The Miami Heat will host "A Night in Vice City" for its November 18 NBA game against the Milwaukee Bucks, wearing an all-new uniform on a never-before-seen court, live on ESPN. The event at the Kaseya Center takes place the day before GTA 6 launches on PS5 and Xbox Series consoles on November 19. GTA 6 costs $79.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition.
Amazon has cut the price of the white Xbox Elite Series 2 Core controller from $149.99 to $111.74, a $38.25 discount, ahead of Prime Big Deal Days. The controller offers adjustable-tension thumbsticks, a wrap-around rubberized grip, shorter hair trigger locks, interchangeable components, button mapping options, and up to 40 hours of battery life per charge. The sale runs for only 48 hours until October 7.
Fortnitemares has begun in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4, with the first set of Bounty Hunter power hours taking place on Saturday, Oct. 3. The power hours increase the drop rate for Bounty Hunter variant sprites, so players hunting for them will want to get in some playtime.
An age-rating description for GTA 6 on the PlayStation Store in New Zealand and Australia mentions "sex scenes", which if accurate would make it the first Grand Theft Auto game to directly depict sexual intercourse. The descriptions, spotted by IGN, are not separately searchable on the relevant ratings boards' websites, and the UK PS Store listing mentions "sexual content" with a PEGI "sex" symbol. Grand Theft Auto 6 releases 19th November.
The Miami Heat have announced a GTA 6-themed "A Night in Vice City" takeover for their November 18 game against the Milwaukee Bucks, featuring new Vice City uniforms and a never-before-seen court, broadcast live on ESPN. The team's store is already selling GTA 6-themed merch, including a shirt referencing the original GTA: Vice City 100-percent completion reward that has sold out. Grand Theft Auto 6 launches November 19 on PS5 and Xbox.
Signal Veil, a third-person survival horror game from Chilean studio Time Hunters and published by Tokyo-based Serafini Productions, has been announced for PS5. It uses a cel-shaded 90s anime aesthetic and cites Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Fatal Frame among its influences, with players using a flip-phone to solve puzzles and stun enemies. No release window has been announced, but it can be wishlisted now on the PS Store.
SEGA and RGG Studio have released a new gameplay video for the 50-year action adventure saga STRANGER THAN HEAVEN, introducing the game's 1943 Minami, Osaka era, one of its five cities and eras. The game is due out for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store on January 15, 2027, and will also be available via Game Pass.
In the Street Fighter movie, fighting game legend Justin Wong's prisoner cameo hides a "37" tattoo on his neck, a nod to Evo Moment 37. That 2004 moment saw Wong, playing a low-health Chun-Li, parry over a dozen of Daigo Umehara's Ken attacks before countering. The film also leans into Capcom's game look with its costumes, special attacks, and a new version of Guile's theme by composers Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson.
The NBA's Miami Heat announced they will wear GTA 6-inspired jerseys and play on a GTA 6 and Vice City-themed court when they host the Milwaukee Bucks on November 18, a day before the game launches. The matchup will air on ESPN, and the Heat have rolled out a "Vice City Collection" of merch. GTA 6 launches November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with reported pre-sales near 6 million copies and more than $570 million.
AI developer Mitchell Hynes has released the original Xbox version of Halo: Combat Evolved to play for free in a web browser, and it is not Gearbox's 2003 PC port. Five hours after release it saw nearly 20,000 games at an average of 94 frames per second. Hynes said his website's "Suspected Phishing" flag came from an automatic Cloudflare flag rather than Microsoft, and the ban was soon lifted.
Warhorse co-founder Martin Klima said he hopes GTA 6 will "blaze the trail" for higher game prices, arguing triple-A games face an existential problem as audience sizes plateau and retail dies. He claimed Rockstar and Take-Two are the only companies that can afford or dare to raise prices, which he called long overdue and necessary for the business to survive. Klima also admitted GTA 6 "doesn't appeal to me at all," while the game's Standard Edition is priced $79.99 in the U.S. and £69.99 in the U.K., ahead of its November 19 release on PS5 and Xbox Series.
Polygon's Wishlister picks six upcoming Steam games whose eye-catching art styles landed them on its radar, including the hand-drawn small-town cozy game Vivarium, the comic-book-styled 2D platformer Rebounder, and the hand-drawn Metroidvania The Eternal Life of Goldman. The list also features the Doom-like shooter Cybrlich and the Death Cult of Labor, the two-player puzzle game Reason and Rhyme launching Oct. 15, and the monochromatic indie game Lelu.
Custom metal desks at the Valorant Champions tournament in Shanghai interfered with wireless mouse signals, causing repeated tech pauses and forcing players to switch to wired mice. In a FUT Esports vs 100 Thieves match, player xeus could not fire; Riot said a round rollback should have been allowed but kept the match result. Riot believes the metal material may be the cause, and some mice without USB Type-C ports would need to be swapped entirely.
