Polygon has launched Wishlister, a free weekly newsletter that rounds up six promising upcoming PC games with direct links to their Steam pages. Subscribers can add each game to their Steam wishlist without buying or committing to anything. SteamDB data suggests an average of 70 new games hit Steam every day, making discoverability a growing challenge.
Market research firm Circana says the US console hardware market is in its most precarious position "since the early 80s." Year-to-date figures through August show Xbox hardware unit sales down 33% year on year and PlayStation down 25%, an all-time low for Xbox and PlayStation's lowest since 2013. Circana attributes the US price increases mainly to component shortages caused by AI data centers, with the average Xbox console selling for $529 in 2026 through August, 26% higher than a year ago, and PlayStation at $597, 20% higher.
IGN has published a story recap of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare reboot series ahead of Modern Warfare 4's release. It covers how 2019's Modern Warfare established Task Force 141, the stolen chemical gas, the Urzikstan Liberation Force, and villain Barkov, with key plot points also unfolding in Warzone's Verdansk. The recap is meant to bring players up to speed before Infinity Ward's saga ends.
BBL have announced the signing of former Sashi member MistR, replacing Boye, who has been moved to the bench. It marks the first roster change since the Turkish organization entered Counter-Strike. BBL are currently ranked 38th in the global VRS and will look to earn Valve points at Stake Pulse Beat III and DraculaN Season 7 before the November 2 invite cut-off for the Singapore Major.
Silent Hill producer Motoi Okamoto said in a Famitsu interview that the three recently released games—Silent Hill 2 Remake, Silent Hill f, and Silent Hill: Townfall—represent only the "first wave" of Konami's revival plan, with "second and third waves" now being considered. He said all three titles launched successfully and drew high praise, and that Konami is currently looking at a number of projects. Bloober Team, after remaking Silent Hill 2, is now turning to the 1999 original.
Expect plenty more Silent Hill from Konami, as it plans for 'second and third waves' of new games
LOUD defeated NRG 2-1 at the Valorant Champions in Shanghai, securing at least a top-three finish and a place at the Mercedes-Benz Arena. LOUD won NRG's pick Haven 13-9, dropped their own pick Sunset 10-13, then took Summit 13-3, with lukxo posting a 63/33/9 KDA and erde 50/30/23. NRG drop to the lower bracket to face fellow Americas team 100 Thieves.
PCIFIC Esports in-game leader qpert has announced he is exploring his options for the 2027 season, with his contract running through the end of the 2026 season. He is seeking opportunities as an in-game leader in a Controller or flex role and is willing to relocate to any region. PCIFIC finished the year winless at 0-17, and al0rante, NINJA, waddle, plus coaches thinkii and ZaeS, have also been allowed to explore their options.
More than 30 games arrive on Xbox from October 12-16, including Planet Zoo 2, Castlevania: Belmont's Curse and Toy Story: Retro Roundup!. Xbox Game Pass adds six new titles, led by Battlefield 6 and the new action-RPG Valor Mortis.
RuneScape Reignited will launch on 2 December. Eurogamer shared the release date in a post along with a link.
Nintendo of America president Devon Pritchard said she has "nothing to announce" when asked about GTA 6 coming to Switch 2, adding that it would be a conversation for Take-Two and Rockstar. Former Rockstar open-world designer Jérémy Hartvick questioned whether a port makes sense, saying he isn't sure the audience for GTA 6 is the audience for Nintendo Switch. Neither Nintendo nor Rockstar has suggested a port is being considered, though some insiders claim exploratory conversations have taken place.
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.
BBL confirm MistR signing https://www.hltv.org/news/45690/bbl-confirm-mistr-signing
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director says he "did his best" to fight for a full disc release. https://bit.ly/4hKEkoF
Silent Hill, Gravity Rush director's Bokeh Game Studio is reportedly casting for a new horror game
Arc Raiders executive producer Aleksander Grøndal said splitting the game into PvE and PvP modes is "possible", since the community is already divided along those lines. Embark will run a limited PvE test from 13th to 20th October that toggles opt-in PvE matchmaking where players cannot damage each other, with solos, duos and trios matched into the same sessions and Night Raids and the upcoming Frigate excluded. An Embark blog post said the game was originally conceived seven years ago as a raid-based PvE co-op game with looting, and player data shows 37 percent friendly co-op players, 34 percent pure PvP players and 27 percent who move between both, while 51 percent of surveyed players expressed interest in a dedicated PvE option.
Bokeh Game Studio, founded by Keiichiro Toyama, the director of the original Silent Hill and creator of Siren and Gravity Rush, is reportedly casting motion capture performers for an untitled new horror project, according to MP1st. The casting sheet lists characters including River, Dean, Lyra, Hazel, Becca, Dena, and Emma, plus an eight-year-old girl, with mature themes such as drug use, trafficking, violence, abuse, grief, and sex work, and several characters tied to creature transformation. Bokeh's debut, Slitterhead, launched in 2024.
