Video Game News 10/2/2026

#PhotoMode007
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007 First Light gets free Extended Operations DLC today adding New Game+ and other features

007 First Light Gets Free Extended Operations DLC

007 First Light Gets New Game+, Photo Mode, New Missions, More in Huge Free DLC

007 First Light Announces Free Extended Operations DLC and Its Available Now – Adds New Game+, 00 difficulty mode, Photo Mode, and More

007 First Light Free DLC Adds New Game+, 00 Difficulty, and Photo Mode

007 First Light Extended Operations free DLC brings new missions, weapons, NG+ & more

007 First Light Unveils Extended Operations Free DLC - Adds New Game+, Photo Mode And Much More

007 First Light gets free new DLC today, adding New Game Plus and Photo modes, new TacSim missions and more

007 First Light's First DLC Out Now, Adds New Game Plus

007 First Light First Extended Operations Free DLC Now Available

#GearsOfWarEday
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One of Gears of War E-Day’s collectibles is a letter from The Coalition thanking ‘those that are no longer with us’

Gears of War E-Day staff are reportedly worried they’ll be laid off after the game’s release and miss out on bonuses

Gears of War: E-Day Launch Trailer Brings the Action, Advanced Access Now Live

Gears of War: E-Day Lacks Chainsaw Duels, Private Lobbies and More, But They’re Not Gone Forever

Gears of War: E-Day Review

Emergence Day Begins – Gears Of War: E-Day Arrives On Xbox And PC

Gears of War: E-Day campaign review - A spectacular first act

How many Acts are in Gears of War: E-Day?

Gears of War E-Day campaign review - turns out you can teach old Cogs new tricks

As Xbox swings the axe, Gears of War: E-Day developers fear they'll be laid off straight after launch - and right before they'd be due their bonuses

Gears of War: E-Day Is 100x More Fun Playing Co-op

Gears Of War: E-Day’s Campaign Is Buried In The Past – Review

Gears of War: E-Day system requirements require ray tracing-capable graphics card to play, alongside 115 GB of free space on an SSD

Gears of War: E-Day review in progress — Good shooting, but the campaign's a slog

Gears of War: E-Day Review

The Gears Of War: E-Day Campaign Is Full Of Highs And Lows

#WolverineAndGhostOfYōteiP
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PS5 Quick Spectral Super Resolution Announced, Now Live for Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei

AI upscaling is coming to PS5

Quick Spectral Super Resolution Comes To PS5

QSSR AI upscaling coming to PS5

Base PS5 Is Getting AI Upscaling, Starting With Marvel’s Wolverine And Ghost Of Yōtei

Sony Introduces Quick Spectral Super Resolution - A New Performance Tier of PSSR For Base PlayStation 5s

Sony Finally Brings AI Upscaling to Base PS5

Base PS5 Is Getting AI Upscaling Starting With Wolverine And Ghost Of Yotei To Make The Smallest Details Look Even Crisper

#YouCanStartPlayingCastlev
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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Gets Free Demo To Let You Prove You’re Worthy to Hunt The Night

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Demo Debuts

You Can Start Playing Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Early with Free Demo, Out Now on PS5

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Demo Out Now With Save Transfer

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse gets free demo ahead of October launch

Talking Point: So, How Are You Liking The Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Demo?

PSA: Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Free Demo Is Now Live, With A Frame Rate Boost On Switch 2

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse demo available and runs at 60fps on Switch 2

#XboxOne
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Kena: Scars of Kosmora has been delayed until next year, Ember Lab announces

Kena: Scars of Kosmora launches 2027, Ember Lab shares story overview

PS5's Kena: Scars of Kosmora Officially Delayed into 2027, New Details Revealed

Kena: Scars of Kosmora Delayed to 2027

PS5’s Exciting New Zelda-Like Kena Game Just Got Delayed

Kena: Scars of Kosmora Has Been Delayed, With Story Details as Compensation

#AResidentEvilCode
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Capcom aren't just running out of Resident Evil games to remake - they're banking on it, with a mysterious "crossover" planned when the timelines collide

Resident Evil’s Fan-Requested Crossover Will Happen Soon, Reveals Producer

Capcom Has a Plan for When There's No Old Resident Evils Left to Remake

Capcom Has An Intriguing Plan For When Its Resident Evil Remakes Catch Up With The New Games

#WorldWarFantasyMobaMarchO
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The Division developers Massive are now "the global brand" in charge of Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon, alongside a new Ubisoft dieselpunk MOBA

The Division studio Massive expands to take control of Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon, and a new IP, in Ubisoft's most recent reorganisation

Ubisoft Unites Developers Of Splinter Cell, The Division, Ghost Recon And More Under Star Wars Outlaws Studio Massive Entertainment

