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New on Apple Arcade in February: cozy farming sim Farmside

3 days 5 hours ago

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Plus a sci-fi text adventure and some edgelords on jet skis

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Oli Welsh

NASCAR officially bans driver’s GameCube-inspired ‘wall ride’ stunt

3 days 17 hours ago

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Ross Martin, driving the No. 1 Chevrolet for Trackhouse Racing, “wall rides” around the final turn of the NASCAR Cup Series Xfinity 500 at Martinsville, Va. on Oct. 30, 2022. — Photo: Stacy Revere/Getty Images

Ingenious though the maneuver might be, it’ll incur a penalty in future races

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Owen S. Good

EA, which loves to cancel Titanfall games, cancels secret Titanfall game

3 days 18 hours ago

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Titanfall 2 concept art with a helmeted pilot standing with his rifle at rest alongside some cherry blossom trees as massive concrete buildings loom in the distance — and he’s backed up by his giant humanoid mech. — Image: Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts

A report says a secret single-player Titanfall 2 follow-up has been axed, alongside the planned mobile game

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Joshua Rivera

The best new TV series on every streaming service

3 days 19 hours ago

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Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden look worried in a corridor — Photo: Apple TV Plus

Bringing you the good stuff, month by month

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Toussaint Egan

FFXIV Valentione’s Day 2023 event guide

3 days 20 hours ago

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How to get yourself a spiffy new outfit

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Julia Lee

A closer look at the great Hindi movies on Netflix

3 days 20 hours ago

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Dev (Abhay Deol) smoking a cigarette in a room filled with graffiti in Dev.D. — Image: Gravitas Ventures

From romances and road trips to Bollywood epics

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Sydney Wegner

Pokémon Go Rocket Giovanni counters, team for February 2023

3 days 20 hours ago

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How to beat Team Go Rocket’s boss, Giovanni

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Julia Lee

The new DC cinematic universe may break the firmest rule in Batman cinema

3 days 20 hours ago

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Damian Wayne attacks his father, Batman, with a sword on the cover of Batman #657 (2006). — Image: Grant Morrison, Andy Kubert/DC Comics

Dumb and Dumber? This is Dark and Darker

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Daniel Dockery

How Sea of Thieves pirates teamed up with the Parkinson’s Foundation

3 days 21 hours ago

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Inside a successful charity stream collaboration

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Cass Marshall

Hitman’s new mode transforms it into one of the best roguelikes ever

3 days 21 hours ago

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Agent 47 holds an automatic shotgun and stands in front of the campaign map in his safehouse in Hitman World of Assassination’s Freelancer mode — Image: IO Interactive

Freelancer mode is a rare amalgamation of challenge and approachability

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Mike Mahardy

Everyone’s got a Triforce tattoo

3 days 22 hours ago

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An arm with a Triforce tattoo and some flowers — Photo: Nathalia de Matos

How the symbol became so ubiquitous

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Nicole Carpenter

Logan director may reimagine Swamp Thing for James Gunn’s DCU

3 days 22 hours ago

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James Mangold talks into a microphone at the D23 Expo — Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney

James Mangold is in talks to helm one of the first new DCU movies

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Pete Volk

Westworld and other axed HBO Max shows will return on free streaming services

3 days 22 hours ago

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Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy in Westworld season 3. — Photo: John P. Johnson/HBO

They haven’t vanished forever

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Austen Goslin

Netflix and Wit Studio face pushback for AI-assisted short film

3 days 22 hours ago

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a boy riding a bike down a grassy hill, a robotic dog chasing him. the boy wears all yellow and smiles brightly. behind them is a bright blue ocean and seaside town — Image: Wit Studio

The companies cited a “labor shortage”

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Petrana Radulovic

Pokemon Go leader counters for Sierra, Arlo, and Cliff

3 days 22 hours ago

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Artwork from Pokemon Go showing the new Team Rocket admins, Giovanni, and a group of shadow Pokemon — Image: Niantic/The Pokémon Company

How to take down the three Team Go Rocket leaders in February 2023

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Julia Lee

In Knock at the Cabin, the old M. Night Shyamalan haunts the new one

3 days 23 hours ago

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Home invader Leonard (Dave Bautista) holds weeping child Wen (Kristen Cui) in one hand and a pitchfork-like weapon in the other as his companion Adriane (Abby Quinn) clutches a butcher knife in M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin — Photo: Phobymo/Universal Pictures

It’s a fresh crisis of faith from a director who used to love them

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Joshua Rivera

PS5 PS Plus PSA: You have 3 months to grab 20 of the best PS4 games

3 days 23 hours ago

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A screenshot of the PlayStation Plus Collection menu on a PlayStation 5, with artwork from Ratchet & Clank, Final Fantasy 15, and Days Gone on the right hand side. — Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony’s PlayStation Plus Collection is coming to an end

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Michael McWhertor

Yoshi-P is ‘extremely disappointed’ that record-setting Final Fantasy 14 raid used mods

3 days 23 hours ago

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An image of the Omega Protocol (Ultimate) boss in Final Fantasy 14. It looks like a giant armored machine with four legs. — Image: Square Enix

The controversy has sparked debate among Final Fantasy 14 players

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Ana Diaz

Every new movie and show coming to Disney Plus in February

4 days ago

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Letitia Wright as Shuri, in mourning clothes in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. — Image: Marvel Studios

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is finally available to stream

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Petrana Radulovic

Amazon has some good microSD card deals for Switch and Steam Deck today

4 days ago

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Photo of Steam Deck hand-held gaming device and Nintendo Switch for comparison — Photo: Chris Plante/Polygon

Install sizes aren’t getting any smaller

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Cameron Faulkner

PlayStation Plus gives you Mafia: Definitive Edition and a Destiny 2 expansion in February

4 days ago

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Plus OlliOlli World and Evil Dead: The Game

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Owen S. Good

Lara Croft discovers the roguelike in Tomb Raider Reloaded

4 days 1 hour ago

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The next Tomb Raider launches on Lara’s birthday

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Michael McWhertor

8 anime to catch up on for 2023’s biggest releases

4 days 2 hours ago

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An anime boy with violet eyes and a red scar across his forehead grits his teeth and readies his sword to strike. — Image: Ufotable/Aniplex

Marathon to your heart’s content!

