Games

gamesannouncement 3 sources · Oct 16

Guns of Eschaton Sets December Release for PC, PS5, Xbox

Eschatology Entertainment has released the game within the same year it was announced, and the studio's co-founder, Viktor Antonov, did not live to see the launch, making this his final credited work.

4Gamer.net, Automaton, Denfaminicogamer
gamesbusiness 5 sources · Oct 16

Nintendo Raises Switch 2 and Switch Repair Prices From November 16

Nintendo has already raised hardware prices once in May, and the CPU board increase of 9,900 yen lands on the same semiconductor supply pressure that other component makers expect to run into 2027.

GAME Watch (Impress), 4Gamer.net, Automaton, and 2 more
gamesbusiness 4 sources · Oct 16

Arc System Works Opens Tokyo Studio TAKUMI In Shinjuku On November 2

The studio is attached to a title the government is already funding, so the opening pairs a real estate decision with Tokyo's content export target of 20 trillion yen in overseas sales by 2033.

4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark, and 1 more
games 1 sources · Oct 15

DMA Cheats Spread Through China's PC Gaming Scene

Because the reading, analysis, and input all happen on hardware outside the gaming PC, the monitoring software that most online games rely on has little to catch, which is why Tencent's game security report treats DMA cheats as a major threat.

ASCII.jp
gamesrelease 2 sources · Oct 15

DREADMOOR Sets Early Access Launch for November 9

A Cyprus publisher and a Kyrgyzstan developer shipping a Steam Early Access fishing horror game with Japanese support on day one says more about how small studios now plan for the Japanese market at announcement, not after.

Game Spark
gamesrelease 4 sources · Oct 15

PEAK Console Versions Get October 22 Launch With Crossplay

The console launch carries all previously released PC content and crossplay, so the existing player base can invite friends on consoles without any content or version gap.

4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark
gamesrelease 1 sources · Oct 15

Pocketpair Publishing Sets Clicky Islands Steam Launch For November 16

Pocketpair Publishing is attaching its name to a small developer's city-builder-clicker hybrid and giving it a Steam date plus a demo already in players' hands, which is how a publisher with a hit behind it tests whether its label alone can move a genre blend.

4Gamer.net
gamesrelease 1 sources · Oct 15

DayZ Adds Badlands Expansion With 267 Square Kilometer Desert Map

Badlands is a bet that DayZ's survival loop can be reset by weather and terrain rather than by new enemies, since heat, drought, and sandstorms change how players move and what they carry before any infected matter.

Game Spark
gamesreview 1 sources · Oct 15

Asus Adds OLED Model To ROG Ally Line With The ROG Xbox Ally X20

The ROG Ally line has moved to six models since 2023 while Nintendo Switch took about eight years to reach a successor, and the X20 keeps the same Windows base so buyers carry their PC game libraries across each revision.

ASCII.jp
games 1 sources · Oct 15

Warframe Opens Player Path to the Tau System on October 16

Warframe has kept its story inside the solar system for its entire run, so moving the Tenno toward the Tau System is the first change to the game's geography at this scale, and the operation is being staged as a one-time event rather than a recurring update.

Denfaminicogamer
gamesreview 1 sources · Oct 15

A Housing Simulator Where San Francisco Says No

The review documents a game whose stated premise is that the city side does not want the city built, and its mechanics are drawn from real contested sites and real policy changes.

GIGAZINE