Monster Hunter Wilds' free Switch 2 demo covers the prologue through Chapter 1-3, “To the Forest,” with all 14 weapons. No online play, but an SOS Flare calls NPC Support Hunters.

The king is assassinated and the people choose the next. The Switch 2 demo of this Game Awards 2024 triple winner covers the first four dungeons, and your progress carries over.

Trevor and Sypha's daughter Rose Belmont stars in 1499 Paris. Developer Evil Empire worked on Dead Cells. Beaten bosses are sealed in tarot cards as skills. Out October 15.

In Prop Plane, your Joy-Con 2 is the aircraft. In Skateboarding, you move it like a mouse to explore the island. Four players on one console, up to 16 online.

Tales of Eternia Remastered arrives October 16 on six platforms: chain Artes in real-time 2D battles, start on Extreme, and unlock the Unknown difficulty.

ACE COMBAT 8 debuts at No. 1 in Japan with 63,013 copies. Global shipments passed 1 million in about a week, and Steam concurrent players topped 52,000 (SteamDB).

In a talk, Fumito Ueda and Eric Chahi both stressed conveying emotion through actions and gestures over dialogue or text. Ueda said ICO's hand-holding grew out of Chahi's Another World, a game he played in college.

Tupac plays Amaru in STRANGER THAN HEAVEN, his likeness rebuilt in CG without AI, SEGA says. RGG Studio's Like a Dragon prequel lands January 15, 2027.

Two remakes rebuilt the 2004 Trails in the Sky story. The series went from 8 million in 2024 to over 10 million two years later. 2nd Chapter's Brave Rush chains allies' attacks in Quick Battle.

Monster Hunter Rise tops 20 million, up from 19.3 million in June. It's Capcom's second 20-million seller after Monster Hunter: World. Hunts add the Wirebug and monster riding.

KINGDOM HEARTS Collection [I~III] launches October 8 on Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with a Switch 2-only Long Night Keyblade. A 25th anniversary video set to “Hikari” revisits Sora and friends' journey.

The NieR:Automata Collection is entering The Fog in Dead by Daylight. The Silent Hill Collection brought an outfit for one Survivor. What arrives this time? The contents are still unannounced.

As of October 2, the game had peaked at 9,017 concurrent players on Steam, with 85% of 635 user reviews positive. DYNASTY WARRIORS 3's one-man-army battlefields are back, rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5.

At No. 2, one spot above Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Rhythm Heaven Groove has sold 1,049,922 copies in Japan. Its 80-plus tiny games include grabbing veggies and bouncing fruit off a bicep.

Goichi Suda's Grasshopper Manufacture left NetEase Games on October 1 after shipping Romeo Is A Dead Man. The studio says it wants to make games in a wider variety of styles.

The new scenario is about 120% the size of Original mode, the Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair remake. Skills you train work in both modes. An opening item from Monokuma leads to a different case on the same island.

An original story picks up after the Thousand-Year Blood War. Flick in close, pick an Action Card, and slash. Your Zanpakuto isn't preset: build it from a blade, guard and hilt.

Online, players sortie from a 100-player airport lobby into 4-player team fights. The developer calls its first-person story scenes a series innovation. Hero REX inherits the late Jan Cope's callsign, Wings of Theve.

Alinea Analytics estimates Resident Evil 2's daily players rose about 48%, from about 78,000 to about 116,000, after the Resident Evil movie's release.