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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/

Verity is out in theaters. Starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett, the film follows Lowen (Johnson), a struggling writer presented with a life-changing opportunity: ghostwriting the unfinished novel of Verity Crawford (Hathaway), one of the world's biggest authors. She accepts and soon finds herself living in Verity’s home and entangled with her husband, Jeremy (Hartnett). The snag is that Verity, left incapacitated from an accident, lies in a bed upstairs. source https://www.polygon.com/best-erotic-thrillers-movies-like-verity/

Immediately upon entering World War II, America faced the problem of its messages being intercepted by Germany, Italy, and Japan. As such, the American military needed to develop a code that couldn’t easily be broken. Early in 1942, Los Angeles civil engineer Philip Johnston proposed a solution. Having spent much of his youth on a Navajo reservation, and being one of the few non-Navajo people on Earth who understood the Navajo language, Johnston suggested the military recruit Navajos and use their language to communicate vital war information. source https://www.polygon.com/the-x-files-anasazi-the-blessing-way-paper-clip/

There is something uniquely unsettling about empty video game spaces. Blown wide open in the wake of Backrooms , the concept of liminal horror has seeped out from internet forums and chat rooms to become a subculture all its own. But while a photorealistic house filled with blood and corpses has its own macabre dread, there’s something even more unsettling about PS1-era graphics, where blocky textures and eerie lighting can make even a mundane street corner feel steeped in Lovecraftian horror. source https://www.polygon.com/steam-horror-game-turns-ps1-era-graphics-into-backrooms-style-nightmare-fuel/

Spooky season is here, and all the major streaming services are boosting their horror offerings to appeal to viewers who want to start getting into the Halloween spirit early. As the temperatures drop and the nights get longer, October is the perfect time to make some popcorn, curl up on the couch, and watch some movies designed to give you nightmares. source https://www.polygon.com/horror-movies-streaming-october-2026/