Image: The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Trading Card Game 30th Anniversary expansion launched last week on 16th September, and the release was expectedly messy. Launch day saw lengthy queues outside stores in the early hours of the morning, cancelled and delayed pre-orders, and, most infuriating of all, select individuals sitting on huge hoards of stock,
Month: September 2026
If I’m going to read the book at all, I’ll usually do it before I see the book-to-screen adaptation, but that didn’t happen with World War Z. I didn’t actually read Max Brooks’ 2006 novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, until years after Marc Forster’s adaptation starring Brad Pitt hit
SOULM8TE arrives on Hulu on Thursday, October 1, where it will open the service’s Huluween slate. Hulu announced the date Tuesday, and the genre press picked it up the same afternoon. It is the first subscription home the M3GAN spinoff has had, and it caps a release history that took the long way around. The
Mark E Smith’s fiancée and final manager has hit out at The Fall’s forthcoming “final” album ‘Post Script’, describing it as a “cash grab” and “ethically wrong”. The nine-track record is due for release through Cog Sinister on October 2 and features unused studio vocals recorded by Smith between 2001 and 2014, with former Fall
SpaceX may have left the unicorn club with its IPO this summer, but the ranks of private space firms valued at $1 billion or more continue to swell as the maturing industry attracts a broader mix of deep-pocketed investors. SpaceNews has mapped this billion-dollar club as it expands from launch and satellite broadband into Earth
There’s a Nintendo Switch 2 version of Epic Mickey Rebrushed on the horizon and if you own the Nintendo Switch version then you’ll be entitled to a free upgrade to the new and improved version. The Nintendo Switch 2 version of Epic Mickey Rebrushed launches on 6th October, so there’s not long to go now.
GTA 6 is just two months away, and Rockstar is spinning up the marketing machine in a big way. The studio’s proposition for a big money takeover of Miami, the real-life inspiration for the fictional Vice City, recently passed muster with local officials despite protests from some police members in the area. Now, fans are
As big as the Star Wars franchise still is nearly 50 years later, the galaxy far, far away isn’t Disney’s only big-money space opera epic. For decades, the galaxy far, far away envisioned by George Lucas has served as one of the most definitive sci-fi epics for multiple generations. That being said, there is another
Physical media is fighting back. A haunted DVD turns movie night into a creature-filled nightmare in Dead Media, the feature debut from writer/director Joseph Scrimshaw, executive produced by Joe Lynch (Suitable Flesh, Mayhem). The trailer introduces Maggie, a troubled young woman settling in for a movie with her two best friends. Their selection? A long-lost
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Pop’s resident Jigsaw wants to play another game. Taylor Swift has spent the last week dropping her characteristic Easter eggs: She changed her Instagram bio to “And, baby, that’s sh0w business f0r y0u. ❤️🔥”; tweaked the layout of the “Read My Letter” page of her website (yes, these things are significant); and, in a Law
Earlier this year, Xbox performed a massive wave of layoffs, eliminating 1,600 roles and sharing that more cuts would come soon. Today, those cuts have come: Xbox has announced it is laying off 268 roles across its first-party studios, XGS management, and central functions layer. Halo Studios in particular has been significantly impacted, and today’s
Movie theater trade association Cinema United, who was an opponent of a Warner Bros Discovery acquisition from the onset, released a statement this morning, commending the four AGs work on settling with Paramount. “The consent decree includes language on increased film production for five years, meaningful theatrical exclusivity and wide distribution, prohibitions on cost increases,
Hulu has released the first trailer for Clown Panic, a feature-length documentary about the creepy clown sightings that spread across the United States in the fall of 2016. The film premieres October 12 as part of the streamer’s Huluween lineup, on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ in the U.S. and on Disney+ internationally. Deadline debuted
Apple has announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a new state-of-the-art live music venue in London’s Battersea Power Station. Said in a press release to be designed to “connect artists and fans” with intimate performances, Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music and International Content, said the move to open the space marked a
Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation, in partnership with the BMC3I TAP Lab, has selected the Focus Area Cohort Teams (FACTs) participating in Cohort 26.A. The selected teams represent innovative companies collaborating to address mission-focused challenges aligned with identified government priorities. Following a competitive application and evaluation process, 6 FACTs have been selected to participate
Image: Sega We all know Sonic has gone through some highs and lows over the years, but according to head honcho Takashi Iizuka, Sega had gotten to the point where it wanted to cancel the entire franchise. As reported by One More Game (thanks, Time Extension), this came prior to the first movie’s release in
Atlus has confirmed that Devil May Cry actor Johnny Yong Bosch will be reprising his role as Tohru Adachi in Persona 4 Revival, despite previous comments from the developers. Before Persona 4 Revival was even announced, we found out that the game existed because a trio of voice actors from the game tweeted that they
Spoilers below for anyone who hasn’t yet watched Resident Evil in theaters, so be warned! Here in the back half of 2026, it feels amazing to want to say a lot of positive things about a Resident Evil movie, and without the need to couch that opinion in “But I’m also a huge Milla Jovovich
We may not have to wait long to see Jane Levy (Evil Dead) and Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) face a new masked killer. According to Jeff Sneider, River is scheduled for release in theaters on January 15, 2027. Sneider shared the news on X, adding that a trailer is expected “sooner rather than later.”
