Your Guide to This Year’s Summer Video Game EventsWith E3 gone, a bunch of events have taken its place, including Summer Game Fest, Gamescom, the PC Gaming Show, and more.
Scrabble, Anonymous“I’m not bragging. I’m confessing to being addicted to an ostensible word game that occupies more space in my brain than I’d prefer.”
Indus, Garuda Saga, Detective Dotson, Kamla: How Devs Are Putting 'India' First In Their GamesGaming worlds are a fascinating place to get lost in.
Not sure what game to play? Leave a comment, we’ll helpShare All sharing options for: Not sure what game to play? Leave a comment, we’ll help Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course.
Your Life Is Ruled by Games You Don’t Even Know You’re PlayingOur overreliance on the simplicity of game logic explains why capitalism got out of control.
The end is nigh and Labour MPs just want to have fun. At the Tories’ expenseThe end can’t come too soon. Not just for the Tory backbenchers, but for cabinet ministers too. They sit in the Commons with resigned expressions, checking their phones for potentially lucrative job offers. No one can remember the last time Penny Mordaunt was seen with a smile on her face.
Peloton’s Diehards Are Gaming Out Which Instructors Might Get the AxPeloton used to make so much money. Back at the end of 2020, the company made more than $1 billion in a single quarter just from selling its fitness equipment and subscriptions.
A State Supreme Court Justice Decries the “Horrors and Treachery” Coming From SCOTUSThis is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. Perhaps no lower court judge has condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s reliance on bogus history and racist values as sharply as Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins.
Scientists Taught Bees To Play With Legos, Then Marveled At What HappenedExamples of insect collaboration pop up often in nature, but do the critters’ tiny brains have anything to do with their teamwork or is it merely instinctive behavior? Curious to explore that question as it relates to bumblebees, researchers in Finland got the winged buzzers to play with one of th
Our democracy desperately needs a reset – and, behind the scenes, that’s the planThe Conservative party’s lurch into collective hyperventilation after 2016 gave Britain five prime ministers in eight years. Yet changes of government from one party to another are actually remarkably rare.
This Microsoft Add-On Is the Ultimate Windows 11 Customization ToolThere's no shortage of utilities to tweak, customize, and modify Windows, but one of the best utilities is made by Microsoft itself.
The Insidious Legal Movement to Make Pregnant Women Second-Class Citizens Is GrowingShould the very state of being pregnant place women in a subclass of citizen, vulnerable to criminal prosecution or civil penalties for behavior that would be perfectly legal from a nonpregnant person? Judging by their proposed legislation and various legal antics, the anti-abortion movement says: Y
How to Use Microsoft Designer to Make Quick and Unique AI ImagesKey Takeaways Microsoft Designer offers AI-powered social media posts, ideal for those lacking graphic design skills. Users can easily create unique images and posts with prompt suggestions and customization options.
Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprintIt’s been called “the largest coal-powered machine on Earth” – and most of us use it countless times a day. The internet and its associated digital industry are estimated to produce about the same emissions annually as aviation.
What’s Even The Point Of Xbox Game Pass Now?On May 7, Microsoft closed down four first-party development studios it had acquired from Zenimax Media in 2021 including Tango Gameworks, developer of The Evil Within series and 2023’s surprise hit Hi-Fi Rush.