Game news, reviews, prices and industry moves, with a clear buy-or-wait verdict when it matters. Every story links its sources.
Xbox's first COO left Microsoft on Oct. 23 after 21 years, with no reason given and no successor named. The 109-day timeline I built, the four jobs the seat held, my verdict and three things that would calm me down.
Capcom says a third party accessed 11,774,247 CAPCOM ID records. The exposure receipt, the three numbers that matter, a five-minute safety plan, my five-second email test and my take.
A developer says OpenAI's Codex helped jailbreak the Switch 2 on firmware 23.0.1, and it's tethered. What's confirmed, who did what, what Nintendo's rules say and my take.
Aion 2 peaked at 397,905 Steam players, then reviews slid to 58% over a $14.99 per-server membership. What free gets you, the math, and my take.
A court ordered Apple to open iPhones in Australia to rival app stores and outside payments from March 1, 2027, and Fortnite returns first. What changes and my take.
Fortune reports Xbox plans an à la carte Game Pass with add-ons for cloud, multiplayer and console games. What's confirmed, today's prices and my $8 rule.
EA is closing BioWare and canceling the next Mass Effect. What's confirmed, what happens to Dragon Age, what EA's letter leaves out and my take.
007 First Light has a Switch 2 date: March 18, 2027. I laid out the delay timeline, what IO Interactive's announcement does and doesn't say, the three editions, the 30 fps target and a five-gate test for deciding whether to pre-order.
Game Freak says Beast of Reincarnation's major updates end with a patch planned for Oct. 19-20. I built a ten-week timeline, a ledger of every complaint versus what shipped, and explain why the game improved more than its reputation did.
Nintendo Switch Sports Resort launches Oct. 22 at $49.99. I put all 12 sports and their player counts on one board, sorted which Joy-Cons work, priced three game nights and ranked the sports before launch.
Final Fantasy Resonance launches Oct. 22 at $49.99. I break down the Switch vs. Switch 2 trap, build a version-picker, run the price math, explain what Famitsu's 36/40 does and doesn't tell us, and list my doubts.
Steam Next Fest runs Oct. 19 to 26. I converted the start and end times into six time zones, explained Valve's rules, cleared up three myths, built a 10-minute demo test and sorted six demos into a first-look list.
Jagex cancelled RuneScape Reignited 12 days after revealing it. I walk through the day-by-day backlash, what still launches Dec. 2, who qualifies for the free trial and my three-question check for any MMO reset.
Sega pulled Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition two days after launch. What players reported, what's unconfirmed about the AI art, your refund options and my five-point remaster check.
Microsoft's Xbox Nano Controller costs $49.99, weighs 3.5 ounces and is listed for Nov. 4. I checked what's confirmed, what's missing and who should pre-order.
MP1st reports Ubisoft and Tencent's TiMi built Assassin's Creed Destiny, set in China in 206 BCE, before it was cancelled. I sorted what's real, explained who Xiang Yu was and wrote my keep-change-ask pitch.
Rep. Ritchie Torres says he will introduce a bill so buying a game means owning it. I sorted what's confirmed, did the NBA 2K25 receipt math, ranked five ways to buy a game and listed the five lines I'd fight for.
Resident Evil 2, 3 and 4 launch natively on Switch 2 today at $29.99, $19.79 and $39.99 until Nov. 7. I price the trio like a receipt, sort the reviews and give my buy order.
Ubisoft proposed closing RedLynx, the Finnish studio behind Trials, and cutting 70 positions at Ubisoft Singapore. I separate what's confirmed from what's reported, explain Finland's process and say where I land.
A survey sent to some Xbox Insiders asks how you'd react if Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Minecraft and more went Xbox-exclusive. I read every question, priced the 'buy a new Xbox' answer, scored six franchises and explain why one line about PC matters most.
Rockstar's GTA 6 launch trailer is 90 seconds of heist, hovercraft and Justice music, with no new mechanics. I sort what's on screen from what's missing, explain the song and grade it in six categories.
The Ocarina of Time remake lands Nov. 5 at $59.99 digital or $69.99 physical. The first previews reveal a jump button, sprinting, a fifth bottle and boss rematches. I judge eight changes, name my one worry and tell you who should buy it day one.
