A battle between “slimes” and “zoglins” could be the best way to calculate pi—at least for fans of this megahit game ...

Polygon 2026 Summer Preview Everything you want to know about the next three months in games, movies, TV, and more There’s something undeniably thrilling — even cleansing — about breaking stuff in ...

OpenAI has revealed a breakthrough proof that overturns a nearly 80-year-old geometry conjecture posed by Paul Erdős.

The new generation of chess bots eliminates jarring, inhuman moves, extends the rating ladder from true beginner to ...

I vibe coded with both Claude and ChatGPT, and the latter is just the better tool right now. It causes fewer headaches and ...

Android, it's your move. Language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that it is launching its chess instruction to Android phones, three months after introducing the game to iOS devices. The ...

For high-school seniors across the country, May 1 is the denouement of a college-admissions chess game that has become more complicated than ever. Friday—the deadline for students to tell colleges ...

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, Missouri, home of the World Chess Hall of Fame, the next best thing might be ...

The popularity of medieval games continues to grow as players look for immersive worlds filled with castles, sword combat, and political struggles. Whether focused on open-world adventure or tactical ...

Publisher Team17 and Despot’s Game developer Konfa Games have announced Hull Rupture, base-building roguelike tower defense game coming to PC via Steam. A release date was not announced. “We loved the ...

Roblox is introducing new agentic features to help developers plan, build, and test games on its platform, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. Roblox is revamping Roblox Assistant, its ...

Large language models (LLMs) are bad at chess. And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to ...