Blizzard changing WoW: Forever's Skyborne race appearance after feedback
Blizzard is changing the appearance of WoW: Forever's new Skyborne race in response to community feedback
Blizzard is changing the appearance of WoW: Forever's new Skyborne race in response to community feedback
BDSM gets the unsubtle, but sometimes enjoyable double-A treatment in Hellraiser: Revival, an appropriately mixed bag of grisly body horror that's strange, scrappy, and never less than fascinating.
Cyberleek, the account blamed for leaking Grand Theft Auto 6 footage, has posted another 25-minute video showing a Thrillbilly Mud Club event, protagonist Jason in a dirt race, and extensive nudity. VGC said it has seen the footage and it appears authentic, but is not sharing it. The video ends with a message suggesting Cyberleek still wants to raise money through the leaks for an unspecified gaming project, while Take-Two said in late August its investigation was rapidly evolving and has issued subpoenas to Microsoft, Discord, X and YouTube.
CBS News' Miami office reported on how accurately GTA 6's Vice City recreates Miami, noting fans have spotted over 100 real locations mirrored in the game, from PortMiami and South Beach to Wynwood and the Everglades. The report also mentions the Miami Heat will wear Vice City-themed uniforms in an upcoming match to celebrate the game's November launch. GTA 6 is scheduled to release on November 19, 2026, for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Australia's workplace regulator, the Fair Work Ombudsman, released a graphic helping workers understand their rights for taking time off when GTA 6 launches this November. It notes that under the National Employment Standards, Australians can take unpaid leave only "under specific circumstances" such as caring duties or emergencies, not for playing a game, though workers can ask their boss. The game is predicted to make $5.2 billion in launch week alone and reportedly cost around $1.5 billion to make.
Shadow of War and all of its DLC are currently 92% off, bringing the full package to under $5. The action RPG follows Shadow of Mordor and centers on the Nemesis System, letting players build an orc army to take on Sauron. The author says they have spent over 300 hours in this single-player game.
Ace Combat 8 has now been officially out for a week, and a Reddit user is asking for others' thoughts on it. The poster rates it 10/10, calling it their favorite in the series and praising its story, characters, and soundtrack, which they have listened to in full about 10 times in the past week. They say it might genuinely be worthy of Game of the Year at TGA.
Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said the team has heard developer feedback and agrees that bringing a game to Xbox should be easier than it is today. He said Xbox is starting with areas that create unnecessary friction, including its concept and publishing processes. Xbox boss Asha Sharma also said at a recent Microsoft HQ meeting that the goal is to simplify publishing across Xbox consoles and PC.
Leaker Cyberleek has released a 25-minute GTA 6 video containing story spoilers, car chases, and nude footage of Jason. It opens with a cutscene of Jason and Lucia visiting a trailer-based store, changing clothes, and racing dirt bikes, then cuts to a naked Jason on a motorbike and a tank he appears to conjure. The video was just uploaded to an overloaded file service and can be downloaded in full, so it is expected to spread quickly.
Cyberleek appears to have uploaded a new video.zip file, unusual since it typically posts .mp4 files, and the download may contain malware. According to Tez2, the ZIP is reportedly 370 MB and holds about 25 minutes of footage. The content covers a debug/development menu, the Thrillbilly Mudclub dirtbike race on a Maibatsu Sanchez rentable for $250, character clothing and tattoo customization, first-person driving, and a vehicle tuning menu with Pro Builds, cosmetics, and performance categories.
Why this: It rounds up a reported 25-minute GTA VI leak showing character and vehicle customization, racing footage, and a debug menu not seen before.
Reddit user /u/ZamnBoii relayed a GTA VI leak claiming 25 minutes of footage shows Jason and Lucia around Mount Kalaga, the Thrillbilly Mudclub introduction and Jason's dirtbike gameplay. The leak also mentions first-person driving and walking, late-night street races, and car customization tabs for pro builds, cosmetics and performance, with tuning for engine, intake, induction, transmission and nitrous on an Annis '90 Elegy. It says the race is part of the Hit N Run VC series running from Salton to Waning Sands, and that cutscenes can show Jason and Lucia naked.
Escape from Tarkov developer BattleState Games has partnered with YYSTV to offer a PVE-mode starter supply code. After the new version launches, players can enter "YYSTV" on the official website or in the client's redemption code interface to receive an in-game mail containing a full equipment pack with headset, helmet, armored rig, backpack, an HK416 assault rifle, and 120 rounds of high-penetration ammo. The code is valid for two weeks, and BattleState initiated the collaboration to ensure Chinese players don't miss out on the perk.
