Pearl Abyss has delayed Crimson Desert's expansion 'Charting the Unknown' from 15th October to 29th October GMT/PT. The studio said it needs additional development time to deliver a more polished and stable gameplay experience, and apologized for the delay. The DLC adds castle building and decorating, sea travel and naval battles, underwater exploration, and a new setting and story.
Tickets for the European leg of the Zelda 40th Anniversary concert are now on sale, with North American sales starting at 12pm local time. Chicago, Los Angeles and New York go on general sale, while Dallas, Houston and Seattle enter pre-sale, and Boston, San Francisco, Toronto and Vienna are still listed as "details to come." European dates include London on 3rd & 4th April 2027, Stockholm on 18th & 19th June 2027, Edinburgh on 17th September 2027 and Glasgow on 18th September 2027.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor launches on Switch on 9th October 2026. Developed by Funday Games, it entered early access on 14th February 2024 and got its full release on Windows and Xbox Series X|S on 17th September 2025, earning 8/10 from IGN and 90% from PC Gamer. A spin-off of the 4-player co-op shooter Deep Rock Galactic, it uses auto-shooting mechanics to fend off enemy hordes, uncover loot in the mines and upgrade characters with new abilities.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor launches on PS5 on 7th October 2026, just over a year after its 1.0 release on PC following Early Access. On Steam it has over 24,000 user reviews marked Very Positive and an 86 Metascore. The game keeps auto-attacking and monster hordes while adding mining, classes, and area objectives drawn from Deep Rock Galactic.
Shark Supermarket, a co-op simulation game co-developed by stre1itzia and Andryash and published by polden, launched its free demo today. Players are sharks in dolphin masks running an underwater shop on the reef, using the honest business as cover for a secret basement kitchen where lured fish customers are cooked, all while avoiding fish police. The demo is available to download on its Steam store page, where the game can also be wishlisted.
Pokémon Pokopia is getting its first Halloween-themed event, running from Oct. 17 until Nov. 1. Players will be able to celebrate the spookiest holiday of the year in Pokopia through the themed event.
Xbox's disc-to-digital feature is now available to all users, arriving with the next system update. Inserting a compatible Xbox One or Xbox Series X disc grants a digital licence while the disc still works, and the digital version can be played on disc-free consoles like the Series S, with support for Play Anywhere and Xbox Cloud Gaming on some titles. The feature also covers games delisted from the digital store, such as Deadpool, F1 2021, Minecraft: Story Mode, Rock Band 4 and Titanfall, though Xbox says not every disc yields a licence yet.
Valve released a large update for its in-development MOBA hero shooter Deadlock, reworking the map and adding six new heroes, new mobs, objectives, an updated HUD, healthbars and Shop, plus engine code moved to the latest version of Source 2. Deadlock peaked at over 220,000 concurrent players overnight, breaking its own record and making it the sixth most-played game on Steam last night. The game remains in early development with access limited to friend invites from Valve's playtesters, and there is still no release date or beta window.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is adding a new series mode called Collateral, whose rules hew closer to the Bomb Defusal mode in Counter-Strike and Valorant. It uses an in-game cash economy with pre-made loadouts disabled, weapons and equipment lost on death while earned cash is kept, and no automatic health regeneration, respawning or Killstreaks except a team-bought UAV. The mode was revealed near the end of a blog post about the PC version's technology and features, with no indication it is PC-exclusive, and Modern Warfare 4 is set for release on 23rd October on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Switch 2.
Pokémon HOME will undergo maintenance on 7th October 2026, with the Switch and mobile apps updating to Version 4.1.0 to add Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen connectivity. The update lets players transfer Pokémon from FireRed and LeafGreen into HOME and then into other Pokémon games, though they cannot return to those titles, and Pokémon from other games cannot be transferred into FireRed or LeafGreen. This follows the earlier news that Pokémon Bank on the 3DS will shut down in February 2027.
Idea Factory has announced the new visual novel brand IFChronicle and its first title, ICONOLOGY, a crime suspense adventure game coming to Switch and PC via Steam with English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese support. No release date was announced. The scenario is written by Makoto Fukami, whose works include the PSYCHO-PASS anime series, and players use the Brain Wave Visualization Apparatus, the White Cube, to decode suspects' cognitive paintings, with choices determining the ending.
Tencent's 3D fighting game The Hidden Ones, developed by MoreFun, is set to launch in December with a final test on November 4, and has over 30 million pre-registrations. TiMi's Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch its international version on mobile on October 29, while the China server is expected in 2027, with over 20 million global pre-registrations.
