The demo shows several things of note. First, The Witcher 4 is running at 60 frames per second on the base PlayStation 5.

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. Game release dates are always in flux, though, so Polygon ...

The World Video Game Hall of Fame on Thursday inducted four honorees, paying tribute to games that challenged players and changed the industry. Making up the Class of 2025 are: Defender ...

Video games are, by definition, unrealistic. Characters can jump while in midair for extra height, recover from grievous injuries by eating food, and most unrealistic of all, regularly get a good ...

Video games are increasingly popular among young Americans, with a majority of children wanting video game-related gifts. Experts recommend parents familiarize themselves with ESRB ratings to ...

Permitting users to build their own worlds and visit others’ creations, it became the most successful video game of all time, surpassing 300m sales worldwide. Profits that dramatic were sure to ...

How does one judge weirdness? What makes a video game weird? Does the story explore taboo topics, are the visuals trippy or unnerving, or does it make you ask weird and uncomfortable questions ...

Teens compete in a video game tournament at the Portland Public Library in Maine in 2018. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this ...

Video games are entertainment products, but they come from thousands of years of simulations used in training, originally composed of stones on tables or math on paper. As the military trainers ...

Emulating and preserving video games is tricky — and important — work. The Vergecast and Polygon crews look into what it takes to keep old games alive and why it matters. Emulating and ...