Publisher Konami has released a playable demo for Castlevania: Belmont's Curse on the PS Store, available now on PS5. The demo weighs just over 4 GB and covers essentially the beginning of the full game, with progress carrying over to the full release. Set in 1499 Paris and starring Rose Belmont, the game is the first mainline Castlevania entry in over a decade and launches on 15th October.
Publisher DANGEN Entertainment and developer NANAIRO ENTERPRISE have announced LitGirls: Bookbound Dungeons, a dungeon crawler RPG that reimagines classic literature through anime girls and turn-based combat. It will launch for PC via Steam in the first half of 2027, with console versions to be dated. An 18-plus version will also be available for PC on a separate storefront, with details to be announced later.
SEGA and developer Sports Interactive announced that Football Manager 27 will launch on November 10. The PC version arrives on Steam, Epic Games Store, and Microsoft Store, the console version on PS5 and Xbox Series, and the mobile version on iOS and Android via Netflix, with Game Pass availability as well. SEGA said the game reworks interface navigation and personalization and adds tile customization.
Deep Silver and KING Art Games released the full CGI opening cinematic for Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 4, showing the Blood Ravens and Dark Angels fighting together in the Battle of Kronus. The game launches on December 3, 2026, with Commander's Edition owners getting three days of early access starting November 30; both editions are now available for pre-order at a 10 percent discount. Free first-year updates will bring back the Expedition mode along with new maps, modes, commanders and a mission editor, plus two major story expansions and a new playable faction.
Publisher Joystick Ventures and developer Summitsphere announced that ANTONBLAST will launch for PS5 and PS4 in mid-October. The side-scrolling action platformer first launched for PC via Steam on December 3, 2024, followed by Switch on December 13, 2024. Players take on the role of Dynamite Anton or his coworker Annie to destroy bizarre worlds and reclaim his Spirits from Satan.
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.
Publisher Joystick Ventures and developer Summitsphere announced that ANTONBLAST will launch for PS5 and PS4 on October 1 in Australia and New Zealand, with a worldwide release to follow in mid-October. The side-scrolling action platformer first launched for PC via Steam on December 3, 2024, and for Switch on December 13, 2024. Players take on the role of Dynamite Anton or his coworker Annie to destroy bizarre worlds and steal Spirits back from Satan.
505 Games and independent developer ION LANDS announced that the cyberpunk life simulation game Nivalis Night is now available on PC via Steam, priced at 98 yuan with a limited-time extra 10% launch discount. Players start from a small noodle stall and grow a business, sourcing ingredients by buying, growing or fishing, while exploring the sea-bound city on foot, by public transport or by boat. The game has gathered over 1 million wishlists since it was first announced in 2021, and a release on the Epic Games Store is also confirmed for later.
Developer Something We Made and co-publisher popagenda announced that TOEM 2, the sequel to TOEM: A Photography Adventure, is now available on PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, priced at 78 yuan on Steam with a limited 15% launch discount. The game adds new camera accessories for puzzle-solving, stamp collecting and region unlocking, with no time limits. A bundle with the first game offers a 52% discount.
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.
Nintendo announced a Nintendo Switch 2 physical edition of Pokémon Legends: Z-A that bundles the base game and the Mega Dimension DLC on one card, plus a Mystery Gift code for 100 Ultra Balls, releasing Oct. 29. A press release says the Switch 2 Edition remains playable on the original Nintendo Switch, but with the same content as the Switch version and without features that use Switch 2 specs. Nintendo did not announce a price; the digital base game and DLC retail for $99.99.
Stranger Than Heaven released an era gameplay in-depth look trailer set in 1929 Kure, Hiroshima, and confirmed a January 15, 2027 release. It is described as a fifty-year action-adventure saga about men with nowhere to go, using extreme violence to survive and musical talent to thrive as a showman across five cities and eras of modern Japan.
TAITO announced Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron is Back! - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Stardrop Mountain, which will launch worldwide on February 25, 2027. Physical edition pre-orders are open via global publisher Clear River Games. The release adds the Stardrop Mountain expansion with new stages and villain Invaduh, includes the original 1986 arcade Bubble Bobble, supports up to four-player local co-op, and runs at 1920x1080 on Switch 2 with a Camera Play feature.
Publisher SOEDESCO and developer Senscape announced that the supernatural horror adventure game ASYLUM will launch for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, and Switch on October 30. The game first launched for PC via Steam and GOG on March 13, 2025. Players take on the role of an ex-patient suffering bizarre visions in the Hanwell Mental Institute.
