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@Shinobi602SelectedAI score7676 Nintendo LifeAI score2222 Review: Mobapad C2 Lite Controller - The Best Budget Pad For Switch 2? Probably
Mobapad's C2 Lite is a $26.99 budget controller for the Switch 2 that the reviewer calls one of the best affordable pads on the market. It uses Hall Effect versions of the smooth-gliding sticks from the Chitu2 HD, offers three rumble levels, 6-axis motion, wake-up and a capture button, and is rated for 18-20 hours of battery life. It lacks amiibo NFC support and ships without a charging cable.
游研社AI score6262 《巫师三：狂猎》重制版体验：画质、技能树与探索减负的改动
游戏LOOKAI score6262 Dear Passengers Tops 2.5 Million Steam Wishlists and Ranks Third Globally, But What Kind of Game Is It?
GameLook reports that Dear Passengers, a friendslop game with no demo released, has reached nearly 2.5 million Steam wishlists and climbed to third place globally, ahead of Phantom Blade Zero and behind Deadlock and Light No Fire. The article attributes the attention to a controversial easter egg in its trailer, crossovers with five hit friendslop titles including R.E.P.O., Peak and Chained Together, and its low-poly art style. Developer FLEXUS Games, founded in Kyiv in 2020 with a team of over 70, previously made only mobile games with more than 300 million downloads; Dear Passengers is its first PC title, started in November 2025, and has no fixed release date.
GameSpotAI score5050 How Long To Beat Minecraft Dungeons 2 – Missions And Hours Played
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.
Pure XboxAI score5858 The Witcher 3 Remastered Xbox Series X|S Gameplay Footage Emerges
The Witcher 3 Remastered arrives on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on Tuesday, September 29th, and early gameplay footage has already surfaced from a third-party testing channel. On Xbox Series X the game offers Quality and Performance modes upscaled to 1800p, running at near-solid 30FPS and 60FPS respectively, while the Series S versions upscale to 1440p with similar frame rates but a noticeably worse look in Performance mode. The author notes this is only early footage and the final version will be judged once the full update goes live on Tuesday.
Nintendo LifeAI score5353 RuneScape: Dragonwilds (Switch 2) Review: A Slow-Burn Survival-Crafting RPG That Underwhelms Visually
RuneScape: Dragonwilds has launched on Switch 2, and after nearly 55 hours with the main questline the reviewer calls it a mechanically rich survival-crafting RPG whose combat is often overwhelmed by groups of enemies and whose mid-to-late resource chains drag. The Switch 2 version holds a fairly consistent 30fps cap, but resolution looks blurry in both handheld and docked modes and the lighting is overexposed. Developer Jagex has released an open letter acknowledging the Switch 2 build is not where it wants to be visually and promising future improvements.
Nintendo LifeAI score5555 Video: The Witcher 3 Remastered Side-By-Side Comparison, Switch Vs. Switch 2
Nintendo Life published a side-by-side comparison of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt running on Switch and Switch 2, covering open-world exploration, cutscenes and combat, with the Switch 2 version showing more detail and notably improved lighting. The Switch 2 version launches on 29th September, and owners of the Switch 1 version can download it for free, though it is a separate download rather than an automatic upgrade.
游戏LOOKAI score4040 Hands-on with The Unsleeping Wild: Making Open-World Freedom Land in Players' Hands
GameLook got early hands-on time with The Unsleeping Wild's single-player exploration, combat and two-player stages through an offline event ahead of the ongoing closed test. The demo opened up three abilities — freeze, metal attraction and stone creation — that also feed into combat. Official descriptions say co-op is optional, with multiplayer covering map traversal, puzzles and reshaping terrain to create openings for teammates.
