Author: Dave Warren Hans Co

Season 4 Reloaded is now live in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone, adding Nicolas Cage as a playable Operator and starting the “Summer of Action” event on June 25, 2026. In multiplayer and Warzone, Cage appears as Nicolas Cage himself, not as one of his movie or TV characters, and you’ll need the premium Uncaged Event Pass to use him.

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Activision isn’t positioning this as a throwaway cameo. It’s selling Nicolas Cage as a full Operator and one of the headline pieces of the mid-season refresh.

The timing lines up. Nicolas Cage is coming off Spider-Noir, which reportedly pulled 2.6 billion U.S. viewing minutes in its first six weeks, including 851 million in its premiere week alone. Spider-Noir also holds a 92% critics score and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and it has 11 Emmy nominations.

If you’ve kept up with Call of Duty’s celebrity crossovers, this fits the pattern. Call of Duty has already brought in Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Snoop Dogg, and Nicki Minaj, and Nicolas Cage is getting the same kind of early buzz from players and streamers. The usual debate is still there, though: spectacle versus immersion, with no hard numbers yet on what does for player counts or revenue.

You can get Season 4 Reloaded now in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone.

Ready or Not hit Netflix in the United States today, September 1, 2026. The 2019 action-thriller from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett is back in front of a big streaming audience.

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That timing isn’t random. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come opened in theaters in March 2026, and while it’s still not clear how widely the original will roll out internationally, Netflix is bringing back a movie with a real track record. Netflix’s Top 10 data shows it previously reached the top 10 in more than 60 countries and pulled 5.3 million views in its first week during a November 2024 run.

Samara Weaving stars as Grace, a newlywed dragged into a deadly wedding-night game of hide-and-seek with her wealthy husband’s family. And the movie still clicks because it gives you horror, action, dark comedy, and a pretty sharp send-up of wealth, entitlement, and the way powerful families protect their own traditions.

If you missed Ready or Not the first time, or just want to watch it again now that the sequel is out, this is a pretty easy sell. Samara Weaving’s mix of panic, fury, and deadpan disbelief is still the main reason to show up. The “final girl” angle still gives people something to argue about, and that $57 million worldwide haul off a $6 million budget says a lot about why it became such a streaming favorite.

You can stream Ready or Not now on Netflix in the US.

Resident Evil has a new popcorn bucket at AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas, and it’s already available in the US. It’s actually an insulated popcorn bag made to look like a medical organ transport container, which tracks with the new Resident Evil film about a medical courier caught in the middle of a zombie outbreak.

So this isn’t just shock packaging for no reason. It fits the movie, and it also lines up with the current run of weird, oversized concession collectibles that are practically built for social media posts.

A lot of novelty tubs don’t have much of a life once the movie’s over. This one does. You could reuse it as a small cooler, a lunch bag, or a storage case, which gives it a better chance of sticking around past opening weekend.

If you collect movie merch, or you just want something memorable, reusable, and a little gross, this one’s probably worth picking up. Fans online seem to like that exact mix of absurdity and practicality, putting it in the same conversation as viral items like the Dune: Part Two sandworm bucket.

You can get it through AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas in the US. So far, though, there hasn’t been much reporting on any wider international release.

CD Projekt Red says The Witcher 3 Remastered is coming September 29, 2026, and if you already own The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, you’ll get it as a free upgrade. The remaster brings in a new rendering engine and upgraded visuals, and the studio claims it should run “just as well” as the original on Steam Deck.

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On Nintendo Switch 2, the target is 1080p while docked and 720p in handheld, with performance landing around 30 to 40fps. VRR support is there too, which should help smooth over that variable frame rate. Early hands-on impressions from Gamescom 2026 mentioned denser foliage, cleaner image quality, and a much stronger overall showing than the old Nintendo Switch version.

If you already have The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, this seems like an easy upgrade to take, especially since it also bundles in Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, along with save and achievement carryover. Still, some players are understandably wary after the rough 2022 next-gen update, and CD Projekt Red’s new PC minimum requirements are higher this time.

You’ll get The Witcher 3 Remastered free if you own the base game, including on Nintendo Switch. CD Projekt Red also says a paid expansion, Songs of the Past, is planned for 2027 for the remastered version.

