Dailyposts

This week, Prime Video prepares for the 8-episode release of a much-talked-about literary television adaptation. Based on Stephen King's first-ever novel, this series dives in deeper than its previous adaptations. First a 1976 film directed by Brian de Palma, then a 2013 remake directed by Kimberly Peirce. In this new version, King serves as an executive producer alongside longtime collaborator Mike Flanagan. Previously, Flanagan adapted Doctor Sleep, The Life of Chuck, and Gerald's Game . This new adaptation also marks the beginning of Flanagan's partnership with Prime Video, where he's currently developing an adaptation of King's epic fantasy The Dark Tower. source https://www.polygon.com/stephen-king-carrie-prime-video/

In 1964, Italian director Sergio Leone redefined the Western with A Fistful of Dollars . Eschewing the relatively simplistic morality tales of earlier Westerns, Leone’s central gunslinger wasn’t a noble hero, but an opportunistic cad who uses two rival factions in an Old West town against each other in order to score a big payday. Despite the moral complexity of it all — or, more likely, because of it — the film became an international success and proved that audiences were ready for a new kind of Western, that Americans no longer had a monopoly on the genre, and that Clint Eastwood was a bankable star outside of television. source https://www.polygon.com/for-a-few-dollars-more-clint-eastwood-free-on-youtube-october-2026/

People are very excited by recent reports claiming that Grand Theft Auto 6 will allow players to carry cocaine and snort it off their hands at any time. While that’s obviously an entertaining (and thematic) detail, developer Rockstar Games has an opportunity to push the envelope forward in terms of game design here. source https://www.polygon.com/gta-6-cocaine-drugs-effects/

Players who subscribe to Switch Online know that it comes with a wide variety of retro games from past Nintendo consoles such as the NES and SNES. If they opt to spend more for the Expansion Pass, they get access to games that appeared on additional hardware, including the Sega Genesis . But that hardware library was extensive, and only some of its best games are available on Nintendo’s service. Here are 10 essential Genesis games still missing from Switch Online, which we hope will make an appearance there soon. source https://www.polygon.com/sega-genesis-games-missing-switch-online/

It's officially Spooky Season and the Pokémon Center is meeting the moment with a new Halloween Collection for 2026 . Pokémon fans looking for something to replace their 12-foot Home Depot skeleton have plenty of adorable (and spooky) options. source https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-center-official-halloween-2026-collection-merch/

Sci-fi became an effective medium to work around these suffocating rules. Dystopian conflicts were now allegories for totalitarianism and state corruption. Filmmakers like Andrei Tarkovsky and Konstantin Lopushansky also took a more philosophical approach to these fantastical settings, focusing on bleak, desolate landscapes that mirrored our own collective decay. source https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-soviet-russian-streaming/