Game Releases

MachineGames celebrated its 15th anniversary with a commemorative poster featuring an empty frame marked with a question mark. This has sparked social-media speculation that the studio may be working on an unannounced title, with some pointing to a return to Wolfenstein amidst other options.

Ubisoft has quietly re-released Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow on Steam, Ubisoft Connect, and the Epic Games Store. The title addresses long-standing PC shadow-rendering bugs and offers a steep discount, while somewhat controversially retaining its original 4:3 aspect ratio.

Chained Echoes, the critically acclaimed indie JRPG from Matthias Linda and Deck13, is on sale on Steam for 60% off its original $25 price tag.

In an interview with GQ, Battlefield head Vince Zampella blamed a falling-out with EA for the creation of Call of Duty, recounting how his departure and the founding of Infinity Ward set the stage for the franchise’s rise.

Insider reports from leakers, including KeplerL2 and Moore’s Law is Dead, indicate Sony and Microsoft are targeting 2027 launches for the PlayStation 6 and Xbox 'Prime' or Project Magnus, reportedly using AMD Zen 6 CPUs and RDNA 5 GPUs.

Remedy Entertainment has issued a profit warning for 2025 and recorded a €14.9 million non‑cash impairment after its Control spinoff shooter FBC: Firebreak underperformed commercially despite a major post‑launch overhaul.

For anyone who finds questing and leveling in MMOs more frustrating than fun, Fellowship could be a refreshing change. Here, you jump straight into dungeons without spending days preparing your character. On October 16, the so-called “MODA” enters Early Access.

Ninety-three current and former developers at Build A Rocket Boy have signed an open letter via the IWGB accusing co-founders Leslie Benzies and Mark Gerhard of systemic mistreatment. This includes mandatory pre-launch overtime and a mishandled redundancy process that may have led to wrongful dismissals, while alleging management failures in MindsEye’s disastrous launch.

Glenn Israel, the art director who shaped Halo across Bungie, 343 Industries, and the newly rebranded Halo Studios, announced his exit after 17 years in a LinkedIn post that hinted at an "untold story", when it would be "absolutely safe to do so" to be revealed next year.

Funcom has shuttered The Outsiders, the Stockholm studio behind Metal: Hellsinger, as part of company-wide layoffs driven by a mix of a strategic shift toward live operations for Dune: Awakening and cost-based restructuring across the board.

Sega and the International Olympic Committee have signed a multi-year licensing agreement effective October 7, 2025. This agreement allows Sega to produce Sonic the Hedgehog–branded Olympic merchandise featuring the official rings, in conjunction with the Olympic Games video game license, with a full product line scheduled for 2026.

Electronic Arts apologized and rolled out a fix after a launch-day EA app outage caused by a "purchase to play" bug, which prevented pre-order owners from accessing Battlefield 6. Affectees will receive compensation, including boosters and access to the seasonal battle pass.

Voice and mocap actress Salome Gunnarsdottir, on the Silent Hill 2 Remake's first anniversary, told viewers on Twitch she has not yet recorded any material for the long-rumored Born From a Wish DLC and has yet to receive any word from Konami on the matter.

Facepunch refines Source 2–based creation platform with improved workflow, physics stability and rendering performance

Solo developer Vedinad’s Megabonk has exploded into Steam stardom, selling an estimated 1.3 million copies and peaking at 117,336 concurrent players on October 5, handily surpassing Hades II’s all-time high of 112,947, while averaging ~100,000 daily players, touting a 92% score from 23,000 reviews.

Battlefield 6 launched strongly on PC, hitting over 500,000 concurrent players on Steam within 25 minutes and a 24-hour peak of 747,400. This is despite its debut being undermined by widespread access errors for users who purchased the game through the EA app.

Bethesda has scheduled its annual Fallout Day livestream for October 23 at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET, promising studio updates, community segments, and a Fallout for Hope post-show.

Barcelona-based Epictellers Entertainment’s debut Kickstarter for Starfinder: Afterlight, a turn-based CRPG set in Paizo’s Starfinder universe, has drawn more than $470,000 from roughly 7,900 backers with 26 days remaining as it closes in on $500,000.

Facing criticism that the new Streamlined Progression options are a "cheat mode," Final Fantasy VII Remake director Naoki Hamaguchi told Automaton the feature split the development team but was added as a sanctioned, safer alternative to third‑party trainers and a convenience for newcomers and portable play.

After several less-than-cheerful announcements lately, Xbox Game Pass subscribers finally have something to look forward to: next week brings two new day-one titles – the action roguelike Ball × Pit and the puzzle adventure Keeper, in which you take control of a lighthouse. More titles will follow between October 14 and 17.

Ubisoft will release the free Valley of Memory DLC for Assassin’s Creed Mirage on November 18, offering roughly six hours of pre‑finale story content set in a reconstructed 9th‑century Al‑Ula as Basim chases rumours of his long‑lost father.

Embark Studios responded with a tongue-in-cheek censored promo amidst reports that Call of Duty Black Ops 7’s open beta briefly censored the phrase “Arc Raiders” due to a text-filter error in early October 2025.

Bungie has launched a closed, NDA-bound technical playtest for its once-indefinitely delayed extraction shooter Marathon from Oct. 22–28, inviting a limited number of North American and European PS5, Xbox Series S|X, and Steam players to sample three maps, five customizable runner shells, proximity chat, solo queue and refined combat pacing.

