Polygon Friends List

Welcome to Friends List! If this is your first episode, Friends List is a daily web series where we have one-on-one talks about a single question related to video games. The goal is to give both Polygon's many team members across the globe and those involved in covering, designing and releasing games, an opportunity to speak with you. Today on Friends List, Editor-at-Large Chris Plante and Editor-in-Chief Chris Grant discuss if video games are addictive.

Welcome to Friends List! If this is your first episode, Friends List is a daily web series where we have one-on-one talks about a single question related to video games. The goal is to give both Polygon's many team members across the globe and those involved in covering, designing and releasing games, an opportunity to speak with you. Today on Friends List, Editor-at-Large Chris Plante and Opinions Editor Ben Kuchera ask what would we gain from AO games?

Welcome to Friends List! If this is your first episode, Friends List is a daily web series where we have one-on-one talks about a single question related to video games. The goal is to give both Polygon's many team members across the globe, and those involved in covering, designing and releasing games, an opportunity to speak with you. Today on Friends List, Reporter Alexa Ray Corriea and Senior Reviewer Danielle Riendeau discuss why you shouldn't miss Bravely Default.

Welcome to Friends List! If this is your first episode, Friends List is a daily web series where we have one-on-one talks about a single question related to video games. The goal is to give both Polygon's many team members across the globe, and those involved in covering, designing and releasing games, an opportunity to speak with you. Today on Friends List, Features Editor Russ Pitts and Editor-at-Large Chris Plante ask: Why do people like Flappy Bird?

With reports of Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes only taking a few hours finish it seemed like the perfect time to talk about whether a game could be too short, too long, or if there was a magical perfect length for a game. And so today on Friends List, Deputy News Editor Mike McWhertor and Reporter Dave Tach ask: How long should a game be?

In case you missed it our Matt Leone spent a year talking to the people that made Street Fighter 2 and managed to fit everything he learned into a single feature article. We recommend reading it while listening to Guile's theme.. So today on Friends List, Editor-at-Large Chris Plante and Deputy Features Editor Matt Leone will talk about how Street Fighter 2 got made.

I don't know if Madden does, but Breaking Madden certainly does. Today on Friends List, Editor-at-Large Chris Plante asks Reporter Samit Sarkar: Does Madden belong in museums?

Which is to say that the developer is done working on it, as opposed to say a player finishing the game, or the game needing to finish its story. Today on Friends List, Features Editor Russ Pitts and Deputy Reviews Editor Phil Kollar ask: Do games need to be finished?

Is it a story if it doesn't have an ending? What if the end is just the beginning? Or if the beginning is the end? All these questions and more might be answered on today's Friends List. Today News Editor Brian Crecente asks Reporter Alexa Ray Corriea: does a game's story needs an ending?

Once more, with feeling. Today on Friends List, Editor-at-Large Chris Plante and Reporter Alexa Ray Corriea try again to discuss if a Lord of the Rings game can rival the original films.

We were going to try to redo Friday's episode today since the episode didn't really happen last week due to technical difficulties. But now we'll be doing that tomorrow, so that on today's episode we can talk about this morning's big breaking Gears of War news. Today on Friends List, Editor-at-Large Chris Plante asks Opinions Editor Ben Kuchera: who benefits from Microsoft's acquisition of the Gears of War series?