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Two years after Disney used D23 to hype the futures of Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, Disney Animation, and its theme parks, the company is back in Anaheim to ask: What comes next? source https://www.polygon.com/d23-2026-marvel-trailers-star-wars-frozen-pixar-kingdom-hearts/

While the attention of Magic: The Gathering players may currently be fully focused on The Hobbit set, the wheel never stops spinning, and Reality Fracture is already around the corner. This in-universe set is a special one. It will serve as the culmination of the Magic storyline that's been developing through sets over the past couple of years. It's no surprise to anyone that Jace Beleren is messing things up again, but this time on a multiversal scale. source https://www.polygon.com/magic-mtg-reality-fracture-darksteel-angel-mirrodin-pure/

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/