A South Park meme is now a real Hello Kitty game (www.polygon.com)
‘I don’t play World of Warcraft’
Sega of America workers win union vote (www.polygon.com)
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...
Rainbow Six Siege cheater sentenced for swatting Ubisoft Montreal offices (www.polygon.com)
French gamer gets three years of community service from Paris court...
Warhammer’s upcoming fantasy RTS is simple, sleek, and thrilling (www.polygon.com)
The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’ (www.polygon.com)
Games coming out in July 2023 (www.polygon.com)
what are y’all pickin up
Mortal Kombat 1 has a beloved new character: Johnny Cage’s Roomba (www.polygon.com)
Fans who played NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat 1 stress test last week discovered a few new details about the Roomba — which is almost assuredly not an official iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner — including that it will actually try to clean up the blood splattered across Johnny Cage’s nice marble floors.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum developer to close after disastrous launch (www.polygon.com)
Immortals of Aveum, ‘Call of Duty with magic’ has been delayed (www.polygon.com)
Anyone hyped for this?
The ‘JRPG’ label has always been othering (www.polygon.com)
interesting article for consideration from Polygon writer Kazuma Hashimoto. here’s the opening:...
Amouranth made a chatbot clone to outsource flirting — and protect herself (www.polygon.com)
there is… a lot going on here–and it’s part of a broader trend which is probably not for the better and speaks to some deeper-seated issues we currently have in society. a choice moment from the article here on another influencer doing a similar thing earlier this year, and how that went:...