From Outer Wilds to Core Keeper and a new Shantae, here’s everything announced at Indie World (www.polygon.com)
Skipped Indie World? We got you covered
Wayfinder, Warframe publisher Digital Extremes cuts workers, divests from Wayfinder (www.polygon.com)
The Steam Deck OLED improves much more than its screen (www.polygon.com)
This is the best coverage of the new Deck that I’ve seen yet....
Russian studio fled country to finish game (www.polygon.com)
In Saltsea Chronicles, community is a salve for the post-post-apocalypse (www.polygon.com)
Saltsea Chronicles allows you to play as a collective, rather than a hero.
All the Foundation season 3 news we’ve heard so far (www.polygon.com)
Apple TV Plus’ sci-fi epic Foundation finished its second season with a bang, but it also still seems to have plenty of story left to tell. After all, we’ve still got a lot more years of psychohistory for the Prime Radiant to guide us through yet — and The Mule is waiting somewhere in that future, too....
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor sequel in the works, star says (www.polygon.com)
What’s next for Cal Kestis, Merrin, and crew?
Final Fantasy 14 is getting an official tabletop RPG (www.polygon.com)
The hit massively multiplayer online game Final Fantasy 14 is to be officially adapted into a tabletop role-playing game....
Terraria devs donate $200K to open-source engines in wake of Unity changes (www.polygon.com)
Unity might be facing the ire that comes with a near-universal condemnation of a new policy change, but at least things are looking up for two open-source game engines....
Skyrim’s cheese-house architect and clutter curator brought their powers to Starfield (www.polygon.com)
Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee (www.polygon.com)
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Disney Lorcana’s second set of cards will include Pinocchio, Zootopia, and more (www.polygon.com)
Disney Lorcana’s second set, Rise of the Floodborn, arrives at local game stores in November.
PS2’s Two Towers was the coolest way to miss the whole point of the Lord of the Rings (www.polygon.com)
Wingspan publisher Stonemaier Games’ next board game is full of bees (www.polygon.com)
Wingspan publisher’s new board game, Apiary, could be the next big hit
The best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2023 so far (www.polygon.com)
It’s already been a stellar year in speculative fiction
The best ‘class’ in Baldur’s Gate 3 is ‘barrelmancer’ (www.polygon.com)
Strong players can load up barrels in their pockets, and use them as explosives later
Disney Lorcana, a guide for absolute beginners (www.polygon.com)
Never played a trading card game before? Start here
In spacefaring management sim The Banished Vault, no one can hear me scream | Polygon (www.polygon.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 pre-order guide (www.polygon.com)
The next-gen Dungeons & Dragons RPG is almost here
Interview with one of the designers of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (www.polygon.com)
In late 2014, publisher Read-Only Memory released Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works, a history book covering the hardware, games and legacy of Sega’s 16-Bit system. Featuring console diagrams and translated design documents, it serves as part art book, part history lesson and part interview collection. And you can read one...
Wes Anderson and Steven Spielberg use sci-fi the same way (www.polygon.com)
Asteroid City takes inspiration from Close Encounters of the Third Kind — but the two directors were always in sync
The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’ (www.polygon.com)
How Digital Domain and Mattel Media built Barbie’s wardrobe
Polygon - Baldur’s Gate 3 will launch four weeks early on PC, delayed on PS5 (www.polygon.com)
The PC version will release on the 3rd of August, and the PS5 version on the 6th of September.