Bart Christoff
Cartridge dust on the desk. Lightsabers in the corner. Opinions after midnight.
Bart runs the wire as editor. He is a rare dual loyalist: big Star Wars fan and big Star Trek fan, and he will defend both without picking a fight club.
He collects retro video games for real. Two Vectrex systems sit in the rotation, plus most of the 80s and 90s hardware that still boots when you ask nicely.
Action figures fill the shelves. His office is proudly dorky: lightsabers, an Infinity Gauntlet, a Star Wars whiskey set, a Mandalorian helmet, and a Boba Fett helmet watching the room.
Rick and Morty is comfort TV. Favorite movies on the shelf argument list include Back to the Future, The Matrix, and Rogue One.
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Dizzy's lost Mega Drive collection is heading to Kickstarter
The Eggcellent Dizzy Collection puts Dizzy the Adventurer, Go! Dizzy Go! and Panic! Dizzy on one Mega Drive cartridge, the Sega release that never shipped in 1994. Here is each game's history and what the Kickstarter still needs to answer.
Red Rising hands Darrow to the director who made Panem work
Paramount has picked up Pierce Brown's Red Rising for a feature film, with Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence attached and Justin Rhodes writing. Here is the twelve-year adaptation history and what the first movie has to get right.
Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+ put Analogue back in the 16-bit fight
Analogue's Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+ are $219.99 FPGA consoles with built-in wireless, USB-C, and December shipping, with preorders opening October 19. Here is what changed from the 2018 and 2019 originals, and who should actually buy one.
Tales of Eternia Remastered is the Tales of Destiny II we never got
Tales of Eternia Remastered is out on PS5, PS4, Xbox, Switch, Switch 2, and PC at $29.99, with the North American skits restored and an Original mode toggle that critics say you should use.
Street Fighter's reviews keep coming back to the anime flashbacks
Street Fighter opens in theaters at 45 on Metacritic and 45 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics split on the jokes and the ending but nearly united on its 2D animated flashbacks. Here is the split without a Dorkify grade.
Shogun 2 Complete Edition is pulled, and the 2011 original walks back in
Sega and Creative Assembly pulled Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition two days after launch over bugs and AI-upscaling complaints, and are reinstating the original. Here is what that means if you own either one.
Toy Story: Retro Roundup finally rescues the handheld ports
Toy Story: Retro Roundup is out today from Digital Eclipse and Atari with 11 versions of six games, and the Game Boy and Game Boy Color versions are the real reason to care.
Red Rooster trades the isometric camera for a city on fire
Summer Eternal, a studio of former Disco Elysium developers, revealed Red Rooster, a physics-driven RPG about an inmate turned arson investigator, coming to PC first with no date yet.
Alex Garland's next A24 sci-fi film lands Zendaya before Elden Ring
Zendaya will star in an untitled Alex Garland science fiction film at A24, set to shoot in 2027 while his Elden Ring adaptation waits for March 2028.
Thank You Bus Driver opens Double Fine Action Labs
Double Fine's first Action Labs game unlocks today on PC for $4.99, Steam Deck Verified, after the studio left Xbox. Here is why the price is the pitch.
Narnia's Magician's Nephew trailer sings Aslan into view
Greta Gerwig's first Narnia trailer puts Digory, Polly, Jadis, and Meryl Streep's Aslan on screen ahead of a February 12, 2027 theatrical bow and April 2 Netflix date.
Boltgun 2 puts a Battle Sister beside Malum Caedo
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 unlocks today on PC, PS5, and Xbox for $24.99 with Nyra Veyrath joining Malum Caedo and a Mick Gordon boss track for Vashtorr.
Valor Mortis puts Napoleon in a first-person soulslike
Valor Mortis unlocks today on PS5, Xbox, Steam, and Game Pass with Vincent Cassel as Napoleon and Jennifer English as The Shrike. Here is the edition math and what the launch package actually promises.
Planet Zoo 2 opens the Wildlife Reserves
Planet Zoo 2 unlocks today on PC, PS5, and Xbox with aquatic animals, aviaries, and Wildlife Reserves. Here is the sequel checklist against the 2019 original.
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse splits critics on spirit
Belmont's Curse sits around 86 on Metacritic ahead of the October 15 launch, with some critics calling it an all-timer and others saying the Castlevania feel got smoothed. Here is the split without a Dorkify grade.
Star Wars Black Series Saga Collection gives each film a figure
Hasbro's Star Wars Black Series Saga Collection, revealed at NYCC 2026, puts six figures in VHS style sleeves, one per saga film. Here is the lineup, the other Star Wars reveals, and a pre-order calendar.
Squadron 42 puts Mark Hamill back in a Chris Roberts cockpit
Squadron 42 opened Steam wishlisting with a new trailer and a Q2 2027 target, and its cast quietly reunites two Wing Commander III stars. Here is every release promise so far and what the Steam page actually says.
Hexed gives Disney Animation an original between the sequels
Disney's new Hexed trailer shows Hailee Steinfeld's Billie falling into a witch realm ahead of a November 25 release. Here is the cast, how the story changed in development, and why Hexed stands alone in Disney Animation's Thanksgiving slot.
The Exorcist: Martyrs hands the case to a homicide detective
Mike Flanagan's The Exorcist: Martyrs trailer debuted at NYCC, with Scarlett Johansson as an NYPD detective and a March 12, 2027 release. The setup borrows the best idea in the franchise's history, and here is how it fits the full film lineup.
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen trades the island for an expedition
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen is out on PC, PS5, Xbox, and a first Switch 2 release, and Capcom pitched it almost word for word like the 2013 original. Here is how the two compare, how long reviewers took, and which version to buy.
LEGO's Marvel Skyline puts Galactus over a pocket Manhattan
LEGO 67006 The Marvel Skyline is a 1,261-piece microscale Marvel Manhattan for $99.99, revealed at NYCC and shipping January 1, 2027. A guide to who lives in which building, plus how it compares on price with LEGO's new 67xxx Batman sets.
Hellraiser: Revival splits the critics three ways
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival is out from Saber Interactive on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2 at $39.99, with Doug Bradley back as Pinhead. GamesRadar+, Game Informer, and Kotaku agree on more than the scores suggest, and here is who should buy now.
The Conjuring: Unspoken turns your phone into a spirit box
The Conjuring: Unspoken, Supermassive Games' single-player horror story for Netflix, arrives October 13 and makes your phone the EMF reader, infrared camera, and spirit box. Keeping it to one player is the smartest call on the page.
LEGO's 2027 Batman wave finally gives the Penguin a ride
LEGO's 2027 Batman sets, 67009 Arkham Batmobile, 67008 Batman Returns Batmobile & Duck, and 67012 Joker Wall Art, ship January 1. The $59.99 Duck set is the real get, and the Joker is the bold one.
Can Star Wars: Galactic Racer take the podracing crown back?
Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches today on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Fuse Games brings Criterion-bred combat racing to a lawless post-Empire circuit, which is a better pitch than another Episode I tribute.
Sacrifice locks October 16 on Netflix
Romain Gavras's Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Evans volcano dark comedy gets a hard Netflix date in the U.S. and France, turning a Tudum first look into an October appointment.
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Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] opens the multiplat door
Square Enix's native Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series, and PC bundle of 1.5+2.5, 2.8, and III + Re Mind streets October 8, with a 48-hour early access perk for digital PS5 and Xbox preorders.
RS4 puts Jagex on a fourth RuneScape pillar
Jagex's RuneFest reveal puts a working-title Unreal Engine MMO beside RuneScape, Old School, and Dragonwilds, starting in Ashenfall years after Kuldra and still a few years from launch.
Ghost of Yotei Complete Edition is live on PS5
Sucker Punch's year-one package puts Echoes of Sekigahara, Most Wanted, and Legends on PS5 now, with a $14.99 upgrade path for owners and QSSR riding along for base consoles.
