Wacky Funsters! The Geekwad's Guide to Gaming

Remember the Honeycomb Aeronautical Echo Aviation Controller, the intense PC flight sim gamepad that came out last year? Well, the company has announced a new one, the Echo Aviation Controller XPC, coming to "wannabe pilots" who own Xbox Series X|S consoles later this year.It looks like the same controller that the company released last year, just with a big Xbox button at the top of the pad. It's still lousy (complimentary) with buttons, rear rudder sliders, throttle sliders, switches, and knobs inspired by actual flight controls. It's apparently everything required for &quo

Polygon's new news video show stars Simone de Rochefort and Matt Patches. Episode 1: Gamescom news.

One of the world's biggest gaming shows, Gamescom, is now underway in Cologne, Germany, and hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend. The organizers sold out the entire 233,000 square meter exhibition floor at the Koelnmesse exhibition center, with more than 1,600 exhibitors signing up to show off their games and products. In short, Gamescom is huge. It might not be the world's largest gaming event, as that title belongs to ChinaJoy, which had more than 438,000 attendees this year. But Gamescom is a bona fide juggernaut, and it's stayed strong, and grown, while other events have

Game Pass was supposed to be the all-you-can-play subscription service that put Xbox on top after a disastrous generation. Instead, it's a failure that's threatening to ruin the company.

This year's showcase will be hosted by the dynamic zombie-killing duo of Nick Apostolides and Angela Sant'Albano.