Month: September 2026

One of the most anticipated games for this final quarter was No Rest for the Wicked. And we’re using the past tense because, we’re afraid, its long-awaited 1.0 version has been delayed until 2027. Specifically, until March. With plans for its release in October of this year, it has been delayed, in the words of the project’s director and studio head, Thomas Mahler, because “we want to take more time to make sure everything fits together as it should and that we don’t release the game with any bugs”.

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A month of major releases

There are other reasons too, although Mahler doesn’t mention them. When version 1.0 was originally announced last April, October was a completely open month for major releases. Now, with GTA VI on the horizon, many games have shifted their release dates so they don’t have to go up against Take-Two and Rockstar’s behemoth, making October a month packed with releases that many companies are also avoiding.

That means another likely reason for the delay is finding a clearer release date. So if you’re interested in the 1.0 version of No Rest for the Wicked or its release on PlayStation 5, which will launch alongside its 1.0 version, we’re afraid you’ll still have to wait a few months.

Aggro Crab have struck gold with Peak. What they expected to be a small game that would let them make a bit of money while they focused on other, bigger games has ended up being their breakout hit. And they’ve decided it’s only fair that they do something for other videogame developers with the success they’ve built up. That’s why they’ve decided to establish themselves as a publisher.

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Helping more Peak exist in the world

At Aggro Crab they’re looking for videogame developers who are looking for one last push to finish their games. Specifically, they’re looking for projects with no more than two years of development left and that need no more than $500,000 to make it to the home stretch. With that in mind, they’re looking to give independent developers with interesting projects the push they need to be able to launch their videogames at a time when getting funding is getting harder and harder.

And in fact, they’ve already announced the first game they’ve funded. Called Rebounder, it’s a fascinating precision platformer with a ’70s comic-book aesthetic that will captivate fans of distinctive-looking games with slightly challenging gameplay. Because this experience promises to be a little less straightforward than Peak.

While it still doesn’t have a release date, Rebounder will be the first game published by Aggro Crab. And it’s hard to imagine a better calling card or a title more deserving of the support. Needless to say, we’ll be there on day one when Rebounder launches.

People talk a lot about how long-running One Piece is, but the truth is that SpongeBob has been with us even longer: it premiered on Nickelodeon three months before Luffy and company’s anime, although (to be fair) it has a quarter as many episodes: 342 compared to 1,176 and counting. It was only a matter of time before these two titans of animation, recognized all around the globe, came together in an impossible crossover.

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Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Monkey D. Luffy!

They won’t do it in a special episode or a theatrical release, but in a collaboration for McDonald’s in several countries… which doesn’t include Japan, for some reason. Apparently, they haven’t reached a licensing agreement, and it’s strange, because this is one of the most Japanese things possible. Something kawaii mixed with One Piece? If you take a stroll through Tokyo, you’ll see that it’s nothing unusual.

The collection, available in Happy Meals since September 15, has SpongeBob as Luffy (both normal and in Gear 5), Patrick as Zoro, Plankton as Usopp, Sandy as Nami, Gary as Chopper, Squidward as Sanji, Pearl as Robin, Larry as Franky, Smitty as Brook and Mr. Krabs as Jinbe. As you can see, in the end they were running out of characters, but even so they’ve made it to 15 by pulling in strange mashups like the Flying Dutchman as Blackbeard and Mermaid Man as Garp. It’s going to be a huge hit, right?

we’ve truly entered the great Happy Meal era. SpongeBob x One Piece coming 9.15 pic.twitter.com/W4sT4KhulZ

— McDonald’s (@McDonalds) August 31, 2026

It’s pretty incredible, honestly. And considering that right now on the kids’ menu in half the world they’re handing out a crossover between Hello Kitty and Godzilla, they’ve clearly reached the obvious conclusion: to sell more burgers, they need more impossible crossovers. That way, anyone can sell a product of questionable quality.

