The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Has a Non-Canon 'Orc With an Arc' Who Turns Against Sauron and Even Writes Poetry

Filming has wrapped on Garland's Elden Ring movie just 6 months after it started, according to a now deleted instagram post

It seems like it was only yesterday we were getting leaks from the Elden Ring film set, and now you're telling me Alex Garland and co have wrapped filming? Time sure does fly when you're doing pretty much the same thing day in day out.

Inside the real-world locations of Silent Hill: Townfall

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Published Jul 31, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT

This damp island village is cozy yet nightmarish

Inside the IRL locations that inspired Silent Hill: Townfall

Image: Screen Burn / Annapurna Interactive / Konami

Atmosphere is an integral element of any good horror game, and Silent Hill: Townfall nails it. Developed by Glasgow-based studio Screen Burn and published by Konami, the latest installment in the venerated series takes place in a fictional island town in Scotland called St. Amelia during the mid-1990s. If you’ve ever set foot in a small town in the U.K., you’ll marvel at the meticulous attention to detail in Townfall’s environmental design, from the way the moisture hangs in the air to the rubbery texture of the paint on the nobbly stucco buildings. At a preview event in Los Angeles earlier this month, writer-director Jon McKellan and series producer Motoi Okamoto gave Polygon a glimpse behind the process of making St. Amelia a reality.

Stellar Blade: Blood Rain Dev Shift Up Releases Entirely AI-Generated K-Pop Music Video Starring Evie and Pretty Much Everyone Hates It

Stellar Blade: Blood Rain developer Shift Up has sparked a backlash for releasing an entirely AI-generated music video starring protagonist Evie.

"Wanna be in LOVE" Feat. Evie | Stellar Blade: BLOODRAIN was published to South Korean developer Shift Up’s YouTube channel on July 31, as a K-pop twist on the upcoming action game. It shows Evie singing an upbeat pop song in Stellar Blade’s future setting.

Should Batman: Caped Crusader Morph Into Batman and Robin: Caped Crusaders?

This article contains spoilers for Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2, which is streaming Prime Video now.

Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader, the latest animated iteration of The Dark Knight, has been a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, you have the legendary Bruce Timm essentially revisiting one of his most famous co-creations — that would be Batman: The Animated Series — with fresh eyes, giving it the more mature and modern sheen he had hoped to infuse the show with back in the day. On the other hand, that take has led to some extremely odd choices in character adaptation, and a mostly deadly serious tone and slow pace that have done the stranger plot choices no favors. But there is one aspect of the series that was a standout in the first season, crops up again in Season 2’s best episode, and points to how Caped Crusader can ape The Animated Series’s own path and vastly improve its own going into a potential third season. That aspect? Robin.

Feebas and Milotic join Pokémon Pokopia in new limited-time event

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Published Jul 31, 2026, 7:54 AM EDT

The 'Fetch Scales for Feebas' event will let Pokopia players collect new decorations

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Tom Holland Explains Why 'Creepy' Body Horror Ideas for Spider-Man: Brand New Day Didn't Make It Into the Film

Tom Holland pitched some ideas for Spider-Man: Brand New Day that would've pushed the film into body horror.

In a new interview with Josh Horowitz, Holland noted that he was brought into the writer's room for Brand New Day and allowed to pitch ideas. Early on, the creative team explored the idea of Peter Parker reckoning with his powers evolving via organic webs, sharpened senses, and heightened strength and aggression. Holland initially wanted to take it a bit further, though.

Gears of War: E-Day devs are embracing 'old-school' multiplayer in 2026: 'No battle pass, no tour of duty, no gimmicks, no bullsh*t'

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The Coalition is finally talking about the multiplayer half of Gears of War: E-Day, and its pitch is a bit different from other big-budget multiplayer shooters of the moment.

The RAM Crisis Is Getting So Bad, AMD Is Bringing Back 4GB Graphics Cards

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: Jul 30, 2026 7:32pm UTC

It's no secret that memory prices have exploded in the last year, and it's causing everything using the stuff to go up in price. But now, seemingly to combat the rising prices and give people an option they can actually afford, AMD has launched a new graphics card, the Radeon RX 9050.

'We Can Help Him Right Now' — Dead Cells Developer Motion Twin Responds after Guillermo del Toro Begs for Version Without Respawns

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: Jul 30, 2026 6:00pm UTC

Dead Cells developer Motion Twin has responded to acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s thoughts on the game — specifically, his request for a mode without respawns.