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  1. Gematsu58

    Soulslike action RPG PRISON OF HUSKS launches January 27, 2027 on PS5 and PC

    Glass Head Dolls and WINGS announced that the soulslike action RPG PRISON OF HUSKS will launch on January 27, 2027 for PS5 and PC via Steam. An updated PC demo is available now, featuring the first level and boss fight and offering Simplified Chinese for the first time. The full game will support 11 languages, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian.

  2. Game Informer42

    Echo Weaver Review - Discovery Joy And Challenging Platforming

    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.

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  1. IGN36

    Live-Service Games Keep Getting Cancelled — Is This the Beginning of the End?

    15 of the 19 major live-service games launched in 2025 had lost over 80% of their initial playerbase by the end of January this year. PlayStation has halted or cancelled over a dozen live-service games in the last decade, and Naughty Dog cancelled The Last of Us Online. Veteran developers say enough cancellations and shutdowns have created a trust issue among players.

  2. PC Gamer27

    Red Echoes preview: a political sim set 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.

  3. Gematsu42

    Apple Crumble Launches December 3

    Happy Broccoli Games, the studio behind Duck Detective, announced that its fully-voiced interactive mystery thriller Apple Crumble will launch for PC via Steam on December 3. Set during your grandma's 84th birthday party, the 60 to 90 minute walking simulator tasks players with uncovering which guest is out to kill her.

  4. Gematsu34

    Two Point Museum x Little Kitty, Big City Collaboration Update Now Available; "Rides & Relics" DLC Also Out

    SEGA and Two Point Studios have released a free update for Two Point Museum that brings Double Dagger's Little Kitty, Big City into the museum's Digiverse, with the rift now open on all platforms. The previously announced paid DLC "Rides & Relics" is also now available, adding coaster building, Gearbox Fairgrounds expeditions, the Riquetti Gardens museum location, and a new five-star story campaign.

  5. GamesIndustry.biz22

    Mixtape wins three awards at Australian Game Developer Awards 2026, including GOTY

    Beethoven & Dinosaur's Mixtape took three prizes at the Australian Game Developer Awards 2026, including Game of the Year, Excellence in Art and Excellence in Sound Design. Tempo Lab Games' rhythm title Bits & Bops won two awards, while Canberra-based Uppercut Games was named Studio of the Year. The ceremony also introduced the inaugural GCAP Legacy Award, won by Riot Games principal software engineer Tony Albrecht.

  6. PC Gamer42

    Spiritfarer Dev's Next Game, At Fate's End, Is One of the Prettiest Things I've Ever Seen

    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.

  7. Gematsu56

    Spyder: Agent 8 adds Switch 2 version, launches February 11, 2027

    Publisher PQube and developer Sumo Digital announced that Spyder: Agent 8 will launch on February 11, 2027 for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, with the Switch 2 version newly announced. Players control Agent 8, a robot spider superspy built by the British Spy Agency EP-8, on a mission to stop the evil organization S.I.N using stealth, puzzles, and gadgets such as a cutting torch and web grapple.

  8. VGC51

    Journey and Edith Finch designer's studio Gardens raises over $70 million

    California-based Gardens Interactive announced on Wednesday it raised over $35 million in a Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing total funding to over $70 million. Investors include Zenith Capital, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Accel, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, Bayshore and former Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, with the family office of late Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi reinvesting. Led by co-founder and CEO Stephen Bell, the studio's debut is a shared-world fantasy adventure it calls a strandbox, with designer Chris Bell citing Death Stranding, GTA roleplay and Arc Raiders as influences and a closed pre-alpha now open for sign-ups.

  9. 机核62

    Permafrost launches in PC Early Access, opening its survival sandbox

    Permafrost, a story-driven survival sandbox from SpaceRocket Games and publisher Toplitz Productions, is now in Early Access on PC via Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store. Players take the role of engineer Rook searching for the missing Icarus in a frozen world after the moon shatters, alone or with up to three friends. The game features dynamic weather, Cold Zones, resource gathering and crafting, shelter networks, and a dog companion that scouts and carries supplies.

  10. GamesIndustry.biz42

    Gardens Interactive, Founded by Veterans Behind Journey and Sky: Children of the Light, Raises Over $35m in Series B

    Gardens Interactive has raised over $35 million in a Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding past $70 million. The studio, co-founded by veterans of Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Sky: Children of the Light, is developing its debut multiplayer title Project Gardens, described as a "shared fantasy adventure" with "social roleplay elements."

  11. 触乐22

    Chongqing's Game Industry Faces a Turning Point

    Chongqing has built a distinct identity in China's game industry through titles like My Time at Portia, My Time at Sandrock and Dyson Sphere Program from Pathea Games and Youthcat Studio. Pathea now has over 300 employees and Youthcat nearly 20, yet talent still flows to Shanghai, Hangzhou and Chengdu, and local capital remains more familiar with manufacturing. The Chongqing mini-game industry base unveiled in October 2025 has brought in 34 companies with over 200 office staff, pointing to two possible parallel paths ahead.

  12. 机核55

    Chinese rhythm game Animal City Cafe launches October 13

    Animal City Cafe, a Chinese intuitive rhythm game, launches on October 13. Its producer, known as Yiguanyan, founded Yiguanyan Studio and has long made game music and sound effects for titles including Dark Cuisine King, Tale of Immortal, and Neon Abyss. The game centers on hitting keys on the beat, includes 35 tracks spanning Jazz, Pop, and House, and will add a level editor a month after launch for players to edit charts, animation, music, sound, and narrative and share them via the creative workshop.

