As The Beat and DC's announcement put it, the new team is moving Harley from Brooklyn to Paris. Here's who's on board, per ComicBook.com:

• Writer: Joanne Starer (Dinner Date)
• Artist: Lukas Ketner (Batman: Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns)
• Colours: Dave McCaig (Superman: Birthright)
• Ongoing covers: David Nakayama (Magik and Colossus), with variant covers for #71 by Yona, Nimit Malavia and Khary Randolph

What's planned for the new run

According to ComicBook.com, Harley goes global to put a crew together for a heist at the Louvre, with the Mona Lisa as the prize. She's travelling on a forged Justice League ID, and her old cyborg pal Sy Borgman is back to join the crew.

Not everyone is pleased to see her, though. Eraser, a Batman villain who rarely gets a look-in, is after Harley for revenge after she stole something from him. There's also an international group of assassins on her tail, according to DC. Before any of that, issue #71 sees her throw herself a grown-up, bat-themed bat mitzvah and invite Batman, which raises DC's own big question: if you invite Batman to a bat mitzvah, does he have to show up?

Starer has a clear handle on what makes Harley tick. "At her core, Harley is basically a little kid who desperately wants love, attention, and approval," she told ComicBook.com, adding that Harley sometimes acts out "because even negative attention is attention." That's the funny, big-hearted Harley a lot of us fell for, and a heist across Europe is a great playground for her.

Harley's new look

Nakayama, the series' new main cover artist, designed the new costume, which debuts in issue #72. ComicBook.com describes it as a throwback to her first look mixed with modern street clothes: red and black instead of the purples and pinks of recent years, heart and diamond motifs, and her twin tails swapped for pigtails dyed black and red. Less circus performer, more Harley on the streets.

If the bat mitzvah sounds silly, that's probably by design: Starer also wrote last year's April Fools' one-shot Harley Quinn Fartacular: Silent Butt Deadly, though ComicBook.com doesn't expect the ongoing series to go quite that far.

New to Harley? Where she came from

Harley wasn't meant to stick around. Paul Dini and Bruce Timm created her for one episode of Batman: The Animated Series, "Joker's Favor", first shown in September 1992. Fans loved her, she jumped to the comics a year later, and she's been a fan favourite ever since. Once a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, Dr Harleen Quinzel falls for the Joker and becomes his partner in crime, before spending the next three decades working out who she is without him.

Standout Harley Quinn books

If issue #71 tempts you in, these are well worth picking up, all spoiler-free to read about here (details from Wikipedia unless noted):

• Mad Love (1994): Dini and Timm's one-shot telling Harley's origin. It won both the Eisner and Harvey awards for Best Single Issue and was later adapted as an episode of The New Batman Adventures.
• Batman: Harley Quinn (1999): the one-shot that brought her into mainstream DC comics continuity.
• Gotham City Sirens (2009 to 2011): Dini and Guillem March's team-up series pairing Harley with Poison Ivy and Catwoman (Wikipedia).
• Harley Quinn by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (from 2013): the New 52 ongoing that made her a solo star in her own right.
• Harleen (2019): Stjepan Å ejić wrote and painted this three-issue DC Black Label retelling of her origin, a darker, more grown-up look at how Harleen became Harley (Smash Pages).

Harley on screen

For plenty of fans, Margot Robbie is Harley. She's played her three times, and each film has at least one moment people still talk about:

• Suicide Squad (2016): mid-mission, Harley smashes a shop window to grab a handbag she likes, then shrugs off the shock with "We're bad guys. It's what we do." The line was all over the trailers and summed up her chaos perfectly.
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020): Cathy Yan's film, written by Christina Hodson and produced by Robbie herself, opens with Harley announcing her break-up with the Joker by blowing up Ace Chemicals. It's packed with memorable bits: the egg sandwich she stops for in the middle of a police chase, the break-in at the Gotham police station with a grenade launcher loaded with paint and glitter, and a finale on roller skates through an abandoned funhouse. It sits at 79% on Rotten Tomatoes (Wikipedia).
• The Suicide Squad (2021): James Gunn wanted "the most Harley of all Harleys". Her escape from a dictator's palace is shown through what Gunn called Harley's "starry-eyed" view of the world, with hearts and pretty little things mixed in among the mayhem (Wikipedia).

Lady Gaga took on the role in Joker: Folie à Deux (2024), and Kaley Cuoco voices her in the adult animated Harley Quinn series, which ran for five seasons from 2019 and started on E4 here in the UK in 2020. With DC Studios going through its own shake-up at the top, there's no word yet on Harley's next screen outing, so the comics are where the new stories are right now.

Issue #71 of Harley Quinn is out on 24 February 2027. Are you jumping on for the Louvre heist? Let us know, and keep up with all the latest comics news here.

The PlayStation Blog says it's now the most pre-ordered game in PlayStation Store history, and that PlayStation and Rockstar Games opened pre-loading early because of that demand. Xbox Wire says the same for the Microsoft Store.

Both platforms are urging anyone who wants to play on launch day to pre-load as soon as possible. If you're planning to, clear some space: Simon Carless of the GameDiscoverCo newsletter estimates it needs up to 212GB of drive space, as quoted by GamesIndustry.biz. That's an estimate rather than an official figure.