AMD has confirmed plans to bring FSR 4 upscaling to the Radeon APUs used in handheld PCs, via both new APUs with native FSR 4 support and a lightweight version for older integrated graphics, both targeted for the end of 2026. RDNA 3-based handheld chips were already intended to get FSR 4 this year, but AMD has previously said RDNA 2-based Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED support will take until 2027. FSR 4 offers sharper visuals than FSR 3.1 at the cost of a smaller performance boost.
Fuse Games has announced that Star Wars: Galactic Racer will raise its multiplayer party size limit from three to six players in a future update. The studio said it is aiming to release the update within the first few weeks of launch, with more details to come.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is an arcade racing game spearheaded by former Burnout developers. Its roguelite single-player campaign is a modern twist that still feels rooted in arcade history, though the racing itself doesn't break new ground.
Expression Games, the developer behind the Hell Let Loose franchise and co-developer on Star Wars Galactic Racer, has opened a physical studio in Manchester in response to the needs of its staff and co-development clients. The studio will not mandate office attendance or set working hours, and will continue to support remote working. CEO Errol Ismail said Hell Let Loose: Vietnam has sold a million units since its August release.
AMD's Jack Huynh: FSR 4 Is Coming to Handhelds via a New Lightweight Model https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/10/amds-jack-huynh-fsr-4-is-coming-to-handhelds-via-a-new-lightweight-model
Ten new games launch on Xbox today (October 8), three of which join Game Pass on day one: Neon Abyss 2, Echo Weaver and Forever Ago. Outside Game Pass, Silver Pines has been reviewing well, and Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival also arrives today.
Game designer Richard Garriott has confirmed he will regain the rights to the Ultima series from Electronic Arts. He sold the series and his studio Origin Systems to EA in 1992 for $30 million, and under Section 203 of the US Copyright Act authors can terminate past copyright transfers after 35 years; he notified EA in April. Garriott said he gets the rights back officially in 2027 and is in active talks with EA about possible Ultima projects, after which he could re-release the earlier games or make sequels.
P.T. Native PC Port 1.0 is out now. It supports DLSS 4.5, frame generation, ray tracing, mods, and more.
Streamer KatieRouu was banned from Wardogs for exploiting the game's building mechanics to farm in-game money. She and her squad placed sniper lookout towers around a FOB, let the enemy capture it, then fired mortars at the structures from another FOB to earn cash and convert it into gold for skins. Wardogs developer Bulkhead's CEO Joe Brammer confirmed the exploit has been fixed for Season 2 and said the ban is final.
Chongqing has built a distinct identity in China's game industry through titles like My Time at Portia, My Time at Sandrock and Dyson Sphere Program from Pathea Games and Youthcat Studio. Pathea now has over 300 employees and Youthcat nearly 20, yet talent still flows to Shanghai, Hangzhou and Chengdu, and local capital remains more familiar with manufacturing. The Chongqing mini-game industry base unveiled in October 2025 has brought in 34 companies with over 200 office staff, pointing to two possible parallel paths ahead.
Bit Reactor has confirmed it is bringing some furloughed staff back to work to continue supporting Star Wars Zero Company. CEO Greg Foertsch said furloughing roughly 80% of the team before launch, after the studio ran out of money, was a difficult but necessary decision made internally without publisher EA's involvement. It is not yet clear whether everyone furloughed will return, and the studio says more updates on Bit Reactor and Zero Company are coming.
Thunder Lotus has released a free demo for At Fate's End on PC, even though the game has been delayed to 2027. The demo is available now for curious PC players.
Animal City Cafe, a Chinese intuitive rhythm game, launches on October 13. Its producer, known as Yiguanyan, founded Yiguanyan Studio and has long made game music and sound effects for titles including Dark Cuisine King, Tale of Immortal, and Neon Abyss. The game centers on hitting keys on the beat, includes 35 tracks spanning Jazz, Pop, and House, and will add a level editor a month after launch for players to edit charts, animation, music, sound, and narrative and share them via the creative workshop.
Taiwu Yishijie, a Chinese-style roguelike survivor looter developed by Mojing Team under the Taiwu IP license, enters Steam Early Access on October 15, 2026. It centers on roguelike survivor looting and supports up to four-player co-op, priced at 38 yuan in China with a 20 percent launch discount to 30.4 yuan for the first 14 days.
