The biggest fall 2023 releases in movies, games, TV, and beyond

Welcome to fall if the summer was busy.

Even though there have been a number of games delayed and Hollywood has felt the impact of both the WGA strike and SAG-AFTRA’s combined force, this fall is full of new releases in every medium. The hard work that all of the writers, actors, and creatives are fighting for is paying off in a big way over the next few months — a good reminder for why we need them.

The new releases span every genre: We’ve got a sci-fi epic in StarfieldOn the horizon is a near future. Mortal Kombat 1.Two Mario games are coming in September. We’ve got big movie sequels like Dune Part 2Risky prequels such as The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and grand-scale dramatists doing their thing (see: Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and David Fincher’s The Killer). On the TV side, we’re getting everything from a live-action Godzilla-adjacent MonsterVerse series to the long-awaited return of InvincibleTake a look at House of Usher: Fall of the HouseMike Flanagan, a man who has brought us the best of everything The Haunting of Hill House — he loves houses!

That’s really the tip of the iceberg. Check out Polygon’s massive fall preview for looks at the release calendar ahead and deep dives into some of the bigger swings of the season. It’s the good kind of busy.