Maddy Myers

3 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

Watch out, PC gaming, Switch 2 is coming for you… kindaMaddy Myers has run Polygon’s games section since 2020 as deputy editor. She has worked in games journalism since 2007, at Kotaku, The Mary Sue, and the Boston Phoenix. We’ve been fascinated by the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con’s mouse functionality ever since it was teased during the very first Switch 2 reveal, by way of a Joy-Con gliding around on a featureless black surface.

3 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

Maddy Myers has run Polygon’s games section since 2020 as deputy editor. She has worked in games journalism since 2007, at Kotaku, The Mary Sue, and the Boston Phoenix. Chengnan An, the lead game designer on Honkai: Star Rail, has worked at parent studio Mihoyo for a little over nine years, first on Honkai Impact 3rd, and then on the current sci-fi RPG.

4 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

This Disney villains café game, out today, was made especially for meThere are three things I love above all else: coffee shops, cozy games, and Disney. And I learned during Thursday’s Nintendo Direct that someone apparently directly probed my brain and made a game combining all three of those great loves in a new game, coming out today on Nintendo Switch, called Disney Villains Cursed Café.

4 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

Spring is here, and that means it’s time for spring cleaning! No, I’m not referring to my actual home, which I guess I’m also going to clean at some point, but we aren’t going to discuss that today. I am referring, of course, to the far more soothing experience of cleaning up a virtual space in a video game. There’s just nothing quite like the sensation of moving a mop icon on top of a digital dirt pile and clicking, clicking, clicking until it all disappears.

1 month ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

Image: Ubisoft Quebec/Ubisoft via PolygonMaddy Myers has run Polygon’s games section since 2020 as deputy editor. She has worked in games journalism since 2007, at Kotaku, The Mary Sue, and the Boston Phoenix. Canon mode is a setting in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Like all the familiar boot-up settings — subtitle preferences, game difficulty, immersive mode, guided exploration mode, and so on — you’ll choose whether or not to activate it before starting a new game.