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A screengrab from Armored Core 6 shows the large mech Balteus, which has a jetpack larger than its body and a ring that encompasses its entire body. In the image, lightning crackles around Balteus and fires rage behind it.
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What makes Armored Core 6’s Balteus such an effective gatekeeper?

A pair of hands places a cardboard game piece for the game The Night Cage on top of the game board, which looks like a black and white 6 x 6 grid with a number of tiles and game pieces on it.
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The Night Cage makes co-op board gaming scary fun

Simone posing in front of Volcano Manor, saying “dang, you like like this?” to Rya, a hunched woman in a green dress.
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How Elden Ring uses architecture to freak you out

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Why Tears of the Kingdom’s physics are so mind-blowing

A bearded man in a pink hoodie is in the center of an art collage with a stunned look on his face. Surround him in a circular pattern are gears, the character from Satisfactory, the Evergiven cargo ship, a red diesel train, and a blue cargo container.
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What logistics games can teach us about the supply chain crisis

The component for Heat, including a modular track and plastic cars, laid out for display.
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Heat: Pedal to the Metal is a tabletop racing masterpiece

A scale model of the Constellation Frontier starship from Starfield, as designed and built by Adam Savage and the crew at Tested. It’s about two feet long, and sitting backlit on a workbench. It’s immaculately filthy.
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Adam Savage is probably having more fun with Starfield than you are

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VTubers, explained

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Tekken boss confirms iconic fighter King’s strange origin

A logo reading Polygonathon 2023 on a pink background with green leaves poking into the frame. Underneath, the text reads “In support of Foster Love.”
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Polygon is hosting a 24-hour charity livestream for Foster Love

a crop of XTina GG tipping her Mario hat while sitting on stairs
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Running, jumping, kart racing, dining on mushrooms — the Mario lifestyle!

Four people sit around a table in a studio with a backdrop of pink, blue, and purple. On the table is a small board game city made precariously of popsicle sticks and small blocks. Three of the four players look prepared to demolish the city with their hands.
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Tokyo Highway is a tense board game about building roads

A composite image of a car accident in the video game JFK Reloaded. Cut-out images of JFK and Simone de Rochefort, the video’s host, are overlaid on it.
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Video games keep complicating JFK’s death

A view of a board game from directly above shows a large number of small green discs and medium brown discs, and four colorful beetles all on a log themed platform sitting on a wooden table. I the lower right two hands hold a blue insect shaped piece up to the board as if to measure a piece between the blue mandibles.
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Kabuto Sumo brings wrestling thrills to tabletop gaming

The board game box for Concept sits on top of it’s colorful board of icons with little game pieces and scoring tokens strewn across the table.
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Concept reboots the whole concept of a guessing game

Simone de Rochefort, a brunette white woman in a black t-shirt, points at the original 1925 cover of The Great Gatsby.
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These developers want you to steal The Great Gatsby

Sungwon “ProZD” Cho and XTina GG face each other down across a table, holding hands of cards and laughing.
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We challenged ProZD to a card game

A notebook with blue ink drawings of puzzles and codes from the video game Fez, which includes tetrominos, directional arrows, and an alphabet translation.
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Taking notes makes gaming more fun

A lot of papers and ephemera on a black background. A green target is overlaid on the objects.
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How the most ambitious cult game of the ’90s got made

Pat and Simone looking concerned over the prospect of playing a racing sim
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We built the ultimate racing rig

A whale dungeon in Nobody Saves the World
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