Nintendo’s 1983 courtroom fight with Universal over Donkey Kong is back in view in 2026, thanks to a newly posted batch of court records put online by gaming historian Norman Caruso. The files add fresh detail to one of Nintendo’s earliest major legal victories in the U.S.

They include deposition testimony from Shigeru Miyamoto, along with alternate early names such as “Funny Kong” and “Big Kong.” The filings also spell out Universal’s argument more plainly: that Donkey Kong copied King Kong through its giant ape, captive woman, and damsel-in-distress setup.

Judge Robert W. Sweet’s ruling shows how Nintendo turned Universal’s own earlier position against it. In Universal’s 1975 case involving RKO, the company had argued that King Kong was, for practical purposes, in the public domain. Sweet held that Universal therefore had no sound basis for blocking Donkey Kong, and he also found that buyers were unlikely to mistake the comical, “farcical” ape in Nintendo’s game for Universal’s “ferocious” King Kong.

The court went further than that. It said Universal had acted in bad faith when it leaned on Nintendo’s licensees, and the ruling awarded Nintendo more than $1.8 million in fees and losses.

For anyone who follows Nintendo history, these documents are well worth a look. You can see why the case still comes up in discussions of consumer-confusion and judicial-estoppel law, and how much it mattered in helping Nintendo secure its footing in the U.S.

Caruso uploaded the documents online in 2026, so they’re easy to read now. There’s also something a little strange, and fitting, about looking back on this case today, when Nintendo and Universal are now partners on Super Nintendo World and Donkey Kong attractions.

People attending the 2026 Pokémon World Championships in San Francisco say scalpers showed up again, this time gathering in a makeshift “Scalper Alley” outside the official Pokémon Center. Fans on site say backpacks, plushies, and hard-to-find Pokémon Trading Card Game booster packs were being flipped almost as soon as they were bought, bringing back the same pattern that’s followed limited Pokémon launches for years: long lines, quick sellouts, and resale listings pushed far above retail.

Fans were saying much the same after the 2025 event in Anaheim. According to those reports, more than double retail was already appearing on eBay before the championships had even officially begun, and a lot of fans now see event stock getting siphoned into the secondary market as an ongoing problem, not a fluke. If you collect championship merch regularly, that’s the backdrop here: Pokémon’s broader boom, from standard retail products and premium cards to promo tie-ins like McDonald’s Happy Meals, keeps resale demand high, even though there’s still very little public detail on how buying groups or bots coordinate purchases.

The Pokémon Company and Nintendo have already tried a long list of fixes: purchase limits, timed entry, made-to-order sales, marketplace cooperation, Japan-only My Number ID checks, cutting booster-pack corners, and bans on graded cards or items priced above $1,000. Fans say the reports coming out of San Francisco show those steps still aren’t enough.

Alien, Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic, hits Netflix in the United States on September 1, 2026. So far, that’s the only release date that’s been confirmed. If you’re in the UK, Canada, or Australia, you’ll probably have to wait for a separate update. If you’ve never seen it, the setup is simple and nasty: the crew of the Nostromo answers a distress call, and what starts as a space mystery tightens into a trapped, airless fight to stay alive.

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There’s a reason Alien still gets talked about as one of the great sci-fi horror movies. It has that old-school futuristic world-building, but it also knows how to drag out the tension. The dread builds slowly, then the shocks hit, the body horror lands, and the creature reveal still sticks with you.

Pretty much every piece of the movie locks into place. Ridley Scott’s direction, H.R. Giger’s design work, Sigourney Weaver’s breakout turn as Ellen Ripley, it all comes together. Audiences showed up for it too: the film made more than $100 million worldwide against an $11 million budget, and it also took home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

The series hasn’t gone quiet, either. Alien: Romulus came out in 2024. Alien: Earth is in development at FX from Noah Hawley, with Ridley Scott on board as executive producer. Scott has also said he’s interested in telling another David story after Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.

If you’re looking for one movie in September that feels like required viewing, make it Alien.

You can watch Alien on Netflix in the United States starting September 1, 2026.