Grand Theft Auto VI on PS5 and PS5 Pro

Rockstar marked the start of pre-loading with a new trailer, and later added a PlayStation 5 features trailer, according to Gematsu. Rockstar also posted a blog with the technical details. Here's what it confirms for PS5:

• DualSense speaker, haptics and adaptive triggers used throughout, adjustable in the accessibility settings
• Tempest 3D Audio for positional sound
• Faster loading from the PS5's SSD
• PS5 Pro only: enhanced visuals, sharper image quality with PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), and ray-traced shadows

Frame rate is the catch. Rockstar says the game targets 30 frames per second on current consoles, pushing them to "their absolute limits", as Eurogamer reported. The PS5 Pro enhancements don't change that.

How it works on Xbox

• Xbox Series X and Series S: a full download you can pre-install now. Xbox Wire calls Series X the best Xbox way to play and Series S the most affordable.
• Xbox Cloud Gaming: playable from day one on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, from 1am Eastern time (6am in the UK) on 19 November. Streamed play uses Series S graphics settings, and you still have to buy the game.
• Xbox One: cloud streaming only.

Xbox Wire says it has set the Microsoft Store pre-order record too, and PC Gamer notes it now holds that record on both PlayStation and Xbox. Neither post mentions a PC version.

Will the stores cope with launch day?

GamesIndustry.biz calls this the first AAA release of its scale to launch digital-only, and cites Sensor Tower estimates of nearly 8 million pre-orders. The experts it spoke to think pre-loading will ease the strain, since the game downloads gradually and launch becomes a quick key exchange.

Joost van Dreunen of Aldora still warns of "tens of millions day-of buyers, not a few hundred thousand". He expects local congestion on the evening of 19 November in the US and Europe, rather than a global meltdown.

Are you pre-loading now to be ready for 19 November, or waiting to see how the PS5 Pro version holds up at 30fps?

What's happened at DC Studios

Gunn and Safran took on DC's film, TV and animation business in October 2022, according to Cartoon Brew. Gunn handled creative direction while Safran looked after business and production. Gunn's switch from Marvel to DC felt like the start of a whole new era for the characters, which is why this one stings.

Latcham succeeds them as President and Chief Creative Officer from 1 December, as Empire reported. Film, TV and animation will all sit with him, and he answers to the new Skydance leadership. Empire notes he has plenty of experience bringing big comic book franchises to the screen.

Reports don't agree on how the exit happened. Empire says The Hollywood Reporter describes Gunn and Safran as stepping down, while Variety says they were fired. Variety's headline frames the story around spending, losses and audience numbers, though I've only seen the opening of that piece, so I can't say more about its reporting.

The official statement from Skydance's David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz, as quoted by SlashFilm, thanks the pair for leading DC Studios "through a period of real transformation". SlashFilm also points out the timing is a surprise, since Gunn and Safran had recently signalled that Ellison seemed keen to keep them on.

What Gunn has said

Cartoon Brew says Gunn posted a long message on Instagram. He said he'll miss looking after the characters, but is "incredibly relieved and excited to get back to pure filmmaking". He also said he's not a fan of the corporate side of the job, and that he and Safran are still involved creatively, including on an extra project he's writing.

What it means for the DC slate

Empire reports that Gunn and Safran will keep working on Man of Tomorrow, the Superman sequel, which Gunn is writing and directing again. David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult are back as Superman and Lex Luthor. SlashFilm says it's still due next year.

Nobody yet knows whether Latcham will stick with Gunn's connected DC Universe. Empire lists what it covers so far:

• Peacemaker
• Creature Commandos
• Superman
• Supergirl
• Lanterns
• Clayface, the recently released horror film

Empire says the HBO series The People V. Gorilla Grodd is in production, with Skyler Gisondo back as Jimmy Olsen, and SlashFilm mentions a Poison Ivy series in development.

For context, Empire puts Superman at more than $618 million at the box office, Supergirl at $126 million and Clayface at $109 million so far. Cartoon Brew adds that Gunn's plan had animation sharing continuity with the live-action projects, and that its long-term future is now an open question.

That's the sad part for me. Not every recent release has performed the way fans hoped, and it would have been really special to watch Gunn carry his DCU plan all the way through.

Latcham takes over on 1 December, so we'll know more about the DCU's direction soon. The film I'll miss most is one we'll now never get: Gunn's version of the Justice League. Which part of his plan were you most excited for?

What's confirmed so far

• Platforms: iOS and Android.
• Trailer: a YouTube premiere on Tuesday 10 November at 11am UK time (11:00 UTC), in English, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.
• Japanese title: Dragon Quest RPG: Makai-Ju to Michibikareshi Shima, which Anime News Network translates as The Demon World Tree and the Shepherded Island.

More details are due alongside the trailer. There's no release date or price yet, and I'll update this once they're out.

New to Dragon Quest?