Ahead of its 15th February release, God of War Laufey has climbed to the top of PS Store charts in dozens of countries. After Sony opened pre-orders yesterday, the game sits second in 44 of the official storefronts tracked by PS Store DB, beaten in nearly all of them only by the upcoming GTA 6, with the pricier Digital Deluxe Edition performing best. There had been concern that the new protagonist version might not match its Kratos-led predecessors, but so far there is no sign of that.
Songs of Glimmerwick, a magic school RPG from Eastshade Studios, launches today, and the author has played its demo. Magic in the game is music, cast through an Ocarina of Time-style keyboard minigame with flute songs that run gardening tools, make fish leap into nets and clear undergrowth to reveal paths, and it is not a combat game. It also includes potion-brewing that involves gathering stems and shells across the island.
Publisher Blumhouse Games and developer Perfect Garbage announced that Grave Seasons, a narrative-focused farming simulation horror game, will launch on March 9, 2027 for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC via Steam, and will also be available via Game Pass. The game currently has over 750,000 wishlists on Steam. Players farm in the town of Ashenridge while investigating a series of murders, gathering clues, crafting protective items, and identifying the next victim, with relationships and choices affecting how the story unfolds.
Publisher Joystick Ventures and developer Summitsphere announced that side-scrolling action platformer ANTONBLAST will launch for PS5 and PS4 on October 1, and it is available now in regions where it is already October 1. The game first launched for PC via Steam on December 3, 2024, followed by Switch on December 13, 2024.
PS5 pre-orders for God of War Laufey are now live, priced at $69.99 for the Standard Edition and $79.99 for the Digital Deluxe Edition, ahead of its 16th February 2027 release. Both editions share the same pre-order bonuses, including the Last Wish Armor Set, the Phranque Golden Leaves cosmetic and an in-game resource pack. Santa Monica Studio also detailed Faye's Serpent Bow controls and her customizable sword, bow and Catalysts.
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve launches on 2nd October, 2026, and pre-ordering it also grants a digital re-release of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War. The bonus is limited to pre-orders, and only the first run of physical copies will include a redemption code. The article says the restriction is largely due to expired licences for the real-world fighter jets featured in Ace Combat Zero.
Publisher Coffee Stain Publishing and developer FRAME BREAK announced that Lightyear Frontier will leave Early Access and launch for Xbox Series and PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store on November 4. The open-world mech farming adventure first entered Early Access on March 19, 2024, and supports up to three friends in co-op.
Developer Invisible Walls announced that NEIGHBORS: Suburban Warfare has left Early Access and is now available for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam. The free-to-play team-based PvP game first launched in Early Access for PC on April 17, 2025, priced at $9.99. It is a chaotic multiplayer party brawler where players use everyday items to destroy their neighbors' houses.
Ghost Ship Publishing and developer Funday Games announced that Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor will launch on PS5, Switch 2, and Switch on October 7. The game previously entered Early Access on PC on February 14, 2024, fully released on Xbox Series and PC on September 17, 2025, and came to iOS and Android on November 12, 2025. The companies also announced the Knockout Expansion, which adds the Brawler class, the Sandblasted Corridors biome, and a high-risk mission with new objectives and a boss, with no release date given.
Ghost Ship Publishing and developer Guidelight Games have announced ACORN: Seed of Resistance, a roguelike RPG auto battler coming to PC via Steam in 2027. Players rebuild a fallen order by recruiting refugees, mercenaries and sympathizers, exploring procedurally generated lands and fighting fast-paced auto battles. Each roguelike adventure lasts roughly 15 minutes, set in a dark fantasy world of animal characters.
Rockstar Games shared more about GTA 6's Leonida open world through a new Game Informer issue, along with 13 new screenshots. The map is divided into six regions, Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gelllhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park, and contains 170 types of wildlife, including 60 bird species and 30 land mammals. The map is said to be twice the size of GTA 5 and much denser, with side activities such as air boating, base jumping, billiards, gyms, jet skiing, kayaking, mini golf, scuba diving, street and off-road racing, and zoo visits.
Publisher Future Friends Games and developer Freshly Baked Games announced that Queen's Domain will launch for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC via Steam on October 30. The console versions are newly announced. The King's Field-inspired retro-style first-person fantasy action RPG features over 50 melee weapons, over 20 types of throwing weapons, and over 100 enemies, mini bosses, and bosses.
