Star Wars: Galactic Racer Out Now on PS5
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Cloud Imperium Games released a new cinematic trailer for Squadron 42, the single-player spinoff of Star Citizen, and opened Steam wishlists alongside a full cast reveal. The game has been in development for 12 years under Chris Roberts and features Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson and Henry Cavill, with performance capture woven into gameplay. The trailer showed first-person sections, platforming and puzzles, ship customization, a hacking mini-game and narrative choices; CIG delayed the game to Q2 2027 in August to avoid GTA 6's attention.
Cloud Imperium Games released a new trailer for Squadron 42, the single-player spinoff of Star Citizen, and revealed a large cast. The game is now available to wishlist on Steam ahead of a planned Q2 2027 release.
Aspyr has brought Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition to Switch 2, sold separately or bundled with its sequel as the Middle-earth: Shadow Bundle. The Game of the Year version includes all previously available DLC, including the Bright Lord campaign, but the game remains locked to 30fps and a max resolution of 1080p in both handheld and docked modes. The Nemesis system still stands out, giving procedurally generated Orc and Uruk-hai Captains unique names, appearances and rivalries that make each playthrough feel different.
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Heathen is an upcoming indie first-person dungeon crawler from solo developer Christoper Yabsley, set in the fantasy town of Saltgrave. Its latest trailer reveals a new enemy dismemberment system that lets players chop off a monster's head, kick it midair, and kill another monster with it. The game will support online co-op when it launches into early access, with no release date announced yet.
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Push Square rounds up the 30+ games launching on PS5 from 12th to 18th October, including Castlevania: Belmont's Curse on 15th October and Planet Zoo 2 on 13th October. Other highlights include Valor Mortis, The Witch's Bakery, Ratatan, Tales of Eternia: Remastered, and two Toy Story re-releases.
Hangar 13 released a new Steam update for Mafia 3: Definitive Edition to mark the game's 10th anniversary. The patch improves mission progress, NPC behaviour, and achievement tracking, fixing spots where players got stuck in missions like "Get Enzo Conti" and "Kill Tommy Marcano," plus some mid-mission crashes. Characters like Alcee and Father James no longer freak out mid-mission.
Eurogamer's regular What We've Been Playing column returns with editors Dom and Bertie sharing their current games. Dom is back in Gears of War: E-Day on Xbox Series X, praising the Horde Siege mode's open-ended maps and cross-squad interplay as "pure video game popcorn movie stuff." Bertie is stretching out The Blood of Dawnwalker on PS5, reloading a save to explore more of the world and making a deal with the vampire Xanthe before Brencis' coronation.
Ace Combat 8 has sold over 1 million copies worldwide, making it the fastest-selling mainline entry in the series. It has 16,000 Steam reviews with an 81% positive rate and a peak of 52,000 concurrent players. The article notes that its retro close-range dogfighting, which downplays stealth, electronic warfare, and beyond-visual-range combat, drew criticism from Chinese players over outdated design, PC performance, and Simplified Chinese localization.
CDPR and Paramount Pictures announced a live-action film based on the Cyberpunk 2077 IP, developed with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. CD Projekt RED co-CEO Michał Nowakowski said the team is pleased to work with Paramount and will share more details at the right time. As of July 3, Cyberpunk 2077 had sold 40 million copies and Phantom Liberty 15 million, with more than 184 developers working on the sequel.
BAFTA-winning studio Sumo Digital announced that Spider Spy: Agent 8 will launch on February 11, 2027. Players control Agent 8, a tiny robotic spider built by British intelligence agency S.A.F.E, sneaking through a retro-futuristic 1970s spy world with tools such as a cutting torch and web grapple to stop the villainous S.I.N. The game features wall-and-ceiling crawling, environmental puzzles, and collectibles that reward replaying levels.
This week on The Game Informer Show, Giant Bomb's Will Crosby joins to discuss the recent launch of Gears of War: E-Day, with the hosts agreeing that returning to the past is good for the series. Later, Eric shares his review impressions of Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, and Charles talks about his progress in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.
IGN played a linear slice of Final Fantasy VII Revelation's first chapter at New York Comic Con, running from the North Crater entrance to a boss fight against Jenova Deathmourner. Materia can now be leveled with consumable fragments that add AP, and Rebirth's Item Transmuter returns with auto-loot enabled by default instead of unlocked by beating the campaign. The demo party was Cloud, Cid, and Vincent, and while Cid's rhythmic attacks stood out, the overall difficulty felt low ahead of the April launch.
