Warning! Spoilers ahead for Spider-Man: Brand New Day.Scarlet Witch's perfect replacement has been officially introduced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Elizabeth Olsen debuted Wanda Maximoff in the franchise over a decade ago in Avengers: Age of Ultron, alongside her twin, Pietro Maximoff.…
Behaviour Interactive has just answered a lot of big questions about the immediate future of Dead by Daylight updates. During a special DBD Q&A on the game's Reddit page, several developers from the team fielded community queries, and revealed a range of plans for the multiplayer game. Among them…
Marvel Tokon's PC Port Is So Rough That A Tournament Has Been Forced To Play On PS5 Only Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls’ PC port is still so broken that it’s caused a tournament to cancel its PC bracket and play on PS5 only to “ensure a positive and smoother experience”. A new licensed tag fighter…
The hits keep stacking up 2026 is the Switch 2’s year to lose Switchboard is Polygon's weekly newsletter for all things Nintendo, sent on Thursdays and published on the site on Saturdays. You can subscribe here. For the first half of 2026, the Switch 2 was in an unusual position. Just when players…
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Spider-Man: Brand New Day sees the MCU officially label Yelena as the franchise's next Black Widow, and in doing so covertly explains why she wasn't immediately officially referred to by that title. The MCU timeline is just…
After a boom of pirate TV and movies in the early 2000s, the genre slowed down for quite some time ahead of one series, which, despite a rough first season, improved exponentially and deserves more praise. By the time Black Sails premiered on Starz in 2014, pirate stories felt somewhat overplayed…
Like any good storyteller, James Gunn puts a lot of thought into the big and small details that make up his movies. For example, hints of Rocket's past are shown in the first Guardians of the Galaxy well before they were fully explored in the third movie, and Peter Quill's alien lineage was also…
Growing up around performers, storytelling was always central to Emma's life. Add in a nerdy older brother who introduced her to Marvel at far too young an age, and her love for entertainment led her to pursue a Journalism degree at Indiana University, where she discovered her passion for…
Pokémon Emerald EX Is A Huge New Fan Game With 16 Gyms Known as 'Cyberpunk 2077's' biggest fan, Angharad is a Welsh games writer who thrives in anything related to digital storytelling. If a video game explores the intricacies and horrors of womanhood, she is there. Thanks to previous work at…
Canadian officials are now investigating how a Skyrim username mix-up landed a man in prison for 18 months. As reported by Dexerto, the Nova Scotia Attorney General, Scott Armstrong, has requested a briefing from the Public Prosecution Service as part of an investigation into the mix-up, assuring…
A PC game has been permanently removed from GOG in a sudden delisting. And while it’s not the biggest, newest, or best PC game, it’s not an irrelevant game either. It’s a PC game with over 1,000 user reviews on Steam, with an 88% approval rating, which gives it a “Very Positive” score, the…
Reliable Insider Says Rockstar Won't Talk About GTA 6 Online "Any Time Soon" Screenshot provided by Rockstar Games. Trusted gaming reporter Jason Schreier has said not to expect Rockstar Games or Take-Two to share any details about GTA 6 Online “any time soon”. Even though we’ve known about the…
A common axiom I've heard is that as a tourist, you never want to be That Guy shooting photos or videos on their iPad. It looks bizarre, and it's all too easy to block someone else's view at a museum or concert. Moreover, an iPad just isn't the best tool. Apple doesn't prioritize camera tech on its…
Chris Potter now plays Cable in X-Men ‘97, but he originally played Gambit in the 1990s. X-Men actor says Marvel never told him why he was replaced as the voice of Gambit When X-Men ‘97 premiered in 2024, fans marveled at how faithful it was to the original X-Men: The Animated Series from the…
While Prime Video is returning to the world of replicants with Blade Runner 2099 later this year, Apple TV's hit sci-fi cyberpunk series Murderbot is closer to Ridley Scott's original movie. As the November 25 release date of Blade Runner 2099 steadily approaches, Prime Video has revealed some new…
Gamescom 2026 is set to be another whistlestop tour of everything going down in the game industry for the next year or so. From our first glimpse of The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past expansion, to Grand Theft Auto VI’s Extended Preview happening at the same time, it’s all kicking off this August.…
Tencent's ambitious attempt to build a rival to Grand Theft Auto appears to be floundering, as Last Sentinel developer Lightspeed LA has laid off 80 people following the publisher's loss of confidence in the project. If you're not familiar with Last Sentinel, that would be forgivable. The cyberpunk…
From studio misfires to superhero masterpieces, every Spider-Man movie has something amazing to say about Peter Parker For the better part of two decades, live-action Spider-Man movies have managed to reinvent the same beloved character without losing sight of what makes that character so special.…
Batman: Arkham Knight "Definitive Edition" Does What Warner Bros. Won't Known as 'Cyberpunk 2077's' biggest fan, Angharad is a Welsh games writer who thrives in anything related to digital storytelling. If a video game explores the intricacies and horrors of womanhood, she is there. Thanks to…
As the looming shadow of Grand Theft Auto 6 grows ever larger, and Rockstar Games prepares to show off an "extended look" at gameplay that will debut first via a Netflix-exclusive special, one big question remains. What happens to GTA Online, the series' money-printing juggernaut, when a new game…
Run fast enough to see the cracks in the rules that surround you Many games across various genres have explored speed as a concept in one way or another. Racing games like Forza Horizon 6 make it the byproduct of an intimate relationship between driver and car. In the Guitar Hero and Pump It Up!…
The Last Of Collectors Shouldn't Miss This New Release In recent months, The Last of Us fans have had to experience something of a hiatus whilst both the video game and television series work behind the scenes. With season three of HBO's The Last of Us expected to air some time in 2027, although no…
Grabbing the audience right away is vital to making a memorable horror film. There may be no greater proof of this than Jaws, which boasts arguably the greatest opening scene in the genre’s history, as Steven Spielberg sinks his razor-sharp cinematic teeth into the viewer’s flesh from minute one.…
We’re over halfway through the year, which means that the premiere date of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - season one of HBO’s new adaptation - isn’t all that far away. The famous boy wizard is set to return to our screens on Christmas Day, 25 December 2026, with episodes rolling out…