Steamed Hams: The Graphic Adventure

To celebrate Cool Sword Day, Polygon caught up with Adventure Time's Adam Muto to unpack the origins of the Grass Sword and its evolution into Fern.

One of the greatest superhero comics of all time is being reinvented in Marvels: The Novelization, and we've got an exclusive preview of the book.

The Sinking City 2 has made big changes in the hopes of capitalizing on the untapped potential left to float in the void in the first game. A better, more interesting protagonist; a revamped and easier to parse investigation system; and better-paced missions might help this eldritch sequel rise above clever curiosity for fans of tentacle-tinged horror and into must-play territory for everyone this time around, so long as it’s not held back by the underwhelming combat and puzzles that nagged the previous game and don’t seem to be fully solved here just yet.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory creative director Clint Hocking has suggested that modern-day advances in video game graphics have made it more challenging to develop stealth games. Thanks to the evolution of lighting over the years--like ray and path tracing--Hocking believes that the more nuanced shade and darkness levels present in games make it harder for players to read the digital room and see just how hidden they are when sneaking past enemies."I actually think one of the difficulties with modern stealth games is the sophistication in the rendering has made lighting so much more realistic,"

If you grew up playing NES games, Game Boy games, or similar games from that era — if you remember spending an entire afternoon stuck on a single screen until you figured out the trick to moving forward — Mina the Hollower is aimed squarely at you. I've still got plenty of questions about the back half of this thing, but after several hours with the early game, I'm fully hooked and am prepared to blast through the rest without stopping to ask when it drops on all platforms on May 29.