In April of 2012, a group of writers sat together for the first time, on a stage in a convention center in Boston. They were nervous. Excited. Maybe a little scared.
They had come together, bringing with them a combined half century of experience in video games media, to do one thing: start...
Polygon and Vox Media are proud to present the teaser trailer for 'Press Reset: The story of Polygon,' a documentary miniseries
Riding in the wake of GDC Europe, Gamescom 2012 is Europe's largest trade fair for games and interactive entertainment. It runs from August 15th through August 19th in Cologne, Germany, and includes more than 600 companies from 40 countries, and Polygon will be on the floor to bring you all the Gamescom news you...
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 doing about games for The Verge while preparing for Polygon to launch.
For hot-out-the-oven details...
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is easily the best thing to happen to the property since, well, Transformers: War for Cybertron.
War for Cybertron pulled off a surprising feat for an off-the-radar licensed title, nailing the shape-shifting dynamic of said robots in disguise and using it to make a shooter that felt different from everything around it. It was fast, it was violent, and it sold Transformers like no other game ever had.
Ignoring 2011's disastrous Dark of the Moon — and really, let's do that — Fall of Cybertron marks High Moon's second crack at the Transformers prequel universe it created, and it has managed an impressive second act. The fundamentals present in War for Cybertron have returned (minus one surprising omission) but High Moon has gone several steps further. By consistently adding new quirks and gameplay...
Transformers like Grimlock and Bruticus sell a new sense of scale in Fall of Cybertron.
A day after the release of Diablo 3's game-changing update, version 1.0.4, lead designer Jay Wilson has addressed ongoing player concerns about the game, revealing future update plans that include player-adjusted monster difficulty, further end-game tweaks, and the next major patch.
Wilson's...
G.rev, the Japanese developer of numerous arcade shoot 'em ups, will finally have its helicopter shmup Under Defeat released stateside. Publisher Rising Star Games announced today it plans to bring Under Defeat HD: Deluxe Edition to the...
With a unified effort organized by the independent games development community, the Indie Megabooth at PAX Prime 2012 will feature a lineup of 30 independent developers with over 30 playable games corralled in a central location to present and support indie games.
The...
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If the NES version of Super Mario Bros. is just a little too modern for you, one developer has decided to remake the game on an even older machine — the Atari 2600. AtariAge forum goer Sprybug...
If you're an Xbox 360 owner and somehow haven't picked up a Kinect yet, now's the time — Microsoft just dropped the price of its motion-tracking peripheral to $109.99 in the US. That's a nice drop from the $149.99 that the Kinect cost previously (and still sells for on the Microsoft Store, at least for the moment). As for those not in the US,...
Curiosity, the first game coming from Peter Molyneux's studio 22cans, has been delayed until September, the company announced in a new trailer.
The video, posted below, shows the makeup of the game's infamous cube, a large black block made from an untold number of smaller black blocks which...
The latest expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, "Riders of Rohan," will see its launch delayed from September 5th to October 15th, developer Turbine announced today.
In a post on the game's official website, executive producer Kate Paiz wrote that despite a successful beta program with good-quality feedback, Turbine will need more time to address some of the issues uncovered by testers.
Players who have already pre-ordered the expansion will receive 500 Turbine Points and a Lord of the Rings Online "goodie bag" including six performance-boosting items for use in-game. Players will automatically receive the points and the code for...
Yakuza 5 will feature a new dance battle system for series mainstay Haruka, Sega revealed in its latest update to Famitsu, as translated by Andriasang.
These rhythm action battles are set to five different musical genres, including hip hop, house, "idol," jazz, and rock. Throughout the dance a gauge will fill that allows the player to perform a special "Dance Heat" move. Haruka will then be judged by spectators, and will gain "expression power" if she comes out ahead. High enough expression power will eventually lead to reaching the top of the Princess League Idol tournament.
Similarly, in...
Nippon Ichi Software was never exactly meant to be a triple-A game developer. That doesn't happen when you establish yourself in 1993 in the relative backwater that is Japan's Gifu prefecture and release a jigsaw-puzzle collection for the...
Kenji Matsubara, the former president and CEO of Tecmo Koei, really believes in Zynga -- enough that he was convinced to leave the storied traditional-game industry last year to lead up the Japanese division of the social-game powerhouse.
"When I...
Windows Phone 7 never really got off the ground as a gaming platform, but its successor got an early boost today in the shape of Unity support. According to Edge, Unity Technologies CEO David Helgason announced that his company's widely-used game...
Final Fantasy 13's development team is planning to reveal a "new direction" for the saga of its key character, Lightning, Square Enix announced today.
According to the company, the team's producer, director, and art director are in the process of...
The Xbox 360 Essentials pack will release this October, containing all essential Xbox 360 accessories for $79.99, Microsoft revealed on the official Xbox website.
The basic accessory pack, timed to release for the holiday season, includes a wireless controller, a media remote, and an HDMI cable. In addition, users will receive a three-month Xbox Live Gold membership.
Those who purchase the pack can save a possible $55 versus purchasing each item individually, according to Microsoft.
