The future of Super Smash Bros. hangs in the balance as Masahiro Sakurai contemplates what's next.

In an interview with Japanese publication Famitsu which IGN has independently translated, Sakurai spoke about the development of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and how it could or couldn't continue without him.

"I’m not thinking about a sequel,” Sakurai told Famitsu following the release of Sora, the final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character. And while Sakurai says he was never thinking about a sequel during development, he also "can't say this is definitely the last Smash Bros."

But even if a team decides to develop a new Smash Bros. game, Sakurai admits that he "can't see any way right now to produce Smash Bros. without me."

Super Smash Bros. is Nintendo's ambitious fighting game series that pits iconic Nintendo characters against each other. In recent entries, Super Smash Bros. has brought in famous guest characters like Ryu, Cloud, and most recently Sora.

Nintendo traditionally has had a Super Smash Bros. entry for every one of its major consoles since the Nintendo 64. However, what direction will the series go after the Nintendo Switch's lifecycle? Will there continue to be new entries and characters, or will Ultimate simply be ported over and over again?

For now, though, Sakurai is taking a much-deserved rest.

Just because Sakurai announced the end of his involvement with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. doesn't mean he will stop making other games in the future. He was the designer for Kid Icarus: Uprising on Nintendo 3DS, after all.

For more on the end of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate read about how the final DLC fighter, Sora, eventually made his way into the game.

George Yang is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @yinyangfooey

Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series has found its Fire Lord. Daniel Dae Kim, who's known for appearing in Lost and Hawaii Five-O, will play Ozai, the ruler of the Fire Nation and father to Zuko and Azula, in the live-action adaptation.

Kim has previous experience in the world of Avatar, voicing General Fond in one episode of the original show and a video game adaptation.

“I do have the power. I have all the power in the world!”

Netflix’s live action Avatar: The Last Airbender has found its Fire Lord Ozai: Daniel Dae Kim (Lost, Hawaii Five-0) pic.twitter.com/9zYxVuiSLo

— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) November 3, 2021

Netflix says Kim is joining the series as a regular, and says his character, "demands everyone live up to his impossible standards, especially his teenaged son, Prince Zuko. Ozai’s drive to conquer and unite the world under firebender rule is a family burden—he believes that it’s his destiny to finish a war started by his ancestors."

We learned the main cast for Netflix's Avatar earlier this year, which includes Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, and Dallas Liu as Zuko.

Netflix first announced the live-action adaptation in 2018, when Avatar creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino were on board to helm the series. However, the original creators left last year due to creative differences with Netflix. Now, Albert Kim is serving as the project's showrunner, alongside The Lego Movie's Dan Lin, Walker's Lindsey Liberatore, and Swamp Thing's Michael Goi.

This live-action project is far from the only Avatar project in the works. Nickelodeon has revealed plans to create an Avatar Airbender universe with multiple series and shows with the original creators. The first project is set to be an animated theatrical film. We also recently learned that a new Square Enix studio is working on an Avatar mobile game.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

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Marvel's Avengers hasn't had the warmest reputation since it launched last year, but now we've got some words from Square Enix's president about its own internal reception.

In Square Enix's annual report for 2021, president Yosuke Matsuda says that Marvel's Avengers was an ambitious GaaS (Games as a Service) release. However, Avengers was not as successful as the company would have liked.

"We overcame a variety of unexpected difficulties in the final phase of the game’s development, including needing to transition to work-from-home due to the pandemic. We were able to surmount these challenges and release the game, but it has unfortunately not proven as successful as we would have liked," Matsuda says.
Matsuda said Square Enix would learn from its experience with Avengers and work to produce games that "mesh with the unique attributes and tastes of our studios and development teams."

"Nonetheless, taking on the GaaS model highlighted issues that we are likely to face in future game development efforts such as the need to select game designs that mesh with the unique attributes and tastes of our studios and development teams," said Matsuda. "While the new challenge that we tackled with this title produced a disappointing outcome, we are certain that the GaaS approach will grow in importance as gaming becomes more service oriented."

While Matsuda doesn't outright say it, it looks like he thinks that Crystal Dynamics's pedigree and particular skillset just didn't mesh well with the GaaS service model of Marvel's Avengers. After all, the studio is best known for single-player games like its Tomb Raider reboot. The developer is also working with The Initiative on the Perfect Dark reboot, another presumably single-player game.

