Author: Alyssa Lavinia Dellosa

Gamelyn Games has revealed Tiny Epic Invincible, a co-op board game set in the Invincible universe. It’s due out in September 2026 as part of the publisher’s small-format Tiny Epic line.

Scott Almes designed it for 1 to 4 players. You’ll take control of heroes and team up against villains, with area control, hand management, and dice rolling driving the game in the quick, travel-friendly style the Tiny Epic series is known for.

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And if that September date made you think the Invincible animated series was coming back then, that’s not what this is. The board game is separate from the show, which already debuted Season 4 in March 2026 and has been renewed for Season 5. Its release also lines up with Invincible Month comic reprints and new collected editions.

Gamelyn’s Kickstarter numbers point to plenty of early interest: Tiny Epic Invincible brought in $157,964 from 3,133 backers. The response hasn’t been all one way, though. Some fans are genuinely into the pairing of Invincible with the Tiny Epic format, while others aren’t sold yet and wonder whether the game will have enough depth or lean too hard on the license.

If you’re into Invincible, or you just like approachable co-op strategy games, this one’s probably worth a look.

You’ll be able to pick up Tiny Epic Invincible through Kickstarter and at board game retailers when it launches in September 2026.

The Legend of Zelda hit its 40th anniversary on February 21, 2026. That marks 40 years since the original game launched in Japan on February 21, 1986, and the anniversary buzz is already full of rumored Nintendo Switch 2 hardware and crossover projects.

Recent leaks point to a black-and-gold Zelda-themed Nintendo Switch 2, along with a matching Pro Controller marked with the Triforce. It’s not hard to see why fans think Nintendo would pair that hardware with a bigger reveal. The rumor that comes up most is a The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake for Nintendo Switch 2, though none of that has been made official.

One thing that is confirmed is The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Secrets of the Zonai. It’s a 424-page book due out in October, packed with behind-the-scenes art, expanded Hyrule history, and insights from series producer Eiji Aonuma. If you loved Tears of the Kingdom, this looks like a real companion piece worth picking up.

Outside the games, there’s already plenty on the list. Announced projects include commemorative merchandise, a 2027 live-action film, Hasbro toy lines based on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Deric Miller’s The Legend of Zelda: Z for 2 – Two Player Simultaneous Co-Op mod for the 1986 original. Even that last one says a lot: the series is still finding new ways to catch people off guard.

For official news, you’ll have to wait on Nintendo, with Secrets of the Zonai arriving in October.

Zynga has updated Game of Thrones: Legends, its mobile puzzle RPG, with The Golden Strategist Proving Grounds event, which runs from Aug. 12 through Aug. 21, 2026. The update adds Tyland Lannister as a new Legendary Champion, according to Zynga.

If you were hoping for an HBO spinoff announcement or a George R.R. Martin book reveal, that’s not what this is. The Golden Strategist is Zynga’s character-focused Proving Grounds event, and it walks players through Tyland Lannister’s Treasury and Birthright mechanics before they decide whether to build around him. In a live-service puzzle RPG where faction synergies and ability timing matter, that kind of guided rollout makes a high-rarity unit feel a lot less opaque.

The timing makes sense, too. Game of Thrones: Legends is already pulling from both Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, and Tyland Lannister’s dual-faction alignment with The Greens and The Lannisters has already caught the community’s attention. In a collection-driven RPG, that kind of flexibility can matter just as much as raw power.

If you play Game of Thrones: Legends regularly, this update is worth grabbing. That’s true even with the game’s mixed response to its strong strategy, fan-service appeal, ongoing criticism of monetization, and still-limited coverage outside English-language outlets. It also lines up with the broader franchise push, which includes The Mad King stage show and Game of Thrones: War for Westeros.

You can play The Golden Strategist now in Game of Thrones: Legends on mobile.

Game of Thrones: Legends just added Tyland Lannister. Zynga is bringing House of the Dragon’s most calculating strategist into the mobile puzzle RPG as a Legendary Champion tied to both The Greens and The Lannisters. His Treasury and Birthright mechanics lean into battlefield control, ally support, and a defensive style built around resources rather than raw damage, which makes him a strong pick for lineups that mix factions.

If you’re pushing for endgame efficiency, he already looks like a smart pickup. Early player response has been good, and one endgame review specifically called out Tyland Lannister’s dual-faction flexibility, his defensive value, and his strong stats.

He also makes sense if you follow House of the Dragon. Tyland serves on the small council and is one of the more visible Green supporters during the Targaryen civil war, so he’s a natural fit for Game of Thrones: Legends’ broader TV crossover push. Tyland Lannister and his twin brother Jason Lannister are both played by Jefferson Hall, who you might also remember from Game of Thrones as Ser Hugh of the Vale.

And the numbers behind the franchise are hard to ignore. Game of Thrones: Conquest has brought in more than $214 million since 2017, while Game of Thrones: Legends passed $1 million in 11 days and reached $23.6 million in its first year.

You can download the update now on iOS and Android.

Nintendo shut the door on DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in a Famitsu interview published in September 2023, putting an end to hopes for a big expansion.

In that September 2023 interview, Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma said the team had already exhausted its ideas for this version of Hyrule, so Nintendo is moving on. That also hints that the open-world “Wilds era” may be getting close to the end.

That puts Tears of the Kingdom in a very different spot from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which received two major expansion packs. And that’s despite Tears of the Kingdom having a massive world, plenty of room for more story and new systems, and more than 18.5 million copies in its first two months. Breath of the Wild has sold more than 29 million too, according to Nintendo’s sales figures. Still, you shouldn’t expect new story chapters, extra dungeons, or any major gameplay DLC, only smaller add-ons like the Mineru’s Construct amiibo extras.