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Toussaint Egan

Pokémon Squishmallows officially out at Walmart stores

4 days 2 hours ago

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Pikachu and Gengar Squishmallows are on store floors now

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Nicole Carpenter

Gamefound fell short of its goals in 2022, but still ate into Kickstarter’s lead in tabletop

4 days 2 hours ago

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An early render of coins that will come with the final game, Castles of Burgundy: Deluxe Edition — Collectible coins featured in the Gamefound campaign for Ravensburger’s Castles of Burgundy: Deluxe Edition. | Image: Ravensburger

I guess a more than 45% increase in revenue will have to do

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Charlie Hall

Every movie and show coming to Netflix in February

4 days 4 hours ago

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Ian McKellan as Gandalf the Grey making a “huh?” face in Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring — Image: New Line Cinema

You, The Outer Banks, and Lyle Lyle Crocodile

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Petrana Radulovic

Pokémon Go ‘Shadowy Skirmishes’ Special Research guide

4 days 5 hours ago

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Giovanni standing in front of Shadow Registeel from Pokémon Go — Image: Niantic

Complete these research quests for a Shadow Registeel

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Matthew Reynolds

Destiny 2: Lightfall gets 4 new Exotics in latest trailer — here’s what they do

4 days 18 hours ago

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Destiny 2: Lightfall players fight off enemies with new Exotic weapons — Image: Bungie

The trailer also includes a couple of other weapons

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Austen Goslin

Rumbleverse, the battle royale brawler, is shutting down

4 days 18 hours ago

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A garishly costumed pro wrestler flexes in Rumbleverse; he is wearing a gold crop top, green trunks, and a luchador mask that looks like a chicken’s head — Image: Iron Galaxy/Epic Games

Epic Games and Iron Galaxy confirm Rumbleverse will end in February

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Owen S. Good

EA gives up on Apex Legends and Battlefield mobile games

4 days 18 hours ago

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Polygon

Caustic, Bloodhound, and Bangalore posing in Apex Legends Mobile — Image: Respawn Entertainment/EA Games

Apex Legends Mobile shuts down in May

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Michael McWhertor

Respawn delays Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

4 days 19 hours ago

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Cal Kestis stands with his lightsaber in his right hand, BD-1 at his left, in front of a sunset in artwork from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor — Image: Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts

Cal Kestis and BD-1 will return in April, not March

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Michael McWhertor

All the new video games launching in 2023

4 days 19 hours ago

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2023 will be a massive year for new games

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Owen S. Good

Your questions about Marvel Snap’s battle mode, answered

4 days 20 hours ago

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Arnim Zola and Squirrel Girl face off in key art for Marvel Snap’s battle mode, Friendly Battle. — Image: Second Dinner/Marvel

‘Friendly Battle’ lets you test your best decks against friends

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Ari Notis

What is it about strawberries in the post-apocalypse?

4 days 20 hours ago

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Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) eat strawberries as the sun sets in The Last of Us — Image: HBO Max

The Last of Us takes a bite out of an evolving trope

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Matt Patches

The Sims’ next game, ‘Project Rene,’ shows off what’s coming next

4 days 20 hours ago

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Sims playing in the snow with a weird snowman in the background — Image: Maxis/Electronic Arts

EA developers say multiplayer will have a big role, but it isn’t an MMO

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Cass Marshall

Adult Swim cuts ties with Rick & Morty creator Justin Roiland

1 week 4 days ago

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Rick and Morty - Rick and Morty in wasteland — Image: Adult Swim

Roiland no longer involved in Rick and Morty after domestic abuse charges come to light

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Michael McWhertor

What we know about Justin Roiland’s felony domestic violence charges

1 week 4 days ago

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Polygon

a photo of Justin Roiland on the red carpet at The Game Awards 2017 — Photo: Leon Bennett/WireImage

The Rick and Morty, High on Life creator was arrested and charged in 2020, but the case remained quiet until 2022

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Nicole Carpenter

How to easily farm Skill Points (SP) in Fire Emblem Engage

1 week 4 days ago

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Girl covered in stars crossing her arms to cast an ability — Image: Intelligent Systems/Nintendo via Polygon

Equip your rings!

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Johnny Yu

Warhammer 40K: Darktide Xbox launch delayed so developer can iron out problems

1 week 4 days ago

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Polygon

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide - A psyker uses powers from the Warp to hold off an approaching Chaos corrupted ogryn. — Image: Fatshark

A mea culpa from developer Fatshark

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Cass Marshall

Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard has somehow become a TikTok transition

1 week 4 days ago

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Polygon

Finn Wolfhard on the red carpet at the “When You Finish Saving The World” New York Screening — Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images

Fans are using a clip of him as a transition

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Ana Diaz

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