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We love movie recommendations here at Polygon. Whether it’s horror, sci-fi, action, comedy, thrillers, or just the best of the year, we’re always trying to introduce readers to new and exciting movies they’ll love. But now we want to find the perfect movie for you. (That’s you.)

Greetings, Adventurers!

Nature themed games have been a huge hit in recent months (years?) and yet another title is soon to hit store shelves, this time coming to us from Studio Libellud. As the above quote says, Harmonies is all about, well, harmony. Harmony in nature, between all elements of an ecosystem. It’s not the nitty gritty that keeps everything in balance, like the food chain, but the idilic view we have of nature as a whole. And I’m here for it, both in theme and mechanics.

Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends.

Tuesday, February 13th has a brand new available for players to solve and today's answers might mess up a few player's win streaks. Connecting a group of words always seems easy at first, but the categories used today are a well-developed bunch, and you may not think about some until it's too late.

It’s no secret that anime food has a reputation for being gobsmackingly good-looking. This is especially true in Delicious in Dungeon, the new “action gourmet” fantasy anime from Studio Trigger that premiered in January on Netflix. Each episode, our intrepid troupe of adventurers ventures deeper and deeper into the catacombs of a gigantic underground kingdom as they vanquish (and cook) a slew of foul creatures on their way to rescuing one of their own from a powerful red dragon. All of the dishes look amazing, though some more than others.

Microsoft reneged on promises it made in court during its Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust trial in 2023 by laying off 1,900 employees in late January, according to the FTC. FTC lawyer Imad Abyad filed a letter with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday, effectively telling on Microsoft. “This newly-revealed information contradicts Microsoft’s representations in this proceeding,” the FTC lawyer wrote.

Greetings, Adventurers!

Mr. Podunkian revealed the Steam store page for their upcoming city life simulator, Sunkissed City, which is coming to PC sometime in late 2024.

The game may be called Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, but Ichiban will have an empty wallet more often than not during his adventure. Being an ex-yakuza, work isn’t exactly easy for him to come by, and things only get more complicated after he travels overseas to Hawaii. This new location isn’t cheap, especially if you want to pick up some top-tier gear and weapons or just enjoy the more luxurious restaurants. All your Yen will be converted to dollars when you transition, making it easier to see just how poor you are at all times. Street brawls will get you a few bucks, but you’ll need more efficient ways to earn some scratch by the mid to late game. Here are the best ways to farm money in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.

There’s no real explanation for it in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, but in the time between it and the preceding title, Ichiban has lost almost all of his skills, levels, and jobs. Even his personality stats are back to zero! That’s to be expected coming into a new game and just means we get to earn all those levels all over again in the tropical paradise of Hawaii.

Supermarkets are missing out on untapped revenue from selling food that's about to expire, as store workers waste hours searching for short-dated products and discounting them by hand. At least that's the pitch from Too Good To Go, an eight-year-old Danish company that cut its teeth addressing restaurant food waste and is now turning to grocery stores' soon-to-expire goods. Starting this month, TGTG is selling an artificial-intelligence-powered solution that assists supermarkets with expiration dates, which are a major pain point for retail food waste. The company will begin its global rollout with the international supermarket chain SPAR. 

If you have ever found yourself scrolling through restaurant images on Google Maps, desperately trying to uncover the name of that delectable dish captured in a user-uploaded photo, your culinary mystery-solving days might be coming to an end. Google is addressing this common dilemma by enriching real food photos on its platform with essential details such as dish names and prices.

Another Code: Recollection is the new Switch remake of the Nintendo-published DS and Wii cult-classic story-driven adventure games Another Code: Two Memories (known as Trace Memory in North America) and Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost Memories. Beyond the expected visual updates, Another Code: Recollection also completely remixes the games’ puzzles, meaning even those familiar with the originals will find themselves on new ground.

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Final Fantasy 14's new feline momma has quickly become a fan favorite, as is tradition with new FF14 characters, mainly because she channels her inner crying cat meme.

Delicious in Dungeon, the new culinary fantasy anime from Studio Trigger (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners) that premiered on Netflix earlier this month, does a lot in the opening five minutes of its first episode.

