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We knew that Part 2 of the Pokopia DLC would feature wearable accessories and add Snubbull, but now we’ve seen more of the new pokémon that will be added, including Skitty, Braixen, and Doduo. Skitty in particular is the perfect candidate for playing dress-up.
If you ever wondered what Fox McCloud gets up to outside of his ship, well, that’s what the GameCube classic Star Fox Adventures is for. The game is coming to the Switch 2 for NSO subscribers later today, while a free update is also coming to the new Star Fox remake later this month.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity — Definitive Edition is launching on Nintendo Switch 2 on February 25th, 2027. It includes improved frame rates and more enemies onscreen at a time as well as a new harder difficulty mode.
December 4th, 2026, to be specific. The upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance expansion will also come to Switch 2 sometime in 2027.
The September 2026 Nintendo Direct kicks off at 10AM ET, and you can watch it on YouTube. The show is set to last about 45 minutes, and after, Nintendo is also hosting a Treehouse Live stream to show off some games from the Direct in more detail.
Some of the achievement lists include spoilers and new details for games like Persona 6 and Kingdom Hearts IV, Gematsu reports. The owner of achievement-tracking site Exophase said in a post that the leak “Seems like a possible screw up on Valve’s end, a bunch of games with achievements that should be private are accessible through the API right now and that’s why they got scanned into the site.”
If you’re a fan of Matt Dinniman’s book series and happen to have $12,350 burning a hole in your pocket, Multimorphic worked with artist Luciano Fleitas and the audiobooks’ narrator, Jeff Hays, to create this detailed Carl-themed pinball machine packed full of references including Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk.
Correction, September 11th: An earlier version of this article misstated the company that created this machine. It is Multimorphic, not Flip N Out Pinball.
The new trailer for Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Carrie hits on some of the ways the Stephen King classic is being updated for 2026, including putting Carrie through some cyberbullying. The series streams on Prime Video on October 7th, when all eight episodes drop at once.
Keighley (who hosts The Game Awards and other events) and Cerny (the lead system architect for the PS4 and PS5) have made “multi-million-dollar donations” to establish the Nova Games Foundation, Keighley tells Game File. Applications will open in December 2026.
IMAX says the 50th anniversary re-release coming on February 19th, 2027 will be “the first time fans can experience the Star Wars universe in the gold standard film format,” referring to IMAX 70mm. A few months later, Star Wars: Starfighter is also getting released in IMAX 70mm on May 28th, 2027.
Panic’s latest Playdate Update Showcase will take place at 12PM ET on Wednesday — meaning it will be wedged between the 10AM ET Nintendo Direct and the 1PM Apple September event. The show will focus on the handheld’s upcoming third season of games and “some other fun news.”
Update: Added Bluesky post.
Season two of the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League put five cars on the track this weekend, and it was going more smoothly than the series’ 2024 debut, for a while.
Unimore Racing suffered a sensor failure while leading the race on lap ten, causing it to suddenly slow down and stop on track, where the second-place Polimove car ran into it — maybe next time they’ll add training data from Hulkenberg or Hadjar.
When you hear that Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan are working on a project together, it’s safe to assume there will be both ghosts and romance. And that’s exactly what the first trailer for Remain promises. The movie isn’t out until next year, but a novel from Sparks is already available.
The new teaser trailer for Luca Guidagnino’s Artificial makes it seem like Andrew Garfield is about to deliver a wild performance that highlights just how unsettling Sam Altman can be. The film releases on Christmas day.
Shows in North America will kick off in February 2027, with the first performance taking place in Chicago.
It has colorful green Joy-Cons and a lot of Triforce imagery. I think it looks nice. There’s a special Pro Controller and carrying case on the way, too.
They’ll all be available on October 29th, which is one week before the November 5th launch of the Ocarina of Time remake.
The latest Godzilla Minus Zero trailer doesn’t reveal much more about the film, but it does highlight just how much more hell the kaiju is going to give humanity when the film hits theaters on November 6th.
Eiji Aonuma just showed off the big change in Nintendo’s Ocarina of Time remake. In the original, Link only jumped if you walked toward a ledge.
That’s the official title of the upcoming live-action Zelda film, Shigeru Miyamoto said in Tuesday’s Zelda anniversary Direct. He also teased that the Triforce will play some kind of role in the film (shocker). No trailer shown yet, though.
The film is set to debut in theaters on April 30th, 2027.
Or watch, I guess. The first of two Nintendo Directs this week kicks off today at 10AM ET. This one is focused entirely on Zelda, just in time for the franchise’s 40th anniversary. Fingers crossed we get casting news for live-action Tingle.
On sale today to mark Star Trek’s 60th anniversary (though it’s not live on their US store just yet), Le Creuset’s Starfleet-inspired set is a joyous celebration of the original series that follows similar crossovers with Star Wars and Pokémon in the past. With apologies to my fiancée, I want all of it.
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The Matrix was said to be coming back for a fifth time back in 2024, with director Drew Goddard at the helm. We haven’t heard much since then, until Matrix co-creator and co-director Lilly Wachowski told KCRW last week that Goddard was waiting on the Wachowski sisters’ blessing to move forward. Lilly seems over the whole affair, saying that she “doesn’t want to play in that sandbox anymore.” Here’s the rest of what she said about moving forward for Matrix 5:
He doesn’t wanna go forward unless he gets our blessing, and so, it becomes this complicated situation that maybe we’re gonna stick our noses in a tiny bit and see how we feel and if we wanna pass on our blessing to Drew or not.
The new flick about the disgraced Theranos founder, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, got a surprise screening at the Telluride Film Festival ahead of its October release. Here’s how A24 describes it:
“Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.”
Frequent Martin Scorsese collaborator and the screenwriter behind Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, and The Last Temptation of Christ, Paul Schrader, is turning to AI to make the crime noir Three Guns At Dawn. He’s been trying to make the movie about three criminal brothers for a long time, but nobody wanted to star in it. When asked why, he gave The Playlist a… let’s say, revealing answer.
“We sent it out to actors, and no Black actors wanted to play in a movie where there are no good Black people,” he said. “And it sort of died. But then AI came along, and I didn’t need Black actors.”
[The Playlist]
Unsurprisingly, while there has been an incredible outpouring of support following Dolly’s passing, there have also been a lot of people trying to exploit it. Stella Parton has finally had enough of the “insensitivity from strangers,” which she said has “been challenging to absorb and or ignore.”
If you haven’t had your fantasy football draft yet, better get on it.
Recent US Open shenanigans and YouTubers’ disastrous golf ad show a risky relationship between brands and influencers.
Road Rage is a new short film in production that casts a murderous autonomous car as the bad guy — and taps into everything people already fear about AI on the road.
Amazon has reportedly canceled Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Man detective series that premiered on Prime Video and MGM Plus earlier this year, according to TheWrap. The report adds that Sony and Amazon “will continue collaborating” on more Marvel projects, and “have already identified the next chapter of the franchise.”
Kotaku reports that players have been competing to top CS2 Tracker’s “Slurs Tracking” charts, which record tracked words in players’ chat logs. Players at the top of the charts have used offensive language in Counter-Strike 2 over 10,000 times.