Nintendo has released the free Version 1.2.0 update for Star Fox on Switch 2, adding three new Battle Mode stages — Katina, Sector X and Venom — plus four-player split-screen on a single console, with a controller required for each player. The update also brings changes across campaign, challenge, battle and training modes along with numerous bug fixes. Nintendo also added the game's soundtrack to its Nintendo Music app, featuring 62 songs totaling 2 hours and 17 minutes and requiring an active Switch Online subscription.
Nintendo and Velan Studios have released the version 1.2.0 update for Star Fox (2026), adding three new Battle Mode stages—Katina, Sector X, and Venom—plus split-screen support for up to four players on a single Switch 2, with a controller required for each player. The update also fixes numerous crashes and scoring issues across Campaign, Challenge, and Battle modes, and addresses third-party USB cameras not working within the game.
The Witcher 3 Remastered launched on September 29 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2, with a free upgrade for owners of the original. According to Wario64 and Reddit users, inserting an original Witcher 3 Switch cartridge into a Switch 2, updating and booting the game, then upgrading from inside The Witcher 3 grants a free digital copy of the remaster, and the old cart is not needed afterward.
Xbox Disc to Digital has gone live for everyone after a brief Xbox Insider testing period, letting players claim a digital license for their physical Xbox One and Series X games. Microsoft offers no official compatibility list, but a fan-made site called XCT.live currently lists 1,568 supported games. Square Enix and Bandai Namco are not yet supporting the program, many early Xbox One discs from 2013 to mid-2014 are incompatible, and Xbox 360 games are not supported.
Xbox has begun testing a new achievement feature called Mythics, which is earned by unlocking all of a game's achievements excluding DLC and updates, and it is retroactive. The feature is currently limited to Xbox Insiders beta testers and will roll out to everyone later. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma had previously confirmed on social media that the team was working on something for later this year.
Bandai Namco and developer Supermassive Games announced that Little Nightmares III downloadable content "The Shores" is now available as part of the "Secrets of The Spiral" expansion pass. Low and Alone, reunited, travel through the mirror to The Shores, where they must navigate flooded streets and sewers while avoiding leeches and The Leech Monster. Little Nightmares III is available now for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store.
Valve shipped a large update for Deadlock, which is still not officially released, adding six new heroes: Nurse Harrow, Rat King, Solomon, Deadman Danny, Baba and Violet. The update also reworks the visuals of all three main lanes and adds four districts, improves UI and HUD elements such as healthbars and an event feed, reworks the ping system, and adds over 10,000 non-ping voice lines with a dialogue player. It further introduces a parry cooldown display, custom lobbies supporting up to eight spectators, and accessibility options including enemy colour changes, auto movement and firing, and voice over subtitles.
Xbox announced that its disc to digital feature is now available to all Xbox console users, following a brief testing period for Xbox Insiders over the past few weeks. Xbox engineer Eden Marie said it should already be working, and Pure Xbox found it required a console restart; the feature appears to have shipped in the September 22nd update but stayed hidden. If it does not appear, users can go to Settings, General, Power Options and Restart Now, then claim the digital license when inserting an eligible disc or press the Menu button on a dashboard game tile. SEGA joined the Xbox Disc to Digital program earlier today, after Ubisoft joined a few weeks ago.
Infinity Ward revealed the PC specs for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, split into Minimum, Recommended and Ray Tracing tiers, with a built-in Benchmark Tool and a 90FPS target at Recommended settings. The game supports NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR Redstone and Intel XeSS 3, with ray tracing in Campaign, Multiplayer and DMZ. The new Collateral mode has teams alternating between attacking and defending two bomb sites, starting with pistols and earning in-game cash to spend on upgrades between rounds, with respawns, killstreaks, automatic health regeneration and custom loadouts disabled. The game launches on Xbox and PC on October 23, 2026, and will not be on Xbox Game Pass at launch.
Valve announced that Steam's discounts and events section will move away from hand curation to more dynamic and personalized recommendations. In a blog post, Valve said that after months of testing dynamic recommendations in place of some curated spots, it showed 10x more games per day in that section and saw meaningful increases in store page visits, wishlists and cart additions. Valve said it has no definite date for the change and is still tuning the details.
Activision confirmed that Shipment, one of the Call of Duty franchise's most notorious maps, is returning in this year's Modern Warfare 4, after fans spotted it in the newly released PC trailer. Shipment debuted in 2007's Modern Warfare 4 as a tiny map full of shipping containers where players can be wiped out at spawn. Activision did not say whether it will be among the 12 6v6 maps at launch or arrive later. Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, and PC.
