
Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown
todayPearl Abyss dates the first expansion just seven months after Crimson Desert itself, a short turnaround for a studio that spent seven years on the base game.
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Capcom’s flagship Monster Hunter franchise expands to mobile with Monster Hunter Outlanders, a TiMi Studio Group‑developed entry bringing the series’ core gameplay to smartphones and consoles.
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Pearl Abyss dates the first expansion just seven months after Crimson Desert itself, a short turnaround for a studio that spent seven years on the base game.

Nintendo returns to the 1998 game that set the template for three-dimensional action-adventure and still sits near the top of most all-time lists.

TOHO continues its iconic Godzilla franchise with Takashi Yamazaki’s follow‑up to 2023’s Godzilla Minus One, extending the series’ recent critical resurgence.

The most expensive television production ever mounted, continuing Amazon's enormous bet on Middle-earth.

Five-time Oscar-nominated director David O. Russell teams with Oscar winner Nicolas Cage for Amazon MGM Studios' biographical drama on John Madden.

David Leitch returns to direct a crime thriller for 87North Productions, marking his first original heist film since his action‑focused blockbusters.

The most anticipated entertainment release of the decade — Rockstar's first new Grand Theft Auto in over ten years, and a genuine cultural event rather than just a game launch.

A prequel to the series that defined the young-adult blockbuster, adapting the book fans had been asking for since the original trilogy.

Disney's second attempt at the books, this time with the author closely involved after he publicly disowned the films.

A survival thriller that became both a critical favourite and a genuine word-of-mouth cult hit.

The first Blade Runner series, extending one of science fiction's most influential worlds decades past the last film.

Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro reunite 16 years after *Little Fockers* for the *Meet the Parents* comedy franchise, directed by long-time series screenwriter John Hamburg.

Rayman's return after a decade away, rebuilding a platformer widely held up as one of the best-looking 2D games ever made.

Director Tommy Wirkola and star David Harbour return for a sequel to the 2022 holiday action comedy that earned over $75 million worldwide against a $20 million budget.

Grinding Gear Games' sequel to the long‑standing Path of Exile ARPG, expanding the franchise’s free‑to‑play, deep‑skill system with a new seven‑act campaign and upgraded engine.

A24 backs Jesse Eisenberg’s feature‑directing effort, extending the studio’s reputation for acclaimed indie releases in 2026.

The biggest reset Marvel has attempted since Endgame, with the Russo brothers back and Robert Downey Jr. returning as a different character entirely.

Villeneuve completes his Dune trilogy after two films that swept technical Oscars and proved big-budget science fiction can still be serious.

The Jumanji franchise, revived by the commercially successful 2017 and 2019 entries, returns with a fourth Columbia Pictures film directed by Jake Kasdan.

HBO restarts Harry Potter as a decade-long series at one book a season, the first screen retelling since the films ended in 2011.

The Yakuza studio steps out of present-day Kamurocho for a story spanning five eras from 1915, its biggest change of setting in years.

The series carrying the animated era's most popular character into live action, tying two decades of Star Wars storytelling together.

Apple's ten-episode series is the first screen version of William Gibson's 1984 novel, the book that named cyberspace, after four decades of abandoned film attempts.

4A Games continues the acclaimed Metro franchise, whose previous titles set a benchmark for narrative‑driven, post‑apocalyptic FPS experiences, making Metro 2039 a key entry.

Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series brings the beloved franchise back to cinemas under Pascal Pictures, marking the first new theatrical entry since 2010.

Another swing at one of gaming's most recognisable icons, from the studio that has shaped her for two decades.

Santa Monica Studio follows two of the most decorated games of the last decade; expectations for the next chapter are enormous.

Legend has it that a mysterious broadcast known as the "Midnight Channel" appears only on rainy nights.

The fairytale RPG Xbox built part of its identity on, dormant for over a decade and now rebooted by Playground Games — a tone almost nothing else in the genre has replaced.

Director Mike Flanagan takes over The Exorcist franchise for Blumhouse and Universal following his work on The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, and Midnight Mass.

Director Jeff Fowler returns to helm Paramount's live-action series, which has grossed over one billion dollars worldwide as a major video game adaptation franchise.

Legendary Pictures extends the Godzilla‑Kong crossover franchise, delivering the next installment after 2024’s The New Empire in the long‑running monster universe.

