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Casual game marketplace Legacy Games will shut down its online store on December 31, 2026. After the store closes, disc download codes will no longer be redeemable and points, rewards, and Hero Club memberships will end, with the website and servers closing on February 28, 2027. Players will no longer be able to re-download previous purchases, though installed games can still be played on the same device.
Bandai Namco has confirmed its Gundam 40th anniversary broadcast will stream on 28th October at 8pm JST, with an English language feed available. The show will feature Gundam Rogue Orbit ahead of its March release, plus news on the future of Gundam: Battle Operation after a Steam network test listing leaked Gundam: Battle Operation 3. Mobile titles will also get time in the broadcast.
Bramblin is now available for a limited time in Pokemon Go as part of the Fall Marathon event, marking the first chance to catch it in the mobile game. Unlike most other featured Pokemon, Bramblin won't appear in the wild on its own and can only be encountered by using Incense. The Fall Marathon: Buddy Trek event runs from 10 AM local time on October 13 to 8 PM local time on October 19.
Bandai Namco will host the "Gundam Games 40th Anniversary Live Stream" on October 28 at 20:00 JST, viewable on YouTube in English and Japanese. The broadcast includes a 60-minute console and PC games introduction covering the Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation series and Gundam Rogue Orbit, a 15-minute mobile games segment featuring 40th anniversary campaigns for titles like SD Gundam G Generation ETERNAL, and a 15-minute additional information segment.
Yu Huasong, head of Yoozoo Network's AI Innovation Institute Red Coast Lab, shared at the 2026 China Metaverse Conference that AI Agents have three major game applications: multimodal content generation, intelligent NPCs with memory and decision-making, and one-click game creation from an idea. He said AI now covers all six major scenarios and over 100 sub-scenarios within Yoozoo, and presented the content production system YOOLab and the development collaboration platform YOOSpark.
South Korean lawmaker 김재원 raised the case of SOL: Enchant topping the charts alongside roughly 300 million won in streamer spending during an Oct. 12 parliamentary audit, and is seeking to amend the Game Industry Promotion Act to bar publishers from improperly buying in-game items or paying third parties to do so in order to lift sales rankings. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Game Rating and Administration Committee acknowledged no investigation was conducted, and current rules do not require separate disclosure of promotion spending. Netmarble said streamer promotion is one marketing method and that its contracts pay for marketing services, not for top-ups.
Apple has officially launched an "Indie Game Week," bringing seven well-known PC and console indie titles including Sifu, No Man's Sky, Vampire Crawlers and 9 Kings to iOS. Previous 3A ports like Resident Evil 4 Remake performed poorly on iPhone, with 357,000 downloads and about $208,000 in revenue after six months. Apple's 2019 Apple Arcade subscription ecosystem has largely withered, with natively developed mobile indies now nearly absent.
Sensor Tower data shows Honor of Kings remained the top-grossing mobile game worldwide in September 2026, while ROBLOX entered the global revenue top five and also topped both the revenue growth and download charts. Global mobile game spending reached $6.13 billion in September, down 7% month-over-month, with the US leading at 28.7% of revenue, while downloads totaled 3.56 billion, down 5.2%, led by India at 576 million. Tencent's Honor of Kings Chess ranked 7th on the revenue growth chart and 2nd on the download growth chart.
The Naruto mobile game, licensed by Bandai and developed by MoreFun, announced an international server after ten years of operation in China, alongside a three-year Naruto IP global plan called PROJECT: RASENGAN revealed at a New York Naruto event. No test or launch date has been given, and the first PV ends with both Bandai and MoreFun studio logos, with the Japanese server likely published by Bandai. The article also notes MoreFun's other two titles this year: Rock Kingdom: World announced its overseas release at Gamescom in late August with its first overseas PV passing 4 million YouTube views, and The Outcast is set for December with 34 million pre-registrations.
Apple published a China-only report on October 8 titled "China App Store Ecosystem — 2025 Developer and User Value Study," authored by antitrust experts Ju Heng and Markus von Wartburg. The report says the China App Store ecosystem generates about 4 trillion yuan annually with over 95% exempt from commission, and names miHoYo and NetEase as examples of developers using web stores and DTC channels to bypass Apple Pay. It also states Chinese apps accounted for 98% of domestic App Store revenue in 2025, with 52% of Chinese developers' App Store revenue coming from overseas.
