The Lego Company has revealed three new Batman sets launching January 1, 2027. They include the Batman Returns Batmobile & Duck set at 672 pieces for $59.99, the Arkham Batman Batmobile based on Batman: Arkham Knight at 317 pieces for $29.99, and The Joker Wall Art Comic Cover at 1,849 pieces for $169.99.
Humble's PlayStation PC Autumn Sale offers up to 80% off former PlayStation exclusives. It's a good moment to catch up on these games.
LEGO has announced three new Batman sets, all launching on January 1, 2027. Two are Batmobile sets that include codes to unlock gold vehicles in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, while the third is a Joker Wall Art set recreating the Detective Comics #880 cover for $169.99 with 1,849 pieces. All three will be shown at the DC Booth (#4365) at New York Comic-Con.
Reddit user fantasticauthor2736 has built a VR mod that turns Diablo 2 Resurrected's isometric ARPG into a first-person VR game, using the existing D2R-3D mod along with FlatVR and BodyWalk. The mod hasn't been published yet, and it will likely share D2R-3D's restriction of crashing after about a minute because it trips Blizzard's file integrity checker. The UI was also redesigned, with the inventory moved to the belt, health, mana and the toolbar on the left wrist, and the map summoned as an orb held in hand.
A driving game described as Steam's secretly biggest ever is coming to PS5 in two weeks. The piece weighs which racing game will be this year's biggest on PS5, noting Forza Horizon 6 has yet to confirm its promised 2026 release date and that Star Wars: Galactic Racer, while brilliant, probably isn't it.
Capcom's remake machine is ticking away, only problem is that means revisiting Resident Evil 5 and 6
Cattle Country 'Bandits & Bounties' update now available https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/cattle-country-bandits-bounties-update-now-available
Sword Sage: Awakening feels like a breezier kind of Soulslike, and it's not just the adorable tea-serving panda that's got me intrigued
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Steam) is $15.99 at Newegg w/ code FTTF8954 https://buff.ly/B5NBJBH #ad
Review: Dune: Awakening (PS5) - What a Time To Be a Duner
Developers behind Zelda: Recompiled and Banjo: Recompiled have publicly condemned AI-generated unofficial PC ports, after a project called Banjo-Tooie Recompiled was shared online last week without disclosing its use of AI code. DarioSamo, who worked on the human-led Banjo port, stated his team has a clear no-AI stance and criticized the project for ignoring the existing patching system. X user FunkyLion compiled a list of human-made decomps and recomps to distinguish them from the wave of AI-assisted ports.
GameSpot rounded up new GTA 6 details from the latest issue of Game Informer. The report says the game may start with Jason while Lucia is still in prison, and the two take a job to improve their lives before getting caught, setting off a mystery spanning all of Leonida. Leonida is said to be twice the size of GTA 5 and Rockstar's largest map yet, split into six regions including Vice City, Leonida Quays, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga National Park, plus a rideshare app called RydeMe and more weather detail.
2K Sports announced that NBA 2K25 will be removed from sale on October 30, 2026, and fully discontinued on December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2026, all multiplayer and online modes will be removed, making the single-player MyCareer and MyTeam modes unplayable and cutting off virtual currency purchases. Owners can redownload and play offline after the shutdown, while Play Now, MyNBA, The W, and MyWNBA modes will remain available.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has shown a worldbuilder cinematic trailer for its DMZ mode. Players can explore the world, follow clues, and uncover more about what happened there and what is still waiting to be discovered in DMZ.
AION 2 is now open to all players at no cost. Players can take to the skies and explore Atreia without spending money.
Fanatical's BYO Triple Pack has returned for Autumn, offering 18 Steam games to choose from. The lineup includes the complete editions of Children of Morta and Moonlighter, with Steam keys starting at just $1.
Published by Playstack, this sci-fi shooter leaves early access next month and joins Xbox Game Pass libraries. It holds a 93% rating from thousands of Steam user reviews.
Rockstar senior vice president of narrative Rupert Humphries said the GTA series has never had "much focus on national politics" beyond GTA 4's Homeland Security and Patriot Act themes, and that GTA 6 won't get "too specific" about any particular person, event, or movement. He said the studio's satire of Florida aims to be "larger than life" rather than a direct mirror of the real world, and described the American dream today as perhaps just a house and paid-off loans. Rockstar is also currently in an employment tribunal over its firing of 34 developers last year.
Kotaku is launching "Guiding Key," a book club-style series that will play through and discuss the entire Kingdom Hearts saga over the course of a year, leading up to playing Kingdom Hearts IV together when it launches in late 2027. The monthly schedule runs from October 2026 through November 2027, with the numbered mainline games each spread across three months, while 358/2 Days and Re:coded will be watched via cutscenes since they aren't readily playable on modern platforms. The first introductory episode goes up Thursday, October 8, when Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] launches on Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Push Square reviewed Dune: Awakening on PS5, with the author having previously played the PC version at launch. The review highlights the progression systems, base building, and skill trees, while calling some Fremen trials linear and tedious. The console version's biggest addition is a dedicated single-player mode, though characters cannot be carried over from multiplayer, and the author reports fairly stable frame rates on PS5 and PS5 Pro with some DualSense haptic support.
