Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. After nearly 15 years, the Final Destination horror franchise returned to theaters last month with Final Destination: Bloodlines from Freaks writer-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein. The film about death pursuing an entire family is available to rent for the...
The cat and bunny people of Final Fantasy 14 Online are finally getting the headgear options they deserve, the MMO’s developer announced Friday in a new Letter from the Producer Live stream. Hrothgar and Viera characters will soon be able to display the headgear they’re wearing as part of Patch 7.3, Square Enix confirmed. Hrothgar and Viera have had limited headgear options since the two races were introduced to Final...
Ryan Coogler’s vampiric box office hit Sinners is coming home to Max this summer. The film, starring Michael B. Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld, will make its streaming debut on July 4. The Black Panther and Creed director reunited with Jordan for Sinners, in which he plays identical twin gangsters Smoke and Stack. Set in 1932, the movie follows the brothers as they return home to Mississippi with the goal of using their ill-gotten money and...
First place is one of the most dangerous places to be during a Mario Kart match. A lead can prove temporary as the game regales everyone else some of its most powerful items, many of which will be aimed directly at the front of the pack. First place, meanwhile, is relegated to garbage weapons like bananas and green shells. In this sense, Mario Kart World is like any other iteration...
When battling Libra, Creature of Night, also known as the Equilibrious Beast, in Elden Ring Nightreign, you’ll first encounter the Scale-Bearing Merchant, who will provide you with a list of choices. These choices include buffs (and debuffs) for your Nightfarer that can impact the forthcoming boss fight. Knowing what those choices truly mean is important — all of the Scale-Bearing Merchant’s wishes come with positive and negative effects. You can also...
The cover's blown on 007 First Light, IO Interactive's stealth action game starring a young James Bond. After some teasing and years of quiet work on "Project 007," we finally know what kind of game the Hitman developer has been cooking up for the iconic character. A short trailer that debuted during Sony's June State of Play gave us a look at 007 First Light's original version of Bond, the...
Grounded 2 is just around the corner, and it’s looking like you can expect big things from this tiny survival-crafter.Five years after its predecessor entered early access, Grounded 2 was announced at the recent Xbox Games Showcase and promised to deliver even wilder miniaturised adventures for fans of the original game. Hey, we’re even wandering beyond the confines of the back yard this time.I’ve brought together all the need-to-know info...
Balatro was PC Gamer's 2024 Game of the Year for many good reasons, but one of them was that no-one on the team could stop playing this thing. We weren't alone either: developers went gaga for the poker roguelike. And now it turns out that even Balatro creator LocalThunk just can't stop banging his head against the wall he created.LocalThunk is pretty good at his own game: last year he...
Last month, Marvel and DC dropped a bombshell: The rival comic publishers will release crossover one-shots featuring Deadpool and Batman teaming up later this year. DC will publish Batman/Deadpool #1 from Grant Morrison and Dan Mora, while Marvel has tapped Zeb Wells and Greg Capullo for Deadpool/Batman #1. The backup stories and their creative pairs for Marvel’s book were announced Friday, and they might end up being more fun than the main...
I went into Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Game expecting to love it from the jump. Mirror’s Edge and Assassin’s Creed — some of the best parkour games of all time — dominated my formative years. And since Rooftops & Alleys has the same stylish flair as Mirror’s Edge, albeit with a stylish trick-focused twist, à la Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, my hopes were high. However, what I found was...