Dragon Quest is one of Japan's biggest role-playing series, often called the country's national game. It began on the Famicom in May 1986, created by Yuji Horii with character designs by Akira Toriyama (of Dragon Ball fame) and music by Koichi Sugiyama. Expect turn-based battles, menus full of spells and a lot of Slimes, the series' cheerful blue mascot. The series has now sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.

The most recent main entry, Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, arrived on 5 February 2026, and Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dreams was unveiled in May.

Dragon Quest on phones so far

Anime News Network points out that several Dragon Quest phone games have come and gone. Dragon Quest Tact reached the West in January 2021 and closed there in February 2024, and Dragon Quest of the Stars ran globally from February 2020 to June 2021. The longest-running was Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light, which lasted a decade in Japan, from 2014 to 2024.

For more from the world of games, head to our latest gaming news. Will you be tuning in for the trailer tomorrow morning?

What's been announced

• Season 4: premieres in 2027, according to the new teaser visual from Toho. No month or exact date yet.
• The film: opens in cinemas in Japan in 2027. There's no title or plot yet, and CBR says it's too early to tell whether it will be an original story or adapt the manga.
• The teaser: Loid, Yor, Anya and their dog Bond are out and about in the city, with newspaper pages flying through the sky around them.

There's no word on a UK release for either one yet. I'll update this as soon as there is.

New to Spy×Family? Here's the premise

Westalis and Ostania are two rival nations holding on to an uneasy peace. Twilight, Westalis's best spy, gets his hardest mission yet: to get close to his target, he has to build a family and get a child into Eden Academy, an elite private school. So he marries a woman and adopts a little girl, without realising his new wife is an assassin and his daughter can read minds.

Every one of them is hiding something from the others, and watching the three of them work so hard at being a perfectly "normal" family is an absolute treat. It's funny and light most of the time, then catches you off guard with a moment that really tugs at you.

Meet the Forgers (spoiler-free)

• Loid Forger: the spy codenamed Twilight, posing as a psychiatrist.
• Yor Forger: a city hall clerk who agrees to marry Loid partly as cover for her own secret: she's an assassin.
• Anya Forger: their adopted daughter, a telepath who keeps her mind-reading to herself.
• Bond Forger: the family's huge, fluffy Great Pyrenees.

Where the series is up to

For longtime fans, here's the run so far. The anime began in April 2022, with a second half that October. Season 2 followed in October 2023 with 12 episodes, and Season 3 arrived in October 2025 with 13, finishing on 27 December 2025. CBR counts 50 episodes streaming on Crunchyroll.

This will be the second film. Spy×Family Code: White, an original story supervised by creator Tatsuya Endo, topped the Japanese box office in its first weekend in December 2023.

The manga is still going too. Endo's series launched on Shonen Jump+ in March 2019, its 18th volume came out in Japan on 4 November, and it had more than 42 million copies in circulation as of April 2026. In English, VIZ Media publishes it, and new chapters land free on MANGA Plus at the same time as Japan.

Spy×Family isn't the only anime with a big 2027 at the cinema, either: Bocchi the Rock is getting its own film that year too.

I've still got Season 3 to catch up on, which works out nicely with a whole year before the Forgers return. Are you watching the anime, or already ahead in the manga?

What is Radioactive Revolution?

The crossover starts with Radioactive Revolution #1, a 40-page one-shot by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank and Bryan Hitch. Brad Anderson is on colours and Rob Leigh is on letters. From there, the story carries on through Geiger #26 to 28 and Redcoat #23 and 24.

Co-writer Geoff Johns says it brings the two characters together for the first time, and describes it as "a collision that will change both characters and the world they inhabit forever", as ICv2 reported.

The story also touches on the Unknown War, the conflict behind Geiger's future timeline, and a possible connection to Simon Pure. A new villain called Organgrinder makes their debut too.

Radioactive Revolution release date, price and covers

Radioactive Revolution #1 comes from Ghost Machine and Image Comics. It's due in comic shops on Wednesday 10 February 2027, priced at $5.99 in the US. No UK price has been announced yet, so I'll update this when it is.

There are seven covers to choose from:

• Cover A: Gary Frank and Brad Anderson
• Cover B: a wraparound from Bryan Hitch and Brad Anderson
• Cover C, by Portela and Anderson
• Cover D, a 1:50 ratio incentive cover from Reis, Miki and Anderson
• Cover E, the D'orc Team-Up variant from Bean and Mike Spicer
• Cover F, by Defendini, who won the cover contest
• Cover G, a blank sketch cover

More from Image

Image had other news alongside the crossover. The Beat reported a fresh edition of Tom Scioli's The Myth of 8-Opus, plus a logo for Image's 35th anniversary in 2027.

Are you picking up the one-shot on release day, or waiting to see how the story plays out in the regular Geiger and Redcoat issues?

The figures come from TOHO, and they put the film's first day 201% ahead of Godzilla Minus One's. After how absolutely epic Minus One was, expectations for this follow-up were sky-high, so it's great to see it smashing them.

Godzilla Minus Zero in UK cinemas and IMAX

Good news if you're in the UK: you don't have to wait. Anime Limited is releasing it in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from today, Friday 6 November, shown in Japanese with English subtitles. Its press kit lists IMAX screenings from 3 November and a 15 certificate.