As if this revelation wasn't bad enough, yesterday Crystal Dynamics removed paid XP boosters from the game's in-game marketplace after fan backlash, apologizing that it didn't listen sooner.

George Yang is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @yinyangfooey

Update: According to a Bloomberg report, the unannounced game in question was being developed by Mafia 3 studio Hangar 13 and was code-named Volt.

The report goes on to say that the game had been in development since 2017, and had troubles with reboots, technological hiccups, and COVID-19. The studio's employees will meet to discuss next steps on Thursday.

Update 4:03pm PT: A Kotaku report has provided a few more details about the canceled title, saying it was a third-person action title similar to Destiny, and was canceled because Take-Two determined the costs of development were too high compared to the game's commercial viability.

“We are confident that there are many opportunities for H13 employees to work on other games in development, both at H13 and across the label," wrote studio head Haden Blackman in an email to staff today. “2K has also assured me that the company believes H13 can deliver a critical and commercial success, and we will begin developing future projects soon.”

Approximately 200 people are impacted by the game's cancellation, Kotaku reports.

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Games get canceled all the time, and while we occasionally hear about them via official announcements or reporting, more often they are canceled before they ever reach the news. We got a rare glimpse into the process during Take-Two's earnings today, which revealed that an unannounced game cancellation cost the company $53 million.

The company cites the cancellation in its earnings as part of an "impairment charge," which in releases like these means that the company had assets that it now finds are unexpectedly worth a whole lot less than they previously valued them at. For example, say GameStop buys a lot of amiibo, expecting to sell them for a certain amount of money. Then, sudddenly, Nintendo cancels amiibo support for its games and no one wants to buy those amiibo anymore. GameStop might report an impairment charge on its amiibo for the amount of money it expects to lose by putting them on heavy discount just to get them out of its warehouse.

In Take-Two's case, this effectively means that it spent about $53 million on a game it was making, but no longer expects to be able to do anything sellable with the things it spent that money on.

When reached for comment, Take-Two declined to give further detail as to what the canceled game was. Though the earnings indicated the title was unannounced, one possibility is that it could have been the long-hoped-for Bully 2, though there's no evidence to confirm this. Another possibility is Agent, a Cold War espionage thriller that did get originally announced at E3 2009. Its website was shut down just last month without any explanation. It also appears to have been deleted from Rockstar's games section on its website, and its trademark was abandoned in 2018.

Whatever the case, $53 million is a hefty amount to lose on a game, even if it is just a fraction of what the company makes in a quarter (in this case, $985 million in net bookings). It's also a not-insignificant chunk of what it takes to make some of Take-Two's biggest titles. Borderlands 3, for instance, is said to have cost around $95 million to make, plus $140 million for its DLC — though it was reportedly massively over budget.

Whatever it was, Take-Two still has plenty more games on deck for the next few years, and has repeatedly given guidance that it's ramping up game production, including on "immersive core" releases similar to 2K sports titles and GTA 5. So even if we've lost one game we never knew we had, there are many, many more games queued up to take its place.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

Take-Two, the parent company behind Rockstar, 2K, and Private Division, appears to be cooking up something big.

For the last year and change, they've been telling shareholders to expect a significant, hefty release slate down the pipeline, promising last fiscal year a total of 93 games in the coming five years, and more recently outlining its plans for a slate of "immersive core releases" over the next three years.

During today's earnings call, Take-Two continued to lay out expectations in a similar manner. Between April of 2022 and March of 2024, it's preparing over 60 new releases: 23 "immersive core" titles, similar to its 2K sports games, GTA, and Red Dead Redemption; six games from its independent game publishing label, Private Division; 20 mobile games, four "mid-core" games that are either arcade titles like WWE Battlegrounds or just generally smaller in scope than, say, GTA; and nine games that are either ports or remasters.

That's a significant uptick from what Take-Two has produced in the past, specifically in the immersive core department. In recent years, Take-Two has largely produced a few big games per year, mostly annual 2K releases and then, sporadically, a GTA or Red Dead. On average, to get to 23 in that time frame, it would need to produce seven to eight big blockbuster games each year of that period. That's a lot of GTAs.

