Love Hentai and Puzzles: Gamer Girls

Purple gourds are rewards from challenging puzzles in Big Walk. Here's where to find every purple gourd puzzle and how to solve them.

Sometimes all it takes is a cool hat to get a new perspective on things.

Video games like Her Story, Fez, and Tunic beg the player to take detailed notes to keep track of the story. But journaling or note-taking games are part of a long tradition that goes back to the game manuals of the 80s and 90s. Back in the day, games like The Legend of Zelda had incredibly beautiful, detailed manuals that helped the player navigate difficult puzzles and learn about lore, when memory on consoles was short. Polygon's Clayton Ashley details the history of taking notes in games, and some of his recent favorites that continue the tradition.

These great single-player puzzle games make for great couch co-op experiences, as you can solve them with a pal.

Sony has revealed the games coming to PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra in September and there's some decent stuff, although it lacks a glitzy headliner like, say, Big Walk last month. Read more