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Pearl Abyss has moved Crimson Desert's first expansion, Charting the Unknown, from 15 October to 29 October 2026. The studio says it needs more development time to make the DLC more polished and stable.

F1 25, Hunt: Showdown 1896 and Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 are the PS Plus monthly games for October. They can be claimed from 6 October to 2 November, and September's games leave on 5 October.

Allogloom, a hand-drawn point-and-click mystery from Galactic Ghosty, launches on Steam on 13 October 2026 with Iceberg Interactive publishing. A free demo is available now.

Songs of Glimmerwick, the witch academy RPG where spells are cast through music, is out now on Steam. Eastshade Studios lists US$24.99 with 10 per cent off until 14 October.

The Witcher 3 Remastered goes live today on PC, PS5, Xbox and Switch 2 as a free upgrade for owners. CD PROJEKT RED's patch notes list a rebuilt skill system with reset skill points, gear reforging and new platform features.

Double Fine's game page now lists 14 October 2026 for Thank You Bus Driver, its bus-driving comedy game. Windows PC is the only platform named and no price is listed.

RibCage Games has dated Alpha Nomos, a rhythm-action roguelite, for 12 October on Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. A free demo is on Steam now.

Pixel Washer, a pixel art power washing game with a pig for a hero, enters Steam Early Access on 15 October. A demo is live and Switch versions are planned for 2027.

Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age, Definitive Edition has launched on Nintendo Switch 2, landing in the series' 40th anniversary year.

Nacon has dated Edge of Memories for 5 November 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Pre-orders are open on console, the Australian PlayStation Store lists it at $54.95, and the Deluxe Edition unlocks 48 hours early.

The blackjack roguelike from New Zealand's Purple Moss Collectors hits PS5 and Nintendo Switch on 9 October 2026, with the 2.0 Doubling Down content built in. The Steam version is half price at $10.97 until 26 September.

ION LANDS' cyberpunk life sim, set in the Cloudpunk city, has passed one million Steam wishlists. It launches on Steam on 29 September 2026 US time, which the Australian store shows as 30 September, with an Epic Games Store release to follow.

Ubisoft ANZ is taking over the PAX Arena at PAX Aus 2026 in Melbourne from 9 to 11 October, with the Rainbow Six Siege APL Oceanic finals, playable demos of Rayman Legends Retold and Just Dance: Decades of Hits, and an Australia-only Black Flag Resynced pin.

Rockstar and Atlantic Records are releasing Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album on 19 November 2026, the same day as the game. It has 34 original tracks, six are streaming now, and vinyl and CD pre-orders are open in US dollars.

Hideo Kojima closed Xbox's Tokyo Game Show broadcast by naming Bill Skarsgård as the player character in Physint, alongside a new poster shot by Kojima himself. He also confirmed OD: Knock is back in performance capture after the actors' strike.

The Coalition says Gears of War: E-Day is finished. Pre-installs open on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Steam from 1am AEST on 30 September, Premium Edition owners play from 2 October, and everyone else, including Game Pass, gets in at 1am AEST on 7 October.

Netmarble's cosy crafting adventure Bloomwalker is set in the Ni no Kuni universe, with Level-5 credited on the IP, and it's now headed to PS5, Switch 2 and Switch as well as Xbox and PC. No release date yet.

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave launched on Nintendo Switch 2 on 17 September 2026. Australian RRP is $119.95 boxed or $104.95 on the eShop, and a day one 1.0.1 update adds weapons from past Fire Emblem games plus bug fixes.

Koei Tecmo has dated Team Ninja's Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember for 4 March 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2 and PC, with Game Pass day one. A time-limited Alpha Demo is live on PS5, Xbox and PC until 30 September.

Sony has announced the PlayStation Pulse and Pulse Edge wireless headsets for PS5, both with larger planar magnetic drivers and PlayStation Link. Pulse arrives this holiday season in select markets, Pulse Edge in early 2027. No prices yet.

Square Enix says combined shipments and digital sales for the Dragon Quest series have passed 100 million units, announced on 16 September 2026 in the series' 40th anniversary year. Creator Yuji Horii posted a thank you video.

Bulkhead and Team17 say WARDOGS passed two million copies sold less than five days after its 10 September Steam Early Access launch, with a peak of 428,666 concurrent players on 13 September.

Two Point Studios and SEGA have announced Rides & Relics, a Two Point Museum DLC that adds rollercoasters, mascots and a run-down amusement park to reopen. Out 8 October 2026 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S for £9.99, Switch 2 to follow.

