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VTubers, explained

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Tekken boss confirms iconic fighter King’s strange origin

By Owen S. Good
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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

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I lived like Mario for a week

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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

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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

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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

By Clayton Ashley
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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

By Clayton Ashley
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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

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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

By Simone de Rochefort
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

By Clayton Ashley
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

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

By Simone de Rochefort
A whale dungeon in Nobody Saves the World
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We’re streaming the best games of the year on Twitch all month long

By Tara Long
Polygon employees Simone de Rochefort and Samit Sarkar share a victorious high five as Patrick Gill looks on approvingly. They are standing behind a newly constructed PC with its side panels removed. A monitor on the table shows the PC’s BIOS screen, indicating that it is working— in theory.
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We built a PC live on Twitch

By Patrick Gill
A broadcast shot of Ted Lasso as he appears on the sideline in FIFA 23. His arms are folded and he looks displeased.
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FIFA 23 pits Ted Lasso against Ryan Reynolds’ soccer club, and it ain’t pretty

By Owen S. Good
Lemon, played by Brian Tyree Henry, and Tangerine, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, are two slickly dressed assassins wearing blue suits under checked pea coats and are mugging directly at the camera, while Tangerine points at the viewer in the movie Bullet Train.
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Bullet Train’s two best blokes pal around in the jauntiest blooper reel

By Joshua Rivera
A Nintendo Switch playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is held up by two hands in front of an out of focus living room with a prominent television screen that is filled with the word WHATEVER.
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Why do we multitask while gaming?

By Clayton Ashley
The dog piece from Monopoly on a plain cream background.
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Tune in to our Monopoly Enjoyment Stream

By Simone de Rochefort
Polygon video producer Patrick Gill has been photoshopped into a smart doctors coat. He points at a lineup of fighting game characters. From left to right, they are Guilty Gear’s Bridget (a young woman dressed in a streetwear remix of a nun’s habit), Tekken’s King (a large muscular man with a jaguar’s head), and Street Fighter’s Ryu (A broad shouldered man in a ripped gi wearing a red headband).
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How to get into fighting games without losing your mind

By Patrick Gill
A paint horse from Breath of the Wild and Torrent from Elden Ring galloping on a pink and purple background.
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Why video game horses are so hard to animate

By Simone de Rochefort
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Polygon is finally on TikTok!

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A clip from a video where five people are gathered around a table with a large board game. The background set looks like a forest with cardboard cut out trees and a faux cabin wall on the right side. The player at center of the table has an excited and terrified look on their face as the player on the left prepares to place something on the board. The rest of the players look on with intense trepidation.
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Last Friday brings Friday the 13th vibes to Camp Overboard

By Clayton Ashley
Eight people stand in a park with KanJam cans behind them and a scoreboard in front of them. Some of the people are cheering or jumping in the air.
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Who will win our Camp Overboard Kan Jam tournament?

By Clayton Ashley
Three people sit in front of a faux wood panel background with paper cut outs spelling “CAMP OVERBOARD”. A small, handmade clay figure sits in front of each of them on the green construction paper covered table in front of them.
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We get crafty in Clay-O-Rama, a messy, hands-on tabletop RPG

By Jenna Stoeber
Mario stands before an old magazine headline that reads “MARIO GOES TO WAR”
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When emulators were legit

By Jenna Stoeber
An emaciated Elden Ring dog against a plain background. There are many lines pointing to different parts of the dog, and each is labelled “bad dog.”
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Leave me alone, Elden Ring dogs

By Simone de Rochefort
In a grungy ’90s-style font, the image reads: Can you still call it a game if you can NEVER LOSE? A brunette woman with a Photoshop-enlarged head stares at you in question.
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Cheating used to be fun

By Jenna Stoeber
A colorful, glitchy banner for Polygonathon 2022. It has the Polygonathon logo and a cool faded 2022, and below that it says “in support of Trans Lifeline”
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Polygon is hosting a charity livestream for Trans Lifeline!

By Simone de Rochefort
An aerial shot from Immortal Empires in Total War: Warhammer 3
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The new Total War: Warhammer 3 Immortal Empires trailer shows off dream alliances

By Mike Mahardy
A character from Elden Ring with an orb-like helmet stands between a giant glowing purple skeleton from Elden Ring and a giant skeleton from an old Japanese wood print.
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Why Elden Ring’s skeletons have such good bones

By Clayton Ashley
A Noise Marine rocking out. Yes, that’s a thing. He’s covered in freehand designs, including leopard print and zebra stripes.
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Painting miniatures? You’re probably overthinking it

By Charlie Hall
A skull-faced figure festooned with grenades and trinkets stands in front of two golden AK-47 rifles as green smoke mushrooms from oversized soda cans.
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How Call of Duty turned war into a profitable circus

By Patrick Gill
The prisoner figure, in a distorted metal helmet that covers its entire face, is being squashed by a giant boulder.
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Elden Ring wants you to stop hitting yourself

By Jenna Stoeber
An armored warrior stands against a sunset in Elden Ring
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Elden Ring’s complex lore explained by an expert in just 30 minutes

By Petrana Radulovic
The Bread Boy dances
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The true story behind BioShock Infinite’s Bread Boy

By Simone de Rochefort
On the right, a man with an iPad taped to his face with an image of Sonic voice actor Ben Schwartz on it. On the left images of Sonic, Tales, and Knuckles from the Sonic the Headgehog 2 movie.
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Ben Schwartz is an iPad helmet in our Sonic 2 interview sequel

By Clayton Ashley

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