The author played around four hours of Phantom Blade Zero on Windows PC at a preview event hosted by developer S-Game in Beijing. He describes the game as carving out its own space among sword-slashing action games, blending simple controls and intense parries with wuxia-style animation.
The author played Phantom Blade Zero at Gamescom, covering the opening tutorial, Soul's clash with his brother Zuoshang, and the carriage ambush that ends in a valley crash. He found the level design circuitous and interesting, called Soul the fastest ladder climber he has controlled, and said the game feels more forgiving than Souls-likes. The session skipped to the Lion Dance boss, whose second stage raises pillars and lets players grab a lion mask to fight back after clearing minions.
Muramasa: Revenant Blades is Vanillaware's first PC release, 17 years after Muramasa: The Demon Blade launched on the Nintendo Wii. In a hands-on preview, the writer describes a new skill system for all 108 blades, with three ground and three air abilities equippable across three swappable swords. Enemies now have fixed levels instead of scaling with the player, and blocking wears down a sword until it snaps, pushing players toward combos and blade swapping.
PS5 Console Exclusive PRISON OF HUSKS Looks Like a Soulslike with PS2 Presentation
Prospice: Anomalous Logistics is an off-road driving game from Forklift Interactive and Code Wakers that plays like SnowRunner but is set in an eldritch horror world. As a Pathfinder for the Fenrir Directive on Nastrondey Island, you ferry staff, equipment and "findings" between bases. The demo adds unreliable map signals, Navspire landmarks and on-foot exploration that degrades your vision the further you stray from your truck.
Volatiles is an action game from 11 Bit Studios and Team Instant Defeat in which you wake in a strange facility and are dunked into a sensory deprivation tank to fight monsters in your mind. Each roguelike run starts with a single tile; defeating a wave lets you level up, place another tile, expand the map, bolster your skills and summon a new wave of enemies. Game director Ian Dovhan says the map-building idea came from Dorfromantik, not Blue Prince.
I Love K-Pop, But This New PS5 Game Ain't It https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/10/i-love-k-pop-but-this-new-ps5-game-aint-it
Microids' new PS5 game K-Pop Rising: Dream to Shine, developed by French studio Old Skull Games, showed off its customisation options and rhythm gameplay in a new trailer. The campaign follows your rise from wannabe to stardom, with solo or group paths and a co-op mode, and it launches on 5th November.
Early reviews for Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival are split, ranging from Insider Gaming's 9/10 and GamingTrend's 8.5/10 down to Push Square's 5/10 and Game Informer's 4.5/10. On Metacritic the PS5 version sits at 69, while the PC and Xbox versions are both at 74. It costs £34.99 / $39.99 on the Xbox Store and supports Xbox Play Anywhere.
A must-play new Game Pass title blends Castlevania-style action with a Groundhog Day time loop. Players take on the role of a weaver, believed to be the last of their kind, after a horrific event leaves few humans alive. Unless the weaver changes the course of events already in motion, the people who could rebuild civilization won't live long enough to do so.
Game Informer reviews Echo Weaver, a Metroid-inspired game from developer Moonlight Kids that traps players in a time loop where abilities are remembered rather than unlocked. The sense of discovery is strong, but the jumping feels weak and thorn-and-pit platforming gauntlets can feel unfair when time runs out. The reviewer also hit a handful of bugs, mainly areas not loading properly after fast-traveling.
Grand Theft Auto VI previews six in-game radio stations https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/grand-theft-auto-vi-previews-six-in-game-radio-stations
Eurogamer reports that Grand Theft Auto 6 lets players use headphones to listen to radio stations and podcasts, a first for the series.
There are some interesting ideas in Qliphah in Providence's Shadow, but we think we'd have liked it better as an adventure game or visual novel. https://www.siliconera.com/review-qliphah-in-providences-shadow-gets-confusing/
I'm intrigued by this political sim that puts you smack-dab in Germany at the end of World War 1
Red Echoes is a political sim set in Germany at the end of World War 1, where the demo has you move three characters—a dockworker, a journalist, and a mother—around a board to use their abilities, while visual novel choices shift revolutionary fervour and reactionary zealotry. Its map uses Weimar-era graphic design, and the full game is expected to release early next year with a playtime of three or four hours.
Hellraiser: Revival, developed by Saber Interactive, casts players as Aidan as he descends into Cenobite dungeons and the Scarlet Church cult after losing his girlfriend Sunny. An early "everyday" S&M club, complete with safe-sex signs, a recovery room, and chatting NPCs, highlights the absurdity of the game's bloodier torture and sexual themes. The author finds the club scene more restrained than the rest of Revival, making its violent gameplay feel embarrassing by comparison.
Spiritfarer dev's next game, At Fate's End, is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen
Fuse Games CEO Matt Webster and creative director Kieran Crimmin said Star Wars: Galactic Racer was prototyped using a board game covered in Post-It notes, which the team used to map out upgrades and meta progression systems. Crimmin said the team picks whichever prototyping tool validates the intended emotion and game-feel fastest, then gets it into players' hands. Eurogamer previously gave the racing game five stars.
Thunder Lotus, the studio behind Spiritfarer, is developing At Fate's End, a hybrid of visual novel and action adventure starring protagonist Shan Hemlock, who is named Princess of Swords and must gather her family's blades with her god sword Aesus. The game features a hand-drawn storybook style, an equippable card system where each card has a reverse side, and combat based on positioning and Arcana energy. At Fate's End is planned to release sometime in 2027.
