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Sony unexpectedly withdrew from PHYSINT in June 2026, leaving Kojima Productions to search for a new publisher for about three months. Xbox has now officially agreed to publish the game, expanding its existing partnership with Kojima Productions beyond the horror project OD. Bill Skarsgård is confirmed as the lead actor, joined by Charlee Fraser, Don Lee and Minami Hamabe.
IO Interactive has pushed 007 First Light on Switch 2 from Summer 2026 to March 2027 — the third delay. Technical producer Cristina Vega cited the team's need for a breather, marketing requests and a new Meshnets rendering system; the port targets a stable 30fps.
Valve overhauled Steam's recommendation system, shifting from global popularity metrics to personalized picks based on play history, wish lists and library tags. One indie game jumped from 14 visits over five months to over 7,300 in a single month. Developers also get advanced traffic analytics.
Hideo Kojima told The Washington Post that Sony Interactive Entertainment informed him in June that it was ending support for his studio in a Zoom call without stating reasons. The Physint project moved to Xbox, which will publish it. The studio said it is in a healthy and profitable state.
Silent Hill: Townfall is a new series entry set in the 1990s on the Scottish island of St. Amelia. It is closer to Silent Hill 2's mechanics and atmosphere than Silent Hill f: scarce resources, weak block, five endings, and two playable characters, Simon and Zoe.
Psyonix released gameplay footage of Rocket League on Unreal Engine 6 and said RLCS esports players tested the build in June and August in Cary and Paris. The port will launch in 2027 alongside Fortnite and will be the first game on UE6.
Rockstar updated GTA 6 descriptions in the PlayStation Store and Xbox Store: the preorder deadline was moved to November 19, 2026, 23:59:59, legal notices and a Vice City trademark were added, and the character name Macca the Gator was corrected in the Ultimate Edition description.
Microsoft patented a technology called "Contextually Aware Management of Interactive Software Application Access": a game is frozen at a safe moment, an ad is shown to the player, and viewing it grants a time credit of 30 minutes or one level. The patent targets free-to-play and subscription services such as Game Pass.
Activision is ending support for Call of Duty: Warzone on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One shortly after the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Season 1, which arrives on October 23. The game will remain available on PS5, Xbox Series X and PC, and will integrate Modern Warfare 4 content and progression with the new season.
Director Naoki Hamaguchi stated that full completion of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will take over 100 hours. He has already played through the game 46 times. Release is planned for April 8, 2027, on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2.
Six weeks after release, Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls from Arc System Works and Sony sold about 740,000 copies across all platforms. On Steam it has only 49% positive reviews, and concurrent players fell from a peak of 25,000 to under 1,000.
The TwilitRealm team released Dusklight 2.0.0, an unofficial native port of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess based on the zeldaret/tp decompilation and the Aurora framework. The build compiles for Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam Deck, Android, and iOS, supports mods as .dusk packages, and includes a built-in randomizer.
WoW game director Ion Hazzikostas said in an interview that the The Last Titan expansion will feature a 'heroic world tier' with tougher enemies and no flying. Blizzard acknowledges levelling issues in the current version and won't send players to classic.
At PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, Nightdive Studios presented a new gameplay trailer for the Thief: The Dark Project remaster. It showed locations (mansions, sewers, crypts), an inventory wheel UI, and controller support. No release date announced.
Screenshots and videos on social media suggest Middle Eastern versions of Marvel's Wolverine by Insomniac Games and Sony cut references to Mystique's marriage to Destiny. Dialogue about the "wife" was removed while background music remained. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was previously censored in the region.
Open-world RPG Aniimo, styled after Genshin Impact and without gacha, reached over 166,000 concurrent players on Steam, surpassing Palworld. The game has a "Mostly Positive" rating, with some players criticizing its monetization.
Firefly has announced Stronghold 4, the first new entry in the medieval castle simulator series in 15 years after Stronghold 3. The game is set to launch later in 2026 with battles against seven AI opponents and 14 battlefields.
At PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, Lufia 1 & 2 The Sinistrals Saga was announced for Steam in 2027. This is the first official Lufia release on PC; the games previously launched only on SNES. Development aimed for the most accurate emulation of the originals.
Epic Games has officially confirmed a Fortnite collaboration with Persona 5. On September 25, Joker and Ann Takamaki skins will appear in the shop, and Morgana will be sold as a sidekick.
Starbreeze will release a major Payday 3 update on September 22 for the game's third anniversary: all DLC heists, past and future, become free, the campaign is reworked into a single storyline, and enemy AI, gunplay and sound are improved. A tier system, weapon perks and a new Crimebond, Brute Force, are added.
Activision published data on the scale of cheating: account sales, boosting and spoofing services generate about $8.5 billion a year. Cheat subscriptions across 15 games bring in roughly $3.5 billion. The company blocked 375 resellers, sent 80 cease-and-desist demands and shut down 31 major cheat providers.
Hideo Kojima said Sony declined to fund Physint on a Zoom call without explanation, and Xbox became the publisher. The game is not in full production: story and storyboards are ready, actor scanning is underway, and the engine has not been chosen.
A review of Control Resonant, Remedy's sequel to Control, highlights a shift from shooting to melee combat with the Aberrant weapon. Set seven years after the first game, it follows Dylan waking from a coma. The game supports DLSS 4.5 with Ray Reconstruction and Multiframe Generation up to 6x, exceeding 100 fps at 4K on RTX 50 series.
At the BlizzCon 2026 opening, Blizzard unexpectedly announced a new hero for Heroes of the Storm: Xal'atath, Harbinger of the Void. The game has been in maintenance mode since July 2022, and the announcement sparked a surge of community activity.
Rockstar sent GTA 6 actors a letter reminding them of an NDA valid until November 19, the game's release date. This rules out an official cast reveal before launch. The move followed an interview by Stephen Root, who first confirmed his role.
miHoYo announced Honkai: Star Rail update 4.6, releasing September 28. The 5-star Ice character Pearl becomes playable, Evanescia and Mortenax Blade reruns run, plus new events, Astral Imagea mode and a Razer collaboration.
In interviews with The Washington Post and IGN, Hideo Kojima called Physint 'the biggest selling title I could possibly create' and promised 'anything espionage is going to be fun.' The game moved from Sony to Xbox, and the team remains small as the studio works on horror title OD.
Kojima Productions said it is in a "healthy and profitable state" and that Physint development with Xbox continues. Bloomberg reported PlayStation declined to publish the game due to missed deadlines and low profits from Death Stranding.
A 192 GB GTA V archive leaked online with early 2014–2015 GTA VI work, including a playable draft Leonida map and a Liberty City outline. Details of canceled DLC were also found: the Agent Trevor story expansion and an alternate ending where Trevor freezes in liquid nitrogen.
Gears of War: E-Day has gone gold ahead of its October 6 release. Final PC requirements list a 115 GB SSD, hardware ray tracing, and support for DLSS 4.5, FSR 4, XeSS 3.0 and TSR. Preload starts September 29, with Premium Edition access from October 1.