During Steam's Autumn Sale 2026, the stylish isometric action-adventure Death's Door from Devolver Digital is on sale for just $1.99, a 90% discount. The game is described as beautifully bleak.
Gears of War: E-Day is about to launch, and the article lists its unlock times by time zone. Pre-order and Game Pass players already got access last week, and the game is a prequel centered on Emergence Day, when the Locust Horde invaded the city of Kalona.
Developer maJAJa announced that Dungeon Munchies 2 will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam on November 6. The Early Access version includes the first chapter of the story, featuring about two to three hours of gameplay, with additional chapters to be added as development continues. It is expected to remain in Early Access for two to three years.
Alientrap announced that DuneCrawl will launch for PS5, Xbox Series, and Android on October 19, with Switch 2 and Switch versions following later in 2026. The cooperative open-world action adventure game first launched for PC via Steam on January 5 and supports up to four players in local or online co-op.
Publisher Playtonic Friends and developer Castle Pixel have released the “Bandits & Bounties” update for cowboy life simulation game Cattle Country, adding bounty hunting, bandit camps, and random store robberies. The update also adds new equipment including the Toolbelt, Extra Large Bag, Animal Trap, Rock Tumbler and Tailoring Table, expands inventory to four rows, and introduces new outfits, hats, head accessories and red hair. A new fishing destination accessible from the docks on Tuesdays and Saturdays lets players catch fish from every season.
Two Halo fan projects, OpenCE and Project Reclaimer, have emerged in recent weeks, targeting Halo CE and Halo 3 respectively. OpenCE is an open source decomp of Halo CE's original Xbox source code that has gotten 128 players into a single multiplayer match and includes a full server browser. Project Reclaimer is a mod of the MCC version of Halo 3 that adds PC split screen, a server browser with dedicated servers and auto-downloading mods, and support for up to 64 players.
Sword Sage: Awakening, developed by Sword Panda Games and published by 4Divinity, is a breezier Soulslike action-RPG starring Pei Sanniang, a disciple of the Yuangong Sect who hunts yaoguai from Chinese folklore. Its combat replaces standard rolls with Evade Cyan dodges and Strike Red counters, and broken weapons can be reforged almost instantly. XP comes from quests and defeating yaoguai, automatically converting into merits spent on a skill tree.
Eurogamer reports that Ace Combat 8 is far and away the series' biggest launch on Steam. No specific player or sales figures are given in the post, which links to the full article.
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Dead by Daylight studio is hiring for a triple-A Sci-Fi first-person shooter with "a high realism bar"
DuneCrawl is coming to PS5, Xbox Series, and Android on October 19. The Switch 2 and Switch versions are planned for later in 2026.
These are my 12 PS2-pilled recommendations from the Steam Autumn Sale https://www.pcgamer.com/games/i-got-my-start-writing-for-a-playstation-2-magazine-these-are-my-12-ps2-pilled-recommendations-from-the-steam-autumn-sale/
Dungeon Munchies 2 will enter Early Access on November 6. The news comes from Gematsu, with a link to its report on gematsu.com.
RuneScape creator Jagex has responded to the use of generative AI in a trailer for RuneScape 3's Dragon Slayer 2 quest shown during RuneFest
2K announced on the NBA 2K25 Steam page that the game will be removed from online storefronts on 30th October 2026, with all online content shutting down on 31st December and online modes gone for good from January 2027. Owners of the 2024 edition can still redownload it after the October cutoff. Because MyCareer and MyTeam are tied to virtual currency progression, they will no longer be playable after the shutdown, and the Switch version will be left with only the Play Now option and no online multiplayer.
The Outlast Trials is discounted by 90% in the Steam Autumn Sale 2026. The game has also set a new player record.
Auroch Digital's FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 launches next week, and principal designer Matt Bone says the level "Vicious Circles" is made of connected rotating ring sections plus a giant slowly spinning cog that players turn to unlock new areas. Set aboard antagonist Vashtorr's ship with a "fleshmetal" art style, the level was a challenge because enemies must navigate moving platforms, the spinning cog is a performance strain, and the art has to work in multiple rotations.
Fuse Games, a Guildford-based studio staffed by developers from Electronic Arts and Criterion Games, is debuting with Star Wars: Galactic Racer. It is a racing game, a genre Lucasfilm Games has barely touched since Star Wars Episode I: Racer in 1999.
Two more games have been revealed for Xbox Game Pass in 2026, including a surprise shadow drop. Ubisoft's Valiant Hearts: Coming Home is out now for Ultimate subscribers, while Digital Pajamas' Don't Fret arrives in Winter 2026 on Series X|S, PC, and Cloud.
Best Buy has launched its Techtober sale, running until October 11, with most deals open to non-members as a direct competitor to Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days. Game highlights include Star Wars: Zero Company at $47.99 for PS5 and Xbox—its first discount since launch—along with LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Night at $59.99 and Battlefield 6 at $34.99. The Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle saves $37.97, while the Gears of War E-Day Xbox Series X bundle is listed at $819.97 with a 1TB console, the game, and a transparent red Elite Series 2 controller.