Napoleon Review: An Unforgettable Epic From Ridley Scott

A first look at The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal's new movie Freaky Tales has been released.

Yes, there are countless Far Cry comparisons.

is a game that promises a lot just by existing. Developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft, it's a very AAA take on a very blockbuster film franchise, hellbent on creating a beautiful world that's almost impossibly dense with vivid life. Much to the game's credit, it rises to the challenge of rendering Pandora's splendor with care, and a share of somewhat pedestrian elements never manage to overwhelm everything that it does right.

Short of somehow growing a Na’vi neural braid and jamming it directly into the base of James Cameron’s skull, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is pretty much your best option for taking a virtual tour of the stunning alien moon of Pandora. This open-world shooter serves up a mind bogglingly large slice of the fantastic fictional universe to explore, from staggeringly dense forest areas to picturesque open plains and properly intimidating mountain ranges both on land and suspended impossibly in the skies above. However, hidden amongst all that beauty is a disappointing amount of bloat, with copy-pasted enemy outposts and facilities that made venturing off the main story path far less rewarding than it has been in recent landmark adventures such as Elden Ring or the last two Legend of Zeldas. I still largely enjoyed the 25 hours I spent trying to fend off a resource-hungry human invasion, but I wish the environment itself had presented me with more compelling reasons to fight for it beyond its surface-level splendor.

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is looking to start  2024 with a bang in January, and not only because the developers say it's so freaking long. As Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio had already announced, it's also packing in performances by Daniel Dae Kim (Lost, Hawaii Five-0) and Danny Trejo (Machete, Desperado) for the English version's voice over. During today's PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, RGG brought out a new English language trailer with a first look at Kim and Trejo's roles.

Baldur's Gate 3 patch 5 is scheduled to arrive this week, and a key part of its apparently hefty payload is a fix for a technical issue unintentionally introduced in patch 4, which forever carved the stain of your crimes into the RPG's memory banks. 

Gangs of Sherwood is a game that must have been made 20 years ago, but then somehow got released in 2023 using some kind of magic that transformed it with current graphical technology. It’s important to note that I mean this as a compliment, not a derision of the game. It just has me feeling nostalgic for the Xbox 360 era of co-op games when I had a wealth of friends who also had too much spare time to play with.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the anime adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s hit comic series by studio Science Saru, premiered on Netflix last friday. Produced and written by O’Malley and co-creator BenDavid Grabinski, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off diverges significantly from the source material, morphing into an adaptation that at once functions as both a sequel and a remake of O’Malley’s original comic.

By now most people know the secret behind Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: Scott Pilgrim — well, he takes off. He’s gone, for most of the narrative, leaving the players as we know them to pick up the pieces and figure out what happened to him. What happens to them in his absence is usually a total flip of what we’ve come to expect: Think Gideon introducing Lucas to the slowburn anime he’s been watching for a while (or maybe just a few days).

After over nine years since exited from Marvel Studios’ first movie, the British filmmaker has revealed some new interesting details about his original vision for the Paul Rudd-led movie. On Instagram, Wright responded to a fan’s question about the difference between his version of Ant-Man and Peyton Reed’s 2015 movie.

Ridley Scott’s $200 million historical epic Napoleon is the stuff prestige-movie dreams are made of. Spanning 32 years in the French emperor’s life, the 158-minute film blitzes through multiple massive, expensively staged battles, all in order to consider how Napoleon’s marital struggles with his wife Josephine may have shaped French history. But does all this pricey prestige drama live up to the other great Napoleons of media? The Polygon staff takes this kind of question very seriously, so we sat down to consider which media Napoleons matter most.

We review St Patrick, a trick taking game published by Matagot. In St Patrick, players are trying not to take damage from snakes as they collect tricks.