A demo of Final Fantasy VII Revelation shows Cid Highwind and Vincent Valentine as playable characters for the first time in the Remake trilogy, with Cid's mobile Dragoon spearplay and Vincent's Galian Beast transformation standing out. The game adds a FITS system that equips job-based abilities on any character, letting Cloud summon Shiva and Titan as a Summoner. The author found Cid and Vincent more engaging than the previous roster but worries mini-game bloat could get in the way.
IGN reviews Hellraiser: Revival, a survival horror adventure in which Aiden makes a pact with Pinhead to slaughter members of a local death cult and feed their hearts to his murdered girlfriend's remains. Its roughly nine-hour campaign borrows heavily from the Resident Evil series in weapons and inventory, but drawn-out exposition, repeated chase sequences, and flat boss fights hold it back. Doug Bradley returns to voice Pinhead.
Review: Hellraiser: Revival (PS5) - Faithful Adaptation Let Down by Severe Gameplay Woes https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/hellraiser-revival
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival delivers the franchise's signature gore and darkness but is undermined by a slew of bugs and technical problems. The roughly 10-hour first-person survival horror game suffers from weightless combat, a broken resource economy, and enemies that frequently get stuck in geometry. Doug Bradley returns as Pinhead in a story about Aiden Lynch rescuing his girlfriend Sunny from the Labyrinth.
A review roundup for Hellraiser: Revival shows a Metacritic average of 74 and an OpenCritic average of 77. Outlet scores range from 9 at PCGamesN and Console Creatures to 5 at Push Square, with IGN and Eurogamer both giving 6.
Push Square's review says Hellraiser: Revival is a faithful adaptation of Clive Barker's horror series, with brutal gore and recreations of film elements, but its gameplay is a frustrating mixed bag. The roughly eight-hour campaign suffers from a severe lack of resources, leaving players short on ammo and health packs, while melee weapons have limited durability and repairs only partially fix them. Boss fights are among the most frustratingly designed, and even in performance mode on PS5 and PS5 Pro there are frame rate dips when transitioning between areas.
GameSpot's review calls Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival the best entry in the franchise since the original film. The first-person horror-action survival game runs about 10 hours and stumbles through an identity crisis early on before becoming a beast of its own. Set 20 years after the first movie, it follows Aidan Lynch and his girlfriend Sunny, and no prior knowledge of the franchise is required.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival is an ambitious game that never apologizes for its extreme displays of sex and violence. GameSpot has published its review.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival launched on October 8, 2026 for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC, developed by Saber Interactive. OpenCritic lists 37 reviews with a 75 average and 65% recommendation rate. Critics praise the atmosphere, Labyrinth sequences, and Doug Bradley's return as Pinhead, while faulting combat, enemy AI, and some level design; one review notes progression-blocking bugs on Nintendo Switch 2.
Kotaku reviewed Hellraiser: Revival, a first-person horror survival game from Saber Interactive that continues the setting of Clive Barker's Hellbound Heart, released October 8, 2026 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2. After 17 hours through the credits, the reviewer found the early gunplay unsatisfying with little stagger or feedback, and the structure closely imitating Resident Evil Village. The game improves once Aidan gains Cenobite abilities and enters the Labyrinth, though the reviewer says its biggest flaw is chaining itself to imitating more popular games.
The developers of Star Wars: Galactic Racer at Fuse Games spoke to Eurogamer about how they captured the "game feel" of the Burnout games. CEO Matt Webster said game feel is central to their work and that they invest enormous time, effort and money into the quality of interactions. Creative director Kieran Crimmins described the vehicle-building system as a "player story generator" aimed at creating moments of emotion.
Saber Interactive's Hellraiser: Revival is an FPS adaptation of Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart, following protagonist Aiden as he fights through an extreme BDSM cult to rescue his girlfriend Sunny from Hell. Its combat leans on scarce ammo, breakable weapons, and a puzzle box that doubles as a gravity gun, though the narrative is messy and unevenly paced. Still, the game shows an earnest love for its source material.
"What's the point of this if you're not feeling something?"
BDSM gets the unsubtle, but sometimes enjoyable double-A treatment in Hellraiser: Revival, an appropriately mixed bag of grisly body horror that's strange, scrappy, and never less than fascinating.
Ace Combat 8 has now been officially out for a week, and a Reddit user is asking for others' thoughts on it. The poster rates it 10/10, calling it their favorite in the series and praising its story, characters, and soundtrack, which they have listened to in full about 10 times in the past week. They say it might genuinely be worthy of Game of the Year at TGA.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is an arcade racing game spearheaded by former Burnout developers. Its roguelite single-player campaign is a modern twist that still feels rooted in arcade history, though the racing itself doesn't break new ground.
Fire Emblem: Wanlv Qianxi got its first 120-hour completion record on How Long to Beat 11 days after release, with the other seven records close behind and only one player finishing in 74 hours by skipping the war chapter. The game splits its story across four routes, each with a roughly two-hour prologue plus Part 1 and the Part 2 "War Chapter," requiring players to finish all four to see the whole narrative. Between battles it adds life-sim activities such as dining, training, recruiting, node-based world map exploration, and mount raising.
PC Gamer magazine's issue 428 UK / 416 US features World of Warcraft: Forever as its cover story, claiming world-exclusive hands-on access to Blizzard's reboot of classic WoW along with interviews with key developers. The issue also includes a preview of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 and a review of The Blood of Dawnwalker, and is priced at $4.99 in print.
The Dark Arisen expansion for Dragon's Dogma 2 has launched across all platforms, and reviews are coming in. IGN and But Why Tho? gave it 8/10, Push Square 9/10, RPGFan 95/100, and RPGamer 3.5/5. The expansion is bundled with the Switch 2 version of the game.