Queen's Domain, a first-person RPG from indie developer Freshly Baked Games, will launch on Switch 2 on 30th October with Future Friends publishing. The game has racked up over 180,000 wishlists on Steam since its initial reveal and features stamina-based combat, 50+ melee weapons, 20+ throwing weapons, and over 100 enemies.
Playsport released the first gameplay footage of Motorsport Manager 2 for PC and announced the game will come to Steam in 2027 with Simplified Chinese support. Its core is the new Reactive Racing system, in which rival teams adjust strategies in real time, alongside a weather simulation that moves across the track so different sections can have different conditions. Motorcycle racing joins the series for the first time, and full mod support is planned from launch.
Strange Scaffold, the developer of I Am Your Beast and Clickolding, has announced Something is Wrong with the Library, a tidying game set in "a library haunted by blood and meat." Players reshelve scattered books using a real Dewey Decimal System implementation while facing cursed energies from corpses entombed in the walls, with a "Modular Chaos System" varying each playthrough's books. It is set to launch before the end of 2026.
Double Fine announced that Thank You Bus Driver, its first game since being dropped by Xbox, will launch on October 14 for Steam, GOG, and Itch.io, and is now available to wishlist. The driving sim is described by the studio as Crazy Taxi meets Papers, Please, and is published under Double Fine Action Labs, a label for experimental games. CEO Tim Schafer said such titles are complete but rough, scrappy, and small, meant to be cheap and played in shorter sessions, and not something like Psychonauts 3.
12 new gameplay screenshots have been revealed for Grand Theft Auto 6.
An official launch trailer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered has been released. The source material provides only the title, with no platform or release date details.
Double Fine announced that its new game Thank You Bus Driver will launch on PC storefronts including Steam, GOG and Itch.io on 14 October. It is the studio's first release since splitting from Xbox this summer and the debut title of its new Double Fine Action Labs label for weird, little games. The black-and-white bus driving sim has players ferry passengers within a time limit and slap them to enforce rules. Xbox's restructuring has spun off five first-party studios and plans to lay off around 3,200 staff by next summer, with Double Fine cutting a quarter of its own workforce.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor launches on Switch on 9th October 2026. Developed by Funday Games, it entered early access on 14th February 2024 and got its full release on Windows and Xbox Series X|S on 17th September 2025, earning 8/10 from IGN and 90% from PC Gamer. A spin-off of the 4-player co-op shooter Deep Rock Galactic, it uses auto-shooting mechanics to fend off enemy hordes, uncover loot in the mines and upgrade characters with new abilities.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor launches on PS5 on 7th October 2026, just over a year after its 1.0 release on PC following Early Access. On Steam it has over 24,000 user reviews marked Very Positive and an 86 Metascore. The game keeps auto-attacking and monster hordes while adding mining, classes, and area objectives drawn from Deep Rock Galactic.
Shark Supermarket, a co-op simulation game co-developed by stre1itzia and Andryash and published by polden, launched its free demo today. Players are sharks in dolphin masks running an underwater shop on the reef, using the honest business as cover for a secret basement kitchen where lured fish customers are cooked, all while avoiding fish police. The demo is available to download on its Steam store page, where the game can also be wishlisted.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is adding a new series mode called Collateral, whose rules hew closer to the Bomb Defusal mode in Counter-Strike and Valorant. It uses an in-game cash economy with pre-made loadouts disabled, weapons and equipment lost on death while earned cash is kept, and no automatic health regeneration, respawning or Killstreaks except a team-bought UAV. The mode was revealed near the end of a blog post about the PC version's technology and features, with no indication it is PC-exclusive, and Modern Warfare 4 is set for release on 23rd October on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Switch 2.
Publisher Shochiku and developer Denneko Yuugi announced that the roguelite action game Eternal Palace Sakura will launch for Switch and PC via Steam on November 5, with the Switch version newly announced. Players control Retla, a brown-skinned, cat-eared, dual-wielding hooded heroine, fighting through a mystical dream dungeon and triggering Over-Tension to unleash the special move Over Arts.
Publisher AMATA Games and developer Flypot.LLC announced that Kaguya, a bullet hell shoot 'em up described as friendly for beginners, will launch for PC via Steam in 2027. The classic vertical-scrolling shooter is planned to feature six stages, bombs and power shots, and three difficulty modes: Normal, Hard, and Hell. It includes full voice acting and a Library Mode for replaying voiced lines at your own pace.