Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. Most descriptions of The Witness are ...

The first round of free games heading to Xbox Live Gold members in the month of April is now available. As part of the Games with Gold program, The Witness and Cars 2: The Video Game are now free.

Video game worlds are often full of garbage. Lower the weapon and look near your feet. You’ll probably see splintered wood or scattered newspapers or empty soda cans. The trash helps cover up ...

The Witness is a line-drawing puzzle game, not dissimilar to what you might find in a 800-page bumper WHSmith’s best-seller or one of no doubt thousands of mobile games. But it’s also so much ...

The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious.

Andrew Webster is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. “It wasn’t the ...