Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves DLC characters Manjiro Sano and Ken Ryuguji trailers, screenshots https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/fatal-fury-city-of-the-wolves-dlc-characters-manjiro-sano-and-ken-ryuguji-trailers-screenshots
Nintendo released a seven-minute overview trailer for Nintendo Switch Sports Resort, which launches on Switch 2 on October 22. The game includes 12 motion-control sports, from archery and basketball to thumb wrestling and volleyball, and supports Joy-Con 2 mouse controls plus custom Sportsmate or Mii characters for online or offline play. Details on how many people can play together online will be provided later.
Nintendo announced that Nintendo Switch Sports Resort will launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 on Oct 22. Players can compete in 12 sports and customize their Sportmate or Mii characters.
MARVEL Cosmic Invasion | DLC 2 | Invisible Woman and Doctor Doom coming November 10th along with a brand new game mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju8byrUM5D8
Nintendo released an overview trailer for Nintendo Switch Sports Resort on Nintendo Switch 2. The trailer is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tX12iFeM88.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has revealed paid spawn options for its DMZ mode, giving paying players a notable advantage over those spawning on foot. Eurogamer reported the news with a link to its full article.
Permafrost, a story-driven survival sandbox from SpaceRocket Games and publisher Toplitz Productions, is now in Early Access on PC via Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store. Players take the role of engineer Rook searching for the missing Icarus in a frozen world after the moon shatters, alone or with up to three friends. The game features dynamic weather, Cold Zones, resource gathering and crafting, shelter networks, and a dog companion that scouts and carries supplies.
Frozen Trail, the biggest patch for Arc Raiders since launch, is now live. The update adds a new map along with features and improvements including faster leveling, aimed at veterans, returning players, and newcomers.
Escape from Tarkov developer BattleState Games has partnered with YYSTV to offer a PVE-mode starter supply code. After the new version launches, players can enter "YYSTV" on the official website or in the client's redemption code interface to receive an in-game mail containing a full equipment pack with headset, helmet, armored rig, backpack, an HK416 assault rifle, and 120 rounds of high-penetration ammo. The code is valid for two weeks, and BattleState initiated the collaboration to ensure Chinese players don't miss out on the perk.
Fuse Games has announced that Star Wars: Galactic Racer will raise its multiplayer party size limit from three to six players in a future update. The studio said it is aiming to release the update within the first few weeks of launch, with more details to come.
Ten new games launch on Xbox today (October 8), three of which join Game Pass on day one: Neon Abyss 2, Echo Weaver and Forever Ago. Outside Game Pass, Silver Pines has been reviewing well, and Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival also arrives today.
Gardens Interactive has raised over $35 million in a Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding past $70 million. The studio, co-founded by veterans of Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Sky: Children of the Light, is developing its debut multiplayer title Project Gardens, described as a "shared fantasy adventure" with "social roleplay elements."
Star Wars: Galactic Racer developer Fuse Games has announced that an upcoming update will raise the game's multiplayer party size from 3 to 6 players. The studio said it aims to release the update within the first few weeks of launch, though no specific date was given. The game launched earlier this week, and Amazon Prime members can currently play its single-player portion via Amazon's Luna service at no extra cost.
Arena Breakout Season 19, live since September 2, has added Hardcore Mode 2.0, Commander mode and a card-based mode called Dark Zone: Blockade Line. A crossover with Girls' Frontline 2 launched on September 30, letting OTs-14 and Klukai join squads as commanders. The card mode is a turn-based deck builder with commander, soldier, weapon and order cards, three lanes and five preset starter decks.
Developer Fuse Games has responded to fan feedback and is working on an update to Star Wars: Galactic Racer that will increase the multiplayer party size from three to six players. The studio aims to release it within the first few weeks of launch, with more details to come soon. IGN's review called the game a fabulous looking and frantically fast anti-grav racer.
Riot Games announced that 2XKO, its free-to-play tag fighting game based on League of Legends, will add Samira and Sett as playable characters on October 27. Samira was previously announced, while Sett is newly revealed. The game is available now on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC.
2XKO will add Samira and Sett on October 27. The news comes via a Gematsu report.
Xbox Game Pass announced its first batch of October 2026 additions, with Battlefield 6 joining the subscription for the first time on October 13, a year after launch and just as its Las Vegas-themed season 5 begins. The same wave brings indies including Echo Weaver, Neon Abyss 2, and Chained Beasts between October 8 and 16. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, out this month, will not come to Game Pass at launch because of Xbox's ongoing reset.
The Outlast Trials has broken its concurrent-player record with over 120,000 players, more than four times its previous high of 36,000 set when it launched in Steam Early Access in 2023. Red Barrels credited a $4 Steam Autumn Sale discount, roughly half of players coming from China, and the Halloween season. The co-op horror game launched version 1.0 in spring 2024 and will follow with its annual Geister event and Season 8 in December.
Blizzard moved Overwatch's pesky, perpetually banned hacker Sombra from damage to support, and the rework turned out far better than expected. The author, initially ready to scoff at the change as a concession to players unwilling to learn the game, admitted being proven wrong.
Marvel Rivals Season 10.5 is about to release, and NetEase is breaking from tradition for this mid-season update. There is no new hero this time — Gorr is the only addition for the whole of Season 10 — but a massive new game mode is coming, along with Halloween specials including new skins.
