2 October 2026
Platform & Hardware
- Sony’s Revised PS5 Slim Could Be Getting Cheaper To Make, But Not To Buy 3
- Xbox Game Pass Loses These 9 Games In October 3
- Disney+ Shows and Movies Are Now Headed to Netflix, Including Ice Age and Percy Jackson 2
- Original Xbox Version of Halo: Combat Evolved Made Available to Play in a Browser 2
- PlayStation 5 Console Patch Notes: Latest Software Update & Full Update History 2
- "This is your Dreamcast moment": Former PlayStation boss thinks Xbox needs to "pick a lane" with exclusive games to fix itself
- Advanced Shader Delivery Adds Nvidia GPU Support Later This Month To Banish Shader Compilation Stutter
- Desktop and handheld prices going out of control means PC bargain hunts lead to my old enemy: gaming laptops
- Despite How Amazing Xbox Disc To Digital Is, There's Some Sadness Around Forza Horizon
- Epic’s October free games include System Shock 2’s 25th anniversary remaster
- I hate having to prove my brand loyalty just for the chance to buy hardware at full price
- In 5 Years, Will Netflix Still Be In Gaming? Here’s What The CEO Said
- In my quest to find the perfect mouse for me, I've ended up with two completely different ones
- Limited Edition Lisa PS5 Controller Available Now, But Selling Out Fast
- Looks like you will have to pinky promise you won't export your RTX 5090 if you buy a gaming PC from Micro Center now
- More games than ever are hitting Xbox Play Anywhere — is it going mainstream?
- Nacon’s new PS5 controller can mix audio from your phone and console
- Netflix's Biggest Anime of 2026 Breaks a 14-Year-Old Tradition, and Fans Are Furious
- PS5 gets "AI-guided upscaling" a bit like PS5 Pro's, and it's available now in Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei
- Sony Prepping Improved PS App with Expanded Social Features
- Steam Deck 2 Rumours Heat Up As AMD Gainsborough APU Breaks Cover
- Steam Hardware Survey: Intel CPU Share Drops To Lowest Figure, Nvidia GPUs See Bump, Octa-Core CPUs Hit 30%
- System Shock 2 Remaster Is Free to Keep on the Epic Games Store Right Now
- The Pocket Advance nearly perfects my favorite Nintendo handheld
- Three More Particularly Notable Free Demos Have Just Been Added To The Xbox Store
- Turns out you can download more battery as Valve's latest update for Steam Frame adds up to 12%
- Yoshida Thinks Switch 2 and PS5 Should Stay ‘For As Long As Possible’
Publishers, Studios & Industry
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss hopes GTA 6 pushes game prices up because it's "long overdue and also necessary for this business to survive" 5
- Buckle Up, Memory Shortages Are Reportedly Set To Get Worse In 2027 4
- Person Behind Viral AI-Generated Fallout: New York Game Hauls It Offline, Says Bethesda Issued Cease and Desist 4
- Disney Responds To Rumor That It Could Buy Fortnite Studio Epic Games 3
- 2XKO would have needed an MAU base "in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions" to succeed 2
- Ex-Rockstar Boss Dan Houser Doesn't Play a Lot of Open-World Games – and Doesn't Plan to Play GTA 6 2
- James Gunn's DCU Reportedly Safe Following Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, for Now at Least 2
- Krafton shuts down PUBG spin-off Black Budget nine months after closed alpha test 2
- Modder Deliberately Corrupts Their Own Hugely Popular Total War: Warhammer III Mod as Row Over AI Escalates 2
- Reigns developer Nerial enters 'hibernation mode,' lays off staff 2