Sony will stop making discs for new PlayStation games in January 2028, while Nintendo says it has no plans to ditch physical. I sort what each company actually said, chart the Circana sales data, rank all three console makers and give you a disc-or-digital pick for five kinds of players.
Bloomberg says Epic delayed its unannounced Marvel and Star Wars shooter and told the team to go AI first. I sorted what's confirmed from what's reported, decoded the jargon, weighed the best case for and against, and scored the pivot with a five-question test.
CyberLeek says a full GTA 6 build goes public if its crypto coin hits $30 million, unless Take-Two ships discs. I sorted what's confirmed from what's claimed, wrote a field guide to the fake downloads, and graded all four demands.
Circana says Xbox US hardware units are down 33% through August, an all-time low, and PlayStation is down 25%. I built a price-versus-units scoreboard, tested the early-'80s comparison and wrote a three-question test for buying a console now.
Paramount is developing a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 film with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. I sorted what's confirmed from what isn't, mapped three ways the movie could go, wrote my own five-rule Night City Test, and built a watch-and-play plan for Edgerunners 2 on Oct. 20.
Rockstar previewed six GTA 6 radio stations on Oct. 8 and confirmed the series' first on-demand podcasts. I lined up every host and artist reported so far, ranked the stations by curiosity, built a pick-your-moment guide and listed what Rockstar hasn't said.
Xbox's new XP division will take its games into movies, merch, live events and partnerships. I read the announcement, lined up the receipts, ranked the six screen bets I trust most and explain why the games have to stay first.
Xbox Cloud Gaming caps Game Pass at 15, 10 and 5 hours a month in November. I worked out the hour math, who is exempt and who gets hurt, and why a missing price for extra hours worries me more than the cap.
Phantom Blade Zero launches Oct. 29 at $59.99. I scored its combat against five Soulslike rules, laid out the PC specs and four difficulty modes, and explain who should pre-order and who should wait.
Fable launches Feb. 23, 2027 on Xbox, PC and PS5, and pre-orders are open. I priced Standard, Premium and Collector's, ranked the pre-order pack, and explain why I'd pick Premium and skip the statue.
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse launches Oct. 15 at $29.99. I read the hands-on previews, priced Standard against the $39.99 Midnight Edition, built a five-question pre-order test and explain who should buy it at launch.
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen is out today at $29.99. I lined up 15 review scores, did the hour-and-price math, checked how it runs on Switch 2, built a buy-confidence meter for four kinds of players and wrote my verdict.
Forza Horizon 6 fans are frustrated with the post-launch updates. I sorted Series 6's seven free cars by origin (only one is new to Forza), priced the Car Pass at about a dollar a car, graded the run and explain why I think the silence hurts more than the cars.
Kingdom Hearts Collection is out today at $74.99 on Switch 2. I priced it against every other way to buy the series, sorted the first review's performance notes, built my own play order for all 11 entries and wrote a buy-or-wait guide for five players.
GTA 6 is rated Mature 17+ and PEGI 18, and a deleted PEGI page is fueling wild claims. I sorted every claim into confirmed, reported or unknown, built an ESRB ladder and a teen-by-age guide, and wrote the three things to check at launch.
A Reddit buyer says a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D carried a Valorant hardware ban from its last owner, and Riot disputes parts of it. I scored five claims, did the date math and ranked the safest ways to buy used PC parts.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches today at 88 on Metacritic, with a roguelite campaign, a $59.99 price and Denuvo on PC. I lined up the scores, priced every edition and wrote who should buy it, wait or skip.
Micron says the memory shortage gets worse through 2028. I built a price ladder from every 2026 console hike, counted how much warning each maker gave, and wrote a buy-or-hold guide for four kinds of players.
Expedition 33 and eight other games leave Xbox and PC Game Pass on October 15. I built a 12-day finish-it pace calculator, a cost-per-hour check for buying it instead, and my own play order for all nine games.
Modern Warfare 4 launches October 23 for $69.99 and skips Game Pass. I priced every way to buy it, ranked the pre-order perks, checked the PC specs, and built a buy-or-wait guide for five kinds of players.
Gears of War: E-Day reviews are in: 88 on Metacritic for Xbox, 84 for PC, 87 on OpenCritic. I ranked it against every Gears game, priced the four ways to play, and explain why I would skip the $30 early-access upgrade.
