Gumgo has announced Charlatan, a roguelike about cheating a slot machine where players gradually gain more ways to manipulate the reels and build ridiculous combinations during a run. The studio has opened a playtest and is asking players for feedback on builds, strategies, confusing parts, and balance issues.
Tekken 8 revealed a crossover with Baki the Grappler. The character Roger Jr will be released on 17th November, per a Push Square report.
Bit Golem's Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft has passed 2 million players and more than 12,000 Steam reviews five years after release. The fixed-camera visual novel, adapted from Lovecraft's 1919 story, hit 100,000 downloads in two days with a review score above 95%. A free DLC previously exclusive to the console version is coming soon.
LA-based Studio Lifeforms has revealed Etre, a narrative-driven action game set on Orbis, described as a "planet-scale alien mind on the brink of awakening," where you play as Xyle searching for his soulmate Atel. Its visuals draw on '70s and '80s graphic novels, while its semi-open exploration and movement-based combat cite Remedy's Control as the primary influence. No release date has been announced, though the game has a Steam page.
MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls DLC characters Thor (Jane Foster), Venom, and Jubilee announced
Tekken 8 DLC character Roger Jr. launches November 11 for Season 3 Character Pass owners. It will be available to all players on November 16.
Sony Interactive Entertainment and Arc System Works have announced Thor (Jane Foster), Venom, and Jubilee as DLC characters for MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls, all part of the "Year One Characters & Stage Pass." Thor (Jane Foster) arrives in Winter 2027, Venom and the Kylntar Stage in Spring 2027, and Jubilee in Summer 2027. The four-versus-four tag fighting game is available now for PS5 and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store.
Bandai Namco announced that Tekken 8 Season 3 DLC character Roger Jr. will launch on November 11 for Season 3 Character Pass owners and on November 16 for everyone else. Tekken 8 is available now on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam, and a gameplay trailer for the character was released.
A player abandoned their first proper The Witcher 3 playthrough almost immediately in favor of Dressmaker, saying the dressmaking sim satisfies them as much as slaying monsters and doing side quests. In Dressmaker, every element of a dress—from colors to cuts to fabric—is chosen by the player, and each decision affects the final product while working toward client requests in a professional, respectful manner. The author notes a discount makes it easy to join in too.
Tekken 8's EVO France trailer revealed Roger Jr joining the roster on 12th November in early access and 17th November for everyone else, with a moveset built around acrobatics and stomp moves. The trailer also gave the first look at the previously announced Baki the Grappler crossover, with Yujiro joining in the winter and more to be shown at the Tekken World Tour Finals on 17th January. Season 3 has already featured Kunimitsu and Bob.
A Pure Xbox editor reflects on a year of daily use with the ROG Xbox Ally X, saying the hardware still feels great with no obvious wear on buttons, sticks or triggers, aside from a d-pad issue that resolved itself. He now uses it mostly in docked mode as a Windows PC, prefers Xbox Series X for AAA titles and the handheld for AA and indie games. Software has improved over the past year, but he says it still requires some tinkering like any Windows PC.
The leaker Cyberleek claims to hold a full build of GTA 6 and says it will release it publicly if its cryptocurrency reaches a $30 million market cap, but will hold off if Take-Two agrees to a physical on-disc release and a public apology. Cyberleek leaked early GTA 6 gameplay, story missions, and in-game locations earlier this year, went quiet in September, and resumed last week with nude versions of characters like Jason. Take-Two subpoenaed Discord and Microsoft in late August to identify the leaker, and $CYBERLEEK currently sits at a $6 million market cap.
Cyberleek, a leaker who has posted unauthorized GTA 6 footage for months, is threatening to release a development build of the game. He says he will only provide a playable build if viewers push his meme coin's market cap to $30 million, using nude videos of co-protagonist Lucia Caminos to draw in fans.
Actor and YouTuber SungWon Cho says Balatro is his most-played game on Steam at 354 hours, and he has 100%-ed it. He describes the hardest achievement as getting gold with every joker, with the Obelisk joker nearly driving him to despair. Cho also says he avoids early access and waited for Hades 2's 1.0 release, playing it for around 120 hours.
Tekken 8 revealed a gameplay trailer for Roger Jr., who enters early access on Nov 12 and releases on Nov 17. The trailer also gives a first look at Yujiro Hanma, whose new trailer arrives Jan 17, 2027.