Ubisoft shuffle people around bringing The Division, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell together

#LastLight
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Metro Redux Next-Gen Update Brings 4K Textures, Native PS5 and Xbox Series X/S Support in October

Free PS5 Upgrades for Metro 2033 and Last Light, Out This Month

Metro 2033 And Metro Last Light Are Getting Current-Gen Native Ports With 4K 60FPS Support

Ahead of Metro 2039, Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light Are Getting Next-Gen Updates

#March
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March of Giants Preview – A MOBA That Actually Feels Different

Preview: March of Giants Is The Perfect MOBA For Players Who Don't Like MOBAs

March of Giants goes back to MOBA's roots, and its giant-filled, alt-WW1 world doesn't feel out of time

March of Giants Might Actually Get You to Play a MOBA Besides Dota 2 and League | IGN Preview

#FantasyXi
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Final Fantasy XI raises its free trial to level 75 and unlocks the time limits

Final Fantasy XI Lifts Time Limit on Its Free Trial and Raises Level Cap, Offering Much More Free Content

Final Fantasy XI’s free trial no longer has a time limit

24-Year-Old Final Fantasy MMORPG Finally Gets A Generous Free Trial

#Reigns
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Reigns and Card Shark developers Nerial are closing down, laying staff off while the founders go "back to our roots"

Card Shark & Reigns developer Nerial is 'going on hibernation'

Reigns, Card Shark Dev Is Closing Down As Leads Go Independent Again: ‘I Still Have Things That I Can Say’

#AdventCalendar
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Control Resonant's New Game++ update also squashes some of my least favourite bugs, including the one where magic doors change my trousers

CONTROL Resonant Update 1.4.0 Adds New Game++ and Major Quality-of-Life Fixes

Control Resonant PS5 Update 1.4 Live Now with Enhanced New Game+

#RockstarGames
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GTA 6 is coming in November, but Rockstar isn't leaving the current GTA Online behind

GTA 6 Online release date estimate

Halloween Thrills Coming to GTA Online This October

#SuperBowl
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Mike Tomlin shared the Minecraft world he's been building for years, and it's more unbelievable than anyone imagined

Devolver Jokes About Ball x Pit and Mike Tomlin on Bluesky

Mike Tomlin's Minecraft City Took 12+ Years To Make And Now He's Showing It Off

#NaughtyDog
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Sources: Naughty Dog is working on Uncharted 5

A Report Suggests Naughty Dog Has More Uncharted On The Way

New Uncharted game reportedly in the works at Naughty Dog, and it's not a remake

#FortunesWeave
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EDGE #429 review scores – Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave and more

More Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Goods Merchandise Appears

How Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Connects to Three Houses

#Gobbos
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Croc 2 Kingdom of the Gobbos unveils Nintendo Switch release date, new trailer

Yazoo! Croc 2 Remaster Release Date Confirmed for Late October on PS5, PS4

Croc 2 Kingdom of the Gobbos Launches In October

#BlizzardDetailsHunterAndD
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World of Warcraft Forever Shares New Class Overviews, With Changes Coming to Priest and Warrior

Blizzard Details Hunter and Druid Changes for World of Warcraft: Forever

Blizzard Cracks Down on Gold Selling in World of Warcraft Forever — and Streamers Are in the Firing Line

#SteamAutumnSale2026
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The Best Steam Autumn Sale 2026 Deals

9 new 2026 games on sale in the Steam Autumn Sale

Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is live now with lots of discounts

#Monsters
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Throwback MMORPG Monsters & Memories enters early access while netting over 12K advance subs

Monsters & Memories Early Access is Live, Devs Experiment With Bumping Up Capacity To Relieve Queues

Monsters & Memories Enters Early Access With Subscription Launch Underway

#ProjektRedSaysIts
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The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past's setting "felt like a really natural way to go", CD Projekt Red story director says, while parrying my attempts to breach the DLC's guard

CD Projekt Red Says It's Working On Fixes For Witcher 3 Remastered

#Xbox
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"Xbox is not for sale" despite all of the layoffs and neat repackaging of studios within Microsoft's corporate structure, CEO Asha Sharma says

'Xbox is not for sale,' CEO Asha Sharma says

#JackboxPartyPack
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Jackbox Party Pack 12 offers you a new sneak peek in latest gameplay trailer

The Jackbox Party Pack 12 gets Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch release date, new trailer [update: gameplay trailer]

#Papers
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The Operator brings a chilling, engaging, conspiracy thriller puzzle mystery to mobile

The Operator Is a Conspiracy-Fuelled Adventure, Out Now

#TheWitcher
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The Witcher 3 Remastered gets a new patch fixing DLSS and lighting issues

The Witcher 3 Remastered's First PS5 Patch Fixes Lighting Issues, But No Word on Performance Yet