GTA 6 is 48 days away, and Game Informer just confirmed hurricanes, 170+ animal species and a ride-share fast travel app. I ranked the seven details that matter, compared the $79.99 price with Rockstar's last two launches, sorted the $399.99 box by who should buy it, and listed the questions Rockstar hasn't answered.
Valve announced on September 29 that Steam's Discounts & Events section will go algorithmic in early 2027. I did the arithmetic on the numbers behind the change, built my own scoreboard of who wins and who's at risk, and wrote a player's guide for a Steam where your deals page won't match your friend's.
Fans said the remaster looked worse on September 23. On September 29 it passed the 2020 Netflix-era Steam record for free. I built a table of every Witcher 3 Steam peak, ranked five reasons it worked, and listed what the record can't prove.
Control Resonant's 84 on Metacritic comes from reviews of a pre-launch build, and Remedy's day-one hotfix changed the exact things critics complained about. I built a table of what the patch fixed and what it didn't, ranked where Resonant lands in Remedy's catalog, and wrote my own buy, wait or skip guide.
Six days after Bungie's studio head apologized on camera for Marathon's collapse and years of vaulted Destiny 2 content, I graded every part of the promise and built the comparison Bungie's own blog post left out: how Marathon's 96.5% player drop actually stacks up against Concord and Suicide Squad.
A Washington court entered a $4.5 million default judgment against Switch piracy operator James "Archbox" Williams on September 23. The math is simple — $150,000 per title across 30 games. How Nintendo says it actually identified him is the part I can't stop thinking about, and I built my own comparison of how Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Valve each handle piracy enforcement.
TGS 2026 drew a record 1,138 exhibitors for its 30th anniversary before Typhoon Dujuan forced organizers to cancel the final day. Kojima named Bill Skarsgård as PHYSINT's lead, Final Fantasy VII Revelation was playable on the show floor, and Persona 6 still has no release date. I ranked every reveal that actually matters and built a table of the release dates worth planning around.
EA went private on August 4 after a $55 billion sale to a Saudi PIF-led consortium, taking on $20 billion in new debt. A day later, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier flagged that the interest bill could outrun EA's entire annual profit — and EA had already cut staff three times in 2026 before the deal even closed. I built my own report card on the whole thing.
Konami's first-person Silent Hill spinoff launched September 24 to a "Generally Favorable" 81 on Metacritic. Critics love the fog and the dread; they can't agree on the stealth. I built my own comparison against the rest of Konami's revival and landed on a verdict higher than the aggregate score suggests.
Xbox cut 268 more jobs on September 22 and gave the next Halo to Activision, the Call of Duty publisher, while Ninja Theory faces a closure consultation. Here is who runs what now, in a table that fits your phone screen, plus my own letter-grade report card on every move and where I think the real danger is.
A complete list of every game Nintendo and its partners have confirmed for Switch 2, organized by when it's actually coming instead of when it was announced.
At a BAFTA event this week, the Office Space and King of the Hill veteran was asked a casual question about Grand Theft Auto rumors and answered it a little too honestly — confirming what fans had already worked out almost a year ago from a single line of trailer dialogue.
Sony ended a partnership with Kojima Productions that ran back through the original Metal Gear Solid and both Death Stranding games, offering fans only a "difficult decision" and no real explanation. Kojima says he found out in a short notice in mid-June. On September 9, Xbox announced it was taking over Physint — and a lot more than just the game.
Reviews landed Wednesday for Marvel's Wolverine, five days ahead of its September 15 launch, and the aggregate score settled at 78 — below all three of Insomniac's Spider-Man games. Critics agree the combat is the bloodiest thing the studio has ever made. They disagree, hard, on whether trading an open world for a straight line was worth it.
Neil Druckmann told The Washington Post that Naughty Dog has "a couple projects" still coming in The Last of Us franchise, even as he confirmed the studio had zero creative input on a Season 3 now filming without him for the first time since the show began.
Wednesday's showcase was the second Nintendo Direct in three days, and it opened with a Monster Hunter Wilds port before closing with the first look at Metroid Ravenous and Kirby and the World Beyond — bookends on a lineup of nearly 40 games heading to Switch 2 through 2027.