  13. GamesIndustry.biz62

    Fireshine Games acquires Necesse developer Fair Games

    Fireshine Games has acquired Danish indie studio Fair Games and its open world sandbox title Necesse. Fair Games founder and CEO Mads Skovgaard stays on as managing director and the studio keeps leading the game's direction and updates, while Fireshine handles publishing and porting. Necesse first launched in 2019 and has drawn an estimated 2.5 million players, with plans for continued PC support and additional platform ports.

  14. 机核32

    Single-Player Relaxing Life Game CELESTAY Launches This Friday

    CELESTAY, a single-player relaxing life game from BUBBLE GUM LLC, launches this Friday. Players fish for materials to build a floating sea cabin upward into the sky, unlocking new scenery and starry skies as it rises. The game offers "Leisurely Fishing" that fishes automatically and "Skill Fishing" where you stop the float at the right moment, with deeper water yielding rarer fish and sunken civilization treasures.

  15. 机核35

    Single-Player Relaxing Life Game CELESTAY Launches This Friday

    CELESTAY, a single-player relaxing life game from BUBBLE GUM LLC, launches this Friday. Players fish to collect materials and build a floating sea hut upward into the sky, trading caught fish for wood, iron and other materials to add floors. Alongside the automatic "Leisurely Fishing," the game adds "Skill Fishing," where players stop the float at the right moment and spend one fish to begin.

  16. 机核35

    Ant Colony Automation Strategy Game "Ant Nest: Wild Empire" Demo Now Available

    Pixel Cells-developed, polden-published ant colony automation strategy game Ant Nest: Wild Empire has launched a new PC demo on Steam, featuring reworked controls, an optimized interface, and a rebalanced campaign with 6 missions. Players control an entire ant colony, digging tunnels, building chambers, and setting priorities so worker, scout, and soldier ants act autonomously against spiders, scorpions, and wasps. The full release is planned for Q4 this year.

  17. 机核25

    Unreal Engine 5 3D Survival Horror Game Laica Reveals Steam Page and First Trailer

    Santa Sunrise's Santa Studio has opened the Steam store page and released the first trailer for Laica, a first-person 3D survival horror game planned for 2027 with Japanese voice acting and Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese subtitles and interface. Players live alongside the mysterious girl Laica on a space station and travel between daily life and a dark world roamed by alien monsters. It is published by ambr, marking the company's first title as a publisher.

  18. Game Informer60

    Muramasa: Revenant Blades Preview: The Best Way to Experience One of Vanillaware's Best

    Vanillaware is teaming up with publisher Marvelous to bring the full history of Muramasa: The Demon Blade to modern consoles as Muramasa: Revenant Blades, a 4K remaster combining Muramasa Rebirth and its Genroku Legends DLC. The author played roughly an hour at a Marvelous office in Tokyo's Shinagawa district, clearing the first two acts on Moral difficulty and facing bosses Kurozaru and giant centipedes. The remaster is fully redrawn by Vanillaware's artists and promises over 100 swords to forge, dozens of skills to upgrade, and five more stories with new localization and English voiceover.

  19. 游戏LOOK28

    15 New Games Expected in October, Led by "JX World 4: Infinite"; Steam Titles Push Into Mobile

    GameLook counts 15 new games expected to launch in October, led by Xishanju's "JX World 4: Infinite," the finale of the JX World series, which hits October 15 with over 9 million pre-registrations. On October 23, Lingxi Interactive's "Basketball Girl: Leap to the Top" and Guyoo Games' NBA-licensed "NBA Miracle Dream Team" launch the same day. Steam-acclaimed titles including "Neon Abyss 2," "Lost Castle 2" and "Trash Sailors" also arrive on mobile this month.

  20. 机核62

    Story-driven roguelike RPG 'The Hero Party Is Wiped Out.' launches November 10

    Developer Death Kumiai announced that the story-driven dungeon roguelike RPG 'The Hero Party Is Wiped Out.' will launch on November 10, 2026, after an earlier delay for polish. Its Steam wishlist count has passed 150,000, and a new trailer shows in-game illustrations and dungeon scenes. A demo is due soon, letting players reach the first boss, 'The Exile,' and try all four partners available in the full game.

  21. IGN22

    Mixtape Wins Game of the Year at the 2026 Australian Game Developer Awards

    Melbourne-based studio Beethoven & Dinosaur won Game of the Year at the 2026 Australian Game Developer Awards for its music-themed adventure game Mixtape, which also took Excellence in Visual Art and Excellence in Sound Design. Other winners included Tempo Lab Games' rhythm game Bits & Bops for Excellence in Gameplay and Excellence in Accessibility, and Abandoned Sheep's puzzle platformer Schrodinger's Cat Burglar for Excellence in Narrative. Canberra-based Uppercut Games was named Studio of the Year.

  22. 机核22

    Resistance Joins Fusion 2026 Beijing

    Haotang Technology will bring its narrative first-person shooter Resistance to Fusion 2026 Beijing on October 24-25, at booth A10 in the Shougang International Convention and Exhibition Center. The booth offers an approximately 15-minute playable level with keyboard and gamepad support, and players who finish the demo can enter a prize draw for themed bags, postcard sets, blind-box fridge magnets, velcro patches and other gifts. Set on China's World War II battlefields, the game tells the story of resistance fighters from different backgrounds.

  23. 机核30

    Idle Fishing Adventure Game "Wangyang Dadiao" Launches This Friday

    Luka's Games' idle fishing adventure game "Wangyang Dadiao" launches this Friday. Players play as a dog named Luca, unlocking over 550 skills on a fish-shaped skill map and exploring 6 biomes, each with 6 exclusive fish and one resource to collect and sell. Back on land, players sell catches at the fish shop and buy improved boats at the boat dealership.