The Trophy list for Castlevania: Belmont's Curse has surfaced online ahead of launch, and one Trophy requires 100% completion, meaning players must gather every weapon, fill out Rose's tarot deck, and find all health and mana upgrades. Another Trophy asks players to beat the game in less than four hours. The first 2D Castlevania game in a long time launches on 15th October, 2026 for PS5.
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls revealed the next three Year 1 DLC fighters: Jane Foster as Thor, Venom, and Jubilee, arriving over the next year. Jane Foster Thor is set for winter 2027, Venom for next spring, and Jubilee for the summer, with Venom's release also adding the Klyntar stage. Phoenix Cyclops was previously announced as the first DLC fighter and joins on November 2.
Capcom is releasing Street Fighter 6 costumes tied to the new Street Fighter movie, with IGN exclusively revealing looks for Dhalsim, E. Honda and Zangief. The Zangief costume code SF8T-QWM9-PTNT-VQN3 can be claimed across all platforms starting October 16, the same day the film opens only in theaters. Codes for the Dhalsim and E. Honda costumes will be revealed soon.
Valve released the Steam Frame's CAD files on Friday evening, letting anyone with a 3D printer or lathe make non-commercial accessories from the official blueprints. Early Frame recipients had already prototyped homemade add-ons, including a back-mounted power bank holder, HackStrap variants that undercut the £59 Ergonomic Accessories Kit, and a lifesize skull stand that stores the controllers.
The Metaphor: ReFantazio Switch 2 prologue demo is now available in Japan and Australia. It is not yet live in North America, where it is expected tonight or tomorrow.
Nintendo of America announced that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is available now on Nintendo Switch 2. The post also links to the game's store page.
Take on Skeletor's evil forces to defend Eternia in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction! Launching Feb 4 on Nintendo Switch.
Hello Games announced that No Man's Sky will launch on iOS on October 28, including last month's large Cosmos update and the full game rather than a lite version. The studio said the port took three years and shrank the game to under 4GB, with iPhone 11 and 3rd gen iPad Air and above supported, Planetary Settlements limited to iPhone 15 Pro and above, and no multiplayer. Controls and UI were redesigned for touch, with controller and mouse and keyboard also supported, and the game will use a free to try model with the full price not yet revealed.
Chivalware will launch for Switch 2 and PC via Steam on November 5, publishers The Arcade Crew and Imperfect Games and developer Regal Pigeon announced, with the Switch 2 version newly added. A demo is available now for both platforms. The tile-matching action roguelite has players equip up to three weapon disks, with four playable Disk Knights, over 80 weapons, and more than 150 upgrades.
Xbox's disc to digital system has added a licence history feature that lets users track whether a digital licence has been revoked from their account. It can be accessed through the official Play.Xbox browser page under Settings > Manage Games > Disc to digital licence history. Licences may be limited or revoked if a player loses, sells, gives away or otherwise no longer possesses the qualifying disc.
Chivalware is adding a Switch 2 version and will launch on November 5. The report comes from Gematsu and gives no further platform or gameplay details.
No Man's Sky has been released for iPhone and iPad. The release includes ten years worth of updates, according to Digital Foundry.
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard From Vampire Survivors is officially out on phones. Author Giovanni Colantonio looks back on the games he has played this year and still counts the April release among his best-of-the-year picks.
Chivalware is set to release on Nov 5 for PC and Switch 2.
Hytale released an official trailer for Early Access Chapter I.
Riftbound's new Radiance set features rare cards dominated by Riot Games Music crossovers, including Oversized Heartsteel cards, SP K/DA cards, and an Oversized Ekko, Revolutionary using Ekko's original True Damage skin. The set's only Ultimate Rare is Battlefield: Packed Amphitheater, appearing in about 0.025% of booster packs, or roughly 1 in 4,000 packs. Radiance Pre-Rifts start at local game stores on Oct. 16, with booster boxes, packs, and vaults available on Oct. 23.
Arc Raiders rose to version 2.0 with the Frozen Trail update, and its Steam concurrent player peak climbed to 185,443, the highest since March and well above its usual sub-40,000 daily peaks. A free trial launched alongside the update, so some of those players may never buy the game. Frozen Trail adds the largest new map Pendola Pass, new Arc enemy units, new weapons, a player home called The Outpost and a skill tree revamp, and Embark is officially testing a dedicated PvE mode from 13th to 20th October.
Arc Raiders saw its player numbers rebound with the launch of Frozen Trail and the game's 2.0 release. Eurogamer notes those numbers may be deceptively high.
No Man's Sky is coming to iOS on October 28. The game is currently available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store. The iOS version lets players try the beginning for free, with a one-time purchase unlocking the full game including 10 years of updates.
Bitmap Bureau's beat 'em up He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction will launch on Switch on 4th February 2027 after a lengthy delay. Pre-orders are now open at Clear River Games (£25) and Limited Run Games (£30), with a £100 collector's edition and a free 5.5-inch He-Man action figure for the first 2,250 collector's edition pre-orders. Limited Run pre-orders close on 22nd November at 11:59pm eastern time.
Publisher Clear River Games has announced that He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction will launch on PS5 and PS4 on 4th February, 2027. The side-scrolling brawler is in development at Bitmap Bureau and supports up to four-player co-op across a 13-stage campaign.
