Sources: Polygon, Kotaku
The anime equivalent of Twilight also centers on a messy love triangle in a dark supernatural world, but it takes its story to even more controversial places. Based on Matsuri Hino’s classic shojo manga, the 2008 Studio Deen anime Vampire Knight is a unique relic of the late…
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When legendary director Paul Verhoeven's space action epic arrived in theaters 29 years ago, a lot of people didn’t get it. While the original 1959 novel by Robert A. Heinlein had a militaristic right-wing viewpoint, Verhoeven and screenwriter Edward Neumeier sought to lampoon…
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Charles Schulz's Snoopy is one of the most famous fictional dogs in the world, if not the most famous. His only real competition might be Goofy, who's apparently supposed to be an anthropomorphic dog (which, as ever, raises some real uncomfortable questions about Pluto), or…
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Halloween is the one night a year when monsters think it’s cliché to go out and torment the Hellmouth. As Buffy elegantly puts it: Halloween is “like, dead for the undead.” But 29 years ago, one evildoer decided to wreak havoc in Sunnydale on the one…
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In the 2008 movie Iron Man, the biggest, baddest villain was Obadiah Stane, played by Jeff Bridges. Originally business partners with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Obadiah betrayed Tony by hatching a plot to kill him while he was in Afghanistan. When Tony survived and became…
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When EA closed BioWare and canceled the next Mass Effect game, it took away a future many of us had been looking forward to for a long, long time. Think: more squadmates to fall for, more ships that you slowly realize feel like home, more decisions that haunt you years later.
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Fairy tales are often the first stories kids learn from picture books, and the works of Hanna Diyab, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen can help inspire a lifelong passion for reading. But just because you grow up, doesn’t mean you have to abandon the genre. Modern…
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There have been an enormous number of tabletop adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, but few capture the story so well and in such an accessible fashion as Bryan Bornmueller’s The Lord of the Rings Trick-Taking Game. A version based on The Fellowship of the Ring…
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Starting in December, discoverable Discord server messages will show up in search results unless administrators opt out
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The #SaveMassEffect campaign is rallying to be heard in places EA can’t avoid
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My grandpa's publishing company has no pathetic anime IPs, Kaiba!
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I get knocked down, but I get up again
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These games are getting festive for the spooky season
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You don't need multiple umlauts in your name unless you want them
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Sam Greszes says that Jackbox Games went silent after requesting a demo of his board game Die on this Hill. A year later, it launches Debate and Switch.
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Of all the new actors joining the cinematic DC Universe in next year's Man of Tomorrow, fans seem most invested in finding out which character Matthew Lillard will portray. Lillard (Carrie, Scream, Polygon's Shelf Quest) is set to appear in James Gunn's Supermansequel in an…
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The Intrepid Heroes can't be stopped. Dimension 20's Toylight campaign wrapped up last week, but fans won't have to wait too long for their favorite actual play series to return. On Tuesday, Dropout revealed the next season of Dimension 20 will be A Starstruck Odyssey season 2…
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