The Blood of Dawnwalker is down to $59.49 on PS5 and Xbox during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale, more than $10 off its $69.99 list price. The promotion runs October 6-7 and requires an Amazon Prime membership. Developed by Rebel Wolves, the vampire RPG received a 9/10 review from IGN.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer lets you race from the first-person perspective of pilot Shade, but the game never teaches this—you have to find the perspective toggle in the settings menu yourself. The author spent their first 16 hours playing in third-person, and after testing it, found first-person is the way to play, making the already-frenetic speed and collisions feel even more frantic.
Pocky & Rocky Reshrined is $16.49 on Steam https://buff.ly/Ex7WPye
Killing Floor 3 Steam keys are listed at 90% off on the Humble Store, flagged as a possible price bug. The report comes from GG.deals and gives no specific price, end date, or official comment.
A roundup of Silver Pines reviews lists CGM and Radio Times at 10, Dualshockers at 9.5, and KonsoliFIN, Meristation, GameSpew, GamesRadar, SteamDeckHQ, Digital Chumps and Gaming Boulevard at 9. PSU gave 8.5, while VDGMS, Guardian and Gamesurf gave 8. The aggregated scores stand at 85 on Metacritic and 87 on OpenCritic.
Digital Foundry published a review of Star Wars: Galactic Racer. It calls the game a top-flight arcade racing title with impressive graphics technology.
Embark Studios' Arc Raiders and The Finals have been picked up by North Road Company's Chernin Entertainment for movie adaptation and TV syndication, with Chernin serving as lead producer. It is unclear what form the adaptations will take or whether they will hit theaters or streaming platforms. Arc Raiders recently surpassed 16 million sales.
According to Windows Central, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told staff at a townhall that the platform has returned to growth after an all-time low, at more than 2 to 3 times its previous level, and claimed a 30 percent boost in brand sentiment year over year. She cited strong starts for Minecraft Dungeons 2, Gears of War: E-Day and World of Warcraft Forever, and listed goals including Play Anywhere, Disc-to-Digital, making Xbox easier to develop for and making Game Pass more flexible. On Gen 10 hardware, Project Helix, she said Xbox is moving to a family of devices with a console first and some products made in-house and others with partners.
Playground Games has issued a statement saying it has read player feedback about Forza Horizon 6's post-launch updates and is looking into future changes to both in-game content and communication. Fan frustration has centered on the lack of street racing and updates adding little value. A new Horizon Meets update arrives this Thursday with a 7-Eleven Car Meet, 3 new-to-Horizon cars and a new Treasure Car, with the next update themed around City Life.
Overwatch's new season is live, adding the hero Doctrine, reworks for Sombra and Roadhog, and the final chapter of Blizzard's year-long narrative arc. The patch now makes Cassidy detach from Jetpack Cat's Lifeline tether and fall to the ground when he uses High Noon, which Blizzard says was too powerful at repositioning him to eliminate targets. The author notes that Soldier: 76's Ultimate and Ashe's B.O.B. can also be tethered but were left unchanged, and includes the full balance patch notes for Roadhog, Sombra, and hero hit volumes.
PC Gamer reviewed Gears of War: E-Day, calling its third-person cover shooting the best the series has felt while finding the 20-plus-hour campaign one-note and overstretched. The prequel covers the day the Locust emerged, with Marcus and Dom written much as they were in the original. The multiplayer fares better, with the 4v4 modes and Horde Siege described as a worthwhile expansion of what Gears can be.
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Amazon has confirmed its October lineup of 'free' PC games for Prime subscribers on Luna, including Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit and Doom (2016). The games are redeemed as codes on stores like Epic Games Store, GOG and the Amazon Games App, and remain in players' libraries even if they cancel their Prime subscription. New Luna Standard titles this month include Star Wars: Galactic Racer and Sonic X Shadow Generations.
Razer has officially revealed the Wolverine V4 controller for Xbox and PC, aimed at competitive gamers. It swaps Hall Effect thumbsticks for capacitive contactless sensors backed by a 16-bit ADC, and offers an 8000Hz polling rate on PC in both wired and wireless modes. On Xbox Series X|S, hardware limits cap the polling rate at 250Hz.
Japanese developer PiXEL's "pseudo 3D style" shooter Angelian Trigger is coming to PS5, due out at some point in 2027. The game is already available on the Switch in Japan with Japanese language support only, and it's unclear whether that will change with the PS5 port. It has 24 stages across Story Mode and Arcade Mode, with each level ending in a boss and two playable characters with different combat arsenals.
Arc System Works will fully reveal Phoenix Cyclops, the first of four Year 1 Pass fighters for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, in a trailer on 7th October. The character is an alternate version of Scott Summers infused with the fire of Phoenix Force, first seen in the 2012 Avengers vs. X-Men comic event. The game sold well at launch on PS5 but its poor PC port hurt its reputation.
PC Gamer published its review of Gears of War: E-Day, calling the shooting terrific while describing the campaign as sluggish. The full review is available on PC Gamer's website.
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Crack, a co-op game about smashing open a giant egg in a laboratory, launches on Steam on October 26. Players start with pickaxes and chisels before moving on to dynamite and "other weird tools," and broken shells can be turned into currency. The game promises an "incremental adventure" with scaffolding, secret rooms, and an egg that reacts to whatever you do to it.
