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Sony’s Funimation acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion

3 years 4 months ago

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The move consolidates the anime industry in a major way

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D. M. Moore

The making of Valorant’s jolly snowball fight mode, according to Riot

3 years 4 months ago

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Valorant - Sova poses with a new, seasonal snow launcher — Image: Riot Games

Less murder, more mirth

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Cass Marshall

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical will get an official filmed production

3 years 4 months ago

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Remy the Ratatouille, the rat of all my dreams

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Petrana Radulovic

GTA Online’s next heist sounds like it’ll have a bangin’ soundtrack

3 years 4 months ago

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Grand Theft Auto Online - a man with a hat and sunglasses — Image: Rockstar Games

Dance, be merry, and buy a submarine

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Cass Marshall

PS5 beats toilet paper in Google’s top searches of 2020

3 years 4 months ago

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Everyone wants Sony’s new hardware

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Patricia Hernandez

Spider-Man: Miles Morales patch lets you play at 60 fps with ray tracing

3 years 4 months ago

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Spider-Man shocking an enemy lying on the ground in Spider-Man: Miles Morales — Image: Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Swing around NYC in style

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Cass Marshall

Fallout 76’s huge fan war is a fight against nukes, glitches, and raiders

3 years 4 months ago

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Fallout 76 - a player, dressed as a raider chief, sits on a throne of bones — Image: Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks via The Warlord

A good war, with a few complications

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Cass Marshall

SWORD #1 asks cosmic questions about the future of X-Men

3 years 4 months ago

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Magneto, in his white costume, unfurls the metal sphere he used to ascend from earth’s surface to the SWORD space station, saying “And thank you for the welcome, Nathan. Did I detect a ‘hope you survive the experience?’” in SWORD #1, Marvel Comics (2020). — Image: Al Ewing, Valerio Schiti/Marvel Comics

It’s the X-Men, but it’s also Contact

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Oliver Sava

The Legend of Korra gets a gorgeous limited edition Blu-ray set

3 years 4 months ago

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And Nickelodeon’s only making 10,000 copies

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Matt Patches

PUBG may get its biggest maps ever in 2021

3 years 4 months ago

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Maps bigger than Erangel could be on the way

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Austen Goslin

Cyberpunk 2077 beginner’s guide

3 years 4 months ago

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11 things wish we knew when we started

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Dave Tach

Twitch bans Confederate flag, racist emote usage in new conduct policy

3 years 4 months ago

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There are new rules for harassment and sexual harassment, too

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Nicole Carpenter

Cobra Kai’s season 3 trailer will fire you up and leave you hanging

3 years 4 months ago

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Johnny Lawrence (left) and Daniel LaRusso (right) face each other in present day in the Cobra Kai dojo, whose motto is still “Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy.” — Image: Overbrook Entertainment/Netflix

Will Elisabeth Shue return?

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Owen S. Good

Cyberpunk 2077 cameo features a high-profile game designer ready to take your movie pitch

3 years 4 months ago

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The main character, Vi, in Cyberpunk 2077 sits atop a nuclear-powered red motorcycle in Night City. In the background the city burns. — Image: CD Projekt Red

Multiple outlets have confirmed the cameo ahead of the official launch

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Charlie Hall

Xbox Game Pass comes to iOS in spring 2021

3 years 4 months ago

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Artwork from Ark Survival Evolved, Halo, Hellblade, and Gears 5 to promote Xbox Game Pass PC — Image: Microsoft

Coming to the Xbox app and browsers, too

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Nicole Carpenter

PUBG’s new season is adding a much smaller map

3 years 4 months ago

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PUBG’s AI enemies The Pillar hunting a player — Image: PUBG

The map also comes with its own faction of AI opponents

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Austen Goslin

Hawkeye set photos reveal costumes, but more importantly, a dog sidekick

3 years 4 months ago

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Jeremy Renner (L) and Hailee Steinfeld are filming a scene for ‘Hawkeye’ in the East Village in New York City. Renner is wearing black, whil Steinfeld has a purple athletic jacket and a bow hanging from her shoulder. — Photo: Gotham/GC Images/Getty Images

His name is Lucky but you can call him Pizza Dog

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Susana Polo

Haikyuu!! helped me understand why people care about sports

3 years 4 months ago

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hinata hitting a volleyball — Image: Sentai Filmworks

The volleyball anime tapped into my own athletic memories

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Petrana Radulovic

George Clooney’s new sci-fi thriller The Midnight Sky has zero gravity

3 years 4 months ago

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Felicity Jones as a space crew member floating around her ship in The Midnight Sky — Image: Netflix

The actor-director can’t find power in his bifurcated, post-apocalyptic story

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Robert Daniels

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands finally ditches the hefty time commitment

3 years 4 months ago

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World of Warcraft: Shadowlands arbiter — Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Monitoring my life and my raid cooldowns

