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Nintendo has gone ahead and broken a commandment that the mainstream video game industry seemed to have imposed on itself for 2026: thou shalt not release a game in the same month as Grand Theft Auto 6. After some speculation that Nintendo might go later and pick a December release date, the company has opted to precede the Rockstar Games juggernaut by two weeks and landed on Nov. 5.

Magic: The Gathering is heading back to school in Reality Fracture, but Hexhaven is a far cry from the magical college players visited in Secrets of Strixhaven earlier this year. It stands as a 10,000-foot mage tower complete with shifting gravity, unsettling students, and five new schools of magic founded by elder sphinxes rather than dragons. During a press preview attended by Polygon, Wizards of the Coast revealed 26 Reality Fracture cards and shared new details about the set’s mechanics.

NetEase Games officially revealed Marvel Rivals season 10 today, and the announcement trailer included a couple of bombshells. As the developer has been teasing for weeks, the next season will be centered around the introduction of Gorr the God Butcher. Before the legendary Thor villain is even made playable, he's already living up to his name. The announcement trailer shows Gorr attacking Asgard and battling Loki.

Should I pre-order Zelda: Ocarina of Time? You don't have to, but there are perks if you do. Pre-ordering gets you the special foil OOT cover art pictured above. The trailer tells fans they can pre-order now, but as of this writing there is no known link or way to purchase the physical version of the game. The eShop version is live and available for pre-order at $59.99, though.

Jason Statham's newest movie is making the jump from cinemas to streaming early due to a disappointing box office run. Action thriller fans looking for something short and fun to watch should set their sights on the film, as it is now available for purchase or rent on digital platforms, such as Amazon Video, YouTube, and Apple TV. Jason Statham's character, Cole Reed, is out for vengeance in Mutiny. Reed's boss and friend is hunted down and murdered, and he is framed for it.

Han will shoot first in 70 mm IMAX when the original Star Wars returns to movie theaters next year. On Tuesday, Lucasfilm and IMAX confirmed that the 50th anniversary rerelease of Star Wars will be on the biggest screens possible next February, giving fans a strong reason to return to movie theaters.

Artificial intelligence has gone from a Silicon Valley buzzword to something most people now encounter every day (whether they want to or not), and no AI company has become quite as synonymous with the boom as OpenAI. ChatGPT is arguably the technology's biggest household name, so naturally, Hollywood has decided that the next logical step is to make a movie about the people who created it.

It looks like video game companies actually can get the Trump administration to budge. Shortly after the White House posted a new “Arcade” section on its official website featuring xenophobic web browser games, the administration just removed a Tetris clone from its selection of slop. On Sept. 4, the White House launched five games on Arcade.gov that ranged from juvenile to outright racist.

Our latest look at The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has come and gone, and Link has never looked more moist. The latest footage from Nintendo's upcoming nostalgia trip has set tongues wagging about the game's art style — is it adorable or creepy? Does the look evoke the cozy covers of Terry Pratchett books or a Thomas Kinkade mall kiosk?

On one hand, Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls, and Rob Renzetti, a longtime animation veteran who served as the show’s supervising producer and story editor, kinda can’t believe love for their two-season Disney Channel original has persisted for 14 years. ​​The subreddit community of 1.4 million is still posting fan art and theories a few times an hour.