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18h ago
October is spooky season, and the urge to settle in with some pumpkin-scented candles with a seasonally fitting game is at an all-time high. But while there are plenty of horror games out there for the brave and the bold, what are the scaredy-cats to do this Halloween season? Never fear — we’ve collected a ..read more
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20h ago
Canadian filmmaker Pascal Plante was already dwelling on the eldritch terrors that lurked below the surface of the dark web before the COVID-19 pandemic sent him into lockdown. But by 2021, his self-inflicted misery, combined with sitting at home for long stretches of time, resulted in the screenplay for Red Rooms. A brilliant examination of ..read more
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21h ago
A good horror game scares you in the moment, but a great horror game lingers in the back of your mind well past the end credits. We’ve been blessed in recent years with a plethora of excellent horror games, but with the arrival of October comes even more spooky games to get us nice and ..read more
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22h ago
Season 1 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power promised a balrog, and while the tragic sacrifice of King Durin in the mithril-rich depths beneath Khazad-dûm might have been brief, it was certainly spectacular. But there’s one thing it didn’t do, and that’s give Rings of Power’s answer to a simple question ..read more
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1d ago
If you’ve been on the fence about which PlayStation 5 to buy and have ultimately decided against the PS5 Pro — either because of the price tag or because you couldn’t nab the extra-gorgeous 30th anniversary edition in time — the slimmed-down PS5 Digital Edition is on sale at both Amazon and Target for $399.99 (was ..read more
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1d ago
Vessel of Hatred is the first expansion for Diablo 4, and adds a new class, region, and act for the campaign. It also overhauls a ton of different systems for the game, officially pushing Diablo 4 into version 2.0. But when can you and your friends dive into Nahantu and meet the Spiritborn for the ..read more
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2d ago
Over on Cheap Digicam TikTok, there’s a lot of talk about recipes these days. Recipes in this context are congregations of specific camera settings that can generate very specific film-like effects in digital photographs. Want a bloomy 1970s sunset or a cityscape with bokeh pearls the size of snowballs? Good news. There are recipes for ..read more
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2d ago
Making a great movie is a tall order. But making a great “bad” movie is a steeper challenge. Steven Kostanski has made the great bad movie his calling card: No one is elevating trash into treasure quite like the Canadian FX makeup maven turned director, whose abilities to transcend pastiche and stretch indie budgets into ..read more
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2d ago
The Binding of Isaac, the video game, remains one of the best roguelike games of all time. Even if you haven’t played the game yourself, there’s a good chance you’d recognize its distinct visuals, particularly Isaac himself. But there’s also The Binding of Isaac, the card game, which launched in 2018 to adapt much of ..read more
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2d ago
Happy October, Polygon readers! We’re officially in fall, and you know what that means: Halloween season. With the year’s spookiest holiday almost upon us, nearly every streaming service is pulling out all the stops to serve up the very best horror and horror-adjacent movies their respective libraries have to offer. As always, we’ve combed through ..read more