IMAX is the format to look out for. Anime News Network says it's the first Japanese film to meet the standard to be advertised as "filmed for IMAX".

The film opened in Japan on 3 November, which is Godzilla Day there. Takashi Yamazaki is back as director, screenwriter and VFX supervisor, and the story is set in 1949, two years after the events of Minus One.

More Godzilla while you wait for your screening

If you can't get enough of the King of the Monsters, I recently covered LEGO's giant Godzilla set, which is just as big a beast in its own way.

As for the film itself, I'll definitely be watching it myself. Are you seeing it in IMAX, or heading straight to your local cinema this weekend?

Mark 1 May 2027 in your diary

Comics Giveaway Day is the yearly event where publishers and comic shops team up to hand out free comics, and IGN describes it as the companion event to Free Comic Book Day. For comic fans it's one of the highlights of the calendar, so it's well worth getting the date down now.

The free copy, with Cappuccio's main cover, will be at participating local comic shops, so check with yours nearer the time. Marvel is also releasing True Believers Blind Bag copies of Hulk #1, plus 20-bag display boxes that each hide a "Gamma Irradiated" glow-in-the-dark variant cover by Patrick Gleason.

Who's making the new Hulk series

Condon and Cappuccio are reuniting after their best-selling run on Ultimate Wolverine, with long-time Hulk editor Mark Paniccia on board too, as The Beat also reports. The new series follows Hulk War: Infernal Rage, the event that wraps up Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Nic Klein's Infernal Hulk saga.

Marvel's teaser is short and sweet: Bruce Banner still carries the curse he has always tried to outrun, and this time he's stopped running from it. Condon told IGN the series is a tribute to everything from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's original debut to Infernal Hulk, before promising that "HULK STILL SMASH".

Some of the Hulk's greatest comic runs

After more than 60 years of smashing, the Jade Giant hardly needs an introduction, and he has had some properly great runs since Lee and Kirby created him in The Incredible Hulk #1, cover-dated May 1962. If a free first issue gets you hooked, here are a few places to dig in:

• Peter David's Incredible Hulk: a 12-year run that began with issue #331 in May 1987 and dug deep into Bruce Banner's psychology.
• Planet Hulk: Greg Pak's 2006 to 2007 epic, in which the Hulk is exiled to the alien world Sakaar and forced to fight as a gladiator. It led straight into World War Hulk.
• The Immortal Hulk: Al Ewing and Joe Bennett's 50-issue superhero horror series (2018 to 2021), which earned three Eisner Award nominations for Best Continuing Series.
• Infernal Hulk: Johnson and Klein's current saga, which Marvel calls acclaimed and which sets the stage for this relaunch.

Will you be at your local comic shop on 1 May for a free copy, or hunting down that glow-in-the-dark Gleason variant?

The story is an exclusive from Deadline, which cites unnamed sources. Reps for DC declined to comment, so nothing is officially confirmed yet.

What's known about the John Constantine movie

Deadline says the project is in very early development, with no other attachments so far. IGN adds that it isn't known whether Galluppi will direct as well as write, and that there are no casting details.

If you're new to the character, John Constantine is a working-class British occult detective, created by writer Alan Moore with artists Steve Bissette and John Totleben. I know him best from Justice League Dark in the New 52 era, where he worked alongside Zatanna and the team, and I loved him in it. Plenty of fans swear by Hellblazer, his long-running solo series. I haven't read it yet, but this news has bumped it right up my reading list.

Where does that leave Keanu Reeves and Constantine 2?

Keanu Reeves played the character in the 2005 film Constantine, and a sequel has been talked about for years. IGN reports that in late 2025 Reeves told Fandango a new draft of the sequel script had been finished and would be presented to DC Studios. There haven't been any updates since.

IGN says it isn't known whether Galluppi's script is meant as a sequel to the Reeves film or a completely new take on the character. Empire also points out that Constantine has appeared in a TV series led by Matt Ryan and in assorted animated projects.

Who is Francis Galluppi?

Galluppi made his name with his well-received debut feature, The Last Stop in Yuma County. In 2024 he developed the story for Evil Dead Wrath and pitched it to Sam Raimi's team.

Evil Dead Wrath is the seventh film in the Evil Dead series and a prequel to 1981's The Evil Dead. It's scheduled for cinemas on 7 April 2028, and Empire says Deadline notes that Galluppi is still fully focused on that film for now.

I'll be keeping a close eye on this one as it develops. Would you rather see Keanu Reeves back in the trench coat, or a brand-new Constantine for the DCU?

UK fans got a head start, too: Nintendo held a UK midnight launch, with free N64-style boxes up for grabs. Here's what's new, who's back in the cast and how the reviews are landing.

What's new in the Ocarina of Time remake

Nintendo's UK page promises reimagined visuals, a refreshed soundtrack and modernised gameplay, including a new dash and motion-controlled aiming for ranged weapons. The Verge notes it's the first Zelda release exclusive to Switch 2. The modern additions include:

• Jumping on command, with its own button
• Spoken dialogue throughout
• Threads of Time, a progress marker you can view from the pause screen
• Zelda Notes in the Nintendo Switch app, for maps and other info on your phone

Series stalwart Eiji Aonuma and Breath of the Wild director Hidemaro Fujibayashi produced the remake, working with younger developers, some of whom had never played the original. Breath of the Wild is my favourite Zelda of all, and my hours in it turned into some of my core gaming memories, so it's good to see its director on this one.

