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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. This week, Venom: The Last Dance, the latest symbiotic antihero film starring Tom Hardy, slithers its way onto Netflix. That’s not all that’s new to streaming...

Warframe has been getting increasingly, delightfully weird over the last couple of years, leading up to last year's time-travelling, NPC-romancing blast back to 1999. And things are about to get even wilder when developer Digital Extremes invites players to start kicking boy band butt in its new Techrot Encore update, arriving on 19th March.

Zachtronics is dead; long live Coincidence.

In 2022, Zach Barth announced that his studio, Zachtronics, was closing. The team, which had built a reputation for beloved puzzle games like SpaceChem and Opus Magnum, and had released critical-favorite visual novel Eliza, was ready to try new things. “We felt it was time for a change,” Barth told Kotaku in 2022. “This might...

Good news: Monster Hunter Wilds is finally out. Bad news: It runs like garbage, especially on PC. It’s so bad that, for some players, the graphics have reverted to 1996. Reddit user Impressive-Cry-3448 posted screenshots of blurry, polygonal characters who look like they came from a Nintendo 64 game. Many of the graphical issues that...

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis will not be receiving any awards at the Oscars this weekend, but Coppola is taking his bows anyway, in an Instagram post graciously accepting the movie’s nominations and awards from the 2025 Razzie Awards. Megalopolis — a loose adaptation of an incident in Ancient Roman history, an autobiographical bid for the...

It’s not all about living up to grandpa’s legacy in this farming simulator. In fact, grandpa’s probably long gone, because in this post-apocalyptic farming sim, your neighbors are the folks who live in the trailers and shipping containers near your tent. This is Doloc Town, a community that’s grown out of necessity during life after...

Midnight Murder Club is lights-out deathmatch designed for your Discord friend group.

There are a few settings that just work for me. I can go from a high fantasy adventure to a dark, dystopian future; I love gritty science fiction, but also the idea of heaven and hell. One of my favorite archtypes, however, is steampunk - the perfect blend of old and new with some magical flair to boot. It's what attracted me to games like Lies of P and New Arc Line, and it's what excites me about Sand, Hologrpyh's upcoming PvPvE shooter. Set on an Arrakis-style desert planet where huge, rideabl...

Yeah, that wasn't supposed to happen.

They say all you need for a good time is dice, money, or camels. Don’t believe me? Camel Up has all three and won the 2014 Spiel des Jahres award. If you or your family would like to try your hand at the exotic sport of camel racing, Camel Up is currently on sale for...

Monster Hunter Wilds doesn't look or play like a game that should hit PCs this hard in 2025.

The Dungeons & Dragons faithful have another option for times when a physical tabletop isn't feasible. Wizards of the Coast's Sigil is a 3D virtual tabletop (VTT) experience that borrows some elements from video games without straying too far from the joy of sitting around a table with like-minded cohorts. It launched publicly this week and is now available for anyone to try. If you have no clue what a 3D VTT is, imagine a graphical recreation of all the hallmarks of tabletop D&D: virtual versio...

Character creator codes allow you to load pre-made designs for your hunter in Monster Hunter Wilds during the character creator, formally called the “character editor.” It’s perfect for people like me — who can’t design a character to save my life — or for those who want to load a different kind of template character...

Minecraft's live-action movie adaptation is almost upon us, and with its 4th April release date looming, Warner Bros. has shared a "final" trailer - giving us a quick glimpse of Jack Black's Nether region, as well as Jennifer Coolidge in a still-mysterious role.

Diablo 4's much-anticipated Season 8: Season of Witchcraft has been pushed back by two weeks, to add a little polish. The good news, if you're a long-time Diablo player, is that Blizzard is teasing the return of an 'old friend'.

Anyone looking for an alternative to Instagram might have a suitable candidate in Flashes, a recently launched app built on Bluesky that seems to get all the important basics right. Flashes technically launched on the App Store on February 24, but a series of updates released in the days after launch have made the app much easier to recommend. If you remember an Instagram before Meta turned it into its Facebook replacement, you have the basic gist of what Flashes is. It's an app for sharing phot...

RPS's corporate daddy has announced that IGN Live is returning this June. The in-person event aims to fill the void left by E3, with playable demos in LA and livestreams of game reveals and panels for those who can't attend.

