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The 2004 classic plus the Xtreme Legends expansion, remastered with refined controls, two-player co-op and a new Evasion move. Originally dated for 19 March 2026 and pushed back with no new date given for months before this one was confirmed.

PS5-exclusive bundle of the base game, the free Legends co-op mode, the new Echoes of Sekigahara story expansion, and a single-player survival mode called Most Wanted. $69.99, or a $14.99 upgrade for existing owners.

Not new games: enhanced Switch 2 ports of both HD-2D RPGs, sold separately or as a digital bundle, with a resolution and frame-rate bump over the Switch 1 originals.

We already have a launch piece on this one — his top pick for the month.

Eminem's semi-autobiographical breakout, back on Netflix.

Blade, Blade II and Blade: Trinity together. Wesley Snipes' half-vampire hunter still holds up — R-rated, so once the kids are down.

All five Bourne films land together. Patrick's pick for the whole series — start with The Bourne Identity, and do not skip Jason Bourne (2016), the one everybody underrates.

Also on Peacock: Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane, From Dusk Till Dawn, Coraline and ParaNorman.

Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, genre mashup catalogue pick.

Die Hard, Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance, all on the same day. The original is still the best answer to 'one good action movie, right now'.

Also on Peacock from the 1st: E.T., A.I., The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, The Scorpion King, Van Helsing, Scream and Scary Movie.

Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II and Answer the Call — the lighter option if Die Hard is too much for the room.

The Seuss adaptation, a reliable family catalogue pick.

Genuine family pick, not just Halloween dressing.

The sequels to this month's two family picks, plus both Surf's Up films, for when one evening is not enough.

Evening family watch, skews toward older kids.

The Jeremy Renner prison-town drama joins Netflix — a whole series to binge once the kids are in bed.

Evening family watch, skews toward older kids.

Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen, The Departed, Coraline, ParaNorman, Space Jam and Space Jam: A New Legacy all join HBO Max on the 1st.

Rocky I to V, Daniel Craig's Skyfall and the original Point Break all join Prime Video on the 1st.

Also on Paramount+ from the 1st: Hotel Transylvania 1 and 2, Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL, Parasite, Rush Hour 1-3, The Equalizer 2, V for Vendetta and When Harry Met Sally.

Also on Netflix from the 1st: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Seven Years in Tibet, The Equalizer (2014) and The Huntsman: Winter's War.

Skews older-kids/teens rather than little ones.

Shyamalan's twist classic, back on Netflix.

The next arcade flight-combat entry. Deluxe Edition owners got early access from 28 September; Steam's storefront shows 1 October for some US buyers because of how the global unlock lands across time zones, but Bandai Namco's own release date is the 2nd.

Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu's ecological-disaster thriller: an oil tycoon races to prove he can save the world he just helped wreck.

Justin Hartley's reward-hunter procedural is back for a fourth season, one easy case per episode.

Not a launch: a free upgrade for anyone who already owns the Switch version, with save transfer, a higher resolution and a better frame rate. THQ Nordic's remake of the 2010 Wii original first released on Switch/PS5/Xbox/PC in March 2026.

A prequel set on Emergence Day itself, the moment the Locust first surfaced. Day one on Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass, with up to 5 days of early access for Premium Edition buyers from 1 October.

A Star Wars racing game, for anyone who wants the fast end of the galaxy.

Ten episodes, one a week since August 5, wrap this Wednesday. No Season 5 has been confirmed either way, so treat this as the ending until Apple says otherwise.

Bundles Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX, HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and III + Re Mind natively on current-gen hardware for the first time. Announced for Tokyo Game Show 2026 alongside confirmation that Kingdom Hearts IV itself is not coming until late 2027.

The expanded edition of Capcom's open-world fantasy RPG.

New animated series in the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe. Thirteen episodes, three new ones every Friday and four on the 30 October finale.

John Cena action-comedy, directed by Sam Hargrave (Extraction). Not a kids' film despite the toy-brand name.

Frontier's full sequel, adding aquatic and flying habitats and Wildlife Reserves to the management-sim formula for the first time. No Switch 2 version announced.

A new SpongeBob adventure for the younger players in the house.

Retro-styled fast FPS sequel with two playable heroes, an Ultramarine and a Sister of Battle, and a final-boss track from DOOM composer Mick Gordon. A Switch 2 version is confirmed but has no date yet.

A new documentary series landing on both Disney+ and Hulu on the same day.

The whole franchise lands together — an easy multi-night watch if the teenagers in the house have never seen the originals.

Paul Bettany's Vision gets his own eight-episode series, the third and final chapter of the WandaVision-Agatha All Along trilogy, with James Spader's Ultron back too. Two-episode drops on Wednesdays, then single episodes on 4 and 11 November; the finale is 11 November.

A new Castlevania, back to the Belmont family.

A new Harvest Moon farming game — the gentle end of the month.

Our top-rated co-op game, now on Switch 2. The pick to build a two-controller weekend around.

The other two Resident Evil remakes arrive on Switch 2 the same day as RE4. Adults only.

The Resident Evil 4 remake with its DLC, now portable. Our pick of the three Resident Evil ports landing the same day — adults only.

The remaster of the classic Tales JRPG.

The live-action reboot, set in 1993 — Ryu and Ken Masters pulled back together for the World Warrior Tournament, with Jason Momoa as Blanka and Cody Rhodes as Guile.

The darker, older Robin Hood story arrives on HBO Max. A grown-up evening, not a family matinee.

Ten new episodes, Gretchen Mol joins the cast, and Dwight's empire faces its biggest threat yet.

Rami Malek's revenge thriller about a CIA codebreaker who goes into the field himself lands on HBO Max.

Anime sequel, mature content, evening watch.

Both films join the catalogue together. Ridley Scott's 2000 original is a perfect 5 from us; the 2024 sequel earned a 4.5.

Six episodes adapting Joe Country and Slough House wrap this week. The show has not had a bad season yet.

All eight episodes at once, four years after Season 1. Chris Pratt's James Reece gets pulled into a conspiracy reaching from Moscow to Langley, adapting Jack Carr's novel True Believer.

The German family comedy-thriller from Apple returns for a second season.

A new Final Fantasy release.

Nintendo's motion-sports series on Switch 2 — living-room fun for the whole family.

Campaign centers on a North Korean invasion of the peninsula, with Captain Price running a parallel shadow war. Preorder buyers get campaign early access from 16 October. The month's biggest release by a distance, and one more example of the industry emptying out ahead of GTA 6.

A One Piece game for the anime fans in the house.

James Gunn's DCU turns Batman villain Matt Hagen into an R-rated body-horror lead, directed by James Watkins from a screenplay by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini.

Eight episodes. Omar Sy's Assane Diop, four years into a prison sentence he wants to finish quietly, gets dragged back out by a copycat pulling off heists under his name.

All three extended editions land the same week.

Mojang's own Switch 2-native build rather than the old version running through backward compatibility.

Disney Jr.'s preschool Iron Man show arrives on Disney+ — the natural next stop for the Spidey crowd.

Ten episodes, weekly on Fridays since August 28, wrap this week. Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly's multiverse thriller closes its second season.

Michael C. Hall returns, with Brian Cox and Dan Stevens joining as series regulars and Uma Thurman back for a second season. Streams on the Paramount+ Premium plan.

The preschool Spider-Man show returns for a fifth season.

Three Jurassic films land on Halloween itself — the dinosaur alternative to a horror night.