Maddy Myers

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Deputy Editor, Games at Polygon

Co-Host at Triple Click

Host at The Mutant Ages

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Articles

The best games we played at this year’s Summer Game Fest

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Maddy Myers

With Stellar Blade's launch on PC today, the game is also getting a Complete Edition that will contain all the updates and free content released so …
Yes, Grounded 2 will also have an arachnophobia mode - even for the rideable spiders

2 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

Image: Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game StudiosMaddy 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. While on the ground at Summer Game Fest 2025, I got to play a little bit of Grounded 2 and then had a quick chat afterwards with game director Chris Parker.
Outer Worlds 2 devs wanted the sequel to be less ‘one-note’

2 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

The first Outer Worlds has a very tight scope. The 2019 Obsidian Entertainment RPG, according to our review at the time, is “expansive when it needs to be, but never falls into the trap of believing that bigger is always better.” You could beat the game in 15 hours if you wanted — unlike, say, Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas. But that also meant Outer Worlds’ anti-capitalist satire could only go so deep.
I tested Xbox’s new super-powerful super-heavy handheld

2 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

During a series of in-person Xbox demos at the 2025 Summer Game Fest, I got the chance to play Gears of War: Reloaded on the company’s upcoming handheld: the ROG Xbox Ally X. The 7-inch screen looks gorgeous, and the game’s remaster is a stunner no matter what size screen it’s on (I also played it on some much bigger TV screens). But the most noticeable thing about the ROG Xbox Ally X was, unfortunately, how tired my forearms were after just 20 minutes of playing the Gears of War remaster.
I tested Xbox’s powerful — and heavy — new handheld | Flipboard

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Maddy Myers

23 hours agoThis monstrous 4TB Xbox Series X Expansion Card costs $500, and I tested how fast it isI feel like I’m always running out of storage on my Xbox Series X — I mean, of course, I do when games like Call of Duty want to eat over 300GB of …16 hours agoApple releases iPadOS 26 beta with new windowing, Liquid Glass design, moreiPadOS 26 is the next major update to iPad software, and it introduces a lot of powerful changes.
Ambrosia Sky is Metroid Prime meets PowerWash Simulator, which still may sell it short

2 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. It’s hard to describe a game by a team that’s setting out to do something different, but I’m going to do my best after playing a bit of the impressive Ambrosia Sky out of the 2025 Summer Game Fest.
When making lots of small games is more sustainable than making one big one

4 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

If you play indie games, you may have noticed Strange Scaffold’s incredible hit rate. Every single one of the studio’s games — from Clickolding, I Am Your Beast, and most recently, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown — has ended up somewhere within the “Positive” ranking system on Steam (with several achieving “Very Positive” or even “Overwhelmingly Positive”). So, how does the studio’s creative director Xalavier Nelson Jr. ensure his studio only turns out bangers?
When making lots of small games is more sustainable than making one big one

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Maddy Myers

4 hours ago"We're so cooked." At the Google I/O 2025 event on May 20, Google announced the release of Veo 3, a new AI video generation model that makes 8-second videos. Within hours of its release, AI artists and filmmakers were showing off shockingly realistic videos. You may have even seen some of these …
Elden Ring Nightreign is hard for completely different reasons than Elden Ring

4 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

“The origin of that idea is actually due to a personal experience where a car suddenly stopped on a hillside after some heavy snow and started to slip,” says Miyazaki. “The car following me also got stuck, and then the one behind it spontaneously bumped into it and started pushing it up the hill...
Elden Ring Nightreign is hard for completely different reasons than Elden Ring

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Maddy Myers

Elden Ring Nightreign is hard for completely different reasons than Elden RingOK, I know you just read that headline, but let me admit first off that I don’t actually think Elden Ring is that hard — not if you take it slow and steady, which the game’s design not only allows but encourages. At every step of the way in Elden Ring, you can decide exactly how you want to play it. …