Video Game News 10/30/2025

#Halloween
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Trump Take Candy

Everything New In The REPO Monster Update - Full Patch Notes

16 must-play games on PlayStation Plus to horrify your Halloween

Fellowship's Halloween event ditches microtransactions for actual rewards; rival devs, take note

Poll: Do You Play Horror Games Around Halloween?

Watcher of Realms is keeping you busy this Halloween with the Shadow in the Castle event

Ship of Heroes recaps its first month of patches as it goes on sale for $30

Fellowship launches its first-ever Halloween event through November 13

SALVATIONLAND is free for Halloween!

PS4 Port of PS2’s Best Game Is 75% Off on PS Store

Big Time Launches Halloween Leaderboard 2025

Dying Light Update & Halloween Event Ignite the Fear

Cronos The New Dawn Adds Pumpkin Head Halloween Skin

Nintendo Expands Switch 2's GameCube Library Today With A Spooky Classic

Shop Titans Ghostbusters Update Live

Google celebrates Pac-Man’s 45th anniversary with a special Halloween doodle game

#AnimalCrossingNewHorizons
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It's Time For Smash Bros. Ultimate's Switch 2 Upgrade

Nintendo Announces Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch 2 Edition and a Free Update to the Base Game

Animal Crossing: New Horizons springs back to life next year with Switch 2 Edition, major free content update, and Lego collaboration

Animal Crossing: New Horizons to Get Nintendo Switch 2 Version and Free Update Soon

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Gets a Free Update and Switch 2 Edition

Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 3.0 update costs money on the Nintendo Switch 2 (but don’t worry, it’s a very strange and small amount)

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch 2 Edition and Free Update Coming in January

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is Getting a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition on January 15, 2026

Retro Nintendo Games Are Returning To Animal Crossing (Sort Of)

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Getting Collabs With Lego, Splatoon, And Zelda

Nintendo reveals Switch 2 version of Animal Crossing New Horizons along with content update

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Getting 3.0 Update and Switch 2 Edition

#Nintendo
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Nintendo Was Just Dealt A Big Blow In Its Battle Against Palworld

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company's Monster Capture Patent Rejected, May Signal Problems for Their Palworld Lawsuit

Animal Crossing New Horizons’ free update will add Lego furniture and playable NES and Game Boy games

Pokemon Legends: Z-A Bug That Keeps Us From Catching Pokemon Will Be Fixed

Japan Patent Office rejects Nintendo patent for its Pokémon capture mechanic

Tales of Xillia Remastered launch trailer – RPG comes to Switch, first time on a Nintendo platform

Nintendo Download – October 30, 2025 (North America) – Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake, Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, more

Two of Nintendo’s anti-Palworld patents face new scrutiny by the Japanese Patent Office

PS5 Gets Expensive Nintendo Exclusive Among Other Classics

Nintendo’s Patent Application Part of Lawsuit Against Palworld Creator Has Been Rejected

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Nintendo's Cheapest Switch 2 Edition Yet

Nintendo Seems To Be Uploading Old Nintendo Power Covers To Nintendo Today!

Nintendo's Pokémon Catching-Related Patent Has Been Rejected In Japan

Surprise! Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Arrives Next Year

PSA: Struggling With Luigi's Mansion's Inverted Controls? You Can 'Fix' Them On NSO

Biped 2 Waddles Onto Switch Next Month With Even More Nintendo-Style Co-Op Chaos

Nintendo On Why The Mario Kart World Album Isn't Available For Nintendo Music

US: Nintendo Download for 30th October

Resident Evil Requiem’s Grace Ashcroft amiibo announced along with Pro Controller

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Getting A Big Free Content Update And An Improved Switch 2 Edition

#Amazon
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Dell Quietly Offloads 1TB 16-Inch Laptops, Now Nearly Free at 71% Off on Amazon

Amazon Is Abandoning One Of Its Biggest Games, But Not Before The Devs Got To Say Goodbye

