One of the most beautiful aspects of the human experience is a big old swarm — the pounding of your heartbeat, the euphoria when you see the object of your affection, the desire to simply squeal with joy! At Polygon, however, we are very flexible when it comes to the interpretation of “crush.” Short but ...
Helldivers 2 Players have just completed a campaign against the Terminid threat that ended with the destruction of Meridia. The supercolony—and the ominous black hole it left behind—will likely have further consequences to come. But while we wait for all of that to resolve, why not tackle a moral question about orphans as a reward? ...
What happens when the head of a major video game publisher – in this case the company behind Grand Theft Auto And Borderland—a question is asked about a PC port that pretty sure is going to happen but hasn’t been announced yet? You get a funny and confusing response from a manager who can’t say ...
The continuity in the Mad Max film series is pretty confusing. It may be hard to believe, but the 40-year-old franchise that grew out of a micro-budget Australian film about robbers in a post-apocalyptic wasteland doesn’t have the most coherent timeline. Angrythe latest film in the series, which runs at full speed ahead, clears up ...
The blemishes of popular video games are sometimes referred to as “jank.” The term encapsulates things in a game that may be slightly broken or inherently odd – aspects that should be detrimental to the experience but are not. Ideally, these broken parts are overshadowed by a game’s superior elements, be they intricate combat systems, ...
After a brutal defeat at Malevelon Creek in early March, the Helldivers appear to have received much-needed redemption. On Monday, Helldivers 2 Players were given an important mission to rid Malevelon Creek of the Automaton threat, and within hours they won. The Grand Order gave players 24 hours to liberate the planet, which was still ...
Troubled gaming company Embracer announced Thursday that it has agreed to sell Gearbox Entertainment, the studio behind the Borderlands games, to Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two for $460 million. The deal makes a lot of sense – Take-Two had been the publisher of Borderlands through its 2K Games label long before Embracer acquired Gearbox in ...
Update 11/18/23 11:45 a.m. ET: A representative of Remedy Entertainment told former Axios Reporter Stephen Totilo that the trademark dispute between Alan Wake Developer remedy and Grand Theft Auto Publisher Take-Two Interactive was “fully and amicably resolved late last year.” At this point, there is “nothing to see here.” How Alan Wake 2 builds on ...
Take-Two Interactive, which owns it Grand Theft Auto 6 Developers Rockstar Games and Remedy Entertainment do more together than just make Max Payne And Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne Remakes. Both companies are also engaged in a trademark dispute in the United Kingdom over the use of the letter “R,” as first ...
