Oli Welsh

London

senior editor, UK @polygon / formerly editor-in-chief @eurogamer / games, film, TV / he/him

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Which Nintendo console had the biggest launch?

1 week ago | polygon.com | Oli Welsh

Photo: James Bareham/PolygonOli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. Nintendo has predicted it will sell 15 million Switch 2s in its current financial year. Analysts think the number is conservative; Nintendo says the price of the Switch 2 is what’s holding back that estimate. But what does that mean, really? Is it a reasonable target?
Canceling Black Panther is only the tip of EA’s gaming problems

1 week ago | polygon.com | Oli Welsh

Photo: Bloomberg via Getty ImagesOli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. On Wednesday, it emerged that Electronic Arts has canceled a single-player Black Panther game and shuttered the developer Cliffhanger Games. The studio was founded two years ago expressly to make the game.
To a T review: Katamari’s creator almost made a normal game

1 week ago | polygon.com | Oli Welsh

Demoing his new game To a T to press, Keita Takahashi, the creator of Katamari Damacy and one of gaming’s great absurdists, was asked by Digital Trends’ Giovanni Colantonio what drew him to make such oddball games.
This 2-hour indie might be the best game ever about childhood

2 weeks ago | polygon.com | Oli Welsh

Oli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. One of the great magic tricks of art — or perhaps just of the human brain — is the ability to transmute something hyper-specific and personal into something universal. Despelote is an autobiographical, semi-documentary game about being a kid in Ecuador during the country’s first successful qualifying run for the 2002 World Cup.
Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars have both been delayed

2 weeks ago | polygon.com | Oli Welsh

Doomsday and Secret Wars move from May to December in 2026 and 2027Image: Marvel Studios/YouTubeOli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. Marvel Studios has chosen to delay its next two high-stakes Avengers movies by seven months apiece.
Marvel delays both upcoming Avengers movies

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Oli Welsh

1 hour agoHey, how’s the water? Pleasant? Sharks? Any shark trouble? Fifty years ago, a certain film franchise hadn’t yet asked audiences those questions, in so many words. “Jaws” the first, and by several hundred thousand miles the best, opened in 1975; three years later “Jaws 2” arrived, dangling the …
Swordcrafting stories are always cool, but Blue Eye Samurai pushes the idea into new territory

2 weeks ago | polygon.com | Oli Welsh

Oli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. In Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 movie Kill Bill: Volume 1, vengeful assassin The Bride (Uma Thurman) seeks a sword from the legendary swordsmith Hattori Hanzō (Sonny Chiba). “I need Japanese steel,” she says.
Swordcrafting stories are always cool, but Blue Eye Samurai pushes the idea into new territory

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Oli Welsh

Violet Affleck reveals she and her mom, Jennifer Garner, had very different reactions to the Los Angeles wildfiresCNN — Violet Affleck has revealed something about her relationship with one of her famous parents as part of her college experience. The 19-year-old daughter of actors Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck is currently a freshman at Yale University. The younger Affleck recently published an academic …
The top two GOTY 2025 front-runners are AA games and that’s a good sign

3 weeks ago | polygon.com | Oli Welsh

Oli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. A familiar refrain over the last few years has been the death of what we like to call AA games: mid-budget games made by mid-sized teams.
No, Steam wasn’t hacked, and your account details are safe

3 weeks ago | polygon.com | Oli Welsh

Valve has dismissed widespread reports of a data breach that supposedly compromised the account details of over 89 million Steam users. In a brief but firm post, Valve said it has examined the leaked data and confirmed that Steam’s systems had not been breached, and users did not need to change their passwords or phone numbers. The leak consisted of old text messages containing one-time authentication codes that had all expired.