Gentle Monster trailer puts Seydoux on Netflix's fall board
Marie Kreutzer's Gentle Monster, starring Lea Seydoux and Catherine Deneuve, gets its official trailer ahead of an October 30 theatrical open and a November 18 Netflix arrival.
Verity opens the Hoover thriller weekend
Amazon MGM puts Colleen Hoover's Verity in theaters October 2 with Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway, and Josh Hartnett, tracking a $30 million-plus domestic open beside a soft Cruise lane for Digger.
Ace Combat 8 is live across platforms
Bandai Namco ships Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve today on PS5, Xbox Series, and Steam, with the first mainline entry in seven years and the series' biggest multiplayer hub.
LEGO Wallace & Gromit rolls out today
LEGO Ideas 21371 Wallace & Gromit is available now: 1,038 pieces, $99.99, and the Close Shave motorbike duo as an adult display build.
Gears of War E-Day Premium early access is live
The Coalition unlocks Gears of War: E-Day Premium early access today at 8am Pacific, five days ahead of the October 6 Xbox Series, PC, Steam, and Game Pass launch.
Dynasty Warriors 3 Remastered is live across platforms
KOEI TECMO ships Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered today on PS5, Switch 2, Xbox Series, and Steam, with Classic Settings and new combat verbs on the Unreal Engine 5 rebuild.
Lightyear Frontier locks November 4 for 1.0
FRAME BREAK and Coffee Stain date Lightyear Frontier 1.0 for November 4 on Steam and Xbox Series. The Early Access farming adventure gets its final region and endgame chapter.
LEGO Dragon Ball puts Shenron on the Icons shelf
The LEGO Group and Toei Animation unveil set 11390, Shenron & Goku, as the first official Dragon Ball LEGO Icons release. Insiders get November 1 early access; everyone else gets November 4.
Witcher 3 Remastered is live as a free upgrade
CD PROJEKT RED put The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered live today on PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2. Existing owners get the free upgrade path; Switch 2 is a separate eShop product.
Naughty Dog parks the Intergalactic reveal in 2027
Neil Druckmann says Naughty Dog will fully reveal Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet in 2027 and stay quiet the rest of 2026. Early The Last of Us projects are also on the studio letter.
Minecraft Dungeons II is live across platforms
Mojang and Xbox Game Studios put Minecraft Dungeons II on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and Switch 2 today. The filing is a launch map for The Sift, co-op, and the Hero Cape bridge.
Ace Combat 8 Deluxe early access hits Tuesday
Bandai Namco dates Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve Deluxe early access for September 29 and the full launch for October 2. The filing is a SKU map before the early boot screens.
Avengers Endgame Encore takes the weekend back
Disney and Marvel's Endgame Encore led the domestic box office with about $26 million and stacked roughly $86 million globally. Variety and Box Office Mojo make the Doomsday warm-up read hard to ignore.
Minecraft The Sift is a 2027 dimension bet
Minecraft Live confirmed The Sift as the first new dimension in over fourteen years. It debuts in Dungeons II on September 29, then lands in Java and Bedrock in 2027. Sequencing is the filing.
Star Wars puts Jon Watts on the next Skywalker seat
Trades confirm Jon Watts will direct the first film in Simon Kinberg's new Star Wars trilogy. Lucasfilm has no comment, Disney has not greenlit it, and Starfighter remains the only dated theatrical.
EA Sports FC 27 puts The Grounds on the pitch
FC 27 launched September 25 with The Grounds and a free Lite download. Saturday filing: social playground plus on-ramp beat the annual feature laundry list for buy-or-try decisions.
Death of Robin Hood lands on HBO Max
Hugh Jackman dark Robin Hood sets October 16 on HBO Max per WBD lineup. Soft theatrical context, cast and Sarnoski notes, no forged Dorkify grade.
Friday night still owes Resident Evil a week-two sentence
The Numbers locked Wednesday near $4.51 million after a 35 percent step down from Tuesday, lifting domestic through September 23 to about $76.87 million and worldwide near $123.3 million. Friday files the week-two weekend ask without forging a drop percentage. Spoiler-light only.
Does the Capcom scare still earn a Friday ticket
Reviews/Movies grades the multiplex hour as week two opens: franchise-best weekend near $60.15 million, Wednesday near $4.51 million, domestic through Sep 23 near $76.87 million. The second weekend is argument, not a forged drop chart.
Tuesday actuals still owe Resident Evil a week-two sentence
The Numbers locked Tuesday near $6.90 million after a 30 percent bounce from Monday, lifting domestic through September 22 to about $72.36 million and worldwide near $118.8 million. Thursday files the week-two ask without forging a second-weekend percentage. Spoiler-light only.
CONTROL Resonant is live worldwide today
PS5 Digital Deluxe early access started September 22. Worldwide launch lands today, September 24, at 10:00 AM ET / 7:00 AM PT on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Dylan Faden at center, Jesse missing in the public pitch. Spoiler-light.
Silent Hill Townfall is live today
Konami dates SILENT HILL: Townfall for September 24 on PS5, Steam, and Epic. First-person fog on St. Amelia, Screen Burn Interactive, Annapurna co-publish. Spoiler-light launch-day calendar ask.
Midweek still owes Resident Evil a holdover sentence
Monday actuals locked the Capcom reboot near $60.15 million for the three-day and about $5.31 million on Monday. Domestic through September 21 sits near $65.46 million. Wednesday files the midweek holdover ask without forged week-two math. Spoiler-light only.
Does the Capcom scare still travel midweek
Reviews/Movies grades the multiplex hour after Monday actuals: franchise-best weekend near $60.15 million, Monday near $5.31 million, B+ CinemaScore still in the open notes. Midweek is for argument, not a forged second-weekend percentage.
Monday actuals still owe Resident Evil a holdover sentence
Studio estimates put Zach Cregger's Capcom reboot near $60 million domestic and about $108.3 million global for the three-day. Tuesday files the Monday actuals chatter and the day-after holdover ask. Spoiler-light only.
Practical Magic 2 stays soft on the multiplex map
The witches held second place near $12.2 million in weekend estimates. Resident Evil owns the crown. Soft competition still shaped who kept which screens into Tuesday.
Resident Evil's franchise-record open: what still holds
After the franchise-best open, Resident Evil still has to prove the scare travels. Day-after oxygen is not the same as legs.
Is the Capcom reboot still about the scare
Cregger keeps selling feeling-of-play over wiki fidelity. Theories desk asks whether Tuesday audiences are still buying that contract after a franchise-record open. Spoiler-light only.
What does a franchise-record open buy you
Reviews/Movies grades the sourced weekend: franchise-best domestic debut near $60 million, global near $108.3 million, B+ CinemaScore still in the notes. Monday is for argument, not forged second-weekend math.
Yandere Virus just hit Steam with a wishlist army
MokaSphere launched the online co-op horror Yandere Virus on Steam around September 21 after reporting 100,000 wishlists. Up to four players, Platonic Pumpkins, SCON Universe VTubers. Spoiler-light product note.
Sixty million is the Resident Evil weekend
Monday studio estimates put Zach Cregger's Capcom reboot near $60 million domestic and about $108.3 million global for the three-day. Franchise-record open, ~3,684 theaters, $75 million production budget. Spoiler-light only.
Typhoon just stole TGS Monday
CESA canceled the entire Monday, September 21 program at Tokyo Game Show 2026 as Typhoon No. 25 approaches. Sunday, September 20 still proceeds. First planned five-day TGS for the 30th anniversary just lost its closing day.
Resident Evil is tracking a franchise-record open
Friday landed near $26.3M domestic including roughly $8.8M in previews, a franchise opening-day record. Sony is projecting about $53M to $55M for the three-day; industry chatter floats as high as ~$60M. Sunday morning still hedges until Monday actuals.