Gaming Factory's free multiplayer update for JDM: Japanese Drift Master reached PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on 16 September 2026 with crossplay to PC, eight player lobbies, two new Tofuna events, an economy rebalance and a free FSO Polonez.

Frozen District and Silver Lining Interactive are releasing House Flipper 2 with the Sakura DLC on a full Switch 2 cartridge on 4 December 2026, priced £44.99, €49.99 or US$49.99, with pre-orders open now.

System 3 has announced Putty World, a Switch 2 reimagining that folds Putty, Super Putty and Putty Squad into one game with 75 levels, 45 new enemies and a 60fps target. Due Q2 2027, with an early demo at Tokyo Game Show.

Targem Games, the studio behind Crossout and Star Conflict, has announced Star Conflict: Burrownauts, an action roguelite mixing asteroid mining with bullet heaven base defence. A playtest is open now on PC, with no release date or price yet.

Valve's Steam Frame VR headset is A$1,609 for 256GB or A$1,969 for 1TB with Half-Life: Alyx included. Australians have until 3am AEST on Friday 18 September to join the ballot.

Insomniac's Wolverine launched on PS5 on 15 September 2026. It is $124.95 for the standard edition on the Australian PlayStation Store and rated MA 15+.

RuneScape: Dragonwilds has left Early Access and landed on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 for about A$44, with Game Pass and PS Plus Extra including it from day one.

IO Interactive has pushed the Switch 2 version of 007 First Light to March 2027 to polish performance. The PS5, Xbox and PC versions have been out since 27 May 2026.

Ubisoft has moved Rayman Legends Retold from 1 October to 3 December 2026, even though the game has gone gold. The standard edition is A$69.95 in Australia.

Xbox's Game Pass list for 15 September to 6 October: four day one games, Dune: Awakening, Black Ops 6 and Ninja Gaiden 4 moving to Premium, and eight games leaving on 30 September.

The 2011 strategy classic returns on 13 October with every DLC, a Japanese voiceover, 50 newly playable clans and a 75 per cent discount for anyone who already owns it.

Black Salt Games has set up Saltworks Entertainment and helped launch Team Trifold, whose first game is the action-roguelike Nothing Lost for PC. No release date yet.

A surprise second Triple-i Initiative for 2026 airs on 8 October, 2am AEST on 9 October for Australians, with around 40 indie games and eight world premieres.

Nementic Games' minimalist tower builder has landed on Steam, PC only, at A$11.99 with a 25 per cent launch discount until 28 September. Steam Deck Verified, free demo still up.

Codex Mortis hits 1.0 on Steam on 24 September 2026, 3am AEST on the 25th here. The final Early Access update with deck building and booster packs is out now.

Goblinz Studio's pixel art caravan roguelike Sandwalkers lands on PlayStation and Xbox on 24 September 2026 via Red Art Games, with a Switch version reported for the same day.

The base game and the 20 hour Last Variable expansion on one PS5 disc from 20 November 2026. £34.99 in the UK, no Australian price yet.

Romancing SaGa 3 is being fully remade for 16 February 2027, from the team behind the Trials of Mana and Romancing SaGa 2 remakes.

World of Warcraft: Forever launches 4 November with three new zones, 1,000-plus new quests and a new race. Beta starts 17 September.

Diablo V is coming in Spring 2029, set in a Sanctuary that has already fallen. Plus a Netflix series, the Amazon class, and Diablo IV on Switch 2 this week.

StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open world shooter. First new game in the series in nearly a decade, revealed with a cinematic and not much else.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion is out now on Switch 2 with no warning, and it is 30 per cent off until 23 September.

Doctrine is Overwatch's new Support hero, playable right now in a trial. Season 5 starts 6 October and moves Sombra into Support.

The Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World demo is free on every platform now, and up to eight monsters transfer into the full game on 3 December.

A cosy, hand-drawn farming game with mini-games and a kid-friendly story, out 24 September. The demo is already on consoles and Steam.

Six years, one developer, one dungeon. Sunken Realms lands on Steam 18 September at US$16.99 with 10 per cent off for the first fortnight.

Herd the sheep, follow the scent, keep the wolves off. Hubert is out on Steam 12 October with a PS5 version to follow, and there's a demo up now.

A deckbuilder where your cards march up the lane and die permanently if they get there before you win. Out now on console, free to try on Game Pass.

Thirty-five songs from the 70s to now, six players on the one lounge room floor, and no extra controllers to buy. Out 13 October, Switch 2 on 10 November.

A Bluey photo adventure built by Gameloft Brisbane, set in actual Brisbane parks, out 15 October and day one on Game Pass. Two players, one old camera, and a scrapbook to fill.