Silent Hill Townfall has received a 1.4.0 patch aimed at its most complained-about sections. The patch notes say The Weight's grab attacks now deal heavy damage instead of instant death on Story Mode and Normal difficulties, its searching behavior no longer camps in front of the player's objective or repeats the same spot, and its hunting is less aggressive. The update also makes enemies less sensitive to gunfire, running and entering hiding spots, tweaks melee counter-attacks and grapples, and adds a collectible manual for the final puzzle's console. Developer Screen Burn said last week it had heard players' struggles with The Weight and would balance gameplay ASAP.
PC Gamer magazine's issue 428 UK / 416 US features World of Warcraft: Forever as its cover story, claiming world-exclusive hands-on access to Blizzard's reboot of classic WoW along with interviews with key developers. The issue also includes a preview of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 and a review of The Blood of Dawnwalker, and is priced at $4.99 in print.
Leaked gameplay footage of the cancelled Xbox Perfect Dark reboot has surfaced online, showing weapons protagonist Joanna Dark could have used and several environments. The footage was first unearthed by MP1ST, which claims it comes from a VFX artist with previous experience on various gaming franchises, though its authenticity is hard to confirm. The reboot was in development at The Initiative with help from Crystal Dynamics, announced in December 2020 and cancelled last year amid Microsoft and Xbox cuts.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer developer Fuse Games has announced that an upcoming update will raise the game's multiplayer party size from 3 to 6 players. The studio said it aims to release the update within the first few weeks of launch, though no specific date was given. The game launched earlier this week, and Amazon Prime members can currently play its single-player portion via Amazon's Luna service at no extra cost.
Xbox announced nine games coming to Game Pass in October across console, PC, and cloud, with Battlefield 6 and Valor Mortis arriving on October 13 and Valor Mortis launching day one into the service. Nine titles including A Plague Tale: Requiem and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will leave Game Pass on October 15. Xbox also said that starting in November it will cap the number of hours Game Pass subscribers can use cloud gaming, requiring them to buy additional play time if they go over the limit.
Fireshine Games has acquired Danish indie studio Fair Games and its open world sandbox title Necesse. Fair Games founder and CEO Mads Skovgaard stays on as managing director and the studio keeps leading the game's direction and updates, while Fireshine handles publishing and porting. Necesse first launched in 2019 and has drawn an estimated 2.5 million players, with plans for continued PC support and additional platform ports.
CELESTAY, a single-player relaxing life game from BUBBLE GUM LLC, launches this Friday. Players fish for materials to build a floating sea cabin upward into the sky, unlocking new scenery and starry skies as it rises. The game offers "Leisurely Fishing" that fishes automatically and "Skill Fishing" where you stop the float at the right moment, with deeper water yielding rarer fish and sunken civilization treasures.
The Coalition studio head Mike Crump told the BBC the next Gears of War game "will not take nearly as long" to develop, after Gears of War: E-Day took seven years following Gears 5. He declined to give specifics on whether the studio plans layoffs, saying the team focuses on what it can control. E-Day is an Xbox console exclusive and has posted the series' best numbers on Steam, but The Coalition has not announced any future projects.
CELESTAY, a single-player relaxing life game from BUBBLE GUM LLC, launches this Friday. Players fish to collect materials and build a floating sea hut upward into the sky, trading caught fish for wood, iron and other materials to add floors. Alongside the automatic "Leisurely Fishing," the game adds "Skill Fishing," where players stop the float at the right moment and spend one fish to begin.
Laica announced for PC - survival horror game about quiet life with a girl in space https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/laica-announced-for-pc-survival-horror-game-about-quiet-life-with-a-girl-in-space
Pixel Cells-developed, polden-published ant colony automation strategy game Ant Nest: Wild Empire has launched a new PC demo on Steam, featuring reworked controls, an optimized interface, and a rebalanced campaign with 6 missions. Players control an entire ant colony, digging tunnels, building chambers, and setting priorities so worker, scout, and soldier ants act autonomously against spiders, scorpions, and wasps. The full release is planned for Q4 this year.
Santa Sunrise's Santa Studio has opened the Steam store page and released the first trailer for Laica, a first-person 3D survival horror game planned for 2027 with Japanese voice acting and Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese subtitles and interface. Players live alongside the mysterious girl Laica on a space station and travel between daily life and a dark world roamed by alien monsters. It is published by ambr, marking the company's first title as a publisher.
Developer Fuse Games has responded to fan feedback and is working on an update to Star Wars: Galactic Racer that will increase the multiplayer party size from three to six players. The studio aims to release it within the first few weeks of launch, with more details to come soon. IGN's review called the game a fabulous looking and frantically fast anti-grav racer.