Barbie, John Wick 4, Netflix’s El Conde, and every new movie to watch at home this weekend

The Hollow Knight: Silksong community is once again going feral after a single Xbox tweet alluded to the game.

John Carney plays the hits. Ever since his 2007 breakout indie Once, which catapulted beloved singer-songwriters Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová to massive fame, Carney has made musical dramas his calling card. The Irish writer-director delights in films about people connecting with each other over music, falling in love with song as they learn to love each other and themselves.

Good news, everyone: It’s a busy week of new movies to watch at home.

Hey, everyone! I’m Michele Zorrilla, the Advanced Senior UX Researcher at Insomniac Games. With the launch of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 just around the corner, our team at Insomniac is excited to share one of the ways we can all #BeGreaterTogether – through accessibility! So today, I’d like to highlight some of the notable accessibility features swinging into the game at launch on October 20, then I’ll pass it over to Sam Schaffel, Insomniac Games’s Accessibility Design Researcher, who will provide an update on more features arriving in a post-launch update.

We're nearly into The Spooky Month, otherwise known as October, otherwise known as the month with all the games. There's a lot of stuff on the horizon to be excited about, but what are we playing in the meantime? Time to find out.

A highly important yet understated aspect of a fighting game is The Announcer. The voice that says every character and stage when they are selected adds that extra bit of style that can really make a game stand out in your memory. Mortal Kombat 1 has a strong default Announcer with a booming sound that prepares you for the violent encounter that is about to unfold. That being said, the game does give you the ability to change the voice of The Announcer to members of the cast, though you will need to unlock them first. Some of you might even have some of these alternate voices unlocked but don’t know how to apply them while others will want to know how to get every announcer in the game. So, allow me to explain both. This guide will tell players how to change the voice of The Announcer and how to unlock new voices in Mortal Kombat 1.

Happy Friday, Polygon readers!

Hollywood has gotten hot for video games in 2023, with live-action television adaptations of The Last of Us and Twisted Metal debuting on major streaming services and the animated Super Mario Bros. Movie banking over $1 billion in theaters. Hell, there was even a movie about Tetris this year.

Learning who the guest fighters are going to be in the next Mortal Kombat game has become as big a part of the build-up to its release as the reveal of the base roster. Among the guest stars in Mortal Kombat 1 are John Cena's Peacemaker, Invincible's Omni-Man, and Homelander from The Boys. Despite the superhero/supervillain theme when it comes to the new Mortal Kombat game's guests, Ed Boon has revealed the team tried to get John Wick on the roster.

Mortal Kombat 1 is officially out now, and gamers already love the brutality and roster of characters they can use to defeat enemies and rivals. However, while the gamers are focusing on the now, they’re also focusing on the future. Specifically, they’re focusing on the Kombat Pack that’ll debut in the coming months. The pack will feature not only Kombatants from past titles but also three 3rd party characters that are sure to make things even more interesting. But what might surprise people is that one character almost made it into the game from the beginning: John Wick.

It’s fall! Movies are back, but movies are also on TV — just not how you’d think.

A John Wick producer has revealed that Keanu Reeves asked for his titular hitman to be killed off in John Wick 4.