2026

Stellar Blade is a Playstation console exclusive that later came to PC. It’s a third person action game developed by Shift Up. Shift Up is hinting that it may not be exclusive to Sony’s console much longer. According to a Shift Up Investor post, the studio claimed “we are reviewing platform expansion beyond PS5 and PC to broaden audience reach”. The post does not explicitly say Xbox, but other console exclusives have been coming to the Xbox Series X/S lately. Final Fantasy 7, Death Stranding, Black Myth: Wukong, and Silent Hill 2 have all come to Xbox after being exclusive to Playstation. Of course Xbox isn’t the only console there is. Nintendo Switch 2 was released last year and has a growing library. It’s also possible that the game could come to mobile devices.

Shift Up sees Stellar Blade as a long term IP and already has a sequel in development. They could follow in Death Stranding’s footsteps and release the game on Xbox before the next game in the series comes out. Both games were published by Sony Interactive Entertainment when they released. Kojima Productions purchased the Death Stranding IP before releasing the game on Xbox, however Helldivers 2 and MLB the Show are both published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Bungie, which is owned by Sony will also be publishing the upcoming Marathon to Xbox. Either way it’s a possibility.

So what happens next? Will Sony publish Stellar Blade on Xbox? Will Stellar Blade skip Xbox all together and possibly go to the Switch or mobile? Only time will tell, but if Stellar Blade does land on Xbox, will you be jumping in?

A few years ago, after years since the announcement, Overwatch 2 launched. The sequel promised updated visuals, a 5v5 experience, and an ongoing player vs everyone (PVE) experience. Years later, they have dropped the PVE entirely. Now they are making another big change, they are removing the 2. That’s right, Overwatch 2 is now just going to be Overwatch again. With this change, comes 5 new characters and 5 more set to launch in the next 5 seasons.  The 5 characters announced so far are Domina, Emre, Anran, Mizuki, and Jetpack Cat. That last one is exactly how it sounds, it’s literally a cat that flies around on a jetpack. I haven’t played Overwatch in a while, but personally I’d never want to kill that cute feline.

Along with these new characters comes new sub-roles and passives. Each character, both new and existing, will have a main class, tank, damage, or healer, then a secondary sub-class. Tanks will have bruiser, initiator, and stalwart. Damage will have sharpshooter, flanker, specialist, and recon. Healers will have tactician, medic, and survivor.

Tank

Bruiser: Reduces critical damage received. While at critical health, gain movement speed

• Roadhog, Zarya, Orisa, Mauga

Initiator: Staying airborne lightly heals you

• D.Va, Winston, Doomfist, Wrecking Ball

Stalwart: Reduces knockbacks and slows received

• Reinhardt, Sigma, Ramattra, Junker Queen, Hazard, Domina

Damage

Sharpshooter: Critical hits reduce ability cooldowns

• Hanzo, Widowmaker, Cassidy, Ashe, Sojourn

Flanker: Health packs restore more health

• Tracer, Reaper, Genji, Vendetta, Venture, Anran

Specialist: Eliminating an enemy briefly increases reload speed

• Bastion, Junkrat, Mei, Soldier 76, Symmetra, Torbjorn, Emre

Recon: Detect enemies below half health through walls after damaging them

• Pharah, Sombra, Echo, Freja

Support

Tactician: Gain excess ultimate charge that carries over after using your ultimate

• Lucio, Zenyatta, Ana, Baptiste, Jetpack Cat

Medic: Healing allies with your weapon also heals you

• Mercy, Moira, Kiriko, Lifeweaver

Survivor: Using a movement ability activates passive health regeneration

• Brigitte, Illari, Juno, Wuyang, Mizuki

Gaming is bigger than ever in 2026, but it wouldn’t be that way without the games that got us here. 2026 is a huge anniversary for a lot of games, so before we enjoy the new ones coming this year, let’s appreciate those that came before.

• Overwatch (10th)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (10th)
• Dark Souls III (10th)
• DOOM (10th)
• Final Fantasy XV (10th)
• The Last Guardian (10th)
• Inside (10th)
• Stardew Valley (10th)
• Pokémon Sun and Moon (10th)
• Firewatch (10th)
• Dishonored 2 (10th)
• Titanfall 2 (10th)
• Battlefield 1 (10th)
• The Witness (10th)
• No Man’s Sky (10th)
• Gears of War 4 (10th)
• Ratchet & Clank (10th)
• Street Fighter V (10th)
• Quantum Break (10th)
• Halo: Combat Evolved (25th)
• Grand Theft Auto III (25th)
• Super Smash Bros. Melee (25th)
• Final Fantasy X (25th)
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (25th)
• Luigi’s Mansion (25th)
• Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (25th)
• Animal Crossing (25th)
• Pikmin (25th)
• Max Payne (25th)
• Pokémon Red & Green (30th)
• Resident Evil (30th)
• Super Mario 64 (30th)
• Crash Bandicoot (30th)
• Quake (30th)
• Tomb Raider (30th)
• Diablo (30th)
• Wave Race 64 (30th)
• The Legend of Zelda (40th)\
• Metroid (40th)
• Dragon Quest (40th)
• Castlevania (40th)
• OutRun (40th)
• Kid Icarus (40th)
• Breakout (50th)
• Heavyweight Champ (50th)
• Night Driver (50th)
• Colossal Cave Adventure (50th)

Some of the games listed, like Halo, will be getting a remake or remaster for their anniversary. Nothing beats the first time sitting down with an original game though, especially ones that were so ground breaking like Halo or Tomb Raider. Hopefully the remakes will feel just like we remember them when we first played them oh so long ago.

