The Live-Action Fullmetal Alchemist Movie Is Actually Good

Fullmetal Alchemist is an anime I often say has everything. There’s civil war and political intrigue. There’s a well-wrought alchemy system. There’s brotherly competition and young love. There’s killer fight scenes. There’s even all seven of the deadly sins, except they’re incarnate. The Fullmetal Alchemist live-action movie was never going to have everything. It would…

Why Women Don’t Report Sexual Harassment

In March 2015, at a party at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Megan Farokhmanesh met a developer from the respected studio Naughty Dog. As they were talking, she says, he asked if she “fucked all her sources like on House of Cards.” Farokhmanesh, who had been working at Polygon since 2012, had just…

The Week In Games: River City Giving 

They are still making these games. The Kunio-kun series has been going on for over two decades now and shows no signs of slowing down. Whatever other strange projects Ark Systems gets itself involved it appears little pixel dudes beating up each other will remain constant. Rival Showdown is the latest game in the series…

Inside Tokyo’s Godzilla Store

Recently, the world’s first official Godzilla store opened in Tokyo. It’s called Godzilla Store Tokyo. Clever! Located in Shinjuku, the store is filled with loads of limited edition items.

Japanese Fast Food Restaurant Sticks Two Steaks Between Buns

Lotteria, themost ridiculous fast food chain in Japan, is releasing a striking steak burger later this month. Dubbed the Sticking-Out Steak Burger, the sandwich is stuffed with 100-gram Angus beef steaks from the USA. The meat is a shoulder roast, so it’s reportedly soft. If one steak isn’t enough, Asahi News reports that there is…

Dragon Ball Super Has A Touching Message For Bulma’s Voice Actress 

At the end of this week’s Dragon Ball Super episode, there was a short message memorializing Hiromi Tsuru, who passed away last week. One of Tsuru’s most famous roles was Dragon Ball character Bulma. Here is the message that appeared on screen at the episode’s conclusion: In English, it reads: Hiromi Tsuru, who voiced the…

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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been testing things out in Australia for a little while now, but the game now has an official worldwide release date: November 22 (which is this Wednesday!).

Sega Announces Valkyria Chronicles 4 For PS4, Xbox, And Switch

If you’re still reeling from this year’s disappointing Valkyria spinoff, here’s some welcome news: Valkyria Chronicles 4 is happening, and it’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Switch in 2018. Don’t worry: publisher Sega says the game is coming to North America and Europe, too. Like its predecessors, Valkyria Chronicles 4 will be set within…

Everyone Shot First

Helder Almeida is an illustrator and concept artist based in France. You can see more of Helder’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of…

Streamer Suspended From Twitch For Playing Pokémon Game That Came Out Early In Australia

Australian streamer Mark “Werster” McKenzie received a temporary ban from Twitch last week, because the service said the Pokémon game he was playing was “unauthorised pre-release content”. Even though he’d bought the game from Nintendo’s own store. Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon were released in the US on November 17, but because of time…

Cuphead Fan Makes His Own Cartoon

Cuphead, a video game that looks like a cartoon, now has a cartoon based on the video game, courtesy of fan and animator hotdiggedydemon It’s more Ren & Stimpy than Max Fleischer, I know, but I guess that’s the point. If the game draws on other animation for its inspiration, no reason a fan-made cartoon…

Some Of The Best Scrabble Moves You’ll Ever See

There are professional Scrabble players. Here are some of the best of them, recounting toThe New Yorker some of their favourite moves. I expected to watch this and be floored by the words. Which I was, but my main takeaway is that professional Scrabble players seem like the nicest people on Earth.

Here Are The Platforms You Can And Cannot Play Skyrim On

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came out in 2011. It has been officially released on a bunch of platforms, which is probably where you’ve played it at least once over the last six years. Here are the platforms you can play Skyrim on: PC Xbox 360 Xbox One PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 Nintendo Switch And…

Pro Rainbow Six Team Comes Back From 4-0 Down To Win League Finals

Add Black Dragons to the list of teams that have blown a massive lead in the finals. Ence Esports were in a tough position in the year two, season 3 Rainbow Six: Siege Pro League finals. They were up 1-0 in the series after a strong showing on Oregon, but the other team was starting…

Cosplayer Straight Up Becomes Labyrinth’s Jennifer Connelly

These aren’t 1986 press shots promoting the release of Labyrinth. These are pictures taken in 2017 of cosplayer and assumed shapeshifterAlyson Tabbitha I’m starting to think she’s wasted on cosplay. Surely there’s some Jason Bourne type shit out there that needs someone with these disguise skills to stop a nuclear bomb going off, or save…

Rainbow Six Siege‘s Operation White Noise Adds Invisible Cloaks And Phone Hacking 

Rainbow Six Siege is getting three new characters and a new map as part of its Operation White Noise update that hits the game’s test servers on November 20. The details surrounding Rainbow Six’s last content drop before 2018 came at the season 3 championship tournament going on today in Brazil. The new map called…