Spider-Man still owns the year while Raccoon opens
Brand New Day remains the year-long box-office weather system. Resident Evil owns this weekend's multiplex fight. Both stories can share a Sunday without erasing each other.
Lollipop live-action still needs a writers room
TGS week booked Juliet a Hollywood ticket. Sunday's take: an announcement is not a production calendar. The writers room is still the missing piece, not a forged start date.
Friday twenty-six rewrote the Resident Evil floor
Reviews/Movies files the sourced Friday number: about $26.3M domestic including previews, with B+ CinemaScore and high RT weather still in the notes. Monday actuals can wait.
Two Switch 2 carts do not finish a weekend
Fortune's Weave and LEGO Batman both landed this week. Retro desk files the portable backlog habit those launches still demand on a Saturday couch.
Lollipop Chainsaw 2 is already a 2027 PS5 bet
Back2Back is playable at Tokyo Game Show, aimed at PlayStation 5 in 2027 under Hajime Tabata's JP Universe with original writer Masahiro Yuki in the story room. Demo caveats still apply.
Opening weekend still grades the Capcom reboot
Reviews/Movies files Cregger's Resident Evil as Saturday tickets keep selling. High RT weather and record previews are context. The multiplex hour is the claim.
Lollipop Chainsaw just booked a live-action ticket
TGS week put Juliet on a Hollywood runway. Ambitious Entertainment and partners are producing a live-action feature separate from the anime track, while LC2 Back2Back aims at PS5 in 2027.
This Resident Evil feels like a game you play
Weekend reviews chatter keeps circling the same compliment: Cregger adapted the feeling of playing survival horror more than a lore wiki. Spoiler-light premise only.
Resident Evil still owns the weekend math
Saturday morning, tracking chatter still clusters in the mid-$50M neighborhood after franchise-best Thursday previews near $8M to $9M. Spoiler-light: Cregger, Abrams, Capcom reboot, wide release. Actuals can wait for Monday.
Ritchson is circling Super Earth for Sony
Deadline and TheWrap put Alan Ritchson in talks to star in Justin Lin's Helldivers after Jason Momoa exited. Theatrical target remains November 10, 2027. Talks are not a locked casting card.
Opening night is still the Resident Evil bet
Reviews desk grades Cregger's Capcom reboot as Friday arrives. High RT and record previews are weather. The ticket is the only score that finishes the argument.
Mayhem Collection puts Joker on the LEGO shelf
Deluxe Mayhem lands today with Joker, Harley, an Arkham escape mission, and the Sinister Pack. Physical Switch 2 Deluxe still dangled the Retro Video Game Batman minifigure while supplies lasted.
Eight million previews rewrote the Resident Evil floor
Deadline puts Thursday previews at $8M to $9M, crushing the franchise's prior ~$1M Final Chapter mark. Friday opens with tracking that started at $40-50M and chatter climbing toward $50-60M.
Hot Toys’ final swing is already a 2027 preorder
The No Way Home Final Swing Suit Deluxe landed as a Q1-Q2 2027 sixth-scale ask. Peg warmers still matter, but this is the Spidey shelf that will eat deposit money.
LEGO Batman Switch 2 is live on the cart
TT Games and Warner Bros. Games put Legacy of the Dark Knight on Nintendo Switch 2 today. Standard $69.99, Deluxe $89.99, Mayhem Collection with Joker and Harley, Absolute difficulty free update.
Ninety-one percent audience is the Resident Evil weather
Critics hover near 96 to 97 percent while audience sits around 91 on Rotten Tomatoes in opening chatter. Spoiler-light: Cregger, Abrams, and a score fight that will outlast the first weekend.
Top-rated game adap is still an opening-night bet
Reviews desk files Cregger's Resident Evil as the live-action adap chatter king before Friday. High RT is weather. The ticket is the grade that counts.
Brand New Day passed The Force Awakens at last
Variety puts domestic at $936.773M after 47 days, past the $936.6M Star Wars mark. The next argument is whether $1B domestic is even a live question.
Ninety-seven percent is not a Friday ticket for Resident Evil
Reviews desk grades the live-action adap chatter before opening night. Spoiler-light premise only: Cregger, Abrams, and a score that will get argued louder than the plot.
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter is live on four platforms
Falcom and GungHo ship the SC remake today on PS5, Switch, Switch 2, and PC. Save carry from the 1st Chapter remake is still the softest honest sell.
Witch weekend hands the aisle to Resident Evil
Practical Magic 2 held number one on a soft ~$30M domestic. Friday's Cregger open is the handoff, not a second coven victory lap.
Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave ships into the Heroic Games
Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive is live September 17 with Cai, Dietrich, Theodora, and Leda in Dagsion. Launch day is the appointment, not yesterday's countdown.
Marvel Legends Fanstream just restocked September
Hasbro's September stream put mini-comic wave names, Holiday Spider-Man, and retro-carded animated Spidey on the preorder clock. Peg warmers beat sixth-scale noise this week.
Premiere buzz is not a Friday grade for Resident Evil
Overnight reactions call it relentless and Abrams-led. Reviews desk grades the ask before embargos finish arguing with themselves.
Fall sealed still needs an honest auction lane
Pokemon product does not need a fake Wednesday headline. It needs clear secondary-market lanes when sealed hits harder than the hobby aisle.
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter still ships with save carry
Falcom and GungHo date the SC remake for September 17 on PS5, Switch, Switch 2, and PC. The demo progress is the softest honest sell.
Premiere reactions already sold Cregger's Resident Evil
Fantastic Fest posts landed overnight. Full reviews hit 9 a.m. PT. Friday, September 18 is still the only open that counts.
Practical Magic 2 bought number one with a soft thirty
$30M domestic and $46M global is not the $38M hope. It is still the right grade for a coven that took decades to become mandatory.
Stranger Than Heaven wants the game calendar before the Netflix one
RGG Studio's early-20th-century Japan epic still ships January 15, 2027. Netflix's live-action film is development theater next to a dated SKU.
Crazy Taxi: World Tour is still the 2027 fare that matters
The Netflix comedy can wait. Sega already dated the next playable tip chase for 2027, and that is the SKU players can argue with.
Netflix put Crazy Taxi in the comedy lane first
Gregor and Mand write the fare. Moritz, Ascher, and Nakahara produce. No date, and that is still the whole filing.
Doctor Doom's LEGO bust wants leftover September oxygen
Bikini Bottom and the Enterprise Bridge already ate the Icons photos. The bust still has to earn the same shelf without a playset alibi.
Fall sealed still runs through the auction desk
Pokémon product does not need a fake Tuesday headline. It needs honest lanes when sealed hits the secondary market harder than the hobby aisle.
Crazy Taxi still smells like Dreamcast plastic
Before Netflix hired the Naked Gun writers, the fare was a yellow cab, a punk playlist, and a console that died too young.
Practical Magic 2's $30 million is a cult sequel open
Number one on a soft $30M domestic and $46M global is not the $38M to $50M hope. It is still the right grade for a 1990s coven that took decades to become mandatory.
StarCraft climbs down from the command chair for 2030
BlizzCon's Dominion cinematic sold a boxed open-world shooter set seventy years after Legacy of the Void, with Dan Hay promising a story that ends instead of a season that resets.
The Forever beta starts Thursday. November 4 is the real stamp.
World of Warcraft: Forever opens beta access September 17 through October 21, then launches November 4 at 3:00 p.m. PST as a permanent home after Forsaken Kingdom and before Molten Core.
Can Sora survive the Item Shop the way he survived Disney worlds?
Epic confirmed Kingdom Hearts' Sora arrives in Fortnite later this week, with the v42.20 update on September 17 the likely drop window for the Keyblade fantasy on the island.
