2026 has been a great year for video games so far, but the big whale with the capability of trumping them all is finally set to be released later this month. When it comes time to decide the Game of the Year at the Game Awards, there will be plenty of games in contention, including the surprise hit, Blood of the Dawnwalker. The game was developed by the same team behind The Witcher 3, which released a new remaster for next-generation consoles at the end of September. One of the biggest gaming disappointments of the year so far has been Marvel’s Wolverine, the new game from Insomniac, the same studio behind all three critically acclaimed Spider-Man games. Going in with high expectations, the release is not expected to be a contender for Game of the Year like all of its web-headed predecessors.
There have been some wild snubs for Game of the Year at the Game Awards over the years, and one of the most-talked about years in history is still 2018, when God of War won over Red Dead Redemption 2. Rockstar Games will have a chance to redeem itself in just over two weeks with the release of Grand Theft Auto VI, which is widely viewed as one of the most anticipated video games of all time. It was originally thought that GTA 6 would be released in 2024 before the game was delayed to 2025, then May 2026, but it has finally settled on November 19, 2026, as the official launch date for the next Grand Theft Auto game. The 10+ year wait for a new Grand Theft Auto game is almost over.
Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard
Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.
🐕Wick
🏁Fast
🧨Mission
🎄Die Hard
01
How does a room know you’ve walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.
02
It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.
03
Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.
04
It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.
05
There’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.
06
How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.
07
Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.
08
When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.
Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…
Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023
John Wick
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023
Fast & Furious
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason.
You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025
Mission: Impossible
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error.
You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013
Die Hard
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable.
You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
Here’s What We Know About ‘Grand Theft Auto 6’
There were three playable protagonists in Grand Theft Auto 5, Michael, Trevor, and Franklin, but all reports and released footage allude to there only being two in GTA 6, Jason and Lucia. The dynamic between protagonists will be much more detailed in the new Grand Theft Auto game, though, with players having the choice to decide how much effort to put into the relationship, which will directly affect things like their dialogue and mission availability. Grand Theft Auto 6 is expected to be more of a modern-day successor to Red Dead Redemption 2 than a sequel to GTA 5, which is music to the ears of most fans, who prefer the Western masterpiece to the modern, somewhat repetitive crime thriller.
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Grand Theft Auto VI.
