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Winning an Oscar can make you a star, but it doesn’t necessarily make you a bankable one. Rami Malek learned this after the success of Bohemian Rhapsody , the $900 million-plus blockbuster that won him the Academy Award for best actor and seemingly positioned the Mr. Robot star for a massive movie career. Since then, Malek’s track record has been mixed. He played a James Bond villain in the hugely successful No Time to Die and popped up as a nuclear physicist in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer , but his other projects haven’t always connected. He was part of the star-studded ensemble cast of the 1930s murder mystery Amsterdam , which earned just over $30 million worldwide despite its impressive roster. More recently, he starred opposite Russell Crowe in Nuremberg as U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who is tasked with evaluating Nazi leaders aft...

Quite a few developers have tried to recreate LocalThunk's phenomenal success with the roguelike poker game Balatro . Some tend to overlook what makes Balatro enjoyable . Others are just flat-out unethical. Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder from developer Crux Games isn't either of those. It takes the best parts of Balatro 's roguelike nature and combo chains and mashes them with the kind of strategic placement you need to succeed in Cities: Skylines to make something that, based on the current Steam demo, is wholly absorbing and uniquely satisfying. source https://www.polygon.com/combolands-demo-preview-impressions/

Playing a tabletop RPG sounds great right up until you have to actually schedule one. You need a group of willing players, someone prepared to run the thing, a working knowledge of a small library’s worth of rules, and, most daunting of all, a night when everyone is free. source https://www.polygon.com/xbox-free-games-sunderfolk-tabletop-rgp-couch-coop/

Harry Potter prequel game Hogwarts Legacy was the biggest new release of 2022, selling more than 22 million copies in its first year in the U.S. and outperforming that year's Call of Duty entry, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 . Hogwarts Legacy has since gone on to sell more than 40 million copies, so logically, a sequel would be in the works. As of this month, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery made it official: Hogwarts Legacy 2 is coming. source https://www.polygon.com/hogwarts-legacy-2-announcement-harry-potter-warner-bros-games/

After years of Todd Howard talking about The Elder Scrolls 6 in the vaguest terms possible, few could have predicted the juiciest update on the game would come from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. On Aug. 11, Sharma posted on her X account : "Live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls VI : ******** this morning. The scale and grandeur are incredible. The story is even greater." A few choice words, but enough to get fans excited. More importantly, we now have a clue about the game's full title. source https://www.polygon.com/the-elder-scrolls-6-title-asha-sharma-xbox/

Since 2014, one man in particular — Shigeru Ohmori — has overseen the majority of Pokémon games released by Game Freak. From Pokémon Omega Ruby and Sapphire all the way to Pokémon Pokopia , Ohmori has had a major influence on modern Pokémon as we know it. According to leaks, that multi-generational pocket monster run may finally be coming to an end. source https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-winds-waves-new-directors-tani-ichiraku-ohmori/