Chronicles of the Avatar Hardcover Novel Box Set is Steeply Discounted

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin New Deluxe Edition Gets Huge Price Cut At Amazon

Mega Evolution: Mega Latios ex Box is at Market Value on Amazon

Avatar: The Last Airbender's MTG Commander Bundle is Finally Back in Stock at Amazon Today

Amazon have reportedly cancelled their Lord Of The Rings MMO, again

Former Amazon dev suggests Lord of the Rings MMO cancelled following recent studio "gutting"

Pop Mart Will Sell Evangelion Super Mini Figures

Amazon (AMZN) reports $33 billion in Q3 2025 AWS revenue

Listen to the Amazon (AMZN) Q3 2025 earnings call here

Call of Duty Zombies' Artwork Book Announcement May Be Something Big

Amazon Web Services Return After Downtime

With Amazon Layoffs, Speculation Grows That Their New Lord of the Rings MMO is Dead

#Xbox
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17 Excellent Horror Games You Can Play For Free With Game Pass This Halloween

This New Controller Is Really Good But Broke My Brain

Setting the World Stage for Virtua Fighter’s Return to Xbox

What comes after the Xbox Series consoles? Well, it's pretty much just a PC - even the Microsoft CEO has said so

PS5 Extraction Shooter Arc Raiders Is Looking Like a Hit as Servers Immediately Struggle

Official Xbox Console Emulation for Windows Might Be in the Works

Xbox Game Pass Losing One of Its Highest-Rated Games on October 31st

Xbox Hardware Revenue Still in Freefall, Microsoft Reveals

Xbox Hardware Revenue Fell by 29 Percent, Games and Services Grew by 1 Percent in Latest Quarter

Return To Your Roots with Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home Special Edition

Ready for 2000 Gamerscore? Catnigma Brings New Puzzling Xbox Adventures

Trade, Collect, and Battle – Card Collector Trading Shop is ON XBOX and Play Anywhere

Ready for Some Carnage? You’ll Find it in This New Xbox Play Anywhere Battle Arena Racer

SEGA Brings Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage to PS5, Xbox, and PC

The Shadows Dance: A Review of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

#ArcRaiders
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How To Get Arc Raiders Hatch Keys And What They Do

Best Keybinds And Mouse Settings In Arc Raiders

Arc Raiders: Cross-Play And Cross-Saves Explained

Arc Raiders is out now, and the best thing about it so far is bumsliding through a buried desert city

Patrick Soderlund, who was vice president at EA when Titanfall 2 got crushed between Battlefield and Call of Duty, talks about doing it again with Arc Raiders: 'People may look at that and say, what the hell are they doing?'

Arc Raiders won't have CoD-style "T-Rex costumes" and "Santa Claus outfits" because Embark wants to "protect" its visual identity

Does Arc Raiders have crossplay?

Best Arc Raiders builds - all Raider skills

Is Arc Raiders down? Server status explained

"There's no shortcut to making great games" Embark Studios CCO responds to, and defends, AI use in Arc Raiders

Arc Raiders Online connection errors are causing havoc, as 130,000+ players flood the servers minutes after launch

#VirtuaFighter5REV
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SEGA’s Legendary Fighter Evolves with Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage Now Available

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage Review

#Switch2
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Did Amazon Just Kill Its Lord Of The Rings MMO?