Michelle Yeoh's scalpel thriller still needs a buyer after TIFF
Roshan Sethi's The Surgeon premiered in Toronto's Centrepiece program with Yeoh as a retired doctor forced into criminal surgery, strong notices, and no U.S. distributor attached yet.
Hell's Legacy opens with thirty years of Sanctuary baggage
Diablo IV's Season of Hell's Legacy rolls out September 15 as the 30th-anniversary centerpiece, with Deckard Cain guiding a living history questline and Prime Evil remnants on the seasonal table.
I Play Rocky turns Stallone's origin into TIFF applause fuel
Peter Farrelly's Sylvester Stallone biopic premiered at Toronto on September 12, with Anthony Ippolito in the lead and Amazon MGM dating a November 6 limited start before a November 20 wide expansion.
Game Freak's laundry magical girl wants weather as a mechanic
Ame no Chi Hare Onna syncs a Japan-only free-to-play laundry fantasy to real forecasts this winter, with Pokemon director Shigeru Ohmori producing a magical girl who turns weather into mood work.
Forsaken Kingdom finally fills the Lordaeron gap
Warcraft III Reforged's new campaign shipped during BlizzCon with roughly thirty hours between Arthas and World of Warcraft, plus a free 3.0 Definitive Edition graphics update and the first new tavern hero in decades.
Answer the bell: Downton Abbey is 4,711 bricks of upstairs math
LEGO Ideas set 21373 recreates Highclere Castle with 13 Season 6 minifigures for $349.99, opening to Insiders on October 1 and to everyone on October 4.
Practical Magic 2 dethroned Spider-Man on a soft $30 million weekend
Warner Bros.' Practical Magic 2 opened to about $13 million Friday and tracked near $30 million for No. 1, ending Spider-Man: Brand New Day's six-week streak with a B+ CinemaScore.
Diablo V is selling a Sanctuary the heroes already lost
BlizzCon 2026 stamped Diablo V for Spring 2029 with a fallen Sanctuary pitch: Diablo won, the old heroes failed, and players inherit a caravan through Hell's outpost of Westmarch.
Why Diablo I still teaches loot anxiety better than a 2029 trailer
Pegged to BlizzCon's Diablo V reveal and Diablo's 30th anniversary year, the 1996 original still owns town-hub dread and click-loot sweat that no Spring 2029 key art can fake.
Bond finally has a first draft, and that is the whole story
Steven Knight told Greatest Hits Radio the Bond script draft is done ("nodding silently"). Denis Villeneuve still directs the Amazon MGM reboot. No casting has been announced.
Bikini Bottom and the Enterprise Bridge are fighting for the same Icons shelf
LEGO Icons 11386 Bikini Bottom ($219.99) shares September oxygen with Star Trek's Enterprise Bridge and the Batman Returns Batmobile. Sunday shelf politics for grown-up brick.
Practical Magic 2's B+ CinemaScore is a cult sequel grade
Audiences stamped Practical Magic 2 a B+ (better than the original's B-) on a soft ~$28-30M open against a $75M budget. Grade the stamp, not the weekend number alone.
2026 IMAX, Dolby, ScreenX, XD, RPX, and 4DX nationwide listing directory
A filterable US map of IMAX, Dolby Cinema, ScreenX, Cinemark XD, Regal RPX, and 4DX, with every premium format stacked on the theater that actually runs it.
Bikini Bottom finally got the Icons badge
LEGO Icons 11386 SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom ($219.99) landed in the Sept 1 wave beside Star Trek's Enterprise Bridge and the Batman Returns Batmobile. Grown-up shelf space for a pineapple house.
The Uprising opens with a soft pulse and a loud branding problem
Paul Greengrass and Andrew Garfield's 1381 Focus Features epic is tracking a low-single-digit open (~$3 to $5M) with mixed Tomatoes. Robin Hood origin framing is still doing more marketing work than the reviews.
Practical Magic 2 is stealing Spider-Man's Friday
Warner Bros.' Practical Magic 2 is tracking roughly $30 to $37M for the Sept 11 to 13 frame after a $4.7M Thursday preview, ending Brand New Day's six-week run at No. 1. Opening-weekend filing, not a Rotten Tomatoes sermon.
Marvel's Wolverine is a linear ride, not another New York sandbox
Insomniac's PS5 exclusive (street Sept 15, $69.99) is drawing day-of reviews that praise gore, story, and Liam McIntyre while calling the combat dated and the structure closer to a blockbuster gauntlet than Spider-Man's open world.
Best Pokémon TCG auction sites of 2026
Ranked best Pokémon TCG auction sites for 2026, led by BidZoo for Pokémon-first live bidding, plus how auction rooms make money and what separates a great site from a noisy one.
Lorcana's Paris LCQ goodie bag is the real collector pull
Disney Lorcana's European Championship last-chance qualifier is Friday at Disneyland Paris. Collector desk files the tote, the Stand Out non-foil, and two Set 13 packs, not a fake Top 8 list.
Practical Magic 2 finally puts Bullock and Kidman back in the Owens house
Warner Bros. puts Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman back in theaters as Sally and Gillian Owens on September 11, 2026, PG-13, about 130 minutes, Susanne Bier directing. Announce filing, no forged opening gross.
Crash Bandicoot turns 30 as a $53.99 Nendoroid with Aku Aku on the stand
Good Smile restocks Crash Bandicoot Nendoroid for the 30th anniversary at $53.99, preorders through October 20, ship window April through June 2027. Retro desk: the grey-controller mascot as a chibi relic.
Calling The Uprising a Robin Hood origin turns 1381 into brand scaffolding
Spoiler-light theory: once The Uprising is allowed to be a Robin Hood origin, 1381 stops being a closed revolt and starts being brand scaffolding. Premise only, no invented castings.
Runner opens at 72% Tomatoes with Ritchson still arguing in the corridor
Scott Waugh's Runner opens wide today with Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson. As of this filing Rotten Tomatoes sits at 72 percent from 39 reviews and Metacritic at 56 mixed from 12. Reviews desk grades the corridor, not a fake opening actual.
Practical Magic 2's early Tomatoes card looks a lot like 1998
Practical Magic 2 sits around 35 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and the mid-40s on Metacritic as of this Friday filing, in line with the 1998 original's critic card. I am grading the public sheet, not inventing a Popcornmeter.
Deluxe Wolverine sells tentacles harder than it sells Logan
Hot Toys' deluxe Marvel's Wolverine 1/6 sells an Omega Red bust base with UV eyes and Carbonadium coils. Statue desk files the geography, not a second fake MSRP.
Marvel Rivals Season 10 logs Gorr in before the meta even settles
Marvel Rivals Season 10: Butcher's Blasphemy is live after the September 11 9 AM UTC stamp. Launch-day filing, not a fake win rate for a Duelist who just got a login.
Hot Toys' second Doom mask reads as recruitment. Victor before the turn.
The limited Victor Von Doom figure sells a travel tunic and clean-eyed mask as the ally presentation before full Doom. Spoiler-light theory from the merch grammar and the rune footage already public.
September sealed is still the rent. October 2 is the Fracture till.
Fall 2026 cardboard pressure: Magic Reality Fracture street date October 2, prereleases September 25 through October 1, printed MSRPs for Play and Collector paths. Sealed versus singles without inventing spoilers.
Hot Toys limits Victor Von Doom to 3,000. Preorder timing still blank.
September 10 unveil for the Avengers: Doomsday travel-tunic figure: tailored green cloak look, mystic effect hands, worldwide limit of three thousand, cart date not yet public.
Nineteen-eleven is the PlayStation SKU. October owns the grey till.
LEGO PlayStation set 72306: 1,911 pieces, $179.99, Insiders October 1 / general October 4, functional buttons, plug-in controller, Gran Turismo and Ape Escape dioramas. Collectibles SKU filing.
Infinity Vision is Doomsday's premium aisle. Tickets are the product.