We can see the very beginnings of this in Take-Two's current upcoming slate, which had NBA 2K22 out in September, WWE 2K22 set for March, and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands also in March. Looking into next year, we know about Midnight Suns (which just got delayed into the second half of 2022) and Kerbal Space Program 2 planned for fiscal 2023 (which Take-Two is counting as immersive core despite being under the Private Division label). It's also a fairly safe bet to expect the company to keep bringing out NBA 2K and WWE 2K games on a fairly regular basis, and there's an NFL game in the works that's been delayed past March of 2022 (though that may fall under the "arcade" banner).

A look at Take-Two's investor slide presentation shows how they're preparing for this cascade. On a slide showing new hire numbers by fiscal year, Take-Two shows that from 2012 to 2017, it was only hiring a few hundred people per year. But in 2017, it jumped to hiring around 700 folks, and in 2019 and 2020 it hired a similar amount. Today's earnings report included the detail that Take-Two brought in 350 new developers in this quarter alone, not including more senior hires, and in a conversation with IGN, CEO Strauss Zelnick said Take-Two was now somewhere around 7,200 employees strong worldwide. As of it's 2020 annual report, the company was at about 5,800 — that's a 1,400 person jump since March of last year, and during a global pandemic too.

Take-Two certainly has the resources for this surge. It's experienced consistent growth in its net bookings year after year, and expects to do so again in the current fiscal year. Just this last quarter, it brought in $985 million in net bookings. That's only up 3% year-over-year. But when you consider that it's been able to sustain net bookings growth since the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, that's fairly significant.

Meanwhile, GTA V continues to sell absurd quantities — another five million in the last quarter, bringing it to 155 million units sold total over its lifetime — alongside Red Dead Redemption 2 (39 million total) and NBA 2K22 (five million total). Even smaller titles like The Outer Worlds (four million total) are doing very well for it. It's enough that the company raised its earnings projections for the full year today, despite delaying a massive Marvel game into next fiscal year — a move that would normally see projections take a hit.

All this put together makes it apparent that we're about to see a big ramp-up of game announcements from Take-Two, most likely beginning sometime next year if everything is to be marketed in time to make these projections come true. While plenty of those big releases are likely to be 2K Sports titles and possibly more adventurous new ideas like Midnight Suns and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, rumors continue to swirl about GTA 6 — a game that would certainly fit in with the "immersive core" description.

Fortunately for fans, the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition is coming up later this month, keeping the hope alive for now.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

The official Twitter account for EA Sports PGA Tour announced today that the game has been delayed, promising an update will follow in the coming months.

"Hey golf fans, we wanted to let you know that we are shifting the launch date of EA Sports PGA Tour," the Tweet reads. "We're excited to bring championship golf to you and will be providing more information on our launch plans in the coming months."

pic.twitter.com/RjIEpQZBSL

— EA SPORTS PGA TOUR (@EASPORTSPGATOUR) November 3, 2021

EA first announced the title in March and it was slated for release in spring 2022. Described as a "next-gen" golf game, the title would allow players to compete in the Masters, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open Championship, and the Open Championship. It will be the first title released as part of a new deal between EA and the PGA Tour and the first new game using that license since 2015's Rory McIlroy PGA Tour.

While the game will allow players to challenge many professional golfers, they won't be able to play Tiger Woods since he has an exclusive deal with 2K that placed him in PGA Tour 2K21, which released in August. His contract with EA ended in 2013, which also resulted in the end of the Tiger Woods’ PGA Tour series.

Save for a few shots of the courses it will support, EA has revealed little of its new PGA Tour game since its original announcement. It's being touted as a "next-gen golf game," with a firm release date yet to be announced.

Samantha Nelson is an IGN freelance writer. Find her on Twitter @samanthanelson1.

As a part of its second-quarter earnings announcement today, Take-Two Interactive announced that Firaxis' upcoming Marvel strategy game, Marvel's Midnight Suns, is being delayed into the second half of next year.

This isn't a massive bump as the Midnight Suns was previously planned for March 2022. Now, it's looking at somewhere between July and December of that year. In a press release, the company implied that the delay was connected at least in part to increases in the difficulty of making games as technology has improved.