- "Our Resources Are Limited" - Sonic Boss Would Rather Focus On New Games Over Remasters Or Remakes
- After 30 years they finally let Ace Combat's director fly in a real jet, and I'm taking credit
- AI guys beefing with the pope: A brief recap
- Batman, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter Feature in First Trailer for Skydance, the Newly Named Parent Company for a Merged Warner Bros. and Paramount
- Blizzard Might Finally Be Serious About WoW: Forever Gold Buying, Bans Streamer For Promoting It
- Bungie co-founder and Destiny 2 narrative director launch transmedia studio Stone Kite
- Dear former NFL head coach Mike Tomlin: Your 12-year Minecraft city is beautiful
- Destiny 2 might be back, but the Bungie Store is going away
- Dynasty Warriors producer says he’d rather not make more remasters, because he doesn’t know how many more games he has left
- Gray Zone Warfare CEO Addresses Cheaters: ‘We Can Find These People’
- Riot Releases ‘Headliners: The Music of League of Legends’ Book
- Sega is releasing a porcelain Sonic 35th anniversary statue, limited to 50 pieces and costing $6,300 each
- Sony PlayStation Lawsuit Refund: How To Check Eligibility and Claim Your Part of the $8 Million Settlement
- The Father of PlayStation Thinks Games Have Stagnated, Calls for Curiosity in Developers
- With a Smirk, Robert Pattinson Calls Michael Bay's Transformers 'The Definitive Movie of the 2000s'
Game Coverage
- Star Wars: Galactic Racer review 11
- GTA 6's 18+ age rating reveals Lucia and Jason can partake in drug use "directly from their inventory" and "at any time" 5
- Brand New GTA 6 Screenshots Focus on Lucia and Jason's Relationship 2
- Gears of War: E-Day Early Access Player Count Smashes Steam Record 2
- Halo's new steward Activision reportedly considering rebooting the series, with a team in Sledgehammer Games leading the charge 2
- When Does WoW Forever Come Out? Release Date and Times, Explained 2
- 'In the Eternal Fire's Shadow' quest walkthrough in The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt
- 10 Now-Classic Video Game Series That Originally Started On the SNES
- 12 Replay Ideas That Make Zelda: TOTK Feel Like a Brand-New Game
- 30 Years Later, Nintendo's Forgotten N64 Racing Game Deserves a Switch 2 Rebirth
- 7 musical clips of this incredibly charming magical school life sim with its goofy classmates and delightful soundtrack
- A surprisingly in-depth dressmaking simulator has the cosy gamers in a chokehold
- Ace Combat 8 Developers Address ‘Belkan War’ Disappointment
- Aion 2 Ascension Gauge: How to quickly raise the Ascension Gauge to continue Episodes
- AION 2 Global Launch Release Date and Times—Founder’s Pack Explained
- ARC Raiders To Go Free-To-Play Briefly For Frozen Trail Launch
- Blizzard Adds Beloved 'Kyle's Gone Missing' Quest to World of Warcraft: Forever
- BrokenLore Introduces Its Spookiest Antagonist Yet - An Anime AI Assistant
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Complete FAQ—Release Date & Times, Game Pass, Early Access & Platforms
- CD Projekt Red addresses divisive lighting changes in a new Witcher 3 Remastered PC patch
- Countdown: Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Dungeon Crawl #3 - I Hate This Place
- Critical Role Reveals Why Campaign 4's Biggest Change Is Also a Huge Challenge
- Eight Xbox Games Are Available Today, Including A Good Reason To Get Out Of Detention (October 2)
- End Of Abyss Patch Fixes Most Of My Complaints Just One Day After Launch
- FUT Signs SunPayus; Will It Work?
