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Sony’s been spending so much time and energy pushing the PlayStation 5 Pro as hard as it can go that it seemed that the six-year-old PS5 was getting short shrift. Now, Sony’s bringing a scaled-down version of its excellent console upscaling tech to the base PS5, and it may make your games look a little…

Crime dramas offer the perfect blend of suspense, puzzling investigations, and psychological intrigue. A good showrunner will amp the stakes from start to finish, leading audiences to root both for detectives piecing the clues together and the antiheroes driving the narrative. 

Get your watch lists ready, folks! Out of the 50+ new releases for October 2026, we’ve chosen 8 series that we’re most excited about. Here’s the rundown. 

From Obsessionto Backrooms, horror is having a resurgence. Halloween is the perfect excuse to catch up on anything on your watchlist you’ve been meaning to get to, since streamers are dropping the best and bloodiest titles right in time for spooky season (remember Peacocktober?)

Do you feel that chill in the air? Fall is here, which means so is the holiday shopping season. To kick things off, Amazon is bringing back Prime Big Deal Days.

October is a huge month in publishing, and the new children’s books out in October are no exception! I had such a difficult time narrowing this down to ten picks: be sure to check out Book Riot’s New Release Index for many more new middle grade books and new picture books out this month.

A wave of horror movies is available to stream now, ranging from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho to ’90s slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer and Guillermo del Toro’s gothic romance Crimson Peak. For something less scary, the lineup also includes The Devil Wears Prada, all five Twilight movies and the entire Bourne franchise.

The last Star Wars series standing already has one foot in the grave, and Disney is clearly holding the shovel. It’s no secret that Disney and Lucasfilm are dialing back their Disney+ TV output after years of making live-action Star Wars shows a major focus, pumping out dozens of new episodes since The Mandalorian launched…

In 2001, Remedy changed the gaming landscape with the release of “Max Payne,” a revolutionary third-person shooter that gave players tight control of the aiming reticle as they blasted bad guys, often in slow-motion, and frequently while diving through the air like Chow Yun-fat. The game was followed by two sequels in 2003 and 2012,…

The Sopranos, now nearly 20 years removed from the premiere of its endlessly debated finale, stands alone among the TV landscape.