Fortnite update v42.20 adds Kingdom Hearts skins: Sora for 1,800 V-Bucks, Roxas, Kairi and Riku at 1,600 V-Bucks each, and a 20-item bundle for 4,500 V-Bucks. The Kingdom Key sword and Sea Salt Ice Cream are added to the loot pool, and Rebecca's weapon from Edgerunners drops from boss Adam Smash.
ATLUS released a trailer for Persona 4 Revival, introducing Naoto Shirogane, a first-year student and fifth generation of a detective family. Her Persona is Sukuna-Hikona. The game will launch on February 18, 2027 for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, on May 20 for Switch 2, and will also be in Game Pass.
Activision and Infinity Ward have released the campaign trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. The game will launch on October 23 for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC via Steam, Microsoft Store, and Battle.net.
SEGA has released a new trailer for Crazy Taxi: World Tour, focusing on the Japan map. The game will launch in 2027 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store.
ArenaNet head Colin Johanson said Guild Wars 3 will rework combat and movement in the spirit of action games, and reduce the 'barrier to entry' so players can progress in 20 minutes and return after a break of several months without issues.
Polygon shared impressions from a 20-minute demo of Castlevania: Belmont's Curse at Tokyo Game Show. The game from Evil Empire (Dead Cells) launches October 15 on Nintendo Switch, PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X|S.
Organizers announced that Tokyo Game Show 2026 will be the longest in history at five days. The event will expand in scale, with more game booths and visitors.
Roblox will hold the anniversary event The Hunt: Roblox 20 to celebrate the platform's 20th anniversary from September 17 to 28, 2026. Players will go through 20 games from different years, and Roblox Plus subscribers will get early access to the hub from 9:00 PT and exclusive rewards.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said GTA 6 still requires aggressive marketing to turn awareness into excitement. He compared the campaign to the Barbie movie and called the 27-minute Netflix video educational for new players.
Released on September 15, 2026, Marvel's Wolverine by Insomniac Games entered the top 5 bestsellers in over 50 PS Store regions and received a rating of 4.84 from 19,000+ reviews, despite online criticism.
Spotify placed billboards in New York and Los Angeles featuring GTA 6 artwork shared by musicians. Travis Scott, Future, Morgan Wallen, and Keith Richards had previously hinted at collaborations with Rockstar Games; details of the partnership are undisclosed.
Enthusiast Andy Nguyen stopped Linux development for PS5 after bug hunters using LLMs found and reported to Sony a hypervisor vulnerability that the exploit relied on. Sony will likely soon release a patch closing the hack.
Square Enix showed a trailer for the HD-2D turn-based RPG Final Fantasy Resonance for Tokyo Game Show 2026. The game will release on October 22 on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store.
Dragami Games, Nada Holdings, and JP Universe announced Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back for PlayStation 5, releasing in 2027. The game is available at Tokyo Game Show 2026, with Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata involved in development.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time page in the Nintendo store lists VRR Output support on compatible TVs. This became possible after Switch 2 firmware version 23.0.0 added VRR in TV mode. Nintendo has not officially confirmed VRR support in the game.
PC versions of Sony games, including Helldivers 2 and Horizon Forbidden West, temporarily disappeared from sale on Steam in the UK. Sony Interactive Entertainment confirmed the delisting was a mistake and is working with Valve on restoration. Games remain in the libraries of those who already bought them.
PlayStation added a list of the most popular games by country to PS5. In the US, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 ranked 9th, while the Call of Duty HQ app with Black Ops 6, Black Ops 7 and Warzone did not make the top 10.
Remedy revealed details of the sequel Control Resonant: players will be able to fight Resonant bosses and obtain their powers, and bosses can be skipped. Inspiration was drawn from works of Escher and films, not other games. Release is on September 24.
Playground Games confirmed that Fable on Xbox Series X will have a 60fps performance mode. Settings for PS5 and PC have not been revealed. The game is scheduled for release on February 23, 2027 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Blizzard revealed Diablo 5 story details: the game will show the past, the present desolation of Sanctuary, and a future that Dread Commanders are turning into a personal hell, a process the studio calls 'terrorforming.' Biomes will change depending on which commander controls them, and players can revisit locations to see them altered. Release is planned for spring 2029.
Rising AI compute costs are making cloud gaming less viable: Nvidia imposed a 100-hour limit on GeForce Now, and Microsoft will cap Xbox Cloud Gaming at 5–15 hours per month depending on tier starting in November. Amazon, by contrast, calls this a 'cloud gaming moment' and continues to develop Luna.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 added the Airbus A380, the most expensive DLC in the simulator's history at $74.49. The add-on is available on PC, Xbox Series X|S and PS5 as part of an exclusive Marketplace series for only three months.
Larian Studios approved 19 new mods for the console versions of Baldur's Gate 3 on Xbox and PlayStation. They include the goblin companion Sazza, turning Lae'zel into a frog, new classes (Conjurer, Pugilist), the Astralborn race and 30 Wild Magic effects.
PlaySide Studios discussed the RTS Game of Thrones: War for Westeros at gamescom 2026. The game launches on PC in early 2027, with playable houses Stark, Lannister, Targaryen and White Walkers; a console port is under consideration.
Nihon Falcom's remake of cult JRPG Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter launches September 17 and receives the best ratings of 2026: 93 on Metacritic for PC and 92 for PS5, 92 on OpenCritic. The game surpassed Resident Evil Requiem, Pokemon Pokopia and Forza Horizon 6.
A publisher pulled funding for an unannounced game from Heart Machine, and the studio laid off nearly its entire staff. Studio head Alx Preston said he is not sure if Heart Machine will survive.
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil film opens in theaters on September 18 and has received 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and 80 on Metacritic — the best result among video game adaptations. Austin Abrams stars.
Hacker TheFlow stopped work on the Linux port for PS5 and PS5 Pro after another modder, Jordy, reported a hypervisor exploit to Sony via HackerOne that TheFlow planned to keep secret until the release of GTA 6. The release of the Linux mod on new firmware, planned for 2027, is now under threat.
After the VISION 2026 II: Dreams presentation, fans suspected Level-5 of using generative AI due to odd art elements. The studio said anomalies in the Yo-Kai Watch 2: Haunted Domain trailer were human errors, not AI, and promised to re-release trailers without AI fragments by Tokyo Game Show.
Starting December 3, Capcom is removing paid Edit Vouchers for Monster Hunter Wilds from stores: players will receive 10 free vouchers for their character and Palico. With the Ascendance expansion in 2027, changing appearance will be unlimited and free.
