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Long before he was at the helm of the Prime Video adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie, Mike Flanagan made waves for himself with his trilogy of Netflix TV miniseries . His ability to helm works that combine horror and genuine human exploration. Recently, The Fall of the House of Usher reimagined classic Edgar Allan Poe tales to terrifying success, with each episode adapting a different story. source https://www.polygon.com/midnight-mass-vs-carrie-mike-mike-flanagan/

In the early 2010s, The Hunger Games captivated a generation, and in its wake came another dystopian tale set in the stars. Red Rising , a six-book saga by author Pierce Brown, traded the death-match arena for Mars, where a rigid, color-coded class system dictates daily life on the Red Planet. "Golds" are the most elite nenbers of Mars society, and they rule over the other colored classes, including the lowest class, "Reds." Much like Katniss Everdeen became the face of a revolution in The Hunger Games , Darrow, a lowborn "Red" miner, becomes the face of Red Rising's revolution. source https://www.polygon.com/red-rising-digital-edition-2027-release/

With the end of Chapter 7 Season 4 on the horizon, rumors had begun spreading regarding the theme of the upcoming Fortnite mini-season. Beloved manga and anime series One Piece was the most popular contender, especially after a mysterious pirate chest appeared on the island. Epic Games has begun putting up promotional posters, and the design suggests that the mini-season might just have a generic anime theme rather than being an exclusive One Piece crossover. source https://www.polygon.com/fortnite-one-piece-anime-mini-season-pass/

Halloween in Charles Schulz's Peanuts frequently meant it was time for another run at the Great Pumpkin . This running gag, introduced in 1959, was sort of like Schulz's answer to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot . Linus van Pelt spent every Halloween for almost 40 years waiting for the Great Pumpkin to arrive, and he never did. source https://www.polygon.com/peanuts-charlie-brown-best-halloween-strips/

This year's open-world RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker and its myriad choices got me thinking: What does it really mean for your choices to matter in a video game? Typically, we think it's a good use of branching narratives when you have a properly big, dramatic effect on how things play out or when you have hundreds of endings. Just look at how so much attention on Baldur's Gate 3 focused on its endings or, years before, how everyone tended to ignore the smaller ways the Mass Effect trilogy changed across three games in favor of looking at the restrictive outcomes in Mass Effect 3 . source https://www.polygon.com/best-games-choices-impact/

Even the wildest DLC needs a solid game to swerve away from, or the swerve doesn’t land. Every base game with excellent DLC is strong enough to stand on its own. That’s the common DNA: studios that had built something sturdy enough to trust it, confident enough to hand players a portal to hell, an alien hive-mind under a suburban cul-de-sac, or a crown that makes you ruler of an entire realm of madness — and bet that players would play anyway. For these nine DLCs, that confidence turned out to be well-placed. Here are the best DLCs of all time that took their main story and had the confidence to dream up wild new experiences for dedicated players. Each of these nine game expansions took a big swing, and has been remembered for that creativity ever since. source https://www.polygon.com/best-dlcs-video-games/