The latest Battlefield 6 Season 5 trailer shows a Las Vegas map before cutting to two Dead Space engineers staring up at The Marker, seemingly teasing a crossover. Season 5 includes three new maps, among them Vegas Strip and Area 51, plus six new weapons and two new vehicles, with Vegas opening on October 13. Reddit players had already spotted possible Dead Space skins, rumored to arrive in this October's Halloween update, and EA recently charged $40 for a Dead Space skin in Skate.
Modern Warships developer Artstorm has admitted that an independent artist's 2014 ekranoplan design was used in the game without permission. Rather than removing the copied ship, Artstorm said it will contact the artist directly to make things right. According to IGN, the ship costs between $50 and $100 in gacha spins, or as much as $700 to buy outright.
GUNDAM ROGUE ORBIT has revealed a gameplay walkthrough trailer, offering a first look at high-speed combat on Mars. Players gear up and customize their ultimate mobile suit to prepare to take on the Apocalypse.
Marvel Rivals revealed a new mode, Path to Doomsday – Avengers: Endgame, arriving Oct. 22. It is a PvE experience in which 50 players team up to fight Thanos and his minions. The mode is part of a run of tie-in events ahead of Avengers: Doomsday.
Square Enix is lending three members of Nier: Automata's cast to asymmetric multiplayer survival horror game Dead by Daylight. The collaboration is available as of today, Oct. 6.
Midwest 90: Rapid City, a post-apocalyptic tycoon survival sim, launches in early access on November 10 and has a demo available now. Players run a roadhouse, researching recipes from monster ingredients, designing menus around customer demand, and defending the diner with tower defence-style traps at nightfall.
In Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy, players as an Inquisition acolyte can accuse any suspect the moment they log evidence against them, even if all they have is a feeling, according to senior narrative designer Veronika Larionova. Digging further can reshape the accusation's wording, add proof, or clear the suspect, and choices have no right or wrong answer but can affect story paths, rewards, NPC attitudes, and additional endings. No release date has been announced, but the game can be wishlisted on Steam.
Humble Choice announced its October 2026 lineup, which includes Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Psychonauts 2 and more.
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Free Prime Gaming/Luna lineup for October https://www.amazongamestudios.com/en-us/news/articles/luna-october-2026
Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns has topped Steam's bestsellers list in Japan, with its VR-enabling DLC also charting above Palworld and Forza Horizon 6. Producer Kentaro Matsui said in an interview that he was "hopelessly devoted" to the game's female characters and was "left penniless" as a teenager losing pocket money in arcades. The revival kept the original characters and scenarios while updating visuals and adding VR support, after a Campfire crowdfunding campaign raised 33.8 million yen, 1690 percent of its goal.
Square Enix released new Final Fantasy VII Revelation clips showing hot-springs scenes where male party members get unlockable swimsuit skins usable throughout the game, per director Naoki Hamaguchi. Barret has chest hair in the footage, but Cid is as smooth as Cloud, prompting the author to ask Square Enix to fix it. The game launches April 8 on PC, PS5, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X/S.
As part of a daily quest to turn GTA 5 into a PC version of GTA 6, I installed the ScamV mod, which promises to turn Los Santos into a digital playground where you play a cyber-criminal using cloned cards and exploits. In practice it mostly just gave Franklin a duffel bag. Trying to pay a bank teller with fake cheques only gets the message "You don't have any fake cheques," with no hint on how to get them.
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale, running through October 7, discounts several Final Fantasy games for Prime members by up to 50%. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is down to $16.99 on PS5 and $34.99 on Switch 2, while Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade is $19.99 on PS5 and $24.99 on Switch 2. Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is also $29.99 on both PS5 and Nintendo Switch.
At Fate's End has been delayed to 2027, and a PC demo is now available. Gematsu links to the original post with the news.
A modder named Sergious has turned Diablo 2 into a VR mod, letting players explore the game's starting area in first-person as the Sorceress and fireball nearby zombies. The mod was made with FlatVR and BodyWalk, and its files are available on Github. The article also notes that Diablo 5 was recently announced at BlizzCon but doesn't appear to be going in this direction.
A Dragon's Dogma 2 update adds features supporting the Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Expansion DLC and introduces a hard mode. It also adds a feature that lets players carry over their current saved data and start the game over from the beginning, along with other adjustments and bug fixes.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer's Biggest Weakness Is Its Limited Multiplayer, and It's Already Getting Fixed https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/10/star-wars-galactic-racers-biggest-weakness-is-its-limited-multiplayer-and-its-already-getting-fixed
Ubisoft once hoped Watch Dogs would become a core franchise alongside Assassin's Creed and Far Cry, but the series never quite caught on despite three releases. After the poor reception of 2020's Legion, Watch Dogs has been dormant, and that might be about to change.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out today on Xbox, PS5, and PC, and Amazon Prime members can stream it free on Luna from launch day. The author found no input lag in the Luna version but noted low-res textures, pop-in, and blurriness, and said it lacks multiplayer and only offers single-player races. He suggests using Luna as a quick demo and playing on console or PC for the full experience.
Free-to-play Eco Inc. Save The World is going paid, so players can still add it to their Steam library while it remains free. No date or price for the switch was given.