NBA 2K25 is being delisted two years after launch, with 2K stopping sales on October 30, 2026, and shutting down online servers on January 1, 2027. Multiplayer modes and the single-player MyCareer story mode will then become unplayable, since progression and virtual currency depend on a server connection. Players who buy the game before October 30 can still download it and play offline modes.
The Lego Company has revealed three new Batman sets launching January 1, 2027. They include the Batman Returns Batmobile & Duck set at 672 pieces for $59.99, the Arkham Batman Batmobile based on Batman: Arkham Knight at 317 pieces for $29.99, and The Joker Wall Art Comic Cover at 1,849 pieces for $169.99.
One retailer is offering Pokémon 30th Anniversary trading card products at a deal so good it almost sounds like a scam, but it isn't. Nearly every major retailer carrying Pokémon cards charges above the manufacturer's suggested retail price, while local card shops are starting to make scalper prices sound like a steal.
LEGO has announced three new Batman sets, all launching on January 1, 2027. Two are Batmobile sets that include codes to unlock gold vehicles in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, while the third is a Joker Wall Art set recreating the Detective Comics #880 cover for $169.99 with 1,849 pieces. All three will be shown at the DC Booth (#4365) at New York Comic-Con.
Control Resonant from Remedy Entertainment has won PlayStation Blog's Players' Choice award for September 2026's top new game. Other big September releases included Marvel's Wolverine, Dune: Awakening, and NBA 2K27. The monthly poll lets players pick the best new release, with remakes qualifying but re-releases excluded.
A driving game described as Steam's secretly biggest ever is coming to PS5 in two weeks. The piece weighs which racing game will be this year's biggest on PS5, noting Forza Horizon 6 has yet to confirm its promised 2026 release date and that Star Wars: Galactic Racer, while brilliant, probably isn't it.
Capcom's remake machine is ticking away, only problem is that means revisiting Resident Evil 5 and 6
Cattle Country 'Bandits & Bounties' update now available https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/cattle-country-bandits-bounties-update-now-available
Sword Sage: Awakening feels like a breezier kind of Soulslike, and it's not just the adorable tea-serving panda that's got me intrigued
Frostpunk for Switch launches October 19 https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/frostpunk-for-switch-launches-october-19
The new arrow-catching they added is excellent
Sony has introduced AI upscaling to the base PS5, with Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei as the first games to implement the technology. SIE said PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) remains exclusive to the PS5 Pro, which it calls the gold standard.
Review: Dune: Awakening (PS5) - What a Time To Be a Duner
Disappointment as Kingdom Hearts PS5 Pulls Back Platinum Trophies https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/10/disappointment-as-kingdom-hearts-ps5-pulls-back-platinum-trophies
GameSpot rounded up new GTA 6 details from the latest issue of Game Informer. The report says the game may start with Jason while Lucia is still in prison, and the two take a job to improve their lives before getting caught, setting off a mystery spanning all of Leonida. Leonida is said to be twice the size of GTA 5 and Rockstar's largest map yet, split into six regions including Vice City, Leonida Quays, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga National Park, plus a rideshare app called RydeMe and more weather detail.
2K Sports announced that NBA 2K25 will be removed from sale on October 30, 2026, and fully discontinued on December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2026, all multiplayer and online modes will be removed, making the single-player MyCareer and MyTeam modes unplayable and cutting off virtual currency purchases. Owners can redownload and play offline after the shutdown, while Play Now, MyNBA, The W, and MyWNBA modes will remain available.
Fans have spotted that the upcoming Kingdom Hearts Collection I~III re-release on PS5 only offers three Platinums, for Kingdom Hearts 1, Dream Drop Distance, and Kingdom Hearts 3. The PS4 bundles also included Platinums for Kingdom Hearts 2, Birth by Sleep, and Re:Chain of Memories. The limitation stems from Sony's PS5 Trophy system, which prevents bundles from including multiple Platinums per list.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has shown a worldbuilder cinematic trailer for its DMZ mode. Players can explore the world, follow clues, and uncover more about what happened there and what is still waiting to be discovered in DMZ.
Sony Interactive Entertainment introduced Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), an AI upscaling technology for the base PlayStation 5, developed through its AI graphics collaboration with AMD. PSSR remains exclusive to the PS5 Pro, which SIE calls the gold standard. The first titles to implement QSSR are Insomniac Games' Marvel's Wolverine and Sucker Punch Productions' Ghost of Yōtei, and SIE's Daniel Craig told Digital Foundry it is essentially a drop-in replacement for titles already supporting PSSR, though tuning settings takes a few days.
Rockstar senior vice president of narrative Rupert Humphries said the GTA series has never had "much focus on national politics" beyond GTA 4's Homeland Security and Patriot Act themes, and that GTA 6 won't get "too specific" about any particular person, event, or movement. He said the studio's satire of Florida aims to be "larger than life" rather than a direct mirror of the real world, and described the American dream today as perhaps just a house and paid-off loans. Rockstar is also currently in an employment tribunal over its firing of 34 developers last year.
Star Wars Zero Company has received its first big discount since its late-August launch, with Amazon cutting 20% off PS5 and Xbox Series X physical copies to $47.97 and $47.99, respectively. Best Buy's Techtober Sale also has it at $47.99 for both platforms, with that sale running until October 11, while Prime Big Deal Days runs until October 7.
