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It’s a very fanciful week for streaming. Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, a modern spin on the same Japanese folktale that inspired Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata’s final film, lands on Netflix. SpongeBob has a haunted pirate adventure in The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, which sails onto VOD. Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie go on a […]

When I first sat down with Bowen “Monsoon” Fuller, we were both out of breath. Moments earlier, he and his teammates on team Oblivion had just pulled off the unthinkable: winning the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Year 5 Championship in Sapporo, Japan. On the fourth and final day of the competition, Fuller and his […]

Most comedy fans know the overall story of Wet Hot American Summer and its rise to cult classic status: A hyper-specific genre parody made on a relative shoestring, debuted at Sundance, packed with now-familiar faces, limited-released to box office obscurity and mixed reviews, eventually reclaimed as maybe the funniest broad comedy of the 21st century. […]

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the latest Game of Thrones spin-off from HBO, but it’s a drastically different show compared to anything we’ve seen before. Based on The Hedge Knight, a series of novellas written by George R.R. Martin, the series tells a much smaller and more focused story about Ser Dunk the […]

Elden Ring Nightreign players received a game-changing update on Thursday, thanks to patch 1.03.2, which has big buffs for two of the game’s Nightfarers: the Raider and Executor. But FromSoftware’s latest update to Nightreign has more than just buffs (and a nerf for fan-favorite Ironeye), with sweeping changes to relics, spells, and field bosses. One […]

Game of Thrones’ epic scope was always part of the show’s appeal. The ambitious story, sprawling across kingdoms, continents, and the cast of dozens of primary characters made HBO’s George R.R. Martin adaptation feel monumental and consequential, especially as the story narrowed down to a single massive war that would define the fate of the […]

In these days of shrinking attention spans, the success of a game is too often determined by its overture: you either capture the audience during those crucial early minutes, or you never get another chance. Developer Bethesda understood this quite some time ago, and since 1992, dramatic openings have been one of the most notable […]

A game’s opening moments are make or break, especially in an age when people can quickly bounce from game to game on subscription services like Xbox Game Pass. Those opening moments, whether they’re action-packed or character-driven, have to grip you before you move on to the next game in your backlog. This weekend, Polygon is […]

With a live-service game like Diablo 4, it can often be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff of the community’s outrage cycle. That’s especially true when observing it from the outside, or even from the semi-inside if you’re an occasional, on/off player (as I am with Diablo 4). Excitement at new content and […]

There’s nothing more frustrating in Magic: The Gathering than falling prey to blue’s most annoying gimmick: the Counterspell. Blue’s entire color identity is about controlling the flow of play and manipulating both the battlefield and players’ hands with magic. For a relatively low cost, someone playing blue can counter almost any spell, regardless of how […]