleszinski for The New Yorker in 2008...
Last April was the first time it seemed plausible for a Kickstarter backer to find themselves in a precarious relationship with a video game developer. In late April, Kickstarter's most public video game scam, Mythic: The Story of Gods and Men, was cancelled by its developer after Internet vigilantes pointed out it seemed to be mostly smoke and mirrors.
Kickstarter is still a relatively young company, designed as a crowdsourcing platform for creative projects to get off the ground. Project creators offer rewards to users who pledge as much as $10,000 to help fund their products from watches, to websites, to video games. It's already become the setting of a number of high-profile Cinderella stories and helped titles like Republique and more recently SpaceVenture reach goals of hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover development costs....
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Today only, Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land for iPhone and iPad is available for free in the App Store. The turn-based strategy and role-playing game is based on the Call of Cthulhu RPG and focuses on a group of investigators and soldiers in World War One fighting to stay sane as they seek to...
Gaikai, the streaming game service, can let you play games in a browser window. That's impressive, but it's nothing new. Gaikai's service typically uses Java, which means you'll have to install Java, update it, and possibly even grant it...
Motorola successfully convinced an administrative law judge (ALJ) at the ITC back in April to rule that Microsoft's Xbox 360 infringed US patent number 6,980,596, but how things can quickly change. Microsoft immediately appealed that decision up to the full panel of the ITC, w...
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Madden NFL 13 will mark the football franchise's debut on the PlayStation Vita, but in this case, the name is a misleading misnomer. EA Sports is...
Rhythm Thief, a rhythm puzzle adventure for the Nintendo 3DS, melds elements of Samba de Amigo, Elite Beat Agents, and Professor Layton under a French culture coating.
Set in modern-day Paris,...
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Blizzard is traveling to Gamescom 2012 this August with a world premier "Mists of Pandaria" cinematic and hands-on demos of upcoming WoW and StarCraft expansions, the company announced in a press release today.
The World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria opening cinematic, which sets the stage for...
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is getting special treatment for its release in Europe. The PlayStation 3 role-playing game, a collaboration between developer Level-5 and animation experts Studio Ghibli, will get a bonus-packed "Wizard's Edition" when it's released next year.
Namco Bandai announced the collector's edition release today, which includes the Wizard's Companion hardcover book, a recreation of the in-game spellbook used by protagonist Oliver. The full-color, 300-page book contains a "bestiary of all the creatures found in the game along with in-depth item descriptions, spells and history of the other world," Namco says.
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Zynga's price shares dropped an additional four percent today, continuing the trend of a downturn in stocks following the company's recent "Zynga Unleashed" press conference this week.
Stocks in the company were beginning to see a turn-around following the Facebook IPO until this Tuesday when Zynga revealed its future plans for new games, updated services, and an API for third-party developers.
Its "Zynga Unleashed" conference failed to impress investors and stocks, which were up significantly at mid-day, dropped by 33 cents.
Today stocks fell 25 cents and closed at $5.38 with a low of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops is being developed for Mac by Mac game publisher Aspyr Media, and will be available in both boxed and digital versions this fall, Activision announced.
In addition, all four packs for Black Ops DLC are scheduled to arrive...
Sony is prepping for a PlayStation Network summer sale which features 50 percent off discounts for PlayStation Plus members, the platform holder announced through its PlayStation Blogcast.
Starting July 3rd, games included in the sale will be...
Square Enix released Final Fantasy III on Google Play for Android devices today.
The Android version of the game was first released in March exclusively for the Japanese Android market. Almost four months on, the rest of the world can purchase the...
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and a number of game industry veterans kicked off Game Masters this week, an interactive video game exhibition showing until October 2012.
The exhibition, hosted by ACMI in Melbourne, Australia, showcases the work of leading local and international video game designers, with more than 125 playable games from the arcade era through to the latest console and mobile games.
The exhibition has been lauded as one of the most comprehensive and interactive exhibitions of this nature, with an immersive 3D version of Child of Eden available for play,...