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Ryan Gilliam

Halo Infinite coming out in fall 2021, Microsoft says

3 years 4 months ago

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Screenshot of a multiplayer map in Halo Infinite: an armored futuristic soldier runs off a ramp to engage an opponent — A new screenshot for *Halo Infinite* shown by 343 Industries on Tuesday evening. | Image: 343 Industries/Xbox Games Studios

343 Industries shows fans what it’s been doing since the summer’s demo

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Owen S. Good

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake delayed to March

3 years 4 months ago

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the prince holding the Dagger of Time in the 2021 remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time — Image: Ubisoft Pune/Ubisoft

A two-month setback

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Owen S. Good

A luxury fashion brand held its runway show in a video game post-apocalypse

3 years 4 months ago

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A fashion writer and video game writer discuss

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Nicole Carpenter

YouTube’s biggest gaming videos of 2020 are a little fishy

3 years 4 months ago

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That got HOW many views?

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Patricia Hernandez

Alfred Molina is back as Doc Ock for Spider-Man 3

3 years 4 months ago

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Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus in promotional material for Spider-Man 2. — Image: Sony Pictures

He joins Tom Holland, Jamie Foxx, and Zendaya

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Susana Polo

How to download the Destiny 2 upgrade on PS5, Xbox Series X

3 years 4 months ago

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a team of six Guardians running through straw-colored grass in Destiny 2: Beyond Light — Image: Bungie

The PS5’s interface makes this way more confusing than it should be

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Samit Sarkar

You can now play Minecraft with ray-traced graphics

3 years 4 months ago

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Let there be light

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Cass Marshall

After Destiny 2: Beyond Light’s limited arsenal, Bungie promises more guns in the future

3 years 4 months ago

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Bungie previews some exciting content for Year 4

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Ryan Gilliam

Destiny 2’s latest patch brings back a fan-favorite dungeon

3 years 4 months ago

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Destiny 2 players in new Seasons of Arrival armor — Image: Bungie

The Prophecy dungeon is back

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Austen Goslin

Street Fighter 3: An oral history

3 years 4 months ago

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Kids play various arcade games while avoiding the Street Fighter 3 cabinet — When *Street Fighter 3* hit arcades, it came with a cabinet marquee featuring the word “Three,” with caption text off to the side saying “a new generation of Street Fighters.”

Our Street Fighter history series continues with a look at the time Capcom tried to start over

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Matt Leone

Marshawn Lynch is now fighting the Predator

3 years 4 months ago

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character shot of Marshawn Lynch with a rocket launcher for Predator: Hunting Grounds — Marshawn Lynch is Dante ‘Beast Mode’ Jefferson in *Predator: Hunting Grounds* on PS4 and Windows PC. | Image: Illfonic/Sony Interactive Entertainment

‘Beast Mode’ running back packs a rocket launcher

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Owen S. Good

Polygon’s guide to a Chaotic Good holiday season

3 years 4 months ago

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Graphic collage of characters from upcoming games and movies airing over the holidays — Graphic: James Bareham/Polygon | Source images: Various

‘Tis a jam-packed, Chaotic Good season

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Polygon Staff

The Stand and 15 more shows that will close out 2020

3 years 4 months ago

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Whoopi Goldberg from the film “The Stand” — Image: CBS All Access via Polygon

The Stand isn’t even the most apocalyptic-looking TV series on the list

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LaToya Ferguson

All the new movies vying for attention at the end of 2020

3 years 4 months ago

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Saving Earth is the hot holiday trend

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Jesse Hassenger

A guide to all of the holiday TV specials premiering in December

3 years 4 months ago

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The Grinch climbing out of, or into, a chimney — Image: NBC via Polygon

‘cuz we need a little Christmas this year!

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Petrana Radulovic

How to gift a streaming subscription

3 years 4 months ago

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Graphic grid with the logos of major streaming companies — Graphic: James Bareham/Polygon

The best ways to give Netflix, Disney Plus, and more for the holidays

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Polygon Staff

All of Netflix’s Christmas movies, ranked

3 years 4 months ago

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Graphic grid with six images from Christmas movies — Graphic: James Bareham via Polygon

From the lumps of coal to bundles of cheer

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Brian Moylan

There are still a bunch of new games coming in December

3 years 4 months ago

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Woman with a robot arm looking to camera while driving a car in traffic — Image: CD Projekt Red via Polygon

A preview of what’s still to come

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Nicole Carpenter

Soul radically changed when Pixar’s first Black lead entered the picture

3 years 4 months ago

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Man walks on a cross walk speaking on the phone from the Pixar movie “Soul” — Joe (Jamie Foxx) races across the busy New York City street | Image: Pixar via Polygon

Producer Dana Murray explains how early ideas were reworked into what we’ll see on Disney Plus

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Josh Spiegel

Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic 2 is coming to phones

3 years 4 months ago

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 The Sith Lords on mobile — Image: Aspyr Media/Lucasfilm

The Jedi Exile is back to save the Republic

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Austen Goslin

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