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Anime is huge — and we finally have numbers to prove it Polygon surveyed more than 4,000 people to demystify anime’s reach within the world of pop culture. Eventually, all the biggest forms of entertainment reach a tipping point. After spending years establishing themselves, building an audience, and becoming indispensable to fans, they still find themselves in a no man’s land where outsiders see
Graphic: Matt Patches/Polygon | Source images: Chengdu Worldcon; HarperCollins Publishers; Penguin Random House; Netflix; Getty Images The science fiction and fantasy literature community is in uproar this week after the release of the voting statistics behind the 2023 Hugo Awards, which have raised accusations that the organizing committee censored the nominees in several categories. The Hugo Awa
Ana Diaz (she/her) is a culture writer at Polygon, covering internet culture, fandom, and video games. Her work has previously appeared at NPR, Wired, and The Verge. Sometimes I miss the unique charms of the Nintendo DS and 3DS handhelds. They were weird. I liked the wonky touch controls, and some games featured weird gimmicks with the built-in mic and cameras. Now the family of handhelds has newf
Ghost of Tsushima opens with a grand wide shot of samurai, adorned with impressively detailed suits of armor, sitting atop their horses. There we find Jin, the protagonist, ruminating on how he will die for his country. As he traverses Tsushima, our hero fights back the invading Mongolian army to protect his people, and wrestles with the tenets of the Bushido code. Standoffs take advantage of pers
It was at a traditional Japanese ryokan’s rotenburo (outdoor bath), on a Konami company vacation near Mount Fuji. He was a lot thinner then, before he started pumping iron. He looked more like Psycho Mantis at the time. He’s going for a Snake thing these days. Good for him. Although it’s hard to believe now, Hideo Kojima was unknown in the West at that point in the early to mid-’90s. I first met h
If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The modern manga and anime industries would not exist without Attack on Titan. Without Hajime Isayama’s dystopian series and its massive, global fan base, Crunchyroll would’ve remained a curiosity instead of the global streaming powerhouse and anime production partner it has become. Similarly, with
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Fans seem to really dig the classic-style JRPG Octopath Traveler thus far, but the Nintendo Switch exclusive is not without its faults. One of the most perplexing is the game’s English localization, which gives one character a manner of speaking so absurd, players worldwide are having trouble making sense of it. The huntress H’aanit is one of Octopath Traveler’s eight playable characters, any of w
Share All sharing options for: A huge free-to-play game makes fun of its addicted players, and they love it The Wall Street Journal recently profiled a man named Daigo who spent the equivalent of $70,000 on items and playable heroes in the mobile RPG Fate/Grand Order. That’s a stunning figure, more than many enthusiasts will spend on their passion in a lifetime. Tales of exorbitant bills are prett
The Japanese My Nintendo storefront went live earlier today, opening up customized Nintendo Switch orders to eager local fans. It shouldn’t have shocked those same fans, however, that the website was unable to handle the outpouring of traffic — but their response to the page’s adorable error message is truly unexpected. As a plethora of eager Nintendo fans visited the My Nintendo page, it appeared
Final Fantasy 7 An oral history BY MATT LEONE ON JAN 09, 2017 An inside look at the creation and fallout of Square's industry-defining role-playing game, as told by those who were there. by Matt Leone on Jan 09, 2017 We are saving your place in the story as you read. Today, it sits above a Doutor coffee shop a few doors from a train station in a busy part of Hiyoshi, Yokohama. Visit the building a
Share All sharing options for: New HoloLens video isn't shy about the technology's limitations The HoloLens live demo at E3 was amazing, but it didn't do a great job of realistically showing what the hardware can do. Microsoft has since released a promotional video that gives a much better idea of the device's limitations. For example, this is what the HoloLens marketing likes to show you. While t
"We can confirm that Fire Emblem Fates for Nintendo 3DS, which launches in Japan on June 25, 2015, and is coming to the U.S. and Europe in 2016, includes the possibility for a same-sex marriage to take place between the main character created by the gamer and another character in the game," Nintendo said in a statement. In previous Fire Emblem titles, like 2012’s Fire Emblem Awakening, players cou
Life In JapanAn 18-part look inside Japan's game industry: Night Cry, Scalebound, Final Fantasy 15, Street Fighter 5, Summer Lesson and more When we launched Polygon's cover stories last year, I wrote that one of our goals was to do something different each month. One month could be a behind-the-scenes story on a AAA game, like we did with Call of Duty. Another could be a feature about the fall of