Game Informer's weekend roundup highlights games to play, including Echo Weaver. The game keeps Metroidvania-style exploration but ties progression to knowledge gained during play rather than new equipment. Reviewer Kyle Hilliard calls its unique approach admirable and well executed, with a fantastic sense of discovery.
Star Wars Zero Company has reached one million copies sold. The piece notes that its developer is still recovering.
Afterworld content designer Luke Bean said in a dev diary that Fallout is not in the game's top five reference points, and that the post-apocalyptic North American grand strategy game owes more to study of the Bronze Age collapse. Its tribes treat the "ancients" as a mysterious empire, asking why they died if they could do anything with science. Each campaign simulates 100 years of calamity, with map generation choosing from several regional disasters that leave different scars.
The fourth entry in Nintendo Life's Ocarina of Time Dungeon Crawl series revisits the Forest Temple. The writer calls it possibly his favourite Zelda dungeon ever, praising its twisting corridors, Wallmasters and the Phantom Ganon boss fight. For the Switch 2 remake, he hopes for shortcuts to later winding pathways and a more detailed map.
In Control Resonant, a recurring miniboss called the Hiss Transporter is a vertically floating city bus front that glows red, slams the ground with shockwaves, and spawns waves of Hiss Passengers fused with bus seats. Players must clear the Passengers exposed on both sides before destroying the Transporter in an explosion. It is another example of developer Remedy Entertainment turning ordinary objects into fantastical threats, continuing the Altered Items and Objects of Power concept from the first Control.
A Polygon writer wants to return to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for its free Remastered update and next year's Songs of the Past expansion, but can't decide which of his many saves to resume. His options include a PlayStation save stuck mid-Blood and Wine, a four-year-old Steam Death March save parked before a boss, and several earlier runs. Because the Remastered update reworks combat and skill trees, every save except a fresh one refunds skill points and requires rebuilding the character, so he leans toward starting Blood and Wine with a premade character.
A mod called Doom 2 in GTA 5 Hell On Earth (D2IGTA5HOE) imports Doom 2 into GTA 5, switching the game from third-person open world to first-person shooter when you hit F9, with players supplying their own .wad file. Pressing F10 triggers Hell On Earth mode, spawning authentic Doom 2 enemies in the streets of Los Santos, where you can fight with a super shotgun and plasma cannon.
After six hours of hands-on time with Phantom Blade 0 in LA, GameSpot found that its combat lets players attack and defend simultaneously, a detail confirmed by director and CEO Soulframe Liang. The S-Game title features motion-captured martial arts combat, with boss design, soundtrack, and wide linear metroidvania-style environments also standing out.
A new Cyberpunk 2077 quest mod, Guitar Gigs Across Night City, lets players tour venues across Night City with Johnny Silverhand across six quests featuring a progression system for unlocking venues, bigger crowds, and better rewards. Players can add their own MP3 files to the setlist, though the performance animations won't match the chosen songs. The mod requires ArchiveXL, AudioXL, Codeware, RED4ext, Redscript, and TweakXL, with Playable Guitar Weapon - Play Your Songs as an optional extra.
Pearl Abyss Europe CEO Lybee Park said critics reviewed a build that was not the exact same version as the launch game and had limited time to explore Crimson Desert's world. A day-one patch and a major first-week update overhauled systems including inventory limitations, so by the end of the first month the game differed greatly from the reviewed version. Crimson Desert holds a 77 on Metacritic and reached 7 million sales, with its "Charting the Unknown" DLC arriving on October 29.
Nivalis Nights is a story-heavy shop simulation with light relationship building, where conversations affect four attitudes toward the player—friendly, combative, romantic, and savvy—but dialogue options are not clearly marked. Lead writer Thomas Welsh said the opaque romance system was an intentional choice rather than a tested alternative. Some characters' romantic paths are obvious, for comedic effect.
IGN revisits "Reuniting the Families," the penultimate mission of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' opening act, calling it the peak of Rockstar's cinematic mission design. Inside the Jefferson Motel, CJ fights through scripted corridors to rescue his brother Sweet, turning the open world into a third-person cover shooter two years before Gears of War. The piece argues players should experience this mission before GTA 6 arrives.
