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God of War: Sons of Sparta now runs at 60fps on PC — via the KyTyPS5 emulator, not an official port. As a digital-only PS5 exclusive that never came to Steam, emulation may be the only thing keeping it playable long-term.

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Suda51's Grasshopper Manufacture is independent again, splitting from NetEase after just one game under it: Romeo Is A Dead Man. NetEase keeps shedding overseas studios.

Suda51's Grasshopper Manufacture Leaves NetEase, Is Independent Studio Again Months After Romeo Is A Dead Man's Launch - Game Informer

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The Witcher 3's free remaster is so bright some players call it 'lifeless' — and console owners can't easily roll back. PC can disable Bloom; console can't. CDPR hasn't said if it'll change.

"My god this new lighting is lifeless" - The Witcher 3 Remastered Edition divides players for a few key reasons

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Blizzard is reportedly surveying WoW: Forever players on new classes - a leaked list includes Bard, Tinker, Necromancer, Witch, San'layn. The Tinker would pilot a mech with two lives.

Tinker, Bard, Illusionist - Blizzard seemingly surveying World of Warcraft: Forever players about never-before-seen classes to add to the game

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Minecraft's first new dimension in over a decade doesn't launch until 2027. A fan mod recreates The Sift now: 10 biomes, unique mobs, Siftite tools 20% faster than Netherite. 48K downloads already.

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Control Resonant has no yellow paint. Director Mikael Kasurinen says it was a 'conscious decision' to let players figure it out — as Wolverine's 'fart trails' backlash made handholding a flashpoint.

As handholding mechanics come under fire elsewhere, Control Resonant devs confirm they made a "conscious decision" not to use yellow paint

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Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons isn't Baldur's Gate 3 — no dialogue choices, no good/evil version of hero Kaatri. Invoke built a written character whose spells reshape the world instead: burn brambles, douse fires, conjure platforms. Out next year.

Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons developers hope to set aside the Baldur's Gate 3 comparisons and build their own kind of open world

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Halo: Combat Evolved's full 2001 campaign now runs free in Chrome — 128-player multiplayer included — days after fans decompiled the game. Legal grey area: play it while it lasts.

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After Wilds' infamous performance complaints, Capcom got it running at a stable 30FPS on Switch 2 — even in multiplayer hunts. Capcom calls the port a 'painstaking' and 'seemingly endless' process. Out Dec 5.

Monster Hunter Wilds on Switch 2 runs at a stable 30FPS, but it took Capcom a "painstaking, seemingly endless process" to get there

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Crimson Desert's first DLC slipped: Charting the Unknown moves from Oct 15 to Oct 29 — a two-week delay for "more polished and stable gameplay," Pearl Abyss says. The ocean-and-islands expansion waits.

Crimson Desert's Charting the Unknown DLC delayed by two weeks "to deliver a more polished and stable gameplay experience"

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Xbox Mythic Achievements are live for Insiders — Platinum-style medals that award retroactively all the way back to Xbox 360. If you've 100%'d old games, you may already have a pile.

Xbox Mythic Achievements roll out to Insiders and are retroactively awarded as far back as Xbox 360 games

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Final Fantasy 14 Mobile shuts down today — a year after launch, still China-only. Square Enix killed its Tencent licensing deal in July, so the global version never happens. The mobile Eorzea dies before the West ever sees it.

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Xbox's disc-to-digital is live for everyone: insert a physical Xbox One/Series disc, claim the digital license. Out of 1,860 games checked, 1,578 work — so your shelf survives a discless future.

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Seven years after Days Gone, Bend Studio is hiring a community manager for an unannounced 'high-profile AAA' game — a sign a reveal could finally be near.

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Modern Warfare 4 is getting Collateral, a Counter-Strike-inspired bomb mode: cash economy, no respawns, no health regen, and no killstreaks except a team-buy UAV. Launches Oct 23.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is getting a Counter-Strike-inspired game mode that I can't believe it never had before

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Witcher 3 Remastered's free cosmetics aren't free of effort: the Roach fire armor needs 90 minutes of Twitch watching — gone Oct 27 — and Geralt's bandana requires owning Cyberpunk 2077.

