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  1. GamesIndustry.biz62

    The Witcher 3 hits its highest-ever Steam concurrent player count after free Remastered launch

    Following the release of CD Projekt Red's free Remastered edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt surpassed 120,000 concurrent players on Steam, its highest figure since the 2015 launch. SteamDB lists previous peaks of 92,000 at launch in 2015, 103,000 in January 2020 during the popularity of Netflix's Witcher series, and 89,000 in December 2022 around the next-gen update. The figure excludes players on GOG, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation, Xbox and Switch 2, and the Remastered update is free to owners of any existing version with the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions included.

  2. PC Gamer12

    I saved GTA 5 from death and also added tornadoes

    After loading GTA 5 with so many mods that it would no longer launch even in windowed mode, the author got it running again by deleting essentially random files from the game's directory. He then added a new mod called TornadoV, which spawns enormous tornadoes in Los Santos, configured with F5 and spawned with F6. Since F6 is also his noclip key, he can no longer fly around the map without summoning a twister.

  3. PC Gamer12

    To Celebrate September 30, the Day the Cop Inside Leon Kennedy Died: My Most Traumatic Resident Evil Encounters

    September 30 marks 28 years since Raccoon City was destroyed in Resident Evil 2, the day the cop inside Leon S. Kennedy died. To mark it, the author lists their most traumatic Resident Evil moments, including the giant fetus in Resident Evil Village, Marguerite Baker in Resident Evil 7, T-00's footsteps, Emma Kendo, and the bad ending of Resident Evil: Revelations 2.

  4. Polygon18

    Astarion's New 'Baldur's Gate 3' Prequel Story Was Doomed From the Start

    Astarion's new prequel story for Baldur's Gate 3 was doomed from the start. Larian Studios' 2023 Dungeons & Dragons game was a major success, driving player interest in the world of their companions, and D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast responded with supplementary material including miniatures, character sheets, and crossovers in Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms and Magic: The Gathering.

  5. Rock Paper Shotgun55

    First-person RPG Queen's Domain launches October 30

    Developer Freshly Baked Games and publisher Future Friends Games announced that the first-person fantasy RPG Queen's Domain will launch on October 30, with a demo still available on Steam. Players take the role of a son searching for his missing father on an island of skeletal creatures, laser trees and fishpeople, fighting with a blink-jumping holy sword, cooldown-based infinite throwing weapons, a stamina bar and leveling. The developers list over 50 melee weapons, more than 20 throwing weapon types, over 100 enemies and bosses, and dozens of hours of exploration.

  6. 机核36

    Little Blackbird: A Wasteland Game Where You Pick Up Trash and Raise Birds Instead of Guns

    Little Blackbird combines 2D platforming, squad ability puzzles and village building into a combat-free micro wasteland adventure. Players control a blackbird scattered by a storm, reuniting lost companions and turning collected junk into village buildings in a world humans have left behind. The hand-drawn picture-book game is officially described as "solarpunk," supports keyboard and mouse, and is better suited to a controller.

  7. 机核66

    Stormgate: Wrath of the Veti expansion launches with the Veti faction and 11 missions

    The Veti faction expansion Wrath of the Veti for Stormgate is now available, unlocking an 11-mission single-player campaign while the Veti faction is free to try in multiplayer. The Veti revolve around Awakened units, which can be sacrificed for buffs and are also needed for Ascension Pillars used in base building and upgrades. The expansion costs 83.99 yuan with a 10 percent discount in its first two weeks, bringing it to 75.59 yuan, alongside 50 percent off the base game and 35 percent off the Gold Edition.

  8. Xbox Wire62

    Section 9's sci-fi action adventure End of Abyss launches October 1 on Xbox Series X|S

    Section 9 Interactive, a small studio founded by three former Tarsier Studios members, announced that its sci-fi action adventure End of Abyss launches October 1 on Xbox Series X|S. Players take the role of young combat technician Cel, descending into an abandoned underground facility to upgrade gear, use a Scanner to explore branching paths, and fight monsters. The team said the game began as a top-down shooter prototype and shifted toward a slower action horror metroidvania focused on exploration and tension, with enemies prototyped in Unreal before their designs were finalized.

    Why this: The studio explains how its top-down shooter prototype became an action horror metroidvania, showing how a small team settled on its art and enemy design.

