Chivalware adds Switch 2 version, launches November 5
Chivalware is adding a Switch 2 version and will launch on November 5. The report comes from Gematsu and gives no further platform or gameplay details.
Chivalware is adding a Switch 2 version and will launch on November 5. The report comes from Gematsu and gives no further platform or gameplay details.
No Man's Sky has been released for iPhone and iPad. The release includes ten years worth of updates, according to Digital Foundry.
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard From Vampire Survivors is officially out on phones. Author Giovanni Colantonio looks back on the games he has played this year and still counts the April release among his best-of-the-year picks.
Chivalware is set to release on Nov 5 for PC and Switch 2.
Hytale released an official trailer for Early Access Chapter I.
Riftbound's new Radiance set features rare cards dominated by Riot Games Music crossovers, including Oversized Heartsteel cards, SP K/DA cards, and an Oversized Ekko, Revolutionary using Ekko's original True Damage skin. The set's only Ultimate Rare is Battlefield: Packed Amphitheater, appearing in about 0.025% of booster packs, or roughly 1 in 4,000 packs. Radiance Pre-Rifts start at local game stores on Oct. 16, with booster boxes, packs, and vaults available on Oct. 23.
No Man's Sky is coming to iOS on October 28. The game is currently available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store. The iOS version lets players try the beginning for free, with a one-time purchase unlocking the full game including 10 years of updates.
Bitmap Bureau's beat 'em up He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction will launch on Switch on 4th February 2027 after a lengthy delay. Pre-orders are now open at Clear River Games (£25) and Limited Run Games (£30), with a £100 collector's edition and a free 5.5-inch He-Man action figure for the first 2,250 collector's edition pre-orders. Limited Run pre-orders close on 22nd November at 11:59pm eastern time.
Publisher Clear River Games has announced that He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction will launch on PS5 and PS4 on 4th February, 2027. The side-scrolling brawler is in development at Bitmap Bureau and supports up to four-player co-op across a 13-stage campaign.
Retro-Style He-Man Beat-'Em-Up Finally Hits Up PS5 and PS4 in February https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/10/retro-style-he-man-beat-em-up-finally-hits-up-ps5-and-ps4-in-february
No Man's Sky will arrive on the App Store on October 28, the only one of seven titles in Apple's Indie Games Week not yet available. Hello Games' Sean Murray said the iOS port has been in development for years and was held up by the studio's ongoing free updates, which the team has now caught up with. Players can sync progress from other platforms to their App Store copy, and the game supports controllers, touch controls, or a mix of both on iPhones and iPads released as far back as 2019.
No Man's Sky is set to release on iOS on Oct 28.
No Man's Sky is coming to iOS on October 28. Gematsu reported the date and linked to its full story on the site.
WW2 real-time strategy game Battleplan launches on Steam today, with orders issued by drawing on a large pseudo-paper map based on geographical survey data while thousands of troops, tanks, planes and artillery try to turn those doodles into conquered territory. Players don't control units directly, but can draw curved breakthroughs, planned withdrawals, preparatory bombing runs, reconnaissance and counterattacks, and organise divisions, corps and companies before redrawing frontlines. The launch version includes a single-player campaign of 11 historical missions from the D-Day landings to Operation Varsity on the Western Front, plus tutorial levels, and developer Foolish Mortals Games says it plans post-launch system updates, gameplay improvements and additional theatres of war.
Hello Games announced that No Man's Sky will arrive on iPhone and iPad in October, with preorders opening the same day. The port will include all updates released over the past decade and will run on devices as old as the iPhone 11. Hello Games said the port was possible in large part thanks to Light No Fire, its in-development follow-up to No Man's Sky.
Developer Gino Inc. announced that a demo for the anime-style 3D roguelite action game Bless You Again is now available on Steam as part of Steam Next Fest: October 2026 Edition. The demo includes the prologue and the first dungeon, the Corridor of Guidance, where players fight as protagonist Lily alongside the spirit Yoru. The full game is due out for PC via Steam in 2026.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction is confirmed for February 4, 2027 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S, with digital and physical releases. Developed by Bitmap Bureau with Mattel and Clear River Games, it is a pixel-art brawler with He-Man, She-Ra, Man-At-Arms, and Teela as playable characters, solo and two-player local co-op, and 13 stages. Limited Run Games will offer two physical versions: a standard edition at $29.99 and a Collector's Edition at $99.99 that includes lunchbox-style packaging, pin badges, a Power Sword replica, and a 12-page mini comic by Dark Horse Comics.
Six games are coming to Xbox Game Pass from October 13 to 16, five of them day-one launches on Xbox or PC. Battlefield 6 headlines the lineup on October 13, alongside Deep Dish Dungeon and Valor Mortis, a first-person action soulslike from the creators of Ghostrunner. Bluey's Happy Snaps and the 1-4 player co-op gladiator roguelike Chained Beasts arrive on October 15, while Beyond These Stars comes on October 16 as a PC-only title, with the rest also available on Xbox consoles.
Bless You Again demo now available https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/bless-you-again-demo-now-available
Bandai Namco released a new Tekken 8 trailer that briefly teases Baki character Yujiro Hanma and lists him for the winter season. The trailer says he will get his own Tekken 8 trailer at the Tekken World Tour Finals on January 17, but no release date for the character has been announced.
Limited Run Games and developer Bitmap Bureau announced that the side-scrolling beat 'em up He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction will launch on February 4, 2027 for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam at $29.99 / €29.99. Physical edition pre-orders are open now through Limited Run Games. Players can choose among He-Man, Teela, Man-at-Arms, and She-Ra across 13 stages to fight Skeletor and Evil-Lyn.