The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has been rapid over the last few years. However, it has not been smooth sailing. While AI has been credited with making our lives easier courtesy of tools like ChatGPT, it has also emerged as a dark cloud over millions of jobs that it could potentially replace. The tech industry is witnessing mass layoffs right now, with some of the world's biggest companies such as Google and Apple laying off hundreds of employees. At a time of crisis when people are hopping on LinkedIn in a desperate attempt to find another employment opportunity, it seems like the same AI, which threatens jobs, has your back. LinkedIn has announced its latest feature called ‘Explore with Job Collections' which helps people find jobs quicker and more efficiently. Know all about it.

Vince Staples is getting his own Netflix series. The rapper, and occasional actor, first tweeted about his show on Monday, but it wasn’t until Wednesday that we got our first look at it in Netflix’s new trailer and it already looks great. The series, called The Vince Staples Show, will premiere on Feb. 15.

The Cult of the Lamb update, Sins of the Flesh, comes with a handful of new features that you can check out for free. One of the tough things players have been trying to figure out is how to level up the broom, and how to do that quickly.

A new gameplay trailer has been released for city builder survival game Frostpunk 2 by 11 Bit Studios, and it confirms that Frostpunk 2 will be available on PC and Xbox Game Pass. The focus of the new gameplay trailer is all about you, the Steward, and a snapshot of the decisions that will need to be made in the wake of food shortages, human experimentation, and civil unrest. It looks like keeping the city from falling will not be an easy task for anyone.

Phase 2 of Season of Discovery is coming in hot on February 8th, and with it a new level cap. This means a new list of the best (and most valuable) consumables available for level 40 characters! While it's entirely possible that new consumables and crafted items will be introduced in Phase 2, we don't know anything about those yet. So for now, here is a list of all the best consumables in Phase 2 that we already know exist. Keep in mind, Professions will be capped at Expert level, meaning a skill of 225. Some of the listed items are already available since Phase 1, but will still be valuable in Phase 2 (like Free Action Potion since it's always useful, and Elixir of Ogre's Strength as there is no stronger Strength Elixir available at 225 skill level).

Microsoft has snapped up 11 bit studios’ promising city-builder sequel Frostpunk 2 as a day-one PC Game Pass title.

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Hello and happy new year! Once again, team Engadget has set up shop in Las Vegas for CES, living out of suitcases so that we can scour the massive show floor and occasionally injure ourselves in the process. For CES 2024, we expected to see AI everywhere, and we were not disappointed.

Garena Free Fire MAX Redeem Codes for January 15: Garena Free Fire MAX players have had a great start to 2024 with multiple events being rolled out in the game. Players can obtain items such as the Almost Dino Bundle, Mochi Food Truck, Heartbroken Emote, Bony Fumes Emote, Electro Spark Bundle, and Electro Whisper Bundle. Now, another event that offers the Iron Blade Bundle as the top reward has been rolled out! Want to nab it? Check out the details of this event in Garena Free Fire MAX here.

We review Wild: Serengeti, a board game published by Bad Comet. Compete as rival filmmakers to make the best documentary on the wildlife of Africa's Serengeti.

What is it? A roguelike city builder about making the best of a doomed world.

Looking for the best microwave for your family to save time and energy? Microwave ovens have become an integral part of modern kitchens, offering convenience and versatility for a variety of cooking tasks. In this comprehensive analysis, we will explore the features and specifications of different microwave ovens from popular brands, catering to diverse household needs. Remember that microwave ovens benefit users through their being energy efficient as well as versatile as you can put them to a huge number of uses, each with a special setting. 

There’s so much for players to love in Baldur’s Gate 3. It features deep RPG mechanics and freedom of choice that rivals Dungeons & Dragons and a carefully crafted world that feels real. Of course, this fantastical world has also made fans hungry for its delicious foods.

MatPat has become the face of YouTube game theories for the past thirteen years, creating a theory empire that has influenced gamers all around the world. Today he has announced that he will be stepping down with a heartfelt goodbye, shocking the internet.

 CES 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas this week. The multi-day trade event put on by the Consumer Technology Association is set to feature swaths of the latest advances and gadgets across personal tech, transportation, health care, sustainability and more — with burgeoning uses of artificial intelligence almost everywhere you look.

I’d like to think that everyone who’s played an RPG has wondered what its fantastical creatures might look like on a plate. If you try to show me someone who hasn’t ever thought about eating a Pokémon, I will show you a liar. And it’s that bold adventuring spirit that Delicious in Dungeon, which recently debuted on Netflix, simmers to perfection.

Cult of the Lamb's huge Sins of the Flesh update, colloquially referred to as the 'sex update', has revealed a January 16 release date.

