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U.S. Department of Education: The future of education includes video games in classrooms

By Brian Crecente on Apr 13, 2015 04.13.15

A lot of modern students spend as much time playing video games as they do attending school, according to research by University of Indiana. Some may view that as a shocking affirmation that video...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 adds Snapchat Easter eggs, could be teasing Black Ops 3

By Dave Tach on Apr 07, 2015 04.07.15

A recent update to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 adds Snapchat's equivalent of QR codes to a few in-game posters and could be teasing the next game in the series. As YouTube user Drift0r shows in a...

This War of Mine's DLC has helped 350 refugees from Syria, all of them children

By Charlie Hall on Apr 02, 2015 04.02.15

This War of Mine, a warzone survival simulator told from the civilian perspective, has just one more day left in its War Child Charity DLC offer. So far, sales have earned enough money to help 350...

Minimap March 12, 2015: Cards Against Humanity, Civilization, Terry Pratchett, Homefront and Star Wars

By Dave Tach on Mar 12, 2015 03.12.15

Welcome to Polygon Minimap, a daily audio tour through the latest news about video games, related technologies and culture. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe to the podcast (RSS) Here's what...

Civilization: Beyond Earth's creators are fixing their biggest mistakes

By Dave Tach on Mar 12, 2015 03.12.15

The first problem with Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is that at no point in the game does Gandhi show up to nuke anyone. That stumbling block has to do with psychology. David McDonough...

Meet League of Legends' latest champion: Bard The 'Wandering Caretaker'

By emilygera on Feb 25, 2015 02.25.15

Riot Games introduced the latest Champion to join its roster of playable League of Legends characters today with the unveiling of Bard, The "Wandering Caretaker." Bard was initially teased through...

Seven lives — OK, they're NPCs — ruined by video games

By Owen S. Good on Feb 21, 2015 02.21.15

Like comic books, video games are full of unaddressed collateral damage. The Thing and the Hulk wreck Manhattan before bro-hugging out their differences, and no one wonders about the cleanup....

A generational shift powered Twitch's transformation into cultural phenomenon

By Brian Crecente on Feb 16, 2015 02.16.15

Twitch is a cultural phenomenon, a service that tapped into a generational shift in the way people interact with video games at a time when few realized that shift was happening. The desire by so...

A video game where you play as you, and you move about and do stuff

By Colin Campbell on Feb 13, 2015 02.13.15

This game is about real life. The main protagonist is you. Called Reflections, the game is still in Greenlight mode on Steam. Even if the set-up sounds a little unusual, the game does look pretty...

Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin trailer shows horrifying new enemy placement

By Dave Tach on Feb 13, 2015 02.13.15

Dark Souls 2 is an easy game, just as long as you've invested the time to die a couple dozen times first. Just ask anyone who’s dabbled in the Souls series, where success is often about...