触乐AI score6262 Transport Fever 3 review and interview addendum: warehousing, transfers and city systems
A review of Transport Fever 3 says the biggest change is a warehousing feature that makes transfers between different routes and vehicles more intuitive and the logistics network more flexible. City indices are now fully listed, mission levels double as a gradual tutorial, and the game adds Chinese vehicles including the Renmin steam locomotive, DF4, Shaoshan 8 and FAW J6P truck. The developer said China's player count for Transport Fever 2 is close to or above Germany's, so CRH and Fuxing trains were added, though the campaign has no China-set missions; the author also notes poor Chinese localization, such as Poor being translated as 贫穷.
Game InformerAI score6262 Game Informer cover story reveals new Grand Theft Auto VI details
Game Informer's cover story on Grand Theft Auto VI features interviews with several lead designers at Rockstar Games, revealing previously unshared features such as advanced weather systems simulating Florida's less sunny weather and a large amount of wildlife roaming Leonida by land, air, and sea. The story also covers Rockstar's research into Miami and Florida and includes 12 new exclusive screenshots. The digital issue is available on September 29, with the print version reaching subscribers and bookstores in the coming weeks.
Game InformerAI score5050 EA Sports FC 27 Review - More Build Up Play Than The Long Ball
EA Sports FC 27 introduces a new open-world mode called The Grounds, but the tweaks to Ultimate Team are what keep the reviewer coming back. CPU-assisted defense in Ultimate Team's Competitive setting has been nerfed, rewarding manual defending, while new teammate runs, more corner control, and through balls requiring better aim add authenticity. The Grounds is a small instanced open-world mode that isn't a destination mode, and Ultimate Team remains the main attraction with the new Gallery rewarding themed sets.
Game InformerAI score5050 Fate/Extra Record Is A Card-Based RPG I'm Happy To Revisit Next Year
PlayStation BlogSelectedAI score6262 How Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve uses first-person to tell a more personal story
Developer Project Aces has changed its storytelling approach for Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, presenting most cutscenes in first person so players experience the war between the Federation of Central Usea and the invading Sotoans as a silent protagonist. Players inherit the call sign of ace pilot Jan "Rex" Cope and fight alongside Joker Flight, using the DualSense controller's D-Pad, right stick and buttons for small interactions and to issue squad orders. The game launches October 2 on PlayStation 5.
Rock Paper ShotgunAI score4040 I got whomped by an Ork horde in Total War: Warhammer 40,000, definitely on purpose, to teach you a lesson about positioning
A Gamescom demo of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 included 20 minutes of battle tutorial, 20 minutes of campaign tutorial, and 20 minutes of a scenario where a Space Marine army faced an overwhelming Ork horde. Battle product owner David Petry said positioning should almost trump matchup in Total War, and the game emphasizes ranged combat with nearly every soldier armed with a gun and a returning cover system from Empire: Total War.
触乐AI score6262 Marvel's Wolverine Review: Insomniac's Shift in Style and the First-Party Expectation Gap
Marvel's Wolverine holds a 76 Metacritic average from 132 outlets and a 6.8 user average from over 4,000 players, which the author attributes to sharply uneven strengths and weaknesses. Developed by Insomniac as a PS first-party exclusive, it drops open-world design for linear storytelling with a dark adult tone and combat that favors emotion over depth, running 12 to 15 hours with about 20 hours for full completion. The author argues the first-party exclusive status raised media and player expectations, and that a standard multiplatform AAA release might have scored higher.
Rock Paper ShotgunAI score3838 I definitely suck at Iron Bramble's metroidvania grappling hook platforming, but its cyber-gothic megastructure world has me hungry for more
Iron Bramble is a pixel art metroidvania from the developers of Rusted Moss, set in a cyber-gothic megastructure where you play a story-eating demon woman in a world whose human flesh bodies have died out and souls now reside in metal husks. A demo is available on Steam, and the game is set to release in 2027.
Game InformerAI score2222 Critical Reflex Showed Four Games at TGS, Including the Gag-Inducing Tiny Chills
Publisher Critical Reflex offered roughly 30-minute demos of four games at its Tokyo Game Show booth: Tiny Chills – Not From Ear, Grobnopolis | Last Days, Sated, and Flawless Abbey. Tiny Chills – Not From Ear, from developer Docktopus Games, is a first-person ear-cleaning horror game gross enough to make the writer gag. All four games were added to the writer's Steam wishlist.
