Seven games launch on Xbox on September 28, led by Deluxe or special editions that offer an Early Access window: Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve - Deluxe Edition, Way of the Hunter 2 - Deluxe Edition and MXGP 26 - Fox Holeshot Edition, all on Series X|S, PC and Cloud. Also out the same day are Blades & Battles, Keep Driving, Lost in Loss and Sneak Cheese.
Graveyard Keeper 2, developed by Lazy Bear Games and published by Solo Game, has launched on Steam at 68 yuan in China, reaching a peak of 54,969 concurrent players and an 86% positive review rate. The sequel removes tool durability, adds an inspiration point system, and reworks zombies so red skulls determine their assignable perk points, enabling automated production lines and zombie squad combat. The developer says the game passed 1 million wishlists with 10% pre-orders, while player feedback praises the visual and gameplay improvements but criticizes the dialogue writing and grind.
Lilith's newly incubated Cat Paw Latte Studio released the first PV for Qi Yu Dong Wu Cheng, an animal-city life simulation game. Players live with animal roommates that have their own schedules and needs, take on jobs such as idol, milk tea shop owner or mayor, and can transform into an animal to rent a friend's home. The studio has about 100 staff and posted a recruitment notice last week.
Minecraft Dungeons II launches September 29 on Xbox Series X|S, PC, Cloud and other platforms. Mojang design director Laura De Llorens said on the Official XBOX Podcast that the sequel adds jumping, an interconnected world you can walk across, the new Sift dimension, armor split into four pieces, talismans and a reworked enchantment system. Multiplayer adapts when players join or leave and now mixes couch co-op with online play.
Mojang Studios announced at Minecraft LIVE that Minecraft Dungeons II launches September 29 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Steam, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, and will be included with Game Pass. The game introduces The Sift, Minecraft's first new dimension in over 14 years, with new biomes including Meadows and Carapace plus new mobs and block rules. Mojang also confirmed The Sift will come to Minecraft in 2027.
Meta announced the Meta VR Glasses, priced at $1,300 and weighing about 100 grams, set to go on sale in Spring 2027. The device has no strap and needs no controllers, relying on hand tracking and passthrough, with a puck connected by an optical tether handling compute, battery and storage. Games revealed alongside it include Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR, Tetris Effect: Mixed Realities and Beat Saber: Flux, all slated for 2027 and also coming to Quest rather than being exclusive to the glasses.
Stuntboost, a first-person skateboarding platformer played like a miniature Tech Deck board on cardboard courses in your bedroom, is out now on Steam. It splits into tracks with cardboard half pipes and notebook platforms, a timer at the top of the map, and online leaderboards with ghosts of other players. You can collect VHS tapes and also ride scooters and a car that seems to be the Toyota AE86 from Initial D.
Emeteria, a New Tales studio, announced that its fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG Fading Echo launches today on PlayStation 5, with a demo also available today. Players control One, a young Legend who manipulates the water-like element Æther, shifts between fractured realities and combines elemental reactions to fight, explore and solve puzzles in the world of Corel. The single-player adventure also follows One's search for her past alongside a small group of allies.
IO Interactive has delayed the Nintendo Switch 2 version of 007 First Light for a third time, moving its release to March 2027. Technical producer Cristina Vega told Korean outlet Inven Global that the team needed a breather and that marketing requests and other factors left no choice, with the aim of letting fans play the most polished version on Switch 2. She said the port is close to its final phase and that compromises on Switch 2, such as lower object detail at a distance, are limited to areas that are not crucial to players. The game sold 4 million copies within three months of its May release this year.
Deconstructeam, the studio behind The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, announced that its next game Virtue and a Sledgehammer will launch on October 27. The game follows protagonist Pratelle returning to her hometown and confronting family memories, and a June demo lets players try the opening area. The studio said the full version may be its harshest game to date, and the game is now wishlistable on Steam.
Developer Rubeki announced The Hollowing, a game set in the same narrative universe as Lorn's Lure, where players fly a plane that needs refueling between radio outposts and comms towers inside a megastructure. A demo is available on Steam, and the full game launches later this year.
This week's PC releases include Control: Resonant, Silent Hill: Townfall from Stories Untold developer Screen Burn, and Fallosophy, a pinball table combining all of Western philosophy into one extremely tall table. Also out are Wadjet Eye's vampire nightclub RPG Nighthawks, Alien Breed: 35th Anniversary Collection, and Scorched Sun, a first-person turn-based game set in an ominous monastery.
GameSpot has outlined the upcoming games for 2027 by month across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, and other platforms. January includes Danganronpa 2x2, Metroid Ravenous, and Until Dawn 2, while February brings Metro 2039, God of War: Laufey, and Fable. Games with only a broader 2027 window are listed at the bottom and will be added as final dates are announced.
Valve has opened a waiting list for its Steam Frame VR system, offering 256GB and 1TB models. The 256GB version costs $1,059 (£889) and the 1TB version $1,299 (£1,089), both with a 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 16GB of RAM, two controllers and Half-Life: Alyx included, but no power supply. Steam Frame will support Android games because it uses the same Android APKs developers already use to port mobile titles to Android-based devices like Meta Quest.
Why this: Valve opened the Steam Frame waiting list and published full specs and prices for both models, letting readers decide whether to join.
Valve opened sign-ups for the Steam Frame VR headset, with registration running for 72 hours until 1:00 PM ET on September 17 and the first wave of customers notified from September 18. The wireless headset streams VR and non-VR Steam games, ships with two controllers and Half-Life: Alyx but no power supply, and costs 1,059 USD for 256GB or 1,299 USD for 1TB. A 59 USD ergonomic accessories kit is also available.