Dropping the original's auto jump took real work. VGC reported on a Nintendo blog post in which Aonuma explained that free jumping meant planning for far more player behaviour in every area. Aonuma also said the infamous Water Temple has been reworked after years of complaints, with better visibility and easier item switching.

Navi's voice and the English cast

Nintendo held blind voice auditions and, without realising it, picked the same actor who voiced Navi in the original. Eurogamer reports it was a total accident, so those famous "Hey!" and "Listen!" calls come from the same performer 28 years apart.

With the game now out, IGN now has the complete list of English voice actors.

How the Ocarina of Time remake is being received

Very well indeed. According to VGC, the remake has shot to the top of Metacritic's best games of 2026 so far, and into its all-time top 30.

Japan's Famitsu gave it 37 out of 40 (scores of 10, 9, 9 and 9), VGC reports, praising the new camera, friendlier controls and the level of graphical detail. For context, the N64 original was the first game ever to earn a perfect 40 from the magazine. VGC's own review says the visual overhaul and more cinematic storytelling give it "the scale and spectacle of a modern blockbuster".

My own first trip through it was Ocarina of Time 3D on the 3DS, and carrying a game that legendary around in my hands felt incredible. The new version plays in handheld, tabletop or TV mode, so you can carry Hyrule around with you again.

Price and where to buy it

In the UK, it's £49.99 as a digital download or a download code from the My Nintendo Store. If you'd rather have it on the shelf, physical copies are on sale too, including at Smyths Toys.

Nintendo has also released a special Switch 2 and Switch 2 Pro Controller with Triforce designs. If you're weighing up physical against digital, here's what Macronix leaving ROM production could mean for Switch 2 cartridges.

I've loved Zelda for as long as I can remember, and Nintendo keeps doing brilliant things with the series, so I can't wait to head back into Hyrule with Link. Are you diving straight into the Water Temple, or saving that one for last?

The video itself is a nostalgic trip through the studio's history, and a genuinely interesting one, before Todd Howard calls the anniversary "what a perfect time to tell you what The Elder Scrolls 6 is actually called", as VGC reported.

He also looks ahead to both Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, which hits home if your first Bethesda game was Fallout 3. Mine was, and it swallowed hundreds of hours of my life.

What the Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel teaser shows

There's no gameplay. TechPowerUp describes a short desert shot in which an Elder Scroll emerges from the dunes, before the new logo appears.

There's also a line of lore text from Yazar, Moth Priest to High Queen Iradne of Hammerfell, dated 4E 206. Skyrim is set in 4E 201, so TechPowerUp reads that as Sentinel taking place around five years later.

Where Sentinel looks to be set

IGN explains that Sentinel is a city on the northwest coast of Hammerfell, beside Iliac Bay. Hammerfell sits southwest of Skyrim and due west of Cyrodiil, the home of Oblivion. (VGC calls Sentinel a region rather than a city, so the sources differ slightly.)

Rock Paper Shotgun says the teaser all but locks in Hammerfell. Bethesda's follow-up post on X, per TechPowerUp, says the studio is pleased the name and location are now public.

VGC adds that former Bethesda designer Bruce Nesmith, lead designer on Skyrim, said last month he hoped the setting theories were right, because it could finally mean boats and exploring the water.

IGN notes that Skyrim is Bethesda's most played game by lifetime players, and it's the one that reshaped how I think about games, which is exactly why I can't wait to see what Howard is cooking up next.

What's still unknown

There's no release date, launch window or confirmed platforms. In that same X post, Bethesda said it will be some time before it can share more.

For context, Eurogamer counted eight years, four months and 23 days between the 2018 title card and the reveal on 3 November, almost exactly 15 years after Skyrim launched.

TechPowerUp adds that Bethesda said in July the game is still its main focus, despite reports that the Xbox layoffs might slow it down. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has since claimed on Bluesky that it's at least two years away.

If Sentinel really does sit on Iliac Bay, are you hoping for boats too?

As SlashFilm reported, it's the first official Godzilla building brick set, based on the version of the monster from Legendary's Monsterverse films. CBR adds that it's the largest LEGO Ideas set ever made.

LEGO Ideas Godzilla: the key details

• 5,363 pieces
• 27.5 inches (70cm) tall, including the heat ray blast
• Currently slated for 27 November on the LEGO website (SlashFilm calls it a Black Friday launch)
• £349.99 in the UK, as Brick Fanatics reported (around $450 in the US, per Gizmodo)

SlashFilm reports it's the biggest creature LEGO has ever designed, and the designers weren't sure they could even reach 50cm. Minifigures barely reach its ankles, and that sheer size, along with the iconic roaring pose, is what makes it look so awesome: a Godzilla this big feels exactly right.

The model is partially articulated, with glowing spines down its back and a tail ready to whip around. The blue heat ray can come off, leaving Godzilla's tongue in its place so he can simply roar at the sky.

