Sources: Polygon, Kotaku
There’s a particular feeling I get when I watch certain older anime that is difficult to explain until I see them again. I can pause any moment in Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust or Witch Hunter Robin and feel like I’m looking at an illustration rather than a frame from an anime…
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The entire pitch of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was freedom. It offered a then-unexpected fully open world, the ability to tackle quests in any order, ignore most of the side content, and solve problems in any wacky way that occurred to you. This is one of the…
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During a Pokémon TCG Pocket panel at the PokémonXP event in San Francisco, The Pokémon Company teased some exciting new types of cards for the mobile game. Namely, dual-type cards will make their way to the popular mobile game soon.
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EA finally acknowledged that some gameplay from Motive Studios' upcoming Iron Man leak, although it isn't ready to show more of the game just yet. "See you when we’re ready," the official X account for the game pledged.
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"We really wanted to challenge ourselves to not acknowledge the Looney Tunes as an ensemble of characters," director Dave Green tells Polygon.
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Microsoft's gaming division was tight-lipped at Gamescom
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Gamescom's official statement noted that while they treat the theft 'very seriously and understand the frustration of affected exhibitors,' there's also options to pay extra for 'individual stand security'
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Turns out, fame and unfiltered posting can manifest beautiful things
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Action star Alan Ritchson has been a dominant force on streaming thanks to his Prime Video series Reacher and Netflix's sci-fi action hitWar Machine. Ritchson's latest film, Motor City, debuted in movie theaters in July, but the one-man-army revenge thriller didn't knock out…
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Nobody in the history of cinema has had more time-traveling husbands than Rachel McAdams. Four years after she starred in The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009) opposite Eric Bana, McAdams played Mary in About Time (2013). While the movie initially seems like a generic time-travel…
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Ridley Scott’s latest sci-fi film, The Dog Stars, has divided critics. While Polygon loved the moody tale of a pilot (Jacob Elordi) searching for meaning in a world where most of humanity was wiped out by a deadly flu, other publications were less enthusiastic about the slow…
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There's a particular sort of movie that's fallen out of style in the 2020s, as the film industry has pivoted to a sort of feast-or-famine style for theatrical distribution. Currently, anything that gets a run on the big screen is either a blockbuster with a nine-digit budget or…
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Although some of these heavy-hitters are expected candidates for perfect shonen you could rate as 10/10, there are plenty of overlooked stories out there that are just as good. As ongoing adaptations like Daemons of the Shadow Realmand Akane-banashi require some time to prove…
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Lots of famous pop culture characters began with daily newspaper comic strips. Garfield and the Peanuts gang are probably the most famous examples, but there are many others, like Popeye, The Addams Family, and Dick Tracy. All of those characters were originally featured in…
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This August marks 81 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, which brought history's costliest war to an end. The war shaped the world as we know it today through effects felt politically and economically, and has also secured a place in…
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Mission: Impossible 2 was terrible. After the first film revived a long-dead 1960s TV show with a solid spy thriller featuring some of the best action sequences of the decade, the follow-up was a mess. Directed by John Woo, the film turned into a showcase for the legendary Hong…
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Even though Rust has been out of early access for eight years, developer Facepunch is still updating the hit survival game on a regular basis. Rust is a game that players must invest a lot of free time into with each monthly wipe, so the developers continue to add content to…
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