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Have you heard of the 2006 anime anthology, Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales ? It's a collection of three stories that draw from the well of Japanese myth and cultural tradition. The first and second stories, “Yotsuya Kaidan” and “Tenshu Monogatari,” adapt classic kabuki plays about betrayal and forbidden love. The third entry, “Bakeneko” — loosely translated to Demon Cat — is an original tale about a mysterious cat monster with a vendetta. source https://www.polygon.com/eccentric-horror-anime-binge-watch-psychedelic-visuals/

The year 2023 brought us the summer of Barbenheimer , where two entirely different movies went head-to-head at the box office. But 25 years earlier, the summer of 1998 was marked by a very different dynamic when two movies with nearly identical plots battled it out for apocalyptic dominance. source https://www.polygon.com/deep-impact-free-on-streaming/

Silent Hll 2 and Cronos: The New Dawn developer Bloober Team is heading to the final frontier. On Saturday, the developer and publisher Paramount Games Studio announced Star Trek: Shadow Frontier , a new sci-fi psychological thriller title set in the Star Trek universe. source https://www.polygon.com/star-trek-horror-game-shadow-frontier-bloober-team/

Patrice Désilets, the creator of Assassin's Creed, has spent 16 years making his next project. He finally revealed it at Summer Game Fest 2026. It's a witchcraft-fueled dark fantasy called 1666: Amsterdam . Désilets made a brief prologue demo available for free now on Steam and the Epic Games Store after Summer Game Fest ends and plans to launch 1666: Amsterdam in early access sometime later in 2026. source https://www.polygon.com/1666-amsterdam-trailer-prologue-demo/

When Nintendo first announced that each Switch 2 Joy-con could function like a computer mouse , I was an immediate skeptic. It was a sensible concept, but I had no faith that developers would adopt the novel control scheme beyond first-person shooters. After all, I’d been burned before by the original Switch’s rarely used IR sensors. I figured that we’d see a few games out the gate that used mouse controls in clever ways, but very few that dared to experiment with the controls after that. source https://www.polygon.com/switch-2-mouse-controls-one-year-later/

Now’s as good a time as any to zoom out and take a big-picture look at Switch 2’s first year library. What we found when ranking all 12 games is that there are hardly any duds in the bunch. Aside from two glorified tech demos, just about everything we’ve gotten from Nintendo in the past year has been some degree of fun. That makes it hard to put a list together without stirring some disagreement, but know that even some of the lower-ranking games on our list are still pretty darn enjoyable. source https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch-2-games-launch-year-ranked/