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Over the past decade, Dungeons & Dragons has gone from a nerdy niche tangled up with a satanic panic to a mainstream IP where a bunch of nerds can sell out Madison Square Garden playing it. Stranger Things’ kids on bikes helped shed a positive, post-satanic-panic light on the game, and its popularity has only grown since. Plenty of folks, myself included, played it for the first time over Roll20,...
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Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo’s Switch 2-exclusive platform game, has received glowing reviews that catapult it to the front of the race for Game of the Year. At the time of writing, shortly after the review embargo lifted, Bananza has a rating of 91 on review aggregation site OpenCritic and 90 on Metacritic. (Sadly, you’ll have to wait a while for Polygon’s own review, as Nintendo did not provide us with...
In an extremely contentious interview with her boyfriend/coworker Superman/Clark Kent (David Corenswet) in James Gunn’s 2025 reboot movie Superman, Lois Lane presses him about the fallout of his intervention in an overseas war between the aggressive country of Boravia and its weaker neighbor, Jarhanpur. “You seemingly acting as a representative of the United States will cause more problems around the world,” she notes. He testily counters, “I wasn’t representing anybody...
The roles of Link and Zelda in the forthcoming Legend of Zelda live-action movie have been filled with two young British actors. Bo Bragason will play Zelda, and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth will play Link. Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto made the announcement Wednesday via Nintendo’s X account. “I am very much looking forward to seeing both of them on the big screen,” the great man said. This is Miyamoto. I am...
Don’t call it a comeback. While Nintendo has kept DK’s barrel in the air since his debut in 1981 — reissuing his modern classics, making him playable in multiplayer games, throwing him a supporting role in the Mario movie — his 2025 is more of a Kongaissance ripped from the Matthew McConaughey playbook. Donkey Kong got the final major release of the Switch era. He’s poised to land his own...
When testing MSI's QD-OLED monitors, such as the new MSI MPG 322URX, we've generally come away impressed, especially by the HDR performance. One catch has been that the two HDR modes those displays offer both come with clear compromises. But perhaps no longer, thanks to a new HDR mode MSI is releasing as an update.Until now, MSI (and other OLED monitor makers, for that matter) have included two optional HDR...
Completing the Fallow mission in Destiny 2's new The Edge of Fate expansion is surprisingly tricky because of one specific moment during the final Devastator Mind boss. The rest is relatively straightforward—you Matterspark and fight your way through the Aionian Campus, and get introduced to the Uplifted Choral Minotaurs; enemies you have to defeat to un-shield destructible vex nodes you can then destroy to remove a barrier.It's a pretty straightforward...
A team of researchers led by the (take a deep breath) Photonic Network Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology in Japan has announced a successful test of the world's first successful petabit-class internet transmission over 1,000 km. That's a lot of words which essentially mean—new mega-fast internet connection tested over long distance and worked. Oh, and you can plumb me in right now, if you like.Actually,...
Nvidia's long-fabled Arm chip is one of those rare PC hardware prospects that comes along every now and then and really tickles the excitement bone, primarily because it feels very new—like when Intel started its discrete Arc graphics cards. So naturally, I'm sad to hear that the project might be delayed until next year.That's according to Charlie Demerjian of SemiAccurate, who cites "multiple sources" confirming that Nvidia's latest "whoopsie", in...
I've always had a fondness for thumb drives, which is why I've historically been put off by even the best external SSDs. This isn't purely for the practicality of it, either; being able to move over data by simply swinging a pair of keys (or a lanyard if you're brave) around and plugging into a rig is something that appeals to me as a guy who wants to save the...