Who designed it

The set comes from the LEGO Ideas programme, where fans submit designs and the community votes on them. Fan designer Matthew Esposito's build hit the 10,000 votes it needed after more than two years, according to CBR.

LEGO model designers Jim Clayton and Markus Rollbühler worked on the final model with him, with Jordan Scott as creative design lead. CBR quotes Esposito: "Building LEGO Godzilla was a real passion project."

More Godzilla on the way

The timing's neat. Godzilla x Kong: Supernova arrives in cinemas on 26 March 2027, directed by Grant Sputore, with the duo facing SpaceGodzilla.

If you can't wait that long, Toho's Godzilla Minus Zero, the follow-up to Godzilla Minus One, is already on UK IMAX screens from 3 November, with the wider UK cinema release from Friday 6 November, as Anime News Network reported. Sometimes all you want is giant monsters slugging it out on a huge screen, and that's always been the fun of these films for me.

Is this your Black Friday splurge, or is the price a step too far?

ROM (read-only memory) chips are components in those cartridges. Eurogamer reported that analyst David Gibson flagged the news on X, and that Macronix announced it on its latest earnings call. Per Eurogamer, the plan is to phase out ROM entirely by the end of Q3 in its 2026 financial year.

Why Macronix is stepping away

Eurogamer says ROM is now only 5 percent of Macronix's business, compared with 26 percent a year earlier.

The Verge, citing the Taipei Times, puts the Q3 2026 ROM revenue drop at 39 percent year on year. Over the same period, NOR flash revenue rose 158 percent and NAND memory revenue jumped 768 percent.

Chairman and CEO Miin Wu said on the call that "demand for NOR used in data centers is very robust." Manufacturing capacity is shifting towards NOR flash for data centres instead.

What it could mean for Switch 2 cartridges

Macronix isn't Nintendo's only source. Eurogamer says the company also buys ROM parts from Rohm Co. (Oki Semiconductor). Even so, losing a major supplier adds strain to a supply that was already tight, which could mean higher prices.

Gibson also suggested more publishers, Nintendo included, might lean on Game-Key Cards, which skip the cartridge and its cost. Tom's Hardware lists three possible outcomes: pricier cartridges, more Game-Key Cards, or a bigger push towards digital. With Game-Key Cards on the rise, it's been ages since I last picked up a boxed game myself.

Eurogamer adds that the move is probably another knock-on effect of the global squeeze on memory and storage driven by data-centre demand, though that isn't stated directly. Micron shut down its Crucial consumer brand nearly a year ago for similar reasons.

Nintendo said recently that it has "no plans" to ditch physical games, according to The Verge. Sony, meanwhile, will stop making discs from January 2028. Physical titles made up 38.5 percent of Nintendo's game sales, a figure the company gave in August.

My Switch 2 shelf is still empty of cartridges, even if the original Switch has a fair few. No hate if physical is your thing; it just stopped being mine.

I've read the first few volumes of the manga, and it's a real fun one: I loved the art in its action scenes, and Sakamoto himself is a proper badass.

How to watch Sakamoto Days in the UK

As a worldwide Prime Video exclusive, it's included for UK subscribers now. The same announcement says the film is also available to buy or rent digitally, if you'd rather not subscribe.

Have you watched it yet, or are you starting with the manga like I did?

Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will keep operating as distinct production labels under the new umbrella, each with its own creative team making film and TV projects, as Variety reported. The two companies merged in 2024, so this is a rebrand of the combined company.

Saw, an iconic horror series in its own right, is going back to Wan with a new chapter on the way. Blum called it a perfect example of what the merger can do. The Hollywood Reporter adds that Wan is producing, and that the company has bought back into the franchise, which sits with Lionsgate.

Blum also said "no filmmaker has created more horror franchises than James Wan." Wan also gave us Malignant, one of my horror favourites, so whatever he cooks up next under the new banner has my attention.

The numbers behind Blumhouse Atomic

According to Variety, the combined banners have taken more than $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office since the merger, on production budgets totalling under $330 million. In 2026 alone the company made $1.3 billion, driven by Obsession and Backrooms (the latter at around $400 million worldwide).

Wan says the new name is also about finding fresh talent. He name-checked Kane Parsons, Curry Barker, Josh Giuliano and Dylan Clark, and said the aim is to give filmmakers room to make something distinctive.

Sam Zimmerman was appointed senior vice president of development and acquisitions this year, tasked with a slate of genre features budgeted under $5 million. The company has also signed a first-look deal with Divide/Conquer.

Blumhouse Atomic's upcoming film slate

Variety puts the following on the company's 2027 slate, and The Hollywood Reporter lists the same titles as coming up:

• River
• The Revenge of La Llorona
• The Exorcist: Martyrs
• Anything But Ghosts
• Paranormal Activity
• Molepeople
• Blair Witch
• Sleepover
• Seasons

Blum said the company sees more chances to take these stories beyond cinemas and into television, games and live experiences. Neither report gives details on any of those yet.

Which of the 2027 titles are you most curious about: Paranormal Activity, Blair Witch or The Exorcist: Martyrs?

