Slight spoilers ahead for Episode 5 of Marvel's Loki! The latest episode of Marvel's Loki featured one of video gaming's best urban legends - the Polybius arcade cabinet - and we're here to dive deep ...

Editor's note: Jeff Minter's Polybius is out now, but the origins of that mythical game go back decades, and venture to some dark places. The Polybius story has everything. Shady government agents ...

From the beginning, video games have been burdened with ulterior motives. For instance, Willy Higinbotham made the first computer game, "Tennis for Two," for the annual visitors day at Brookhaven ...

Back in the early 1980s (or so the story goes) a mysterious video game called Polybius popped up in a few local arcades in and around Portland, Oregon. Those unlucky enough to drop a few coins into ...

If you’ve ever wandered into the weird side of gaming lore, you’ve probably bumped into Polybius—the “lost” arcade cabinet that supposedly showed up, messed with kids’ brains, and then vanished. The ...

The game is named after the fictional Polybius arcade game, which supposedly caused psychological effects, seizures, amnesia, and men in black suits to show up at your door. Like the urban legend, the ...