Dadnology Week 26: Supergirl, Avatar's Return & GTA 6 Pre-Orders
Week 26, 2026: Supergirl hits cinemas, Avatar Season 2 lands on Netflix, Star Fox returns on Switch 2, GTA 6 pre-orders open, plus Deltarune and LEGO.
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🎮 The Week That Was — Quiet on Paper, Stacked Where It Counts
Some weeks are a firehose; this one started out looking like a sniper rifle and then quietly loaded a full magazine. The releases that landed landed — and gaming had the busiest seven days of the lot. After years of “soon,” GTA 6 pre-orders went live ahead of its November launch; Star Fox roared back as a Switch 2 exclusive (a genuine must for any Nintendo dad who misplaced a thumb to Star Fox 64 in 1997); and Deltarune Chapter 5 dropped as a free update and promptly melted every gaming forum on the planet.
On the screen-and-sofa front, James Gunn’s DC Universe keeps rolling: Supergirl opened in cinemas, the second proper DCU film after last year’s Superman, and for anyone who fell for Gunn’s Guardians and Suicide Squad energy, it’s the summer ticket. Meanwhile the Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action Season 2 dropped all seven episodes on Netflix — a release I’ve personally been counting down to — and Toy Story 5 is still on the big screen. Round it out with a fresh LEGO World Cup centrepiece and an AI launch that slipped its own date, and a “quiet” week turns out to have plenty for a dad to scan on a Sunday. Here’s the lot, sorted.
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🎮 Gaming News for Dads
GTA 6 pre-orders are finally live — here’s what a dad needs to know
It’s happening. After the kind of build-up usually reserved for royal weddings, Grand Theft Auto VI went up for pre-order this week, with a confirmed release date of November 19, 2026. If you’ve been gaming since the PS2 era — and let’s be honest, a lot of us cut our teeth on Vice City and San Andreas during a misspent youth — this is the one. Rockstar also dropped the cover-art reveal trailer to mark the occasion, and it’s worth the 60 seconds:
The short version for busy dads:
- Release date: November 19, 2026.
- Platforms at launch: PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. No PC version at launch — the PC port comes later, as is Rockstar tradition, so don’t pre-order expecting a Steam key.
- Editions: a standard edition plus a pricier Ultimate Edition bundling premium in-game vehicles and extras.
The honest dad take: there is genuinely no rush to pre-order a Rockstar game — it’s not a limited-stock console, and the digital copy won’t sell out. The only real reason to lock it in now is if you want the Ultimate Edition’s day-one bonuses or you simply want it off your mental to-do list. What matters more is the November date itself: it lands right in the pre-Christmas window, which means it’s about to become the gift every gaming dad (and teen) puts on the list. Plan accordingly. If you want to fill the five-month wait, our Grand Theft Auto Series ranking re-litigates every mainline GTA — a perfect re-play project to bridge the gap.
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Pre-order GTA VI on PS5 ahead of the November 19 launch — lock in your copy before the inevitable launch-week scramble.
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The Xbox Series X|S pre-order for GTA VI — same November 19 date, same day-one madness. PC dads have to wait.
Star Fox is back on Switch 2 — and for a Nintendo dad, it’s a must
Now this is the one that got me out of my chair. Star Fox launched as a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive on June 25 — a ground-up remake of the N64 masterpiece Star Fox 64, built by Velan Studios. For those of us who spent a chunk of the late ’90s yelling “do a barrel roll” at a chunky grey controller, this is non-negotiable. It faithfully rebuilds the original’s branching level design and bombastic on-rails dogfights with a fresh art style, and adds optional mouse-style aiming via the Joy-Con 2 for free-aim blaster control instead of pure lock-on. Critics are calling it the definitive version of Star Fox 64 — the honest caveat being that it plays it safe and doesn’t reinvent the formula. For a dad, that’s the whole appeal: it’s nostalgia done right, in 20-minute bursts that fit a tired Tuesday, and it’s genuinely fun to hand a Joy-Con to a kid who’s never met Fox McCloud.
If you’ve not yet jumped to Nintendo’s new box, the good news is the whole family benefits — our full Nintendo Switch 2 review lays out why it’s the couch co-op hub worth owning, and Star Fox is exactly the kind of pick-up-and-grin exclusive that justifies it.