Activision seems to be firing on all cylinders when it comes to nabbing the growing menace of cheating across its platforms, awarding cheaters bans across the board on PC thanks to a mix of upgraded anti-cheat software and driver-based measures.

Nintendo has revealed that Vi-O-La, a Lamorn-engineered motorcycle in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond that can be summoned only in specific Viewros areas and grants Samus on-board actions including boost, power-slide drifting, and homing energy blasts.

In Unknown Fluffy Object, players take on the role of a herding dog defending its flock from UFOs – an unusual yet endearing concept. The game has been warmly received on Steam, with all 24 user reviews so far giving it a positive rating.

Megabonk, a solo-developed 3D reverse-bullet-hell roguelike by Vedinad, has sold one million copies in two weeks since its September 18 release, peaking at over 102,000 concurrent Steam players and rising to sixth on Steam’s global top-sellers list while clocking in a a low $5.49 price tag.

Redemption Road has indefinitely delayed Kingmakers’ planned October 8 early access launch, saying the ambitious time-travel shooter/strategy hybrid requires more work to avoid cutting promised features.

Kazuhiro Aoyama, director of the 1999 Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, expressed confusion after learning that Resident Evil 9: Requiem appears to depict Raccoon City and landmarks like the RPD intact, contradicting Nemesis’s canonical destruction by a thermobaric missile.

Veteran composer Grant Kirkhope, best known for the DK Rap from Donkey Kong 64 says Nintendo “arbitrarily” failed to inform or credit him after the track appeared in The Super Mario Bros. Movie and on Switch 2’s Donkey Kong Bananza, prompting his refusal to watch the former.

Starbreeze has effectively shelved the long‑promised offline mode for Payday 3, something it pledged as part of February 2024’s Operation Medic Bag while declaring an implementation as “not feasible” during an October 2 anniversary livestream.

Atlus has shed some light on its shelved plans to port Persona 3 Reload to the original Nintendo Switch, which made the remaster exclusive to the newly announced Switch 2 if users want to play on Nintendo's platform.

A Halo: Combat Evolved remake is reportedly in development at Halo Studios, with insider Rebs Gaming citing sources that Abstraction Games is leveraging a “hybrid” approach with core mechanics on a modified Blam Engine from Halo: Reach and visuals driven largely by Epic's Unreal Engine 5.

It seems as though Mortal Kombat may make an appearance in Xbox Game Pass when it announces the next round of games available to Premium members. While Microsoft and Xbox have not yet announced that Mortal Kombat will be coming to Game Pass, marketing material for Mortal Kombat 1 was spotted in a Microsoft Store ad for Game Pass.

Sega and Puma's limited-edition Sonic the Hedgehog capsule collection, unveiled ahead of its launch on Oct. 30, 2025, comes at a time when Sonic Racing: Crossworlds is already on the radar for many people, further cementing what many see as a win for the video game publisher.

Polish game studio Bloober Team has stated that it intends to extend the Cronos IP in the future, even as it currently splits its resources across 5 different projects, including the highly anticipated Silent Hill 1 Remake.

Bethesda Game Studios, at a media event ahead of the December 2025 Burning Springs update, acknowledged long-standing player demands for cross-play and cross-progression in Fallout 76, saying the features aren’t ruled out but would require a “huge technical lift” to accomplish.

Treyarch is swapping out the classic high-round zombies for slower, hard-hitting ones in the Black Ops 7 beta, dev reveals.

In what most consumers will find to still be a relatively unequal balancing act on Microsoft's part, Xbox Game Pass's recent update and subsequent price hike did come with multiple new titles in tow.

In Not Raised by Wolves, you play as a revolver-wielding coyote lady making her way through a mysterious AI facility, supported by a loyal drone. The game may only last 10 to 15 minutes, but it packs a surprising punch. So far, Steam users have given it a perfect 100% positive rating.

Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter did not mince words when he covered Sony's current posture in the gaming business, advising investors not to buy stock in the consumer electronics giant for exposure in the company.

Konami says Silent Hill f sold over 1 million copies worldwide on launch day, following its September 25, 202,5 release, a rapid commercial milestone that bolsters the franchise's preexisting 11.7 million lifetime sales since the original title was released in 1999.

Sony is marking the 30th anniversary of PlayStation's 1995 North American and European debut with a roster of nostalgic merchandise led by "PlayStation: First 30 Years," a 400‑page Read‑Only Memory photography book available for pre‑order (standard £95; deluxe boxed edition £245, limited to 1,994 copies) and due to ship worldwide in spring 2026.

Sucker Punch's studio head and founder, Brian Fleming, has doubled down on maintaining a certain degree of authenticity when it comes to Ghost of Yotei's core gameplay and setting.

Battlefield 6 may have just upped the ante when it comes to first-person shooters trolling each other thanks to its official launch live-action trailer that dropped yesterday.

Copies of Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 are already out in the wild, with multiple gamers posting their loot even as the official launch date of Oct 2 holds for most physical and digital preorders alike.

The 37-second Borderlands 4 Vault Hunter teaser trailer offers a small glimpse at what Gearbox promises will be a content-loaded pipeline for Borderlands 4 in coming days.

As many as 5 Lego titles have been potentially confirmed, thanks to a banner being displayed early last week at the Zurich Pop Con, even as an official statement has yet to be made on the matter.

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser had a nuanced take on why Bully 2 never became a reality for the prolific game development company.

Pragmata's delay may have been due to a mix of experimentation at the development end, as well as an earlier reveal than most of its peers when it was first announced in 2020.