Valve updates its Steam FPS overlay performance monitor with expanded metrics: now tracks FPS with CPU, GPU utilization, DLSS ...

How Gaming Escaped the Local Network In the early 1990s, online games began transitioning from local network protocols like ...

Polygon was on the ground for the 2025 SGF experience and we played a lot of demos while we were there. Typically these are ...

In the run-up to last week's Switch 2 launch, preview events and video presentations only answered so many questions about ...

Doom: The Dark Ages is the next chapter of id Software's beloved FPS series that takes things in a prequel direction with ...

The iconic first-person shooter, Doom has returned with its latest title, Doom: The Dark Ages. Dark Ages tells the story of the Doom Slayer’s effort to save humankind in a war against Hell. The game ...

Defender, GoldenEye, Tamagotchi, and Quake are the winners this year, and the legendary John Romero says it's a "huge honor" for the 1996 FPS he designed to finally join the hall of fame.

The experience itself only contains a single part of one of the FPS game's levels. Even as a tech demo, this version of Quake 2 doesn't play like the original. It's much slower, textures aren't ...

Exploring eldritch hell-dungeons is par for the course in Quake, but this is the first time the dungeon itself has said "I want to feel you inside me." Just how far will Quake's hero go on a first ...

This new FPS is a blend of Arena FPS gameplay like Quake with Roguelike elements. You can grab it right now on Steam Early Access and the Epic Game Store. This reveal came in the form of a ...

Save the date! The Quake-powered first-person shooter Wrath: Aeon of Ruin has locked in a new release date for the Switch. After it was meant to arrive in Spring 2023, the new date for consoles ...

ID Software spent most of the 90s inventing and perfecting the FPS genre, with Quake 2 being one of their shining achievements both in terms of legacy and technical prowess. Due to their decade of ...