Ryse was originally announced as "Codename Kingdoms" during Microsoft's E3 2010 press conference. During last year's Microsoft press conference, it was revealed to be a Kinect-enabled "core" title. During this year's E3, it wasn't mentioned at all.
"We're still building Ryse," corporate VP of...
"We're not the biggest first party." Phil Spencer
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...
Developer Tequilaworks' Deadlight is awash in its influences. For modern audiences, those will likely mean one particular avenue of connection — to the hopelessness of George Romero's Day of the Dead and other similar genre fiction. It's not just that there are zombies and the fall of civilization but also the aesthetic and particulars of the setting, a dingy 1980s Pacific Northwestern U.S....
Nintendo's booth was filled with surprises, surprises that perhaps would have been better revealed during the company's uneventful press conference, but surprises nonetheless. Project P-100, a collaboration between Platinum Games (Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) and Nintendo, not even shown at the presser, was charm incarnate. ZombiU proved to be more than a pretty CG trailer, making better use of Nintendo's novel touch screen controller than any first-party game. (Zombie scanning: just what zombie shooters were missing!) Even New Super Mario Bros. U, which looked like an annual update at the presser, had hidden within it an addictive and antagonistic form of co-operative multiplayer. Nintendo had good stuff to show, if you looked for it.
With the help of our talented video team, Russ Frushtick and I scoured the booth for...
How do we love you Project P-100? Let us count the ways.
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...
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...
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 Quest and Kingdom Hearts, a...
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"Nuns, Guns and Agent 47," the Hitman Absolution trailer that ignited a firestorm of controversy surrounding accusations of rape culture and...
The decision to turn classic tabletop game Cyberpunk 2020 into a video game comes with a pleasant surprise: A brand new edition of the pen-and-paper game is in development.
Speaking with Polygon...
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 reportedly place the Avatar store in the social pane in addition to creating a "Manage Exercise Info" field...
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...
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 standard abilities of "murder without fear of legal consequence" and "continuous life after death." One power straps a pair of deadly claws to the player, and gives them a burst of speed and shielding so they can go full-blown Wolverine for a few seconds. Another equips the player with Akimbo SMGs, and gives them the ability to quickly slide on their knees as they spray and...
If you own a PlayStation Vita, you were probably hoping that E3 2012 would be a boon for your handheld, with a wide-ranging list of dozens of games arriving this year. A good sign that you were going to be disappointed: Even Sony spent hardly any time talking about the Vita during its press conference, and they made the damn thing!
While the 2012 first-party line-up for the Vita is pretty bleak for those that don't like LittleBigPlanet, one third-party publisher seems to be putting a little more effort behind the system. Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation was unquestionably one of the...
My overwhelming victory behind the wheel of Big Daddy during my PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale demo is probably reliant on one of two factors: My skill, or my drill.
The BioShock mini-boss, which was announced for PlayStation All-Stars:...
Game developer Tak Hirai is no stranger to mixing videogames and music. Once known primarily for his work on Shenmue, Hirai went on to help create such beat-heavy classics as Space Channel 5 and Meteos. Now Hirai runs his own studio, Neilo, and is...
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...
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 articles about our favorite games of E3 here:
