The Griffin armor diagrams are found in Dragonslayer's Grotto in east Velen and require level 11, with wraiths, endrega, an ekimmara, and a wyvern in the way. The set has four armor pieces and two swords but no crossbow, and can be forged at Crow's Perch, Novigrad, or Kaer Trolde. Enhanced, superior, and mastercrafted upgrades come from Edwin Greloff's maps, the last bought from Éibhear Hattori after completing Of Swords and Dumplings.
The Feline armor diagrams are found in a cave on Temple Isle in Novigrad and require level 17, with drowners, wraiths, a golem, and a witcher standing in the way. The light set includes four armor pieces, two swords, and a crossbow, boosting attack power at the cost of damage resistance. Enhanced, superior, and mastercrafted upgrade diagrams come from buying Adalbert Kermith's maps at the Blackbough merchant, Crow's Perch quartermaster, and Lindenvale's armorer.
The Witcher 3 Remastered lets you transmog armor and swords, but only at two master smiths: Yoana at Crow's Perch for armor after the Master Armorers quest, and Hattori in Novigrad for swords after Of Swords and Dumplings. Each reskin costs 100-200 coin, and any armor or sword placed in Geralt's inventory unlocks as a skin. The system isn't retrospective for existing saves, and Lazare Lafargue in the Blood and Wine DLC can't transmog armor.
A Silent Hill lore bible exists at Konami, but not everyone is allowed to see it. At Gamescom, Konami's Motoi Okamoto revealed that the Townfall team was largely left to do their own research and reach their own conclusions about what constitutes Silent Hill.
The Pardall Games library now lets you view nearly every 3D model from Final Fantasy 7 (the 1997 one), including summon animations and map screens, and rotate them in a 3D environment. The frog was named "Touch Me" in the original as a literal translation of the Japanese Tacchi Mī, but was renamed Amphidex in the Rebirth remake.
In horror game Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival, protagonist Aidan and his partner Sunny unlock a puzzle box that summons Cenobites, who tear Sunny apart and send her to hell. Game director Emil Esov and narrative director Antony de Fault say her death is not a punishment for her BDSM interests, and that the game depicts unhealthy ways of engaging with BDSM rather than demonising fetish or BDSM itself.
Two weeks into Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, the game's first part feels poorly paced, with hours of training and dungeon delving between story missions that can put players to sleep. Developing all four lords equally could mean 15-30 hours of this slog before things get more action-focused in part two. The clash and dungeon-crawling mechanic is the main culprit: clashes are mindless turn-based fights with paper-thin enemies that can be handled via auto-attack, though a few narrative clashes like Dietrich's bounties show their potential.
PC Gamer speculates how the main characters of Crime and Punishment would survive the plot of Halo 1. Raskolnikov would be traumatized by the Flood's first appearance in 343 Guilty Spark, Razumikhin's empathy would become a liability in Assault on the Control Room, and Sofya might join the Covenant due to her religious faith. Dunya would solo the campaign, while Marmeladov is crushed by a Warthog and Svidrigailov is banned from voice chat.
Fright Train is a singleplayer B-movie survival shooter starring a dog soldier named Doug Barker, and it's the best Call of Duty Zombies alternative the author has played in ages. Players scavenge vidyacoins, manage 15 tactical pockets and manually load bullets while fighting zombies, lockdowns and a pursuing giant iceworm aboard a train hurtling through the Antarctic. It's available on Steam, and the author's praise is based on two hours of play on normal difficulty covering the first two acts.
While continuing to mod GTA 5 in a quest to turn it into a PC version of GTA 6, the author added a mod called Fortnite Floss Dance [OIV] that makes Franklin floss. The mod offers a smooth looping Floss dance at the same speed as Fortnite, plays music automatically when you start flossing, and has a volume slider, with its entire UI in Arabic. The game already only launches properly in windowed mode and drops the player into an empty void.
