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The slasher movie-turned-game series is back with a full-on sequel that launches in 2027. It has a new setting and characters, but the same interactive film format.

The second season of Marathon, Bungie’s highly stylized extraction shooter, starts today. It’s called Nightfall and will be available for everyone to play for free from June 2nd to June 9th, so now’s the time to see if Bungie’s doing enough to keep Marathon alive in the long run. Bungie has the best gunplay in gaming, so here’s hoping.

The franchise has been on quite a run between the SH2 remake and the excellent F, and Townfall looks like it’ll add a new flavor to the horror. It launches on September 24th.

Try the demo ahead of the game’s full release on September 25th. Hopefully Capcom’s strong 2026 run continues.

Survival game Dune: Awakening is getting a port, and will be hitting the PS5 on September 22nd. It’ll include an all-new single-player mode when it does.

We got a look at a dinosaur survival game called The Lost Wild: True Fear Is Primal. It looks like all my Jurassic Park video game dreams come true. It’s slated for PS5 in 2027, and I will be seated.

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis was scheduled to launch in 2026, but during Tuesday’s State of Play show, it got a release date of February 12th, 2027. Like Fable, seems it’s steering clear of Grand Theft Auto VI.

Kemuri: Hunt the Unseen, which comes from The Evil Within artist Ikumi Nakamura, is heading to the PlayStation 5 in 2027. The first gameplay trailer offers a glimpse at its characters zipping around the city and battling paranormal creatures.

Bancho the Chef tells the story of how Bancho, the intense chef from Dave the Diver, learned his craft. No word when it will be available, but it’s in the works for PS5.

Sony showed a reveal trailer for Rayman Legends Retold, a 3D reimagining of the 2013 platformer. It launches August 27th. You can watch the trailer below.

If Wolverine was too bloody for you, we also got a new look at Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, the 2D fighting game that might be the ideal way to test Sony’s new fight stick.

Here’s what you can expect from the game, which has the full title Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!:

The show, which will run for more than 60 minutes, begins at 5PM ET. First up, Sony is promising a “closer look” at Marvel’s Wolverine, which launches on September 15th.

The revenue will help Yacht Club Games stay afloat after Mina’s lengthy development, per Bloomberg. The game rules, I highly recommend it — it’s also one of the highest-reviewed games of the year.

Fresh off interviewing the chatbot-powered stunt that is Tilly Norwood, the NYT tells us of Martin Scorsese’s advisor and partner arrangement with Black Forest Labs (whose Flux tech has powered xAI’s image generation) in what it calls “a clear sign of Hollywood’s softening stance on artificial intelligence.”

Some advice: follow beetle moses, who never misses.

That’s true for folks living underground in Silo, Apple TV’s sci-fi series, as you can see in the new trailer. But it’s also true for the show’s creators, who only have two more seasons to wrap-up the sprawling post-apocalyptic story. Season 3 starts streaming on July 3rd.

Nintendo just put out a lengthy overview video about the upcoming N64 remake, which continues to look impressive. The game also launches pretty soon: it’ll be out exclusively on the Switch 2 on June 25th.

Maverick Games, a studio made up of former Forza developers (which was previously working with Amazon), just teased its first title, an open-world racer called Clutch. It looks like a mixture of Forza and Need For Speed, and the studio will be showing more off at SGF Live on Friday.

You have to sort a list of seven items based on a theme that you need to figure out, and you have five guesses to do it. Thankfully, you can ask for a clue if you need one.

Prime members in the US will have the chance to watch Spider-Man: Brand New Day in select theaters on July 29th, two days before the movie is widely released stateside. Tickets will be available here, and you can sign up to be notified when they go on sale.

David Robert Mitchell — the director best-known for the excellent horror flick It Follows — is making the jump to summer blockbusters with The End of Oak Street, in which a suburban block somehow gets overrun with hungry dinosaurs. It hits theaters on August 14th.

To commemorate the Pokémon franchise’s 30th anniversary, The Pokémon Company is about to drop a special Celebration set that will feature the reprints of rare cards that have long since been out of print and a new style of illustration from Japanese artist YOSHIROTTEN. The set debuts on September 16th.

Ableton’s custom controller had little precedent when it was first conceived. Designer Jesse Terry says, “I chopped up a bunch of other products and sampled the parts of them that I wanted.” Then, he attached them to a Lego board so he could quickly experiment with various layouts.

Le Vertige is directed by Quentin Dupieux (FKA: Mr. Oizo), and it follows Jacques, a low-polygon model of a man convinced that nothing is real and that all of humanity is living in a simulation. It looks like a surreal blast, but sadly, there’s no US release date yet.

Some code spotted in a recent Apple Music beta for Android includes messages referring to “Premium Access” and a “skip limit.” That suggests a free or low-cost plan is in the works. Right now, Apple Music is an all-or-nothing affair after retiring the Voice Plan in 2023.