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Impressions

The RPG that inspired Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Demon’s Souls is now more playable than ever

By Michael McWhertor

Opinion

Mobile games should stop reminding me how annoying my phone is

By Zoë Hannah

Movies

Respect to the director of Netflix’s Atlas for thinking deeply about mechs

By Matt Patches

Movies

Karyn Kusama on the ‘wonderful and painful’ process of revisiting Girlfight for Criterion

By Pete Volk

What to Watch

The best movies leaving streaming at the end of May

By Pete Volk and Polygon Staff

Schedule a Gamer Night — it’s life-changing

By Maddy Myers

Never mind Kojima’s Mad Max game — I want George Miller’s Metal Gear

By Oli Welsh

The best deals you should check out this Memorial Day weekend

By Alice Jovanée

Latest Stories

Every Mario game available on Nintendo Switch, ranked

By Oli Welsh, Ana Diaz, and 3 more May 24

How an ambitious and creative team will turn Don’t Starve into a board game

By Charlie Hall May 24

The 25 best games on Game Pass

By Oli Welsh, Ryan Gilliam, and 3 more May 23

Francesca actually got the most romantic plotline in Bridgerton

By Petrana Radulovic May 24

Rian Johnson has a new Knives Out mystery coming, and we’re going to solve it right now

By Joshua Rivera May 24

Furiosa and Mad Max’s parallel backstories make Fury Road even better

By Austen Goslin May 24

The best anime to watch on Netflix right now

By Toussaint Egan, Ana Diaz, and 1 more May 23

Feature

In Hellblade 2, the biggest challenge Senua faces is other people

The writer and psychologist behind the Xbox sequel on taking its portrayal of psychosis to the next level

By Oli Welsh May 24

Where do your Steam games go when you die?

By Nicole Carpenter May 23

Our favorite catch’em-all that isn’t Pokémon is on sale for its lowest price ever — and just got a free multiplayer update

By Alice Jovanée May 23

Did you watch Gal Gadot’s Heart of Stone? Because tons of Netflix subscribers did, apparently

By Matt Patches May 23

Hunter Schafer’s unusual Switch habits lead to social media debate

By Cass Marshall May 23

16 Updates

The best indie games of 2024 so far

By Polygon Staff May 8

The 5 biggest announcements from Warhammer Skulls 2024

By Cass Marshall May 23

Frogger: Walkable City asks what a frog might do in a city free of cars

By Cass Marshall May 23

We wrote a huge book about Lord of the Rings!

By Chris Plante May 16

The Haikyu!! movie delivers on 4 years of hype — LFGO!!

By Petrana Radulovic May 23

Spring 2024 entertainment preview

The biggest movies...

By Pete Volk, Tasha Robinson, and 3 more March 25

Spring 2024 entertainment preview

...and the biggest shows of spring 2024

By Pete Volk, Zosha Millman, and 2 more March 25

Secretlab unveils the first official Warhammer 40K gaming chair

By Alice Jovanée May 23

How Animal Well and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes fostered puzzle-solving communities

By Nicole Carpenter May 23

Spring 2024 entertainment preview

A guide to finally getting into Brandon Sanderson books

By Samantha Nelson March 28

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Indie Game: The Movie is only 12 years old, but it feels like a relic

By Oli Welsh May 23

TikTok showed me an adorable co-op platformer called Bread & Fred

By Ana Diaz and Nicole Carpenter May 23

Dave the Diver’s Godzilla DLC will only be around for a limited time

By Nicole Carpenter May 23

For the Queen’s creator on the new edition, her many copycats, and her balloon-kink RPG

By Tasha Robinson May 23

The Verge

The US government is trying to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster

By Lauren Feiner and Jess Weatherbed May 23

Not sure what comics to read? Leave a comment, we’ll help

By Susana Polo May 23

Crowd Control dashed our dreams of a future career in esports

By Tara Long May 23

Bridgerton’s love triangle teed up the wrong romance

By Petrana Radulovic May 23

MultiVersus’ Batman is still Kevin Conroy ‘for the foreseeable future’

By Michael McWhertor May 23