Game InformerAI score4444 Bloober Team's Switch 2 Exclusive Onyx: The Dark Grip Is the Most Nintendo-Sounding Game Ever
Bloober Team revealed Onyx: The Dark Grip, a 2.5D "dark adventure" launching exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 next year, developed by its subsidiary Broken Mirror Games. Players act as a god possessing an ordinary man named Holden, using touchscreen, microphone, and gyroscope gestures to intervene in his world. The game has been in development for three years, with a score by Jan Borysewicz recorded with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
Game InformerAI score6262 Control Resonant Review – Fun, Frustration, And Fun Again
Game Informer's review of Control Resonant says the sequel keeps the best traits of Control, with new protagonist Dylan Faden stepping in for his sister Jesse in a distorted Manhattan. It praises the transforming Aberrant weapon and perfect dodge, but notes that enemies level alongside the player and respawn until larger foes fall, turning some fights into wars of attrition. The reviewer says the world and story kept drawing him back even after the credits rolled.
EurogamerAI score3434 Roman Sands Re:Build review - a fiendish immersive sim drenched in a vaporwave glitchcore palette
Eurogamer's review of Roman Sands Re:Build describes a game split into two tonally opposite acts: the first is a fiendish immersive sim set in a cursed resort where the player serves four residents, and the second is a slow survival purgatory. Nearly fourteen hours in, the reviewer calls it an unclassifiable experience that defies neat analysis.
游戏LOOKAI score6060 Three-person studio's dressmaking sim Dressmaker launches on Steam with 96% positive reviews and 12,500 peak concurrent players
Dressmaker, a dressmaking simulation developed by Cozy Lives and published by Free Lives, launched on Steam on September 22, covering the full process from fabric selection and pattern-making to cutting and sewing. It ranked eighth on the global bestseller chart on launch day, hit a peak of 12,500 concurrent players on Steam, and holds a 96% positive rating across 1,455 reviews. Players praise its tailoring theme and relaxing tone but point to an incomplete tutorial, a pattern library mostly limited to dresses, and stiff controls.
游戏LOOKAI score6262 Aion 2 Steam test peaks at 73,000 concurrent players as monetization and art debates carry into global launch
Aion 2's global Steam PC stress test, which began on September 17, reached 73,000 concurrent players on SteamDB, with the full release set for October 5. The article recounts the backlash from its earlier Korea and Taiwan launch over stat-boosting items in loot boxes and core features locked behind paid memberships, and notes that NCsoft adjusted or removed some disputed items during the test. It also covers overseas discussion of differing male and female character outfits and NCsoft's broader push to move beyond traditional MMOs.
Game InformerAI score6262 Final Fantasy VII Revelation's FITS Classes Let You Keep the Party's Classic Outfits
Final Fantasy VII Revelation's FITS system lets players spec Cloud and the party into four types, Warrior, Knight, Black Mage, and Summoner, while still wearing their classic outfits. After a Tokyo Game Show hands-on with Chapter 1, director Naoki Hamaguchi told the author that keeping the signature look was important and that the option is available from the start. The game launches April 8 next year on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, and PC.
Game InformerAI score6262 Final Fantasy VII Revelation Hands-On Preview: Tokyo Game Show Chapter 1 Demo Is More Focused Than the Gamescom Chapter 4 Demo
A Game Informer writer played roughly 25 minutes of Final Fantasy VII Revelation's Chapter 1 demo at Tokyo Game Show, calling it more focused on story than the Chapter 4 demo from Gamescom in August. The demo is set in the Whirlwind Maze section of the Northern Crater and shows the new FITS system with four specializations: Warrior, Knight, Black Mage, and Summoner. The writer also tried Vincent, whose beast form can be maintained freely but raises his Chaos level and lowers his HP, and the demo ended with a Jenova Death boss fight. The game launches April 8.