Sins of the Flesh is the next update for our darkly cute cult sim Cult of the Lamb, and it’s the biggest yet. As well as a shrine-load of killer new content and a congregation of quality of life improvements, a deliciously evil new resource has been thrown into the macabre mix: Sin. But how do you generate it? Well, by sinning.

«How do I craft a backpack?» is typically the fifth question I ask when starting a new survival game, following «How do I craft an axe?» and «Where can I find water?» and «How do I make a campfire?» and the all-important «What the hell was that noise?» 

McDonalds has launched its latest gaming-themed Happy Meal collaboration, this time with Sonic the Hedgehog.

Do you like food? Of course you do. How about Dungeons & Dragons? You dabble, yeah? Maybe played a fantasy role-playing video game or two? Never? That’s cool, too. You’re still gonna want to check out Delicious in Dungeon.

First, there was the Xbox Series X mini-fridge, and now the Series S gets its own appliance in the form of a toaster. Bread will never be the same again. 

The story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 has been told on-screen before, most notably in Frank Marshall’s 1993 movie Alive. But J.A. Bayona’s Netflix movie Society of the Snow revisits it with a harrowing level of physical and psychological detail. Its complexities and moral dilemmas make it a far cry from Marshall’s feel-good story, and distance it from Hollywood disaster movies in general — including Bayona’s own saccharine 2012 tsunami drama The Impossible. Spain’s official submission for the 96th Academy Awards is an intimate version of the real-life story most people associate with cannibalism.

Although many LEGO Fortnite players are loving the game, there are some fans online upset that a promotional image included items not at all in the game.

In 2020, the Yakuza series took a bit of a leap with its seventh entry, Yakuza: Like a Dragon. The lens shifted away from longtime series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu to newcomer Kasuga Ichiban, swapping out its real-time action for turn-based RPG combat in the process. It was, by most accounts, a rousing success. But there was still room to grow.

We review Food Truck Entrepreneur, an economic board game published by GoVenture.

Atari and Mega Cat Studios have released Food Fight: Culinary Combat, a multi-player reimagining of the somewhat bizarre 1983 arcade game, into Early Access. The catch is that, right now, it’s exclusively available on the Atari VCS.

Thanks to DDV’s Cozy Edition, all players got a Capybara delivered to their mailbox. While I won’t question the logistics of this shipment, I’ll help you get a wild Capybara in Disney Dreamlight Valley.

Disney Dreamlight Valley’s A Rift in Time introduces a bunch of new critters to the game. For all of us weirdos, the coolest critter you can make your companion is the Cobra.

Why does anime food always look so good? It’s a question that’s befuddled scholars since time immemorial (or err, at least as long as anime has been around), and one that always prompts anime fans to dish out about their absolute dream dishes from their favorite anime shows and movies every time it’s asked.

Two years after Final Fantasy XIV launched a pizza-eating emote to a surprising amount of controversy, anyone can pop along to the MMO’s in-game shop and buy it for under a fiver.

The Battle Cats developer PONOS has become the latest high profile corporate victim of online hacking. 

Bethesda has released a new update for Starfield, with patch 1.8.86 adding two much-requested features for people who are still playing the game, alongside a fresh batch of bug fixes and further optimisation.

Bethesda has released a new patch for Starfield, which adds DLSS support for those on PC, as well as the ability to ingest food when it is found in the environment. This means players will be able to «enjoy those Chunks immediately or save them for later». Mmm.

The latest patch for Starfield has arrived.

Starfield unveiled a big update on Monday, officially rolling out DLSS 3 support to PC players, various graphics and performance improvements, the ability to eat food without picking it up first, and a whole lot more.

Who do you think would taste the best out of the Street Fighter 2 roster? Well, wonder no more, because apparently, we're about to find out. A range of Street Fighter hot sauces are going on sale in stores across the UK, with each flavour based on a different character.

Cuisineer is the new hack ‘n’ slashing roguelike that’s bubbling up on Steam, and it’s not hard to see why. The game takes Hades’ winning formula and then injects things everyone can love: cat girls, cozy restaurant management, and food that’ll probably make you hungry.

Even vampires deserve treats. One of the many sacrifices that people make in exchange for eternal life in vampire lore is flavor. They can only eat one thing for the rest of their elongated lives, and it’s a metallic, salty, sinister thing. We all know this. We accept this. But vampires shouldn’t have to give up texture, too. So, in 2013, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch was brave enough to create a vampire with the vision to turn that blood into something good to eat: Eve and her blood Popsicles in Only Lovers Left Alive.

