The 5 least-scary scary games for people who are scared of scary games

Whether you lean toward horror movies, games, or both, there’s no shortage of ways to get scared this season. But what if you ...

This intense, genre-bending Clint Eastwood Western is currently free to stream

Also, the music in the film, composed by Dee Barton, leans more into suspenseful horror films than traditional Western scores. The result is a genuinely eerie film that still feels pretty modern, ...

Matt Damon's 114-Minute Disaster Thriller Quickly Shoots to Streaming Success on Max

Critics praised it fordelivering an all‑star cast, including Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, and Laurence Fishburne, while maintaining an extremely tense narrative. Scientists also praised Soderbergh for ...

Stephen King’s 10 best villains of all time, ranked

King makes great villains because he makes most of them sympathetic, no matter how vile their motives or their actions. “Even bad guys (most of them anyway) see themselves as go ...

Xbox's first-ever COO is already leaving after a few months

Just a couple of months after being instated as Xbox's first-ever Chief Operating Officer, Helen Chiang has left the company. Her departure reinforces just how much of a whirlwind year 2026 has been ...

Coraline was considered impossible to make. Laika's new movie was even harder.

What was the last thing you did that took 16 years to accomplish? No shame — but director Travis Knight has a different level of persistence than most of us. Polygon spoke with Knight about the long ...

Nintendo is still being wildly underestimated

Nintendo has always enjoyed the respect of critics. The games, at their best, are just too good for things to be otherwise. It is total critical orthodoxy that Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the greatest ...

Paramount’s most controversial thriller of the decade is officially a streaming hit on Prime Video

Scream 7 has maintained its momentum on streaming, too. Released on Prime Video on Oct. 16, 2026, the film ranked as the platform’s sixth most-watched movie in the United States at the time of writing ...

5 years later, Metroid Dread’s perfect ending is still one of Nintendo’s best

This article contains spoilers for Metroid Dread .] Metroid Dread begins when the Galactic Federation dispatches Samus to Planet ZDR. The mission is to recover the Federation’s lost EMMI robots, who ...

The perfect replacement for Game of Thrones is not what you think

Winter is coming, and the best way to stave off the cold is to check out this great Game of Thrones replacement.

Super Mario creator breaks down the problem with AI perfectly

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, known for Zelda and Mario, just gave the world a master class on the limits of AI creation ...

13 Years Later, Adventure Time's scariest episode is still a 10-minute masterpiece

Sitting alongside Walter White and Tony Soprano, Adventure Time's princess-obsessed villain, also known as Simon Petrikov (and voiced by SpongeBob Squareants himself, Tom Kenny) isn't just a funnier ...