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PS Plus goes up in cost tomorrow, so sub (or resub) now

2 weeks 3 days ago

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A front-facing view of the PS5 DualSense controller — Photo: Henry Hargreaves/Polygon

The significant price jump goes into effect Wednesday

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The best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2023 so far

2 weeks 3 days ago

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A collage image of covers featured in this list: Terraformers, Lone Women, Our Share of Night, The Ferryman, The Lies of the Ajungo, Chlorine, and Children of Memory. — Graphic: Pete Volk/Polygon | Source images: Tor Books/Orbit/Hogarth Press/One World/William Morrow & Company/Ballantine Books

It’s already been a stellar year in speculative fiction

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Nicole Clark

Netflix’s Chicken Run sequel is really pushing to be a Mission: Impossible movie

2 weeks 3 days ago

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Rocky the rooster looks determined as he struts past a giant cooling-fan blade in a dark tunnel, as rats Nick and Fetcher watch from behind him in a promotional image from Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — Image: Aardman/Netflix

Dawn of the Nugget hits Netflix on Dec. 15

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PlayStation Plus offers the Saints Row reboot and more in September

2 weeks 3 days ago

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September 2023’s freebies offer mayhem, MMORPG action, and Swedish survival

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Your biggest Starfield questions, answered

2 weeks 3 days ago

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Can you buy a house? Be an alien? What can you really do in Starfield?

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Julia Lee

Dungeons & Dragons introduces its first canonically autistic character

2 weeks 3 days ago

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Cover art for The Book of Many Things, which comes bundled inside The Deck of Many Things — a boxed set of cards from Wizards of the Coast, made for Dungeons & Dragons. It shows a female-presenting person in metal armor holding a sword aloft. The heavens open around them, with spectral horses and demonic entities reaching toward their sword. — Image: Wizards of the Coast

Deck of Many Things co-lead designer discusses putting a little bit of herself into the game

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Starfield walkthrough and guides

2 weeks 3 days ago

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An explorer stares at a gas giant while standing on a lunar satellite in Starfield, the 2023 game of the year. — Image: Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks via Polygon

Your map to the stars

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Starfield romance options and how relationships work

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Crossing the stars for lovers

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Josh Broadwell

Netflix knew it had to change One Piece’s world for live action

2 weeks 3 days ago

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Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) sits on the masthead of his ship in front of the Baratie sign — Image: Netflix

But it was always committed to the vision of the manga and anime

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Daniel Dockery

Can Wooper be shiny in Pokémon Go?

2 weeks 3 days ago

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Shiny Wooper turns the Water Fish Pokémon pink

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One Piece, Our Flags, and the modern pirate media revolution

3 weeks ago

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An image of Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy in an episode of the Netflix live-action adaptation of One Piece. — Image: Netflix

‘So, once again, we sit around the fire, telling tales of pirates’

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Kayti Burt

Armored Core 6 fans are making gorgeous art of the characters we never see

3 weeks ago

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Fan artwork of 621 and Ayre from Armored Core 6, rendered in a style similar to Yoji Shinkawa — Image: Kuba on X

Ayre, 621, Rusty, and more get unofficial designs

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How to access your ship storage and inventory in Starfield

3 weeks ago

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The bottom part of the Frontier ship in Starfield — Image: Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks

How do you open your cargo hold?

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The Wheel of Time is in its Two Towers era

3 weeks ago

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Perrin, bloodied, looks determined in close up with the top part of a shield visible in The Wheel of Time season 2. — Photo: Jan Thijs/Prime Video

tfw all your friends are gone (to Isengard)

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How lockpicking works in Starfield

3 weeks ago

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For one thing, it’s not a lockpick — it’s a digipick

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How to use the boost pack in Starfield

3 weeks ago

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To get that extra jump, you’ll need to level up a specific skill

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Julia Lee

Taylor Swift scares the new Exorcist movie off its release date

3 weeks ago

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The Exorcist: Believer moves up one week to Oct. 6

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Disney Lorcana comes to your local games store today

3 weeks ago

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The Disney TCG is now available from your game stores and online retailers

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Polygon’s 2023 Fall Preview

3 weeks ago

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The next wave of games, movies, and TV is here

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The 18 most exciting video game releases of fall 2023

3 weeks ago

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An onslaught of long-awaited sequels, colorful indies, and promising spinoffs

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Lara Croft has never looked better than she does in... Call of Duty?

