At GDC 2026, Google trumpeted Gemini-powered games, but the industry still hasn't found must-have uses to win over players ...

Sometimes the right tool for the right job appears almost out of nowhere. That was certainly the case for [Jonathan] who came ...

Keanu Reeves will take video game form once again in an as-yet-untitled John Wick 3D action game, based on the film franchise. The game's debut trailer during the February 2026 State of Play was ...

If you wished Blue Prince (a Polygon favorite) was less challenging and more cozy, then Epic's latest free game might be for you. You can snag Botany Manor for free from the Epic Game Store for a ...

Meet Dan. Dan has a sniper rifle. Don’t panic, he’s not here to harm anyone. Dan’s a professional and his job is fixing things. From a distance. With pinpoint accuracy and good intentions. Sniper Dan ...

Yesterday, Google revealed its Project Genie AI-generation tool, allowing people to make “interactive environments” in seconds using just prompts. Today, in response to this, a bunch of investors seem ...

Publisher Elementa and developer V studio have announced V Project, a new idol game “built around empathy” for iOS and Android. It will launch in 2026. Here is an overview of the game, via Elementa: V ...

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the largest ...

Learn how to use advanced techniques like short-circuiting, parallel execution, virtual threads, and stream gatherers to maximize Java stream performance. My recent Java Stream API tutorial introduced ...

Want to color your world with a time warp back to the 1990s? The Analogue 3D game system, a modern recreation of the Nintendo 64, is introducing new translucent colors that are an exact match to ...

AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, which up to this point has only been a rumored upcoming addition to the company's 3D V-Cache chip family. It's a quiet launch without a press release, ...

There comes a point in every consumer tech writer’s career where they have to lie down on the railroad tracks and take the heat for a tech category nobody else believes in. For me, it’s stereoscopic, ...