With WrestleMania 39 set to kick off on April 1, and Polygon contributor Abraham Josephine Riesman’s new book Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America set to enter the ring on March 28, we’re spending the week grappling with pro wrestling — and everything it’s shaped. Riesman kicks off...
Star Trek: Legacy deserves a chance to exist
Last week, Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas tweeted about his idea for a spinoff show called Star Trek: Legacy. The theoretical series would be set in the 25th century and focus on both old favorites and the next generation. It can be very hard to tell what’s successful these...
Resident Evil 4’s remake is reigniting the eternal thirst for Leon
The Resident Evil 4 remake has brought its fair share of gameplay and technical updates to the beloved horror game. While plenty has changed, one aspect of the game remains the same: Leon S. Kennedy, the dirty-blond heartthrob of the Resident Evil series, is as cute as ever. And now...
Resident Evil 4 remake hints that Separate Ways DLC may be next
Resident Evil 4’s new remake will get a boost of free content with the addition of The Mercenaries mode on April 7, but it appears that there will be another adventure coming to Capcom’s modernized survival horror game. A datamine of the game’s PC version indicates that the Separate Ways...
MLB The Show’s celebration of Black baseball is the best thing in sports video games this year
Sports occupy one of the more curious niches among video games. They’re tremendous sellers, huge moneymakers, and yet they’re so taken for granted that nobody really talks about them the way they do a Resident Evil rerelease or Bethesda Softworks’ next RPG. But if you have an Xbox and a...
FFXIV Hatching-tide 2023 event guide
Final Fantasy 14’s Easter-themed celebration, the Hatching-tide, has started bringing back the eggy fun with a little bit of a stabby twist this year. The event runs from March 27 at 4 a.m. EDT until April 10 at 10:59 a.m. EDT, so make sure to grab your rewards before then....
Tetris creator on turning his life into a spy movie: ‘exaggeration is kind of natural’
Apple’s movie Tetris tells a truly extraordinary story from the gaming history books: the time a scrappy video game promoter, Henk Rogers, battled Britain’s evil media moguls, Robert and Kevin Maxwell, to win the handheld rights to the greatest game of all time from a dying, paranoid Soviet Union. This...
When Trigun Stampede season 2 comes out, based on everything we know
Trigun Stampede, the latest anime series from Japanese animation house Orange (Land of the Lustrous, Beastars), concluded with the final episode of its first season on March 25. Though fans of the series may be sad to see the anime end, there’s good news: A second season of the series,...
Who is Jack Krauser, and what is Operation Javier, in Resident Evil 4?
Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake pits Leon Kennedy against a town full of nameless infested villagers and repulsive monsters, but one enemy plays an outsized — and potentially confusing — role in our hero’s mission to save Ashley from her captors. That man is, of course, Major Jack Krauser, a...
The best Diablo 4 Necromancer builds
The Necromancer, much like the Sorcerer, is one of the most formidable classes in Diablo 4. Not only is it capable of slinging spells or inflicting debilitating debuffs on enemies, it can also summon a small army of skeletons armed to the teeth. This is perhaps one of the easiest...