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The 12 best anime to look forward to in spring 2026

Anime accommodates wide and eclectic tastes . While anticipation for legacy shows like the latest installment of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is thoroughly earned, the spring anime season will also bring niche manga adaptations worth investing in. With that in mind, here are 12 spring anime titles that will keep you hooked from April through June. source https://www.polygon.com/best-spring-anime-2026-dorohedoro-one-piece-daemons-of-the-shadow-realm/

D&D Beyond is turning D&D into a live-service game

Dungeons & Dragons is drifting toward a digital-first future — and not everyone is thrilled about it. source https://www.polygon.com/dnd-live-service-transition-beyond-future-physical/

Primate, now streaming on Paramount Plus, is a well-crafted killer-chimp B-movie

It’s the kind of premise that could easily be made into D-grade shlock: a pet chimp at a remote home in Hawaii gets rabies and starts ripping humans apart. But Primate , which is streaming now on Paramount Plus following its theatrical run in January, deserves at least a “B” on the shlock-grading scale. It is very much about a rabid pet chimp absolutely destroying many poor victims unlucky enough to stumble across its path. But in the hands of director Johannes Roberts, it’s an unusually tense and satisfying creature feature — one that confirms the filmmaker’s status as one of the best B-picture directors currently working. source https://www.polygon.com/primate-now-on-streaming-johannes-roberts/

How does Daredevil: Born Again’s Mayor Kingpin story end in the comics?

In the season premiere, however, the cargo ship transporting those weapons sinks right in the East River after Daredevil comes aboard and Kingpin gives orders to scuttle the vessel. Additionally, the AVTF already seems like they’re out of control, given their harassment of vigilantes and ordinary citizens alike. It seems that the seeds of Fisk’s downfall have already been planted. Yet it’s worth taking a look at how this storyline played out in the comics to see whether Daredevil: Born Again might be heading in the same direction. source https://www.polygon.com/daredevil-born-again-mayor-kingpin-devils-reign/

The rise of the ‘outsider AAA’ studio, from The Witcher to Crimson Desert

The game didn’t leave a particularly strong impression on me, aside from its striking-looking protagonist. But I admired CD Projekt’s ambition and committed nerdiness, and it was a fun novelty to travel to Warsaw to see a game in development, as opposed to the more typical game industry hubs of the time like Seattle, or Paris, or Guildford. I ate aspic salad and pig’s trotters, and drank very good beer, and wondered how different a game made here — in a country only one generation removed from communist rule — might feel. source https://www.polygon.com/new-aaa-studios/

Dangerous Animals is the scariest shark movie since Jaws, and it's finally on streaming

source https://www.polygon.com/dangerous-animals-streaming-on-hulu/

Crimson Desert interactive maps

Crimson Desert 's continent of Pywel is a big ol' place, and it's easy to miss a lot of the best things the game has to offer if you don't know where to look. One of Crimson Desert 's favorite things is to not tell you anything about how the game works, like how to find fast travel points and where to look for special abyss artifacts. Some of it is fine to find out on your own, but if you start lagging behind on abyss artifacts and weapon upgrades , you'll feel the effects sooner rather than later. source https://www.polygon.com/map/crimson-desert-interactive-pywel-hernand-demeniss-pailune-delesyia/