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The ground-up Switch 2 remake of Star Fox 64 — optional Joy-Con 2 mouse aiming, the definitive way to do a barrel roll in 2026.
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The console Star Fox is exclusive to — and the family hub for couch co-op. The box you need before the holiday game flood.
Deltarune Chapter 5 melted the internet — and it’s free
If your feeds looked like a meltdown this week, blame Toby Fox. Deltarune Chapter 5, subtitled Festival Day, launched on June 24 and immediately took over Twitch, YouTube and every gaming forum going — the same fervent devotion the Undertale creator’s work always inspires, dialled to eleven. The crucial detail for dads watching the wallet: it’s a free update. If you already own the paid version of Deltarune, Chapter 5 is yours at no extra cost, and it’s bundled into every copy sold from here on. No new purchase, no season pass, no nonsense — a refreshingly honest move in 2026.
The practical angle: Deltarune is a turn-based RPG that runs beautifully on a handheld, which makes it the ideal “the house is finally quiet” play. Whether that’s on Switch 2 in bed or a Steam Deck on the sofa, it’s the rare big-deal release you can actually savour in the half-hour after the kids go down — no reflexes required, just a story that’s earned its hype.
Halo: Campaign Evolved keeps the cross-platform train rolling
We broke the Halo: Campaign Evolved remake reveal back in our Week 24 roundup, and the genuinely historic detail still hasn’t lost its shine: it’s launching on PlayStation 5 as well as Xbox. Master Chief, the definitive Xbox icon, on a Sony box. Pre-orders remain open on both platforms, and it’s still the clearest proof that Microsoft’s “our games, every box” strategy is real and permanent. If the remake has you itching to revisit the saga first, the Halo Master Chief Collection is the homework, and our full Halo Saga review ranks where Combat Evolved sits in the pantheon.
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Master Chief on a PlayStation box for the first time — the ground-up remake that confirmed Microsoft's multi-platform era, still up for pre-order.
Lost track of what’s coming? One video to catch up
Between GTA 6, Star Fox and a stack of showcases, the gaming calendar has been relentless lately — and if you’ve reached the dad-brain stage of “wait, what was actually announced again?”, here’s the fix. This Summer Game Fest showcase round-up is the single best recap of the month’s big reveals and trailers, perfect for catching up in one sitting while the kettle boils:
🎬 Movie & TV News This Week
In cinemas: Supergirl lands — and Gunn’s DCU keeps building
The headline cinema release is Supergirl, now playing — the second film in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe after last year’s Superman. Milly Alcock takes the cape as a harder, more battle-worn Kara Zor-El on a revenge-fuelled trek across the galaxy, with Jason Momoa along for the ride as bounty hunter Lobo. It draws from Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s acclaimed Woman of Tomorrow comic, and the trailers promise something noticeably grittier than the usual cape-and-smile fare:
I’ll say the quiet part out loud: I’m a Gunn guy. He earned that goodwill the hard way with the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy — still some of the best superhero films ever made, and the clearest proof of his real gift: making a ragtag team of misfits feel like family. (Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and the gut-punch of a finale Vol. 3 are all reviewed in full — a perfect rewatch project for the summer.) That same beating heart under the chaos is exactly why his stuff clicks for dads, and it’s the blueprint he’s now bringing to DC. If Supergirl gets you in the mood to catch up on where this new DCU has been, here’s the watch list we’ve reviewed so far: Superman (2025), the gleefully unhinged The Suicide Squad (2021), and the two seasons of Peacemaker plus the animated Creature Commandos that quietly kicked the whole universe off. That’s a solid run of after-bedtime evenings — both halves of Gunn’s career — before or after you hit the cinema.
On Netflix: Avatar live-action Season 2 is here (and I’m thrilled)
This is the one I’ve been waiting on. Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 dropped all seven episodes on Netflix this week, and as a card-carrying fan of the franchise I cleared the schedule the moment it hit. Season 1 earned a solid 8/10 from us — a genuinely good remake that still can’t dethrone the perfect cartoon, but more than good enough to be a proper family event. Season 2 has the franchise’s strongest material to work with (Book Two: Earth is where the original really takes off), so expectations are high in this house.
