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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

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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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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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

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

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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You can hear The Witcher 3's Songs of the Past before you play it: a five-track EP just dropped, with composer Magda Urbańska scoring the expansion's new region of Letten. Folk melodies, malicious undercurrent.

If you want an early taste of The Witcher 3's Songs of the Past expansion, you can listen to five tracks from the OST right now

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Dark Souls 2 finally gets seamless co-op: Yui's mod lets up to 5 players beat the entire game together, drop-in/drop-out. Alpha's live on NexusMods—expect de-sync bugs.

Dark Souls 2 can now be played in its entirety with drop-in, drop-out co-op, thanks to its own seamless multiplayer mod

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Minecraft Dungeons II is a real step up — but its best power fantasy only kicks in at endgame. You'll beat it in under 10 hours and see everything by 15. The Sift dimension it introduces hits Minecraft proper in 2027.

Minecraft Dungeons II Review: Built Better Than Before - Game Informer

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Warzone is finally getting the skin toggle players begged for: switch it on and you'll only see Modern Warfare 4 operators — Beavis, Homelander and the rest vanish. Your bought skin stays visible to everyone else.

Call of Duty: Warzone will soon make it possible to toggle all those silly skins off, something no one thought could ever happen

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Marvel's Wolverine patch 1.001.006 finally lets players toggle off those 'fart gas' blue scent trails for collectibles and doors—but story-critical senses stay forced on.

Marvel's Wolverine finally lets you turn off "fart gas" scent trails completely, but there's a catch

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Blizzard raised the WoW: Forever beta server cap again this weekend — a Classic dev calls it 'the craziest numbers I've seen in 17 years.' And that's with a $59.99 paywall just to get in.

As World of Warcraft: Forever's beta popularity grows, Blizzard has yet again had to increase the server cap

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Kojima quoted Sony $400M for Physint. Sony pulled funding when it blew budget and missed deadlines. Xbox reportedly picked it up for a "fraction" of that.

$Xbox is reportedly paying a "fraction" of the $400 million Kojima quoted Sony for Physint$

Fortnite's next crossover: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria becomes a map location, with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy as bosses. Fortnitemares starts Oct 1.

Five Nights at Freddy's is coming to Fortnite for Fortnitemares

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Kojima quoted Sony $400M for Physint. Sony pulled funding when it blew budget and missed deadlines. Xbox reportedly picked it up for a "fraction" of that.

$Xbox is reportedly paying a "fraction" of the $400 million Kojima quoted Sony for Physint$

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Platinum was so brutal only 2.6% unlocked it. Director Naoki Hamaguchi says Revelation's will be easier—he expects 20%+ of players to earn it. Out April 8, 2027.

Final Fantasy 7 director says Revelation's Platinum trophy will be "easier to get"

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17 years in, Minecraft still pulls 300,000 first-time players every single day. 425M copies sold and counting — Xbox's new boss says it's still finding new players.

Minecraft still gains around 300,000 new players a day, Xbox boss reveals

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Satya Nadella calls Xbox's cuts 'great to see' — 268 layoffs days earlier, Ninja Theory facing closure, and 3,200 jobs gone since July.

Microsoft CEO says Xbox's "streamlining" is "great to see" despite cuts and layoffs

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MobyGames now lets developers claim their own game credits — but only on the $14.99/month Professional tier. Thousands already signed up, and it still can't re-add devs erased from credits entirely.

MobyGames video game database now lets developers claim their game credits

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The r/SwitchPirates mod owes Nintendo $4.5M — $150,000 for each of 30 pirated games. Nintendo tracked him through his own Reddit posts; he never answered the suit, so a judge granted default judgment and barred him from piracy for good.

US court orders Redditor to pay Nintendo £3.4m over Switch piracy

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