What the film is about

It isn't a recap. The film adapts "Hoshi ni Tamukeru Ai no Hana", a special story from the end of the manga's fifth volume. It works as a prologue about Seika, the older sister of Nijika Ijichi, whose band the shy guitarist Hitori Goto ends up joining.

Who's making it

• Director: Shin Wakabayashi (Wonder Egg Priority)
• Studio: CloverWorks
• Screenplay: Erika Yoshida, returning from the TV anime
• Character design: Yukiko Horiguchi (K-On!, Lucky Star, Tamako Market)
• Distributor: Animec

No cast has been announced yet, and there's no exact release date or word on a UK release.

Catching up before 2027

Bocchi was a really big hit and I still haven't got round to watching it, so a new film is the push I need to start. Aki Hamaji's four-panel manga has run in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Max since December 2017, and Yen Press publishes it in English. Yen Press sums up its lead, Hitori Goto, as someone who "just wants to make friends", until she's asked to fill in on guitar for Nijika's band.

The TV anime premiered in October 2022, and a second season was announced in February 2025. Two compilation films also played in Japanese cinemas in 2024, Re: in June and Re:Re: in August.

I'll update this when a date, the cast or a UK release is confirmed. Already caught up, or starting from episode one like me?

Kojima Productions revealed the update at its 10th anniversary event at Tokyo's Azabudai Hills Gallery, as Cartoon Brew reported. It's a hand-drawn anime series set in Hideo Kojima's game universe, with an original story and new characters.

Death Stranding Isolations: who's making it

• Executive producer: Hideo Kojima
• Director: Takayuki Sano
• Series composition and screenplay: Tow Ubukata
• Original character designs: Ilya Kuvshinov
• Animation: E&H Production, the studio behind Ninja Kamui and Bullet/Bullet

Ubukata is the new name on that list. Cartoon Brew notes that his novel Mardock Scramble won the Nihon SF Taisho Award in 2003, and that he has written for novels, games, comics and anime.

What the story is about

Japanese outlet Anime Anime! explains the series' central idea like this: in the Death Stranding world, the souls of the dead get stranded, and when they connect with the living, the result is a huge explosion. The first game launched in 2019, and the sequel, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, followed in 2025.

The anime picks up just after Sam Porter Bridges, the games' protagonist, links North America through the Chiral Network. The country is trying to become one again, but those new connections bring fresh disaster.

The synopsis opens with the line "My mom became a crater." Anime Anime! describes the lead as a girl who has cut herself off from everyone, alongside an old sage, a female soldier and an angry boy. Cartoon Brew calls the central character a woman, so the sources differ slightly there. The teaser shows a girl tormented by nightmares and a huge crater, according to Anime Anime!.

Sano said entertainment has the power to "enhance the spirituality of those who consume it", and that he approached the project with a strong sense of duty, per Cartoon Brew.

When can you watch Death Stranding Isolations?

The series is due in 2027, with no exact date yet. Cartoon Brew says it's heading to Disney+. The Japanese announcement, as reported by Anime Anime!, specifies an exclusive on Disney+ "Star". Neither source mentions UK timing yet.

Isolations was first revealed last November, and it isn't the franchise's only animated project. Kojima Productions has also announced the anime feature Death Stranding: Mosquito, directed by Hiroshi Miyamoto at ABC Animation Studio, plus an adult animated feature with Los Angeles-based Line Mileage.

The next thing to watch for is an exact premiere date and confirmation of where it will stream in the UK.

What the Persona 1 remake leak reportedly shows

The clip is just shy of two minutes long. Gematsu says a YouTube user called "P1REMAKE" posted it, and copies have since turned up on file-sharing sites and the GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit. Eurogamer reports that it seems to give the game the subtitle Be Your True Mind.

According to Rock Paper Shotgun, one section follows the hero through a school after dark, then into a turn-based fight (where you and the enemies act in turn). The colour scheme is mostly purple. Eurogamer adds that the menus and combat resemble Persona 5 and Persona 3 Reload, and there's a short social link cutscene in a graphic novel style.

Why some people think it's real

Fans digging through the clip have flagged a few details:

• Unreal Engine debug text on screen during battle, and Atlus moved to that engine for Persona 3 Reload (per Eurogamer)
• A fresh remix of the Pandora theme from the original PlayStation release
• The hero being labelled "Boy With Earring", the name he goes by in Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
• Eriko seemingly reusing the summon animation that Yukiko has in Persona 4 Revival, which IGN says is the clincher for many people

Reasons to be careful

Tatsuya Suou, the Persona 2: Innocent Sin hero, also shows up in battle. Gematsu points out he isn't in the first game, so he could be standing in for another character, or Persona 2 remakes could be in development too. IGN suggests he may be an unfinished model.

IGN also notes that nobody knows when the footage was made. It could be a recent build or an older pitch video. The YouTube account dates from March 2010 and has only two other uploads, and IGN points out that, with AI-generated fakes around, it pays to be sceptical. Eurogamer says it can't verify the clip, and IGN has asked Sega for comment.

