Video Game Fables

Your backlog is about to get longer, as the week starting on July 13 is bringing nearly a dozen exciting games.

Shadow of the Colossus and Ico creator Fumito Ueda reveals new details about Gen Atlas, his upcoming giant robot adventure with Epic Games.

Fireworks, flame wars, and Polygon’s hottest opinions over a holiday weekend

Filmmaker Curry Barker is on top of the world right now thanks to the success of his horror movie Obsession. It's made more than $220 million against a reported $750,000 budget, and everyone wants to know what he's going to do next. He is making a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, and plans to expand Obsession into possible sequels and a TV show, but what else? A video game movie, perhaps. He told Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that while he is not a big gamer himself, he would be open to making a video game movie one day. Asked if there was a specific game that he would jump

One of the enduring questions over the past few months - or really years - has been what happens next. Video games have seen arguably their greatest upheaval as a medium, as an exodus of investor cash and evisceration of talent, particularly in North America and Europe, led to a grim drought of the bigger-budget blockbusters that would have normally kept the industry ticking over last year and beyond. Read more