In another life, I'm a food critic. Tasting dishes from different cultures is undoubtedly my greatest passion next to video games, and so I ask that you forgive me before I go on way too long about the wonderfully rendered traditional Mexican cooking in the upcoming Metroidvania Mariachi Legends.

Oregon State University (OSU) is home to quite a few food delivery robots from Starship Technologies, which ferry meals to hungry students. This week, however, deliveries were halted after a bomb threat, and one person has now been arrested for the hoax.

Today I witnessed someone's Skyrim character die in one of the most Monty Pythonesque ways possible: by eating all the food in all the land and bursting like a stuck pig.

One Skyrim player has made the ultimate sacrifice - and several less ultimate sacrifices - to let the world know what happens if you eat every single ounce of food available for purchase in the game's major cities. In short, you die. Explosively.

Skyrim finally contains the most hated food in America thanks to an incredible mod, as the Bethesda RPG sees the most quintessential British food spread added to the land of Tamriel in what I can only describe as the greatest Skyrim mod ever made.

I'm a sucker for good-looking video game food, which is why I was instantly drawn to a new Starfield mod that puts all of your culinary creations on dinner plates.

I get the concept behind the way Bethesda designed Starfield's food items. In the year 2330, humanity has become a spacefaring species, blasting across the galaxy in spaceships—and just as people are sealed inside spacesuits for protection, food is kept inside clear little plastic containers.

The biggest fast food chain in Starfield’s vast universe is called Chunks, a company that renders every food item you can think of into a literal cube. One fan has now made the valiant effort of recreating “almost” every item on the Chunks menu in real life. 

Starfield is the biggest Bethesda game thus far, which means it’s pretty darn massive. Since its recent release, players have been flying through the interstellar setting in search of new companions, missions, and more. If you’ve played the game yourself, then you’ve likely come across the adorable cube-shaped Chunks food items. Every time I see one of the Chunks, I’m not sure whether I’m hungry or scared. I mean, there are cubed cakes, eggs, and pretty much every category of food you can think of.

If you've a taste for the experimental, oddball games from PlayStation Network's early days, Nour: Play with Your Food might satisfy that craving. This unusual title is a digital celebration of food, though certainly not table manners; it provides several gastronomical vignettes and lets you mess around to your heart's — and your stomach's — content.

The first Starfield patch is here, a small and humble hotfix for the long-awaited space RPG, but Bethesda has also discussed what’s coming down the line in future, with official DLSS support and an ‘eat food’ option when scrounging around the world. I can’t wait!

The first Starfield patch is here, a small and humble hotfix for the long-awaited space RPG, but Bethesda has also discussed what’s coming down the line in future, with official DLSS support and an ‘eat food’ option when scrounging around the world. I can’t wait!

Starfield developer Bethesda has outlined a raft of improvements coming to the space role-playing game post-launch.

When you find food you want to eat in Starfield, you have to pick it up to add it to your inventory, then open your inventory, find the food, then click on it to eat it. It’s a lot of menus for a little snack — and Starfield players have been begging Bethesda to make that little tweak.

It's been one week since Starfield officially launched, and Bethesda is already working on updates, including a bunch of quality-of-life features that the community has been begging for.

For some time now, more, more, more has been Ubisoft’s mantra for each new Assassin’s Creed. More content, bigger worlds, deeper RPG systems. The upcoming Assassin’s Creed Mirage breaks from this trend, with developers Ubisoft Bordeaux and Ubisoft Montreal aiming to deliver a stripped-down action-adventure experience in line with earlier entries in the series. It’s an approach that’s generated some excitement, particularly from old-school fans, but can you really go back again? Has Ubisoft managed to recapture the feel of those older AC titles, and even if they have, is that a worthwhile accomplishment?

A Starfield player roleplaying as a scientist has made a genuine in-game scientific discovery.

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ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive recipe from. The book, which was written by Tom Grimm and Jordan Alsaqa, features over 65 recipes with step-by-step instructions and full-color photography. The book is set to release on Tuesday, October 17 and will cost $34.99.

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Now that I'm getting to play Starfield for myself, the first thing I'm doing is not playing the game as it's intended at all and instead messing with Starfield Console Commands.