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Watching Dune during the war in Gaza

Frank Herbert, Palestine, and the perils of messiahs

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How 2024 became the year of open-world survival crafting games

With hits like Palworld conquering Steam, this genre is having a moment

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Akira Toriyama never stopped growing up

On Dragon Ball and getting older

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Why Spaceman’s director cast Adam Sandler in a heavy dramatic role: ‘This is about me, very much’

Also? He’s ‘handsome like a motherfucker’

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What can modern TCGs learn from the long-dead Dune: Collectible Card Game?

Spicing up the modern CCG industry by looking back

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Looking back at every Nintendo Switch controversy, doubt, and debate

Ahead of Switch 2, let’s look back on the Nintendo Switch

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We need to talk about the ending of All of Us Strangers

Polygon Court is in session again, as we debate conflicting takes on the movie’s finale

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Racebending challenged Last Airbender whitewashing and woke Hollywood up

Before fandoms embraced the word, Racebending was a coalition with a goal for change

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Spaceman gave Adam Sandler a new skill: ‘I never cried in front of a tennis ball before’

Sandler talks about playing his most serious role for Netflix, suppressing his urge to joke, and the dreaded CG stand-in

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A new Tomb Raider RPG is in development, and fans can test it soon

Author Rae Nedjadi and developer Fred Hicks on Evil Hat’s biggest book project of all time

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Jim Henson’s kids explain why Dark Crystal and Labyrinth would never get made today

And how The Jim Henson Company is still doing puppets in a CG-standard world

VTuber Selen Tatsuki’s Nijisanji termination creates uproar and backlash

‘I knew it would be bad for everyone involved if it went this last possible route’

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The video game funding gap: How investors are failing marginalized developers

‘There is a massive disparity on how funding is allocated in the industry’

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At Tommy Wiseau’s Big Shark, I watched a new cinematic ritual being born

Oh hai, shark

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The miracle of Palworld isn’t its popularity, it’s that it exists at all

The road to Palworld was rocky, to say the least

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Anime is huge — and we finally have numbers to prove it

Polygon surveyed more than 4,000 people to demystify anime’s reach within the world of pop culture.

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Neopets community in delight and discord over the return of original pet art

Pets with old Neopets art, known as UCs, will be accessible to all

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Small board game publishers harassed by international counterfeiters

It’s a high-stakes game of whack-a-mole

Jake Johnson says he combined 2 really unlikely movies to make Self Reliance

‘It’s like putting spaghetti with sushi. But I think it tastes good together!’

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Sports fandom deepened my friendships and gave me the superpower of small talk

How Formula One fandom opened up a whole new world for me

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Denzel Washington’s 26 best action movies, ranked

From grimy ’90s action thrillers to the Equalizer franchise

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Mimimi Games revived a genre, pushed it forward, and then shut down

One of 2023’s best DLCs is also a bittersweet goodbye

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The Hobbit extended editions, edible testicles and all, unleashed Peter Jackson

Under studio pressure, Jackson found a few places to play

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I spent 3 nights at Nintendo’s original HQ

The hotel poses a question: Who will preserve Nintendo’s legacy in the same way?

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Solo board games are a salvation from an online world

The growing popularity of solo tabletop experiences shows fun doesn’t have to be shared

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Romance and fantasy spawned this year’s biggest breakout genre

Romantasy took TikTok and bestseller lists by storm

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Tears of the Kingdom’s inventiveness is baked into its sound design

It’s full of Easter eggs and new ideas

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Emma Stone gave Poor Things an unexpected happy ending, says director Yorgos Lanthimos

The director and screenwriter Tony McNamara on how Bella Baxter took over their movie

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Ranking the high and low notes of every Broadway musical adapted as a movie

The Color Purple, Cats, Les Misérables, Into the Woods, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and more

Zack Snyder lifted Rebel Moon’s griffin scene from his own unmade 300 sequel

Plus: why Jena Malone was his choice to play a half-spider mom

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There’s ‘an awful lot of Shakespeare’ in Baldur’s Gate 3’s Dark Urge

Neil Roberts, who also plays Tav 5, had to voice the entire game 3 times over

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Fortnite’s Marriott Bonvoy Land is a ghost town of video game sadness

It’s all rather strange and sad