Flyway Games, a creative studio under KRAFTON, announced that its hand-drawn action adventure Waltz in Stumbles will launch worldwide on December 3, 2026 for Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. The news came with a new trailer that debuted at the 3i Plan indie game showcase on October 9. A free demo is now available on Steam and covers roughly the first hour of the game.
Abylight Studios has released a free playable demo for S.O.N.A.R. on Steam, available since September 30. The demo includes a single-player tutorial and two selected missions focused on crew cooperation and submarine management. The full game launches on October 29.
MINTROCKET teased a new Diver Dave DLC crossover with Subnautica 2: Alien Waters, planned as a free update in the first half of 2027. Players will explore a sea region called Proteus with Dave and Bancho, gather sea creatures, unlock recipes, and encounter the giant deep-sea creature Leviathan. Producer Hwang Jae-ho called it the final DLC for Diver Dave.
Pugstorm and Fireshine Games are inviting players to try the full version of Core Keeper free on Steam this weekend, running until the early hours of October 13. The free weekend includes the new Riders of the Underground update, which adds rideable mounts and a grappling hook, and supports 2 to 8-player online co-op. The game is also 6-off in the Steam autumn sale at 45.6 yuan until October 23, and trial progress carries over to a purchase.
Ranger's Path: National Park Simulator will leave PC Early Access on November 17, 2026, adding an optional two-player co-op mode and launching on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S the same day. The co-op mode will be free to existing players as part of "Early Access Update #3," and the game supports cross-platform play. It is now available for pre-order at €19.99/$19.99/£16.75 on PC and €24.99/$24.99/£22.49 on consoles.
BeXide has announced Cat and Paste!, a copy-and-paste hide-and-seek party game for PC via Steam with support for English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Russian. The game supports two to 16 players online, with cats copying stage objects to transform and pasting decoys to hide from hunters. An open playtest will run from October 16 at 18:00 JST to October 19 at 16:00 JST.
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The author played Muramasa: The Strange Tale on PC and found it keeps the original combat and art while adding HD visuals with more detail than the Wii and PSV versions. The demo used the Shura difficulty with Momohime and reached the second main-story boss, focusing on the new custom ougi system. Ougi are unlocked by raising weapon proficiency and can be freely equipped to ground and air slots, allowing up to nine ougi at once including those tied to the three weapons.
ICEY 2, the sequel to the Chinese indie game ICEY, opened crowdfunding on October 1 with an initial goal of 10,000 yuan, passing 5 million on day one and 20 million within three days, and now exceeding 30 million yuan from over 200,000 backers. Producer Lao Ma (Xiao Zhuohong) knelt during a livestream to ask players not to idolize him and said he would never crowdfund again. The game is expected to launch on May 1 next year at 48 yuan, made by a six-person team, with the funds going toward CG, music, META content and physical merchandise.
Chinese studio 12AM BLACKOUT will showcase its first game at Fusion 2026 Beijing, offering on-site demos with collectible merchandise for completing a check-in. The first-person psychological horror title, built in Unreal Engine 5, is set in the fictional town of "Baishui County's Xiannü Town" on the eve of the millennium and is expected to launch in 2027 on PC (Steam) and PlayStation 5. The event runs October 24-25 at Shougang International Convention Center in Beijing, with single-day tickets priced at 139 yuan.
NCsoft's Aion 2 launched globally on October 5, drawing more than 400,000 daily active players and a Steam peak of 398,000 concurrent users, briefly topping Steam's global top sellers. Its Steam rating sits at 64%, with complaints focused on auction house and player trading still requiring a paid membership. The piece argues that scarce high-quality MMO releases in the West explain the early surge, while Korean MMOs have yet to solve long-term retention, and asks whether Chinese studios such as NetEase should follow.