Blizzard announced at BlizzCon 2026 that the third StarCraft title, simply called StarCraft, will launch in 2030 and shift from real-time strategy to an open-world first-person shooter. Blizzard general manager and vice president Dan Hay leads the project and said players can create and name a character, follow that character's story to a definitive ending, and that it is not a seasonal game. It is the franchise's first new title since StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void in 2015, after two earlier StarCraft FPS attempts were cancelled.
Blizzard announced World of Warcraft: Forever at BlizzCon, a new game edition that expands the vanilla WoW experience with new and overhauled zones, 1,000 new quests across the level 1-60 bracket, 9 additional dungeons, 10-20 player raids, and a new neutral playable elven race called the Skyborne. New zones include Mount Hyjal, Zephras Isle, and The Riverglades, with a new battleground on Darkspear Islands, while the engine adds new lighting and global illumination, volumetric particle effects, a new water renderer, and real-time shadows. A beta launches Thursday, September 17, ahead of the November 4 release date.
Blizzard announced Diablo V during the BlizzCon 2026 opening ceremony, with a release set for spring 2029. The game is set a half-century after the events of Diablo IV and breaks from the series' usual premise, depicting an already-fallen Sanctuary where Diablo has won.
At the BlizzCon 2026 keynote, Blizzard announced a new open-world shooter simply titled StarCraft, targeting a 2030 launch. Dan Hay, previously a lead producer on the Far Cry series, introduced the project and its team, saying they plan to re-ignite the StarCraft universe, and showed a trailer featuring a Marine named Holt who is run over by a Zergling rush after landing on a planet.
At the BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony, Blizzard President Johanna Faries announced that Heroes of the Storm is getting its first new hero in six years, Xal'atath, a ranged assassin from World of Warcraft: Midnight who wields Void abilities and arrives later this month. Blizzard shared her ability kit with Game Informer via a press release, including the Void Volley trait, Dark Heart Ritual, Void Step, Shadow Mark, and the heroics Void Eruption and Void Convergence. Faries also said another hero might be on the way in the near future.
Angels Fall First is now available on Steam with a 10% discount. The game combines flagship bridge command with tactical infantry firefights, plus boarding, pilotable capital ships, deep weapon customization and full Bot support. The offer ends July 18 at 10AM Pacific Time.
Stage Tour, a music game from Guitar Hero studio RedOctane, will launch on December 10 with a setlist of more than 90 songs, 61 of which have been revealed. The licensed tracks span multiple genres and eras, including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Ghost, and Smash Mouth's All Star. The next batch of songs will be announced on October 21.
Forza Horizon 6 does not officially launch until May 19, but owners of the $120 Premium Edition can already play it. At the time of writing it has peaked at 128,157 concurrent players on Steam, above Forza Horizon 5's 81,096 and Forza Horizon 4's 75,689. The game has spent 16 weeks in Steam's global top sellers list and currently sits at number two, up three spots this week.
4A Games has officially announced Metro 2039, the follow-up to 2019's Metro Exodus, set to launch this winter on PC, Xbox Series X/S and PS5. The sequel drops Exodus's semi-open-world structure to refocus on the confined Moscow Metro, remains a story-driven single-player game, and gives its protagonist full voice acting for the first time. Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky returns to co-write a narrative shaped by the team's Ukrainian perspective, with the underground factions united under an authoritarian regime called Novoreich and a greater emphasis on choice and consequence.
GSC Game World officially revealed Stalker 2's first expansion, Cost of Hope, during the Xbox Partner Preview, with a planned release this summer on PC, Xbox and PlayStation simultaneously. The non-linear expansion follows protagonist Skif in a conflict between the Duty and Freedom factions, running parallel to the main story, and adds two new regions: the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the Iron Forest. Each region has its own hub area, NPCs, quests and activities, and the expansion promises new weapons; the developer also confirmed one more story DLC is in the works, forming a trilogy with Heart of Chornobyl, with more details including a release date due in the summer.
GPTRACK50, a new NetEase studio led by former Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, has released the first full trailer for its debut game Stupid Never Dies, a speed-focused action game starring a freshly risen zombie named Davy who dives into hell's dungeons to collect Over-Technology and save humanity and his love. The game offers 11 combat styles including Zombie, Werewolf, Harpy, Golem, Vampire, Will o' the Wisp, Cyclops, Snow Fairy, Merfolk, Lich and Demon, which can be swapped for juggle combos. Its core loop is roguelike-like, with timed floor runs and stat and gear upgrades, and the studio is targeting a 2026 release on PlayStation and PC, with Steam Deck compatibility under consideration and Xbox and Switch not yet decided.
Netmarble has announced the release date for The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin, an open-world action RPG set in the world of the anime and manga but telling an original story, with players taking the role of Prince Tristan of the Kingdom of Liones. It launches on PC (Steam) and PS5 on March 16, with the global mobile release on iOS and Android following a week later on March 23, and pre-registration is open on the official website. Beyond combat and team building, the game also includes fishing, cooking and foraging.
Nioh 3 has launched simultaneously on PlayStation and PC, the first time the series has released on PC day-and-date with PlayStation. Within hours of launch, it peaked at 42,822 concurrent players on Steam, surpassing Nioh's 10,649 and Nioh 2's 41,325, and entered Steam's top 20 most played games. It is also currently number one worldwide on Steam's top sellers list, a jump of 46 positions.
Seed Sparkle Lab announced that its life and farming sim Starsand Island will enter Early Access on February 11 on Steam and the Xbox Preview Program, with the full launch expected in the summer of this year. The full release will also come to PS5, Xbox Series and Switch 2, and will add Steam Deck support and a multiplayer mode that is not available during Early Access. The Early Access build is said to offer about 100 hours of content, with more features arriving over the next six or so months, including a crossover event with My Time At Portia.