Published Oct 26, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT

Ari Notis is deputy editor of games at Polygon, where he oversees the gaming section. Previously, he was Polygon’s guides editor. Prior to joining Polygon, he was a reporter at Kotaku, the popular gaming site, and a senior editor at the lifestyle publication Best Life. He also served in various editorial capacities at various Hearst publications, including Esquire, Veranda, and Metropolitan Home. Ari is one of the people who still play Halo Infinite on a weekly basis. There are dozens of them!

There's historical precedence for this sort of thing

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On Oct. 21, EA officially announced the closure of legendary RPG maker BioWare after 30 years of operation. With the shutdown, the next Mass Effect game is now trapped in EA IP purgatory. But over the past week, devoted fans of the series have rallied around a social media campaign to save the game, fittingly called #SaveMassEffect .…