Ryan Epps
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About Ryan Epps
Ryan Epps is a contributing writer for Polygon. His writing spans both the entertainment and tech verticals, with bylines covering everything from Dark Souls to TVs at sites like Tom’s Guide, IGN, Digital Trends, TheGamer, Tech Times, and more.
What's your origin story?
I was writing short stories in little notebooks since I was 5 years old. I haven't stopped writing since.
What's a recent obsession?
Saga of Tanya the Evil, Nier Replicant and Neir Automata, Sim racng, Daicon Opening Animations, Hideaki Anno's Love & Pop and Ritual.
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Taylor Sheridan's breakthrough crime thriller is still his sharpest piece of writing
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A dying yakuza confronts the sins of his past in The Last Blossom anime trailer
Studio CLAP's latest feature arrives in theaters for two nights only this August
Studio Ghibli's most misunderstood fantasy returns to theaters after 20 years
Goro Miyazaki's debut feature remains the boldest and most hotly debated creative gambles in the studio's history
Marvel’s Phase 7 movie slate is hiding in plain sight after SDCC
After years of multiverse setup, Marvel Studios is finally refocusing on its most important worlds
How The Ninth Jedi brings Star Wars back to basics by reinventing everything
"We were given the freedom to create something new," director Kenji Kamiyama tells Polygon
42 years ago, Hayao Miyazaki gave The Odyssey’s overlooked princess the epic adventure she deserves
The best companion piece to Christopher Nolan's new epic isn't another sword-and-sandals adventure
Before False Memory arrives, binge the six-episode anime that changed a generation
The coming-of-age story that never gets old
John Wick is secretly one of the best fantasy franchises of the last decade
The secret fantasy lurking beneath the bullets
Magic’s most fascinating failure was secretly ahead of its time
What began as a marketing gimmick quickly became something far more interesting
Matt Damon's most underrated epic adventure movie is free to stream on Tubi
10 years later, this forgotten blockbuster is worth a second chance
Chainsmoker Cat understands the impossible math of addiction
Yaniko’s journey is anything but pretty, and that grime is exactly what makes her story so compelling
Magic’s 35 new Hobbit cards bring Thorin’s legendary company together
Thorin, Bard, and the heroes of The Hobbit lead the first wave of legendary reveals
Twenty years later, the weirdest FF7 game is still one of Square Enix’s boldest experiments
Sometimes the weirdest ideas, like an action shooter starring Vincent Valentine, can become the most memorable
One Piece card scalpers cause rare Weekly Shonen Jump shortage, leaving manga fans empty-handed
An exclusive One Piece promo reportedly sent resellers racing to bookstores across Japan
Sony’s Crunchyroll store changes feel like subscription culture gone too far
After announcing the end of physical Playstation media, the corp builds yet another wall in the garden
20 years later, anime's greatest coming-of-age story still feels timeless
The secret to Mamoru Hosoda’s anime has always been understanding what we’re afraid to lose
Sam Neill's greatest sci-fi movie is still the best cosmic horror ever put to screen
The most terrifying thing about Event Horizon is watching a man understand the impossible