As it becomes possible to make bigger and more technologically interesting games, those games are also tougher and take longer to make.

"While we don’t take delays lightly, we know that our proven success has been rooted firmly in our 'player-first' approach and unwavering commitment to delivering the highest quality entertainment experiences," reads the press release. "We believe it is far better to provide the extra time needed for a product – especially a new IP – to reach its full potential and drive long-term success as a permanent franchise in our industry-leading portfolio."

Firaxis' Twitter account provided a similar statement moments prior:

We have an important development update to share with our fans pic.twitter.com/ycNDCVtbwD

— Marvel's Midnight Suns (@midnightsuns) November 3, 2021

In a conversation with IGN, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick added a bit more detail about why Take-Two, 2K, and Firaxis opted for the delay:

"We think it needs more development time to be everything it can be," he said. "What we're known for doing is supplying the time and the resources so that the creative talent that's taken a big chance by coming to work at our company always has not only the ability to pursue their passions but every possible asset in service of allowing them to pursue their passions, and that's what generates the highest-quality titles in the business, for which we're known.

"We couldn't be more excited about the title. We don't love when we have to slip a title. It's not that common for us; it's been very uncommon in past years. This is a situation where we thought it made sense, and therefore we stand behind it."

Notably, despite Midnight Suns moving out of Take-Two's current fiscal year and into the next one, the company actually raised its projections for this year from between $3.2 billion and $3.3 billion in net bookings to between $3.3 billion and $3.4 billion, in part thanks to its second-quarter net bookings of $985 million – well above its expectations.

Marvel's Midnight Suns was revealed back in August, playing into Firaxis' strategy game strengths as a tactical XCOM-like with a customizable protagonist fighting alongside superpowered heroes like Iron Man, Captain Marvel, and Wolverine against large numbers of enemies. It will include destructible environments, but no permadeath like in the XCOM series.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

Insomniac Games' spectacular 2018 game Spider-Man was originally meant to end with the hero and Doctor Octopus fighting all across New York City.

Insomniac CEO Ted Price revealed the original boss fight plans at last week's Develop: Brighton conference per GamesIndustry.biz. But the scope of the finale the studio envisioned couldn't be realized without resorting to crunch, which would clash with the company's goals of increasing employee wellbeing and reducing burnout.

"The temptation is to just brute force it, put our heads down and run through the brick wall," Price said. "But the team took a step back and thought about what was important to the players, and that was the breakdown of the relationship between Peter and his former mentor, Doctor Octavius."

The fight was ultimately a one vs. one battle between Spider-Man and Doc Ock atop a Manhattan building. The team scaled back its ambitions and Price said the decision didn't just help the developers but improved the game itself.

"They rethought the fight and realized they didn't need to destroy half of New York to pay off the relationship," Price said. "In fact, it would have worked against what we were going for. As a result, the final battle is much more up close and personal, and has a far bigger emotional impact than planned — and it fit within the time we had."

Price urged other developers to seriously consider what players want and how they can deliver the best experience with the resources they have rather than pushing employees to their limits.

"In the stress of hectic production, we often feel we can't take our foot off the gas pedal — but that's often what it takes," he said. "The team needs to have permission to pause and come up with a better way, instead of bulldozing through the problems and causing potential health problems."

Insomniac is currently working on Marvel's Spider-Man 2, which the team says will be "darker" than the last two Spider-Man games, including Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Furthermore, Insomniac is also working on a Wolverine game to add to its Marvel bonafide.

Samantha Nelson is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter @samanthanelson1.

Ubisoft has said that it accidentally added a mission featuring Hollywood actor Danny Trejo into Far Cry 6 early and that it has subsequently begun removing it from the game.

In a statement released on Twitter, Ubisoft explained that the mission "Dani & Danny vs Everybody", which included the Spy Kids and Sons of Anarchy actor, had been released into the game by mistake. "The Dani & Danny vs Everybody mission is a work-in-progress and was accidentally released early," read the statement. "We're working to remove it and look forward to when players can check out the final version."

Since raising the mistake with its fanbase, Ubisoft has begun rolling out an update to Far Cry 6 that will see the mission removed from the game. While the studio has said that it will add the mission back into the game at a later date when it has been completed, some of the community were keen to point out that they'd already finished it.

