Month: September 2026

Grand Theft Auto 6 is set to launch on November 19, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Rockstar appears to be using a local-midnight rollout rather than one worldwide unlock, so players in different regions won’t all get in at the same moment.

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That staggered release stretches across roughly 15 time zones. New Zealand is expected to be first through the door, while Mexico and parts of Central America will probably be waiting the longest. The gap could be close to 19 hours. Which means screenshots, clips, mission details, and story spoilers are likely to start washing across social media from November 18, even as some regions are still counting down.

If you’re trying to get in as early as possible, that timing matters. People are already talking about the usual “New Zealand trick,” and it’s generally easier to pull off on Xbox. On PlayStation 5, you’ll usually need a separate New Zealand account, and sometimes a local payment method too. Go carefully, because platform rules, account restrictions, and store-region requirements can change from one case to the next.

There’s also some confusion around regional availability. A number of PlayStation Store pages still don’t clearly list release times or even confirm availability in China, Bahrain, Kuwait, Russia, Vietnam, Serbia, the Philippines, Lebanon, and, reportedly, Oman and Qatar. That’s led to a lot of talk about bans, censorship, or delayed approvals, with very little official clarification so far.

For now, Grand Theft Auto 6 is arriving first through the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S storefronts. Pre-orders and console sales reportedly picked up after Netflix’s 27-minute Extended Look. PlayStation is said to be out in front, Tokyo is already running giant digital billboards, and PC still doesn’t have a confirmed release date.

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Donald Trump shared a proposed “next generation” U.S. Space Force service dress uniform in a new Truth Social post, and the Starship Troopers reference set off an immediate backlash online. The image he posted isn’t part of any official U.S. Space Force uniform rollout. It’s a speculative mock-up.

The concept graphic described the look as being inspired by the “discipline and functionality of the Starship Trooper uniform” for the “guardians of the space domain.” It showed a “space gray” and “midnight black” design, complete with epaulettes and knee-high leather boots. A lot of critics said it looked less like an actual U.S. military uniform and more like polished sci-fi villain gear.

If you know Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 film Starship Troopers, it’s pretty easy to see why that reference went over so badly. Critics and audiences have long read the movie as a satire of fascism and militarism. Its imagery is meant as critique, and the uniforms were designed to call up Nazi SS aesthetics. Using that costume as a style reference struck a lot of people as tone-deaf, authoritarian-looking, and much closer to dystopian fiction than formal service dress.

And this matters too: it isn’t an official new U.S. Space Force uniform. It’s a speculative mock-up, and it’s highly unlikely to be adopted. The branch already has a dark navy service dress uniform with a diagonal line of six buttons, a nod to its place as the sixth military branch, after earlier comparisons to Star Trek and Guardians of the Galaxy.

You can see the mock-up in Trump’s Truth Social post. Just not as part of any official U.S. Space Force uniform rollout.

Bandai Namco has set a release date for Gundam: Rogue Orbit. The standalone third-person action RPG is coming out worldwide on March 5, 2027 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam, and pre-orders are already open.

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The pitch is simple enough: fast mech combat, customizable Mobile Suits, and a brand-new unit called the Gundam Helix. Bandai Namco is framing Rogue Orbit as something you can jump into cold, so you don’t need to know the Universal Century timeline before you start.

It also sits inside the RG Project reboot, which moves Gundam into a new After Apocalypse timeline. Here, the main threat is an alien force called the Apocalypse, taking the place of the series’ usual human war drama. That rollout includes the 2027 anime prequel Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO from Kenji Kamiyama, and Bandai Namco has already been putting Rogue Orbit in front of people at Summer Game Fest, San Diego Comic-Con, and State of Play as part of a broader global push.

If you’ve been waiting for a Gundam game that feels easier to get into, this one looks like a solid pick, even with longtime fans still arguing over whether the cleaner timeline and wider approach really feel like Gundam.

