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Ever since Amazon absorbed MGM and gained the rights to its many franchises, there’s been one that they’ve clearly wanted to get off the ground: Stargate. With a movie, five shows, and countless other media tie-ins to the lore, it’s a series that was ripe with potential for a new story in the modern era. On top of that, the Prime Video audience is clearly eager to see more genre tales unfold.

Marvel Comics was around in the Golden Age, but they didn’t become truly popular until the Silver Age. The House of Ideas went hard on the sci-fi right away, with most of their early characters being involved in some kind of futuristic shenanigans. These characters were what fans wanted back then and they would form the basis of the publisher in the comics and beyond. The Marvel Cinematic Universe did a similar thing, using science fiction right away to get people into theaters.

A PC game released last year, in 2025, with a 96 user review score on Steam, is now available for free on the Valve platform. The Steam game is specifically free to claim until October 12. After October 12, it will revert to its normal price, which, in this case, is $7.99. Meanwhile, not only can those with a PC download, play, and own the Steam game for free, but Steam Deck users can confidently claim it as well, as Valve lists it as Steam Deck Verified.

WIT Studio was established in 2012, and the very first anime produced by the studio was Attack on Titan. Based on the award-winning manga written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama, the anime debuted in 2013 and didn’t take long before capturing viewers’ attention. While WIT is one of the most renowned animation studios in Japan right now, it faced major struggles during the production of Attack on Titan. For a new studio without any foothold in the industry, it was an incredibly ambitious project.

Matt Dinniman, the author of Dungeon Crawler Carl, has a literary phenomenon on his hands as his series about a man and his cat forced to crawl the World Dungeon to survive has rocketed up the bestseller list. If you haven’t read the series yet, Amazon has a terrific deal on the paperback edition of the first book, making it the perfect time to find out why everyone’s so obsessed with a dude in heart-print boxer shorts and a cat named after a pastry. Want more like this?

Since its launch two years ago, DC’s Absolute Universe has been a game-changing decision not only for the publisher but for American comic books as a whole. With the runaway success of Absolute Batman and other hit titles like Absolute Wonder Woman and Absolute Martian Manhunter, DC has not only taken a huge market share but has also created a new wave of fans who have been given the perfect jumping-on point for a fresh version of these characters and stories.

Outside of Grand Theft Auto 6, Nintendo’s upcoming remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is shaping up to be the biggest release in the final months of 2026. Not only is it Nintendo’s most prominent exclusive hitting Switch 2 this year, but it’s also a recreation of what is perhaps the most acclaimed and beloved video game in history.

IDW Publishing has acquired the rights to James Bond and they’re starting off on the right foot, with comic wunderkind Grant Morrison announced as the writer of their upcoming series. IDW has been a leading name in licensed comics, with The Last Ronin making a huge splash across the publishing world in recent years. Adding James Bond to their publishing slate is a huge win, one that is compounded by bringing Morrison on board.

When you have created something as big and popular as A Song of Ice and Fire, the overarching fantasy saga that had become mostly just known as Game of Thrones thanks to HBO’s epic series, it is hard not to have your other work compared to it. George R. R.

Today marks the first time in twelve years that a new animated TV series in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise has arrived, as the first three episodes of Avatar: Seven Havens have officially arrived on Paramount+. Telling an all-new story in the timeline and set hundreds of years after the events of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, Seven Havens has already distinguished itself in a major way from what came before it.