The Animal Crossing Community Just Woke Up Like A Sleeper Agent

Walmart's Pokemon Legends: Z-A Mystery Pin Bundle Is Back In Stock For Switch 2

Dragon Quest I and II HD-2D Remake Patch Adds Earrings

Resident Evil Requiem amiibo and Switch 2 Controller Announced

Review: Full Metal Schoolgirl (Switch 2)

Japanese Charts: Pokémon Is Still On Top As Mario Kart World Approaches 2 Million Physical Sales

Review: Luigi's Mansion (GameCube) - A Spooky Little Romp That Still Sucks You In

#October30
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Free Epic games this week October 2025

Interview: Holostars Vtuber Octavio Talks Music and Games

Today's Coin Master free spins & coins links (October 2025)

Nintendo Download – October 30, 2025 (Europe)

Otherside by Yuga Labs Debuts November 12

October 30, 2025: Battlefield 6 Map Critique & Metroid Amiibo Restock Pre-Launch

#NintendoSwitch2
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Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection launch trailer – new classic package for Nintendo Switch 2, Switch

Resident Evil Requiem Opens Pre-Orders With Deluxe Edition, Fortnite Crossover, and Switch 2 Surprises

Japan: Nintendo Switch 2 sold 65K units this week and Pokemon Legends Z-A sees strong sales

Resident Evil Generation Pack includes RE7 Gold, RE8 Gold and RE9 for $90

Luigi’s Mansion is now available on Nintendo GameCube Nintendo Classics

#November
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Astroneer's Megatech DLC escalates the space sandbox game to colossal size, and connects your entire galaxy together

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord's Massive War Sails Expansion Releases Three Years After RPG's PS5 Debut

PS Plus Games For November Include A Purr-fect Game, Trust Me

Netflix (NFLX) announces a 10-for-1 stock split

PSO2 New Genesis releases solo enemy fights, instance quest updates, and new equipment for November

15 Big Games of November 2025

Let There Be No Kings — Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution Wages War November 9th

Pokémon Legends Z-A Update Planned For November, Will Address "Known Issues"

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Cast Reunion Happening at FAN EXPO San Francisco 2025

#OuterWorlds2
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How To Complete The Last Voyage Of The ACS Free Market In The Outer Worlds 2

How To Complete Hazard A Gas In The Outer Worlds 2

Should you choose Security Ops or Central Dispatch in The Outer Worlds 2?

Where to find pets in The Outer Worlds 2

All The Outer Worlds 2 flaws we've seen so far

All The Outer Worlds 2 console commands and cheats

The Outer Worlds 2 Gets A Live-Action Trailer

How to Get Death Sentence Legendary Rifle in The Outer Worlds 2

How to Get Thunderstruck Legendary Melee Weapon in The Outer Worlds 2

How to Pickpocket in The Outer Worlds 2

The Outer Worlds 2 Now Available for PC and Consoles

#Steam
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Earth vs Mars is Warhammer 40k Dawn of War developer Relic's spin on turn-based tactics, and you can try it for free

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Devs Promise Fixes

LoveR Kiss Endless Memories PC Dating Sim Heads to GOG and DLsite

Bounce Castle Opens Halloween Graveyard Playtest Ahead of 2026 Launch

Mind-Bending Puzzler Orbyss Now Available

Bird collector game Little Aviary arrives in November

#MortalKombatLegacyKollection
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Review: Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection (PS5) - An Almost Flawless Victory for Fighting Game Fans

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection

FINISH HIM – The Klassic Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Releases!

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Review – A Brutal Blast from the Past

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Review

#Switch2Edition
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition and a huge free update

Guide: Everything Included In The Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free 3.0 Update

#Halo
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US government says it’ll keep making video game memes, as Halo co-creator says ICE ad makes him ‘sick’

Trump administration's use of Halo "ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation", says key series designer

Halo 2 & Halo 3 Campaign Evolved Remakes Are Reportedly Being Made

#Available
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Xbox October Update: ROG Xbox Ally Available Now, Handheld Compatibility Program, and More

Resident Evil Requiem Pre-Orders Now Available, Fortnite Collab Announced

#DragonQuest
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Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake Gets Day One Update, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

#RPG
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Former Suikoden and Romancing Saga devs release fairytale RPG Stray Children, with a plea to never spoil the ending

The Witch’s Bakery announced for Nintendo Switch

The Outer Worlds 2 Interview: How Obsidian Redefined Humor, Factions, and Player Choice