The merger between Warner and Paramount is raising hackles in Hollywood among those who want this ordeal over with already, even if that means selling the rights to dozens of properties to a company led by a millionaire with fascist leanings, and those who believe it’s worth fighting. The fact is that on September 30, David Ellison will have to start paying Warner 7 million a day until they can sign the deal, which could reach 7 billion if they ultimately can’t sign it for legal reasons. You’d have to be very naïve not to want to watch something like that.

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The clearest example of an actor backing the deal is Tom Cruise, who stands to benefit from it: in fact, he has just announced the filming of Days of Thunder 2 and is convinced the whole thing will be positive for Hollywood’s future: “I think it’s incredible. **They’re going to make 30 movies a year: to me it’s a community, not an industry**. The people in those studios aren’t just people in those studios. They’re my family. I know we’re going to have those 30 movies. I want us to come together as a community to help make them. Paramount won’t be the only one doing it: it’s going to take the help of every artist to be able to make them”. You decide how much you trust good old Tom.

On the other side is George Clooney, who’s spent years living in Europe away from American troubles, and who at the Venice Film Festival not only supported Mark Ruffalo, who was accused of antisemitism for speaking out against the merger, but also warned: “I don’t see how the merger is going to make financial sense for the people trying to make it happen. We’ll see. I always worry when one big company absorbs another. I always worry because it means a lot of people are going to lose their jobs”.

Days of Thunder. Summer 2028. pic.twitter.com/rD3QLXfUyi

— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) August 29, 2026

Who’s right? In this case, it’s possible both are. They’ll probably spend the first few years making 30 movies, even if it’s just to save their own skin, but thousands of people are going to lose their jobs along the way, because there are positions that are going to be duplicated and are pointless. Even so, the soap opera is far from over, and it looks like we won’t see a resolution until 2027. At this point, I’ll settle for an entertaining ending and for a bucket of water to fall on the millionaire’s head.

There’s a Simpsons gag, dead-on accurate (as always in its early seasons), where Lisa launches her own doll, only to be steamrolled by the same old Malibu Stacy, who’s exactly the same but has a new hat. The same thing is going to happen with Harry Potter, a series that doesn’t dare change a single thing from the films just in case, but people will watch it because Harry has a new wand.

Expecto mismorum

The most boring millennials in the world are absolutely thrilled about the new Harry Potter trailer, which basically repeats the most famous scenes from Philosopher’s Stone (The Great Hall! The Hogwarts Express! The Sorting Hat! Quidditch!), with shots you could easily mistake for those in Chris Columbus’s film. Because HBO knows exactly what people want to see: the same thing. Again and again. Nonstop.

But this time, Harry has a new wand that looks infinitely flimsier and more generic than the one in the films. That’s what they have to cling to to justify this remake which has many more problems than the actor playing Severus Snape, no matter how much some people have insisted on singling him out, as if cashing in on nostalgia had only one limit: racism.

If you’re still a Harry Potter fan and don’t care about JK Rowling’s outrages or the copy-and-paste approach that’s almost worthy of AI, I hope you enjoy this series a whole lot. Of course, it’s going to be a hit: with any luck, the last one in this absurd fad of rebooting everything that has even the faintest hint of cheap nostalgia.

New images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show something odd at Saturn’s south pole: a decagon. That gives Saturn polygon-shaped weather systems at both poles.

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NASA says the feature was first reported in 2023, and the newer Hubble images bring it into sharper focus. What shows up is a huge 10-sided atmospheric wave, with each side stretching more than 10,000 miles (16,700 km). It’s drifting east at about 6 mph (10 km/h), and NASA thinks it may have formed sometime between 2017 and 2023. If that timing holds, the south-polar decagon is a recent arrival, and probably a less stable counterpart to Saturn’s north-polar hexagon.

That northern hexagon has a much longer track record. Voyager spotted it in the 1980s, and Cassini saw it later on. It spans about 20,000 miles (30,000 km), its winds reach nearly 300 mph (500 km/h), and it’s kept its shape for decades.

For people who follow planetary weather, this is the part that stands out. The finding hints that Saturn’s polygonal waves may be broader and more symmetrical than scientists had assumed. It also gives a clean side-by-side comparison with Jupiter’s polar cyclones, and with rotating-fluid lab experiments where geometric patterns show up on their own.

