Video Game News 10/16/2026

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#OriginalScore
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Rockstar has revealed the official launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6

Grand Theft Auto 6’s Original Score is Composed by Justice, Rockstar Confirms

Rockstar Launches New GTA 6 Launch Trailer Featuring Original Song “Flower in a Hurricane”

GTA 6 Launch Trailer Available to Watch Right Now, Captured on PS5

GTA 6 Launch Trailer Features Justice, Tame Impala, and SZA

Rockstar Drops GTA 6 Launch Trailer

Grand Theft Auto 6 launch trailer suddenly drops, showing a saucy shower scene, a tense police chase, and high-flying heists

GTA 6 Launch Trailer Breakdown And Theories

The GTA 6 Launch Trailer Is Here Ahead of November Release

The Grand Theft Auto 6 launch trailer is here

33 New Details From the GTA 6 Launch Trailer

The Sex Scene Is One Of The Best Parts Of Grand Theft Auto 6′s New Trailer

Surprise, Here’s A New Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer

#CompleteEdition
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"Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition has fallen short of both your expectations and our own standards", Sega say as they pull it from stores and restore the original

Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition from stores over bugs and AI art

Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition Pulled From Sale After Negative Response

Sega apologizes for & delists Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition amid player backlash

Total War Shogun 2's Complete Edition quickly pulled from sale following severe blowback

Sega Pulls Total War: Shogun 2 Remaster After Backlash Over AI-Upscaled Graphics

SEGA Pulls Controversial Total War Remake After Backlash

Sega Pulls Disastrous Total War: Shogun 2 Remaster From Sale Following Backlash

Sega’s Total War: Shogun 2 Remake Is Such A Disaster It’s Being Pulled From Sale

#XboxBigWalk
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Big Walk devs House House announce support for BDS Microsoft boycott, say the co-op puzzler isn't coming to Xbox

House House Explains Big Walk Not Being On Xbox

Big Walk developer explains the lack of Xbox version is due to Microsoft's place on the BDS boycott

House House will not release Big Walk on Xbox in support of pro-Palestinian BDS campaign

Big Walk devs explain why it isn't on Xbox and likely never will be, 'not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets'

Big Walk Devs Say The Game Won’t Come To Xbox In Accordance With The BDS Boycott

#PrologueDemo
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The Switch 2 version of Monster Hunter Wilds gets a Prologue Demo next week

Monster Hunter Wilds Prologue Demo Launches on October 19th for Switch 2

Monster Hunter Wilds Switch 2 Demo Offers Local Multiplayer

Monster Hunter Wilds Free Prologue Demo Brings The Hunt To Switch 2 Next Week

Monster Hunter Wilds' fairly generous Prologue Demo comes to Switch 2 next week

Monster Hunter Wilds demo available next week on Switch 2 eShop

#StreetFighter
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WWE 2K26 is collaborating with Capcom for a DLC pack adding five WWE wrestlers as Street Fighter action figures

WWE 2K26 Street Fighter Crossover Brings Five Playable Superstars on October 28

Movie Review: Street Fighter - Gaudy Testosterone-Fuelled Action Film Is Fun But Not a Knockout

WWE 2K26 X Street Fighter Elite Pack Launches October 28

The Live-Action Street Fighter Movie Curse Has Yet To Be Broken

We’re Getting A WWE And Street Fighter Crossover, And It’s Pretty Weird

David Dastmalchian wants a Street Fighter Commander Deck! | Shelf Quest

The New Street Fighter Movie Gets Savaged By Critics, But Not Everyone Hates It

Did Street Fighter Actor And WWE Wrestler Cody Rhodes Accidentally Let Slip He’s In The X-Men Reboot?

#TrollheimGnomesAnnouncedW
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"I lost the concept of home, until my grandmother took me into these forests" - Trollheim: Gnomes is a survival game from ex-DICE and Paradox devs that channels childhood fairytales

Trollheim: Gnomes Announced With Eight-Player Survival, Early Access in 2026

Trollheim: Gnomes' Nordic Folklore Inspired World Looks Stunning, And I Need To Explore It

Trollheim: Gnomes Announced, Survival Crafting In Nordic Folklore

Trollheim: Gnomes Aims to Bring the Mystery and Whimsy of Nordic Folklore to a Survival Crafting Game

#CrackTheWhipInCastlevania
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Crack The Whip In Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse

Castlevania Belmont's Curse swung between Dark Souls and Dead Cells to find the form that "feels good in your hands"

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse review - inspired by great ideas, but doomed by questionable execution

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Is The Latest Game To Attend The Hades School Of Making Everybody Hot

How to unlock fast travel in Castlevania: Belmont's Curse

#CodModernWarfare4
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‘No offense to Zelda’ but GTA 6 and COD Modern Warfare 4 are ‘the two biggest games of the year’, Activision exec says

GTA 6, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 are 2026’s Biggest Games, per Activision: “No Offense to Zelda”

"No Offense To Zelda" - Activision Exec Says Call Of Duty: MW4 And GTA 6 Are The Two Biggest Games Of The Year

