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Nine out of 10 Gamers Walking Around The Game Awards agree: IO Interactive is the team to tackle a big-budget James Bond video game. It has the cred. source https://www.polygon.com/new-james-bond-007-first-light/

Whodunits are back in vogue. 2025 alone included the third Rian Johnson Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery , the fifth season of the meta mystery Only Murders in the Building , and Chris Columbus’ adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club . At the same time, game and toy adaptations continue to be big business, with a Vin Diesel film based on Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots in the works along with multiple projects inspired by Catan following the huge success of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie in 2023 and numerous Lego films. Video game adaptations dominate the box office and every streaming service. source https://www.polygon.com/clue-40th-anniversary-knives-out/

There are tons of Pokémon that have special evolution requirements in Pokémon Legends Z-A , just like in the games that came before it. Some Pokémon just need some specific stones thrown at them, some need to be traded, and some even need to be specific genders. If you're sitting around with your level 40 Pumpkaboo wondering why it hasn't evolved yet, then we're here to help you figure that out. source https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-legends-z-a-plza-special-evolutions-list-stones-items-trade-all/

Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) has a new mystery to solve in the third installment of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out mystery series, which drops on Netflix this weekend after a brief theatrical run. Meanwhile, Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Rez Arc cuts a path onto VOD, providing an accessible entry point for anyone curious about the hit anime. source https://www.polygon.com/new-movies-on-streaming-knives-out-chainsaw-man-movie/

Star Wars fans are hardly bereft of choices when it comes to great video games featuring lightsabers , but the world imagined by George Lucas is more than a playground for combat. Few series have understood this better than Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , which was crafted in the old-school computer role-playing game tradition that made companies like Obsidian and BioWare famous. Now, after a number of starts and stops , The Game Awards has revealed that fans will soon be able to play a spiritual successor to the series. It's called Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic . Here's the first trailer. source https://www.polygon.com/star-wars-fate-of-the-old-republic-casey-hudson-the-game-awards/

While The Game Awards ’ big draw is often a flurry of world premiere game announcements and fun new trailers with release dates and fresh gameplay, the annual event is also an awards show. For the 2025 Game Awards, there’s one potential big, record-breaking nominee : source https://www.polygon.com/the-game-awards-2025-all-winners/

JuJutsu Kaisen: Execution is a compilation film that montages its way through the Shibuya arc to provide context for season 3, which will cover the Itadori Extermination arc. This story directly follows Shibuya and gives insight into Yuji Itadori’s mental state after destroying the city as Sukuna controlled his body. Although most don’t need yet another recap of season 2 material, some viewers may still be confused as to why Yuta Okkotsu , the protagonist of Jujutsu Kaisen 0, is now out to kill Yuj in the film. Once people find that out, however, they may be confused by the sudden mood shift in the ending. We’re here to make sense of it all, including why Yuta is looking like a villain, if he was able to accomplish this, and what it all means for the future of season 3. source https://www.polygon.com/jujutsu-kaisen-execution-ending-explained-yuta/

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is already one of the hottest anticipated films of 2026. Even more so now that The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will be making an appearance as their characters, Katniss and Peeta. source https://www.polygon.com/the-hunger-games-prequel-sunrise-on-the-reaping-katniss-peeta/

The 2025 Game Awards are upon us, promising many awards for Clair Obscur and an avalanche of gaming trailers. Every year, the 23-hour-long program devotes approximately 22 hours and 59 minutes to upcoming games. Often, legitimately cool-looking games are announced at the show, like Hades in 2018 , Death Stranding 2 in 2022 , and Exodus in 2023 . source https://www.polygon.com/game-awards-2025-tgas-premieres-trailers-predictions-reveals/

PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra tiers are set to receive a mighty impressive lineup of games to round out the year. One of the best Assassin's Creed games in recent memory, an excellent Team Ninja Soulslike, and more are set to join the subscription service on Dec. 16, as announced in a PlayStation Blog post on Wednesday. source https://www.polygon.com/playstation-plus-game-catalog-december-2025-assassins-creed-mirage/

The game that many believe sounded the death knell for classic computer role-playing games (CRPGs), The Temple of Elemental Evil , returns with a revamped and improved version, courtesy of Sneg, now available on Steam . Dungeons & Dragons fanatics can now dive back into the infamous mega-dungeon originally created by Gary Gygax and Frank Mentzer for the tabletop game, and check if the many fixes, enhancements, and quality-of-life improvements will clean up the controversial legacy of this game. source https://www.polygon.com/temple-elemental-evil-dungeons-dragons-pc-game-remake-steam/