Crucially, this is rare territory: a binge the whole family can actually share. If your kids only know the live-action, our Avatar Universe Hub is the spoiler-light HQ for the lot — the original anime (a desert-island 10/10), The Legend of Korra, the comics and novels, plus where the live-action sits in the bigger picture. Watch the new season together, then send the kids down the rabbit hole of the cartoon that started it all. That’s a summer’s worth of screen time sorted.
Still in cinemas: Toy Story 5
A quick callback for the younger-kids crowd: Toy Story 5 is still on the big screen after opening last week. I haven’t caught it yet myself — it’s firmly on the list — so I’ll save the verdict, but as a guaranteed afternoon out with the little ones it remains the easiest family-cinema win going right now.
Just finished: The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4
On the after-bedtime front, we just wrapped the new season of The Legend of Vox Machina on Prime — and our full Season 4 review is up: a solid 8/10. It’s a little uneven and doesn’t quite hit the heights of the early run (the scoreboard now reads Season 1 a perfect 10, Season 2 a 9, and Season 3 and 4 both an 8), but it’s the same chaotic, foul-mouthed, surprisingly tender D&D energy that makes it the best adult animated series going. Strictly a “the house is finally quiet” watch — definitely not one for the kids — but as a wind-down reward it delivers. If you’re behind, our full series breakdown reviews every season and is the place to start.
🧱 LEGO & Family Round-up
The LEGO World Cup range is in full swing
With the football World Cup deep into its run, LEGO’s tie-in Editions range is the fun family angle on the kitchen table. The line-up that arrived earlier this summer covers buildable figures and dioramas of the biggest names — Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappé, Vini Jr. — across a few price tiers, and the centrepiece Lionel Messi Celebration (43018) joined the range this month: a 1,427-piece brick-built wall-art display of Messi in his iconic victory pose, aimed at older builders (14+). Our LEGO World Cup hub collects the pitches, players and trophies you can build while the actual tournament plays out on the telly — screens off, bricks out, that’s a Dadnology kind of match day.
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A 1,427-piece brick-built wall-art display of Messi in his victory pose — the World Cup centrepiece set, out since June 1 for ages 14+.
For the full picture of what’s fresh on shelves, our best new LEGO sets of June 2026 guide rounds up everything worth a look this month beyond the football — a handy bookmark whether you’re shopping for a build-together project or just window-browsing the brick aisle.
And a quick Prime Day wrap
One last housekeeping note: Amazon Prime Day wrapped up on June 26, so the four-day deal storm is over for another stretch. If you grabbed something from our hub’s dad-tested picks — great. If you sat it out, you didn’t miss much that won’t come back around; the picks that were good value last week are still good value at their normal price, which was rather the point.
🤖 Tech & AI Quick Hits
Two for the tech-curious dads, both filed under “interesting, not urgent.” First, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 didn’t land this week — the June launch window everyone expected quietly slipped, with the smart money now pointing at July, and no official release as of writing. File it under the eternal AI truth: the hype always arrives weeks before the model does, so there’s no reason to refresh a changelog on a Sunday. Second, Qualcomm is going all-in on the “year of agents,” laying out a serious data-centre diversification strategy at its investor day and pushing its Snapdragon X2 platform for agentic Copilot+ laptops — the idea being a PC that proactively does things for you, not just answers questions. The honest Dadnology read: on-device AI in your next laptop is genuinely coming, but “agentic” is still a spec-sheet promise until it’s reliably doing real work in a real house. Wait-and-see, wallet closed.
Dadnology Take
Week 26 proves a “quiet” week can absolutely fool you. The story with the longest tail is GTA 6 finally getting a date — November 19, right into gift season — but there’s no need to pre-order in a panic; it’s not going to sell out. The pure joy of the week, though, is Star Fox back on Switch 2: nostalgia done right, in dad-sized bursts. Clear an evening for it. Then there’s the family event — Avatar Season 2 — the on-ramp to the best animated series ever made, and a binge you can share with the kids. Catch Supergirl when you can, play Star Fox until your thumb remembers, and put the family in front of the Four Nations. That’s the week.
❓ FAQ
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