Lilith's newly incubated Cat Paw Latte Studio released the first PV for Qi Yu Dong Wu Cheng, an animal-city life simulation game. Players live with animal roommates that have their own schedules and needs, take on jobs such as idol, milk tea shop owner or mayor, and can transform into an animal to rent a friend's home. The studio has about 100 staff and posted a recruitment notice last week.
Epic has confirmed that Five Nights at Freddy's is joining Fortnite for this year's Fortnitemares event. A new trailer shows Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria as a map location, with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy appearing as bosses, and Fortnitemares begins 1st October. The crossover had been rumoured for months, with the pizzeria appearing on the island during Fortnite's Override season.
Minecraft Dungeons II launches September 29 on Xbox Series X|S, PC, Cloud and other platforms. Mojang design director Laura De Llorens said on the Official XBOX Podcast that the sequel adds jumping, an interconnected world you can walk across, the new Sift dimension, armor split into four pieces, talismans and a reworked enchantment system. Multiplayer adapts when players join or leave and now mixes couch co-op with online play.
Mojang Studios announced at Minecraft LIVE that Minecraft Dungeons II launches September 29 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Steam, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, and will be included with Game Pass. The game introduces The Sift, Minecraft's first new dimension in over 14 years, with new biomes including Meadows and Carapace plus new mobs and block rules. Mojang also confirmed The Sift will come to Minecraft in 2027.
The Minecraft LIVE Fall 2026 recap has been published on Xbox Wire. It covers the official Minecraft livestream event.
To mark Castlevania's 40th anniversary, Konami is giving away the original 1986 Castlevania for free on the App Store and Google Play until 24th October 2026. A series-wide sale is also running, with the Anniversary Collection at 80 percent off on the PlayStation Store until 7th October and on Steam from 24th September to 1st October. The new entry, Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, is slated for 15th October on Nintendo Switch, PC via Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, with a demo arriving 1st October whose progress carries over to the full release.
Used Cars Simulator is out now on Xbox Series X|S for $19.99, currently $15.99. The game's five tips cover inspecting before repairing, keeping money moving, leaving the shed to explore, treating cars as physics toys, and deciding how much chaos your business can handle. Published by PlayWay S.A., it has players inspect, negotiate, repair, customize, and resell cars.
Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 548 recaps September's big releases and other recent titles the team is still playing, and highlights next week's lineup including Minecraft Dungeons II, Toem 2, Way of the Hunter 2, End of Abyss, Dynasty Warriors 3 Complete Edition Remastered, Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition, and Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. The episode also covers a Silent Hill: Townfall hands-on and the Lisa Limited Edition DualSense, which opens for pre-order on October 2.
This week's PlayStation Blog Share of the Week highlights Marvel's Wolverine, featuring player-submitted ferocious moments shared with #PSshare #PSBlog, including Wolverine's claws illuminated in the shadows and Wolverine taking on Omega Red. Next week's theme is Logan, asking for heroic portraits of Logan in Marvel's Wolverine, with submissions due by 11:59 PM PT on September 30, 2026.
Embark Studios announced a PvE matchmaking test for Arc Raiders running from 13th to 20th October, letting players choose between the friendlier PvE version and the regular version. Executive producer Aleksander Grøndal said around 37 percent of raiders are friendly co-op players, 34 percent are PvP-focused and the remaining 27 percent are a mix. The test supports solo, duos and trios, omits PvP-designed map conditions such as night raids and hidden bunkers, and lowers loot value in PvE matchmaking; Grøndal said it does not mean a permanent PvE mode will be added.
Hytale's early access is getting its first Chapter update on October 12, adding the game's first handcrafted dungeon and its first proper boss fight against the goblin king Gobliterator. The update also adds the Goblin Breach world event, expands goblin enemy types, and lets players claim goblin gear including a hookshot launcher and rocket boots. Hypixel founder Simon Collins-Laflamme is offering $15,000 to the first person to stream a solo, naked hardcore kill of the boss.
Bungie announced short- and long-term plans for Marathon in a blog post, saying it wants to keep the extraction mode while adding more approachable experiences with different levels of intensity and commitment. October's Nightfall refresh brings a regular and a free permanent NuCaloric rewards pass, recurring sponsored kit queues, and larger access windows for the end-game Cryo Archive. December pushes the PvE mode Symbiosis, adds an experimental Team Deathmatch mode, a new shell, a reworked Perimeter map with new zones, a new PvE pinnacle encounter and a fungal aesthetic, while next March is set to add interconnected permanent PvE, PvP and PvEvP experiences, a new onboarding experience, a more focused questline and narrative, a new zone and a new alien enemy.