Watching Reflection in a Dead Diamond is like falling down a rabbit hole lined with images from every spy movie you’ve ever seen, and a thousand you probably haven’t. Inspired by the Eurospy movement — the ’60s era of stylized, sexy, spoofy European movies satirizing James Bond, and drawing from Italy’s adults-only fumetti neri comics — Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s film opens with an old man sitting by the beach at a seaside resort, where the gleam in the diamond nipple ring of a topless sunbather sends him off on a dizzying reverie about his time as a super-spy. source https://www.polygon.com/reflection-dead-diamond-spy-thriller-satoshi-kon-millennium-actress/

As I progressed further in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond , I kept feeling like it had a lot of Dragon Age: The Veilguard vibes. Maybe it was just a similar feeling of disappointment, I thought, since, in both cases, something I was looking forward to fell far short of my hopes. Then I sat down to properly think about it and realized the two have almost identical issues all stemming from the same root problem: forgetting their identities. source https://www.polygon.com/metroid-prime-4-is-the-dragon-age-veilguard-of-metroid/

Disney's Brother Bear has always felt a little overlooked among the company's roster of animated features. It lacks the name recognition of a centuries-old fable like "Sleeping Beauty" or "Snow White," and parts of its story seem divided between impulses, veering back and forth between a melancholy drama inspired by Native American shapeshifter tales, and a more modern comedy. But it features spectacular animation sequences , and it's built around heartfelt messaging about the connection between humanity and the natural world. source https://www.polygon.com/disney-director-aaron-blaise-snow-bear-short/

It's been quite the year for Doctor Who fans. The second season of the reboot starred Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor, alongside Varada Sethu as the no-nonsense nurse, Belinda Chandra. While it started strong, critics and fans' reaction to the show — particularly that finale — were mixed . However, this hasn't stopped fans from jumping into the new Doctor Who spinoff from Russell T. Davies and director Dylan Holmes Williams: The War Between Land and Sea . source https://www.polygon.com/doctor-who-spin-off-ratings-war-land-sea/

Zootopia 2 had the biggest debut ever for an animated movie, earning $556.4 million in its opening weekend. The sequel to 2016’s buddy cop comedy Zootopia is great for all ages, nesting a powerful message in a flurry of jokes and fast-paced action sequences packed with so much detail that you’ll want to rewatch the film to catch everything. But when will Zootopia 2 be available on streaming? Here’s our guess for when you’ll be able to visit the wild world of anthropomorphic animals in your living room. source https://www.polygon.com/disney-zootopia-2-streaming/

Finding your way through Metroid Prime 4: Beyond 's Volt Forge region seems like a cakewalk initially. It's one big tower, Miles , how hard can it be to get around? Then you end up in another big tower with a nearly identical map shape and a third tower that's also a lot like the first two. You can also expect more than a few nasty combat surprises before getting your hands on the Vi-O-La bike, so make sure you're prepared at all times and visit save stations when you see them. source https://www.polygon.com/map/metroid-prime-4-beyond-volt-forge-interactive-map/

Katsuhiro Harada, the game developer whose name is synonymous with the Tekken fighting game series, has announced that he will leave Bandai Namco and Tekken behind at the end of 2025. Harada had worked on Tekken since its inception in 1994. source https://www.polygon.com/tekken-boss-katsuhiro-harada-leaves-bandai-namco-techno-mix/

Dungeons & Dragons is an independent movie, born from the unrelenting passion of one man, Courtney Solomon, an avid fan of the game who became a producer and a director just to create this film. Solomon obtained the rights for a D&D movie from then-owner TSR in 1991, but it took almost 10 years for the production to start. TSR is still infamous for its poor business practices, and it was only when Wizards of the Coast obtained the IP that the movie could be shot. Meanwhile, the budget went from $100 million to $35 million. Along the way, Dungeons & Dragons also lost the interest of big studios and important directors. source https://www.polygon.com/dungeons-dragons-movie-2000-retrospective-disaster/

It seems that every new episode of One-Punch Man season 3 brings its share of controversies. Episode 9 immediately generated discussion among fans after airing, but this time it's not because of the low-quality animation that made this season a complete disaster . Instead, fans are complaining about which version of the fight between Child Emperor and Phoenix Man was adapted into the anime. source https://www.polygon.com/one-punch-man-season-3-episode-9-child-emperor-phoenix-man/