GameLook argues that Hololive Dreams, launched on July 23, has reached Japan's top mobile revenue tier, with about $23 million in mobile revenue in August, prompting parent company COVER to raise its half-year operating profit forecast from 1.93 billion yen to 3.5 billion yen. The piece says the game mixes rhythm play, character growth, park building and multiplayer minigames, letting in-game events and streamer content feed each other. COVER and Aiming announced Hololive Mahjong -Holojan- on October 9 with 37 members, mobile and PC support and a release planned within the year, while ANYCOLOR announced a physical card game for December 26.
Naavik analysis argues that forcing "innovative match-3 levels" into the core level funnel creates cognitive friction and filters out mass-market casual players. Attempts like Dream Games' Royal Kingdom, Good Job Games' Match Villains and Queen Digital Entertainment's Pet Panic failed to scale, with Pet Panic shutting down 21 months after soft launch. Royal Match instead dominates the top-grossing puzzle charts by simplifying goals and lowering cognitive effort.
Apple and Hello Games announced that No Man's Sky is coming to iPhone and iPad, running on devices as far back as the iPhone 11 and the third-generation iPad Air. The version includes all content and systems updates added over the years, but building and exploring player-made planetary settlements is limited to the iPhone 15 Pro and later, and multiplayer is not supported on any iOS device. Hello Games said it will support the iOS version based on how many people play it.
Riot Games Game Director Dave Guskin hinted in an August State of the Game post that Riftbound could eventually be playable digitally, while stating there are no announcements yet. A same-month job listing for a "Publishing Product Manager" also called for digital game experience and TCG familiarity. Riftbound supports up to four players, and a digital client would need some form of communication, something Riot has experience with through League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and VALORANT.
Hello Games announced that No Man's Sky will arrive on iOS on 28 October with all of its previous updates included, supporting devices as old as the iPhone 11, with pre-orders opening the same day. Studio co-founder Sean Murray said the mobile project has been in the works for nearly three years and supports touch, controllers, and mouse and keyboard. He said some of the performance and memory work behind the port came from Light No Fire, which shares the same engine, and that these changes should also benefit players on PC, PlayStation, Switch, and Xbox.
ReStory coming to Android in 2026 https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/restory-coming-to-android-in-2026
Publisher tinyBuild and developer Mandragora announced that ReStory, a Y2K-era Japan electronics repair shop simulation game, will come to Android via Google Play in 2026. The game first launched for PC via Steam on August 6, where it has sold over 500,000 copies. It features licensed Atari consoles to repair, including the Atari 2600 and Jaguar.
Hello Games announced that No Man's Sky will launch on iOS on October 28, including last month's large Cosmos update and the full game rather than a lite version. The studio said the port took three years and shrank the game to under 4GB, with iPhone 11 and 3rd gen iPad Air and above supported, Planetary Settlements limited to iPhone 15 Pro and above, and no multiplayer. Controls and UI were redesigned for touch, with controller and mouse and keyboard also supported, and the game will use a free to try model with the full price not yet revealed.
No Man's Sky has been released for iPhone and iPad. The release includes ten years worth of updates, according to Digital Foundry.
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard From Vampire Survivors is officially out on phones. Author Giovanni Colantonio looks back on the games he has played this year and still counts the April release among his best-of-the-year picks.
No Man's Sky is coming to iOS on October 28. The game is currently available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store. The iOS version lets players try the beginning for free, with a one-time purchase unlocking the full game including 10 years of updates.
No Man's Sky will arrive on the App Store on October 28, the only one of seven titles in Apple's Indie Games Week not yet available. Hello Games' Sean Murray said the iOS port has been in development for years and was held up by the studio's ongoing free updates, which the team has now caught up with. Players can sync progress from other platforms to their App Store copy, and the game supports controllers, touch controls, or a mix of both on iPhones and iPads released as far back as 2019.
No Man's Sky is set to release on iOS on Oct 28.
No Man's Sky is coming to iOS on October 28. Gematsu reported the date and linked to its full story on the site.
Hello Games announced that No Man's Sky will arrive on iPhone and iPad in October, with preorders opening the same day. The port will include all updates released over the past decade and will run on devices as old as the iPhone 11. Hello Games said the port was possible in large part thanks to Light No Fire, its in-development follow-up to No Man's Sky.
