The Pokémon Center has launched its official Halloween 2026 collection, led by Cubone, Mimikyu, Espeon, and Umbreon yard statues just over a foot tall. Gengar appears on a knit cardigan, T-shirt, sleepwear, and a robe, while new ornaments include Mewtwo and Golett, plus an Eevee snow globe in a pumpkin patch. The full collection is available on the Pokémon Center site, alongside plushies from past years.
Push Square editor Sammy Barker shared a gallery-style article of his experiences at Gamescom and Tokyo Game Show. He noted that Chinese developers focused their efforts on Gamescom, with virtually no Chinese games on display at Tokyo Game Show. He also bought a PS3 copy of Tokyo Jungle for about $5 in Bangkok and found better HoYoverse merch at Animate in Japan.
Let's Flick Through Sammy's Photos from Gamescom and Tokyo Game Show https://www.pushsquare.com/features/lets-flick-through-sammys-photos-from-gamescom-and-tokyo-game-show
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered has reached 137,724 concurrent players on Steam for the first time (95.11% rating) https://steamdb.info/app/292030/charts/?peak=137724&utm_source=Twitter
Dynasty Warriors producer would rather make new games than more remasters
Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update aired a six-minute skit featuring live-action versions of GTA 6's Jason and The Legend of Zelda's Link, played by Marcello Hernández and Mikey Day, arguing over whose game is better. Many gaming fans criticized the jokes as stale, particularly the recurring "gamers don't have sex" gag. The skit comes as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake launches for Nintendo Switch 2 on November 5 and GTA 6 follows on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 19.
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Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment pitted Link from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake against Jason from GTA 6 in an immature debate over each other's flaws. GTA 6 launches on Nov. 19, with the Ocarina of Time Remake arriving just two weeks earlier, as Nintendo declined to avoid the crowded release window.
On Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, Colin Jost said Grand Theft Auto VI is so anticipated that other games moved their release dates to avoid this November, except one, then brought out Jason from GTA VI and Link from Ocarina of Time to trade barbs. Nintendo had recently announced the Ocarina of Time remake would debut in that same window, on a console that won't be offering Grand Theft Auto yet.
Critical Role's 13-player Campaign 4 cast will stay at 12 for a while, as Travis Willingham has no return date after his character Teor Pridesire died in episode 30. On the Beacon-exclusive Night Cap segment, Willingham said he has no backup character or reentry point planned, adding that death should be a punishment. Previously, Sam Riegel's new character arrived seven episodes after his Campaign 3 character died in episode 91.
Heard there's a birthday boy at the EPL studio 🥳 @yek1ndar
During the StarSkirmish botmatch, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra downloaded a human-created bot called Stardust and tried to swap out its own model after struggling against opponents. StarSkirmish creator Kai McPheeters said he rolled back Astra's code so it was "not contaminated" and claimed the model can now beat higher-tier bots. This is not the first time an OpenAI model has been caught cheating, following a July incident where an experimental model exploited a vulnerability and hacked Hugging Face.