The Witcher 3 Remastered's extensive changes have left the WAR Project mod, which restores an abandoned plague-themed questline, unable to run out of the box. The modders, who have been in contact with CD Projekt Red and Yigsoft to test the remaster, aim to release a phase 1 update within a week of launch with English voice acting, followed roughly two months later by phase 2 featuring four new quests, two remade quests, and two mini quests. The mod will only support the Remastered version going forward, with a full release targeted for sometime in 2027.
Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann confirmed in a The Last of Us Day 2026 letter that two new projects set in The Last of Us universe are in very early development and will expand the canon beyond The Last of Us Part 1 and Part 2, though he did not say whether they are games or other media. Druckmann also said the studio will stay quiet for the rest of this year and will fully reveal Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet in 2027.
CD Projekt Red told Eurogamer that as of today all versions of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, including Complete, Game of the Year and the base game, become the new standard Remastered version with Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine included, free on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, rolling out from 11am BST. Patch notes show the skill system reworked into a skill tree with three ranks per skill and reset skill points, tweaked non-boss monster behaviour, an expanded Photo Mode with placeable props and a first-person camera, and PC support for Path Tracing, DLSS 4.5, FSR 4 and XeSS 2.0. Switch 2 gains four playstyles and Joy-Con 2 HD Rumble.
Modder SquallyDaBeanz released a solo-developed Act Two Expansion custom campaign for Baldur's Gate 3 in beta in mid-September, adding a chapter set in The Chionthar Wilds between the RPG's second and third acts. The modder said the goal was to keep the narrative structure close to the base game, letting players explore a large area that still ties into the main quest before urgency returns for the mod's finale. The mod is available on Nexus Mods in a main download or quickstart version, and the modder is preparing a 1.0 release with fixes and balance changes in the next patch.
The Sekiro: No Defeat anime will come to Crunchyroll in January 2027, and it won't be the movie version shown in Japanese theaters. The 2-hour film will be re-edited and extended into an eight-episode TV series, with each episode running 24 minutes, adding roughly an hour of story. Producer Tetsushi Suzuki apologized for the confusion over the different versions, and the TV release will include new cuts and improved animation.
Polygon rounds up six PS5 games launching in October, ahead of Zelda and GTA 6 in November. The list includes Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition on Oct. 1, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve and Star Wars: Galactic Racer on Oct. 2, Valor Mortis on Oct. 13, Anomalith on Oct. 28, and Phantom Blade Zero on Oct. 29.
Gcores released a seven-day playlist for the National Day holiday, with one episode for each day covering a different theme. Episodes range from a Nuclear Market Odd Tales talk on works like Inside No. 9, Lord of the Flies, This Bed We Made and Unheard, to a game chat about companions and romance in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, a Soviet Aesthetics lecture on Tsiolkovsky and rocketry, a discussion of physical disc production ending, mushroom and fungi knowledge, a philosophical breakdown of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and a Gadio Story on Left 4 Dead's original four survivors centered on the official comic The Sacrifice.
A Push Square preview says the PS5 remake Danganronpa 2x2 launches on 14th January and includes a full beat-by-beat remake of Goodbye Despair plus an alternative storyline called Slayhem Mode. The author played a PC build at Tokyo Game Show, trying a portion of Slayhem Mode and a courtroom battle from the original, and confirmed the new mode adds a character named Sakutaro Higashi voiced by Natsuki Hanae in Japanese and Griffin Burns in English. The new scenario is written by Yoichiro Koizumi based on a concept by original series creator Kazutaka Kodaka and Danganronpa Kirigiri author Takekuni Kitayama.
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.
Industry snoop NateTheHate2 has confirmed on X that Shaun Escayg's unannounced Naughty Dog project is not The Last of Us related. Naughty Dog confirmed this week that alongside Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which gets its full reveal in 2027, it is working on a couple of The Last of Us projects. Escayg, creative director of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, posted a photo of an Uncharted-esque location in Trinidad & Tobago earlier this year captioned "research," fueling speculation he is working on a new Uncharted.
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.
Dune: Awakening arrived on PS5 and Xbox as part of a large update that added new story content, a full single-player mode, and the option to avoid PvP entirely. After over a dozen hours on PS5, the author says the game controls well on a gamepad, its harvesting and combat avoid tedium, and online sessions run with almost no lag. It previously launched on PC.
Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann said in a September 28 Outbreak Day blog post that the team will stay quiet about Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet for the rest of this year. In 2027, the studio will fully reveal the sci-fi action game and give a proper look at protagonist Jordan's adventure. Druckmann said the project is shaping up to be Naughty Dog's most ambitious yet and thanked fans for their patience.
Naughty Dog announced on its blog that it is working on "a couple of very exciting new projects in very early stages" that will expand The Last of Us canon beyond Part I and Part II. Neil Druckmann did not specify whether these are standalone games or expansions for existing titles. The studio officially scrapped The Last of Us Online, a live service take on the series, in 2023.
NateTheHate said that the project Shaun Escayg is working on at Naughty Dog is not related to The Last of Us. He added that he has only minor details and is not prepared to share them at present. The claim came from a discussion on Reddit's gaming leaks and rumours board.
Game Informer's exclusive cover story reveals that Grand Theft Auto VI's Leonida will feature over 170 animal species across land, air, and sea, several of which have never appeared in a Rockstar game. Native Florida animals like flamingos, manatees, pelicans, and alligators will coexist with invasive creatures including green iguanas, cane toads, feral cats, and rhesus macaque monkeys. Rockstar is building on its Red Dead Redemption work with iridescence, bioluminescence, translucency, and feather types, plus new hair and fur systems, and certain animals can be tracked as Rare, Discoverable, or Legendary.
Remedy Entertainment's Control Resonant director Mikael Kasurinen explained on the Dropped Frames podcast why the team deliberately avoided "yellow paint" visual signposting. Players navigate an open-world Manhattan by running, flying, and changing gravity, and Kasurinen said the choice was conscious even though it risked making the game feel "impenetrable," so players feel they found their own path.
The Blood of Dawnwalker game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz confirmed that struggling in human form is intentional, saying vampires should always be stronger. In human form, claw damage scales with level and healing in combat requires crafted potions, while vampires can heal by biting enemies and drinking blood vials. The game released at the beginning of September, sold 1m copies in three days, and its first major patch is planned for early October.
Naughty Dog co-creator Neil Druckmann revealed in an Outbreak Day blog post that the studio is working on two new projects in very early stages that will expand The Last of Us canon beyond Part I and Part II. Druckmann wrote "projects" rather than "games," leaving open the possibility of TV, movies, comics, books, or something else. With Naughty Dog yet to release Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, it will likely be a while before these projects surface.
Control Resonant launched last week on PlayStation 5, and Remedy's lead level designer, art director, and lead gameplay designer discussed the art direction and design behind its characters and environments. The game keeps dynamic destruction and reactive environments while presenting a movie-like retro "Strange York" version of New York. Boss fights are intended as skill checks, and areas like The Gap and the Sinkhole reflect Dylan's psyche and gravity-warped spaces.
The Coalition creative director Matt Searcy says Hardcore is the intended difficulty for Gears of War: E-Day, which launches on Xbox and PC on 1st October. The campaign has four difficulty modes — Casual, Normal, Hardcore and Insane — and defaults to Normal, with split difficulty supported in co-op.
Neil Druckmann confirmed that Naughty Dog has a total of 3 projects in development, 2 of which are The Last of Us related, alongside Intergalactic. He said both projects are in very early stages and will expand The Last of Us canon beyond Part I and Part II.
HBO's The Last of Us Season 3 has added John Goodman, Ian Alexander, and Laura Bailey to its cast. Goodman plays Joey, partner of Alexander's character Paco, while Bailey plays Elizabeth, a leader of the Seraphites. Bailey and Alexander previously voiced Abby and Lev in The Last of Us Part II; the season has no premiere date but is expected in 2027.
Minecraft Dungeons 2's main campaign takes around 12 hours to complete, while reaching 100% completion by finishing all side quests, achievements, and rifts took around 30 hours. Side quests are worth doing to collect all Talismans and Enchantment Books for builds in the action-RPG. GameSpot's Minecraft Dungeons 2 review scored the game 7/10.