A full-scale strategy game in a licence that has produced mostly mobile titles since the television series ended in 2019, built by Australian studio PlaySide.

Epic Games Publishing backs Kong Orange’s Out of Words, bringing the well‑known publisher’s support to a new co‑op platformer from an indie studio.

A new science-fiction RPG from Archetype, a studio built by the BioWare veterans behind Knights of the Old Republic, with time dilation written into the story.

Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Revelation concludes the multi‑year remake of the series’ most influential title, a landmark entry that reshaped JRPG storytelling.

A standalone Star Wars film outside the Skywalker saga, and the franchise's return to cinemas after years of streaming-only expansion.

The conclusion of the animated trilogy whose first two films changed what mainstream animation is allowed to look like.

DreamWorks' biggest comedy franchise returns with its original voice cast after nearly two decades away.

Saber Interactive returns to the cult classic Turok franchise with Origins, marking the series' first new mainline title in over a decade.

Owlcat's first action RPG after a decade of isometric ones, and the first major game set in The Expanse.

Apple closes its adaptation of Hugh Howey's trilogy with a fourth and final season, shot back to back with the third so the story reaches its end.

James Gunn’s DC Studios Superman film continues the franchise’s recent revival, building on the 2025 entry that re‑established the character for modern audiences.

Warner Bros. continues its adaptation of the best-selling video game in history, returning director Jared Hess and stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa for the follow-up.

Universal Pictures continues the long‑running The Mummy franchise with its fourth installment, the first new entry since 2008’s Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

Walt Disney Animation Studios continues one of the highest-grossing animated film franchises in history, following two entries that each surpassed one billion dollars at the global box office.

The first new live-action Middle-earth film in over a decade, with Andy Serkis directing and returning to the role he originated.

The culmination of the Multiverse Saga, adapting the most ambitious crossover event in Marvel's comic history.

A remake of Code: Veronica, the entry that has sat at the top of fan remake requests since the format proved itself with RE2.

Capcom adds another mainline title to its long‑standing Mega Man franchise, a series that defined action‑platformers and has spanned over three decades.

Crystal Dynamics returns to Lara Croft, the first new direction for the character since the survivor trilogy closed.

A full 3D rebuild of the 1999 strategy game still played competitively a quarter of a century on, widely held to be the high point of the genre.

Announced in 2017, cancelled when Telltale collapsed the following year and revived under new owners, the sequel to the adventure game that made the studio's name.

Creative Assembly returns to the 2014 survival horror widely held to be the only Alien game that captured the first film, more than a decade on.

A new Witcher 3 expansion a decade after the game shipped, built by Fool's Theory, the studio CD Projekt trusted with the Witcher remake.

inXile's first big-budget game under Microsoft, a steampunk RPG where altering the past rewrites the city around you, from the studio Brian Fargo built on Wasteland.

Naughty Dog's first new series since The Last of Us in 2013, directed by Neil Druckmann with Tati Gabrielle in the lead.

The second game from Neon Giant, the small Swedish studio whose debut The Ascent became one of 2021's surprises, now published by Krafton.

Amplitude's sequel to the 4X that took Civilization on directly, and its first game since a management buyout carried the studio out of Sega in 2024.

Frictional Games, the studio credited with reshaping first-person survival horror through Amnesia: The Dark Descent and SOMA, develops its latest narrative-driven project with publisher Kepler Interactive.

Ubisoft takes Rainbow Six back to the planning the first game was built on, after two decades in which the name meant competitive shooters.

An independent body-horror shooter that built an audience on its creature animation years before it had a release date.

Reeves and Pattinson continue the noir Batman that deliberately stood apart from every other superhero film in production.

Marvel Studios' first MCU X‑Men film marks the franchise’s long‑awaited integration into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, uniting a historic comic series with the studio’s flagship continuity.

CD Projekt Red's first new Witcher since Wild Hunt — one of the most decorated RPGs ever made — with Ciri taking the lead.

James Cameron continues his sci-fi franchise following two previous entries that both grossed over $2 billion at the global box office.

James Cameron’s sci-fi franchise includes the highest-grossing film in cinematic history, with this entry set to conclude his planned multi-decade narrative saga.
Major franchises and high-signal projects with work underway, but no confirmed release date yet.