Xbox is publishing Hideo Kojima's Physint. Sony says it stepped away. Kojima says he was told it would be cancelled. Both statements are official, and they do not match.

Switch 2 update 23.0.0 adds VRR in TV mode, console to console system transfer, GameChat tweaks and Mii QR codes. The VRR part needs a dock update as well as the system one.

Steam is reportedly gating adult store pages in Australia behind a credit card. The law that triggered it started on 9 September. eSafety says it never required a credit card, and platforms pick their own method.

Dune: Awakening arrives on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on 22 September with everything added since PC launch, plus a new single player mode. Deluxe and Ultimate buyers get in on the 17th.

Bulkhead's 100 player shooter WARDOGS is in Steam Early Access at A$54.95, with a claimed million copies on day one, consoles in 2028, and a rough first night on the servers.

Stellar Blade Complete Edition lands on Switch 2 on 5 November with the NieR:Automata and Nikke collab content included. No Australian price yet.

The first Professor Layton game is being remade for 2027 on Switch 2, Switch, PS5 and Steam. It is the first time the series has appeared on a PlayStation console.

Vanillaware's Muramasa returns on 4 February 2027 across PS5, Switch 2, Switch and Steam, bundling Rebirth with all the Genroku Legends DLC and adding English voice acting.

A cosy game about assembling little wooden dioramas piece by piece, out 17 September in Australia across Switch 2, Switch, PS5, Xbox and Steam.

A cosy horror farming RPG where the eldritch is just part of the routine. Out now on Steam, A$22.95 in the launch window, with a cozy difficulty for people who want the farming without the fighting.

Three new rally cars headlined by the Group 4 Audi Quattro, a photo mode, private lobbies so you can run a stage with just your mates, and the first custom livery tools. It's update 0.6 for the early access rally sim from the Assetto Corsa people, and it's out now on Steam.

About 45 minutes of Switch 2 news at midnight our time. A new 2D Metroid with a date, Monster Hunter Wilds in December, a free-roaming 3D Kirby, Pikmin 4 with voice commands, and ten Super Mario Kart tracks in Mario Kart World from today. Here's the lot, with the Australian prices Nintendo has put up so far.

The first 2D Metroid since Dread, and it's Switch 2 only. Samus crash-lands on a moon, gets hunted by five assassins, and drains her enemies to survive. Out 28 January, with the Australian store already listing it at $94.95 digital and a $194.95 Special Edition with a Samus amiibo in the box.

Capcom's big one is going portable. Monster Hunter Wilds hits Switch 2 on 4 December with all the title updates baked in, local wireless hunting between consoles, online play with everyone else, and the Ascendance expansion due on Switch 2 in 2027. Australian pricing isn't up yet.

Ten flat, pixel-era tracks from the original Super Mario Kart, two new Knockout Tours, a spectator seat for online rooms, and rooms that now hold 24 racers. It's version 1.8.0, it's free, and it's already on your Switch 2 if it's been online since last night.

Pikmin 4 is the latest Switch game to get the Switch 2 treatment, and this one has a proper new mode. Dandori Academy sets you timed treasure runs with weekly exams and leaderboards, you can bark orders at Oatchi through the mic, and existing owners upgrade for $20 on 12 November.

After Forgotten Land dipped a toe into 3D, the next Kirby goes the whole way. Kirby and the World Beyond is a free-roaming 3D adventure for Switch 2, built around using Copy Abilities creatively, and it's due in our autumn 2027 for Kirby's 35th birthday.

The sushi restaurant that's also a diving game has passed 10 million copies, four years after it first hit early access. Mintrocket put the number out this week, along with a reminder that the phone version lands on 17 September and the jungle DLC has cleared a million on its own.

The Crime Boss: Rockay City studio has swapped bank jobs for burgers. Mayhem à la Carte is a four-player co-op game where you run a restaurant and shoot the things trying to wreck it, using your own ingredients as ammo. Steam Early Access in 2027, and there's a trailer.

Ten games this month, spread across the month rather than dumped on one Tuesday. Dragonwilds and WWE 2K26 lead on the 15th, Ball x Pit and Slitterhead follow on the 22nd, and Ninja Gaiden Ragebound rounds it out on the 29th. Premium picks up Mega Man X Command Mission and Metro Redux.

The 1993 game that kicked off the whole Mystery Dungeon series, and by extension a big chunk of the roguelike genre, has never been sold outside Japan. Square Enix announced and released an HD version of it on the same day. PS5, Xbox, Switch, Switch 2 and Steam, $36.95 in Australia.

