By now, it’s a familiar pattern: A new Jurassic Park franchise movie movie comes out during the summer, garnering middling and sometimes exhausted-sounding reviews. Yes, it has some decent special effects and maybe a fun set piece or two, but it’s not a patch on Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original. Terms like “out of ideas,” “incurious,” and “shell of its former self” have been thrown around to describe the latest iteration,...
In 2018, Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom gave the 25-year-old Jurassic Park franchise its most ambitious, startling shift since the first movie brought dinosaurs into the modern world. Until that point in the series, the various resurrected dino species had been confined to parks, islands, and experimental facilities, which hapless humans had to enter for various reasons. Fallen Kingdom ends (seven-year-old spoiler!) with dinosaurs escaping captivity en masse and...
Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription is likely the best deal around: For a fraction of the price of a full game, you get access to hundreds of titles every month, some of which are brand new. But when video games cost millions to make, and news of studio layoffs are constant, you don’t need to look at an Xbox balance sheet to know the numbers aren’t adding up for a service...
The second and final season of Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, which kicked off July 3, is the first project to move forward since the writer was accused of sexual assault, leading to pauses in production on Good Omens season 3, Disney’s adaptation of The Graveyard Book, and many other adaptations of his work. Fans of the series will have to grapple with the classic question of whether...
As Warner Bros. Games reworks its gaming department, the company has released DC Worlds Collide, a free-to-play mobile RPG, on Monday, July 7. The game is a squad-based experience set in the DC Universe, where players can assemble their favorite heroes and villains from over 70 playable characters to engage in 3D turn-based battles against challenging enemies. DC Worlds Collide features daily events, PvP, and 12 other solo and competitive...
Fans at Anime Expo in Los Angeles were treated to a bevy of announcements, world premieres, and release dates for some of the most anticipated anime slated to release shortly. Some high-profile titles like Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, and Bleach: The Thousand-Year Blood War are set to return. Meanwhile, titles like Hiromu Arakawa’s (Full Metal Alchemist) Daemons of the Shadow Realm (Yomi no Tsugai) and a sequel series...
ILL made quite the splash — or rather, splatter — when the trailer dropped at Summer Game Fest 2025. We saw a first-person horror game packed with guts, frenetic combat, and some heinously grotesque creatures — and we loved every disturbing little detail. So what kind of twisted minds can make a game like ILL? Ones well-versed in the horror genre. The developers at Team Clout have plenty of experience...
Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen are back in Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special #1, a new comic from Oni Press, with story and art from Eisner Award winner Caroline Cash (PeePeePooPoo, Girl In The World.) Polygon has a sneak peek at the comic, which should be utter bliss who wanted more after the Adventure Time special Obsidian. Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special takes place in an alternate...
We finally got the news that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will be getting a second season three years later, and in celebration of this, alongside the announcement, we got to see a short official teaser trailer for everything that's to come.A good chunk of this trailer focuses on Season 1's story, namely David and Lucy. We see some glimpses of how each of the main characters died throughout the course of the...
Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2025 has officially fired the starting gun, meaning dozens of speedruns, goofs, and charity drives are coming down the highway to a VoD near you.In case you're unfamiliar, GDQ is a charity speedrunning event where streamers get together in a convention centre—this time, in Minneapolis—to livestream days upon days of speedruns on Twitch. It's a mixture of impressive technical prowess and extensive bits. For instance,...