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Star Wars deepens Batuu lore with dark Darth Vader twist

A new Darth Vader reveal tied to Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge adds a darker layer to Batuu’s canon story, tightening the park’s link to Star Wars lore.

A new leak points to a late September 2026 launch for Capcom’s Onimusha: Way of the Sword, setting up a brutally crowded month for action games.

Reports of a long-hoped-for AAA open-world Game of Thrones RPG have fans dreaming of a Westeros epic to rival The Witcher and Elden Ring.

Wizards of the Coast has dropped a free D&D Beyond one-shot, Borderlands Quest: Dagger Danger!, designed as an easy on-ramp for new players and DMs.

Prime Video is betting big on Hazbin Hotel, renewing VivziePop’s afterlife musical comedy for three more seasons and locking in its ambitious long-term story.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day pivots Tom Holland’s Peter Parker into a classic, street-level status quo, reframing a decade of MCU Spidey as his true origin.

Matt Reeves’ The Batman Part II is now set for October 2027, marking the first time in 84 years a live‑action Batman movie skips the usual summer corridor.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 will lean into classic episodic Trek before a shorter, more serialized final season hands the Enterprise to Kirk.

As Stranger Things nears its end, Netflix is banking on The Boroughs, a Duffer Brothers-produced sci-fi series set in a retirement community.

White Wolf is developing a new Vampire: The Masquerade tabletop project, its first big in-house game since the brand revival, with reveals at Gen Con 2026.

Hulu’s best shows now anchor Disney’s streaming gamble

As Disney folds Hulu deeper into Disney+, a stacked lineup of genre and prestige series from The Bear to Futurama is becoming its secret streaming weapon.

Brandon Sanderson, Paul Tremblay, T. Kingfisher, Daniel Kraus, and Critical Role anchor a packed summer 2026 sci-fi and fantasy release slate. Here’s why it matters.