Pre-orders for Gundam: Rogue Orbit are live now on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC through Steam.

Early reactions to The Mandalorian & Grogu are already starting to roll in, and one point keeps coming up from both fans and critics: a late emotional sequence that sounds like the movie’s standout scene.

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The overall read on Lucasfilm’s return to Star Wars theaters is messier. Those first reactions describe pacing problems, a crowded plot, and that familiar issue of a Disney+ story being stretched into a theatrical event. But the scene people keep singling out reportedly slows the final conflict and stays with Din Djarin and Grogu after a brief separation. No lore dump, no cameo parade, no giant mythology reveal. Just Din Djarin letting down the emotional armor that’s defined him, Grogu choosing connection over power, and Din Djarin answering that moment as a parent rather than a warrior.

If you’ve been hoping for Star Wars to feel personal again, that alone makes this sound worth seeing, based on those early reactions, even if it doesn’t seem likely to land among the franchise’s very best films. For a brief stretch, at least, it seems to recapture what made The Mandalorian such a phenomenon in the first place: a small story inside a giant universe, built on character, silence, feeling, and emotional clarity, not fan service, shocking reveals, lightsaber duels, or space battles.

The Mandalorian & Grogu is a Lucasfilm theatrical release.

Nearly 30 years after its 1997 debut through DC Comics’ Helix imprint, before the series moved over to Vertigo, Transmetropolitan still feels a little too current for comfort. Warren Ellis wrote it, Darick Robertson drew it, and a lot of what they put on the page doesn’t feel like it stayed back in the late 90s.

The setup is straightforward enough. Ellis and Robertson built Transmetropolitan around Spider Jerusalem, a journalist very much in the Thompson vein, who comes back from exile to write “I Hate It Here” for The Word. He’s dropped into a city jammed with body modification, subcultures, media overload, transhumanist excess, and nonstop urban spectacle.

What keeps the series moving isn’t the technology so much as the journalism. Spider Jerusalem is always chasing the next piece of rot, exposing corruption that reaches all the way up to two U.S. presidents, and Robertson, who’d later go on to co-create The Boys, has said the future of Transmetropolitan feels less fictional as the years pass.

Rumors about a Tim Roth adaptation have been floating around for years, but Ellis has said nothing ever made it into production because of the cost.

If you’re looking for one of cyberpunk comics’ high-water marks, with black comedy, savage commentary, and a grotesque sci-fi angle on truth, power, consumerism, and collapsing trust in institutions, media, and leadership, this is absolutely worth grabbing. That’s true even if Spider Jerusalem himself is vulgar, cruel, self-important, and deeply unpleasant.

You can get Transmetropolitan, which ran for 60 issues and ended in 2002, in 10 trade paperbacks or in the Absolute Editions.

Episode 4 of the DC detective series Lanterns is streaming on HBO Max now, and it delivers the show’s biggest twist so far.

According to FlixPatrol, HBO Max’s eight-episode breakout Lanterns is now the streamer’s most-watched TV show worldwide. Its August 16, 2026 premiere reportedly drew more than 20 million viewers across the globe, and the audience has kept climbing week after week.

The episode’s major reveal involves Zoe Macon. Up to this point, she had been framed as John Stewart’s love interest and presumed dead after the satellite laser attack. Now she appears to be the Manhunter Hal Jordan and John Stewart have been tracking in Rushville, Nebraska.

Created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, Lanterns approaches DC more like True Detective than a cosmic superhero story. Episode 4 leans even further into that idea, using the same kind of intimate betrayal that made HBO’s Sharp Objects hit as hard as it did.

Not everyone is fully on board with that combination. Some critics still think the show risks feeling torn between two identities, and some viewers suspect Zoe Macon’s unmasking may be a fake-out, since the season is only at its midpoint. If you’ve been following Lanterns week to week, this is one to watch.

You can stream Lanterns now on HBO Max.