Hironobu Sakaguchi’s six-year, eight-game plan
I thought it would be nice to follow-up on the Final Fantasy 7 story with a look at what its …
What it costs to run an independent video game store
I’d been sitting on this idea for years. I’ve always wanted to do more stories about money in the game …
What the game industry thinks of Nintendo’s Switch
Just before the launch of Nintendo’s home/portable hybrid console, I reached out to people around the game industry to get their …
Final Fantasy 7: An oral history
In early 2014, I posted a story called Street Fighter 2: An oral history. It took forever to edit, but I …
The making of PlayStation VR
It takes a lot of people to make a headset.
The secret developers of the video game industry
Last year, I bumped into someone who used the term “white label” to describe his work. I hadn’t heard of …
The case for weird Mario
Mario Maker is one of those games I can’t help but want to write about. I love the concept, the …
Street Fighter 2 album essay
I had nothing to do with Brave Wave’s phenomenal Street Fighter soundtrack, but they were nice enough to ask me …
Cali: A story of love and prostitution in VR
As part of Polygon’s VR cover story, I visited Minority to get a first look at its game about an …
The race for VR
Just ahead of this year’s E3, we put together a magazine-style package on various virtual reality developers and games. The idea …
Koji Igarashi: A day in the life
Recently, I’ve been kicking around the idea of doing a literal day in the life series. Each story would follow …
Polygon’s Indie Developer Science Fair
My latest weird idea, Polygon’s Indie Developer Science Fair, is a package of 17 projects that we asked developers to …
Inside Weekly Famitsu, Japan’s biggest game magazine
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 …
Katsuhiro Harada’s bucket list
While many people know Katsuhiro Harada as the face of Tekken, he has his hand in a lot more that that …
Two hours in Yu Suzuki’s kitchen
At one point Yu Suzuki was arguably the most famous arcade game designer in the world. Now he runs a small …
Ninja Gaiden developer reunion
In the late 1980s, Hideo Yoshizawa, Masato Kato and Keiji Yamagishi worked with a small team to create action game Ninja Gaiden …
Vane: Escaping The Last Guardian’s shadow
Often referred to as “the indie game from former The Last Guardian developers,” Vane looks to be quite interesting in …
Life in Japan
For Polygon’s third cover story, I put together an online magazine about Japan’s game industry. It’s fairly common these days …
Development hell: The video game
I tend to like stories about games that have been in development for a long time — seeing what kinds of …