Activision Thinks GTA 6 Will Actually Help Modern Warfare 4: 'No Offense to Zelda, but [GTA and COD] Are the 2 Biggest Games of the Year'

#Switch2
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The Switch 2 version of 007 First Light finally gets a new release date

"You're Late, 007" - First Light Has Finally Locked In A Switch 2 Release Date

007 First Light gets Switch 2 release date, with IO Interactive saying time for "optimisation and performance" was needed

007 First Light On Switch 2 Includes Something No Other Platform Gets, And It’s Ridiculous

#TheEpicGamesStore
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Control Resonant Celebrates 1 Million Copies Sold

Control Resonant Cuts Through the Crazy PS5 Release Schedule with 1 Million Sales

Control Resonant sells 1 million copies in 3 weeks to become Remedy's fastest-selling game ever

Remedy Boss Reacts After Control Resonant Sells 1 Million Copies, Becoming Studio's Fastest-Selling Game

#FortunesWeave
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Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Expansion Pass Announced

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave gets its first wave of DLC today, and an expansion pass to include it

6 Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave Characters Who Need to Be in the Next Smash Bros Game

The Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Expansion Pass Adds Stories For Those Other Four Protagonists The Game Was Supposed To Have

#Classic
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League of Legends Classic will become a thing of the past in January 2027, though it may one day be resurrected as a limited-time event

League of Legends Classic is effectively calling it quits after just three months of operation

Riot has already called time on League of Legends Classic, will turn it into an event instead

Riot Games has announced the end League of Legends Classic as an on-going mode, just three months after its release

#BatteryLife
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Razer Barracuda V2 Pro Unveiled With 70-Hour Battery Life

Razer Barracuda V2 Pro Review – A Brilliant Upgrade

Razer Barracuda V2 Pro launches today with simultaneous Bluetooth and 2.4GHz audio

Razer Wolverine V4 Pro wireless gaming controller review

Razer Barracuda V2 Pro Wireless Gaming Headset Now Available

#Xbox
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Xbox reveals the Nano Controller, a smaller and cheaper alternative with a rechargeable battery

Xbox announces new Nano Controller that's also compatible with mobile

Xbox Announces Tiny New Xbox Nano Controller

#Wrangler
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Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World details online features, Battle Arena, Wrangler’s Gauntlet

Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World Details Cross-Play and Roguelike Mode

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Withered World Online Modes Detailed

#GranTurismo7
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Gran Turismo Limited Edition DualSense Wireless Controller Announced

(For Southeast Asia) Gran Turismo 7’s Spec IV (Part 1) launches today and a first look at DualSense wireless controller – Gran Turismo Limited Edition

Nobody Loves Cars More Than Polyphony Digital, and Its New Gran Turismo 7 Movie Proves It

#Re4
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Resident Evil Doesn’t Need More Remakes

Video: Digital Foundry Delivers Its Tech Review For Resident Evil 4 On Switch 2

How in the world are Intel GPUs still improving so much? The latest driver update claims up to a 31% fps improvement in Resident Evil Requiem

#TheGameAwards2026
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GTA 6 squeaks into eligibility for The Game Awards 2026 by the smallest of margins - but can it break Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's record number of wins?

GTA 6 Slides In Under Game Awards 2026 Cutoff

GTA 6 Avoids A Very Awkward Situation By Officially Being Eligible For The 2026 Game Awards

#XboxAllyX
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ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X20 Review

ASUS Announces ROG Xbox Ally X20 Availability on Xbox Wire

Xbox Ally X 20 vs Xbox Ally X: A wickedly bright OLED screen and frosty temps make for a begrudgingly attractive upgrade for the Asus handheld

Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 review

#BestestBests
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Monumentally expansive roguelike Caves of Qud is getting even bigger in December with an early access expansion that lets you play as messed up dogs and trees

Caves of Qud: Diaspora breaks new ground by being the first early access DLC release on Steam

#Planar
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The rumoured Steam Frame OLED would fix one of the Frame's minor weaknesses and do nothing for its major ones

Valve is toying with a Steam Frame OLED and some Reddit users are already wondering whether to wait an excruciatingly long time for it even though it may never happen

#Ubisoft
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Ubisoft reportedly look to cut 100 more jobs by proposing voluntary redundancies at studios including lead Anno devs Ubisoft Mainz

Ubisoft to reduce workforce across Düsseldorf, Berlin, and Mainz as part of "proposed voluntary departure plan"

#TriviaMurderParty
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Interview: Jackbox's Allard Laban talks how Jackbox adopted mobile and what Party Pack 12 has in store

The Jackbox Party Pack 12 Is Out Now – Five New Ways To Ruin Game Night

#ClashRoyale
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Clash Royale is the next Supercell hit to come to tabletop, with an upcoming Kickstarter project

Clash Royale: The Grand Arena Board Game Exclusive Trailer and Kickstarter Reveal

#Rpg
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Gundam Blitz Order brings the hit mecha anime to mobile with a new auto-battler

Gundam Blitz Order Mobile Game Appears With Network Test