Greetings, Polygon readers! It feels like the year has just begun and January is almost behind us. We’ve seen some impressive films so far, with surprise hits like Chaos! and David Ayers The beekeeper, and more exciting new releases are set to release in February. Before we get there, though, we’ve put together our picks ...
[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for season 2 of the U.S. version of The Traitors through episode 5.] The traitors Season 2 was a joy in every way except one: Dan Gheesling, a Big Brother Legend that looks like it’s about to be played out by Pilot Pete The bachelor. The traitors is a ...
Final Fantasy 7 Fans, aka Tifa Lockhart fans, have a suggestion for veteran Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada: use Tifa Tekken 8. They blasted Harada so hard on social media for including their #1 girl this week that the producer was forced to respond and tell the Tifa-loving masses that he fully appreciates their adoration, but ...
A former Krafton employee is suing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Maker for wrongful termination after she reported an alleged sexual assault by former Krafton strategy and business manager Kevin Kimball. The lawsuit — which details sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, false imprisonment and wrongful termination — was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in December 2023. The 31-year-old ...
It’s not often that a game starts immediately after your character is murdered. In the demo for Of love and eternity, a “stylistic dark fantasy horror adventure” released on Steam earlier this month, players see their character floating aimlessly in a cosmic void of nebulous gas giants and stars before awakening screaming in the desiccated ...
Snorlax has awakened. The Pokémon Company has broken its silence Palworldthe hit Pokémon-inspired survival game said Thursday it intends to investigate the game and “take appropriate action” if it determines its intellectual property rights have been violated. Accusations of plagiarism were made Palworld since its Early Access launch on Friday, January 19th, particularly in terms ...
Death Stranding: Director’s Cut is coming to Apple devices on January 30th, and one of the best phone controllers around is getting a limited release to celebrate. The Backbone One controller has a design inspired by Death StrandingAlso included is a free App Store code for the game that can be redeemed for iPhone, iPad ...
To the casting department of Netflix’s live action Avatar: The Last AirbenderI would like to make a formal complaint: Why did you make Fire Lord Ozai so damn hot by casting Daniel Dae Kim? Fire Lord Ozai is not a nice guy. Not only is he an imperialist and perpetrator of several war crimes; Also ...
The Oscar nominations are in, and something is missing from the nominations for Best Director and Best Picture – or is there? None of us at Polygon expected this Barbie to make it, nor for Greta Gerwig to snag a Best Director nomination, but… should she have done that? And why not? We had a ...
Palworld is now available in Early Access on Steam and in Game Preview mode on Xbox. The Pokemon with Weapons game is also playable on Valve’s Steam Deck, where I’ve been playing ever since Palworld started. Yes, Palworld is officially “playable” on Steam Deck, which in Valve’s definition means the game is “functional on Steam ...