Embark Studios will trial a PvE mode in Arc Raiders from October 13th to 20th, letting players toggle into a version where players cannot damage each other. The studio says a large and growing group comes for the co-op and the ARC, and shared data showing pure PvP players have held steady at 34% since launch while mixed players have shrunk. The mode also lowers loot value, omits some special events, and makes ARC enemies slightly more aggressive to preserve tension.
Bungie said in a new blog post that Marathon will be "growing beyond extraction," keeping its PvEvP experience while adding more ways to play. The upcoming Symbiosis update will bring the long-promised PvE mode and an experimental Team Deathmatch PvP mode, alongside a new shell named Bishop. Perimeter will get a fungus-driven visual overhaul with new routes, and a new zone plus a CyAc-sponsored social hub with a firing range are slated for March.
Meta announced the Meta VR Glasses, priced at $1,300 and weighing about 100 grams, set to go on sale in Spring 2027. The device has no strap and needs no controllers, relying on hand tracking and passthrough, with a puck connected by an optical tether handling compute, battery and storage. Games revealed alongside it include Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR, Tetris Effect: Mixed Realities and Beat Saber: Flux, all slated for 2027 and also coming to Quest rather than being exclusive to the glasses.
Remedy Entertainment announced a launch-day hotfix 1.3.3 for Control Resonant that responds to pre-release criticism that enemies took too long to defeat and protagonist Dylan Faden felt too weak early on. The patch lowers base health and required Falter levels for most enemies plus the Dancer and Deserter bosses, raises maximum Aberrant Strength and Ability Strength, and cuts respec costs while increasing vendor stock of the respec resource. Game Informer scored the game 8.5 out of 10.
Owlcat announced that Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader's final DLC, Processional of the Damned, has been delayed from September to December 2026, with the release window not expected to move again. The expansion centers on a new companion, Stella, an unsanctioned psyker seen by the Ecclesiarchy as a miracle of the Emperor who sheds tears of blood. Season Pass 2 owners can request refunds via Steam support, which removes Processional of the Damned and Infinite Museion and breaks saves made with Infinite Museion content, while the Season Pass 2 Appearance Pack becomes free and integrated into the base game.
Feel Free Games announced that Luma Island is coming to PS5, and it can be wishlisted on PlayStation Store starting today. The game launched on PC in November 2024 and has drawn more than 800,000 players, with online co-op for up to 4 players and cross-platform play across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. It offers three difficulty modes — Cozy, Adventure and Hero — with no stamina bars or inventory limits.
Beat Saber has announced its biggest update yet, arriving in Spring 2027, adding a new bare-handed mode called Flux in which players punch, prod and slap notes instead of using sabers. Flux launches with 35 songs and showcases the update's new hand-tracking, which also works with the traditional saber modes. The campaign is being refreshed with new missions, checkpoints and a light narrative element, alongside a progression system for unlocking saber, beat and bomb cosmetics.
After nearly a decade as a free-to-play game, Quake Champions is dropping battle passes, loot boxes, premium currencies and its store to become a £9 premium release on Steam. Players who tried it through past free events are upgraded to the full version automatically, and premium currency bought in the past two months will be refunded. The change follows more than 100 layoffs at id Software amid Microsoft's 3,200 cuts, and the team says no additional content updates are planned at this time.
Rebel Wolves is preparing The Blood of Dawnwalker's first major update, expected in early October, which will add an easier difficulty mode and rename the current Story mode to something like Demanding. Game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz told Eurogamer the new Story mode is for players who want the story without the combat challenge. The patch will also make running and escaping combat ignore the nav mesh, change how the stun ability locks onto other enemies, and require three hits to remove a stun, while PC performance fixes and a possible New Game Plus are still being worked on.
Emeteria, a New Tales studio, announced that its fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG Fading Echo launches today on PlayStation 5, with a demo also available today. Players control One, a young Legend who manipulates the water-like element Æther, shifts between fractured realities and combines elemental reactions to fight, explore and solve puzzles in the world of Corel. The single-player adventure also follows One's search for her past alongside a small group of allies.
IO Interactive has delayed the Nintendo Switch 2 version of 007 First Light for a third time, moving its release to March 2027. Technical producer Cristina Vega told Korean outlet Inven Global that the team needed a breather and that marketing requests and other factors left no choice, with the aim of letting fans play the most polished version on Switch 2. She said the port is close to its final phase and that compromises on Switch 2, such as lower object detail at a distance, are limited to areas that are not crucial to players. The game sold 4 million copies within three months of its May release this year.
