Polybius is an urban legend that has been around for a few decades, with stories detailing a supposedly mind-altering arcade game planted by the government in Portland, Oregon. No evidence exists to ...

For those that missed the cameo, an image of the arcade machine can be seen in a Tweet from @Atreya300 embedded below. Loving the Polybius machine in the background ...

Get your tin hats on, because I’m going conspiratorial. I’m turning my attention to a game that posed a danger to those who played it, with question marks raised over its very existence. There’s a ...

Sometime around 118 B.C., a boar-hunting octogenarian cantering through southern Greece suddenly fell off his horse. The sprightly retiree — who ended up succumbing to his injuries — was Polybius, the ...

Eagle-eyed urban legend fans might have spotted an old friend in Marvel’s Loki: a sinister black arcade cabinet labeled Polybius. Or you might have seen it in The Simpsons or in the music video for ...

Jeff Minter, the reclusive developer of trippy, surreal arcade games like Tempest 2000, Space Giraffe, and Polybius, has announced his next project: a “hypnotic new wave shooter” (surprise!) called ...