  9. 游研社60

    After ten years of transport sims, what Urban Games changed in Transport Fever 3

    The Transport Fever series marks its tenth anniversary, and Transport Fever 3 launched on September 30 as Urban Games' first proper sequel in years. The game drops the rule that ties revenue directly to transport distance, giving different cargoes different delivery deadlines and letting goods continue flowing past a node, with delays affecting resident satisfaction. The traditional campaign is replaced by eight activities built around specific historical periods and transport events, and much of the UI was rebuilt to make the more complex systems easier to read.

Sep 30Wed
  1. Rock Paper Shotgun28

    How Marvel Tōkon's Deadpool trades ridicule for fighting game reverence

    Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls limits Deadpool's meta humor to an encyclopedic knowledge of fighting games and their culture. His moveset, voice lines, win screens, and character select portrait borrow from Street Fighter, Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Guilty Gear, and more, with some Fourth Wall Attacks only available while he recovers from damage. Takehito Koyasu, DIO's voice actor, voices him in Japanese.

  2. Rock Paper Shotgun62

    Grasshopper Manufacture leaves NetEase to go indie again, Suda51 says it will deliver titles in a wider variety of styles

    Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio behind No More Heroes and Killer7, has split from parent company NetEase and gone indie again, founder Goichi "Suda51" Suda announced. NetEase, which acquired the studio in 2021, has yet to comment on the deal. Suda said the decision followed thorough discussions with NetEase Games and reflects a desire to deliver titles in an even wider variety of styles.

  3. IGN60

    Marvel's Wolverine Ending Explained: How Insomniac Rewrites Logan's Origin Story

    IGN breaks down the ending of Marvel's Wolverine, noting that the game gives Logan his adamantium skeleton via Apocalypse and turns him and Jean Grey into immortal lovers spanning centuries. Essex, better known as Mister Sinister, uses the Helix Device to awaken dormant mutants and unleash Sentinels before Wolverine kills him, though a final blast of Helix energy reactivates the Shinigami within Logan. A post-credits scene shows Apocalypse recruiting Sabretooth as his new Horseman of War, setting up a sequel.

  4. IGN12

    The Best, Worst, and Weirdest Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Games

    IGN rounds up the best, worst, and weirdest games based on the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, spanning shooters, racers, and ecology simulators. The 1999 Episode I: The Phantom Menace game sold well on PC and PlayStation but suffered from an unpleasant high camera angle, while 2005's Lego Star Wars, with 6.1 million copies sold, is the most commercially successful Prequel Trilogy game.

  5. Eurogamer60

    Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons devs on setting aside Baldur's Gate 3 comparisons to build their own open world

    Invoke Studios showed a Gamescom demo of Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons in which protagonist Kaatri, who gains magic through a pact with the witch Tasha, uses spells like Tasha's Leash and Black Tentacles together for combat and puzzle-solving. General manager Dominique Guay said the world is meant to react to the player's magic rather than live entirely without them, and that Darkon is smaller than worlds like Crimson Desert's but dense enough that a new location is about a minute away. Guay also said Kaatri is a written character with a fixed main narrative, unlike Baldur's Gate 3's dialogue-driven role-playing, and that the game launches next year.

  6. Polygon22

    End of Abyss: Resident Evil Meets Little Nightmares in Terrifying New Horror Game

    End of Abyss blends the eerie atmosphere of Little Nightmares with the thrills of a '90s sci-fi horror flick, delivering an unnerving descent into a blue-toned hell. Your tiny bobble-headed hero navigates steel corridors that seem to stretch on forever, evoking the feeling of being lost in an empty mall at night as a child. Despite messy execution, the parasite-infested game occasionally sticks in your gut as a nerve-racking tone piece.

  7. GameSpot42

    End Of Abyss Commits A Metroidvania Cardinal Sin

    GameSpot's review says End of Abyss is a third-person metroidvania in which you play Cel, a voiceless technician investigating a facility that has gone dark, across a 12- to 15-hour sci-fi horror story. It draws on Little Nightmares' texture, soulslike bosses, and Resident Evil-style fixed camera angles, and its exploration and backtracking are the reviewer's favorite part. However, several flaws and poor blending of those influences leave it an inconsistent patchwork.