I did it though. pic.twitter.com/xIP2x5tv0t

— ECLIPSE MOON117 (@EMoon117) November 2, 2021

As well as removing Danny Trejo from Yara, the update also came with a number of tweaks and fixes for Far Cry 6. New daily and weekly challenges have now been added to the game as well as a range of general fixes and a new special operation called Los Tres Santos, which will be available for players from November 9.

According to Ubisoft's announcement, the patch for the game will weigh in at between 13GB and 19GB for Xbox One, while on Xbox Series X|S it will take up slightly more space at 14GB to 20GB. For PlayStation users, though, those figures are higher. An update for the PS4 will set players back between 49GB and 60GB of space depending on their region - while on PS5 the patch is a hefty 90GB. On PC things are slightly different. The initial update will need 54GB of free space, however, there's also an added HD texture pack that uses another 47GB.

In other related news, Far Cry 6 recently made headlines for its bold choice in marketing tactics. While many games try to keep fans playing their games with additional DLC and content drops, Ubisoft took a different approach by calling players out via email when they believed you'd lost interest in the game. The emails themselves were sent as if they had been crafted by the game's villain, Antón Castillo, and taunted players with subject lines such as "You disappoint me" and "It was amusing to watch you fail".

For more on Far Cry 6, make sure to check out this piece detailing eight of the craziest weapons that you can wield in the game.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

HBO Max in November means the arrival of Will Smith's King Richard - the film based on the true story of Richard Williams and his quest to guide his daughters - Venus and Serena - into the record books. It will dive deep into Williams' 78-page plan to help his daughters reach the dreams he knows they can.

November is also a great month for TV fans as it will see the premiere of The Sex Lives of College Girls, a new show created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble that follows four college roommates as they navigate New England's Essex College as a "bundle of contradictions and hormones." This month also will see the arrival of all six seasons of Dawson's Creek, the 52nd (!) season of Sesame Street, a reboot of Head of the Class, and the second season of South Side.

There will also be a four-part documentary called Black and Missing that will become available later this month and will dive deep into the mission of sisters-in-law and Black and Missing Foundation founders Derrica and Natalie Wilson to "fight an uphill battle to bring awareness to the Black missing persons cases that are marginalized by law enforcement and national media."

Such classic films as Caddyshack, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Hotel Rwanda, Pride & Prejudice, The Bourne Identity, The Queen, will also join HBO Max throughout the month.

Check out the slideshow gallery below for the highlights of HBO Max's November 2021 offerings, followed by the full list:

November 1

• The 90 Day Plan, 2020
• A Good Day To Die Hard, 2013 (Extended Version) (HBO)
• A Very Brady Sequel, 1996 (HBO)
• Adult Beginners, 2014 (HBO)
• Aftermath, 2017 (HBO)
• Area Chica Infierno Grande (aka Hell In The Goal Area), 2021 (HBO)
• Bully, 2001 (HBO)
• Caddyshack, 1980
• City Of Ghosts, 2003 (HBO)
• A Clockwork Orange, 1971
• Company Business, 1991 (HBO)
• Cry Wolf, 2005 (HBO)
• Cymbeline, 2015 (HBO)
• Dead Heat, 1988 (HBO)
• Disturbing Behavior, 1998 (HBO)
• Doom, 2005 (HBO)
• Dressed To Kill, 1980 (Extended Version) (HBO)
• Equilibrium, 2002 (HBO)
• Eyes Wide Shut, 1999
• Executive Decision, 1996 (HBO)
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2011 (HBO)
• Full Metal Jacket, 1987
• Godsend, 2004 (HBO)
• Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
• Hotel Rwanda, 2004 (HBO)
• In the House
• Lady In White, 1988 (HBO)
• Love And A .45, 1994 (HBO)
• Moonstruck, 1987 (HBO)
• Murphy's Law, 1986 (HBO)
• Never Let Me Go, 2010 (HBO)
• New Year's Eve, 2011
• Practical Magic, 1998
• The Parent 'Hood
• Pride & Prejudice, 1995 (HBO)
• Rush, 1991 (HBO)
• Showtime, 2002 (HBO)
• Something New, 2006 (HBO)
• Spark: A Space Tail, 2017 (HBO)
• Still Waiting, 2009 (HBO)
• Summer School, 1987 (HBO)
• The Bourne Identity, 2002 (HBO)
• The Bourne Legacy, 2012 (HBO)
• The Bourne Supremacy, 2004 (HBO)
• The Brady Bunch Movie, 1995 (HBO)
• The Care Bears Movie, 1985 (HBO)
• The Conspirator, 2011 (HBO)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman, 1981 (HBO)
• The Next Three Days, 2010 (HBO)
• The Presidio, 1988 (HBO)
• The Purge, 1988 (HBO)
• The Queen, 2006 (HBO)
• The Rules Of Attraction, 2002 (HBO)
• The Transporter, 2002 (HBO)
• The Wolverine, 2013 (HBO)
• Thelma & Louise, 1991 (HBO)
• Transporter 2, 2005 (HBO)
• Unleashed, 2005 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)
• Waiting..., 2005 (HBO)
• Weightless, 2018 (HBO)
• What's The Worst That Could Happen?, 2001 (HBO)
• Witness, 2012 (HBO)
• Wildcats, 1986
• Wristcutters: A Love Story, 2007 (HBO)