A hand-drawn Metroidvania that wears its 80s fantasy-movie influences on its sleeve, out now on every current platform and, unusually for a game this size, on a disc and a cartridge as well. $21.95 on Steam, less than $20 with the launch discount.

Triomatica, the studio behind Boxville, has put out the first chapter of its theatre logic puzzler as a free mobile game. Eighteen puzzles about casting the right actors in the right roles. The full game follows on every platform in early 2027.

Nintendo showed the first real gameplay overnight and put a date on it: 5 November. Link can jump now, everyone but him has a voice, and you can hum Epona's Song into the Switch 2 mic. The Australian Nintendo Store has the digital version at $94.95.

After leaking in August, the green and gold Triforce Switch 2 is real. Console, a Pro Controller you can get with a display stand, and a carrying case all land on 29 October. No Australian prices yet, and Nintendo didn't mention the game being in the box.

Thirty minutes, one game, and a pile of anniversary stuff. Here's the whole Direct in one place: the Ocarina of Time date, the Zelda console, the film's title and release date, the concert coming to Melbourne, the Lego Epona, the Hasbro Master Sword and the rest.

A hidden-object game where you photograph cats to put the colour back into a black-and-white world. Nine levels, 725-plus cats, over 50 little puzzles, no timer and no fail state. Out on Steam now, Switch and Xbox to follow this year.

A first-person shooter that looks and feels like 2003 on purpose. Gravity gloves, bullet time, 40-plus weapons, and enemy squads that flank you. It launched yesterday on everything including Switch 2, with 20% off for the first fortnight.

Buried at the bottom of the British Automotive update post is a line PlayStation owners have been waiting on: Forza Horizon 6 will be releasing on PS5 later this year. That's all it says. No date, but it's the first official word since the delay reports started.

Capcom's first new Onimusha in two decades cleared a million units on its first day, Friday 4 September, and dragged the whole series past 10 million. No platform split, so we don't know how the Switch 2 version went.

John de Lancie is back as Q to front a free roguelike mode where the route home changes every run. The paid Equinox DLC lands the same day with a smaller, weaker ship and three new crew. No DLC price yet.

Two months after 1.0, Pocketpair's new patch is mostly fixes, but there's a pair of sub-missions in it, a fishing rework with a toggle for people who hate the minigame, and campfires finally stop setting your Pals on fire.

A solo developer's first-person tidying sim: every one of 5,760 soda cans is on the floor, you read the label and put it on the right shelf. No timer, no fail state, up to four players online. Steam, Q4 2026.

The VR darts sim from the original Darts VR studio goes 1.0 on Tuesday, five months after it first went on sale. The big addition is a League mode with real prizes, European bracket from 10 September and North American from the 11th. No Oceania league yet.

A pixel-art survival game where every one of the 24 islands is drawn by hand rather than generated. Three people in Goiânia, Brazil made it, indie.io is publishing, and the free demo is on Steam right now. Launch is 2 November, which is the early hours of Tuesday 3 November for us.

The first big update since Timberborn's March 1.0 is a proper one: a 256x256 map where the water moves and your beavers have to move with it, two 15,000-point monuments, buildings that pass through reservoir walls without leaking, and a plant that stores its own water. It's 30% off on Steam until 17 September.

Skystone Games, the publisher co-founded by Diablo's David Brevik, put a new SlashZero story trailer in State of Play and opened a demo with three characters, secret bosses and over ten hours of play. It's free on PS5 and Steam, your saves get wiped when it ends, and it ends in the early hours of Thursday 24 September AEST.

Firaxis used Civ's 35th birthday at PAX West to lay out the road ahead. A true-start Earth map lands this month, a free fourth Age with Gandhi and expanded nukes comes in 2027, and after that a paid expansion about the space race and a warming planet. Civ VII is free to try on Steam until Friday morning our time.

Two months after going independent again, Double Fine has a new game: you drive a town bus, enforce rules that change every day, slap the people who break them and boot repeat offenders out the back door. It was built by a small team in a matter of weeks, it's PC only, and it's coming soon.

The first game from the ex-Witcher studio hit seven figures over its launch weekend. Rebel Wolves posted a thank-you graphic marking a million copies just after midnight Sunday our time, roughly 65 hours after the game unlocked. No platform split yet, and no word from Bandai Namco, but the Steam player counts back it up.

The shark RPG is back, this time set in Neptune's Kingdom, a Roman Empire-themed luxury island resort you crash during an influencer preview event. Tripwire and Boston's Demiurge Studios are building it for 2027, Chris Parnell returns as the narrator, and the original's eat, explore, evolve loop gets a fourth verb: escape.