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Charlize Theron clings to Taron Egerton's back as they're both swept through rapids in 2026's Apex
Netflix's Apex really is a Predator movie with an all-human cast

Taron Egerton hunts Charlize Theron through an Australian forest in a grueling survival thriller that eventually goes full horror-movie

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A vampire holds a wine glass in Vampire Crawlers key art.
Of course the Vampire Survivors team turned a goof into a shockingly good card game

Vampire Crawlers sounds like a joke, but it's seriously fun

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Stranger Things: Tales from '85 recaptures the original's early season charm

The series is a pleasant surprise for an IP way past its prime

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Superheroes Superman, Thor, and Wonder Woman standing together on a cover of the Spider-Man/Superman #1 crossover
Marvel and DC saved their best crossover for last

Dozens of comics creators are at the top of their games in Spider-Man/Superman #1

Titanium Court's puzzle grid appears in a close up view.
Titanium Court lands in the mind-boggling middle ground between Candy Crush and Blue Prince

All the world’s a stage and Titanium Court is its proud jester

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Owen in D(e)ad. It shows a man in a white shirt and black tie in a cubicle, on a landline phone.
You don’t need to be a Dropout fan to enjoy Izzy Roland's dark comedy about grief

It's even better if you don't!

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A character in Tides of Tomorrow.
Tides of Tomorrow is the best anti-social social game you've ever played

Tidewalker, go forth and save lives! Or ruin them — it's up to you

Mephisto stands before some red lightning in all his demonic glory
Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred's much improved story gets in the way of its sweet, sweet grind

The second expansion is a step up but exposes a fracture in the way modern Diablo is played

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Dorohedoro Season 2
Dorohedoro season 2 is finally here and somehow wilder than ever

This anime makes chaos feel strangely lived in

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A layout of elements from the boxed TTRPG One Last Fight: character and nemesis cards, decks, dice, and the game box
This brilliant TTRPG skips the campaign and jumps straight to the final boss

The GM-less boxed roleplaying game One Last Fight is built for a high-drama one-shot

A young girl faces the camera in close-up, grinning unwholesomely in a way that shows off her grayish teeth and blood dripping from her mouth, in a scene from Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026).
Lee Cronin unwraps a wilder, gnarlier version of The Mummy than any previous movie

This is a much gorier take on mummy movies than Brendan Fraser's action-adventure franchise

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Characters pose by a fountain in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream gives you permission to get intricately stupid

Nintendo's wacky life sim is a poster's paradise

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A crooked cop running at the player with a baton in Mouse: P.I. For Hire.
Mouse: P.I. For Hire is a hilarious, charming, stylish FPS romp

Truly brie-lliant

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Maya transmutes a cube in The Mouse of Hikmah.
Islamic history becomes video game wonder in this lovely new puzzle platformer

The House of Hikmah is a celebration of the Islamic Golden Age

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Dosa Divas is a tasty turn-based RPG that doesn't overstay its welcome

The latest adventure from the creators of Thirsty Suitors won’t take over your life

A childlike android and an astronaut in Pragmata
Pragmata shoots for the moon and sticks the landing

Capcom's shooter is the second greatest lunar achievement of 2026

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Company 8 in the Fire Force anime ready for deployment
Fire Force is the surrealist shonen masterpiece you should have watched

Fire Force is a meta-textual story about imagination and anime and manga's power to transcend boundaries

Chao, a giant blushing goldfish, stands in front of a mural of sea life in ChaO.
The anime movie ChaO puts a bizarre but sweet spin on Disney's The Little Mermaid

It replaces singing fish with paparazzi and an out-of-control mech

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A woman played by Phoebe Dynevor, largely submerged in water and holding on to the wreckage of a destroyed house, cries out for help in a scene from the Netflix shark thriller Thrash.
Thrash lets Netflix take another enthusiastic bite at shark thrillers

It isn't one of the best recent creature features, but it gets the job done

A salaryman standing in a white tiled subway corridor smiles with a distorted-looking, unsettling rictus grin in Exit 8
The creepy Exit 8 movie is much more than a video game adaptation

It's an effective horror movie that models an ambitious new way to put video games on screen

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