Rooftop Shouting

Just before the launch of Nintendo’s home/portable hybrid console, I reached out to people around the game industry to get their …

In early 2014, I posted a story called Street Fighter 2: An oral history. It took forever to edit, but I …

It takes a lot of people to make a headset.

Last year, I bumped into someone who used the term “white label” to describe his work. I hadn’t heard of …

Mario Maker is one of those games I can’t help but want to write about. I love the concept, the …

I had very little to do with Brave Wave’s phenomenal Street Fighter soundtrack, but they were nice enough to ask …

As part of Polygon’s VR cover story, I visited Minority to get a first look at its game about an …

Just ahead of this year’s E3, we put together a magazine-style package on various virtual reality developers and games. The idea …

Recently, I’ve been kicking around the idea of doing a literal day in the life series. Each story would follow …

My latest weird idea, Polygon’s Indie Developer Science Fair, is a package of 17 projects that we asked developers to …

Katsuhiko Hayashi is editor-in-chief of Weekly Famitsu, Japan’s biggest game magazine. As part of Polygon’s Life in Japan cover, I talked …

While many people know Katsuhiro Harada as the face of Tekken, he has his hand in a lot more that that …

At one point Yu Suzuki was arguably the most famous arcade game designer in the world. Now he runs a small …

In the late 1980s, Hideo Yoshizawa, Masato Kato and Keiji Yamagishi worked with a small team to create action game Ninja Gaiden …

Often referred to as “the indie game from former The Last Guardian developers,” Vane looks to be incredibly interesting in …