This week's PC games roundup includes Planet Zoo 2, which lets players run a nature reserve and build aquariums and aviaries, and Rolla, which casts players as a malevolent human-eating ball of tentacles rolling through a city like a Katamari. Valor Mortis is a first-person soulslike set in the Napoleonic era with body horror, and Total War: Shogun 2 - Compete is a remaster with fancier graphics and 50 new minor factions.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction launches February 4, 2027 https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/he-man-and-the-masters-of-the-universe-dragon-pearl-of-destruction-launches-february-4-2027
He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe: Dragon Pearl Of Destruction – Release Date Trailer (Feb 4th, 2027) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBZ6EBH7bQ
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Star Citizen's single-player mode Squadron 42 has a new trailer showing its cast, including Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, and Henry Cavill, along with space dogfighting, life aboard a capital ship, and first-person combat. After 12 years in development, the mode has no firm release date, only a Q2 2027 window, and is now wishlistable on the CIG website and Steam.
Squadron 42, the singleplayer spinoff from Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, now has a Steam page listing a planned launch in the second quarter of 2027, between early April and the end of June. A new trailer shows the player as a rookie in the UEE Navy and lists cameos including Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson, Andy Serkis and Henry Cavill. The game is now wishlistable.
Push Square rounds up the 30+ games launching on PS5 from 12th to 18th October, including Planet Zoo 2 on 13th October and Castlevania: Belmont's Curse on 15th October. Other highlights this week include Valor Mortis, The Witch's Bakery, Ratatan, Tales of Eternia: Remastered, and two Toy Story re-releases.
Two new games launch on Xbox today, October 12. Alpha Nomos is a rhythm-action adventure for Series X|S, PC, and Cloud in which players control Cello and time attacks to the beat, echoing Hi-Fi RUSH's combat. Colorbound is a cosy puzzle-platformer, also on Series X|S, PC, and Cloud, following Anku as he uses color to reunite his late grandfather's band.
Two new games launch on Xbox today, October 12. Alpha Nomos is a rhythm-action adventure with combat reminiscent of Hi-Fi RUSH, where players time attacks to the beat as Cello. Colorbound is a cozy puzzle-platformer in which players join Anku on a journey to reunite his late grandfather's band by using color to shape the world.
Capcom is bringing three modern Resident Evil remakes to Switch 2 on 16th October, and eShop listings show they take up 14.0GB, 12.9GB and 29.0GB respectively, for 55.9GB total. There's no word yet on any physical release, so day-one players will have to download them from the eShop.
EA has announced Wing Commander 3: 30th Anniversary Edition, featuring fully restored FMV sequences taken from the original tapes. The new version will also include a frame rate boost of up to 60 frames per second, an enhancement patch made with the Wing Commander fan community, and "Kilrathi Saga integration." The original 1994 release presented its two hours of FMV in 240p and heavily compressed, and unlike its 1996 sequel, never received an improved video re-release.
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has released a new game, Interrogation Room Komiya, which he says was made in "just about 30 minutes" using generative AI. In the game, players select a series of text prompts to try to make a suspect confess to a crime. Horii had previously said he was thinking about adding an AI chatbot to one of his future games.
Infinity Ward announced that DMZ, the extraction shooter mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, will open before the game's official launch, with digital pre-order players able to play from 20th October. The game now has three dates: the campaign unlocks 16th October, DMZ on the 20th, and the full launch with multiplayer on 23rd October. In a Reddit Q&A, Infinity Ward said the Single Squad Mission option seen in earlier footage is a developer-only playlist, and that in the shipping game players can go solo by turning off squad fill, though lobbies are not guaranteed to be solo-only.
Solo developer Joe has announced We Will Die For You, a game where you guide a white blood cell through the human body to break apart debris, fight disease, and collect Protein. Each cell eventually dies, but what it collected is spent on permanent upgrades for the next one, with abilities including satellites, chain lightning, missiles, spikes, lasers, and a toxic trail. The game is targeting Q1 2027 on Steam and can be wishlisted now.
This Week's Japanese Game Releases: Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, RATATAN, more https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/this-weeks-japanese-game-releases-castlevania-belmonts-curse-ratatan-more
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse and RATATAN headline this week's Japanese game releases, with the former launching on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC, and the latter on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC. Also due out this week are Tales of Eternia Remastered, Enshrouded, and Valor Mortis.
York Games is developing Ascend: Journey beyond the clouds, a physics-based precision platformer where players control Zeo, a tiny golden cube, using slingshot mechanics to launch across floating platforms toward the Sun. The full game will feature 12 stages and is targeting release on Steam (PC), Android, and iOS. A free playable demo with the first 3 stages launched this weekend on itch.io, playable in browser, on PC, or mobile.
NetEase's Wildfire division has unveiled its new FPS Extreme Battlefield along with two gameplay videos showing gun feel and shooting combat. The game combines hero shooter and battle royale elements, using an in-match economy to link resource gathering, combat and progression, with its first test on PC starting October 15. The division previously made Knives Out and Blood Strike.
Re:Departure, the first game from Bilibili creator Wang Laoju's Future Technology studio, launches on Steam on October 23. It is a 2D adventure game blending light roguelike and incremental progression, where players drive a battle vehicle by working a mechanical dashboard of levers and dials. The Early Access version includes 4 world biomes, more than 30 characters, 60 devices and 100 relics. Wang Laoju announced his move into game development in 2019, started and abandoned at least three projects, and said in 2023 that he had spent 6 million yuan of his savings.