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Jen Oneal, briefly in charge of Blizzard, expressed no faith in Activision leadership

2 years 7 months ago

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Activision Blizzard employees stage a walkout in the response from company leadership to a lawsuit highlighting alleged harassment, inequality — Blizzard employees during a walkout July 28, 2021, protesting Activision’s response to allegations of workplace harassment, discrimination, and a toxic culture. Jen Oneal would be promoted from executive vice president for development to co-head of Blizzard Entertainment the next week. | Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

‘It was clear that the company would never prioritize our people the right way,’ said co-chief

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Owen S. Good

Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender series casts three more characters including Uncle Iroh

2 years 7 months ago

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The series has now started production in Vancouver

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Austen Goslin

Call of Duty studio head quits after sexual harassment accusation report

2 years 7 months ago

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A military helicopter prepares for landing in Black Ops Cold War — Image: Treyarch, Raven Software/Activision

Treyarch co-lead Dan Bunting has left the Call of Duty: Black Ops studio

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Michael McWhertor

Activision’s Kotick knew of rape allegations, kept them quiet, new report says

2 years 7 months ago

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Attendees Arrive For Allen & Co. Media And Technology Conference — Activision chief executive Bobby Kotick, at Sun Valley, Idaho in 2019. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Activision disputes Wall Street Journal report as ‘a misleading view of our CEO’

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Owen S. Good

Cowboy Bebop turns a classic anime into a Saturday morning cartoon

2 years 7 months ago

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The Netflix series settles for superficiality

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Toussaint Egan

Eternals’ Hiroshima scene was personal for the writers, and Chloe Zhao fought to keep it

2 years 7 months ago

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Phastos weeps over Hiroshima bombing in Eternals — Image: Marvel Studios

Kaz and Ryan Firpo discuss writing a superhero movie in the ‘grey area’

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Matt Patches

Watch the 7 movies that inspired Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop

2 years 7 months ago

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Graphic grid featuring stills from various movies and the show Cowboy Beebop — Graphic: James Bareham/Polygon

The new showrunner went back to some of anime creator Shinichirō Watanabe’s favorites, and so should you

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Toussaint Egan

The first Harry Potter movie owes a lot to Home Alone, says director

2 years 7 months ago

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harry gasping as he holds his wand — Image: Warner Bros. Pictures

From Daniel Radcliffe to the set design, timelessness was key

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Petrana Radulovic

Why The Harder They Fall’s director would rather hug a horse than a Wookiee

2 years 7 months ago

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Director Jeymes Samuel and Idris Elba (in an Old West prisoner’s uniform, on a horse) on the set of The Harder They Fall — Photo: David Lee/Netflix

Jeymes Samuel on Westerns vs. sci-fi, turning reggae into Old West music, and miracles on the set

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Tasha Robinson

The 13 best one-season anime you can watch in a weekend

2 years 7 months ago

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From shonen to shōjo and everything in between

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Sadie Gennis

Shang-Chi, Red Notice, and every new movie you can stream at home this weekend

2 years 7 months ago

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Simu Li squares up as the title character of Marvel’s Shang-Chi. — Image: Marvel Studios

Marvel’s martial arts epic finally lands on streaming this weekend

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Toussaint Egan

Two of Disney’s best modern shorts are finally on Disney Plus

2 years 7 months ago

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two people stand on a subway platform, rendered in black and white in Paperman — Image: Walt Disney Animation Studios

The Little Matchgirl and Paperman represent two key points in Disney’s animation history

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Petrana Radulovic

Clever Animal Crossing fans find trick to set villagers’ houses on fire, haunt them

2 years 7 months ago

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Polishing does more than sparkle

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Ana Diaz

Netflix’s Red Notice is as bad as blockbuster movies can possibly get

2 years 7 months ago

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Ryan Reynolds stares, bug-eyed, at a golden gun in a display case in Red Notice — Photo: Netflix

The film’s star-studded franchise-starter is cheap and clumsy, but worse — it’s boring

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Robert Daniels

Halo 3: ODST is still unlike any other Halo

2 years 7 months ago

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The Rookie, protagonist of Halo 3: ODST, stands explores the ruins of New Mombasa in a rainstorm — Image: Bungie

The game’s environmental storytelling makes it special

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Toussaint Egan

Gucci made a $10,000 Xbox, which does come with Game Pass

2 years 7 months ago

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A man and woman play with Xbox controllers for Gucci’s new line — Photo: Gucci

Only 100 Gucci Xbox Series X will be sold

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Michael McWhertor

Sometimes the only way to breathe life into a board game Kickstarter is to kill it first

2 years 7 months ago

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A woman with greasy hair and cyberpunk sunglasses blows out a puff of cigarette smoke against an orange background. — Image: Restoration Games

Why good crowdfunding campaigns die, and how they live again

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Justin Spicer

Exclusive: New DC comic will hand the full power of Shazam to the former Mary Marvel

2 years 7 months ago

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Mary Bromfield suited up in her superhero form using the power of Shazam on the cover of The New Champion of Shazam! #1 (2022). — Image: Evan “Doc” Shaner/DC Comics

Billy Batson’s big sister pivots from Mary Marvel to the main mantle

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Susana Polo

Warframe’s big story quest, The New War, arrives in December

2 years 7 months ago

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Warframe - a Dax soldier poses in the background in a sci-fi environment. In front of him are Prime versions of player-controlled Warframes in action poses — Image: Digital Extremes

Plus, Prime Warframes are making a return

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Cass Marshall

Battlefield 2042 won’t have voice chat at launch

2 years 7 months ago

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A squad secures supplies in Hazard mode in Battlefield 2042. — Image: DICE/Electronic Arts