Phoenix Cyclops, the first post-launch DLC character for MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls, launches on November 2. The developers said they chose the Phoenix version of Cyclops because his classic look and battle style were already well established in Marvel fighting games. He is an all-rounder who builds Solar Shards with Optic Blasts and can transform into Dark Phoenix after collecting four, gaining a temporary power boost at the risk of health depletion. Classic and Legacy costumes are also included, and attendees at EVO France from October 9 to 11 can try him early.
RuneScape developer Jagex descended upon Birmingham over the weekend with its annual RuneFest. As part of its RuneScape keynote, it showed off a trailer for its upcoming Dragon Slayer 2 quest which, er, featured a player character with six fingers and a bizarre sneaker-like sole on their very not-sneaker armoured shoes.
The sky-island open world game Atmosfar will enter Early Access on October 29, accompanied by a trailer showing flying islands, cloud cruisers and sky taxis. Players can pilot three variants of the Wasp hovercar or board a Cloud Cruiser airbase that hosts up to three co-op players. The Early Access launch includes two regions, and the developers say it will last at least 9 months while adding a third region, a fourth Wasp breed and more building options.
Microsoft revealed the first batch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in October 2026, with Battlefield 6 joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on 13th October. Echo Weaver, Forever Ago and Neon Abyss 2 arrive on 8th October, Deep Dish Dungeon and Valor Mortis on 13th, Bluey's Happy Snaps and Chained Beasts on 15th, and Beyond These Stars on 16th, with seven titles launching into the service on day one. Games leaving on 15th October include Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Donut County and Pacific Drive.
Ubisoft and Ivory Tower have launched Season 11 of The Crew Motorfest, adding the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i for free. The season also brings 20 new vehicles, two new playlists, and the return of 40 animal species, while the Tomb Raider collaboration premium DLC Secrets of Ni'ihau adds a smaller island. TrackForge also gets 200 new parts for building off-road courses.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer's multiplayer mode is being called the best racing multiplayer in years. The reviewer had expected it to be a standard affair that blunted the game's originality in pursuit of a level playing field, but found otherwise after further testing on live servers. The reviewer expects the mode to be quite influential.
A PC Gamer writer spent 3 hours with the Arc Raiders Frozen Trails update and spent most of it using the new grapple hook. The green tier gadget can climb buildings, swing between rooftops, descend safely, stick to almost anything, and be redeployed midair with no cooldown or use limit, allowing chained swings. The update also adds a launcher that tethers two objects and a grenade that yanks Arc bots to the ground, which the writer did not test thoroughly. The reworked skill tree mixes old and new abilities with mutually exclusive branches, and the writer found most nodes to be incremental stat boosts that do not change play in the short term, while the new Pendola Pass map feels visually distinct for its snow but familiar in the areas they visit most.
I had 3 hours with Arc Raiders Frozen Trails update and spent most of it playing with a grapple hook
Arc Raiders' biggest update yet, Frozen Trail, is coming soon, and the author went hands-on with it for a few hours. It adds the raid-inspired Emperor set into the mountainside, an airborne Frigate, new enemies, weapons, gadgets, and a new snowy map, with the grappling hook standing out most.
Arc Raiders' Frozen Trail update arrives in less than 24 hours, and the article lists its release time in each time zone. It is described as the extraction shooter's biggest update yet, adding a new map, two endgame raid-style encounters, a new weapon amplification system, and three new Arc enemies.
The latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ trailers have left players confused about whether a PvE-only mode exists. Episode seven of From the Ward showed a "Single Squad Mission" option with no on-screen description, but the DMZ Dynamic Ops trailer released a day later omitted it. DMZ launches with Modern Warfare 4 on 23rd October for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Switch 2.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's latest DMZ trailers have left players confused about the existence of a PvE-only mode
Undead Labs, now independent from Xbox Game Studios, says State of Decay 3 will still launch day one on Game Pass in 2027. Studio boss Philip Holt said State of Decay 2's success and high retention on Game Pass built a large playerbase and franchise fans. He added that the game's biggest investment is four-player co-op shared world, making Game Pass's large audience a growth vector.
Publisher Shueisha Games and developer Apog Labs announced that ATMOSFAR will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on October 29. The aerial cooperative survival game supports solo play or up to four players, who scavenge scrap and build and upgrade flying vessels and a mobile airbase among the floating islands of Tycos.
Overwatch's Season 5 patch reworks Sombra from Damage into a Support hero, and after several matches the author calls it the most fun he has had with her in over a year. Her retained abilities cast faster, and her new primary heal Hotfix applies healing over time in a way similar to the old Hack, though her numbers trail dedicated healers like Lifeweaver. Cyberspace, which replaces Virus, is an area debuff that halves enemies' healing and damage output and can be escaped by leaving its field.
Two more games have been confirmed for November's Xbox Game Pass lineup. VOID/BREAKER Version 1.0 arrives November 4 on Series X|S, PC, and Cloud, after previously being available in Early Access on Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Warhammer Survivors launches November 10 on the same platforms, developed by the team behind Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun and featuring over 40 playable champions.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 studio Infinity Ward is betting big on DMZ - the game's extraction shooter mode - becoming another major pillar of the series. https://bit.ly/4hIgYzE
Something truly wicked is unleashing during Season 5: A Grim Doctrine, live now in Overwatch on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch!
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.