The most anticipated anime of 2026, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End , finally gets a release date. The second season of the anime by studio Madhouse, adapted from the manga by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe, will land on Crunchyroll on Jan. 16, 2026, right in time to help you get out of those post-holiday blues. source https://www.polygon.com/frieren-season-2-release-date-january-2026/

Blinded by the lovely, colorful pixelated world of Orsterra, I severely underestimated how utterly brutal Octopath Traveler 0 would be. And when I say “brutal,” I don’t mean the bazillion innocent NPCs who get slaughtered in horrible ways throughout the story. No, I’m referring to the RPG’s ruthless “influence” system. source https://www.polygon.com/octopath-traveler-0-influence-system-mugging-npc/

The general consensus on Batman Forever has come a long way since Joel Schumacher gave the Caped Crusader latex nipples in 1995. At the time, the film and its 1997 follow-up were viewed as a campy bastardization of the franchise that failed to capture the gothic darkness of Tim Burton’s adaptations . Three decades later, however, most fans are willing to admit that Schumacher’s take on the genre has its place in the pantheon of great superhero filmmaking. However, I’d like to take this re-evaluation one step further with a bold statement: Batman Forever is far more faithful to the spirit and mythos of the comics than it’s ever been given credit for, and Schumacher probably understood the Dark Knight better than Burton ever did . source https://www.polygon.com/batman-forever-underrated-tim-burton-joel-schumacher/

Analysis of the makeup of the jury for The Game Awards — which comprises specialist gaming outlets, mainstream media organs, and influencers from around the world — reveals a voting body that is continuing the steady growth and internationalization that have characterized its last five years or so. But the bigger and more diverse the jury gets, the more conservative its choices seem to be. source https://www.polygon.com/the-game-awards-jury-2025-diversity/

The Boys is coming to an end with its next season, and based on the first trailer for season 5 of Prime Video's ultra-violent satirical superhero saga, The Boys will be going out with a bang when it returns next April. source https://www.polygon.com/the-boys-season-5-trailer-release-date/

Pokémon Go 's big December Community Day (or Community Weekend) event is taking place on Dec. 6 and 7 this year, with most perks running from 2-5 p.m. in your local time. source https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-go-december-2025-community-day-weekend-event-schedule/

Elden Ring: Nightreign 's map changes depending on whether a Shifting Earth event is active and which one happens to descend on Limveld. Sometimes, you get the Crater that brings a touch of Mt. Gelmir to the middle of the map. You might get a forest full of Scarlet Rot (it's more useful than it sounds), a variation on the Mountaintop of Giants, or maybe even the Forgotten Hollows DLC's challenging new region . And sometimes, you just get plain ol' Limveld. Even the standard map has plenty of secrets to sniff out and useful upgrades to give you a better chance of surviving until the end of the third night, though, whether it's the promise of a special item from an Evergoal or a network of mining tunnels full of upgrade items. source https://www.polygon.com/elden-ring-nightreign-interactive-map/

Dragon Ball fans who were waiting for the Genkidamatsuri event in January to learn about the latest announcements for the franchise may have just gotten the biggest spoiler possible. In a throwaway comment during the KosoKoso podcast, historical Dragon Ball editor Kazuhiko Torishima teased that there is a new movie in the works. source https://www.polygon.com/new-dragon-ball-coming-torishima-comment/

JuJutsu Kaisen is one of the most popular shonen anime around, and the upcoming compilation film JuJutsu Kaisen: Execution is a testament to the hype. The majority of the film will recap events from the second half of season 2, which covers the Shibuya Incident arc from the manga. However, Execution also features two episodes from season 3 a month ahead of its premiere. So while it's cool to see Sukuna vs. Mahoraga on the big screen , most folks are grabbing tickets to catch those two episodes early, but one character set to appear may confuse more casual fans. source https://www.polygon.com/yuta-okkotsu-explained-jujutsu-kaisen-execution-season-3/

Netflix has won the bidding war to acquire Warner Bros., including its HBO Max streaming service, beating out rival bids from Comcast (the owner of Universal) and Paramount. source https://www.polygon.com/netflix-warner-bros-deal-acquisition/