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Mega Man's 9-year silence ends in Dual Override: 12th mainline game, Proto Man by his side, and stages split into 3 chunks so you feel progress before the boss. Devs timed it for the series' 40th.

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GTA VI is so big it's warping the release calendar. With Rockstar targeting late November, rivals cleared out—cramming major games into Aug/Sept and pushing others to early 2027.

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Naughty Dog's Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet won't be shown at all until 2027 — it was revealed nearly two years ago, and Druckmann's ask now is one more full year of silence.

Naughty Dog Will 'Fully Reveal' Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet In 2027, But Is Going Quiet The Rest Of This Year - Game Informer

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The new Resident Evil movie is doing what studios dream of: it's selling the games. PS5 copies of RE2 and RE4 jumped 50–65% after release—even after the sale ended. Steam only rose 11–14%.

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KPop Demon Hunters: Battle for the Spotlight turns Love Letter into a demon-vs-idol card game — no eliminations, Rumi and Jinu cards, out Oct 3, 2026 (EN/FR/ES/DE), global Feb 2027.

A Playable Love Letter To KPop Demon Hunters - Game Informer

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Game Informer's GTA VI cover story drops 12 exclusive new screenshots plus Rockstar dev interviews on how far they went to rebuild Florida as Leonida — 14 pages of it.

The Grand Theft Auto VI Digital Issue Is Now Live - Game Informer

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The Witcher 3 just hit its highest Steam concurrent player count ever — nearly 120K, beating its 2015 launch (92K) and 2020 Netflix-era peak (103K). A free remaster did that.

The Witcher 3 surges to its highest Steam concurrent player-count ever, following Remastered edition's release

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Mexico's proposal would require digital game stores to say if you're buying a game or a license—and keep it playable after servers die. Companies would need a Mexican address. Sony's 2028 disc exit looms.

Mexican lawmakers join the fight for digital games ownership with a new consumer rights initiative

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The full Hades orchestral concert — London Mozart Players, conducted by co-composer Austin Wintory — is now free to watch online in its entirety. Ballads of the Underworld, no ticket required.

You can now watch one of this year's best orchestral game-music performances, celebrating Hades 1 and 2, online for free

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Ace Combat fans pre-ordered on Steam to play a 2006 PS2 game on Steam Deck. Bandai quietly turned that re-release into DLC — you now need 135GB of Ace Combat 8 installed to run a 4GB game. On console, it's standalone.

Controversy erupts around Ace Combat 8 on PC as bundled Belkan War re-release remains problematically attached to the new game, whereas it's standalone on console

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Struggling as a human in The Blood of Dawnwalker? That's the point. Director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz says humans are meant to be weaker than vampires: 'Vampires should always be stronger.' Witchcraft is the crutch—and human form is the hardest way to finish.

Don't worry if you're struggling in human form in The Blood of Dawnwalker - "it should be harder" playing that way

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Gears of War: E-Day defaults to Normal — but The Coalition's creative director says Hardcore is the intended way to play. Brutality is the point, not easy mode. Launches Oct 1 on Xbox/PC.

What's the intended difficulty for Gears of War: E-Day? "I can tell you right now, it's Hardcore" says The Coalition creative director

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Wardogs' cash-for-everything economy has a wild side effect: playing the objective is the worst way to get paid. A $20K win bonus can't compete with sitting back and farming. It's a shooter that accidentally critiques the gig economy.

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Skyrim never got a New Vegas-style spin-off for two reasons: ESO kept fans fed, and Todd Howard didn't want another 'someone else makes it better' fight, says ex-Bethesda dev Kurt Kuhlmann.

The Elder Scrolls Online is partly why Skyrim never got a Fallout: New Vegas-style spin-off, says Bethesda veteran

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Modern Warfare 4 just fixed Call of Duty's most-hated feature: double XP tokens now tick down only while you're in a match, not while you're stuck in menus. Old tokens carry over too. Launches Oct 23.

In another unprecedented move, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is changing double XP tokens so they count down in match and not real-time

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Sony's anti-scalping fix for PS5 Pro in Japan is a lottery — and to enter you need a Japan-registered account with 60+ hours played in 2 years. Winners then pay ¥137,980 (~$876).

