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Europe Championship runs September 11 to 13 at Disneyland Paris hotels in Core Constructed. Two hundred main event seats, LCQ Friday, Worlds tickets for the top eight. Championship week, not another sealed calendar.
Star Wars: Legion Leaders of the Separatist Alliance streets September 11 at about $62.99 with Dooku, Trench, Grievous, Ventress, and Savage. Three commanders, two operatives, cards included.
Daggerheart's first expansion already opened specialty and digital on August 25. Wide retail hits September 22 with Witch, Warlock, Brawler, and Assassin. Not another Cosmere filing. The classes are the product.
Future Flip from Fowers and Larsen hits UK and EU retail this week with double sided rooms, flipping disguises, and cybernetic SysOps. Kickstarter demand already proved. The till is the new test.
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.
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.
The Necromunda Skirmish Core Set ships two gangs, a play mat, Factoria pipes, a hardcover rulebook, cards, and markers at a $165 MSRP. That closed loop is the board-game handshake inside a miniatures aisle.
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.
Wizards' ten-episode Reality Fracture arc ends September 11 after a September 8 debut stream. Different angle from the preview calendar: the serialized Jace/Echoverse story is the till date that trains the sealed season.
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.
Brotherwise's Mistborn Campaign Setting hit Kickstarter backers digitally on September 2. Public PDFs and VTT editions follow September 9, with retail hardcovers aimed at November.
Warhammer Community's September 4 Factoria Pipes guide sells modular Zone Mortalis plumbing with column spacing, vertical runs, and Gunk Tank silo crossover. The underhive's personality is industrial, and this kit is how you buy it.
Assassin's Creed Animus is targeting October 2026 Kickstarter shipping. Thousands of backers. A shelf of era-spanning assassin miniatures. The board game is how the plastic arrives.
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.
Renegade Game Studios is bringing Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft back for February 2027. Standard unpainted at $100. Premium pre-painted at $200. Same Adventure System crawl. New aisle sticker.
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.
The September 2026 D&D Beyond Drop adds Dusklings, the first playable species in the monthly claim, plus four non-combat spells. Season of Magic just grew legs.
On September 4, 2026, Wizards mapped Reality Fracture previews: debut September 8, gallery cadence after, street date October 2. The Echoverse sells attention first, boosters second.
Necromunda's second-wave Goliath and Escher kits, journals, cards, and dice go up for pre-order September 5, 2026, with a September 19 street date. Pets included. Pronunciation footnotes included.
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.
Brotherwise and Dragonsteel set Stormlight: War for Roshar for Kickstarter on October 13, 2026. John D Clair's hero-driven war game, public claims only, no invented pledge tiers.
Daggerheart: Hope & Fear opened Critical Role shops, Guild stores, and digital storefronts on August 25. Wide retail is September 22, 2026.
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.
Official Disney Lorcana North America Championship recap: Dillon LeDuc wins via LCQ on Amber/Amethyst, Emerald/Steel takes 24.4% of the room, Europe Championship is September 11 to 13.
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.
Star Wars: Unlimited's ninth set lands October 9, 2026 with 260+ cards, Beast and Weakness tokens, and the first base upgrades. No Altered ghost stories required.
WPN early access for Arcana Unleashed and Deadfall started September 1. Season of Magic Encounters begin this week, with wide release September 15, 2026.
An honest miniatures shelf argument after a thin news day: Hivestorm's living-room kit math still explains why skirmish fire teams eat display-parade space in 2026.
BLEACH - Bankai Battle (Roll and Clash) from Don't Panic Games and Team Kaedama hits September 22, 2026 for $39.99. Fast asymmetrical family combat, public copy only, no invented mechanics.
SPACE KING: The Board Game crossed roughly $2.7 million on Kickstarter within days of its August 30 launch, with Recruit around $99 and deeper pledges packing PVC Psycho Warriors. The meme built the audience. The box is collecting the hobby money.
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.
Secret Lair x MSCHF: The Zeta Set hits the Chaos Vault September 2 for $19.92, a seven-card randomized booster wearing 1990s photocopy treatments across 121 cards. Wizards sold the origin myth as a lottery.
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.
Pathfinder Adventure: The Dead God's Hand hits shelves September 2 for $49.99, a levels 1-6 Absalom dungeon arc based on Erik Mona's office campaign. Society scenarios drop the same Wednesday under replayable rules.
September's Miniature of the Month is a Space Marine Scout available from September 5, plus an Ogor Mawtribes coin. Warhammer Community says it is the last traditional free store miniature before an unnamed October offer.
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.
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.
Arcader recirculated Polygon's Altered Recommends piece today. The real US till was September 13, 2024, the Kickstarter was $6.7M, and Equinox's 2026 shutdown proved the game was always a print queue with a race attached.
Asmodee US puts DCeased and three expansions on shelves Friday, September 11. CMON is using retail cash to print the games 2023 backers already paid for. End of 2026 is the new promise.
Time Without Tide opens on BackerKit today with a free 62-page quickstart, a $3 Delver pin reservation, and an original d6 light-and-survival system that is not Call of Cthulhu in steampunk drag.
Sky Castle Studios opens Wildmagic Frontier on Kickstarter September 10: a buy-once deck-building tactics RPG for PC and browser that imports your Hero Forge minis into Astara, solo or three-player co-op.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pokémon’s Delta Reign cycle is already teaching a new class of collectors the worst lesson: hype is not a price floor.
After The Duskbloods connectivity headaches and Nightreign, the studio’s director is talking like a man who misses a closed door.
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.
The new playtest does not treat ceremorphosis as flavor text. It treats it as a build.
Creardo’s licensed Foundation game wants deck-building, politics, and Asimov’s math of collapse. The tension is the whole pitch.
Zeratul, a siege tank, a Ravager, an Immortal, Lost Temple terrain — and a shipping calendar that is already arguing with the models.