Marvel put Infinity Vision-certified tickets on sale with the Doomsday trailer for the December 18 premiere. Features desk grades the PLF badge as theatrical infrastructure, not another trailer recap.
The travel tunic is not the throne scale. Victor is costume rent.
Hot Toys limited (3,000) Victor Von Doom travel-tunic 1/6 for Avengers: Doomsday versus the stained-glass throne hierarchy. Display thesis, no invented MSRP.
Marvel Rivals Season 10 stamps Gorr. The Godbomb is the carton.
Eve-of-launch filing for September 11 at 9 AM UTC: Gorr the God Butcher joins as a melee Duelist, Scarlet Witch gets a rework, and The Godbomb battle pass opens after maintenance. No invented win rates.
September 25 is the Encore grade. Infinity Vision is the upsell.
Avengers Endgame: Encore returns September 25 with a Doomsday look; IMAX and Infinity Vision add an extra peek. Reviews Movies grades the rewatch carton, not a 2019 rescore.
Endgame Encore is a Doomsday warmup carton. Grade the ritual, not 2019.
September 25 theatrical re-release adds a Doomsday look, with IMAX and Infinity Vision rooms getting the exclusive extra peek. This is appointment math, not a forged rescore of the Infinity Saga finale.
LEGO PlayStation rebuilds the grey console. Retro gets a brick altar.
Set 72306 recreates the original PlayStation and first controller in 1,911 pieces after State of Play, with functional buttons, a plug-in pad, and Gran Turismo plus Ape Escape dioramas inside the shell.
Unit-02 is the Evangelion aisle. March 27 is the ship stamp.
Takara Synergenex Transformers Evangelion Prime Unit-02 full reveal: Legendary Optimus retool, Rodimus-inspired tooling, about 11,000 yen / ~$70, March 27, 2027. Aisle filing.
Brand New Day's Hulk was an ask, not a mandate. The loneliness still pays the tax.
Destin Daniel Cretton told NPR Fresh Air he had to request Hulk and Jean Grey from Kevin Feige. Reviewing the grounded erased Peter premise against the cameo oxygen it still spends.
Doomsday's Doom wakes Sentinels with runes. Magic plus tech is the threat stack.
The Direct's September 9 coverage of RDJ Doctor Doom promo footage: rune guided magic, Stormbreaker stop, Sentinel awakening. Spoiler light theory on why the hybrid deletes old MCU mystic limits. Film December 18, 2026.
Epona is the adult display. Spring 2027 is the street date.
LEGO 77094 Link & Epona lands from the Zelda 40th Direct: 1,750 pieces, rearing horse, Master Sword, adult display model, spring 2027. Price still unprinted. The remake aisle already has a cartridge clock.
Noah Jupe is Secret Wars scaffolding. Marvel left the role unnamed on purpose.
Deadline reports Noah Jupe joins Avengers: Secret Wars in an undisclosed key role. Film dated December 17, 2027, after Doomsday on December 18, 2026. Mystery casting as Multiverse architecture.
Six-inch is the Hyrule aisle. May 1 is the ship stamp.
Hasbro Heroes of Hyrule Tears of the Kingdom Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf opened preorders July 22 for a May 1, 2027 ship. $27.99 heroes, $42.99 deluxe Ganondorf, soft goods and Zonai swaps included.
Italy is the Married carton. September 9 is the invite.
Why Did I Get Married Again? premieres on Netflix September 9, 2026: Tyler Perry returns, Taraji P. Henson joins as Roselyn, Lake Como wedding premise. Packaging review without inventing critic scores.
The throne is the Doom rent. 2027 is when the stained glass ships.
Hot Toys Doctor Doom 1/6 for Avengers: Doomsday sits beside Doom's Throne ACS016 on Sideshow: $210 seat, Early Access around $285, Ultimate near $390, ship windows into 2027.
September maps four theatrical aisles. Runner, witches, Resident Evil, then Pitt.
Corridor feature: Runner and Practical Magic 2 on September 11, Zach Cregger's Resident Evil on September 18, Heart of the Beast with Brad Pitt on September 25. Aisle map only, no invented reviews.
Valheim 1.0 stamped this morning. Deep North is live with a platform passport.
Launch day filing: Deep North ships September 9, 2026 on PC, Xbox, plus day one PS5 and Switch 2, full crossplay, $29.99 for new buyers, free for Early Access owners. No invented score.
Wild Horse Nine's Venice ovation is festival weather, not a locked grade
Wild Horse Nine earned a reported 14-minute ovation at Venice and a stack of Malkovich raves with real reservations attached. I am grading festival notices and a dated theatrical, not inventing a locked Tomato.
Q4 is the Absolute appointment. The axe books a fall shelf.
Iron Studios Absolute Batman Art Scale 1:10 ships into the October through December 2026 window: about $249.99 at Iron, $255 at Sideshow. The Absolute Universe statue leaves reveal for a season on the shelf.
Transformers Day at Target: the hanger is the product
Upper Deck and Hasbro's Transformers Day Target hanger is the product under fluorescent lights: a hanger box, not a countdown slogan.
9.5 inches is the comic Doomsday. The Avengers aisle is a different funeral.
McFarlane DC Multiverse Doomsday (Death of Superman) Gold Label mega fig: about 9.5 inches, McFarlane Toys Store exclusive, $59.99 MSRP. DC spikes, not Marvel Avengers: Doomsday plastic.
October 1 is the grey furniture. The drawers are the street date.
LEGO 72306 PlayStation hits Insiders and PlayStation Direct October 1, public October 4: 1,911 pieces, $179.99 RRP, Ape Escape and Gran Turismo drawers. Twenty-four days of measuring the shelf.
Sony built a Resident Evil corridor, not a dump
Cregger's Resident Evil hits theaters September 18. Features desk inventories the marketing countdown: previews, AMA, tickets, Fantastic Fest, IMAX. Not another thirty-minute grade.
Two SKUs share one Direct carton. Ocarina and the movie fight for the sting.
Tomorrow's Zelda anniversary Direct is thirty minutes. The Switch 2 Ocarina remake and the April 30, 2027 film both want the oxygen. Packaging theory: sequencing is the crown.
The 72 is the day-before ticket. Hope's sheet cooled, the till is Wednesday.
Neon opens Na Hong-jin's Hope on September 9. Rotten Tomatoes sits around 72 and Metacritic around 67 as of this filing. This is a ticket grade of the public sheet, not a private screening.
The Legend of Zelda movie: what Nintendo has confirmed, and what is still rumor
Wes Ball's live-action Legend of Zelda is dated April 30, 2027. Fans expected footage in the 40th Anniversary Direct; here is the confirmed record versus the insider talk.
The 1998 cartridge walks into a Direct. That is the retro product.
The Zelda 40th Anniversary Nintendo Direct hits September 8 at 7 a.m. PT for about thirty minutes, promising anniversary initiatives and Ocarina of Time remake details. Eve of show only. No invented feature sheet.
Valheim 1.0 is a platform passport, not another ice trailer
September 9 ships Deep North plus day one PS5 and Switch 2, full crossplay, and a $29.99 price for new buyers. Existing owners update free. The finished Viking is the product.
Nine hundred million is the chase now. Force Awakens is the finish line.
Deadline put Brand New Day in the $900M domestic club on Friday. World of Reel's Labor Day math leaves Force Awakens roughly fourteen million ahead. The announcement is the chase.
The Poké Ball is a $399 Blu-ray shelf. Ash's movies finally share one catch.
VIZ's Amazon-exclusive 24-movie collection lands November 24 in a display case with a hinge. Features desk reads it as nostalgia SKU, not a streaming login.
Hot Toys Deluxe Thor: the Sentinel head is the deluxe tax
Hot Toys Avengers: Doomsday Thor Deluxe MMS919 (~$385) sells a Sentinel-head LED diorama base as statue geography. Distinct from yesterday's trailer-pose Action Figures filing. Film Dec 18; figures into 2027.