A man charged with producing the largest stash of counterfeit vinyl in UK history was sentenced on Monday to three years and six months in prison. Rehan Ahmed, 40, had been pressing unauthorized records for seven years before police raided his Phoenix of Vinyl warehouse in 2024, where authorities discovered a staggering 15,000 bootleg LPs
The head of the Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, has reflected on Sonic Frontiers in a new interview with Japanese publication 4Gamer. Mr. Iizuka said that the open zone 3D Sonic game was “a major test that determined the future of the Sonic series” clearly paving the way for whatever the next mainline entry is in
David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft are both known for their distinct brands of horror storytelling. Owing to this, there are entire subgenres dedicated to respective styles. David Lynch’s “Lynchian” horror is usually seen as a blend of surrealism and mundane Americana. While almost all of his works have traces of his unique storytelling approach, Lynchian
Rumor Only — Not Confirmed This report has not been confirmed by the studio, the filmmakers, or any trade publication. Treat everything below as unverified until it is officially announced. iHorror will update this post the moment that changes. A rumor out of a test screening says Jane Levy may be back as Mia in
Emil Wilson’s first graphic novel, The Nightingales, is based on the true story of his father’s invitation to a co-worker, dying of AIDS in 1985, to move in to the family home. The fictionalized version of the story, presented as if from the pages of a sketchbook, follows Wilson’s sister, Lou, as she builds a
Holly Humberstone has cancelled the remainder of her European tour after a member of her touring party suffered a “serious, life-threatening medical emergency”. The Grantham singer-songwriter shared the news on social media today (September 21), explaining that the emergency occurred yesterday morning as her tour bus arrived in Cologne. “Hello people of Europe,” she wrote.
September 21, 2026— Washington, D.C.—The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is pleased to welcome ORBITInsure and Renaissance Strategic Advisors (RSA) as its newest members. ORBITInsure joins CSF as a Space Supply Chain member, while RSA joins CSF as an Associate Member and as a member of both the Space Supply Chain Council and State and Local
StarCraft is back, this time as an open-world shooter. During the BlizzCon 2026 keynote today, a new open-world shooter was announced, aiming for a 2030 release and simply called: StarCraft. Dan Hay, previously a lead producer on the Far Cry series, to announce the new project and the team behind it. Hay said the crew
After laying off “most” of the Destiny team, Bungie is coming to players, hat in hand, with open acknowledgements of Marathon’s failures and new plans to keep Destiny 2’s legacy alive. Studio head Poria Torkan and head of product Josh Deane have penned a contrite message about the studio’s future while asking players to hold
John Wilson’s The History Of Concrete had a record-breaking IFC Center debut, grossing $90k in three days for the top doc opening and the second-highest weekend gross in the NYC theater’s 21-year history after only Parasite ($119k in 2019). Nearly every available ticket sold for the entire weekend, including for shows added Saturday afternoon for
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