The Galaxies Showcase returns on October 15, hosted by Jane Douglas, featuring games from over 40 partners including Square Enix Collective, Krafton, and Embark Studios. The show promises "blockbuster franchises, anticipated sequels, and brand-new announcements," though specific titles remain under wraps. The stream can be watched on IGN.com, YouTube, Twitch, and other outlets.
Crowning the best FPS mode of all time through 1v1 combat (ROUND 2) https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/crowning-the-best-fps-mode-of-all-time-through-1v1-combat-round-2/
Pokemon TCG up on Walmart drawing (closes in 1 hour - 10 AM PT) https://buff.ly/g45TdKI #ad
Grand Theft Auto VI Collection apparel merch up on Rockstar Store https://buff.ly/10vuze4
The Triple-i Initiative will begin in 10 minutes, featuring 45 minutes of back-to-back trailers for independent games, with eight exclusive world premieres. Watch it here: https://www.gematsu.com/event/the-triple-i-initiative-october-8-2026
Shinobi602 shared a batch of new Grand Theft Auto 6 screenshots with the tags #GTA6 and #GrandTheftAutoVI. The post gives no source, platform, or release date details.
Street Fighter Movie Figures up for preorder at Walmart
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition just made the Japanese boxed top ten for the 28th September to 4th October week with 5,780 copies sold, landing at No. 8. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve topped the chart with 63,013 PS5 copies, while Minecraft Dungeons II debuted at No. 5 on Switch 2 with 12,093 sales. Switch 2 led hardware with 26,200 units sold.
Famitsu Sales: 9/28/26 - 10/4/27 https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/famitsu-sales-9-28-26-10-4-27
Pokémon and skateboard brand Santa Cruz have revealed a new line of blind bag skateboard decks based on the Pokémon Trading Card Game, launching October 17. The series includes 30 standard decks and 3 chase variants, with the chase decks printed in multiple languages and limited to 500 units. The decks will be sold via the Santa Cruz website and local retailers, alongside a Pokémon TCG-themed apparel collection.
A free-to-play game called SPAM is trending on Steam, and it has nothing to do with unwanted emails. Details about the game itself have not been disclosed.
Call of Cthulhu has officially changed the name of a Lovecraftian god. The Cthulhu Mythos originated in H.P. Lovecraft's works and includes many unfathomable godlike beings, with Cthulhu being the most famous. Even a Great Old One is not immune to the changing of times.
GPASS's members-only show Recorder has updated to VOL.798, titled "Not Really Getting JPRG." The show consists of short recordings from the Gamecores office's daily life and work, each episode running about ten-plus minutes with no fixed participants or content.
PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: World of Warcraft: Forever
8BitDo will exhibit at the Fusion Game Carnival 2026 Beijing at booth A18, offering check-in rewards and early hands-on time with new products. The event runs October 24-25 at the Shougang International Convention Center in Shijingshan, Beijing, with single-day tickets priced at 139 yuan (discounted 129 yuan) via Bilibili Member Buy.
Blizzard promises to make the blue elves in World of Warcraft: Forever look worse (positive)
Become a celebrity | Modding GTA 5 into GTA 6 🤩
Gear up for spooky season with these chilling titles throughout the month.
Bobby's back https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/bobbys-back/
Pokemon TCG/NeeDoh/Dumpling up on Walmart drawing (closes in 1 hour / 3 PM PT) https://buff.ly/whxgzst #ad
In an IGN30 Icons Series interview, Guillermo del Toro discussed working with Wesley Snipes on Blade 2 and how he almost made a BioShock movie. He also noted that Pan's Labyrinth turns 20 this year and returns to theaters this weekend.
Three English Southern Islands promo cards from the 2001 Pokémon TCG set fetched nearly $1.2 million at auction. The cards drew special praise for their historical significance, extreme scarcity, and aesthetic beauty.
Nikita "cmtry" Samolotov is set to join Astralis on loan as a rifler, according to a report confirmed by HLTV sources. The move follows an earlier HLTV report that Astralis were seeking immediate replacements for HooXi and jabbi after contract negotiations stalled. cmtry was recently benched by FUT to make way for SunPayus, and would switch from the AWP to rifling after wielding it since joining NAVI Youth in 2023.
Three PC Gamer editors competed to make the most gold in two hours in World of Warcraft: Forever's beta, starting as level 1 horde characters with 20 silver each. One sold roleplay "wisdom" at a zeppelin tower for tips, another leaned on his journalist fame and slandered his rivals while begging, and the third had a secret strategy. The run included a mugging, an insult, a fall from the tower, and at least one crashout.
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie has reached $247.6 million worldwide and is expected to surpass his previous biggest film, Weapons ($270 million), by the end of this week or sooner. Its release in China this week, where it debuted on October 5, is projected to add $35 million in its first week and push the global total past $280 million. Cregger has said he is finished with franchise movies, and his next film is the deep-space sci-fi movie The Flood.
The time's been set for the final Suikoden anniversary exhibition in Japan. https://www.siliconera.com/suikoden-anniversary-exhibition-concludes-in-tokyo/
Harvest of Terror 2026: A Horror Game Awards Showcase will begin in a few minutes. Watch it here: https://www.gematsu.com/event/harvest-of-terror-2026-a-horror-game-awards-showcase
GameSpot picked 14 horror games worth wishlisting from Harvest of Terror, the Horror Game Awards team's first showcase since June's Midsummer Night's Scream, which featured more than 100 horror games. The picks include Confronted, which is already out with a free demo, Signal Veil, The Road of Dust and Sorrow, The Pines, and Sombras: Negative Frames.
Help, I have been abducted by a tiny car and cannot escape https://www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-theft-auto/help-i-have-been-abducted-by-a-tiny-car-and-cannot-escape/
WoW is coming to D&D, but it's not 1:1 🎲
Canceled Hideo Kojima horror game P.T. has made a comeback 12 years later. The playable teaser launched in 2014 and was pulled from the PlayStation Store in 2015, leaving no official way to play it.
Refueling before the next race.
DMA Design developers said at a Grand Theft Auto Origins panel at the Scottish Game Developers Association's Games Day 2026 that the original game was initially linear, with players choosing missions from a menu. Lead programmer Keith Hamilton said the open world arose because the team didn't want to build a front end, and the mission list was replaced with telephones that could be answered in any order, inspired by Die Hard with a Vengeance. The panel also covered radio stations, police radio codes and working traffic lights.
The Outlast Trials has reached 119,526 concurrent players on Steam for the first time (90.97% rating) https://steamdb.info/app/1304930/charts/?peak=119526&utm_source=Twitter
It took only 5 minutes to come up with an icon like Danganronpa's Monokuma. https://www.siliconera.com/danganronpa-mascot-monokuma-was-designed-in-5-minutes/
Brian David Gilbert set out on July 30, 2019 to read every single Halo novel, and has finally unraveled all of them. The cost: no one wants to talk to him about Halo anymore. The Unraveled video is framed around Halo Infinite.
The Pokémon Company has announced that The Pokémon Fossil Museum will open at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on May 28, 2027, its second US stop after debuting at the Chicago Field Museum. The Chicago exhibition closes on April 11, 2027, and the museum shop, including the Excavator Pikachu plush, will move from Chicago to Colorado.