  8. Push Square60

    End of Abyss (PS5) Review: A Delectably Dark Metroidvania That Forces You to Look Closer

    Push Square reviewed End of Abyss, a sci-fi horror metroidvania from Section 9 Interactive, with the author reaching the credits in roughly 13 hours. The review praises its large, layered map and tense twin-stick combat while noting minimal guidance and a map-marking quirk, and reports audio issues, invisible barriers and getting stuck in the environment during play. It ran at 60 frames per second on both PS5 and PS5 Pro with no performance options, and the author hopes the bugs are fixed in a day-one patch.

  9. PC Gamer38

    No Law Might Be the Open-World Deus Ex That Cyberpunk 2077 Wasn't

    Neon Giant's No Law is being framed as the open-world Deus Ex that Cyberpunk 2077 never became. The first-person open-world shooter RPG casts you as veteran Grey Harker in the city of Port Desire, with missions solvable through stealth, hacking or open combat. Neon Giant says every apartment is handcrafted rather than procedurally generated, and the game includes an "Immersive" mode that disables UI navigation hints in favour of in-world signage.

  10. GameSpot62

    The Witcher 3 Remastered Drives Record Steam Concurrent Players

    After The Witcher 3 Remastered launched, the game hit a peak of 120,975 concurrent players on Steam, beating its previous record of 103,329 set in January 2020. The game is also available on GOG, the Epic Games Store, PS5, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X|S, and the Remastered Edition is a free upgrade for existing owners. The numbers came during a busy release month that included Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Control Resonant, Marvel's Wolverine, and Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.

  11. Eurogamer34

    Control Resonant devs confirm they made a "conscious decision" not to use yellow paint

    Control Resonant director Mikael Kasurinen confirmed the game deliberately avoids yellow paint and similar guidance markers, saying player autonomy matters more than pointing players where to go. He added that yellow can be used if it fits the game's world thematically, but it must not feel like the game is deciding for the player. The decision stands out given Resonant's map is larger than the original Control's office-building setting.

  12. Push Square62

    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered (PS5) Review: How to Improve a Masterpiece

    Push Square reviewed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered on PS5, finding no game-changing additions but noticeably smoother movement for Geralt and Roach, reworked enemy behaviour, an overhauled skill tree, and redone lighting and environmental assets. On PS5 Pro the ray tracing mode runs at 60fps and the performance mode is uncapped, while base PS5 locks ray tracing to 30fps, and the autosave stutter remains unfixed. The remaster also adds dynamic meditation, transmog, accessibility options, and console mod support via mod.io, though transmog only unlocks later in the game.

  13. Nintendo Life22

    Guide: Best Fire Emblem Games Of All Time

    Nintendo Life has updated its ranking of the best Fire Emblem games of all time, adding the Switch 2 title Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave to the list. The ranking covers every Fire Emblem game released in the West, including spin-offs, while excluding straight ports of games already available on Switch. Mobile titles Fire Emblem Shadows and Fire Emblem Heroes sit at the bottom of the list.

  14. Push Square36

    Persona Sales Report Confirms North America as Series' Biggest Market

    A new SEGA sales report shows North America now accounts for roughly 40% of all Persona series sales, making it the franchise's biggest market, with Europe at 20% and Japan plus the rest of Asia splitting the remaining 40%. The report also puts Persona 3-related sales above 5 million, Persona 4-related sales at 5.7 million, and Persona 5-related sales at 13 million. The rumoured Persona 6, said to launch next year, is expected to get a global release, which would be a first for a mainline Persona title.

  15. Pure Xbox67

    The Witcher 3 Remastered Patch Notes List 70+ Most Important New Features

    CD PROJEKT RED shared patch notes for The Witcher 3 Remastered covering only the most important changes, grouped into categories such as visuals and rendering, the skill system, movement and animations, UI, Photo Mode, accessibility, and cross-platform mod support. Skills are now organized into a skill tree with three ranks each and require prerequisite skills to unlock, which resets existing skill points. The PC version adds Path Tracing, DLSS 4.5, FSR 4 and XeSS 2.0 support, consoles add PS5 Pro and Xbox Play Anywhere support, and the Switch 2 version adds four playstyles, gyro aiming and touch screen input. The update launches Tuesday morning in many regions.

  16. Nintendo Life60

    The First Reviews for The Witcher 3 Remastered Are In

    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered launches this week, and existing Switch owners of the game can get it for free. Nintendo Life rounded up early reviews: Push Square said it looks and plays better than ever but adds nothing truly game-changing, Gaming Bolt gave it 9/10 and called it the definitive way to play with both expansions included, and Press Start said the Switch 2 version is a fantastic achievement with full synced saves and a free upgrade for Switch 1 owners. Switch 2 impressions remain limited, and Nintendo Life's own Switch 2 review is still to come.