CONQ sells the Eternal Shift as an iron loop, not another open-world vacation.
Athena Game's CONQ: Crown of No Quarter hit State of Play and Steam as a 2027 PC/PS5 tactical action hybrid. Cross-era armies, sea-to-land warfare, and Coronation kills are the published bet.
The bullets are the Resident Evil engine. The camera is the stick.
Cregger's AMA says you will count the magazine and feel the miss. Preview rooms already talk like players. Theory: game feel outranks the mascot roster.
The Target three-pack is Doomsday. Twenty-eight dollars is the weeknight.
Hasbro Avengers: Doomsday ActionVerse and Marvel Legends wave: $27.99 Legends singles, $10.99 ActionVerse figures, Target Thor/Thing/Cyclops 3-pack $27.99. Fall 2026 aisles, not Hot Toys patience.
Thirty Pikachu are the street date. September 16 is the sealed window.
Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration streets September 16: all-foil packs with 30 Pikachu rares, Futuristic rares, ETB with Nidorina promo, Poster Collection birds. Anniversary FOMO, not Zeta or Transformers redos.
Final Fantasy Resonance sold the first chapter as a demo, then taxed pride with Sephiroth.
Square Enix dropped a free HD-2D Final Fantasy Resonance demo on September 3 across major platforms, with save carryover to the October 22 launch. Sephiroth is the optional challenge with a still-secret reward.
A thirty-minute screen is not a Resident Evil grade
Sony screened Zach Cregger's opening half hour on September 1. The rooms sounded sold. This filing reviews the preview, not a Tomatometer I refuse to invent.
October 4 is the movie aisle. The bust was just the early till.
LEGO Avengers: Doomsday playsets street October 4: Quinjet 76347 ($59.99), Epic Battle 76348 ($99.99), New Avengers Tower 76352 ($109.99). Doom Bust 76345 already hit September 1.
Chronovisor review roundup: an occult library mystery critics loved
Jack Auen and Kevin Walker's Chronovisor opened in limited release September 4 with a 93 on Rotten Tomatoes and an 89 Metascore. Here is who it is for and who should skip it.
Wizards bet the open world on Darkon, not another Realms vacation.
Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons puts Invoke's 2027 action adventure in the Ravenloft domain of Darkon. Kaatri, Tasha, Raw Magic, and a single-class fantasy are the published bet. The Realms can wait.
Marvel's Nova movie has to answer for Xandar, and that is its best opening
Michael Waldron told TheWrap a Nova story would have to reckon with Thanos wiping out the Nova Corps offscreen in Infinity War. The theory: that atrocity should be the cold open.
Five hundred is the mirror tax. Echoed pairs are the carton joke.
MTG Reality Fracture chase map: echoed pairs in every pack, 13 shattered mirrors with facet foil, serialized Bloodline Recollector (500), Secret Lair Bundle $89.99, set October 2.
They inventoried Conch Street. The pineapple is the street date.
LEGO Icons 11386 SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom is a 1,794-piece September street at $219.99: pineapple, Moai, rock, Jellyfish Fields, exclusive to LEGO channels.
Waldron put Rich Rider back on the wire. Feige already called it a movie.
TheWrap's September Nova chat, plus Feige's Comic-Con shrug, turns early development into a Saturday announcement. Rich Rider is the name. The date is still missing.
They inventoried a trailer pose. The lightning waits until 2027.
Hot Toys Avengers: Doomsday Thor sixth-scale preorders opened September 5: MMS918 standard near $285, MMS919 deluxe near $385, film December 18, figures into 2027.
They finished the Ninja Gaiden trilogy with a subscription button.
NES - Nintendo Classics added Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom around September 1-2, 2026, with Ikari Warriors and R.C. Pro-Am II. The classic trilogy is finally a single login, not a museum gap.
Tripathi's whisper is the theatrical technology. The runtime is the tax.
Mirzapur: The Movie opened Friday at 197 minutes. The Hindu, India Today, and trade notices agree the cast bites. The craft fight is length, politics, and whether OTT chaos survives a ticket stub.
The cult bought a ticket stub. Streaming finally rented scarcity.
Mirzapur Day-1 Hindi net landed around the mid-20s crore mark per Sacnilk and Saturday trade flashes. The feature is the platform-to-multiplex bet, not the craft grade.
Trinity is a September shipping window. The leap is the rent.
Iron Studios Matrix Trinity Art Scale 1:10 sits in a September 2026 Sideshow ship window at $225: about 8.8 inches of lobby leap, SKU 914911.
They sold a DMZ panic as a Wednesday ticket. The 77 is the Neon weather report.
Na Hong-jin's Hope hits U.S. theaters September 9 with a Rotten Tomatoes card near 77 and a Metacritic near 68. I am grading the public sheet before the lobby opens, not inventing a sequel.
They inventoried a dead PlayStation. The Open button is the relic.
Set 72306 is official after State of Play: 1,911 pieces, $179.99, Insiders October 1, public October 4. Ape Escape and Gran Turismo hide under the lid.
Capcom opened the till. The oni left the museum on Friday.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword launched worldwide September 4, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, and PC. First new Onimusha in twenty years. The sword is no longer a trailer prop.
By Any Means sold a bat and a badge. The critics say Abdul-Mateen is what holds.
Bratton's Paramount historical thriller opens Friday with mixed grades and a reverse Green Book argument. The craft is loud. The pedagogy is the fight. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is the SKU.
Tom and Jerry became supporting players in their own logo. The compass points east.
Viva Kids opens Zhang Gang's Chinese co-production wide on Friday. The cat and mouse still sell the poster. The mythology sells the runtime. That is the kids-IP shipping container in 2026.
Nintendo sold a waiting room with a green half and a red half.
On September 4, 2026, Nintendo announced a Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct for September 8 and a general Nintendo Direct for September 9. The remake date is still blank. The calendar is the product.
Mayday on Apple TV: soft Tomatoes for a buddy-movie login
Mayday lands on Apple TV September 4 with Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh, and a Rotten Tomatoes card in the mid-80s. Metacritic is colder. I am grading the public stream, not inventing a theatrical miracle.
Cregger kept Leon in the games. The courier who counts bullets is the Resident Evil SKU.
Sony screened thirty minutes. The trailer finally said Raccoon City. The theory is Outbreak logic, not a roster remake, seventeen days before September 18.
The eye does not blink. Six hundred dollars is the saving throw.
Iron Studios' D&D Beholder Icons statue is up for preorder around $599.99, about 12 inches of polystone tyranny with a 2027 shipping window.
The multiplex lobby is a high score now.
Street Fighter Combo Challenge is not just a clever ad. It is a trial run for turning trailers into rooms you stay inside. The arcade came back wearing YouTube.
Evil Ryu is not a skin. It is the 1993 product.
The new Street Fighter trailer teases Satsui no Hado and a purple fireball. Theory: Paramount is not selling a tournament. It is selling Ryu's almost-fall in period dress.
They scheduled a double feature and put Revelation in the closer slot.
State of Play and State of Play Japan air back to back on September 3, 2026. Sony named Final Fantasy VII Revelation as the English show's extended-look finale before a single other title hit the Blog lede.
Everyone gets the Batman Returns Batmobile
Set 76355 streets to the public September 4 at $229.99 and 2,269 pieces. LEGO Insiders opened September 1. The first Batman Returns Batmobile in bricks is no longer a membership perk.
The 53 is not a fall. It is the warning label on the ticket.
Fall 2: Deadpoint opened at 53 percent and a 54 Metascore. The critics agree the height still works, then argue whether anything around it deserves the climb.
The plank is the whole movie. Everything else is ballast.
Day after Fall 2: Deadpoint, the craft argument is cleaner than the grades. The Spierigs still know how to erase the floor. The script keeps trying to invent a reason.