Several new games are charting surprisingly high on the Xbox "Top Paid" charts to begin October, including Halloween: The Game at #6 and Valheim 1.0 at #10. Active Matter sits at #12 and Samson - A Tyndalston Story at #17, while NASCAR 26 is #38 and Gladio Mori #45. Xbox updates its charts slowly, so the rankings should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Kotaku is launching "Guiding Key," a book club-style series that will play through and discuss the entire Kingdom Hearts saga over the course of a year, leading up to playing Kingdom Hearts IV together when it launches in late 2027. The monthly schedule runs from October 2026 through November 2027, with the numbered mainline games each spread across three months, while 358/2 Days and Re:coded will be watched via cutscenes since they aren't readily playable on modern platforms. The first introductory episode goes up Thursday, October 8, when Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] launches on Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
PS Store's Autumn Adventures sale ends on 7th October 2026, with thousands of PS5 and PS4 games discounted. Push Square has compiled over 40 recommended games that scored at least 7/10 and are at their lowest price points, with some hitting new lows.
Push Square reviewed Dune: Awakening on PS5, with the author having previously played the PC version at launch. The review highlights the progression systems, base building, and skill trees, while calling some Fremen trials linear and tedious. The console version's biggest addition is a dedicated single-player mode, though characters cannot be carried over from multiplayer, and the author reports fairly stable frame rates on PS5 and PS5 Pro with some DualSense haptic support.
Raidou: Remastered – The Mystery of the Soulless Army Launch Edition (PS5/Switch) is $24.99 on Amazon https://amzn.to/4mS4E1r
Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered (Switch) is $14.99 on Amazon https://amzn.to/3LIN0zp
The Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] is getting a native Switch 2 release instead of a cloud version, and its eShop listing confirms it will take up 131GB in total if you install everything. The collection is split into three separate apps, with Kingdom Hearts -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX at 54.1GB, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue at 26.8GB, and Kingdom Hearts 3 + Re Mind at 45.2GB, which adds up to 126.1GB separately. Square Enix has also released a 25th anniversary video for Kingdom Hearts.
Alientrap announced that DuneCrawl will launch for PS5, Xbox Series, and Android on October 19, with Switch 2 and Switch versions following later in 2026. The cooperative open-world action adventure game first launched for PC via Steam on January 5 and supports up to four players in local or online co-op.
Publisher Playtonic Friends and developer Castle Pixel have released the “Bandits & Bounties” update for cowboy life simulation game Cattle Country, adding bounty hunting, bandit camps, and random store robberies. The update also adds new equipment including the Toolbelt, Extra Large Bag, Animal Trap, Rock Tumbler and Tailoring Table, expands inventory to four rows, and introduces new outfits, hats, head accessories and red hair. A new fishing destination accessible from the docks on Tuesdays and Saturdays lets players catch fish from every season.
The Coalition used the Xbox Series S SSD as an extra tier of memory to supplement the console's 10GB of GDDR6 in Gears of War: E-Day, developed with Xbox's platform team and Advanced Technology Group. Digital Foundry says the technique could serve as a blueprint for future games on Series S and other memory-constrained platforms, and other game teams are already interested. With it, E-Day only had to cut one major feature, Lumen reflections, to keep a 60FPS target.
11 bit studios announced that Frostpunk will launch for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 on October 19, with a demo and pre-orders available now. The Switch release comes in a Base Game version (30 percent launch discount) and a Complete Edition (35 percent launch discount) that includes the three DLC packs "The Rifts," "The Last Autumn," and "On The Edge." Frostpunk first launched for PC on April 24, 2018.
Two Halo fan projects, OpenCE and Project Reclaimer, have emerged in recent weeks, targeting Halo CE and Halo 3 respectively. OpenCE is an open source decomp of Halo CE's original Xbox source code that has gotten 128 players into a single multiplayer match and includes a full server browser. Project Reclaimer is a mod of the MCC version of Halo 3 that adds PC split screen, a server browser with dedicated servers and auto-downloading mods, and support for up to 64 players.
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen director Kento Kinoshita and producer Naoto Oyama told VGC why the expansion keeps the series' friction while adding quality-of-life improvements. Kinoshita said friction is essential to the Dragon's Dogma experience, but if it becomes frustration the team has gone too far. Oyama said the Eternal Ferrystones give players the choice to fast travel or not. The expansion was decided about six months after launch and drew on player feedback, and the team is still optimizing the Nintendo Switch 2 version.
Sword Sage: Awakening, developed by Sword Panda Games and published by 4Divinity, is a breezier Soulslike action-RPG starring Pei Sanniang, a disciple of the Yuangong Sect who hunts yaoguai from Chinese folklore. Its combat replaces standard rolls with Evade Cyan dodges and Strike Red counters, and broken weapons can be reforged almost instantly. XP comes from quests and defeating yaoguai, automatically converting into merits spent on a skill tree.
DuneCrawl is coming to PS5, Xbox Series, and Android on October 19. The Switch 2 and Switch versions are planned for later in 2026.
Sony and Polyphony Digital confirmed that the first part of Gran Turismo 7's free Spec IV update arrives on PS5 and PS4 on 14th October 2026. Part 1 includes several new vehicles, a new circuit, the Car Concierge feature, a Vintage Cars space in the Dealership, and a higher Collector level cap. Part 2 is expected in December with another six cars, another circuit, and other features, but no firm date has been set.
Review: Kingdom Hearts Collection I~III (PS5) - Great Value for Newcomers in This (Almost) Complete Package https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/kingdom-hearts-collection-iiii
These 23+ PS5 and PS Plus Games Are Coming Out This Week (5th-11th October) https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/these-23plus-ps5-and-ps-plus-games-are-coming-out-this-week-5th-11th-october
The first part of Gran Turismo 7's Spec 4 update is coming soon to PS5 and PS4. The update is being released in multiple parts, with this being Part 1.