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This week on the Engadget Podcast, we've got our first impressions of Valve's pricey Steam Machine, and we chat about Sony dumping PlayStation discs in 2028.

From Naruto and Sasuke to Goku and Vegeta, these are the best anime rivalries ever, ranked by their impact, emotion, and lasting legacy.

Get ready to navigate a free-for-all of social media handles.

"our policy is to respond appropriately". In case you haven't noticed, AI is a pretty big topic at the moment. More and more companies are embracing it, it's getting increasingly difficult to discern reality from fiction, and those hoping for the proverbial 'bubble' to pop could be waiting for a long time. During Nintendo's most recent shareholder Q&A session, president Shuntaro Furukawa once again addressed concerns around potential IP infringement from the use of generative AI. Furukawa-san's ...

Cinder City is a new online co-op shooter from South Korean publisher NC. Announced earlier this week, the game looks like a cross between The First Descendant and many other zombie shooters you may have seen before.

The 1996 hit helped launch one of Hollywood's biggest stars just as intellectual property was becoming the industry's biggest draw

Alas, this solution won't work for gaming PCs. Not yet, at least.

Tony Gilroy's gritty sci-fi series is certainly for adults, but that didn't stop him from taking inspiration from Star Wars Rebels.

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is the end of the remake trilogy Square Enix kicked off with, er, Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Though, it looks like than ending might go on a bit longer than you might have anticipated. A cluster of listings in the backend of the Epic Games Store appear to suggest a heap of DLC's planned for Revelation, including a "Story Expansion Pass".

Score free gems and various other goodies when you redeem these new Aura Monster Simulator codes for the new Roblox incremental simulator.

Cyberpunk 2077 has just passed another huge sales milestone for CD Projekt Red, showing that despite a somewhat disastrous launch, the retro-futuristic role-playing game remains an incredible success for the Polish studio.

Killing game discs is an anti-consumer move that only benefits Sony.

In the wake of Sony announcing the end of PlayStation game discs, and as concerns about game ownership swirl around it, PC digital distribution shop GOG has sought to remind people about what's most important.

As nautical stabbist remake Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced heaves into view of its July 9th release date, it’s already secured one piece of treasure. Namely, a full Steam Deck Verified badge, the highest honour Valve bestows upon games that don’t falter, fumble, or otherwise snap in half when faced with the SteamOS handheld PC.

I think Red Dead Redemption 2 is an impressive technical feat, but an incredibly boring video game, and as a result, that makes it not very good.

The final public voting phase is live for Mojang’s build challenge, and you can help decide which appears in A Minecraft Movie Squared.

If Feed the Pit were simply a quickfire extraction game about hunting down obscenely wealthy people and chucking them into a ravenous Sarlacc, that'd have been plenty catharsis enough for this age of actual trillionaires. It'd have been solid reaction video fodder for terminally online Marxists, a kind of Hunt: Showdown for the dirtbag left. But Feed the Pit goes further. It's a creepy narrative experience that, after an hour with the game's first act, reminds me a little of Mouthwashing.

Have we actually learned our lesson from Suicide Squad?

That's $52 billion for a NAND plant and $13 billion for a chip packaging plant.

Roll for gambeson.

If you have an Amazon Prime subscription - you can still claim some quality free games via Amazon Luna that are yours to keep

Sony is converting its PlayStation disc factory into a plant for optical microlenses.

Valve's Steam Machine has encountered its first major hardware fault, and people have already given it a fitting nickname.

A new mandatory compliance report released by Microsoft shows how it declares profits in different European nations to reduce its tax bill.

"My theory is that it's just like people."

Everyone loves to make fun of their awkward love scenes, but the Star Wars prequel trilogy wouldn't work without them

Fireworks, flame wars, and Polygon’s hottest opinions over a holiday weekend

Relic Entertainment just revealed Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand, a standalone experience to get strategy fans right into the action

HTGR does brrrr. CPU in PCs running the demo goes brrrr-er.

Development of Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods Pro has been halted, according to the leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami." In a blunt post on X referencing a June post about the product "case" being "concluded," the leaker appeared to be correcting it to say that the project has been "suspended." No other details were provided. The claim comes as quite a surprise, given that Bloomberg reported in May that the camera-equipped AirPods Pro were nearing completion and had reach...

"not only Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda". Nintendo designer and legend Shigeru Miyamoto says he wants to expand Nintendo's IP outside of video games to include "new characters" beyond Mario and Zelda. Speaking at Nintendo's recent investor Q&A (the official the English translation has now been published), one of the 19 questions put to Nintendo's board asked about the company's strategy of expanding its brand and IP through movies, theme parks, and non-gaming products. One investor asked h...

Very good World War RTS Company of Heroes 3 is getting a standalone wave defence roguelite spin-off, Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand, in which you have to outlast 12 rounds of attackers while steadily expanding and upgrading a custom battlegroup. It's pitched as a snackable, newbie-friendly version of the big-bellied strategy sim Katharine Castle (RPS in peace) described as "World War II on its summer holiday". It's out in July, supports two-player co-op, and LOOK OUT, MEN, WE HAVE TRAILER INCO...

Alex Karp seems convinced that AI companies are selling AI wrong.

A new Slay the Spire 2 patch adds 15 more cards designed for co-op play, along with additional balance changes and an Aeonglass update.

We're ready for the long weekend