Sony is introducing an anti-scalping lottery system for PS5 Pros in Japan as supply shortages persist

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Lego's first-ever Dragon Ball set leaks: Shenron & Goku, 1,764 pieces, $180, out Nov 1, 2026 — and Dragon Ball Z sets (Frieza's ship, Goku vs. Raditz) are already slated for 2027.

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NYT Connections for Sept 29 is live — four categories, from "things that are hard to find" (yellow) to a hidden alphabet (purple). Hints and answers inside to save your streak.

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Ghost of Yotei's Erika Ishii is now locked in to star in Double Fine's next game — which doesn't exist yet. Backers pushed its Amnesia Fortnight Kickstarter past $613K; fans vote on the pitch.

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Baldur's Gate 3 console players just got a 300+ cheat menu: heal the party, wipe enemies in a radius, bump stats mid-fight. It's one of 41 new mods — you can even play as Orin.

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Minecraft is handing out a free cape — and that almost never happens. Watch 15 min of Minecraft Dungeons 2 on Twitch (3 min on TikTok), Sept 29–Oct 14, and the Aurora Cape is yours permanently.

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Kotick's lawyers demanded Game File's Stephen Totilo add a paragraph to his article. It was already there. They apologized 2 hours later — likely never reading past the paywall. A People Make Games report says they did the same to other outlets.

Bobby Kotick’s lawyers sent me a bad email (and later apologized) - Game File | Stephen Totilo

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The Last of Us Part II's Abby and Lev — voice actors Laura Bailey and Ian Alexander — return in HBO's Season 3 as entirely new characters. John Goodman joins as Joey. Season 3 lands ~2027, possibly the show's last.

The Last of Us Season 3 Casts John Goodman And Last Of Us Part II Actors Laura Bailey And Ian Alexander - Game Informer

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Game Informer's top 10 PS5 games: no ranking, just must-plays. Newest picks: Resident Evil Requiem, Ghost of Yōtei, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Astro Bot, FF7 Rebirth, Spider-Man 2, BG3, GoW Ragnarök, Elden Ring, Returnal also make it.

The Top 10 PlayStation 5 Games - Game Informer

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Minecraft's first new dimension in nearly 15 years, The Sift, has been in development since 2021, per insider ItsMwamOffi — not a new-CEO rush. It hits Dungeons 2 first.

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God of War Laufey pre-orders open tomorrow — and its physical edition is the last God of War disc ever: PlayStation goes all-digital in 2028. Faye's solo game lands on PS5 in February.

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A fan just GTA-ised London: Kings Cross becomes "Dukes Cross", Angel becomes "Saint", and the whole city becomes "Trafalgar". YouTuber CityEd's full map is free — and real GTA 6 lands in under two months.

"What if London existed in the Grand Theft Auto universe?" One fan has answered with a GTA-style map of the city

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Ubisoft trademarked 'Motherbrain' — its internal gen-AI game dev push, named after Metroid's evil brain-in-a-jar monster. Same company that cut ~380 jobs this year. CEO calls gen-AI a 2D-to-3D-scale 'revolution.'

Ubisoft's calling its next push into gen-AI game development Motherbrain

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God of War Laufey gives Kratos' wife Faye her own weapon: the Serpent's Bow, which charges up to five arrows at once. Pre-orders open tomorrow; the game hits PS5 Feb 16.

New God Of War Laufey Weapon Revealed Alongside Pre-Order Details - Game Informer

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The Witcher 3 just got a free remaster 11 years after launch — sharper faces, reworked skill trees, mods built into the main menu. Combat is untouched. Really, it's a runway for Songs of the Past.

The Witcher 3 Remastered is an extraordinarily generous upgrade that doesn't change the game, but does make it new again

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Blizzard's apology for Diablo 4's rocky Season of Hell's Legacy launch: a free Resplendent Spark — the rare mat players normally grind hours of endgame for. Some never got one.

Blizzard gifts Diablo 4 players one of the game's rarest crafting materials to apologise for Season 15 issues

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