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Margit, is a hairy, beastly man with a cluster of goat-like horns growing from his head. He clutches a wooden can in his right hand and leers at the camera.
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What’s up with Margit?

By Patrick Gill
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Watch Tier Pressure, our high-impact ode to ranking stuff

By Simone de Rochefort
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The weirdest video game reference in The Matrix Resurrections

By Jenna Stoeber
A blue Armored Core robot covered in weapons stands in front of a blue gradient background.
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Why FromSoft fans should be excited for Armored Core

By Clayton Ashley
Cover art for Call of the Netherdeep.
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Critical Role’s new D&D campaign book features a rival group of antagonistic adventurers

By Charlie Hall
a mid 30s white male stands in a suburban lawn with his hands on his hips. Behind him, the phrase “dad games” is drawn on a house.
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I reviewed a bunch of dad games and now I’m sad

By Patrick Gill
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A drawing man in a green medieval hood holds a whip in front of a pink background.
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Why power creep is a good thing in Vampire Survivors

By Clayton Ashley
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A black woman in medieval clothes holds a skull on her hands. Above and below her, the worlds “time loops” appear
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Time loops are a weird genre for an anxious time

By Jenna Stoeber
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A bright yellow cars drifting from the right to the left in a low poly video game world that looks like a Japanese mountainside, complete with pink cherry blossom trees.
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Drifting is cool, and it’s even cooler in video games

By Clayton Ashley
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Raz from Psychonauts 2, a young boy with big red goggles, stands with his hands up. A big yellow speech bubble with text that reads “OOPS” is behind him.
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How video games help you play better

By Simone de Rochefort
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A collage of images including a fake version of Halo for Mac operating systems, a strange confidential document with Waluigi on it, Steve Jobs wearing a gamer headset and holding a Mountain Dew, and a curvaceous portable console.
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What if Halo had been a Mac exclusive?

By Clayton Ashley
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Jenna Stoeber, holding a knife, with EMMI standing menacingly behind her.
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How to make Metroid Dread soup

By Jenna Stoeber
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Arno Dorian from Assassin’s Creed Unity, crouching in the foreground with Notre Dame cathedral in the background. The cathedral’s spire is covered by a semi-transparent yellow square with a splash of red across it.
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Assassin’s Creed Unity can’t help rebuild Notre-Dame, and that’s OK

Our perception of historical accuracy needs major retooling

By Simone de Rochefort
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Polygon video producer Patrick Gill makes a stupid youtube thumbnail face while gesturing towards the logos for game middleware tools Oodle, Havok, and Simplygon
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A guide to the first 15 seconds of every game

By Patrick Gill
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A cow patterned board game box labeled Herd Mentality sits upon an assortment of cow patterned playing cards and tokens from the game.
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In Herd Mentality, it pays to be a part of the crowd

By Clayton Ashley
Phoenix Wright pointing at Lt. Columbo and Dick Gumshoe with text at the bottom saying “ It’s the same guy”
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How the classic mystery series Columbo influenced Ace Attorney

By Josh Rios
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Simone posing with two dinosaur puppets, looking confused but delightfed
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Dinotopia is the best dinosaur game, and it’s got puppets

By Simone de Rochefort
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Polybius, gaming’s oldest urban legend, is mostly Atari’s fault

By Jenna Stoeber
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A bullseye image with the words FIASCO! in the middle and www.bullypulpitgames.com underneath.
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Fiasco proves how fun it is to role-play without a DM

By Clayton Ashley
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DEATH in big red letters appears on a black background. In the letter H, a brunette woman with a distasteful look on her face peeks through.
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Game-over screens: are they a bummer?

By Jenna Stoeber
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Nigel Thornberry, Nathan Drake, and Spartan 458 are grouped together with a Tier list in the background. All of this under the words Crossovers
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl might be a High Tier crossover

By Josh Rios
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A simplistic cartoon of a masquerade ball where five pairs of dancers are shocked to see four dead bodies in the center of the room.
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Weapons Drawn brings a murder mystery to Jackbox

By Clayton Ashley
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The text “what if we had liked the Super Mario Bros movie” appear on a sunset-colored background. Next to it, there’s a fake movie poster for Kirby, in which Kirby has realistic human teeth. The image has a purple border with the text “VERSUS” in the bottom-left.
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What if we had liked Super Mario Bros.: The Movie?

By Jenna Stoeber
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An axe-weilding knight looms over you. He wears a tall bucket-style helmet, over which is superimposed rosey cheeks, glimmering eyes, and a cutesey feline smile.
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I have never been mad while playing Chivalry 2

By Patrick Gill
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A rotund cartoon Frenchman with a big red nose and bottles of wine behind him.
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French games used to be weird

By Simone de Rochefort
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A collage with two people in front of microphones on the left and another person on the right enthusiastically playing a melodica, all over a background of a fox drawn in green colors.
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We faced the Green Knight in the movie’s tabletop RPG

By Clayton Ashley
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A grey alien Sectoid from the XCOM game franchise makes a screaming face while silhouettes of XCOM soldiers stand behind.
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Save scumming: reviled exploit or useful mechanic?

By Clayton Ashley
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A close up of Bob Hoskins as Mario, with Dennis Hopper as Bowser, with a tiny-headed goomba in the background. Behind them the text says “NOT BAD?”
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We were never going to like Super Mario Bros.: The Movie

By Jenna Stoeber
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We played Valorant against Anderson .Paak

By Mike Mahardy
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What’s up with Voldo?

By Patrick Gill
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Bill from Left4Dead, Archer from Vermintide 2, Driller from Deep Rock Galactic , A silhouette of Shrek. A background of a zombie apocalypses
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What makes a good Left 4 Dead-like, beyond having 3 friends?

By Josh Rios
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A gross, long-necked monster known as the khezu with Pennywise the Clowns’ head on it, facing off against a hunter wearing JNCO jeans. The text says “let me hunt it.” An orange frame around the edge says “Polygon: Spicy Takes.”
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Monster Hunter Rise should let me hunt Pennywise

By Jenna Stoeber
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lineup showing how Xbox game case labeling has changed in 2021. Three new cases at left, with an older one at far right.
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Don’t adjust your Xbox: Microsoft changes game cases again

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The Polygon video team, definitely at E3. They are standing in front of the LA Convention Center, and are not poorly but purposefully photoshopped there.
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Watch Xbox, Ubisoft, and more with Polygon on Twitch

By Simone de Rochefort
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an unmasked Miles Morales wearing the Spider-Man suit in Spider-Man: Miles Morales
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How Insomniac Games created Miles Morales’ dope fade

By Josh Rios
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Final Fantasy’s Cloud Strife and Dragon Quests’s Hero stand face to face
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What if Final Fantasy 7 was an N64 game?

By Patrick Gill
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Three Neopets on a soft purple background
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What’s the future of Neopets?

By Simone de Rochefort
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