A remake wouldn't be a huge shock. Persona 4 Revival is due on 18 February 2027, and Rock Paper Shotgun quotes Atlus producer Kazuhisa Wada saying: "Persona 1 and 2 are something we’ll probably eventually do too." That's a tease at most, not an announcement.

I'll update this if Atlus or Sega responds. If it is real, would you rather see Persona 1 get its own remake, or arrive alongside Persona 2?

Everything below comes from the outlets that covered Bloomberg's report. Here's what's been claimed so far.

What the Star Wars Battlefront 3 report claims

As VGC reported, Bloomberg's sources say EA's executives were planning the next few years while carrying $18 billion of debt from its acquisition by Saudi Arabia's investment fund. They found two big-budget sci-fi action games in the pipeline: Battlefront 3 and the next Mass Effect (its working title is thought to have been Mass Effect Universe).

Eurogamer says EA couldn't fund both, and went with Star Wars because it was seen as "a less risky, more predictable bet". Reaching for the safe option is classic EA, which is why this didn't surprise me one bit. Development on Battlefront 3 reportedly hasn't even started.

Other factors are said to have played a part:

• Weaker reviews for BioWare's recent games
• Corporate politics
• A reorganisation of EA's executive team
• EA bosses reportedly wishing Dragon Age: The Veilguard had been a live service game

TechPowerUp adds that EA's long history with shooters, such as Battlefield 6, may have influenced the choice.

What EA has said

EA confirmed the closure on 21 October 2026. As Push Square reported, around 400 roles are going across EA, including roughly 50 at BioWare, and the Edmonton studio is closing. The next Mass Effect, still early in development, has been cancelled.

EA told Bloomberg the decision followed months of planning, review and analysis, but didn't go into specifics.

Eurogamer also reports that an internal video for the cancelled game leaked after the announcement. The game was said to be set 600 years after the Reaper war, with "Hitman-style freedom" in its levels. How far development got isn't clear.

Fans have been reacting too. IGN reports that "Save Mass Effect" was spray-painted on an EA building in Madrid a few days after the news broke.

BioWare's legacy, and why Mass Effect 2 still matters

BioWare was founded in Edmonton, Canada, in 1995 by three newly qualified medical doctors: Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk and Augustine Yip. Role-playing games were its speciality from day one, and early hits Baldur's Gate (1998) and Neverwinter Nights (2002) each sold more than two million copies.

Then came Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003), Jade Empire, Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins, games built around your choices and their consequences. EA bought the studio in 2007 for US$775 million, according to BioWare's history on Wikipedia.

Mass Effect 2 arrived in January 2010 on PC and Xbox 360, with PS3 following a year later. As Commander Shepard, you recruit a squad and earn their loyalty for a suicide mission against the Collectors, and choices imported from the first game shape the story. It scored up to 96 on Metacritic and won Best Game at the British Academy Games Awards, as its Wikipedia entry notes. It's still regularly named among the best games ever made, and it was remastered in 2021 as part of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition. It's my favourite BioWare game, and Mass Effect 3 sits right alongside it in my fondest memories, polarising ending and all.

The studio's more recent games haven't hit the same way for me, though, and it's been a long while since a BioWare game properly won me over.

Which Mass Effect game is your favourite?

The show is the prequel series to the It films, and Season 1 is set in Derry, Maine in 1962. This special goes much further back. According to Variety, it takes place hundreds of years before the show's main events and the arrival of Pennywise.

Season 1 didn't quite reach the heights of the films for me (and I loved those), but it was a welcome addition to the story, so a standalone episode set that far back is an easy yes.

What A Story of Derry is about

Don't go in expecting Pennywise. As SlashFilm reported, the episode centres on the Shokopiwah, a fictional Indigenous tribe whose home was there long before the town of Derry was built. If you've watched Season 1, you'll remember them from Episode 4.

The official synopsis reads: "Hundreds of years before Pennywise, three youngsters venture into the Western Wood ... where they encounter a terrifying ancient spirit."

• Director: Tazbah Chavez (Reservation Dogs)
• Writers: Cherie Dimaline and Jasmyne Flournoy
• Runtime: 30 minutes
• Where to watch: HBO Max

Watching in the UK? HBO Max launched here on 26 March 2026, and CultureCues confirms the special is available through eligible NOW Entertainment & HBO Max memberships.

A few viewers have reportedly had trouble finding it. SlashFilm says to look in the "Related" section on the show's main page. HBO Max also promoted it on Instagram, as Deadline noted, with a clip and the line "Catch this never-before-seen special exploring the origins of IT in Derry."

Where Season 2 stands

The special isn't a new season, but one is coming: HBO renewed the show for Season 2 in August, as TVLine reported. There's no release date yet.

According to CBR, Season 2 jumps back to 1935, during the Great Depression. This time the focus is the Bradley Gang: bank robbers who pull into Derry to stock up on ammo and find something far worse waiting for them. Brad Caleb Kane is returning as showrunner, while Jason Fuchs, who co-ran Season 1, is not.

No cast has been confirmed for Season 2. According to CBR, Bill Skarsgård should be back in the Pennywise make-up, but nothing official has been announced.

Are you watching it tonight with the lights off, or saving it for daylight?