Maddy Myers

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Articles

When making lots of small games is more sustainable than making one big one

1 week 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

1 week 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

1 week 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

1 week 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. …
Persona 4 remake in the works, leaked by voice actor

1 week ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

If you recast Yuri Lowenthal, he will talk about it, apparentlyImage: Atlus/Sega 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.
The length of Sephiroth’s sword in FF7 actually changes, says Tetsuya Nomura

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. Sephiroth ranks very high on the “cool” scale, and a huge reason for that is his ōdachi, the extra-long katana he wields, called the Masamune.
The fact that Lune from Clair Obscur is barefoot the whole time is not gross, it’s fun

4 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

Go ahead, make your foot fetish jokes, it’s fine…Image: Sandfall Interactive/Kepler InteractiveMaddy 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. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the breakout hit of 2025; the turn-based RPG has fantastic combat design and great writing for its ensemble cast.
Dune: Awakening’s beta weekend is open — and you can still get in, if you pre-order

4 weeks ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

Dune: Awakening, the highly anticipated Dune MMO made by Funcom, has previously had a beta that was under NDA for select players. But this weekend, there’s a new beta going on that players are free to stream and talk to their friends about. It’s available from now until this coming Monday, May 12 — and at first, players had to put their names into Funcom’s proverbial hat in hopes of receiving a key for it.
The melee-heavy Doom: Dark Ages is extremely my thing — but maybe not yours

1 month ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

Doom: The Dark Ages is going to be a love-it-or-hate-it entry in the shooter series. I’ve only been playing the game for a few hours so far, but I already love it. That said, it’s very different from Doom Eternal — and unless you can adjust to a game that feels very different to play, Dark Ages will be a tough hang. But if you’re me, Dark Ages is a nonstop thrill.
The GTA 6 trailer makes Rockstar’s changed politics very clear

1 month 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. Back in 2022, Bloomberg reported that “Rockstar Games cleaned up its frat-boy culture – and Grand Theft Auto, too.” The changes took shape in different ways, from less crunch to a narrowing of the gender pay gap for workers at the studio, and to the introduction of the game’s first playable female character, a Latina named Lucia.