The trailer got a joystick. Paramount turned October into a high score.
Street Fighter Combo Challenge hits YouTube Playables as the first full-length movie trailer you can play. World Warrior Tour Tokyo was the stage. October 16 is still the date.
Absolute Batman is a shipping window now. The axe finally has a season.
Iron Studios Absolute Batman 1:10 Art Scale sits at about $249.99 to $255 with Sideshow pointing at October through December 2026. The Absolute Universe statue left the reveal phase.
Walmart owns the first World Warrior wave. The movie is two weeks later.
Hasbro's Street Fighter movie figures street October 1 at Walmart: Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li $27.99, Akuma $39.99. Preorders opened July 23. The film opens October 16.
They graduated Early Access into a multiplatform street date. The ice is the 1.0 stamp.
Valheim 1.0 launches September 9 with the Deep North biome on PC, Xbox, and day-one PlayStation 5 and Switch 2, plus full crossplay. Iron Gate is ending the test and selling the finished Viking.
Wingard said Onslaught shares The Guest's universe. Moriarty is the trilogy town.
At Comic-Con he called it a cap on You're Next and The Guest. Same New Mexico pin. Same black-budget programs. Dan Stevens wears a new face. The town stays cursed.
Onslaught promised a great Friday. The critics say Arjona is what actually holds.
Wingard's A24 desert siege opens September 4 with a mid-70s Tomatometer and a mid-60s Metacritic. The craft is loud. The payoff is the argument. Adria Arjona is the SKU.
Fall 2 opens today. Capstone already greenlit Fall 3. Height is the franchise now.
Deadpoint hits theaters September 2 after a Netflix-era sequel boom. The Spierigs directed. Mann still owns chapter three. The tower became a catalog.
They priced the playtest at $19.92 and put the Xerox in the vault.
Secret Lair x MSCHF: The Zeta Set drops September 2 in the Chaos Vault with seven randomized photocopy-styled Magic cards per envelope. One hundred twenty-one cards. Printer-error treatments on purpose. While supplies last.
They priced a 1987 brick breaker like lunch. The ball is the SKU, not the museum.
Arcade Archives Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh launches September 3 on Switch and PS4 for $7.99, with Arcade Archives 2 on Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series for $9.99. Hamster restocked Taito's sequel as a download, not a cabinet funeral.
Prime restocked a lawyer who cannot stop running. The cape stayed in the drawer.
Gal Gadot's The Runner hits Prime Video today: eighty-four minutes, Kevin Macdonald, Damian Lewis on the line. Variety called it energetic but uninspired. Amazon called it Wednesday.
The Kenner ghost gets one last wave. Preorders open at noon.
McFarlane's final DC Super Powers assortment puts Silver Age Flash, Martian Manhunter, Wonder Girl, Deathstroke, JSA Superman, and metallic Cyborg on Entertainment Earth September 3. The blister line is closing while the bigger DC license weather keeps walking.
They dated a Guest-universe chainsaw for Labor Day. The 74 is the permission slip.
Onslaught opens September 4 with Adria Arjona and Adam Wingard. Rotten Tomatoes sits near 74. This is the critic pile, not opening-night popcorn.
The volcano chase does not need a T-Rex. The bull still eats the room.
Prime 1 Studio opens preorders September 2 on a 1/15 Fallen Kingdom Carnotaurus: $1,499 regular, $1,799 DX with Owen and a Gyrosphere, edition 300 on DX, ship window 2028. Seventy centimeters of horned chaos without the duel partner.
Clayface's director already told you the movie. It was a dinner party, not a Batman reel.
James Watkins' Speak No Evil is the public rehearsal for October's R-rated Clayface. The remake made money as hospitality horror. The melting man is not a villains reel on this evidence.
They priced the soulslike like a paperback. The SKU is a twenty-dollar demon hunt.
Crimson Moon launches today at $19.99 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series. ProbablyMonsters is selling a gothic co-op habit, not a seventy-dollar pilgrimage. I have not finished it. The coverage already tells you what the product is.
Capcom restocked a PS2 oni as current hardware. The sword is the SKU, not the museum.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword launches September 4 on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC. The Switch 2 demo already added the Oni Refuge and boss Daidara. This is a new Musashi on current hardware, not a PS2 relisting.
The cold villain is the expensive resin dare. LEGO is putting fifty-dollar busts on desks this week.
Sideshow's Mr. Freeze Premium Format (300930) is 23.1 inches and about $775, shipping into 2027. Same week Billund is selling a $50 brick villain for a desk. The ice is the adult price.
They dated the first 2027 horror for New Year's Day. Aronofsky's logo is the SKU.
Vertical and Protozoa dropped the Pendulum teaser today. Mark Heyman's R-rated directorial debut, produced by Darren Aronofsky, opens nationwide January 1, 2027 as a New Mexico retreat head trip.
Apple restocked a theatrical-shaped action comedy as a Friday login. The D&D guys left the dungeon at home.
Mayday hits Apple TV September 4 with Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the Honor Among Thieves duo, deliver a Cold War buddy comedy shaped like a multiplex tape for a password premiere.
They are shrinking the Hanna-Barbera Justice League. The license is walking.
McFarlane DC Retro Super Friends Wave 6 is The Joker, Apache Chief, and The Atom, with preorders September 4. Previous waves were six figures. Toy Habits stopped at the word features. The DC collector clock runs through late 2026.
They sold Far Far Away as a mystery bag. The movie is next year.
71053 Shrek Collectible Minifigures streets today at $4.99 a blind bag, the first licensed CMF of 2026, on the same morning as three adult Icons sets. Shrek 5 is dated June 30, 2027. The swamp is a till SKU now.
The anniversary is a global street date. Japan does not get to go first.
Pokemon TCG 30th Celebration streets worldwide September 16, the first simultaneous global expansion. All foil, a Pikachu in every pack, Futuristic rare Mew and Mewtwo by YOSHIROTTEN. The product is the shared Wednesday.
Street Fighter got the IMAX billing, but Clayface led the interest tracking
Street Fighter opens October 16 Filmed for IMAX. Clayface lost its IMAX language and opens October 23. The Quorum's interest numbers, as reported by Cosmic Book News, still favored the DC horror film.
The novel was quiet. The Ridley machine is not. The grades argue the mismatch.
The Dog Stars sits at 39 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and 49 on Metacritic. This is the critic pile, not the Coyote box-office joke.
They recast the origin movie. The SKU is the whistleblower, not the Harvard dorm.
Sony and Columbia are putting The Social Reckoning in theaters October 9 with Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg, Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen, and Jeremy Allen White as Jeff Horwitz. Sorkin wrote and directed a companion to The Social Network. The product on the shelf is the 2021 leak, not another dorm-room origin.
They sold five copies of the same guy. The anniversary SKU is a squad of Sams.
Serious Sam: Shatterverse launches today as Behaviour Interactive's five-player co-op roguelite, not another Croteam campaign. The 25th-anniversary product is the lobby of Sams under Mental.
They sold 1986 as a Target hanger box. The movie is the SKU.
Upper Deck and Hasbro opened a multiyear cards-and-games deal on August 26. Debut is a Transformers: The Movie 40th Anniversary Special Edition at Target for Transformers Day. Fleer gets the 100-card hobby set later. No TCG yet.
LEGO is not selling another Batmobile. It is selling the alley split.
Set 76355 is 2,269 pieces and $229.99. Insiders Sept 1, everyone Sept 4. The 1992 car finally arrives as bricks, and the product is the moment the sides fall off.
They sold a Monster Hunter squad without the banner. The product is the party.
HoYoverse revealed Nodusfall at Gamescom Opening Night Live as a free-to-play four-player monster hunt on PC, with characters unlocked by playing instead of random draws. Five days of coverage later, the company that sold banners is selling a squad.
Five Insidious movies sent people in. The sixth is selling the dead coming out.