  17. Push Square40

    Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter Is the Highest Rated Trails Game Ever, Currently 2026's Third Highest Rated Title

    Falcom's Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter is now the highest rated Trails game ever, with its PS5 version holding a 91 on Metacritic across 19 critics. That score also makes it the third highest rated game of 2026 so far, behind The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered (94 on PC) and Sektori (94 on Switch 2), though those two have only 10 and 9 reviews respectively. Falcom is said to be weighing up options for even more remakes.

  18. VGC62

    Video: Gameplay of Ghost of Yotei's new roguelike mode, featuring the return of Jin Sakai

    VGC went hands-on with the opening hours of Most Wanted, the new roguelike mode in Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition, in which players fight waves of enemies from the base game before facing one of the Yotei Six. The run-based mode has players earn currency and upgrades each run, spend it in a menu to upgrade abilities and change each character's starting weapon, and unlock extra playable characters including Ghost of Tsushima protagonist Jin Sakai based on how much currency has been spent on other characters. Most Wanted and the Echoes of Sekigahara expansion release together on October 1 as $14.99 DLC, while a $69.99 Complete Edition lets new players start the base game now.

  19. VGC42

    'We've heard you': Silent Hill Townfall studio says a patch is coming to make The Weight stealth sections less frustrating

    Silent Hill Townfall studio Screen Burn said it has released a PC patch (Steam + Epic, v1.3.1) that significantly improves stuttering caused by PSO Compilation issues, with more improvements coming soon. It also said it has heard players' complaints about the stealth sections featuring The Weight and that gameplay balancing for them is on the way ASAP. The Weight is a large enemy that appears in two major sections of the game, near the middle and near the end, usually cannot be killed, and kills the player instantly if it catches them.

  20. 机核22

    How to Guide and Build a Logic Chain? Taking Ace Attorney 4-1 Poker Murder Case as an Example, Puzzle Construction Method Vol.2

    Episode 2 of the podcast series Puzzle Construction Method uses a scene-by-scene analysis of Ace Attorney 4-1 Poker Murder Case to explore how a mystery story builds a logic chain from clues to conclusion. The episode spoils two works, Ace Attorney 4-1 Poker Murder Case and The Tragedy of X, and features mystery author Zhong Shengli as guest. The six-episode series aims to help listeners understand the creative logic behind mystery stories.

  21. Game Informer60

    Minecraft Dungeons II Review - Built Better Than Before

    Game Informer's review says Minecraft Dungeons II improves on its 2020 predecessor with a new jump mechanic, clearer menus, and more enemy and weapon variety. But its item-driven progression feels linear and aimless, and the reviewer finished the game in under 10 hours and felt done after about 15, with an endgame limited to side quests and destroying Storm Generators for randomized loot. The game introduces a new dimension called the Sift, which is coming to Minecraft proper in 2027.

  22. Push Square32

    Silent Hill: Townfall's Worst Enemy to Be Addressed in Future PS5 Patch

    Screen Burn has heard complaints about The Weight in Silent Hill: Townfall and says gameplay balancing for the enemy is on the way as soon as possible. The slow, top-heavy monster patrols tight areas, chases players on sight, and instantly kills them if it catches them, even after an IV Bag revive. The studio shared the news in a social media post about a PC update, with PS5 patch details to follow once live.

  23. PC Gamer40

    The writer of The Witcher 3's best quest has returned to CD Projekt after a decade away

    Karolina Stachyra, the writer behind The Witcher 3's "Family Matters" quest, has returned to CD Projekt after a decade away. Her LinkedIn shows she worked as a freelance consultant since February and came back full-time in August, which CD Projekt confirmed while declining to say what she's working on. She previously served as narrative director at Techland and GSC Game World.

  24. PC Gamer78

    CD Projekt lays out the important changes in The Witcher 3 Remastered

    The Witcher 3 Remastered launches on September 29, and CD Projekt has listed the changes it considers most important. Skills are now organized into a skill tree with three ranks each, unlocking new skills requires prerequisite skills, and skill points have been reset. The update also polishes non-boss monster combat behavior, movement and climbing animations, adds new exploration and combat cameras, and introduces accessibility options including the Bard's Ballad preset; existing owners get all of it for free.