3 weeks 4 days ago

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The Tomb Raider will join the Modern Warfare Operator roster soon

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How to beat Balteus in Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon

3 weeks 4 days ago

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The chapter one boss fight is the game’s first big skill check

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Steam’s Strategy Fest has kicked off, with discounts of up to 90% off

3 weeks 4 days ago

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Save up to 90% on eligible strategy titles through Sep. 4

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Arleen Sorkin, the original voice and inspiration for DC’s Harley Quinn, dies at 67

3 weeks 4 days ago

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Sorkin originated the character in 1992’s Batman: The Animated Series

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Valorant fans troll Elon Musk, chant ‘Bring back Twitter’ at tournament

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Disney gave The Nightmare Before Christmas an incredible upgrade

3 weeks 4 days ago

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This 4K Blu-ray is one of 2023’s best discs

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A Netflix fantasy, Amazon fantasy, wacky Max fantasy, and more new TV this week

3 weeks 4 days ago

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Fionna and Cake and Archer and much more

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Struggling with Armored Core 6? Do the coolest thing possible

3 weeks 4 days ago

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ABC: Always Be Cool.

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The Xbox Series X is $25 off at Dell, includes a $75 gift card

3 weeks 4 days ago

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Decent discounts on Microsoft’s powerhouse

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Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo says you may find God in Starfield — or lose faith

3 weeks 4 days ago

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An astronaut walks toward a glowing orb-like structure referred to by Bethesda as “the temple” in Starfield — Image: Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks

Asking big questions of a team asking big questions

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Owen S. Good

The best TV shows to watch on Hulu

3 weeks 5 days ago

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Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter and Hugh Dancy as Will Graham in Hannibal. — Image: NBC

Your new favorite show is around the corner

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Armored Core 6’s big doofus boss let’s you feel like a mech god

3 weeks 5 days ago

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Smart Cleaner is Armored Core at its most cathartic

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Pokémon Go Fest 2023: Global Special Research Task guide

3 weeks 6 days ago

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All the steps in ‘Go Fest: 2023 Fascinating Facets’ and ‘Super Sky High’

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I turned my (dark) fantasy of a Zelda movie into reality

3 weeks 6 days ago

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A fake credits image for a Legend of Zelda movie, featuring a vast beautiful landscape and the title, with a fake copyright for Universal Pictures and the Jim Henson company. — Image: Dom Nero

And I made a trailer to prove it

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Dom Nero

$4 movie tickets for this Sunday? Sick!

3 weeks 6 days ago

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Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling), both wearing garish, patterned neon skating outfits and incredibly bright neon-yellow kneepads and Rollerblades, stand in front of a beach between two trees covered in graffiti and go in for a high-five in the 2023 live-action movie Barbie — Photo: Atsushi Nishijima/Warner Bros.

This ticket deal joins our favorite gaming deals this weekend

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Alice Newcome-Beill

The best movies leaving Netflix, Hulu, Prime, and Max at the end of August 2023

3 weeks 6 days ago

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Ron Perlman as Hellboy, clenching his teeth and aiming an oversized pistol in Hellboy (2004). — Image: Sony Pictures

Here’s what you need to hit on your watchlist before the end of the month

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Toussaint Egan

How to get Meteorites to Mega Evolve Rayquaza in Pokémon Go

4 weeks ago

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Rayquaza flying fast in Pokémon Go — Image: Niantic

Mega Evolution requires an extra item for this powerful Gen 3 legendary

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Matthew Reynolds

Pokémon Go Fest 2023: Global event guide and habitat schedule

4 weeks ago

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Carnivine, Diancie, Rayquaza, and Pachirisu on a blue and green gradient background. — Graphic: Julia Lee/Polygon | Source images: Game Freak/Nintendo, The Pokémon Company

Get your hands on Diancie, alongside some regional Pokémon

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Julia Lee

The Gran Turismo movie veers into full-on gamer cringe

4 weeks ago

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Archie Madekwe as Jann Mardenborough behind the wheel of a car with a Gran Turismo decal on the windscreen — Image: Sony Pictures

Jann Mardenborough’s gamer-to-racer arc is inspiring, but the movie is fighting an old culture war

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Oli Welsh

The Flash, Meg 2, Past Lives, and every new movie to watch at home this weekend

4 weeks ago

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Ezra Miller mid-running motion in suit as The Flash. — Image: Warner Bros.

The superheroic speedster races onto Max this week

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