Pre-orders for God of War Laufey are now open, and the game launches February 16, 2027 on PlayStation 5. The trailer says that for Laufey (Faye), warrior and wife to Kratos, death was supposed to be the end, but a new adventure is just beginning.
Activision confirmed in a new Modern Warfare 4 blog that the game will include a brand-new multiplayer mode called Collateral, similar to Counter-Strike and Valorant. The round-based mode has teams alternate attacking and defending two bomb sites, with players starting on a pistol and earning cash for kills and objectives to buy armor, equipment, pistols, and higher-tier weapons between rounds. Dying loses the current loadout but keeps earned cash, and respawns, killstreaks, automatic health regeneration, and custom loadouts are disabled; the game will also include the cash-based Inflation mode seen in last month's beta.
Coffee Stain Publishing and developer Coffee Stain Studios announced the Satisfactory expansion Core Values, with no release date given. The expansion will add a new narrative, new factory buildings, new creatures, new biomes and a friendly-looking feline, taking players underground for a new expedition. Satisfactory is available now on PS5, Xbox Series and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store and Humble Store.
Coffee Stain has announced Core Values, the first expansion for factory automation game Satisfactory, set entirely in an underground biome where space and light are limited. Game director Emmet Burke said some base-game logistics and the same building ingredients remain, but enough Core Values-specific logistics are added that players will not be using belts. Art director Torsten Gunst said new resources are meant to bring new logistics rather than repeat the base game's tech tree.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has shown off a clip of unlocking the Mythic in Gears of War: E-Day, which requires completing all 55 achievements. The Mythic appears like a normal Xbox achievement at the bottom of the screen but comes with its own logo and sound clip. The feature is currently limited to Insiders and will be applied retroactively to Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series games.
NBA The Run has launched Wave One – 2000s Legends, its first and biggest seasonal update since launching in June, free on Xbox Series X|S. It adds five historic NBA legends — Allen Iverson, Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady and Dirk Nowitzki — unlockable individually for 5,000 Cred or together as DLC for $9.99 in the Microsoft Store. The update also brings Drive Cam and Drive Flip Cam, 11 licensed Run Anthems tracks, Championship Belts, Practice Mode and Custom Matches, plus new courts, dunks and taunts.
Xbox has officially confirmed Mythic Achievements and detailed how they work, with Xbox Insiders getting an early look starting today. Players earn one by completing all original achievements in a game, DLC or update achievements are not required, and Mythic status is kept permanently, including for eligible Xbox 360 titles completed in the past. A new Gaming tab and a progress bar at the top of each achievement list track progress, with later achievements tagged as add-on, though the rollout is currently limited to the Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead rings.
Following the release of The Witcher 3's Remastered edition, the game reached nearly 120,000 concurrent players on Steam, making it the ninth most-played game on the platform and its highest concurrent count ever. SteamDB data shows this surpasses the 92K peak at its 2015 launch, the 103K peak in January 2020, and the 89K peak during the December 2022 next-gen update. The Remastered edition is free for owners of any version of The Witcher 3 and includes the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions, arriving ahead of the new expansion Songs of the Past next year.
After a long wait and several delays, Nivalis Nights is out now, returning players to the cyberpunk world of Cloudpunk with a restaurant management twist. Developer ION LANDS describes it as a cyberpunk slice-of-life sim where you start by running a ramen shop you can design yourself, including seating, decorations and menu, in a city free to explore with NPCs to meet and romance, quests, a core narrative, fishing and homegrown produce. It is not a fully open world game, and over time you can work up to managing other restaurants or night clubs, and it is available on Steam now.
Starting today, Xbox Insiders can get an early look at Mythic Achievements, earned by completing all original achievements for a game, with later DLC or update achievements not required. Mythic status has already been applied retroactively to eligible games players completed in the past, including Xbox 360 titles, and a new Gaming tab on profiles shows achievements and progress toward Mythic.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has a PC trailer along with tech updates and more. The news comes via Xbox Wire, with further details not yet disclosed.
God of War Laufey will launch on PlayStation 5 on February 16, 2027, with pre-orders opening September 29 on PlayStation Store and at participating retailers. Pre-order bonuses include the Last Wish Armor Set, the Phranque Golden Leaves cosmetic and an in-game resource pack, while the Digital Deluxe Edition adds the Dark Alchemy Armor Set, Blade, Bow Scales and Catalyst plus a digital mini artbook and soundtrack. Sony also detailed Faye's Serpent Bow, which offers a full-aim precision mode and a half-aim hip-fire mode, along with interchangeable Scales and unlockable skills.