Bray Wyatt’s Strength Was His Faith In Himself

The first images were of decay. The abandoned degradation of small-town America—loose tires and wire fences, unpainted shacks and unpopulated storefronts, a church. The outermost borders of civilization just before the point where it vanished into the swamps beyond. The first words we heard him speak were, “Good things come…

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WRESTLING

The Best Version of Death Note is a Musical

Death Note might be the most 2000s thing ever made. The story, about a teen genius who finds a notebook that will let him kill people from afar and promptly develops a god complex, was an enormous hit in Japan and the United States and the original manga became an…

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The Fancies 2021: Danielle’s Top Games of 2021

Content warning for a mention of a COVID 19-related death in this article. I’ve been writing about video games professionally since 2006. I’ve done it full-time since early 2013, when I joined the staff at Polygon, and I think this is the first time since then I haven’t had a…

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Horizon Forbidden West Missions List – How Long is Forbidden West?

It’s officially launch day for Horizon Forbidden West, and as you may have noticed already, there is quite a lot of ground to cover. Developer Guerrilla Games has doubled down on the foundation built with Horizon Zero Dawn, expanding the open world with new activities, machines to face, and weapons…

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GUIDES

Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 6 Recap: “The Iron Throne”

“Love is the death of duty,” says Jon Snow, quoting the late maester Aemon, another Targaryen who chose servitude over the throne. “Sometimes duty is the death of love,” the imprisoned Tyrion replies. He’s trying to convince the stalwart Northerner to murder the woman he loves, to do as Jaime…

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REVIEWS

The Making of Jinx, the Loose Cannon of League of Legends

The charming blue-haired menace Jinx makes an emotional splash as the lead in Netflix’s heart-tugging Arcane. Growing up in Zaun, the poverty-stricken undercity of Piltover, was rough for her. Now, she’s constantly grappling with her grief and shame while keeping a twisted smile on her face as she willingly incites…

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Why is There So Little Religion in Games?

The inhabitants of Possum Springs apparently have two options on Sunday mornings: they can attend a church with a progressive woman pastor who cares deeply about serving marginalized folks, or they can sacrifice kids to a monster in the abandoned mines beneath the town. Easy choice, right?  As an Extremely…

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Press A to Boldly Go: A History of Star Trek Video Games

Studios and developers have been creating Star Trek video games for nearly as long as there have been video games. Star Trek games date as far back as a 1971 text adventure written in BASIC by a high school student. Like that other blockbuster space adventure series — what’s it…

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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is Still a Big, Broken, Beautiful Mess

Do you know what happens to a toad when it gets hit by a double-sided, magenta laser sword? The same thing that happens to everything else… It launches 96 straight feet into the air. Half-a-minute later it lands stiffly back on Bogano, the swampy starting planet of Star Wars Jedi:…

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Genshin Impact Tartaglia Guide: Best Build & Team for Patch 2.2 (October 2021)

Known as either Childe or Tartaglia (or Tortilla, as his fans on the Genshin Impact forums like to call him), this Fatui good guy is still one of the best DPS characters in the game. Furthermore, as a member of the Support/Sub DPS-focused Hydro Element, he’s the only one of…

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Demon’s Souls Character Creator Has Millions of Permutations and I Will Still Just Make Myself

If I were to make a list of games that I bought or even just considered buying exclusively because they feature a character creator at the beginning, that list would contain a number of video games that is not zero. So when Sony and Bluepoint Games announce that the upcoming Demon’s…

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NEWS

The Glorious Possibilities of Dragon Age: The Live Service

Dragon Age 4 has finally been announced, but maybe not in the form fans wanted. A recent report on Bioware’s internal trainwreck says that the original game has been canned, and that the new plan for the game intends to weave in “live service” elements in the vein of Anthem.…

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