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2 days ago | polygon.com | Matt Patches

Matt Patches is an executive editor at Polygon. He has over 15 years of experience reporting on movies and TV, and reviewing pop culture. This summer, Universal Pictures is stealing a page from Disney’s profitable “remake a beloved animated movie in live action” playbook with How to Train Your Dragon, which looks like a shot-for-shot redux of the 2010 film.

2 days ago | polygon.com | Ari Notis

Image: id Software/Bethesda SoftworksAri Notis (he/him) is a guides editor at Polygon, where he writes, edits, and shepherds service-oriented articles about the biggest games du jour. He previously worked at Kotaku. Doom: The Dark Ages, a prequel to id Software’s 2016 revitalization of the Doom series, is out this week on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X. Hell yeah. The Dark Ages takes somewhat of a different approach to combat than its two predecessors, Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal.

4 days ago | polygon.com | Matt Patches

Matt Patches is an executive editor at Polygon. He has over 15 years of experience reporting on movies and TV, and reviewing pop culture. Judging from the number of gleeful screams heard throughout its PAX East Magic: The Gathering x Final Fantasy showcase presentation, Wizards of the Coast may have nailed its highly anticipated RPG crossover.

4 days ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

Go ahead, make your foot fetish jokes, it’s fine…Image: Sandfall Interactive/Kepler InteractiveMaddy Myers has run Polygon’s games section since 2020 as deputy editor. She has worked in games journalism since 2007, at Kotaku, The Mary Sue, and the Boston Phoenix. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the breakout hit of 2025; the turn-based RPG has fantastic combat design and great writing for its ensemble cast.

4 days ago | polygon.com | Maddy Myers

Dune: Awakening, the highly anticipated Dune MMO made by Funcom, has previously had a beta that was under NDA for select players. But this weekend, there’s a new beta going on that players are free to stream and talk to their friends about. It’s available from now until this coming Monday, May 12 — and at first, players had to put their names into Funcom’s proverbial hat in hopes of receiving a key for it.