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I have discovered the best game soundtrack of 2026 so far and it is Super Woden: Rally Edge

I have discovered the best game soundtrack of 2026 so far and it is Super Woden: Rally Edge

Video game soundtracks are pretty respectable these days. I just watched James Bond composer David Arnold take the stage at the BAFTA Games Awards and...

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I miss the taste of E3 hype

I miss the taste of E3 hype

Patch Notes is a weekly newsletter bringing you the best of Polygon, sent on Fridays and published on the site on Sundays. You can subscribe here....

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Knight of the Seven Kingdoms finally made me care about Game of Thrones lore

09.02.2026 20

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Horror finally moved out of Get Out’s long shadow this year

Jordan Peele’s 2017 movie Get Out changed a lot of things. Chief among them was inventing — certainly unwittingly, and perhaps unfairly — a...

31.12.2025 10

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Tetris wouldn't win at The Game Awards — a new category could fix that

25.11.2025 9

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Diablo 3's Skill Runes are the ultimate in flexibility and balance

24.10.2025 10

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The best game performances of the year not by Troy Baker

12.10.2025 10

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Silksong forced me to confront my relationship with video game maps

12.09.2025 10

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There’s Oscar bait, but where’s the GOTY bait?

24.08.2025 20

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Superman’s 2-second squirrel gag is core to how James Gunn sees the superhero

The moment that got the single biggest reaction at the packed screening of Superman that I attended was when Superman saves a squirrel. It takes...

20.07.2025 10

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Donkey Kong’s greatest game was rare because Nintendo made it

Donkey Kong is one of Nintendo’s most famous characters. The smash hit 1981 arcade game that made the company, kicked off Shigeru Miyamoto’s...

16.07.2025 10

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Death Stranding 2 dials back the most stressful thing about the first game

The first Death Stranding came out in 2019, and I reviewed it then. It’s a long game, and I spent a couple of weeks sunk into its world. It was a...

04.07.2025 20

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It really helps when Gruff Video Game Man is a real person

In almost every way, Sam Bridges from Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and its predecessor is the purest archetype of a video game character. He’s...

29.06.2025 10

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Death Stranding 2 is best played slowly

When you get a big new game to play, like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, there is a strong temptation to gorge yourself on it. There are several...

26.06.2025 20

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It feels like a long time since EA has known what it is for

On Wednesday, it emerged that Electronic Arts has canceled a single-player Black Panther game and shuttered the developer Cliffhanger Games. The...

31.05.2025 10

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The top two GOTY 2025 front-runners are AA games and that’s a good sign

A familiar refrain over the last few years has been the death of what we like to call AA games: mid-budget games made by mid-sized teams. AA games...

19.05.2025 20

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GTA 6 is sexy but we still can’t see the kissing

There’s one cut in the new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer that you’ve probably seen in a thousand movie trailers before. Two beautiful people are...

09.05.2025 10

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Nintendo doesn’t want achievements, except when it does

It’s hardly a surprise, but it was worth confirming: the Nintendo Switch 2 won’t have achievements. When Polygon asked Nintendo’s vice president...

26.04.2025 10

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Playing Nintendo’s greatest triumph on its biggest failure

As Shigeru Miyamoto never actually said, “A delayed game is eventually good, but a bad game is forever bad.” This sliding-doors concept gains an...

31.03.2025 9

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Game Pass was always good. Now, it’s finally consistent

The end of 2024 was a huge moment for Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service. The day-one arrival of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 , the biggest...

30.03.2025 10

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You are Phil Spencer. Which Ubisoft IP do you buy?

According to one very annoyed Ubisoft investor, citing a private report by investor service Mergermarket, Ubisoft has been holding secret talks with...

25.03.2025 10

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In Opus, A24’s ‘elevated’ horror wraps back around into formula — and that’s OK

Do even a cursory search online for reactions to A24’s new thriller Opus, starring Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich, and you’ll find many comments...

19.03.2025 9

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