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Ubisoft will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, with servers remaining on until June 3, 2025, and plans to cut ~277 people from the production team (www.polygon.com)
21 days ago

PUBG publisher Krafton acquires former Xbox game studio Tango Gameworks and its Hi-Fi Rush IP; Microsoft had planned to shut down Tango Gameworks in May 2024 (www.polygon.com)
2024-8-12 Microsoft Xbox

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive (www.polygon.com)
2024-8-3

An interview with Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox to handhelds via hardware or software, how Valve, Lenovo, and Asus “innovated in a new form factor”, and more (www.polygon.com)
2024-3-26 Interview Lenovo Xbox

How MrBeast dominates this ostentatious YouTube era, using a fast, frantic, and omnipresent editing style, as his videos slowly evolve to focus on storytelling (www.polygon.com)
2024-3-13 YouTube

Warner Bros. to delist Adult Swim-published games from Steam (www.polygon.com)
2024-3-9

600 Activision QA workers unionize, Microsoft voluntarily recognizes; This will be the largest video game union in the country yet (www.polygon.com)
2024-3-9 Microsoft

PitchBook: in 2021, 223 male-founded video game startups raised $4.1B, five women-founded startups raised $1.2M, and 62 mixed-gender startups raised $400.9M (www.polygon.com)
2024-2-8 Startup

Switch 2 will reportedly be bigger, with 8-inch screen (www.polygon.com)
2024-1-27

Neocities celebrates ‘the old internet,' offering relief from 24/7 social feeds (www.polygon.com)
2024-1-10

Kim Kardashian says her Glu Mobile-developed game, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, will shut down on April 8; between 2014 and 2016, the game made $156M in sales (www.polygon.com)
2024-1-4 Mobile

Sega of America workers win union vote 91 to 26, becoming the first union that spans multiple departments at a major video game company (www.polygon.com)
2023-7-11 U.S.

Ali Selim, executive producer of Marvel's Secret Invasion, says Method Studios used AI to create the opening credits (www.polygon.com)
2023-6-22 AI

Q&A with Phil Spencer on AI in games, using Xbox data and machine learning, Game Pass lessons, “living games”, expanding Minecraft, looking to 2024, and more (www.polygon.com)
2023-6-15 AI Machine Learning Xbox

Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group says it will close multiple studios, cancel games, and cut staff, after a $2B deal unexpectedly fell through (www.polygon.com)
2023-6-14 Sweden

A viral clip from Nintendo's Tears of the Kingdom shows Link unfurling a bridge, wowing game developers; Nintendo reportedly spent a year polishing the game (www.polygon.com)
2023-5-30 Nintendo

Valve recently patched a Dota 2 exploit used by third-party cheating clients, created a honeypot to catch them, and banned over 40,000 accounts (www.polygon.com)
2023-2-24

Next PS5 update will have Discord voice chat, VRR support for 1440p, and more (www.polygon.com)
2023-2-3

A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled (www.polygon.com)
2023-1-2

Trombone Champ turns all songs into tooting works of genius (www.polygon.com)
2022-9-26

Every George Miller movie is a Mad Max movie (www.polygon.com)
2022-8-30

Call of Duty's new floofy dog skin tainted by plagiarism accusation (www.polygon.com)
2022-7-30

Meet the developers still making games for your calculator (www.polygon.com)
2022-7-29 Programmer

Teens are rewriting what is possible in the world of competitive Tetris (www.polygon.com)
2022-7-23

How QA workers are driving the video game industry's union push (www.polygon.com)
2022-7-20

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