If you were still holding out for a big post-launch expansion, this is Nintendo’s final answer. At this point, it makes more sense to look ahead to whatever comes next for Zelda, whether that means sticking with the Wilds formula or going back to something more traditional. You can still pick up Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch.

In Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, Naruto’s dōjutsu, hereditary eye techniques like the Byakugan and Sharingan, have turned into the clearest marker of how far the franchise has stretched. What started as rare clan abilities now sits somewhere closer to near-divine mythology, which goes a long way toward explaining why fans still argue about power creep and how much the story leans on bloodlines.

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These inherited eye powers, usually linked to elite families and, in the end, to the Ōtsutsuki clan, still matter because they hand their users everything from sharper perception to outright reality-warping force. The Byakugan gives near-360-degree vision, telescopic sight, and the ability to read chakra pathways. The Sharingan lets its user see chakra, read movements before they happen, copy many jutsu, cast genjutsu, and carry the weight of the Uchiha tragedy and the “Curse of Hatred,” which sits right at the emotional center of the series.

Then the Sharingan climbs again. Its trauma-triggered Mangekyō Sharingan forms pushed Uchiha fighters into a different class altogether, and in the rare cases where that path keeps going, it can end at the Rinnegan, the eye that helped drag Naruto out of straight ninja combat and into world-shaking, almost mythic war.

Boruto pushes things even further with the Tenseigan’s gravity control and chakra mode, the Jōgan’s ability to sense chakra flow and dimensions, Isshiki Ōtsutsuki’s Kōkugan, which shrinks himself and non-living objects, and Eida’s Senrigan, which can see anywhere in the present and even into the past. That makes surveillance, manipulation, and reality-bending fallout a huge part of Two Blue Vortex.

If you follow Naruto or Boruto, this works as a pretty solid snapshot of why people are still fighting over power creep, the sidelining of characters without special bloodlines, and a series that was named the most popular children’s TV show in 83 countries in 2024 in one global popularity ranking, then showed up 15th in a 2026 survey in Japan.

One Piece Day ’26 is set for Aug. 22-23, 2026, at Makuhari Messe in Japan. It’s one of the franchise’s biggest annual events, and organizers are teasing three still-mysterious announcement slots along with YouTube livestreams for fans watching around the world.

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They haven’t said what the reveals are yet. The leading guesses are a new movie, whatever the anime does after Elbaph, or a first proper look at THE ONE PIECE, WIT Studio’s Netflix remake, which is due in February 2027.

The event will also bring the second global WORLD TOP 100 results, with ranks 100-31 on day one and the top 30 on day two. Organizers said the poll drew more than 12 million votes in 2021 and had already cleared 10 million by May 2026.

Elbaph is getting a major spotlight too, with a panel featuring Straw Hat voice actors and new cast members, plus songs from the arc’s opening and ending artists. And if you follow One Piece closely, there are plenty of reasons to keep an eye on this one: Toei Animation says the series has passed Dragon Ball as its top earner, Netflix said live-action season two opened in March 2026 with 16.8 million views in four days, and the first North American One Piece Fest is headed to Los Angeles on Aug. 25-26.

You can watch the key parts worldwide on YouTube.

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Multiple reports making the rounds online say Nintendo’s live-action The Legend of Zelda movie, being made with Sony Pictures, may have found its Ganondorf in Uli Latukefu. If that turns out to be true, it would round out the movie’s central Link-Zelda-villain trio.

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For now, though, this still sits in rumor territory. Nintendo and Sony Pictures haven’t officially said Latukefu is involved. If the reports hold up, he’d join Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link and Bo Bragason as Princess Zelda.

Wes Ball is directing the Nintendo-Sony production, and the theatrical release is set for April 30, 2027. Reports also say filming ran from November 2025 through April 2026, which would put the movie in post-production now, about where you’d expect for a fantasy film that’s likely to lean heavily on visual effects.

If you keep up with Zelda movie news, this is one to watch. Latukefu is best known for Young Rock, and he’s also shown up in Black Adam and Alien: Covenant. The reported casting lines up with what looks like the movie’s preference for younger or less A-list leads, and it’s also fed the still-unconfirmed online chatter about a multi-picture deal.

The reaction online has been mostly positive so far. Fans have pointed to Latukefu’s physical presence as a strong fit for Ganondorf. Still, if you want something official, you’ll need to wait for Nintendo or Sony to confirm it before the film hits theaters.

Neil Jordan’s 1994 Interview With the Vampire is getting a 4K Ultra HD release, and reports say it’s set for September 22 with a new 4K restoration, Dolby Vision/HDR, and a fresh Dolby Atmos track.

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There’ll be a standard 4K Ultra HD edition and a limited SteelBook, both packed with a digital copy. And this feels like exactly the kind of movie that should benefit from the jump: the candlelit rooms, the period costumes, the gothic production design, even that eerie score all stand to look and sound much better than they have on past home releases.

The new extras reportedly include Eternal Night, Deadly Light, and Interview with the Vampire: Creating the World, along with Neil Jordan’s commentary, documentary material, deleted scenes, and introductions from cast members and Anne Rice.

For horror fans, Anne Rice readers, and physical-media collectors, this looks like an easy one to pick up. Tom Cruise’s cold-blooded Lestat is still one of his most famous R-rated performances, and Jordan’s 1994 adaptation has plenty of history behind it: it cost about $60 million, made roughly $224 million worldwide, earned two Oscar nominations, helped put Kirsten Dunst on the map with a Golden Globe nomination, and now lands at a moment when AMC’s Interview with the Vampire series is introducing Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to another wave of viewers.

You’ll be able to pick up Interview With the Vampire on 4K Ultra HD in either standard or SteelBook form this September.