- Gears of War: E-Day is missing iconic features like chainsaw duels and meat shields, but The Coalition says we shouldn't worry - they're "not gone from the franchise"
- Gears of War: E-Day reviews are flooding in — Here's what the critics are saying
- God Of War Ragnarok Is Finally Cheap Enough To Make Me Say “Boy, Buy It”
- GTA 6 Screenshot Suggests It Won’t Be Shy About Movie References
- GTA 6 Takes The Ridiculous World We Live In And Turns It Up To 11
- GTA 6 Will Be The Most ‘Mature’ Game In The Series Yet
- How to Get Free BGMI UC—Battlegrounds Mobile India October 2026 Guide
- How to Get Pokémon's Special Mewtwo 30th Anniversary Card
- I added October-appropriate zombies to Grand Theft Auto 5
- I've been skeptical about Bandai Namco's upcoming Gundam game—but then I saw this model kit's chainsaw macuahuitl
- If game developers steal one thing from No Law, I hope it's the open-world game's ridiculously detailed and realistic corner shops
- Let's catch you up on all the latest news from Steam's 20 most-wishlisted games
- Listen to a Wild, 2-Hour UFO 50 Mashup Album by Trombone Champ’s Co-Creator
- Marvel Rivals Jeff’s Superstar Search—Every Daily Star Search Mission
- NASCAR 26 is one of the most fun racing games on Xbox today
- New game digest: Sifu, Castlevania, Microsoft Jewel, One Piece, River City Survivors, more
- Nintendo Switch 2 Just Got 2 of the Last Decade's Best RPGs
- NYT Connections Hints Today (#1210)—Answers for Saturday, October 3
- Pokémon Go 'Harvest Festival Taken Over' 2026 event guide
- Pokémon TCG Reportedly Launching First-Ever Valentine’s Day Set in 2027
- Rainbow Six Siege Crashing on PC—Fix Windows Preview Launch Issues
- Roundup: All The Xbox Reveals From The 28 Games Later Horror Showcase
- Signal Veil Is a PS5 Horror Game with a Style Unlike Any Other
- Sony in Talks to Land Battlefield Movie With Michael B. Jordan
- STALZONE Promo Codes for September 2026—STALCRAFT Codes, Explained
- The Team Behind PixelJunk Is Partly to Thank for Ace Combat 8's Brilliant Cloud Tech
- The upcoming sim about making games is so deep your in-game game can even get cyberleeked
- The WoW: Forever beta's nerf to dungeon XP isn't nearly as bad as it seems
- There Are 2,800 Fortnite Skins, But Only The FNAF Skins Have This Special Feature
- There’s Literally Never Been a Better Time to Get Into Tactics Games
- Toy Story 3 Complete Edition's PS5 Trophy List Echoes the Original with a Few New Additions
- Undead Chronicles Has a Bleak Brilliance That Never Lets You Feel Safe
- Understanding Kingdom Hearts (and every other story) | Unraveled
- Valor Mortis Complete FAQ—Release Date & Times, Game Pass, Early Access, Platforms & More
- Valve's patch note supremacy
- Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 Marches on with Massive Free Update, Year 3 Roadmap
- What is a flusher in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4?
- What time are the Bounty Hunter power hours in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4?
Other
- NBA’s Miami Heat Will Wear GTA 6 Jerseys And Play On A Branded Court The Day Before Release 6
- Riot Clarifies Problematic Valorant Champions Shanghai Desks Weren’t From Secretlab 2
- 31 Years Later, the Definitive Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Movie Is Free to Stream on YouTube
- 76 Years Ago, 'Peanuts' Shockingly with a Delightfully Cruel First Comic
- 8 New TV Shows To Watch This Weekend on Netflix, HBO, and Disney (October 2-4)
- Even T1 Academy Are World Champions After Winning WSCI
- Evil Dead and Get Out Directors Will Bring Another Internet Horror Sensation to the Big Screen
- Fast & Furious Is Officially Getting an Unexpected Release in 2028
- How to watch Microsoft's Windows and Surface event
- I'm going to teach you to love hidden object games
- League of Legends Demacia Cup Global Invitational Preview
- Microsoft got hacked, and somehow Clippy ended up in a crypto scheme
- New Fast and Furious Release Now Streaming on Peacock
- New Pokémon Merch Is Literally out of This World
- Poll: Did You Manage To Get Tickets To The Zelda 40th Anniversary Concert?
- South Korea Completes Flawless Run to give Faker, Zeus, and Keria their Second Asian Games Gold
- Supercell, Rovio, Playdemic, First Touch, Sybo and more back SpecialEffect’s One Special Day
- Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 652
- The Street Fighter Movie’s Most Obscure Easter Egg Is For True Fighting Game Nerds
- Unscrupulous Airbnb host tries to get $1,700 out of Redditor with AI-generated pic of overflowing toilet
- Watch the Disturbing French Horror Classic that Inspired Halloween
- Winners of the UK Best Places To Work Awards 2026 revealed