Pete Volk (he/they) is Polygon’s Senior Curation Editor, with a particular love for action and martial arts movies. The barrage of TV — and great TV — continues apace in 2024, with plenty of intriguing new and returning shows launching their seasons this week. The headline item: Ncuti Gatwa’s tenure as the Fifteenth Doctor starts...
Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. In the days since Sony Interactive Entertainment announced an unpopular Helldivers 2 and PlayStation linking policy, players have been flooding the game’s Steam page wil negative reviews. By Sunday,...
Toussaint Egan is a curation editor, out to highlight the best movies, TV, anime, comics, and games. He has been writing professionally for over a decade. Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at...
Matt Patches is an executive editor at Polygon. He has over 15 years of experience reporting on movies and TV, and reviewing pop culture. There has been so much time committed to yelling online about sex scenes in movies and TV — whether they’re gratuitous, whether they’re fundamental to a realistic portrayal of life, whether...
XTINA GG makes short-form videos for Polygon’s TikTok and Instagram channels, in addition to co-hosting streams and YouTube videos. They joined Polygon in 2022. Delicious in Dungeon, one of our favorite anime of the year so far, is based on an acclaimed manga created by Ryōko Kui in 2014 — but as the mangaka tells...
Joshua Rivera (he/him) is an entertainment and culture journalist specializing in film, TV, and video game criticism, the latest stop in a decade-plus career as a critic. Surprising no one, Ryan Gosling’s press tour for The Fall Guy has been an absolute delight. Much like his many appearances promoting Barbie blurred the line between Gosling...
Oli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. If you’ve never seen the episode of Bluey, the beloved Australian kids’ cartoon, that Disney refuses to screen for American audiences, now’s your chance. “Dad...
Cass Marshall is a news writer focusing on gaming and culture coverage, taking a particular interest in the human stories of the wild world of online games. A new developer stream for Star Wars: The Old Republic showed a surprising feature on the way in Game Update 7.5. Players will be able to earn their...
Amazon is teaming up with Crunchyroll to kick off the new month with a deal they’ve dubbed the AniMay sale. Blu-ray and 4K UHD collections of some of our favorite anime are currently discounted by up to 52%. This sale includes essentials like the complete series of Cowboy Bebop, which is discounted to $26.99 (was...
Toussaint Egan is a curation editor, out to highlight the best movies, TV, anime, comics, and games. He has been writing professionally for over a decade. Che Lingo, the U.K.-based rapper and musician, is an avid anime enthusiast. In addition to collaborating with Crunchyroll on its fall 2023 anime trailer, Che Lingo also composed and...
