Otomate's 9 R.I.P. Limited Edition Re-Release Opens Preorders for January 2027
A re-release that revives the store bonuses alongside the drama CD and booklet lets buyers compare retailer extras in one place before choosing where to order.
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Games
Star Trek: Outposts Unknown Launches on Steam With a Launch Discount
The release puts a licensed Star Trek strategy game on Steam at a discount window that ends October 28, with the Mac build still to come, so the launch is a staged rollout rather than a single-day event.
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Xbox Game Pass Adds Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Across Eight-Title Window
The slate leans on day-one launches (two new titles) rather than catalog backfill, with a January 2026 release as the headline name, which says more about how Microsoft is spacing its fall additions than about any single game.
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We Were Here Tomorrow Launches with 25 Million Series Players
The series has reached 25 million cumulative players while keeping its two-player, online-only structure with no single-player or local multiplayer on any platform, and the addition of Japanese voice audio and cross-platform play at launch points to an effort to widen the audience beyond the existing co-op base.
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BerserkBoy Games Announces Pixel-Art Monster RPG Waveling Island for PC and Xbox
The pitch ties monster collecting to crafting and house-building, a combination beyond the genre's battle-focused norm, and the weather- and time-gated rare Wavelings give the slow-life framing a collection loop.
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Amanita Design Pushes Back At AI Video Posted As Machinarium Love Letter
The exchange puts a working studio's objection to unauthorized AI reuse of its art on the record while the same studio is developing a direct sequel to that game.
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PAYDAY: The Heist Marks 15 Years With a Small PC Update
The anniversary patch keeps the original game on life support while the work goes to the studio that already maintains PAYDAY 2, which says where Starbreeze puts its upkeep.
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Panic Stations Announces Crack Surgeons, a Four-Player Microscopic Surgery Game
The announcement puts a four-player co-op premise on Steam with no release date, so the store page is the only concrete thing players can act on for now.
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AMD Brings FSR Upscaling 4.1 to Radeon RX 6000 and Plans Xbox Series X|S Support
The RX 6000 series support lands roughly a year ahead of the January 2027 window AMD had given, and the console rollout gives the Xbox Series S, long treated as the harder machine to target, a tool that takes over part of the rendering load.
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Villion:Code Heads West On January 26 For Switch 2, PS5, PS4 And PC
The Western release keeps every platform from the Japanese launch and adds physical PS5 copies in two regions, so the port is positioned as a full multi-platform rollout rather than a digital-only afterthought.
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Vixen 357 Port Lands October 23 on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox
The port moves from a September 2026 Steam listing to a dated multi-platform release with Masaya's 1992 Mega Drive game intact, which gives the original a route to current hardware rather than a single-store launch.
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Pokémon TCG Pocket Dual Fusion Pack Arrives October 29
The Dual Fusion date is paired with a second, non-standard pack type on a separate weekly recharge, so the release changes how players spend pack resources, not only what cards they collect.
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Final Fantasy Resonance Reviews Praise HD-2D Debut and Break-Driven Battles
The reviews treat Break and the Vision build system, not the HD-2D look, as the reason the combat holds up, which is the harder claim for a remake of a shut-down mobile game to earn.
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NIS America Sets February 25, 2027 for Ys VIII on Switch 2
NIS America is handling the Switch 2 release overseas while no Japan date has been announced, so the updated port with GameShare co-op arrives first in territories NIS America serves.
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Palworld Side by Side Update Set for Winter 2026 as Poll Winners Revealed
Pocketpair paired the update tease with poll standings and built the teaser around the top three characters rather than the winning Pal, so the reveal points at character-focused content while the Pal rankings supply a separate hook.
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Mount Lomyst Demo Arrives Alongside BACHI BACHI Games Publishing Deal
BACHI BACHI GAMES, the label MyDearest set up for PC and console titles, is attaching its name to a BitSummit PUNCH 2026 award winner before the label has shipped anything of its own.
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Bandai Namco Sets Early 2027 Console Gore Update for The Blood of Dawnwalker
The console fix lands roughly half a year after the Steam fix, so Japanese players on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S stay on the restricted build while PC players do not.
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Leviathan: Rhino Demo Lets Players Wait Out the End
The demo puts the game's premise in front of Steam Next Fest players ahead of a November 7, 2026 release, with Amortiz Games building its horror around waiting rather than combat or escape.
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Haikyu!! ALL Challengers Debuts New Promo Video And Main Visual
The game leans on new animation and voice work rather than recycled art, which sets the bar for what a Haikyu!! mobile training sim is expected to deliver when it opens pre-registration to a wider audience.
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Haikyu!! ALL Challengers Opens Pre-Registration On App Store And Google Play
TOHO Games is handling planning, production, and distribution itself while G2Studios takes development and operation, so the pre-registration push is the first public measure of demand for a title the company is carrying on both sides.
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BLEACH Mirrors High Broadcast Set For October 27 With Morita And Orikasa
The stream is the first scheduled venue for the game's promised major announcement, and the four named cast members plus an unrevealed fifth set the size of what that announcement can carry.
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PEGI to Raise Loot Box Game Ratings to 16+ Across Europe
PEGI is applying its new paid random item category retroactively to existing digital titles rather than only to new releases, which puts long-running online games under the same age standard as new ones.
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Knockout City Official X Account Returns to Announce Player-Run Tournament
A shuttered live-service game's official channel has come back to life for an event its former developer no longer runs, carried by the volunteer server that kept the game playable.
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Pazumao Launches On Steam With Mana Block Puzzles And Demon Lord Candidates
Pazumao pairs a versus falling-block core with skills that break the usual rules, such as blurring the screen or shuffling both players' stacks, and adds Story, Mission, and Survival modes alongside the versus play.
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