FuRyu's third-person shooter ANOMALITH now has a PS5 demo on the PS Store, sized a little under 15GB, ahead of the full game's release on 29th October. Players control Reona Minazuki, who can parry enemy attacks, use a claw attack, and exchange HP for MP by inflicting pain on herself. The author says it channels classic Resident Evil but is nowhere near Capcom quality, likening it to a low-budget survival horror shooter.
Bandai Namco and Bandai Namco Aces announced that Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve has surpassed one million units sold worldwide, the fastest any entry in the series has reached that mark. The game launched on October 2 for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam. A special wallpaper celebrating the milestone is available on the game's official website.
Blade of the Shadow music director Bo Caisheng said in a Gcores interview that the melody for heroine Xiaokui was written 18 years ago when he was in high school for Rain Blood, and that the series' melodic lineage continues in this game. He described his role this time as more like a "music director," using level footage to feel the player's flow before doing sound design, and blending rock, electronic, metal and Chinese folk instruments. The game launches on October 29, 2026.
Dragon Vault Raiders, a multiplayer extraction ARPG from BetaDwarf with Square Enix as global publisher, now has a demo on Steam, with a PvPvE test starting October 15. The demo offers two playable Breakers and two PvE difficulties for solo or co-op play through the first chapter's map and main questline. The PvPvE test adds more Breakers and player-versus-player combat, and the game supports solo and multiplayer PvE as well as PvPvE modes.
Ace Combat 8 has surpassed 1 million copies sold worldwide. It reached that mark faster than any other title in the series.
On September 30 the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network announced coordinated enforcement against nine companies including King, Supercell, Mojang, Riot Games and Ubisoft over how in-game virtual currency is sold and managed, with Crytek, InnoGames, Plarium Europe and PLR Worldwide Sales also named. The same day, Video Games Europe and EGDF jointly objected, questioning the legal basis and arguing in-game currency is not a crypto-like digital representation of value, saying they had asked for that basis since spring 2025 without reply. The dispute centers on whether in-game currency counts as a digital representation of value, which would make each in-game exchange a new consumer contract with its own 14-day withdrawal notice; the associations offered six commitments including clear real-money pricing and refunds for unused currency within 48 hours, conditional on resolving the legal uncertainty.
After six hours of hands-on play, IGN says S-GAME's Phantom Blade Zero has the smoothest and most satisfying action since Sekiro, with tight parries, distinct weapons, and plenty of optional bosses, side quests, and hidden areas. The preview also notes infrequent but fairly severe framerate drops on a capable PC, and that the game launches only on PS5 at the end of this month. The story was only seen through first-act setup, so its payoff remains unclear.
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Several outlets published hands-on impressions and previews of Phantom Blade Zero, including IGN, GamesRadar, Insider Gaming, Push Square, PCGamesN, Game Informer, Polygon and Metro UK. The previews describe the hands-on experience from angles such as its action style, Soulslike twist and ladder climbing.
Daedalic Entertainment and developer gameXcite have released the free Roguelite mode "Q's Trials" for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown, alongside the second DLC "Section 31." The mode is available to all base game owners, while the DLC can be purchased separately or through the expansion pass, adding the U.S.S. Section 31 ship and three exclusive heroes. The content is now available on PC, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
At Lingyoufang's invitation, Gcores attended an offline playtest of Phantom Blade Zero. In this podcast episode the hosts discuss the game's combat, weapons, levels, and overall experience based on six hours of hands-on play, and assess how the game is shaping up so far.
After six hours of hands-on time with Phantom Blade 0 in LA, the boss design, soundtrack, and wide linear environments stood out, with the motion-captured martial arts combat as the highlight. A unique and unexpected detail during combat was later confirmed in a talk with director and CEO Soulframe Liang, shedding light on what S-Game is trying to accomplish.
Chuapp attended a closed-door offline playtest of Blade of the Phantom at the invitation of Lingyoufang, and the build on offer was said to differ little from the upcoming release. The roughly five-hour session covered the first chapter's large map, hidden areas and hidden bosses, a small part of chapter two and two late-game bosses. The author found the level design carried hidden Metroidvania elements, with the first chapter's map split into three vertical layers plus a hidden layer, and the shadow armaments serving as both sub-weapons and exploration tools.
