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Exactly one year ago, I found myself so bored that I decided to calculate just how much I was using each gaming platform I owned. The results weren’t surprising: Despite thinking of myself as a proper console player, I found that I was using my Steam Deck to run more than 50% of the games I’d played so far that year. The Nintendo Switch was at a distant second, while...
If anyone can lay claim to the most iconic track in Nintendo’s jubilant kart racer, it’s probably Twitch streamer Technical. The 22-year-old holds the distinction of having the fastest possible run time in Mario Kart 8’s Rainbow Road, both for original version and the Deluxe re-release on Switch. Naturally, the speed demon has been grinding away on the prismatic track since the release of Mario Kart World, and after nearly...
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...