The Pokémon Company International and the European Space Agency have teamed up to release a space-themed merchandise collection for World Space Week, running Oct. 4 to Oct. 10. The lineup includes two astronaut Pikachu plushies, pins, patches, a bomber jacket, and a T-shirt, with some items exclusive to the Pokémon Center's US website. An astronaut Pikachu figure and a 1,000-piece space Pikachu puzzle have no announced release date yet.
Players recently discovered a new toy in World of Warcraft: Forever called the Night Watchman's Torch, which lets a character hold a light-producing torch while still keeping a weapon equipped. A Kotaku writer set out on a level 14 Horde character from Mulgore, traveling through the Barrens and Orgrimmar by zeppelin into the Eastern Kingdoms on foot to reach it. The beta's level cap was 20 at the time, with a maintenance patch later that day raising it to 30.
Eight new games launch on Xbox today, October 2, including Double Fine's Keeper, which is new to Xbox Game Pass Premium. Agefield High: Rock The School arrives for Series X|S, alongside Aery - Calm Horizon 2, Aetherfall, Hole io: Complete Edition, Kawaii Push, Mister Scary – Where Are You?, Monster Nursery and Stone Run.
Micro Center is reportedly requiring customers buying prebuilt PCs with an RTX 5090 to sign a declaration promising not to export the graphics card, and to show a driver's license for identity verification. A Reddit user says the form took effect only a few days ago at the Tustin, California store when they bought a Powerspec Ai90 prebuilt. High-end GPUs are banned from being exported to China, and buying an RTX 5090 on its own has become harder.
Following Reality Fracture's prerelease weekend on September 26-27, the most valuable cards from the set have been priced, led by the Facet Foil Omnipresence at $1,000. The set launches October 2, and Amazon is currently out of stock of all Reality Fracture products, pushing buyers toward Walmart, Target, Best Buy, or TCGplayer resellers. Play Booster boxes contain 30 packs of 14 cards, with Wizards of the Coast promising 60+ legendary cards per box.
Sony has reportedly quietly revised the PS5 Slim, with the latest models featuring new and rearranged components. Console technician Modyfikator89 opened the new Limited Edition Wolverine PS5 Slim and found the EDM-051 motherboard has a different layout, the CR2032 CMOS battery is now easily replaceable, and the cooling system has been entirely revised with a liquid metal interface closer to that of the PS5 Pro. The changes are said to have a negligible effect on the actual game playing experience.
Grand Theft Auto 6 has officially been rated M for Mature, confirming that the game includes actual sex scenes that warranted a warning label. The rating itself is unsurprising given the series' focus on playing a criminal.
No Law is an open-world immersive sim from Neon Giant and Krafton set in Port Desire, and its 4-Ever Open corner shop is absurdly detailed. Every item on the shelves can be picked up and used, with a shopping basket and running bill shown on screen, and leaving without paying summons the police or leaves a black mark on your reputation. The shops also open and close with the day/night cycle, and killing the owner means the store never opens again.
Martin Klíma, co-founder of Czech studio Warhorse, marked the studio's 15th anniversary by recounting a career that began with secretly translating Dungeons & Dragons before he and Daniel Vávra founded Warhorse in July 2011. The first Kingdom Come: Deliverance drew over 35,000 backers on Kickstarter, and the success of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 led to Warhorse securing the rights to develop a Lord of the Rings game. The studio is also working on a new entry in the Kingdom Come series.
In the upcoming Street Fighter movie, Justin Wong and IFC Yipes don't just cameo — they literally commentate Ryu (Andrew Koji) versus Blanka (Jason Momoa), betting prison commissary rations like ramen noodles and toilet paper. Behind-the-scenes footage Wong shared shows his character also has a tattoo of the number 37, a nod to Moment 37. The film hits theaters on October 16, 2026.
Capcom producer Genki Sunano said porting Monster Hunter Wilds to Switch 2 required the team to evaluate assets and underlying processing "one by one," calling it a painstaking and at times seemingly endless process. The team also rebuilt certain assets and shaders for the Switch 2 version to preserve the game's look and deliver a comfortable handheld experience. Capcom confirmed last month the game runs at 30fps across all modes on Switch 2, with TV mode offering a 2240 x 1260 resolution mode and a 1920 x 1080 frame rate mode, and portable mode at 1536 x 864.
IO Interactive launched the "Extended Operations" free DLC for 007 First Light this week, adding new missions, a photo mode, new game+, new weapons, outfits and more. The Switch 2 port has been delayed to next March, when all of this additional content should be available. The game arrived on PS5 earlier this year in May.
