Andrew Webster

In the most obvious piece of merchandise in recent memory, you can soon buy a pack of actual Balatro playing cards. Not included: a pen to mark them up appropriately.

Sony is launching a fancy free demo for Gran Turismo 7 with the clever name My First Gran Turismo. It’ll be available on December 6th on both PS4 and PS5, and is aimed at newcomers to the franchise, and racing sims in general. And if you get hooked? You can transfer over your progress to the full game.

Fortnite’s nostalgia trip continues, this time with the return of OG, which brings back the game’s very first chapter. It’ll be available as a permanent fixture staring on December 6th.

This time it’s Lucky, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy “as a young woman who left behind the life of crime she was raised in years ago, but must now embrace her darker, criminal side one final time in a desperate attempt to escape her past.” No word on when the series will be streaming.

Apple’s mystery-packed thriller is coming back for season 2 early next year. The new season shifts the setting to London, as Sophie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) “continues her mission for answers in her hometown.” It starts streaming on February 21st, joining an early 2025 lineup that also includes the return of Severance in January.

It’s a good time to be a Tetris fan. Digital Eclipse just released the excellent playable documentary Tetris Forever, and now Nintendo is making the NES version of the game available to Switch Online subscribers. It’ll be available on December 12th. In the meantime, Nintendo also just updated its music app with tracks from Splatoon 2.

We don’t know exactly what it will look like, but Call of Duty will feature some kind of Squid Game collaboration in January that covers both Warzone and Black Ops 6. That’s right after season 2 of the show hits Netflix on December 26th.