Retro-Style He-Man Beat-'Em-Up Finally Hits Up PS5 and PS4 in February https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/10/retro-style-he-man-beat-em-up-finally-hits-up-ps5-and-ps4-in-february
No Man's Sky will arrive on the App Store on October 28, the only one of seven titles in Apple's Indie Games Week not yet available. Hello Games' Sean Murray said the iOS port has been in development for years and was held up by the studio's ongoing free updates, which the team has now caught up with. Players can sync progress from other platforms to their App Store copy, and the game supports controllers, touch controls, or a mix of both on iPhones and iPads released as far back as 2019.
No Man's Sky is set to release on iOS on Oct 28.
No Man's Sky is coming to iOS on October 28. Gematsu reported the date and linked to its full story on the site.
WW2 real-time strategy game Battleplan launches on Steam today, with orders issued by drawing on a large pseudo-paper map based on geographical survey data while thousands of troops, tanks, planes and artillery try to turn those doodles into conquered territory. Players don't control units directly, but can draw curved breakthroughs, planned withdrawals, preparatory bombing runs, reconnaissance and counterattacks, and organise divisions, corps and companies before redrawing frontlines. The launch version includes a single-player campaign of 11 historical missions from the D-Day landings to Operation Varsity on the Western Front, plus tutorial levels, and developer Foolish Mortals Games says it plans post-launch system updates, gameplay improvements and additional theatres of war.
Hello Games announced that No Man's Sky will arrive on iPhone and iPad in October, with preorders opening the same day. The port will include all updates released over the past decade and will run on devices as old as the iPhone 11. Hello Games said the port was possible in large part thanks to Light No Fire, its in-development follow-up to No Man's Sky.
Developer Gino Inc. announced that a demo for the anime-style 3D roguelite action game Bless You Again is now available on Steam as part of Steam Next Fest: October 2026 Edition. The demo includes the prologue and the first dungeon, the Corridor of Guidance, where players fight as protagonist Lily alongside the spirit Yoru. The full game is due out for PC via Steam in 2026.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction is confirmed for February 4, 2027 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S, with digital and physical releases. Developed by Bitmap Bureau with Mattel and Clear River Games, it is a pixel-art brawler with He-Man, She-Ra, Man-At-Arms, and Teela as playable characters, solo and two-player local co-op, and 13 stages. Limited Run Games will offer two physical versions: a standard edition at $29.99 and a Collector's Edition at $99.99 that includes lunchbox-style packaging, pin badges, a Power Sword replica, and a 12-page mini comic by Dark Horse Comics.
Six games are coming to Xbox Game Pass from October 13 to 16, five of them day-one launches on Xbox or PC. Battlefield 6 headlines the lineup on October 13, alongside Deep Dish Dungeon and Valor Mortis, a first-person action soulslike from the creators of Ghostrunner. Bluey's Happy Snaps and the 1-4 player co-op gladiator roguelike Chained Beasts arrive on October 15, while Beyond These Stars comes on October 16 as a PC-only title, with the rest also available on Xbox consoles.
Bless You Again demo now available https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/bless-you-again-demo-now-available
Bandai Namco released a new Tekken 8 trailer that briefly teases Baki character Yujiro Hanma and lists him for the winter season. The trailer says he will get his own Tekken 8 trailer at the Tekken World Tour Finals on January 17, but no release date for the character has been announced.
Limited Run Games and developer Bitmap Bureau announced that the side-scrolling beat 'em up He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction will launch on February 4, 2027 for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam at $29.99 / €29.99. Physical edition pre-orders are open now through Limited Run Games. Players can choose among He-Man, Teela, Man-at-Arms, and She-Ra across 13 stages to fight Skeletor and Evil-Lyn.
Twin Swans has announced the voice cast for Hunter's Moon, a first-person historical narrative folk-horror game featuring 48 actors across more than 100 roles. The fully voiced story follows Lilith Thorne, an accused "witch" pursued by the Witchfinder General over the night of the Hunter's Moon. The game is due out for PS5 on October 26.
This week's PC games roundup includes Planet Zoo 2, which lets players run a nature reserve and build aquariums and aviaries, and Rolla, which casts players as a malevolent human-eating ball of tentacles rolling through a city like a Katamari. Valor Mortis is a first-person soulslike set in the Napoleonic era with body horror, and Total War: Shogun 2 - Compete is a remaster with fancier graphics and 50 new minor factions.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction launches February 4, 2027 https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/he-man-and-the-masters-of-the-universe-dragon-pearl-of-destruction-launches-february-4-2027
He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe: Dragon Pearl Of Destruction – Release Date Trailer (Feb 4th, 2027) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBZ6EBH7bQ
He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe: Dragon Pearl Of Destruction (PS5/XSX/Switch) Standard/CE up for preorder at LRG ($29.99/$99.99) https://buff.ly/Gk8FjLr #ad
Star Citizen's single-player mode Squadron 42 has a new trailer showing its cast, including Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, and Henry Cavill, along with space dogfighting, life aboard a capital ship, and first-person combat. After 12 years in development, the mode has no firm release date, only a Q2 2027 window, and is now wishlistable on the CIG website and Steam.
Squadron 42, the singleplayer spinoff from Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, now has a Steam page listing a planned launch in the second quarter of 2027, between early April and the end of June. A new trailer shows the player as a rookie in the UEE Navy and lists cameos including Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson, Andy Serkis and Henry Cavill. The game is now wishlistable.