PlayStation is releasing a DualSense wireless controller – Lisa Limited Edition designed with Lisa, featuring her bangs and eyes on the touch pad plus her signature stars and "LL" lettering in a Chroma Pearl colorway. It will be available in highly limited quantities at participating retailers in Southeast Asia from October 30 at a recommended retail price of SGD 115 / MYR 419 / IDR 1,549,000 / THB 2,890 / PHP 5,411 / VND 2,399,000, with pre-orders starting October 2 while supplies last. Her new EP, Press Play, arrives October 23.
Bungie announced in a developer video and blog post that it plans to restore Destiny 2 content archived in the game's digital Vault, making vaulted campaigns, destinations, and raids available to all players again. The studio said years of updates mean the content needs reworks such as updated lighting, combat encounters, and combatants, and it will share progress in the coming months. Bungie also said Marathon did not reach as many players as hoped and will be expanded into a deeper survival experience, with more details due later this week and content still planned for the October Nightfall Refresh and December Symbiosis updates.
Deconstructeam, the studio behind The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, announced that its next game Virtue and a Sledgehammer will launch on October 27. The game follows protagonist Pratelle returning to her hometown and confronting family memories, and a June demo lets players try the opening area. The studio said the full version may be its harshest game to date, and the game is now wishlistable on Steam.
Developer Rubeki announced The Hollowing, a game set in the same narrative universe as Lorn's Lure, where players fly a plane that needs refueling between radio outposts and comms towers inside a megastructure. A demo is available on Steam, and the full game launches later this year.
Valve has released SteamOS 0.3.0, the first post-launch software update for the Steam Frame, bringing "substantially faster" charging, a fix for a "garbled audio" microphone bug, and improved controller tracking while haptics are active. The update also improves system stability under high load, fixes the per-app Motion Smoothing "Force Always-On" setting being ignored, and changes the developer playable performance criteria to allow any resolution instead of 1440p.
Fortnite's latest crossover brings Kingdom Hearts into the battle royale this week, with four skins available in the item shop on Thursday, September 17 as part of Chapter 7, Season 4. Players can wear Sora, Kairi, Riku, and Roxas in their Kingdom Hearts II designs. Epic has not revealed pricing for the skins or any additional accessories they may include.
Valve has opened a waiting list for its Steam Frame VR system, offering 256GB and 1TB models. The 256GB version costs $1,059 (£889) and the 1TB version $1,299 (£1,089), both with a 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 16GB of RAM, two controllers and Half-Life: Alyx included, but no power supply. Steam Frame will support Android games because it uses the same Android APKs developers already use to port mobile titles to Android-based devices like Meta Quest.
Why this: Valve opened the Steam Frame waiting list and published full specs and prices for both models, letting readers decide whether to join.
Valve opened sign-ups for the Steam Frame VR headset, with registration running for 72 hours until 1:00 PM ET on September 17 and the first wave of customers notified from September 18. The wireless headset streams VR and non-VR Steam games, ships with two controllers and Half-Life: Alyx but no power supply, and costs 1,059 USD for 256GB or 1,299 USD for 1TB. A 59 USD ergonomic accessories kit is also available.
Blizzard announced at BlizzCon 2026 that the third StarCraft title, simply called StarCraft, will launch in 2030 and shift from real-time strategy to an open-world first-person shooter. Blizzard general manager and vice president Dan Hay leads the project and said players can create and name a character, follow that character's story to a definitive ending, and that it is not a seasonal game. It is the franchise's first new title since StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void in 2015, after two earlier StarCraft FPS attempts were cancelled.
At the BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony, Blizzard officially revealed Diablo V for spring 2029 and a StarCraft open-world shooter led by former Far Cry lead Dan Hay targeting a 2030 launch. Diablo IV comes to Switch 2 on September 15, Warcraft III: Reforged gets the new Forsaken Kingdom campaign today, and World of Warcraft Forever arrives on November 4 with a beta starting September 17. The next World of Warcraft update, Midnight Eclipse, and the expansion The Last Titan are aiming for 2027.
Blizzard announced at BlizzCon 2026 that Warcraft III: Reforged is getting a new campaign, Forsaken Kingdom, available today. Set amid the fall of Lordaeron, the prologue covers the aftermath of Arthas killing his father, and Blizzard says it offers over 30 hours of gameplay. The update also adds a new graphics mode closer to the original Warcraft III look, 24-unit group selection, World Editor improvements, and a new neutral hero, the Forsaken Paladin.