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‘Anora’s Shameless Sex Scenes Chart Ani’s True, Tragic Loss of Innocence

Sean Baker's glittering film boldly tracks Ani's heartache.

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Front Room’ on Max, A Horror-Satire Featuring a Historically Deranged Kathryn Hunter Performance

This is directed by Max and Sam Eggers, twin brothers of that other Eggers guy. You know, the one who directed The Witch and Nosferatu.

New Movies on Streaming: ‘Wicked,’ ‘A Real Pain’ + More

These films and many more are new on demand this week.

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Get this MTG collection on eBay for just… 2.2 million dollars

“This is not a joke,” reads the first sentence of the listing’s description. Early in the morning on New Year’s Day, eBay user thelotusvale listed what looks like one of the most impressive collections of Magic: The Gathering cards ever hosted on the online auction site. “What I’m offering is a set of first edition…

January’s Can’t-Miss Game Releases, A Surprise Horror Hit On Steam, And More Of The Week’s Top Stories

This past week saw the end of 2024, the arrival of 2025, and, arguably, a predictably slow start to the often-relentless news cycle of video games. But slow news hardly means no news, and we kicked off the new year with a look at the games to keep an eye out for this month. Also,…

Black Myth: Wukong continued its GOTY streak at the Steam Awards

Valve has announced the winners of the 2024 Steam Awards, voted for by fans during Steam’s Winter Sale event. Black Myth: Wukong triumphed in the Game of the Year category, as it has in virtually every fan-voted GOTY award in the calendar. Black Myth beat fellow finalists Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, STALKER 2, Balatro,…

Your favorite game of 2025 might be out already

Polygon covered a lot of end-of-year, best-of-the-year games stuff in 2024. We celebrated one of the most successful breakout indies in years (Balatro) and watched a horde of dedicated fans muster up a bunch of fan-voted wins for a critically divisive game (Black Myth: Wukong). But we also couldn’t ignore the hundreds, if not thousands,…

Massive mod is the best new Command & Conquer game in over a decade

The classic real-time strategy franchise Command & Conquer has been largely neglected by its caretaker EA in recent years, but modders have used open-source tools like OpenRA to carry the torch for almost a decade, regularly patching and improving the original Command & Conquer and its sequel Red Alert with new quality-of-life features. In some…