Video Game News 10/2/2026

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

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

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

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

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 Review

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

Gears of War: E-Day Review

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

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

#Post007FirstLights
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007 First Light’s Free Update Gives Bond New Ways To Play

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

007 First Light’s Extended Operations Trailer Previews James Bond’s New Adventure

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

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

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's First DLC Out Now, Adds New Game Plus

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

QSSR AI upscaling coming to PS5

AI upscaling is coming to PS5

Quick Spectral Super Resolution Comes To PS5

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

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

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

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

Kena: Scars of Kosmora Delayed to 2027 as Ember Lab Seeks More Polish

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

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

Kena: Scars of Kosmora Delayed to 2027

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

#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

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

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

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

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

#Gobbos
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'Croc 2' Is Getting The Remaster Treatment Later This Month

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

Croc 2 Kingdom of the Gobbos Launches In October

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

Croc 2 Remaster Launches October 29 on Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC

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

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

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

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

#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

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

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

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

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

#AdventCalendar
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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+

Control Resonant Update 1.40 Adds New Game++ and Remedy’s Longest Patch Notes

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

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

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

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

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

#FortunesWeave
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More Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Goods Merchandise Appears

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

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

#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

#Launches
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AION 2 Launches in Early Access Ahead of October 5

Aion 2's imminent worldwide release could be huge as early access founders' packs outsell major games, and player numbers soar

Gang of Frogs Announces October Playtest, Targets 2027 Early Access

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

Sources: Naughty Dog is working on Uncharted 5

A Report Suggests Naughty Dog Has More Uncharted On The Way

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

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

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

#SteamFrame
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SUPERHOT VR expands Steam Frame support with eye-tracked foveated rendering

I ordered prescription inserts for the Steam Frame

#BlackBudgetCancelled
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PUBG: Black Budget Cancelled, Krafton Pulls The Plug Over Engagement Concerns

Krafton pulls the plug on another PUBG game, Black Budget, less than a year after it was announced

#BelkanWar
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Ace Combat Zero Can’t Be Separated From Ace Combat 8 on Steam Due to “Licensing Restrictions”

Ace Combat 8 developer apologises for Belkan War pre-order backlash, explains why it happened and vows to explore possible solutions

#LeaveTraces
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GTA 6 Weather Will Vary Across Leonida and Leave Traces

GTA 6’s Weather System Sounds Like A Big Step Up

#Mature
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GTA VI Predictably Gets a Mature ESRB Rating

GTA 6 Gets Official ESRB Rating and It's as Mature as You'd Expect