MCDM’s Draw Steel aims to woo DnD players with more action and less missing
MCDM’s Draw Steel aims to woo DnD players with more action and less missing MCDM Productions spent years producing highly successful supplements for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. But when Wizards of the Coast proposed changes to the Open Gaming License in 2023, the company’s founder and lead game designer decided it was time to […]
How to play Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls early
How to play Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls early You can duke it out with anime-inspired Marvel heroes next month Sign in to your Polygon account add iframe code inside nonscript tag for crwaler Image: Arc System Works; Marvel Games We may not know when Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls will fully launch, beyond its wide-open 2026 […]
Nintendo’s Metroid Prime 4 Beyond is real and will be playable later in August
Nintendo’s Metroid Prime 4 Beyond is real and will be playable later in August Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is still without a release date, despite some ads formerly claiming it’s out now (it’s not.) Instead, like Hollow Knight: Silksong believers, Metroid fans have had to hope Metroid Prime 4: Beyond sticks to the 2025 release […]
Nintendo’s Switch price increase is now a controversial trend
Nintendo’s Switch price increase is now a controversial trend The gaming industry can’t stop bleeding money. Every year, there are countless stories of studios releasing big-budget games only to pull the title, lay people off, and in some cases, just close down entirely. With tariffs factoring into the equation, price hikes appear inevitable for AAA […]
The 5 best spoof movies to watch after Naked Gun
The 5 best spoof movies to watch after Naked Gun Spoof comedies can sometimes feel like a scarce resource. They tend to appear in brief, market-saturating feasts, as in the early ‘90s or the mid-2000s, before disappearing for lengthy periods of famine, as in the past decade-plus of film comedy recession. But the history of […]
Covenant is still the most underrated sci-fi movie of the century, even on HBO Max
Covenant is still the most underrated sci-fi movie of the century, even on HBO Max Since purchasing 20th Century Fox for a cool $71.3 billion back in 2019, Disney has seemingly pulled off the impossible: It’s revived the Alien franchise. You might think murderous xenomorphs are an easy sell, but history says otherwise. While the […]
Wild Hearts S on Switch 2 breathes new life into an overlooked gem
Wild Hearts S on Switch 2 breathes new life into an overlooked gem The Nintendo Switch 2 has been out two months and its library continues to grow. As a multiplatform gamer, I’m still going to think of it as my Nintendo-exclusive-machine first, but its newness is now giving me an excuse to try out […]
Liam Neeson’s forgotten noir thriller that’s better than Taken
Liam Neeson’s forgotten noir thriller that’s better than Taken The new Naked Gun movie works particularly well because its star Liam Neeson, like Leslie Nielsen in the original, plays the lead in a spoofy comedy after accumulating a robust filmography’s worth of recognition as a much less zany performer. Though Neeson’s characters and performances have […]
Weapons, one of 2025’s best horror movies, was born from real tragedy
Weapons, one of 2025’s best horror movies, was born from real tragedy Zach Cregger’s new horror movie Weapons is the silver lining of a horrible tragedy. “That chapter of my life was terrible,” says the Barbarian director, reflecting on the 2021 death of his close friend and longtime collaborator Trevor Moore. “[Writing the movie] was […]
I trusted the wrong person in The Witcher 3 and regret it to this day
I trusted the wrong person in The Witcher 3 and regret it to this day CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3 hit 18-year-old me and every other fantasy role-playing games dork (honorific) like a truck. The threequel had everything: a dynamic open-world, multi-faceted characters and in-game choices that actually felt like they mattered. However, the […]