Sucker Punch has released a roughly 1.2GB patch 2.07 for last week's Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition, fixing bugs that caused lost or blocked progress in Most Wanted and a black screen issue after certain missions in Echoes of Sekigahara. Issues preventing certain content from being marked complete were also resolved, along with various other bug and crash fixes.
Eurogamer's review calls Gears of War: E-Day a conservative but technically solid prequel whose campaign, Horde Siege, and Versus each have strengths and problems. Horde Siege splits 12 players into four-person squads that pick their own difficulty and complete objectives across the map, and the reviewer says 15 hours in it still produces emergent moments. The review also notes balance and mechanical issues in Versus and baffling checkpoints plus some repetitive beats in the campaign.
CD Projekt Red has released The Witcher 3 Remastered patch 5.01 on PS5, delivering performance improvements and fixes for various technical issues. The update adjusts frame rate limits across graphics modes on the base PS5, adds Bloom, Light Shafts, and Depth of Field options to the graphics menu, and fixes settings resetting on every launch. It also addresses gameplay and UI issues, including automatic blade oils, dodge delay, and skill tooltips.
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After roughly four hours of hands-on time, Kotaku's Lex Luddy argues Phantom Blade Zero plays closer to a hybrid of Sekiro and Devil May Cry than to Soulslike peers such as Black Myth: Wukong. Attacking and successful blocking do not drain stamina, only dodging and reacting to certain color-coded attacks do, and light attacks do not take animation priority over other inputs. The game offers 30 primary and 25 secondary weapons, with two primaries equipped at once and a left-trigger combo swap, while the author traces S-Game's Rainblood series back over 15 years and a 2021 open letter citing hundreds of millions of dollars in Tencent funding for two large-scale action RPGs.
FuRyu's third-person shooter ANOMALITH now has a PS5 demo available on the PS Store, sized at 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 demo channels classic Resident Evil but falls well short of Capcom quality, feeling more like a low-budget survival horror shooter.
Street Fighter 6 producer Shuhei Matsumoto said in an October 2026 interview that during Street Fighter 5 the team realized the Street Fighter IP would likely die in 10 years if nothing changed. Street Fighter 6 responded with a Modern Controls system to streamline inputs and a focus on new modes and more forgiving combat balance. The game reached 7 million sales this past summer and has been tracking ahead of Street Fighter 5.
Eurogamer's review finds EA Sports FC 27 makes meaningful changes on the pitch, with slower, weightier matches, more manual defending, and AI teammates holding greater distance. The new Grounds is an online social hub with three open areas and Rush modes, which the review treats as a sideshow. Ultimate Team is largely unchanged apart from the Gallery and faster squad-building challenges, while Career mode adds Dynamic OVR and a reworked transfer negotiation menu with a tension meter.
After being hooked by the Warhammer 40,000 short in Amazon's Secret Level and the Horus Heresy novels, the author picked up Owlcat Games' Rogue Trader and chose the Commissar class, which lets you shoot allies in the back to make them stronger. The top-down CRPG lets the author play as a "not quite a villain" in the grim dark future, with choices like believing in the Emperor's power echoing the source material.
Moonlight Kids' timeloop metroidvania Echo Weaver gives players almost everything needed to finish it from the very first moment, with knowledge as the only real gain. Its glaive can be thrown, recalled, and teleported to, letting players skip platforming and puzzles and even reach endgame areas early. After four hours, Rock Paper Shotgun calls it a vivid, freeform Metroidy puzzler with minimal combat and a few rough edges.
Peter Molyneux revealed in an interview that Black & White's iconic giant animal creatures were originally designed as monsters, not cute creatures. His final god game, Masters of Albion, just received a major update that added mysterious colossal structures, though the game currently lacks Black & White-style titanic creatures.
After about five hours with Silver Pines, IGN's Tristan Ogilvie says Wych Elm Games has folded Silent Hill and Resident Evil style survival horror into a 2.5D metroidvania. Tools such as a box cutter, sledgehammer, sewer key, and pistol open new routes as players solve puzzles, fight enemies, and search for missing singer Eddie Velvet. The author notes it is the debut release from a core team of five and is out now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2.
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.