Austin Manchester is a writer and editor living in New York City. At Polygon, he covers gaming and entertainment news, reviews new video games, interviews behind-the-scenes talent, and more. He enjoys discovering hidden gems and sharing them with Polygon's audience. Previously, he was the gaming editor for AIPT Comics and has written for other outlets like XDA, How-To Geek, and The List.
We still don't have a PC launch date for Grand Theft Auto 6, or even official confirmation that it's ever going to come our way, even though we all know it is. But for one brief shining moment, fans on PC had hope that maybe they'd be able to backdoor their way into the cool kids club—that despite the absence of a PC version, they might be able to play it on November 19 anyway, without having to shell out for a new game console.
As well as reinventing the campaign, Fuse Games comes for online racing
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Star Wars: Galactic Racer reinvents single-player racing games with its roguelike-style, run-based campaign, in which the player progresses through randomized events and upgrades a specialized build through a mixture of planning and chance. This was clearly signaled in advance by developer Fuse Games, but that didn't stop it coming as a shock to the system. It's invigorating to play a racing game that doesn't conform to well-worn traditions, and one that's unafraid to dump you back to the start after a few ill-timed crashes.
4K webcams are a bit of a niche. They're often too high resolution for many bits of software, but not quite powerful enough to beat out a dedicated camera. However, as they've become cheaper, they've genuinely become worth buying over 1080p webcams of similar prices.
Gaming chat app Discord has suffered another user data breach, with a suspected 1 million email addresses stolen alongside (potentially many more) user IDs and IP addresses. While Discord was not targeted directly, third party security service Double Counter have reported a "deliberate, multi-stage attack" wherein hackers spent nearly six hours poking around their infrastructure before the vulnerability was closed.
If you don't fancy hunting down every part of your build but want to put together a new rig, this Newegg bundle is the best way to do so. If you happen to already have a case you want to use, or a graphics card, that makes the bundle even better
Austin Manchester is a writer and editor living in New York City. At Polygon, he covers gaming and entertainment news, reviews new video games, interviews behind-the-scenes talent, and more. He enjoys discovering hidden gems and sharing them with Polygon's audience. Previously, he was the gaming editor for AIPT Comics and has written for other outlets like XDA, How-To Geek, and The List.
"Golden Tee '99, hole seven, Aspen Lake: There's a dead body about 180 yards out, a little bit to the right in the woods there," says Keith of Keith's Arcade, a YouTube channel not typically devoted to cold case homicides. But as they say in golf, you've got to play it as it lies, and in November 2012 Keith stumbled upon a body lying motionless just off the green of the otherwise picturesque, forested course in northern Colorado. It was his responsibility to tell the world what he'd found.
Matt Patches is the Editor in Chief of Polygon. A veteran culture journalist covering the nexus of Hollywood, gaming, and online entertainment, Patches was previously an editor at Esquire.com and a regular contributor for New York Magazine’s Vulture, Grantland, Vanity Fair, and The Hollywood Reporter.
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