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Apex Legends patch 1.2 removes bunny hopping while you heal but adds more loot

By Austen Goslin on Jun 05, 2019 06.05.19

With big changes likely in store for season 2, this patch is mostly about bug fixes

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Amplitude's gimmick-free rhythm gameplay is still a blast, over a decade later

By Griffin McElroy on Jan 06, 2016 01.06.16

Watch on YouTube | Subscribe to Polygon on YouTube The PlayStation 2 rhythm game Frequency, and its sequel Amplitude, might have looked flashy as all-get-out, but both titles were surprisingly...

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Metal Gear Solid 5, FIFA among Facebook's best and most popular games of the year

By Allegra Frank on Dec 09, 2015 12.09.15

Facebook has published its overarching year-end retrospective, which finds the social network naming not only its most-discussed games, but crowning several titles as the best of the year. Topping...

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Star Wars Battle Pod shows that arcades aren't dead, they're just very different

By Brian Crecente on Oct 13, 2014 10.13.14

Long gone is the golden age of arcades, two decades that saw some of the best coin-op games in history not only take over game rooms, but turn into massive pop culture icons. It was the era, for...

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Sarkeesian driven out of home by online abuse and death threats

By Colin Campbell on Aug 27, 2014 08.27.14

Since the launch of Feminist Frequency's Tropes vs Women in Games, creator Anita Sarkeesian has faced a wall of abuse and threats from enraged critics of her detailed research that highlights...

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Harmonix fans may be funding a flop, and that's fine by us

By Ben Kuchera on May 22, 2014 05.22.14

The Harmonix Kickstarter for a new Amplitude title looks like it could make it, but that outcome was much shakier even 36 hours ago, before the high-profile boosts from industry veterans such as I...

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Harmonix returns with a weird, first-person shooter musical hybrid

By Colin Campbell on Feb 17, 2014 02.17.14

A music game that is also an arena first-person shooter is, at the very least, a fresh idea. And fresh ideas are something the rhythm genre badly needs. Mapping music to physical movement has been...

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Online games a 'playground' for organized crime, according to security expert

By Jenna Pitcher on Aug 22, 2013 08.22.13

Online games are a "playground" for organized crime and cyber criminals, JD Sherry, vice president of technology and solutions at Trend Micro said following the news that League of Legends accounts...

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Infinity Ward, PS4, Nintendo, Xbox One, Rainbow 6, ChicagoQuest, E3: Speed Run

By Dave Tach on Jun 13, 2013 06.13.13

We got a closer look at Call of Duty: Ghosts. Sony says the PlayStation 4 can offload computations to the cloud. Nintendo is launching a free-to-play game this fiscal year. Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6:...