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The Kabuto King's collection of Pokemon cards, which totals nearly 2,000 Kabuto.
He's collecting every first edition Kabuto Pokémon card, even as haters try to stop him

Kabuto King wants to own every original Pokémon card of the fossil monster, despite scalpers and skeptics

Valve's Steam Machine, as it is surrounded by a toy car and driving accoutrements.
Valve's Steam Machine has one big advantage over the old Steam Box

And might recreate its biggest problem

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Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan looking through a telescope to spy in Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 2 united audiences, but Rush Hour 4 might do the opposite

'Don't you ever touch a Chinese man's CD!'

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Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise in It: Welcome to Derry
It: Welcome to Derry just gave us an excellent Pennywise lore dump

Welcome to Derry just gave Pennywise its origin story

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A graphic showing a purple plastic TV displaying a close-up of an animated Count Dracula from 1980's Drak Pack
Bring back the coolest vampire cartoon of 1980

When ’80s animation became a series of elaborate toy commercials, Drak Pack was forgotten — until a new generation of fans rediscovered it

Dracula (Gary Oldman) stands uncomfortably close to Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves), smiling, in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Vampires are inherently queer, says the author of 2025's best queer vampire novel

‘The hill I will die on is, I don't believe in straight vampires. I think it is antithetical to the underpinning of a vampire.’

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An image of a Game Awards trophy overlayed with graphs
Inside the multimillion dollar business of predicting Game of the Year

Prediction markets allow users to make money from calling the GOTY race. But it’s not betting — or is it?

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A render of Muffy the sheep from Animal Crossing: New Horizons
The most goth Nintendo characters

For some Nintendo characters, every day is Halloween

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Greg and Vlad fighting, with Vlad being choked by Greg
I pit Sims 4's werewolves and vampires against each other in a supernatural fight club

They've got bad blood

Castlevania Symphony of the Night's cover art
Castlevania’s Dracula is (almost) the best Dracula adaptation

Eat your heart out, Hammer Films

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In Your Dreams kids and Baloney Tony cheering on a bed
‘All I wanted was to save my family’: How Alex Woo turned a childhood fear into a hit Netflix movie

Quieter than K-Pop Demon Hunters, the new animated film In Your Dreams is no less personal to its director

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The vampire Strahd on the cover of the original Ravenloft module I6 and of Curse of Strahd
D&D's most famous vampire is also the secret behind the game's success

‘Though you may wish otherwise, you now have my full and complete attention’

Polygon - Graphic - Turkey Day
Turkey Day, our time to celebrate turkeys

Audiences balked, but we still love these games, movies, and TV shows

Heavy Rain Madison
I love Heavy Rain, just not for the reasons David Cage wanted me to

The overwhelming cringe is part of the appeal!

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A player in Fallout: New Vegas confronts two security automotons, bulky robots with grasping hands that balance on one wheel, with a rifle.
Fallout: New Vegas was a turkey at launch and a masterpiece today

Even riddled with bugs, we knew Fallout: New Vegas was special from the beginning

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Hawke, the protagonist of Dragon Age 2, stares out across a mountainous landscape.
The 8 games we're most thankful for

It's the season of gratitude, so we're celebrating the games that changed us

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Chloe Kim sits beside her friend Austin Cho, grinning widely as she plays Mario Kart World.
Olympian Chloe Kim is as competitive at games as she is in the halfpipe

Polygon caught up with Kim to play (and lose at) Mario Kart World

Mr Whiskey in Dispatch
There's good reason Mr. Whiskey only shows up in Dispatch's finale

And it's the story of Dispatch

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Two women (Elizabeth Olsen, Olga Merediz) sit in a cheap-looking mockup of a retro spaceship control booth, holding bright blue cocktails, in Eternity
Eternity's rom-com afterlife has a truly wild scientific backstory

Writer-director David Freyne walks us through the surprising inspiration behind the Elizabeth Olsen/Miles Teller fantasy romance

Carol (Rhea Seehorn) peers through a window with concern on the show Pluribus
Vince Gilligan explains Pluribus episode 5’s big twist

'They're just giving Carol a time out’

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