Rock Paper ShotgunAI score3838 Steam Machine handles Control Resonant capably, but promised Steam Deck support is a letdown
Control Resonant runs at a playable 40-50fps at 1080p on Medium settings on the Steam Machine, but struggles on the Steam Deck, where even the Handheld preset with FSR Performance rarely reaches 30fps. The game also has a 105GB install size and lacked public SteamOS hardware compatibility ratings a day before release. The author does not recommend playing it on the Steam Deck and advises against enabling ray tracing.
触乐AI score6262 EA Sports FC 27 hands-on: The Grounds football open world and UT Collection
EA Sports FC 27 launches on September 25, with Ultimate Edition owners getting in a week early, and a hands-on look focuses on the new football open-world mode The Grounds and the UT Collection. The Grounds supports up to 100 players in one shared space, where players create an avatar and take part in 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 street matches, skill challenges and NPC quests while leveling up. In Ultimate Team, the new Collection lets players sort player cards and rate sets to earn Hall of Fame players, while corner and SBC changes remain largely incremental.
触乐AI score2222 Chuapp Talk: Immersed In It
Digital Extremes, the studio behind Warframe, has opened an internal test "Prologue" for its new fantasy adventure game Soulframe, with participants able to join a "Founder" program to help shape its future. The current build's class and progression systems are still rudimentary, but the author found immersion to be its biggest surprise, especially its ballad-like narrative atmosphere.
EurogamerAI score3838 Resident Evil movie review - the best video game adaptation of playing a video game
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil film drops everyman Bryan into Raccoon City's T-virus outbreak, structured like a video game with real-time encounters, set-pieces and boss fights. Austin Abrams stars in a horror-comedy that leans on slapstick and gross-out gags, and it lacks Leon, Claire and other series regulars.
Rock Paper ShotgunAI score2222 Furries, magical girls and slick hack 'n' slash combat blend promisingly in the late 2000s inspired Break The Night
Break The Night, a hack 'n' slash inspired by late 2000s aesthetics, received a combat demo as part of this year's SAGExpo. You play as three roommates trapped in a space between realities called the Limit, with one-button combos, a spin attack presented as a card, and roguelike elements. It can be wishlisted on Steam.
EurogamerAI score5757 Rayman Legends Retold expands its music levels to about a dozen, and after three hours of play the author's worries faded
After about three hours with Rayman Legends Retold, Eurogamer's author says his worry that the shift from 2D to 2.5D would spoil the original's music levels did not hold up. In interviews, Ubisoft Milan animation and realisation director Marco Renso and Ubisoft Montpellier brand producer Loïc Gounon said the new tracks include levels inspired by the Macarena and MC Hammer's U Can't Touch This, bringing the game to about a dozen music levels alongside the six originals. The team said physics and collision still run on the UbiArt Framework while visuals and audio are rendered in another engine, and the game has moved from 1st October to 3rd December.
Rock Paper ShotgunAI score3838 I Taught an Old Man New Tunes in Rhythm-Action Shopkeeper Sim Mr. Records, and Now You Can Try the Demo Yourself
Mr. Records, a mashup of rhythm-action autorunner and vinyl shop management from Glee-Cheese Studio, now has a demo available on Steam. Players follow George, an old music aficionado who dives into fantasy platforming sequences where jumps, slides, and throws must be made on the beat, then uses what he learned to help customers find records the next morning. The demo's shop opens with just two records and adds only one or two per night, while the soundtrack is entirely original and spans psychedelic pop, classic rock, and R&B-inspired rap.
Rock Paper ShotgunAI score4242 Nighthawks review – a series of vignettes that sometimes excel but more often falter
Nighthawks is a 2026 vampire RPG in which you play a newly-made vampire who takes over the titular nightclub and explores three neighbourhoods across five acts of vignette-driven story. Two standout quests about women escaping restrictive obligations show what the game can do, but its anti-vampire sentiment thread is unconvincing and the first act is particularly dry. The lack of time pressure and meaningful roleplaying choices further undercuts the experience.