Jacob Chase flipped The Further. Amelia Eve can bring what lives there into the real world. Mixed reviews, an $18 million budget, and a second weekend still on a marquee. The SKU is the dead coming out.
Coyote vs Acme review: the A CinemaScore says the hybrid comedy works
Dave Green's Coyote vs. Acme opened August 28 through Ketchup Entertainment and earned an A CinemaScore. Here is what the film is, what the grades mean, and where the critics split.
LEGO skipped the Harry Potter advent calendar. The school year is a merch drop now.
Back to Hogwarts starts Saturday: Mini Hogwarts 40975 is $39.99 and 700 pieces. The Ministry we already covered. September 1 brings five advents and none of them Potter.
They shipped a PlayStation hex-grid war like a new console exclusive. It is a 2026 SKU.
Happinet and NIS America put Brigandine Abyss on Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series, and Steam this weekend with a launch trailer, a two-season demo, and an $89.99 Limited Edition. The lineage is 1998. The box is current hardware.
Ridley Scott opened a dystopia. A rescued cartoon outgrossed it.
Spider-Man held a fifth No. 1. Coyote vs. Acme is looking at a Ketchup record. The Dog Stars, Ridley Scott's Heller adaptation with Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin, is opening like a shrug.
The Whisper Man did not need eight hours. It needed fathers who finally talk.
Netflix unlocks James Ashcroft's Alex North adaptation today. I have not screened it. Deadline, the Los Angeles Times, and Metacritic already argue the case: a 90s crime picture in a 2026 login, honest at roughly 111 minutes, haunted by men who go silent until a child is gone.
LEGO Super Mario is killing the beep-boop plumber. The $9.99 minifigure is the confession.
Gamescom Aug 26 refresh: eight minifigure sets street Jan 1, 2027. Mario's Pipe Jump is $9.99 and 61 pieces. Kids wanted to be Mario, not to scan him.
They priced the anniversary Xbox like a statue. The disc is the actual product.
Xbox opened $899.99 translucent green Series X25 pre-orders and, on the same day, started turning physical discs into digital entitlements. The numbered console is the birthday souvenir. Disc-to-Digital is the quiet product.
The Love Hypothesis wants a date-night theatrical. It never needs a theater.
Prime Video's new trailer for Ali Hazelwood's BookTok STEM romance sells fake dating, lab goggles, and Reneé Rapp. The real pitch is a studio slate built out of TikTok shelves.
Xbox gave Fable its dedicated moment six months early. It is an eighteen-minute trailer.
Playground Games put nearly eighteen minutes of narrated Bowerstone gameplay on the gamescom table, months after Xbox slid the reboot to February 2027 so a fairy-tale RPG would not fight a crime game for the winter.
LEGO is selling a 4.5-foot dagger that happens to be a starship. The bounty hunters are the set.
Executor Super Star Destroyer 75457: 6,130 pieces, $799.99, 53.5 inches long. Insiders October 1. All six Empire bounty hunters in one box for the first time. The ship is the excuse.
Toxic opened like a video-game launch. The movie is the disc they had to ship.
Geetu Mohandas sent a Rs 50 lakh film toward the Oscars. Today she opened a reported Rs 500 crore Yash picture to mixed-to-negative notices and a Day 1 that is printing like a midnight drop.
The Witcher 3 remaster is not a gift. It is the waiting room for Ciri.
CD Projekt already patched this game into the current generation in 2022. Now it is doing it again, for free, with Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine thrown in, because the next saga is two years out and the wolf still has to occupy the shelf.
The World Championships are a merch drop with a tournament attached. A German teddy-bear house made the Pikachu.
PokémonXP opens Friday at Moscone. Three merch lines, a voucher for Steiff, a badge you already cannot get. Worlds at Home starts today. Nobody has said what is in it.
McFarlane is putting Adam West on the 7-inch shelf as the DC license walks. The Shakespeare bust is the whole argument.
Collector Edition 2-pack, noon today. Unmasked Bruce, a Batradio, and the secret switch that opens the cave. The camp Batman is the one that still looks like a toy on purpose.
Korea sent Possible Love to the Oscars before Venice. That is a layoff movie wearing a love title.
Lee Chang-dong spent a decade on two marriages and a mass firing. KOFIC picked the film Tuesday. Netflix paid when Korean theaters could not.
GTA 6's Netflix premiere is Thursday. The first look already happened, with a taser and a meme coin.
Take-Two is in federal court chasing Microsoft and Discord records. Bloomberg says Rockstar is angry and still on the August 27 date. The clips keep coming.
The Odyssey is the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever. That is a camera story, not a translation.
Week six put Nolan past The Dark Knight at home and past Deadpool & Wolverine worldwide. IMAX did the lifting. The translator he cited is still not clapping.
Terranigma is coming to America 31 years late. The man who designed it already told you it will not be the same.
Clear River, Square Enix, and Limited Run pulled Quintet's missing cartridge onto modern hardware for 2027. Physical copies. A 4:3 window. And a press quote that should make importers nervous.
LEGO is selling a $450 Ministry of Magic. The castle was never the interesting part.
3,491 pieces, 14 minifigures, Insiders on August 29. Twenty-five years after the first movie, they finally built the building where the story actually happens.
A chase card got cheaper than the discourse wanted. That is the story, not the pull rate.
Pokémon’s Delta Reign cycle is already teaching a new class of collectors the worst lesson: hype is not a price floor.
Miyazaki just said the quiet part: FromSoftware wants to go home to single-player.
After The Duskbloods connectivity headaches and Nightreign, the studio’s director is talking like a man who misses a closed door.
Metal Gear Solid 4 is finally leaving the PS3. That should feel like a rescue. It also feels like a funeral.
Master Collection Vol. 2 lands August 27. The last great game trapped on dead hardware gets a new passport - and loses the ritual of the yellowing fat PS3.
LEGO just had the nerdiest August in years, and the Batmobile is not even out yet.
E.T., The X-Files, Pokémon minifigs, and a September 4 Batman Returns car. The brick company is printing the 90s back into the living room.
Elden Ring on Switch 2 is not news. The fact that it will be in a lap on August 28 is.
The Tarnished Edition is a port, a victory lap, and a test of whether the Lands Between still work when the TV is a train window.
D&D just put Baldur’s Gate 3’s nastiest idea in Unearthed Arcana: become the mind flayer.
The new playtest does not treat ceremorphosis as flavor text. It treats it as a build.
You cannot turn psychohistory into a board game. They are going to try anyway.
Creardo’s licensed Foundation game wants deck-building, politics, and Asimov’s math of collapse. The tension is the whole pitch.
StarCraft’s miniatures game revealed Wave Two before Wave One finished landing. That is the hobby in one sentence.
Zeratul, a siege tank, a Ravager, an Immortal, Lost Temple terrain - and a shipping calendar that is already arguing with the models.
A $50 Doctor Doom bust made of bricks is a joke that landed. The $400 resin one is the dare.
LEGO’s September 1 Doom bust is 379 pieces and aimed at desks. The high-end statue market should be nervous for a boring reason: good enough got cheaper.
The empty slot on the figure shelf is the real product now.
Every announcement cycle opens a gap in the case. The companies know it. That is why the box in the middle of the photo is the story.
Clayface is the comic-book movie that does not want to be one, and that is why it might work.
Gunn’s DCU is sending a melting man into theaters on September 11. For once the ‘it’s actually horror’ line is the honest one.
Avengers: Doomsday is a funeral that already has a trailer. That should worry you.
D23 gave us RDJ’s Doom, returning faces, and a December 18 date. The footage looks expensive. The mood feels like a wake they sold tickets to.
Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider and a new Black Panther in the same week is Marvel admitting the old engine is tired.
Comic-Con handed the keys to a flaming skull and to David Jonsson as T’Challa’s son. Different movies. Same tell.