The Culling Games officially begin Dec. 5 as Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution gets its wide release in U.S. theaters. Execution includes an abbreviated recap of the entire Shibuya Incident arc, leading right up through the end of season 2 , and, more importantly, the first two episodes of season 3. That means the recap portion will cover all the important details from episodes 30 through 47 of the series and deal with the immediate aftermath of Kenjaku kicking off the Culling Games. source https://www.polygon.com/jujutsu-kaisen-execution-best-jjk-episodes-to-watch/

Choosing the best starting skill and items in Octopath Traveler 0 is tough without the full context of what awaits you in the game. Nonetheless, the game presents you with a bunch of starting choices right at the start of the game, before you even have time to see Wishvale. Should you go for the attack skill or recovery? Grab a nourishing nut, a crested key, or something else? source https://www.polygon.com/octopath-traveler-0-best-starting-skill-and-items/

When the first few episodes of One-Punch Man season 3 debuted to heated criticism, I urged patience . Sure, it didn’t look great, but I had faith that, as the action stepped up in the show, anime studio J.C. Staff would rise up to the task and deliver a memorable season, thus atoning for the sins of season 2 . Eight episodes in, not only have I completely changed my mind and joined the doom prophets, but the much-maligned second season of One-Punch Man now actually looks good compared to the disaster we are witnessing in real time with season 3. source https://www.polygon.com/one-punch-man-season-3-disaster-jc-staff-schedule/

Launching on Dec. 4 for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC, Octopath Traveler 0 adapts the story and combat of the mobile gacha game Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent into a premium console RPG. Focused on the continent of Orsterra, where the first Octopath Traveler game took place, Octopath Traveler 0 plays like it was developed under the presumption that “more means better” and that the quality of its parts would make a great final experience. Far from hitting the spot, Octopath Traveler 0 ends up being a meaty RPG, but not necessarily a great Octopath Traveler game. source https://www.polygon.com/octopath-traveler-0-review/

Narrative first-person horror game Horses, from Italian indie developer studio Stanta Ragione, has been hit by another ban. After Steam preemptively banned the game during development, Epic Games Store also refused to distribute the game , just one day before launch. source https://www.polygon.com/horses-game-epic-games-store-ban-steam/

Stump gets a solo song in season 2 of Hazbin Hotel. source https://www.polygon.com/video/hazbin-hotel-patrick-stump-fall-out-boy-song/

CD Projekt Red has reiterated its previously stated ambition to release a trilogy of new Witcher games, starting with The Witcher 4 , within a six-year window. source https://www.polygon.com/cd-projekt-witcher-4-5-6-release-dates/

Steve Harrington was supposed to die in Stranger Things season 1. The beloved character, played by Joe Keery, was originally meant to complete his arc from pompous high school cool kid to genuine hero before meeting his grisly fate at the end of the Netflix show’s first batch of episodes. It was only after series creators the Duffer Brothers saw Keery in action that they expanded the role. Almost a decade later, something similar happened in Stranger Things season 5. source https://www.polygon.com/stranger-things-season-5-dipshit-derek/

Last week's episode of Pluribus has fans asking what the Others' motivations are. source https://www.polygon.com/video/vince-gilligan-pluribus-exodus-the-others/

Paramount wants to keep the Sonic the Hedgehog movie machine running through 2028: A fifth Sonic movie, which appears to be a spinoff, and not necessarily Sonic the Hedgehog 5 , is already on the books, Variety reported Monday. source https://www.polygon.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-movie-2028/

Disney's Zootopia 2 is an unprecedented smash hit . The animated sequel earned $556.4 million in its opening weekend: the biggest debut ever for an animated movie, and the fourth-biggest opening of all time, period. Only Avengers: Endgame , Avengers: Infinity War , and Spider-Man: No Way Home had bigger opening weekends. source https://www.polygon.com/zootopia-2-box-office-china/

You’ve no doubt heard Alex Jordan’s voice in a game you’ve played over the past few years, even if you haven’t recognized it. The star of 2025 survival sim The Alters has more than 100 video game credits to his name, many of them background NPCs in addition to his starring roles in Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series , various Sherlock Holmes games, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard . source https://www.polygon.com/alters-alex-jordan-sex-noises-baldurs-gate-3-bg3/

Vivienne Medrano is playing coy, but the Hazbin Hotel creator says the audience will know what she means. source https://www.polygon.com/video/hazbin-hotel-season-3-villain-tease/