Blood

There is a woman in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s opening town of Kalm that I cannot stop thinking about. She isn’t particularly special. She doesn’t sell weapons. She doesn’t have a side quest for you to undertake. You can’t even play the…

In Elden Ring, Mohg, Lord of Blood is an optional boss found in a secret area that can be easily missed during a full playthrough of the game. But for Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, Mohg is a required boss. You’ll need to…

Queen’s Blood is the definitive side activity of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth — a fully fleshed-out card battler, a game-within-a-game that rivals the likes of Gwent, Geometry Wars, and Final Fantasy’s own Triple Triad. Each deck is…

Award-winning board game designer Eric Lang, whose Viking-themed Blood Rage is a fixture on Polygon’s list of the best modern board games, has something new to share — a tile-laying strategy game called Life in Reterra. This time,…

Once upon a time, Gwent was just a humble county in south Wales, across the Severn river (and the border with England) from Bristol. Then, a few years ago, this proud Welsh region lost its Google ranking to an upstart name-stealer. That…

Danish studio IO Interactive is primarily known for one thing: Elaborate video games where a suit-wearing bald man with a barcode on the back of his dome stealthily assassinates people from all walks of life, all for a clandestine…

Only the other day we were calling out Steam on its poor curation of the 14,500 games added to the store last year. Now we learn of a tiny step forward in the clumsy storefront’s usefulness: a new genre category for boomer shooters. This is…

Image: CD Projekt RedAs Cyberpunk 2077 approaches its third anniversary, the beleaguered blockbuster is getting a send-0ff to immortalize its unlikely turnaround. CD Projekt Red announced an Ultimate Edition for the sci-fi RPG on November…

Action role-playing game Diablo IV wants fans to bleed for it. Really. The demon dungeon-crawler announced on October 20 that, for the next month, players can donate their actual blood in exchange for in-game items and, ultimately, for the…

You could think of Final Fantasy XVI as just the latest in a line of many games developer Square Enix made to re-energize its now almost 40-year-old series. But unlike many of those other titles, which fans and developers alike have said…