Demo sessions are often terrible ways to see a game, doubly so at conferences. You want to sink into a game at your own pace (and with unbroken access to fresh cups of tea), not get dropped into the middle of the action, hoisted up again 20 minutes later and plonked into another section of a game. However, that's the nature of these things sometimes and it suits some games more than others.

The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival has announced a slate of cultural programs running alongside its main competition, headlined by a 13-film retrospective honoring Mizoguchi Kenji on the 70th anniversary of his death, a symposium exploring a potential new international anime award, and a 10th-anniversary celebration of its Teens Cinema Workshop.

“Gospić is our home,” Željka Šikić shouted to a crowd of 40,000 people outside the Croatian parliament earlier this month. The slogan is the name of a campaign she helped to set up to protest against the illegal dumping of waste in Gospić, a town in the mountainous Lika region of central Croatia.

Off the Fence (OTF), the leading storytelling media group and co-producer of Oscar-winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher,” has boarded Viviane D’Avilla’s “Let Us Be.” The documentary, which world premiered at Raindance and will have its Latin American premiere at the Rio Film Festival, follows the lives of intersex individuals across the world.

Nintendo has finally won its long-running lawsuit against a reddit moderator who sold pirated Switch games, and been awarded $4.5 million in damages.

We've been tracking Nintendo of America's legal action against James "Archbox" Williams for the past two years, ever since the firm initially used a combination of reddit posts and Williams' own Nintendo repair orders to track him down and launch litigation back in late 2014.

Iran says it has put forward a plan to the United States to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, as Qatar passes messages between the two countries at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Europe’s top leagues, from England, Spain, Italy and Germany, add pressure on Gianni Infantino after World Cup plan.

The Premier League and three other top European leagues have called for governance reform of FIFA, following Gianni Infantino’s failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup.

A new streaming platform aimed at independent film and supporting independent filmmakers has been unveiled.

The Drive-In, a TVOD service that will operate within independent film and TV discovery app RecDek, is set to launch in October during the London Film Festival and with a founding cohort of indie filmmakers.

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Published Sep 25, 2026, 5:56 AM EDT

Ashely currently works as a news writer for Polygon. After getting her Translation degree, she was hired as a guide and news writer for GameRant and TheGamer. She enjoyed working as an author for these sites for six years, and in 2026, she started at Polygon, where she is able to continue to do what she loves: writing about video games.

Tehran seeks rapid implementation collapsed ceasefire deal, offering to open Hormuz if regional conflicts halted.

Iran has proposed a seven-day roadmap aimed at ending the war with the United States.