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  3. Pure Xbox10

    Talking Point: As Things Stand, What's Your Game Of The Year For 2026?

    Pure Xbox will begin voting for its 2026 Game of the Year in two months and is asking readers for their early picks. GTA 6 launches on November 19th and will likely take many GOTY awards, though Forza Horizon 6, Gears of War: E-Day, Resident Evil Requiem, 007 First Light, Hades 2 and Ace Combat 8 are also in the mix. Metacritic lists 28 Xbox games in 2026 with an 80 average or higher.

  4. 机核22

    Nuclear Weekly 10.10: 3i Plan Season 4 Showcase Reveals New Titles, Forza Horizon 6 PS5 Version Delayed

    The 3i Plan Season 4 online showcase announced multiple new titles, with Gears of War: E-Day, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, and Star Wars: Galactic Racer among those launching to positive reception. Grasshopper Manufacture and NetEase have parted ways amicably, with the studio returning to independence, while Falcom raised its full-year earnings forecast again. Dusk Golem leaked news of a major DLC for Resident Evil 9: Requiem.

  9. PC Gamer22

    WoW: Forever, by casting off modern convenience, has horseshoed back around to being casual friendly again

    A PC Gamer MMO column argues that World of Warcraft: Forever, by casting off modern conveniences, has become casual friendly again. The author, who has a 9-5 job and doesn't consider himself a hardcore WoW player, says leveling in Forever is chill, built around 40-minute adventures that don't change if you come back a month later. By contrast, retail's seasonal structure demands intense play and resets much of your progress at season's end, often pushing casual players away.

  11. Polygon22

    Grand Theft Ocarina Could Be Gaming's Barbenheimer

    Nintendo is releasing its Ocarina of Time remake in November, making it the only publisher bold enough to bring a major new release to retail in the same month as Grand Theft Auto 6. A Saturday Night Live sketch framed the two games as a gaming Barbenheimer, though their release dates are actually two weeks apart and the Ocarina remake is a dramatically smaller production. If the culture-clash event catches on, Ocarina of Time could ride GTA 6's slipstream to wider awareness.

  14. Gematsu37

    M2 announces Armed Police Batrider re-release

    M2 has announced Armed Police Batrider (202X), a tentatively titled re-release of the vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up. Platforms and a release date were not announced. The original was released as an arcade game in January 1998, developed by Raizing (now Eighting), and features a team-based system with 18 selectable aircraft.

  19. 机核26

    Giving Masterpieces Memory and Life: TGS2026 Interview with the Producer of The Lost Art Museum

    The Lost Art Museum -Eirei Shūshūroku-, an adventure game published by Happynet, offered a prologue demo at TGS2026 in which players take the role of Vince, who wanders into a museum world and restores the lost memories of "Eirei" born from famous paintings. Producer and planning lead Honoka Ohara said the game's theme is passing down memory through paintings, aiming to bring more people closer to art rather than simply teaching art history. Each chapter focuses on one Eirei, while the reason they lost their memories and whether Vince can return to his own world form an overarching mystery.

  22. VGC30

    Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Transmog Guide: How to Change Armor Appearance

    Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen adds transmog, called Tailoring in-game. After completing The Castle in Ice, unlock the Reaching the Far Shore quest, defeat the ice wyrm Fimbl, and deliver the Taillour-Crafte Treatise to the blacksmith Hal to unlock the "Tailor equipment" option. Tailoring lets you apply any previously collected appearance and usually costs no more than 3,000 gold.

  26. Push Square57

    Tekken 8's Reina Officially Announced as Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves' Sixth Season 3 DLC Character on PS5

    Reina from Tekken 8 has been officially confirmed as the sixth Season 3 DLC character for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, with a short trailer and a December release. Before that, two Tokyo Revengers characters, Manjiro 'Mikey' Sano and Ken 'Draken' Ryuguji, arrive on 22nd October alongside game updates, each with arcade arcs and a shared Episodes of South Town campaign featuring Krauser and Rock.

  29. Gematsu35

    M2 Announces Devil Blade Reboot Consumer Edition for Consoles

    M2 has announced Devil Blade Reboot Consumer Edition, a tentatively titled console version of the shoot 'em up Devil Blade Reboot, with platforms and a release date not announced. Devil Blade Reboot first launched for PC via Steam on May 23, 2024. The original Devil Blade was created by Shigatake Games in 1996 using the shoot 'em up creation tool Dezaemon Plus for the original PlayStation.

  30. Gematsu58

    Senxin Aleste coming to PS5, PS4, and Switch on March 18, 2027

    M2 announced that vertical-scroll shoot 'em up Senxin Aleste will launch for PS5, PS4, and Switch in Japan on March 18, 2027, with the PS4 version digital-only. The physical standard edition costs 7,480 yen, the digital standard edition 4,950 yen, and the physical limited edition 11,880 yen. The console version includes a port of the arcade release titled Senxin Aleste ORIGIN and the new Senxin Aleste BLADE, which adds the Blade Missile weapon and free character switching.

  32. PC Gamer22

    How the level pack boom of early FPS games ended in a lawsuit that changed copyright forever

    In the 1990s, early first-person shooters like Duke Nukem 3D and Quake spawned boxed level packs sold on store shelves, occupying an ambiguous space between expansions and mods. Third-party studios like Sunstorm Interactive produced well-regarded packs such as Duke Caribbean and Duke It Out in DC, while others like Micro Star Software's Nuke It series were unauthorized shovelware. This unregulated frontier ultimately ended in a lawsuit that changed copyright forever.

  34. @pcgamer18

    FPS era's unregulated level packs led to landmark copyright lawsuit

    The advent of first-person shooters introduced a wild frontier of unregulated level packs https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/the-advent-of-first-person-shooters-introduced-a-wild-frontier-of-unregulated-video-game-level-packs-and-it-ended-in-a-lawsuit-that-changed-copyright-forever/

  37. Kotaku34

    New F-Zero GX Cheat Codes Discovered 23 Years Later

    Japanese player BTEST4HE has discovered eight hidden cheat codes in F-Zero GX that unlock specific parts purchasable in the in-game shop, including the long-sought "Gold Parts." The codes work on the GameCube, Wii, and Nintendo Classics versions on Switch 2, but five of them require inputting commands with four controllers simultaneously.