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12 best movies new to streaming to watch in January 2022
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Everything to watch this month on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and HBO Max
Polygon’s 50 most anticipated games of 2022
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Games to watch in 2022 for Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC
Every movie and show coming to Netflix in January
The Paris Hilton Roblox DJ set and every other thing you can watch to ring in New Year’s Eve
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Rockin’ Eve, free streams, and both Insane Clown Posse and Phish concerts mean you have options
The Lost Daughter might be Netflix’s final film of 2021, but it’s spectacular
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Actor Maggie Gyllenhaal directs Oscar-winner Olivia Colman in this piercing adaptation
Red Snow and every new movie you can watch at home this weekend
The Matrix Resurrections is not a sequel — it’s a video game remake
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Parallels abound between Lana Wachowski’s film and Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Before Your Eyes tells a brilliant story about regret, our legacies, and the afterlife
Superheroes and soccer will collide in Super Buckyball Tournament — but when?
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China-based Pathea is waiting on approval from inscrutable government regulators
Why are New Year’s Eve movies such a thing?
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A long look back on the history of the holiday in cinema
Dwayne Johnson was ‘very surprised’ by Vin Diesel’s demanding Instagram post
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The public plea struck Johnson as an attempt at ‘manipulation’
Tomb Raider trilogy is free on Epic Games Store
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Pick up all three of the Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider games before Jan. 6
The 10 best action scenes of 2021
Placement games were 2021’s most calming trend
Tom Holland’s Spider-Man ultimately went where Marvel Comics has never gone before
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The MCU’s Peter Parker is like no other: completely alone
Fortnite is offline, but Epic says it’s working on it
Here are the most popular indie games on the Nintendo Switch in 2021
Tatooine is the perfect setting for Book of Boba Fett’s survival epic
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Temura Morrison takes the helmet off and shows us the desperate side of Star Wars
What if The Lord of the Rings movies never happened?
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It’s hard to imagine the cultural landscape without them ... but let’s imagine it
I want Demon Slayer’s buff mice to carry me off into the distance
Book of Boba Fett makes the bounty hunter’s Sarlacc pit-escape canon
The best video essays of 2021
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An escape from the most popular to the most captivating
Guillermo del Toro’s dark fable Nightmare Alley shouldn’t go overlooked
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Don’t miss this beautiful carnival about liars and why we believe them
Jujutsu Kaisen’s first film takes number one spot at Japanese box office
Marvel’s Timeless teases a surprising new addition to the Marvel Universe
John Madden, the namesake of video game football, dies at 85
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A Hall of Fame coach and broadcaster whose name became synonymous with America’s No. 1 sport
Winnie the Pooh, Franz Kafka, and more are coming to the public domain in 2022
Pokémon Go Spotlight Hour: Is Cubchoo shiny?
The best TV shows of 2021
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From Netflix to HBO, here are (some of) Polygon’s favorite TV shows of the year
With the best mods of 2021, who needs a new game?
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ModDB names the year’s 10 best
The trickiest part about bringing How to Train Your Dragon to the modern day was the cellphones
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The showrunner of Dragons: The Nine Realms on updating what makes the franchise special
Control developer Remedy is making a free-to-play shooter with Tencent
Co-op game Haven understands life as a couple during Covid
The Matrix Resurrections’ meta streak sets it apart from the Jurassic Worlds of the world
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Is it hypocritical to make a sequel about sequels? Who cares?
Lego’s Sonic the Hedgehog set becomes reality Jan. 1
Riot Games will pay $100M in gender discrimination settlement
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$80 million to female workers, plus ‘substantial systemic changes’