York Games is developing Ascend: Journey beyond the clouds, a physics-based precision platformer where players control Zeo, a tiny golden cube, using slingshot mechanics to launch across floating platforms toward the Sun. The full game will feature 12 stages and is targeting release on Steam (PC), Android, and iOS. A free playable demo with the first 3 stages launched this weekend on itch.io, playable in browser, on PC, or mobile.
MMO mobile game in-app purchase revenue fell from $5.3 billion in 2021 to $2.8 billion in 2025, a 47% drop that far outpaced the RPG genre's 38% decline and the broader mobile market's 1% dip, according to an analysis by Naavik. Downloads also dropped 40%, from 345 million to 206 million, and revenue fell another 27% year-over-year from January to September 2026. The report attributes the structural collapse to engagement fatigue, spending fatigue and gameplay homogenization, compounded by open-world adventure RPGs like Genshin Impact raising the bar.
GameLook reports that overseas AI game-creation platform Astrocade announced 10 million monthly active users, double the 5 million MAU four months earlier, with users generating playable content from natural language; it raised 56 million dollars in May from investors including Sequoia, Sea, Google's AI Future Fund and Nvidia. Tencent's Huya listed the AI game generator BinkBink on GooglePlay, Google partnered with Unity on the AI game platform Playground, and Meta unveiled Horizon Create and Horizon Studio at Meta Connect 2026. The article notes none of these platforms has settled on monetization, with Astrocade saying it is focused on user growth and will consider revenue growth sometime next year.
WL Digital has made Rollbound, a mobile dice roguelite inspired by Balatro. Players roll five dice, hold the ones they want and reroll the rest, scoring chips × mult while stacking charms, leveling up hands and carving dice. It includes 8 antes with bosses, an Endless mode and a Daily run, with no ads and an iOS version coming soon.
NetEase has revealed ECC: Redline, a self-developed "extreme-sports tactical shooter" coming to PC via Steam and mobile, and players have called it a "1:1 rip" of Activision's Call of Duty: Warzone, citing similar gun feel, UI, sound effects, and camera blur. The free-to-play game has no release date, but some Call of Duty fans frustrated with Warzone say it could fill a specific void.
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Bandai Namco announced a global version of the MoreFun Studios-developed fighting game Naruto Mobile for iOS and Android, with no release date set. The game first launched in China on May 19, 2016, so the global release comes more than 10 years after its debut. The localization is part of Project Rasengan, a three-year plan for new Naruto media from 2027 to 2029 that also includes the Naruto x Ninku anime limited series, the Naruto Card Game trading card game, and the Naruto: Shadow Rising manga.
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A global version of Naruto Mobile has been announced. The news was relayed by Gematsu, which links to its report on the announcement.
Capcom is bringing Monster Hunter Rise to iOS and Android. For now the game is locked behind a Netflix subscription.
Zaka Creative has released Medieval Wars: Hundred Years, a single-player Android game about defending your castle and attacking enemy castles. The current Google Play version adds a campaign map and a saved five-unit squad, with the Longbowman unlocked by winning battle 10. It can be played offline, is free to install, and contains ads.
On September 28, China beat Malaysia 4-0 in the Honor of Kings final at the Nagoya Asian Games, defending the gold medal it also won at the Hangzhou Asian Games, with player Yinuo becoming the league's first and only double gold medalist. On October 8, Tencent TiMi's Delta Force announced its China server daily active users surpassed 58 million as the game marked its second anniversary. NetEase also unveiled its extreme sports competitive shooter Extreme Battlefield, with its first test set to begin on October 15.
Ubisoft Montreal said in an open letter on October 8 that Rainbow Six Mobile's international servers will shut down, staying open until January 15, 2027, with the next season still launching as planned next week and no further content updates after that. The game launched on February 23 this year, running for less than eight months. The piece notes that Tencent's 2024 license covers the multi-platform Rainbow Six Mobile, run domestically by its K9 team, while the PC title Rainbow Six Siege's China version received its license in January 2026 and began a second test round including paid content on September 15.
"Elite Legion," a tactics card mini game published by Nanjing Yuanrong Network, has stayed within the WeChat mini game best-selling chart's Top 20 since launching during National Day, peaking in the top ten. The game features a Red Alert theme with tactics card PvP and human-vs-AI combat, and monetizes through in-app purchases and rewarded video ads.