TEKKEN 8 released a gameplay reveal trailer for Roger Jr.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has released a trailer for the Brazil map in Crazy Taxi: Speed Tour. Players can drive a taxi while picking up passengers and racing through the country known for its passion, with rock-style music by well-known musicians.
Easy Fox's AI-powered driving instructor sim Teach My Little Sister How To Drive is spending over $1,000 per day on AI services for its demo after player numbers grew more than twentyfold. The studio has taken out a bank loan to keep the demo running and says it may have to close it earlier than expected before the full release, which is planned for January next year.
Swedish studio Unleash The Giraffe has revealed Seer's Gambit, a tactical roguelite about drafting weird and unique heroes to help a mysterious Seer save the world. The game centers on drafting heroes around synergies, with characters like Blossom and Gallant, and lets players upgrade conquered areas in Emalon to unlock new heroes or group buffs. It can be checked out on Steam or via a gameplay playlist.
Kinetic Games announced that Phasmophobia has sold more than 30 million copies across PC and console since launching in Early Access in 2020. Its annual Crimson Eye Halloween event is back and runs until 1st November, bringing blood moon weather to a rotating set of maps that makes ghosts faster and drains sanity more quickly while paying out more. Community goals unlock the Beholder ID Card and Badge and the Blood Moon Trophy, while personal goals unlock the Blood Moon Charm, a seasonal t-shirt, and Crimson Eye trophy upgrades. CEO and game director Daniel Knight said his initial goal was to sell 1000 units in the first year, and that the 1.0 release is slated for the second half of 2027.
Forza Horizon 6's PS5 port launches on 26th January and developer Playground has confirmed a boxed physical release. Like most Microsoft games, however, a download will still be required, and the disc will likely be little more than a launcher. The game takes up almost 150GB on Xbox Series X|S, and the PS5 version will likely occupy a similar amount of space.
Hungry Horrors from Clumsy Bear Studio launches in full on Steam on October 13, 2026, ending two and a half years in Early Access, and currently holds 98% Very Positive across 213 Steam reviews. The deckbuilding adventure draws on British and Irish folklore, where a spoilt princess feeds mythical monsters traditional dishes instead of fighting them. It is made by a team of two, self-funded and self-published, built in Godot with hand-pixelled art in Aseprite.
Phasmophobia has confirmed 30 million sales, and its Crimson Eye Halloween event has returned. Eurogamer reported the news.
Developer nighttarga has turned a Dungeons and Dragons campaign written and played over 14 years into Echoes of Aromia, a topdown pixel art RPG whose demo launched last month and has drawn 34 positive reviews. The demo runs 2 to 3 hours, and combat is turn based on a grid in the overworld, letting players use terrain for cover and destroy props such as tables, trees and lampposts. Development began slightly over a year ago using Unity and paid assets, is entirely self funded, and the developer is now commissioning art, music, portraits and programming help.
Arganoid Industries announced that Reality Drift, a surreal roguelike racing game in development for nearly five years, will launch on November 11 with guest art by Keita Takahashi, the creator of Katamari Damacy and Wattam. Takahashi spent three weeks on the art, while Emily L'Orange made the majority of the game's sprites. The game will also take part in Steam Next Fest starting November 19.
Squadron 42 is now open for wishlisting on Steam. It is planned for release in Q2 2027, according to Eurogamer.
Cloud Imperium Games announced on 10th October that Squadron 42, the single-player spin-off of Star Citizen, is now available to wishlist on Steam ahead of a planned Q2 2027 release, alongside a new trailer. Set in the year 2945, the game casts players as a rookie in the UEE Navy aboard a capital ship, mixing space combat, ground operations and stealth sections, with full performance capture from a cast including Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman and Henry Cavill. It has been in development for over a decade and has slipped repeatedly, most recently to Q2 2027, which studio boss Chris Roberts attributed to avoiding competition with GTA 6.
Deadlock's City Never Sleeps update makes Valve's MOBA my favorite videogame setting in years
SYSTEM INTRUDER is a narrative-driven retro-cyberpunk survival horror game set in the ASGARD-04 research complex. A demo is planned for release at the end of October, and the game is available on Steam for wishlisting.