Pure Xbox editors share what they are playing on Xbox this weekend, including Gears of War: E-Day, which launched into Xbox Game Pass, and the newly released Star Wars: Galactic Racer. They also mention Free Play Days titles, the Seasonal Savings sale on the Xbox Store, and personal picks like Valheim and Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.
The author played part of Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Season 2 at TGS2026. The Evangelion crossover adds Rei Ayanami and Asuka as racers, Unit-00, Unit-01 and Unit-02 as speed-type cars, and a new Third New Tokyo City track where Unit-01 appears and Ramiel fires beams at players. The Godzilla crossover turns Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah into cars and adds an Escape from Godzilla track based on a Sonic Adventure city route, where Godzilla's destruction and atomic breath affect the race. The demo also includes Bayonetta, Aigis from Persona 3 Reload, a McLaren collaboration car and Super Shadow.
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.
Arc Raiders could eventually be split into PvE and PvP, says executive producer
These 30+ PS5 Games Are Coming Out Next Week (12th-18th October) https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/these-30plus-ps5-games-are-coming-out-next-week-12th-18th-october
Mafia 3, which I say is great, got a nice little 10th-anniversary update
This indie first-person ARPG will let you defeat monsters by kicking severed enemy heads at them https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/if-youre-skilful-enough-you-can-chop-the-head-off-a-monster-kick-it-midair-and-then-kill-another-monster-with-it-consider-me-sold-on-this-indie-first-person-arpg/
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.
Silent Hill producer Motoi Okamoto says Konami is already thinking about "second and third waves" of new Silent Hill games after the successful release of its first wave. He said the company is currently looking at "a number of projects" but cannot share specifics, adding that "one remake is not enough." Silent Hill: Townfall is out now.
MOUZ and Spirit meet again at the EPL - this time on stage in Spodek 🏟️
Sometimes, your opponent is just having a really good day 😊 @flameZcsgo
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.
Konami is already thinking about the next wave of Silent Hill games
A Nuclear Eat & Sea Special SP episode shows several edited photos from past Nuclear Fusion events and challenges Simon to guess the year and host city, inviting viewers to guess along. It also lists Nuclear Fusion 2026 Beijing: October 24-25, 2026, at Halls 1 and 3 of Shougang International Convention and Exhibition Center in Shijingshan, Beijing, with tickets on Bilibili Member Buy.
Astralis has moved Rasmus “HooXi” Nielsen and Jakob “jabbi” Nygaard to the bench with immediate effect, days after winning Stake Ranked Episode 4 in Barcelona, the organisation's first LAN title since December 2019. Sport.ua reported that both players' contracts are nearing completion, and named former Liquid captain Kamil “siuhy” Szkaradek and Ukrainian rifler Nikita “cmtry” Samolotov as possible additions, neither officially confirmed. The active lineup lists phzy, Staehr and ryu with NEO as coach, and the next listed event is Stake Pulse Beat III starting October 12, 2026.
Halo is officially returning in two weeks with a new release. Since Halo: Combat Evolved launched on Xbox in 2001, the franchise has spawned more than 30 novels.
Atlus's Persona series features a wide variety of mythological and folkloric creatures as Personas, but one stands apart: Mara, who was so scary that Atlus had to design a censored version of him. The author hates him.
Metro Redux's Next-Gen Update arrives this month as franchise passes 50 million sales. https://bit.ly/4i0iDlx
On September 28, China beat Malaysia 4-0 in the Honor of Kings final at the Nagoya Asian Games, defending the gold medal it also won at the Hangzhou Asian Games, with player Yinuo becoming the league's first and only double gold medalist. On October 8, Tencent TiMi's Delta Force announced its China server daily active users surpassed 58 million as the game marked its second anniversary. NetEase also unveiled its extreme sports competitive shooter Extreme Battlefield, with its first test set to begin on October 15.
Today, we are introducing team briefs to HLTV 🔎
Alinea Analytics estimates Gears of War: E-Day has sold around 230,000 copies, with 168,000 of those on Steam. Xbox accounts for about 75% of revenue because 722,000 of the 1.7 million Xbox Game Pass players bought the $30 Premium Upgrade. The firm stresses these are only estimates.
GPASS's members-only show Recording Pen has reached VOL.800, titled "One Fewer Dogwood Branch... Not Quite Nuclear City 1." The roughly ten-minute episodes consist of short records from the Gcores office's daily life and work, with participants and content varying each time.
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella warned that the US console hardware market faces its most severe crisis since the industry crash of the early 1980s. Through August this year, US Xbox hardware sales fell 33% year over year and PlayStation sales fell 25%, the latter hitting their lowest point since 2013. Rising prices are the main cause, with the average US price of a new Xbox at $529, up 26%, and a new PlayStation at $597, up 20%, both record highs.