A self-professed member of the Lizard Squad was arrested this week by the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit in England, according to documents obtained by two publications and a Thames Valley Police press release. The Lizard Squad is a group of self-described hackers who since August have made a nuisance of and name for itself by taking down a variety of gaming networks, including Blizzard’
Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 16 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. Street Fighter 5 is in development in Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4, the company announced today. “Our goal with the next generation of Street Fighter is to take our beloved fighting game franchise and bring it to our fans in the best way possib
Claudia Ng had recently purchased a 3D printer, and one of her first projects was to create the model for a Pokémon-themed planter for a friend. She posted it online, and it quickly went viral. The first version of the planter was a little rough, as you can see. She then put the design on Shapeways, a site that allows you to create and share your own 3D-printed objects, and once again the design b
Last year on a trip to Japan, the character bombarded me. Arcades, shopping complexes, subways, television programs and convenience stores were polka-dotted with her glowing face. If you wanted something, chances were it came emblazoned with Miku branding, be it a toy figurine or a hyper-sexualized pastry. How had someone, or something, become so popular across the world, and yet my colleagues and
Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 16 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. Back in 2012, the developers who made Portal and Portal 2 — as well as their predecessor, Narbacular Drop — decided to try putting together a board game based on the first-person puzzle series. The internal team wasn't a massive group: "In gen
In the seven years since the introduction of the PlayStation 3, we've seen our gaming consoles transform into living-room hubs through constant evolution and software updates. Those updates weren't always smooth – though on PS3, they were always happening – but it's easy to see just how far the platform has come. Meanwhile, the designers of the PlayStation 4 were taking notes and designing a conso
Sega Sammy chief operating officer Naoya Tsurumi has stated in the latest Famitsu release that the company will allow its associated Atlus brand to make use of all currently dormant Sega IP. Atlus will continue to manage its own IP, with Sega aiding in the selling of these titles, he said of the relationship between both companies. Likewise, Atlus will be able to introduce more genres to the roste
The Xbox 360 that exists in 2013 bears little resemblance to the console that Microsoft launched in 2005. It’s so different, in fact, that it helps to think of the company’s new Xbox One as an evolution, not of the original Xbox 360 but of the one that exists today. Over that eight-year span, the Xbox 360 underwent radical transformations. In 2008, the "New Xbox Experience" delivered an entirely n
Share All sharing options for: The cult of the cookie clicker: When is a game not a game? There's a growing obsession online with cookies, imaginary chocolate chip cookies. In early August, avant-garde game developer Orteil put his latest prototype online: Cookie Clicker. In the free game, players have to click on a cookie to produce a cookie. Those cookies can, in turn, be used to increase cookie
The Evo Championship Series 2013 was three days of the very best and most passionate of the fighting game community from around the world gathered in one place. Evo ran in Las Vegas from July 12-14, and record-breaking amounts of spectators watched their favorite competitors battle in the toughest and most prestigious fighting game arena of the year. The spectacle of Evo cannot be easily distilled
Many game companies cut their staff numbers to save costs, or reassure investors, but Nintendo chief Satoru Iwata says that’s a strategy he won’t be using. Participating in an investor Q&A, Iwata was asked why, given Nintendo’s lackluster financial performance recently, he had not cut staff numbers. He replied that such moves might resolve short-term difficulties, but always proved counter-product
Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. “I really like people who are individuals, like mavericks,” says James Mielke, a 6-foot-and-change, bleached-blond expat. “Japan does not reward that kind of behavior normally. It has a village mentality. Like, when shi
If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. A Reddit user is selling his Super Nintendo game collection, which contains all 721 SNES games ever released in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, on eBay for $24,999. The seller, who goes by the name “Byuu” on Reddit, says that every single game in the collection comes with its original box and approxim
Understanding the history of director’s cuts through 9 great examples The perfect midpoint between marketing, film history, and art The best movies leaving Netflix, Max, and Prime at the end of July 2024 This weekend’s streaming departures include more than a few hidden gems
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