Chris Plante

6 days ago | polygon.com | Chris Plante

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 enjoyed the critical darling of the moment, Blue Prince, as much as the next elder millennial video game critic. But after weeks of filling countless notebook pages with indecipherable notes — at one point even seeing puzzle solutions in my dreams — I began to crave a game that would carry the bulk of the mental load.

1 week ago | polygon.com | Chris Plante

Image: Radical Entertainment/ActivisionChris 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. One of the gnarliest games ever published by a AAA studio is available at a steep discount on Steam. That’s great news… if you can get past the game-breaking bugs. When Activision published Prototype 2 in 2012, the big-budget video game scene was stuck in a creative rut.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Chris Plante

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3 weeks ago | polygon.com | Chris Plante

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. Nintendo took an unusual approach to the past two decades of video game console wars. It stayed out of them. But with today’s Nintendo Switch 2 info dump — packed with big-name third-party games rarely seen on Nintendo hardware — the House that Mario Built appears ready to rejoin the fray. Why now?

3 weeks ago | polygon.com | Chris Plante

The trailers for Assassin’s Creed Shadows teased elder millennial fans (read: me) who’ve stuck with the franchise for decades, yearning for a return to the original recipe. Ninja. Sharp blades. Stealth kills. Would our patience finally be rewarded? Fifteen hours in, I’ve been granted a wish from a cursed monkey’s paw. Yes, Shadows revives the iconic assassination simulator of 2007.