CD Projekt Red says it is working on fixes for The Witcher 3 Remastered, though Switch 2 owners may have to wait a little longer. CDPR told SwitchUp it will address issues such as blurry visuals in portable mode, but any patch must go through Nintendo's approval process. Community director Marcin Momot said the team is looking into the bloom effect across all platforms and hopes to have changes ready for the next update.
Serafini Productions has announced BrokenLore: MIKI-CHAN, a first-person psychological horror game coming to PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store in 2027. Players follow Kazuaki, a Japanese student who tries a mysterious USB stick containing a study support program, only for the virtual assistant Miki-chan to turn jealous and possessive. He can use the Rewriter, a tool capable of altering reality.
Serafini Productions has announced Signal Veil, a third-person survival horror game coming to PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, with no release date announced. Players follow Aki Mizuno, a teenage girl who uses a supernatural cellphone left by her missing mother to detect spirits and uncover the truth behind a series of disappearances at Nishikawa High School. The game emphasizes psychological terror, emotional storytelling, and a 90s anime-inspired aesthetic.
Serafini Productions has announced the first-person psychological horror game The Boba Teashop: Refill for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, launching in 2027. Players take the role of Maya, a young woman under financial pressure who works at a newly opened boba teashop that is a new branch of Risa's shop from the original The Boba Teashop. Some customers are inspired by real-life content creators including Knite, Yotobi, and Suzi Hunter, aka The Sphere Hunter.
Nine brand new 2026 games are discounted in Steam's Autumn Sale, including Resident Evil Requiem, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and 007 First Light, each down from $69.99 to $48.99. Big Walk is $15.99 (was $19.99) and supports up to 12 players in co-op, while Endless Legend 2 and Xenonauts 2 have both hit 1.0 and are on sale at $24.99 and $19.99 respectively.
Square Enix officially released Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler 2 on Switch 2 this week, and side-by-side graphics comparison videos are now appearing online. The Switch 2 versions offer improved resolution and framerate plus faster load times, but overall look relatively similar to the existing Switch releases. There is no upgrade path for existing Switch owners and save data does not carry over, so players must buy the games again or start from scratch.
The LEGO PS1 set is now available to order from PS Direct for $179.99 / £139.99 / €159.99. The 1,911-piece build is a 1:1 replica of Sony's first console and includes Ape Escape and Gran Turismo dioramas, with every order coming with a free LEGO Astro Bot set.
Argonaut Games has confirmed that the Croc 2: Kingdom of the Gobbos remaster will launch on PS5 and PS4 on 29th October, 2026. Like the remaster of the original, it features refreshed visuals and modernised controls, and brings back the Crocipedia museum mode with developer interviews and cut content. The sequel also adds more movement abilities for Croc, more varied activities, and a broader setting with several villages to explore.
The latest North America Nintendo Download update has arrived, bringing new games to the eShop. Switch 2 eShop highlights include Minecraft Dungeons II (Mojang, 29th Sep, $29.99) and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered (CD PROJEKT RED, 29th Sep, $59.99), with owners of the Switch version able to upgrade to the Switch 2 version for free. The update also features 3 discounted eShop games worth a look.
Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch 1 players get a packed October lineup, including the Kingdom Hearts Collection I-III on October 8th, Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen on October 9th, Castlevania: Belmont's Curse on October 15th, Final Fantasy Resonance and Nintendo Switch Sports Resort on October 22nd, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on October 23rd, and Minecraft on October 27th. Several titles ship as Game-Key Cards, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is a code in a box with an estimated initial download of 84.9 GB.
Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine has received the v1.002 patch, which enables Sony's new QSSR tech by default on base PS5 hardware. QSSR is a simplified version of Sony's PSSR upscaler, and Ghost of Yotei is the other title currently updated to support it. The patch also fixes UI, Photo Mode, out-of-bounds, visual polish, progression, crash, accessibility, and localisation issues.
Gears of War: E-Day includes a collectible letter from developer The Coalition titled "Remember the Fallen," found at the start of Act 4. It is one of 140 collectibles in the game, which also requires 125 Hardcases, 36 Supply Caches, and 17 Secondary Objectives for 100% completion. An Xbox spokesperson said the note is not a reference to staff layoffs but was inspired by the team's own experiences and fan stories.
Tokyo studio Nanairo Enterprise is developing the turn-based anime RPG LitGirls: Bookbound Dungeon with publisher DANGEN Entertainment, featuring a party of characters inspired by literary classics such as Alice, Dante, and Juliet. The game is due out in the first half of 2027 on PC, with console versions also planned, and an 18+ uncensored version will be available on PC.
Argonaut Games announced that the remastered version of Croc 2: Kingdom of the Gobbos will launch on October 29 for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Switch, and PC via Steam and GOG. It follows Argonaut Games' 2025 remaster of the original Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. The remaster features over 40 levels of open-ended 3D platforming, a new triple jump, and the Croc2pedia digital museum of long-lost production materials.