The author played around four hours of Phantom Blade Zero on Windows PC at a preview event hosted by developer S-Game in Beijing. He describes the game as carving out its own space among sword-slashing action games, blending simple controls and intense parries with wuxia-style animation.
The author played Phantom Blade Zero at Gamescom, covering the opening tutorial, Soul's clash with his brother Zuoshang, and the carriage ambush that ends in a valley crash. He found the level design circuitous and interesting, called Soul the fastest ladder climber he has controlled, and said the game feels more forgiving than Souls-likes. The session skipped to the Lion Dance boss, whose second stage raises pillars and lets players grab a lion mask to fight back after clearing minions.
Nitrate Games revealed the first trailer and details for Jay and Silent Bob's Joint Venture, a weed farming sim, at New York Comic Con. The game is written by Ernie Altbacker and continues Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, with an expected release in late Spring 2027 on Steam/PC and a console release also slated for 2027. It is currently heading toward its play testing phase.
Street Fighter 6 producer Shuhei Matsumoto revealed that during the Street Fighter V era, he and director Takayuki Nakayama realized the Street Fighter IP would likely die in 10 years if they didn't act. With SFV's player base roughly 35 to 45 years old, they decided to act as if the current generation didn't know the franchise, adding the Modern control scheme and other approachable features. As of summer 2026, Street Fighter 6 has sold more than seven million lifetime units.
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Pony Island 2: Panda Circus showed a new trailer at the latest Triple-i Initiative and opened playtest sign-ups, which players can join by marking interest on its Steam page. The original Pony Island is free to claim on Steam until October 12th and stays in your account. The sequel is due out April 27th, 2027.
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Resident Evil Requiem producer Masachika Kawata revealed that the game was initially developed as an online title before the team scrapped that direction to prioritize horror. Kawata also said Leon was the first protagonist chosen, but his combat strength made the game less scary, leading to the introduction of new character Grace.
A new GTA 6 screenshot released alongside Rockstar's radio station news has players questioning whether it's actual in-game footage. Digital Foundry's Oliver Mackenzie suggested it may have been captured on a PS5 Pro devkit using a debug menu, noting visual flaws like dithered reflections and missing pedestrian shadows. Rockstar has historically used real in-engine footage for its marketing.
Programmer Lorean Xavier made public this week a project that natively ports Hideo Kojima's P.T. to PC; the client contains no copyrighted material and requires a dumped copy of P.T. to run on Windows and Linux. Xavier said the project began in 2024 and is neither an emulator nor a remake, but a translation of the original code to PC, which also allows modern graphical features and mod support. Lance McDonald, who datamined P.T.'s secrets, called it a 1:1 port of the entire codebase.
Prospice: Anomalous Logistics launches in 2027 for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC
Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a live-action adaptation from Paramount, with CD Projekt Red producing and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, producer of the 2005 Doom film, attached. CDPR co-CEO Michał Nowakowski said the studio looks forward to sharing more details at the appropriate time. No casting or further details have been announced.
To start the Dark Arisen expansion in Dragon's Dogma 2, speak to Captain Brant in The Stardrop Inn in Vernworth at nighttime. Two new dialogue options open the Chilling Tidings quest leading to the new region of Norgan and the Lost Rites quest for 12 new endgame dungeons, with level 40 recommended. If you have reached the Unmoored World, you cannot access the DLC until New Game+, though the Change save slot option lets you start a new playthrough from your save.
Blizzard announced tweaks to dungeon XP in World of Warcraft: Forever, raising the XP from killing dungeon monsters slightly but not back to WoW Classic levels. The developers said they want Azeroth to be the "main character" and don't want players spending their entire leveling experience in caves, so dungeon cleaving to 60 won't be the optimal way to level.