IGN Live will return this June for a second year, with plans for an even bigger physical event in Los Angeles during the summer's annual game announcement season.

This review of The Ugly Stepsister comes from its screenings at the Berlin International Film Festival. It will be updated for the movie’s American release. The broad strokes of Emilie Blichfeldt’s feature debut, Den Stygge Stesøsteren (or The Ugly Stepsister), will be familiar to most viewers. There’s a fancy ball and an opportunity to meet...

Developer Necrosoft Games has assembled another huge bundle of games on Itch.io to support a good cause. It includes more than 400 games that can be yours if you pony up at least $10 to support wildfire relief efforts in Southern California. Tunic, one of our favorite games of 2022, is arguably the highest-profile game in the California Fire Relief Bundle. Buying this beautiful, Zelda-esque adventure on Steam right now would cost you $30. That alone makes the bundle great value, though it includ...

Have you seen this boy?

Want to craft your own little domain without the pressure of scrambling for resources? Then you’ll be happy to hear that Islanders, one of the most chilled-out city builders of all time, is getting a sequel in the shape of Islanders: New Shores. Imagine Cities Skylines 2 or Manor Lords, but without the stress, the traffic, and feudal struggling.

Warframe 1999 is, for me, the coolest thing to come out of the game in years. Set in the Germanic-style world of Höllvania, the update added everything from a dating simulator to an infested boy band, and is the sole reason I chose to pick up my katana and dive on into the Origin System. But Arthur and the Hex's story isn't over yet, as Techrot Encore is bringing a lot of new 1999-themed content, continuing the saga and expanding out the game's already impressive roster. With the release date fi...

Coatsink have announced a sequel to Islanders, their pastelcore seaside town-arranger, which was the last game Alec Meer ever reviewed for RPS. Until he reviewed Kentucky Route Zero: Act V, a year or so later. If I didn't know better, I'd say Alec had planned that deliberately to screw me up. But I'll forgive him because the KRZ review is very good and thoughtful, and also because the first trailer for Islanders: New Shores is extremely calming. Here you go.

Sharp fangs are some of the earliest crafting materials you’ll need in Monster Hunter Wilds, but they don’t come from any of the larger monsters in the game. Instead, you’ll need to hunt some smaller wildlife if you want to build the Talioth Vambraces or pieces of the Chatacabra set. In this Monster Hunter Wilds...

Frostpunk 2, sequel to the original post-apocalyptic city-builder, pitches you into a frozen world where your decisions can mean life or death for hundreds if not thousands of people. However, this follow-up hasn’t been as well received as its predecessor, and developer 11 bit studios has revealed how it plans to build on this icy foundation.

The comedic gecko is back with three classic platformers!

For a limited time, the Red Rising board game, and adaptation of the novel by Pierce Brown, is just $10.99 (was $24) at Amazon. That’s a significant discount on a game that should hold over fans who are waiting ever so patiently for the book’s sequel, Red God, which still doesn’t have a release date....

More than 110 former Metro series developers have come together as a new studio, known as Reburn, and its first project - La Quimera - is sci-fi shooter set in Latin America that's being co-written by Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn.

Square Enix just announced a new sub-brand called Dragon Quest Golf, which is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a team dedicated to making golf merchandise and accessories based on the long-standing JRPG franchise. As expected, one of the brand’s initial offerings is a golf ball based on the iconic blue Slime. This is typically the first enemy players encounter in a DQ game. The company will showcase more merch at the 59th Japan Golf Fair on March 7, though Square Enix hasn’t yet revealed any ot...

For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with GRID Studio to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a 128GB iPhone 16 Pro from Apple. For those unfamiliar with GRID Studio, it is a company that recycles discarded Apple products into art that celebrates Apple's history. GRID Studio is having a special spring sale on some of its most popular products this week, plus there is a 15 percent off site wide discount available with the promo code SS15. As part of the sale, the GRID iPhone 2G, which fea...

"There's no fate but what we make."

Now this is how you manage democracy.

There are a few ways to play with friends in Monster Hunter Wilds’ multiplayer system, which has a number of complicated options that can seem initially overwhelming. This guide explains the easy way to join up with friends to tackle quests or just explore the world together, as well as join randoms if you want...