The feature is scheduled to debut sometime afterward

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Austen Goslin

Happy Home Paradise unlock guide – Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide

2 years 7 months ago

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How to get all those fancy features

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Julia Lee

Bungie’s 30th Anniversary pack will give Destiny 2 players what they want: Exotic buffs

2 years 7 months ago

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Three Guardians stand in the Tower in their Bungie 30th Anniversary gear — Image: Bungie

Bungie highlighted a host of changes coming to Destiny 2 on Dec. 7

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Ryan Gilliam

Microsoft is updating its PC gaming store to make Xbox Game Pass easier to use

2 years 7 months ago

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Faster downloads, better mod support, and other changes are on the way

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Ana Diaz

Cy_Borg will provide the cyberpunk apocalypse our society truly deserves

2 years 7 months ago

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A sneak peek at the Mörk Borg spinoff Cy_Borg

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Charlie Hall

Magic’s Innistrad: Crimson Vow will be a party for the ageless

2 years 7 months ago

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Polygon

A dashing vampire walks into the frame, rose petals floating on the breeze behind him. — Image: Magali Villeneuve/Wizards of the Coast

The second in a back-to-back series of horror-themed sets

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Charlie Hall

Six actually interesting answers from Todd Howard’s Reddit AMA

2 years 7 months ago

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Gamemaker Bethesda Holds Event At E3 Conference In Los Angeles — Todd Howard, Bethesda Game Studios’ executive producer, at E3 2019 | Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images

Even if he didn’t spill the beans on the Jarl and Mephala ...

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Owen S. Good

Call of Duty: Vanguard continues the trend of mythmaking and tokenization

2 years 7 months ago

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Call of Duty: Vanguard’s eponymous spec-ops squad — Image: Sledgehammer Games/Activision

And torpedoes its own potential

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Yussef Cole

Animal Crossing: New Horizons guides

2 years 7 months ago

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Animal Crossing New Horizons Switch Package header — Image: Nintendo

Start smart, make more money, customize characters, increase inventory, and much more in our guides and walkthroughs

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Polygon Staff

Are the Spider-Men OK?

2 years 7 months ago

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Three Spider-Men (Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, and Tom Holland) in a collage, looking sad. — Graphic: Matt Patches/Polygon | Source Image: Sony Pictures

Peter Parker, lost in the multiverse

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Joshua Rivera

Have you ever wondered if Halo 3 has weed in it? This person has

2 years 7 months ago

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A screenshot of GamerHelper’s YouTube video about the Halo 3 map Guardian, which asks, “Was Bungie On Weed?” — Image: Bungie/Microsoft Game Studios via GamerHelper/YouTube

More like Master Kief

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Maddy Myers

Dead by Daylight’s next chapter stars a terrifying artist and her murder of crows

2 years 7 months ago

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Polygon

Dead by Daylight - The Artist, a killer with a humanoid figure, pale skin, and black blood running from her mouth and eyes, pulls back a severed arm with a goopy, dangerous looking growth. — Image: Behaviour Interactive

The game is also coming to the Epic Games Store

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Cass Marshall

Caitlyn and Jayce arrive in League of Legends: Wild Rift’s new event

2 years 7 months ago

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League of Legends - Wild Rift: Jayce, a muscular young man in a heavy coat and armor, wielding an elaborate mechanical hammer cannon. — Image: Riot Games

Two new champions with a whole lot of firepower

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Cass Marshall

Thrustmaster’s Boeing yoke really does just work with Microsoft Flight Simulator on Xbox

2 years 7 months ago

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Product shot of the TCA Pack Boeing Edition yoke and throttle — Image: Thrustmaster

I am unaccustomed to such luxuries

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Charlie Hall

Among Us’ new update includes roles, a store, and achievements — and it’s live now

2 years 7 months ago

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Among Us - a bunch of bean-shaped spaceship crewmates crowd into an auditorium — Image: InnerSloth

New and novel ways to play Among Us

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Cass Marshall

Unfortunately, the best part about Dexter: New Blood is the killing

2 years 7 months ago

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Dexter Morgan stands in a dark cloak in the snowy woods in Showtime’s Dexter: New Blood — Photo: Kurt Iswarienko/SHOWTIME

Dexter: New Blood is what happens when your antihero has only one weird trick

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Joshua Rivera

Netflix is making a live-action Yu Yu Hakusho

2 years 7 months ago

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From left: Koenma, Kurama, Hiei, Botan, Yusuke Urameshi, Keiko, Shizuru, Kuwabara, Kazuma Kuwabara, and Genkai from the 1992 Yu Yu Hakusho. — Image: Pierrot

The best finger guns in the game are back

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Joshua Rivera

Our biggest questions after Eternals, and a few key answers

2 years 7 months ago

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Polygon

Gilgmaesh and Thena staring down Deviants at the beach in Eternals — Image: Marvel Studios

What’s the real reason the Eternals didn’t fight Thanos? Can Eternals reincarnate? Why isn’t Starfox huge and purple?

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Tasha Robinson

Squid Game creator confirms season 2, return of main character Seong Gi-hun

2 years 7 months ago

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Polygon

Hwang Dong-hyuk and Lee Jung-jae on the set of Squid Game. — Photo: Netflix,

The second season is currently in the ‘planning process’

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Toussaint Egan

A Star Wars-like world collides with anime-style action in this new sci-fi game

2 years 7 months ago

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Polygon

a warrior with a white coat and glowing blue sword stands in forest ruins as the sun rises — Image: Felix Schade

This and the cutest rhythm game I've seen all year

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Ana Diaz

Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide - Jolly Redd’s art, real or fake?

2 years 7 months ago

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An Animal Crossing character stands on Redd’s boat — Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon

Figure out which art pieces are real and which are forgeries

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Julia Lee

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