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Tomas Franzese

March, 2026
Over a decade of experience covering the video game industry
Nintendo, Xbox Series X, PlayStation
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About Tomas Franzese

Tomas Franzese is the Weekend News Editor at Polygon, following and reporting on the latest goings-on in the gaming and entertainment spaces. During the week, you can find him working on Remastered, his newsletter about video game history and retro gaming, or contributing to GameSpot and other publications. Previously, Tomas was the Gaming Segment Lead at XDA and a Staff Writer at Digital Trends.

What's your origin story?

In high school, Tomas discovered journalism and joined DualShockers as a Staff Writer. What started as passion-driven side project between classes became a career as a reporter and critic that has lasted over a decade.

What's a recent obsession?

Rhythm Heaven Groove, retro gaming, and clearing out my gaming and movie backlogs

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An image featuring Matthew Mercer from Critical Role. He stands against a blue, church-like background.
Warframe devs say adding Matt Mercer is a ‘dream come true’

Critical Role’s Matt Mercer is finally making his way into Warframe in the Tau expansion

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A character in Warframe: Tau
All the new Warframe and Soulframe announcements at TennoCon 2026

Listen up, Tenno and Envoys

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A group of four players rides mounts in Soulframe
You can play Warframe’s fantasy successor, Soulframe, for free right now
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If you sign up to playtest Soulframe by the end of the weekend, you'll get access to its Preludes pre-alpha

Space Marines in Total War: Warhammer 40,000
Total War: Warhammer 40,000's amazing gameplay reveal will make you wonder if your PC can handle it

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 got its first gameplay video, and it looks like a great, if hardware-intensive, RTS game

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Minions & Monsters
Minions and Supergirl's rough box office weekend shows audiences are feeling franchise fatigue

Both Minions & Monsters and Supergirl did not do well at the box office over this holiday weekend

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Marcille the half-elf mage furiously shoves a mushroom slice in Senshi the dwarf’s face in Netflix’s Delicious in Dungeon
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 isn't the only anime Studio Trigger is working on right now

A second season of Delicious in Dungeon and a new project from Kill la Kill's creators are on the way

Damiane taking notes in Crimson Desert
Crimson Desert is finally making its other playable characters more interesting

Damiane and Oongka can now access the Abyss and equip more outfits

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Master Chief holds an assault rifle in key art for Halo Campaign Evolved
Halo remake will be on physical disc 'so that you have tangible items to add to your collection'

Halo Studios defied PlayStation and Grand Theft Auto 6 with its latest reveal

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Key art for Persona 4 Revival
Every bit of Persona 4 news that dropped at Anime Expo 2026

We just learned a lot about Persona 4 Revival, including that it will feature anime cutscenes from the studio behind Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man

Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077.
Cyberpunk 2077 just passed a very impressive sales milestone

CD Projekt Red has sold over 40 million copies of Cyberpunk 2077

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Nintendo president officially responds to Pokémon Card Game's awful scalping problem

Unfortunately, Nintendo is still placing the responsibility to fix it on The Pokémon Company

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Key art for the beat 'em up G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra
G.I. Joe is getting a new movie from superfan Danny McBride

Danny McBride revealed more about his vision for a new G.I Joe movie, and it isn't a comedy

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Deadpool in Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls
The Summer Game Fest of fighting games had tons of reveals — here's what we learned

From Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game to Tekken, we're rounding up everything being announced at Evo 2026

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Two crisply styled Xbox Series S consoles, one white, one black, against a black background.
Big Tech has spent the last week warning that gaming prices are about to get worse

Microsoft, Apple, Micron, and Lenovo don't expect tech to come back down from recent price hikes anytime soon

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In a scene from the 2025 film Superman, Supergirl is introduced, stumbling into Superman's Fortress of Solitude
Supergirl flops at the box office with an opening weekend on par with Joker 2
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The second movie in James Gunn's DCU did not do well at the box office this weekend

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An alien with an eyepatch walks through the streets in Star Wars Eclipse's announcement trailer
The developers of a new Star Wars game are striking because the project is at risk

Quantic Dream developers went on strike as they don't think they can finish Star Wars Eclipse if 115 developers are laid off

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Two characters of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners sitting on the moon looking at the Earth rising
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is finally coming out this fall, Netflix confirms

The wait for a second season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners that follows new characters is almost over

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Xbox responds to claim that there's more interest in GTA 6 PlayStation pre-orders

Xbox says it has had "record orders" for Grand Theft Auto 6.

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destiny 2 monument of triumph key art
PlayStation CEO says he wants to 'revitalize the market' with live service games amid Bungie layoffs

Even after laying off hundreds of Bungie developers, PlayStation still wants to keep making live service games

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Freddy Fazbear in Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is not being written by Scott Cawthon

The writer of It and Until Dawn's recent film adaptations will be writing it instead