November 2

• Single Mother By Choice, 2021
• Son of Monarchs, 2020
• Tokyo Revengers, (Subtitled) (Crunchyroll Collection)

November 3

• This is Not a War Story, 2021

November 4

• Aida Rodriguez: Fighting Words, Max Original Special Premiere
• Frayed, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
• Gen:Lock, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
• Head of the Class, Max Original Series Premiere
• Rap Battlefield, Max Original Series Premiere

November 5

• Las Niñas (aka Schoolgirls), 2020 (HBO)

November 6

• Land, 2021 (HBO)
• The Story of Late Night, 2021

November 8

• Dawson's Creek
• Noblesse (Subtitled and English Dubbed) (Crunchyroll Collection)

November 9

• Billy on the Street, Seasons 2-5
• Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story, Documentary Premiere (HBO)

November 11

• A Thousand Fangs (aka Mil Colmillos), Max Original Series Premiere
• Doom Patrol, Max Original Season 3 Finale
• Love Life, Max Original Season 2 Finale
• My Sesame Street Friends, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
• Reign of Superwomen, Max Original Documentary Premiere
• Selena + Chef, Max Original Season 3 Finale
• Sesame Street, 2021 Library
• South Side, Max Original Season 2 Premiere

November 12

• A Cinderella Story: Starstruck, 2021
• Back on the Record with Bob Costas, Season Finale

November 13

• Boogie, 2021 (HBO)
• Darwin's Yearbook
• Final Space, Season 3
• United Shades of America, Season 6

November 14

• Kamikaze, Max Original Series Premiere
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Season 8 Finale (HBO)

November 15

• TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy- (Subtitled) (Crunchyroll Collection)

November 18

• Craftopia, Max Original Season 2B Premiere
• Comedy Chingonas, Max Original Special Premiere
• The Sex Lives of College Girls, Max Original Series Premiere
• Sort of (CBC), Max Original Series Premiere
• Tom and Jerry in New York, Max Original Season 2 Premiere

November 19

• The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, 2019
• King Richard, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021 (Only available on the $14.99/month Ad-Free plan. Streaming in the US only for a limited time. Available in 4K UHD, HDR10, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in English only on supported devices.)
• Real Time with Bill Maher, Season 19 Finale (HBO)
• Stath Lets Flats, Season 3

November 20

• 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Special Premiere (HBO)

November 23

• Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

November 25

• The Cut, (aka O Grande Look), Max Original Series Premiere
• Looney Tunes Cartoons, Season 3
• La Pasión de Maradona, Max Original Film Premiere

November 26

• How to With John Wilson, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)
• Inside Man, 2006 (HBO)

November 28

• Anna Karenina, 2012 (HBO)
• Axios, Season 4 Finale (HBO)

November 29

• We're Here, Season 2 Finale (HBO)

Coming Soon

• 8-Bit Christmas, 2021
• A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
• Black and Missing, Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)
• Gossip Girl, Season 1 Part B Premiere
• Life of Crime 1984-2020, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
• Music Box: Jagged
• Music Box: DMX: Don’t Try to Understand
• Sesame Street, Season 52 Premiere

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.