Month: September 2026

Reports that Tapas may close have left creators and readers with serious questions. What happens to years of published work, established communities and all the digital chapters people paid to unlock?

The residents of Rutshire are returning with more romance, betrayal and expensive bad decisions. Judging by the new Rivals trailer, nobody has learned anything during the break.

GTA 6 will reportedly fill Leonida with hurricanes and more than 170 animal species. Rockstar may be building its most convincing open world yet, although players will almost certainly find several creative ways to disrupt it.

Nintendo’s Ocarina of Time remake will let players hum its famous melodies into the Switch 2 microphone. It could make the instrument feel wonderfully real, although your dignity may not survive the performance.

OpenAI’s Dots promises to keep work moving between conversations. The appeal is obvious, but the value depends on whether it saves more time than it takes to supervise.

Kristen Stewart is reuniting with Olivier Assayas for Spiritual World, a supernatural film about a haunted clairvoyant. It sounds like exactly the kind of strange, uncomfortable work she does best.

Netflix has found its Stassie and Nate. Daisy Jelley and Connor Simos will lead the adaptation of Hannah Grace’s Icebreaker, but BookTok readers already have very specific ideas about these characters.

Alan Cumming has returned as Nightcrawler for Avengers: Doomsday, but even he does not fully understand its plot. His wonderfully confusing filming experience raises a larger question about Marvel’s obsession with secrecy.

Madonna returned to the VMAs after 23 years, while Taylor Swift made history with Video of the Year and the inaugural Artist Director honour. For one evening, the ceremony remembered that a memorable awards show needs more than trophies. It needs a moment.

Avengers: Endgame Encore earned $86 million worldwide despite the film being available at home for years. Fans did not return because they had forgotten the ending. They returned because they remembered how watching it together felt.