DreadHaven: The Last Colony is a minimalist, turn-based city-building strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, where players expand and fortify by day and withstand zombie waves by night. Each turn, players must decide how to spend limited actions on building, gathering resources, or reinforcing defenses. It is available now on Steam, and the demo includes 2 maps and 2 havens, with 1–2 hours to play through both maps or around 5–10 hours to explore everything.
Valve's Deadlock has received the City Never Sleeps update, which reworks the entire map, adds new neutral monsters, and gives the lanes and mid-map districts new looks. The update also introduces new heroes including Deadman Danny, Nurse Harrow, Rat King, Solomon, and Baba, plus many new conversations and voice lines for the existing cast. The author, who has put in 350 hours, calls the reworked Cursed Apple one of his favorite game settings in years.
A group calling itself Cyberleek has threatened to leak a working build of GTA 6, including the full story mode played to the end and credits, if its cryptocurrency reaches a 30 million market cap. The group has posted unauthorized GTA 6 gameplay clips for nearly two months, including 25 minutes of new footage this week, and says its leaks protest Rockstar's decision to sell digital pre-orders without a physical version. Take-Two has filed multiple subpoenas to Discord seeking information on specific servers and users, and withdrew a subpoena request to YouTube.
A Reddit user relays a leaked clip said to show Lucia free-roaming in GTA 6, driving a vintage car and walking the streets naked while NPCs do not react, which the poster reads as an older build. The clip mostly shows Lucia's hand-to-hand combat, including backhand slaps and wrestling moves that differ from Jason's style, plus environmental interactions such as pushing an NPC against a wall. It also shows an ATM deposit mechanic with a $15,000 limit and a parachuting side mission called Stunt Promoter - Directed Stunt 06 at the Pike Financial Center, promoting a crypto coin called Dacity Coin for Auda-City, with Lucia dying in one failed attempt, and ends with a new BuckMe advertisement cutscene.
Solo developer Symfonim's tree pruning game Hasami: Moonlight Trim now has a Steam page with a free demo and is aiming for release later this year. The mouse strokes cleave through everything, and the entire tree is a physics simulation where ropes can spread branches to find new ones to cut. Players can also photograph wildlife and record them in a field notes journal as collectibles.
Austrian solo developer Roman has revealed Your Suffering Is Important to Us, a cozy clicker with increasing automation and minion (imployee) management inspired by All Hail the Orb. Players unlock rooms and minion units to automate resource stations, harvesting negative-emotion resources like cringe, tears and disappointment, and can customize imps with recorded voice lines, names and skins. A free demo is playable now at roughly 30-45 minutes, with the full game set for release on November 9, 2026 and a 3-6 hour playtime.
Ten Thousand Hearts is developing FMV – Full Motion Voyeur, a psychological horror game about surveillance in which players search intel files for locations and password clues, solve puzzles to unlock hidden camera feeds, and find sinners to feed to a Demon. Refusing to obey puts your captive partner Mona in mortal danger. A playable demo is planned for Steam by the end of October.
EA producer Jim Vessella revealed at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo that Wing Commander 3 is getting a remaster, after he found 600 source tapes while digitising EA's video archive. Called Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger—30th anniversary edition, it will include source and upscaled FMVs, Kilrathi Saga integration, 60 FPS, controller support, and releases on Steam, GOG, and the EA app.
It looks like Wing Commander 3 is getting a 30th Anniversary Remaster https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/it-looks-like-wing-commander-3-is-getting-a-remaster-after-ea-producer-discovers-the-original-fmv-source-tapes-in-the-companys-archives/
A developer is working on Pathwright Defense, a free browser tower defense game with a built-in level editor that lets players configure enemies, waves, and turrets and create their own layouts. The game currently includes three built-in levels: an introductory level, a more challenging second level, and a harder variant of the second. The editor supports designs such as multiple enemy paths or limited space for placing turrets.
Air Combat Legends is a single-player retro-inspired combat flight sim set in an alternate 1990 Cold War conflict, inspired by classic PC flight sims like F-29 Retaliator and F-16 Combat Pilot. Its main focus is a dynamic procedural campaign where you recon the battlefield, plan the mission, pick your pilot and aircraft, then fly it yourself, with permanent pilot losses and aircraft suited to different jobs. It is coming to PC via Steam with a release date TBA, and an announcement trailer is out with wishlisting open.