2025 was a big year for movie anniversaries and 2026 looks like it’s going to be even bigger. While some may seem like they were just released not long ago, like Spider-Man: No Way Home, it’s already been five years. It seems like just yesterday the world forgot who Peter Parker was, but here we are heading into 2026 and a new Spider-Man movie will be out in the summer.

• Dune (5th)
• Spider-Man: No Way Home (5th)
• The Green Knight (5th)
• The Suicide Squad (5th)
• Encanto (5th)
• West Side Story (5th)
• No Time to Die (5th)
• Eternals (5th)
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (5th)
• Black Widow (5th)
• Cruella (5th)
• Jungle Cruise (5th)
• Free Guy (5th)
• The French Dispatch (5th)
• House of Gucci (5th)
• Licorice Pizza (5th)
• CODA (5th)
• Don’t Look Up (5th)
• The Power of the Dog (5th)
• Nightmare Alley (5th)
• La La Land (10th)
• Moonlight (10th)
• Arrival (10th)
• Manchester by the Sea (10th)
• Zootopia (10th)
• Moana (10th)
• Deadpool (10th)
• Captain America: Civil War (10th)
• Doctor Strange (10th)
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (10th)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (10th)
• Hidden Figures (10th)
• Hacksaw Ridge (10th)
• Silence (10th)
• The Jungle Book (10th)
• Finding Dory (10th)
• Kubo and the Two Strings (10th)
• The Nice Guys (10th)
• 10 Cloverfield Lane (10th)
• Sing Street (10th)
• In the Bedroom (25th)
• Memento (25th)
• Mulholland Drive (25th)
• Waking Life (25th)
• The Man Who Wasn’t There (25th)
• Blow (25th)
• The Others (25th)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (25th)
• Monsters, Inc. (25th)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (25th),
• Ocean’s Eleven (25th)
• Vanilla Sky (25th)
• The Tailor of Panama (25th)
• The Pledge (25th)
• The Score (25th)
• Gosford Park (25th)
• The Mexican (25th)
• Shrek (25th)
• A Beautiful Mind (25th)
• Black Hawk Down (25th)
• Donnie Darko (25th)
• Legally Blonde (25th)
• Pearl Harbor (25th)
• Training Day (25th)
• Bridget Jones’s Diary (25th)
• Amélie (25th)
• Spirited Away (25th)
• Space Jam (30th)
• Mars Attacks! (30th)
• The English Patient (30th)
• Scream (30th)
• Trainspotting (30th)
• Fargo (30th)
• Matilda (30th)
• Mission: Impossible (30th)
• Romeo + Juliet (30th)
• Crash (30th)
• The Craft (30th)
• Bound (30th)
• The Cable Guy (30th)
• The Watermelon Woman (30th)
• Twister (30th)
• Bottle Rocket (30th)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (30th)
• Independence Day (30th)
• The Birdcage (30th)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (30th)
• Jerry Maguire (30th)
• Evita (30th)
• The Rock (30th)
• 101 Dalmatians (30th)
• Sling Blade (30th)
• Ransom (30th)
• Star Trek: First Contact (30th)
• Kingpin (30th)
• Happy Gilmore (30th)
• Primal Fear (30th)
• The Silence of the Lambs (35th)
• Beauty and the Beast (35th)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (35th)
• Cape Fear (35th)
• Boyz n the Hood (35th)
• Thelma & Louise (35th)
• JFK (35th)
• Hook (35th)
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (35th)
• Bugsy (35th)
• Barton Fink (35th)
• Point Break (35th)
• Fried Green Tomatoes (35th)
• The Addams Family (35th)
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (35th)
• City Slickers (35th)
• Naked Lunch (35th)
• What About Bob? (35th)
• Hot Shots! (35th)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (40th)
• Top Gun (40th)
• Pretty in Pink (40th)
• Aliens (40th)
• Blue Velvet (40th)
• Stand by Me (40th)
• Platoon (40th)
• Labyrinth (40th)
• Crocodile Dundee (40th)
• The Fly (40th)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (40th)
• Manhunter (40th)
• Big Trouble in Little China (40th)
• Short Circuit (40th)
• Three Amigos (40th)
• Little Shop of Horrors (40th)
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (40th)
• Highlander (40th)
• Peggy Sue Got Married (40th)
• Sid and Nancy (40th)
• Hoosiers (40th)
• Jean de Florette (40th)
• The Name of the Rose (40th)
• Down by Law (40th)
• River’s Edge (40th)
• Carrie (50th)
• Marathon Man (50th)
• Taxi Driver (50th)
• Rocky (50th)
• Network (50th)
• All the President’s Men (50th)
• The Omen (50th)
• Bound for Glory (50th)
• Silver Streak (50th)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (50th)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (50th)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (50th)
• Murder by Death (50th)
• A Star Is Born (50th)
• Bugsy Malone (50th)
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s (65th)
• West Side Story (65th)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (65th)
• The Hustler (65th)
• La Dolce Vita (65th)
• Yojimbo (65th)
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians (65th)
• The Innocents (65th)
• Splendor in the Grass (65th)
• The Ten Commandments (70th)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70th)
• The King and I (70th)
• Giant (70th)
• Forbidden Planet (70th)
• High Society (70th)
• The Searchers (70th)
• Around the World in 80 Days (70th)

Time doesn’t seem real anymore. How can it be that so much of it passes, but looking back it seems like very little has gone by?