The latest Hubble observations are up on NASA’s website.

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Netflix and AMC officially gave go-ahead in August 2026. It’s a new thriller series built from John R. Maxim’s five Bannerman novels, and the pitch is easy to picture: John Wick-level combat with the bruised, deeply human spy mood of Slow Horses.

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It also marks the first co-production between Netflix and AMC. That puts Netflix in business with the network behind Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead. The project was formally greenlit in August 2026, though reports say it had been in development at AMC since January 2023. Even now, there’s still no cast announcement and no release date.

The story centers on retired covert operative Paul Bannerman, now living in suburban Connecticut, until old enemies, government pressure, an ex-cop, and a pack of other retired assassins pull him back into a life he clearly hasn’t made peace with. That means action, dark humor, and a fair amount of regret. Shane Black is co-writing the pilot and directing the first two episodes. Craig Silverstein will serve as showrunner, with Greg Nicotero and Brian Witten on board as executive producers.

If you like spy stories with hard action and veteran operatives who’ve taken a beating, keep an eye on.

In the US and Canada, Bannerman will air on AMC first, then land on Netflix 90 days after the finale. In Australia, New Zealand, and Spain, it’ll be available on both platforms. Everywhere else, it’s a Netflix exclusive.

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The original Canadarm has picked up another honor. IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has named the Canadian-built robotic arm from the Space Shuttle its 300th Milestone for 2026, recognizing a technology that marked a major technical achievement and left lasting benefits for society.

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It also puts the spotlight back on the role Canadarm played in NASA’s Space Shuttle program. According to NASA, the arm flew on 90 of the shuttle’s 135 missions, where it was used to deploy, retrieve, and repair spacecraft and other payloads in orbit.

Canadarm first flew in 1981. NASA describes it as the world’s first spaceborne robotic system. At 15.2 meters long and 410 kilograms, it could handle payloads of up to 266,000 kilograms in microgravity, and do it with remarkable precision.

That turned Canadarm into one of the signature tools of the shuttle era. It made delicate, difficult, risky, and sometimes flat-out impossible jobs possible, including major work on the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA and IEEE both point to that record when they describe how the arm helped turn the shuttle into a true orbital work platform.

For anyone who follows spaceflight history, this is a fitting piece of recognition. Canadarm was built by SPAR Aerospace, now part of MDA Space, for about $108 million, according to IEEE. Over time it became a Canadian engineering icon and a cornerstone of Canada’s partnership with NASA. Few pieces of space hardware have had a run this long, or this influential.

That legacy is still easy to trace. You can see it in Canadarm2 and Dextre aboard the International Space Station, in Canadarm3 for Artemis lunar missions, and in the milestone coverage from IEEE and NASA. So far, most of the reaction has come from North America, much more than from the European Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or Roscosmos.

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Netflix has dropped the first trailer for East of Eden, its take on John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel, ahead of the series premiere on October 1, 2026. The footage puts Florence Pugh’s Cathy Ames right at the center, and Pugh plays her with a pull that’s hard to look away from and a streak that feels plainly dangerous. East of Eden lands in the gap between Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday, which makes Netflix’s angle pretty obvious: this is the kind of glossy literary drama you build around a star people already want to watch.

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Earlier screen versions of Steinbeck’s novel narrowed the focus. This one, a seven-episode limited series still set for October 1, 2026, is going after the whole book, including its multi-generational sprawl of family conflict, inheritance, identity, and morality. Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, and Ciarán Hinds round out the supporting cast. Zoe Kazan writes and executive produces the series, and she also happens to be Elia Kazan’s granddaughter. She’s said she wants to adapt the complete novel and give Cathy more room, which points to a version of the character with more layers, even if it doesn’t mean softening her.

If what you want is a fuller telling of Steinbeck’s story, East of Eden looks like it could be well worth your time, even if the first round of debate is already circling one question: does giving Cathy more depth blunt the novel’s central tension over whether evil is innate, chosen, or something murkier in between? The trailer is out now. The full series hits Netflix soon after.

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