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Phoenix Cyclops Leads Marvel Tōkon’s First-Year Support Plan

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has its Year One DLC roadmap, with Phoenix Cyclops leading the lineup on November 2. Thor (Jane Foster), Venom and Jubilee follow in seasonal windows through 2027, giving players a clearer picture of the game’s first stretch of post-launch support. Arc System Works announced the four-character roster on Twitter/X alongside artwork by Marvel artist Peach Momoko. The gam

12 Oct 2026
Gods With Badges Makes Bodycam Footage a Tactical Choice

Strange Scaffold has announced Gods With Badges , a narrative tactics game in which players can switch off a police officer’s bodycam to open up new combat and dialogue options. The choice also removes the public record of what happens next, putting the consequences of recording-or not recording-a situation directly into the game’s systems. Revealed during the Triple-I Initiative showcase on Octob

11 Oct 2026
BlazBlue: CentralFiction PS5 Release Follows TRINITY Update

BlazBlue: CentralFiction is coming to PlayStation 5 with rollback netcode and cross-play with PC, Arc System Works Europe announced on October 10. The PS5 version is also set to add French, Italian, German, and Spanish text options, alongside new Training Mode features. The announcement gives the long-running fighter a fresh set of online features, but there is no PS5 release date yet. Arc System

11 Oct 2026
Forza Horizon 6 PS5 Players Face a £110 Early-Access Choice

Forza Horizon 6 will arrive on PS5 on January 26, 2027, after slipping from its expected 2026 window. Premium Edition owners can start five days earlier, on January 21, the same date the game’s first paid expansion launches. The expansion and full PS5 release are both in January, but they do not share a launch day. A later PS5 arrival, with shared play The Xbox and PC versions launched in May, lea

10 Oct 2026
Gears of War: E-Day Launch Shows the Limits of Sales Counts

Gears of War: E-Day reportedly reached around 1.7 million Game Pass players and generated more than $37 million in estimated revenue, according to figures from Alinea Analytics analyst Rhys Elliott reported by Eurogamer. That total includes outright sales, microtransactions and Premium Edition upgrades; it is not a confirmed Microsoft sales disclosure. More than 722,000 Game Pass players reportedl

10 Oct 2026
Dave and Bancho Dive Into Subnautica 2’s Proteus

Dave the Diver is getting a Subnautica 2 crossover for its final planned DLC, Mintrocket announced at the Triple-i Showcase. The free expansion is scheduled for early 2027 and will send Dave and Bancho to Proteus, Subnautica 2’s ocean moon. The announcement, reported by Eurogamer, gives Dave the Diver’s DLC run a suitably aquatic send-off: the two games both revolve around underwater exploration,

9 Oct 2026
Triple-i Showcase Sets 2027 Dates for Indie Game Releases

The Triple-i Initiative’s first-ever fall showcase brought release dates, new game reveals and demos, according to Polygon’s October 8 roundup. Among Us Story: On Guard arrives February 17, 2027, while The Escapists 3 is headed to consoles and PC in 2027; Astral Ascent also got a crossover update that is available now. While AAA games tend to dominate Summer Game Fest and The Game Awards, the Trip

9 Oct 2026
Monster Hunter Rise Brings Native Hunts to Netflix Mobile

Monster Hunter Rise has seemingly soft-launched on Apple and Android storefronts, but downloading and playing Capcom’s action game requires a Netflix membership. The mobile version is installed and runs natively on the device, rather than being streamed, according to Eurogamer’s report on the store listings. That makes this more than another game joining Netflix’s catalogue: it is a full-scale Mon

8 Oct 2026
Nine Games Leave Xbox Game Pass on October 15

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leaves Xbox Game Pass on October 15, giving subscribers roughly a week to play the award-winning RPG before it departs. Eurogamer reported the deadline on October 7, alongside Microsoft’s first batch of October additions; the game is leaving on Cloud, Console, and PC. The date is worth noting if the RPG has been sitting in the backlog with a particularly smug claim to y

8 Oct 2026
Modern Warfare 4 DMZ Adds a Persistent Economy and Player Hub

Infinity Ward is building Modern Warfare 4 ’s DMZ as a follow-up to the 2022 beta, expanding its extraction-shooter formula with a dedicated 70-level progression track, a persistent economy and a player hub. Eurogamer reports that the studio wants the mode to stand as a major part of the series, with combat taking priority over fiddling through menus. The return gives Infinity Ward a chance to dev

7 Oct 2026
Monster Hunter Rise Hits 20 Million After Expanding Beyond Switch

Monster Hunter Rise has surpassed 20 million copies sold worldwide, more than five years after launching on Nintendo Switch in March 2021. Capcom’s official Monster Hunter franchise account announced the milestone on Friday, October 2, according to Anime News Network’s October 6 report. That is a substantial sales run for a game that began on a single platform. Rise’s release eventually reached PC

7 Oct 2026
Ace Combat 8 Nearly Quadruples Ace Combat 7’s Steam Peak

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve reached a peak of 52,694 concurrent players on Steam on Saturday, October 3, setting the series’ biggest Steam launch. The milestone came one day after its official October 2 release, which followed three days of early access, according to Eurogamer. That staggered rollout gave some players a head start before the full launch, but the record-setting peak arrived after

6 Oct 2026