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Critic score 94. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 81. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Life After Life won the Costa; the Jackson Brodie novels became a BBC series.

Twelve days out; no chart run we could confirm yet.

Critic score 89. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 90. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

The 89 ties Three Houses for the second-best Metascore in Fire Emblem history, behind only Awakening's 92.

It debuted at number 2 on the UK chart behind Marvel's Wolverine and physical copies sold out at major retailers, though Nintendo hasn't shared a sales number yet.

Critic score 92. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 83. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Station Eleven has sold for a decade and became an HBO series; The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility followed.

Twelve days out. The reviews are the best of her career, and no chart run we could confirm yet.

Critic score 87. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 87. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

The Coalition has held the series since Microsoft bought it in 2014 and made Gears of War 4 and Gears 5.

It peaked at 31,517 concurrent players on Steam on launch day, about three times the Gears 5 peak of 10,196, and sat at No. 1 or No. 2 on Amazon and Best Buy for Xbox.

Engadget 9.1 of 10. That averages 91 out of 100; a 60 earns nothing and a 100 earns all 30.

Apple publishes no update period. watchOS 27 dropped the Series 6, 7 and 8, which got about five, four and three years of updates.

iFixit scored the Series 9 and Series 10 3 of 10.

It came out September 18, 2026. Apple brings out a new Series every September.

Critic score 87. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 97. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Knight runs Laika and directed Kubo and the Two Strings, which scored 84 on Metacritic, and Wildwood is now the studio's top-rated film at 87.

It opened to $12.3 million and has made $39.8 million domestic and $47.8 million worldwide so far against a $100 million budget.

Critic score 88. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 88. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

S-Game built the Rainblood and Phantom Blade series on mobile and as a free-to-play sidescroller, and this is its first full-price action game on console and PC.

It peaked at 731,026 concurrent players on Steam on October 30, 2026, the 15th highest peak in Steam history.

Critic score 83. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 89. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Remedy made Control, Alan Wake and Max Payne, but Quantum Break topped out at 2,719 players on Steam.

It peaked at over 34,000 concurrent Steam players, nearly four times the original Control's peak of about 9,100.

Critic score 85. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 79. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Their previous album Romance has sold 345,759 copies in the UK and is Rough Trade's best-selling record ever.

XL set up 374 listening parties in 38 countries, and Rough Trade's first-week pre-orders were about four times what Romance did.

Critic score 88. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 85. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

The same studio made Ace Combat 7, the best-selling game in the series with over seven million units sold by January 2026.

It came out on Oct 2, 2026, so there are no sales, player counts or awards to go on yet.

Critic score 88. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 84. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Fuse Games was set up in 2023 by senior developers from Criterion, the studio behind Burnout and Need for Speed.

It reached No. 3 on Steam's top sellers but peaked at only 8,367 concurrent Steam players, with 72% of 126 Steam reviews positive.

Critic score 85. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 76. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Infinity Ward is the studio behind the Modern Warfare line, and critics scored this entry 83 to 87 across every platform.

It debuted at No. 1 on the GfK UK boxed chart dated Oct 26, 2026, ahead of Nintendo Switch Sports Resort and EA Sports FC 27.

Critic score 86. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 89. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Lancarse built it for Square Enix as a console rebuild of the mobile RPG Brave Exvius, and it is the first Final Fantasy done in the HD-2D style.

Two weeks after launch it had 5,398 Steam reviews, which a review-count tracker turns into a rough 108K to 216K Steam copies.

Critic score 83. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 82. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Her 2014 debut Aquarius peaked at No. 17, and none of her six albums after it got higher than No. 58.

It debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with 35,500 units, 22,000 of them sales, and became her first top 10 album.

Critic score 87. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 78. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

This is Gilla Band's fourth album, and their last one, Most Normal in 2022, peaked at number 30 in Ireland.

It entered the UK Independent Albums chart at number 15 and the Irish Albums chart at number 34 in its first week.

Critic score 84. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 77. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Evil Empire and Motion Twin made it together for Konami, picking up a series that had gone years without a new full game.

It peaked at 17,896 concurrent players on Steam, the most for any Castlevania there, though early Steam reviews were only 59% positive.

Critic score 85. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 79. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

The Detroit band formed in 2010 and this is its seventh album, the fourth on Domino.

It spent one week on the UK charts, peaking at No. 48 on the sales chart and No. 22 on the independent chart.

Critic score 80. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 86. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

This is Kazan's first series as writer, after writing Ruby Sparks, which got an Independent Spirit screenplay nomination, and co-writing Wildlife with Paul Dano.

It opened at No. 1 on Netflix's global English TV list with 6.5 million views in four days, and Steinbeck's novel then hit No. 1 on Amazon's best sellers list.

Critic score 71. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 82. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Flanagan created The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, and he has adapted Stephen King before with Gerald's Game, Doctor Sleep and The Life of Chuck.

It was No. 1 on Nielsen's streaming top 10 with 1.26 billion minutes in its first five days, and Prime Video renewed it for a second season on Oct. 22.

Critic score 75. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 67. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Insomniac made Marvel's Spider-Man (87 on Metacritic) and Spider-Man 2 (90), so this score was a clear step down for the studio.

Alinea Analytics estimated about 1.9 million copies sold in the first three days, and over 5,700 user ratings shows a lot of people are playing it even with lukewarm reviews.

Critic score 80. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 72. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Screen Burn, called No Code until 2025, made Stories Untold and Observation. This is its first Silent Hill.

It peaked at 7,570 players at once on Steam in its first week. Silent Hill f and the Silent Hill 2 remake both passed 20,000.

Critic score 64. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 83. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Matalas took over as showrunner after Jac Schaeffer, who created WandaVision, the show this one spins off from.

It went to the top of Disney+'s domestic chart at launch and led FlixPatrol charts in several countries, but no Nielsen numbers or renewal have been reported yet.

Critic score 46. A 70 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 40 points.

Audience score 72. A 60 earns nothing and a 98 earns all 20 points.

Iñárritu won Best Director twice, for Birdman and The Revenant, and Birdman also won Best Picture.

It opened to just under $8 million from 3,321 theaters on a reported $160 to $180 million budget, which was Tom Cruise's worst opening in 19 years.