“Rebel Wolves' debut has the best-written open world since The Witcher 3 and the nerve to refuse you a happy ending, built around a thirty-day clock that genuinely changes how you approach an RPG map. It is also a first game, and it plays like one: targeting that never gets fixed, an enemy roster that runs dry, and a launch-week technical picture on PC that ranges from flawless to stuttering depending on whose rig you ask. Go in accepting you will not see everything, and it is one of the year's most memorable RPGs.”
Atlus used Nintendo's September 9 Direct to confirm Persona 6 for Nintendo Switch 2, describing it as a completely standalone story with a new cast - though there is still no release date or gameplay. The same segment dated Persona 4 Revival on Switch 2 for May 20, 2027.
HAL Laboratory's Kirby and the World Beyond was announced at Nintendo's September 9 Direct for Nintendo Switch 2 in spring 2027. It is the first open-world game in the series, its reveal trailer ends with Kirby absorbing a giant crystal sword and cutting open the sky, and Nintendo confirmed the franchise turns 35 next year.
Nintendo announced Metroid Ravenous during its September 9 Direct: a new 2D Metroid for Switch 2 arriving January 28, 2027, with an injured Samus narrating in the first person, a new energy-siphoning ability, a wall-phasing dash, the return of Dread's parry, and an amiibo lineup plus a Special Edition shipping on the same day.
Four days after launching its debut RPG, Rebel Wolves posted a Lead Writer vacancy to help craft 'the next chapter of the Dawnwalker saga.' The listing wants six years' minimum experience and a writer who can review story pitches - a production-stage hire, not a placeholder. The Blood of Dawnwalker cleared a million copies within about 48 hours of its September 3 launch and topped Steam's global sellers for the week.
MINTROCKET confirmed on September 9 that DAVE THE DIVER has passed 10 million units across every platform since its 2022 Early Access debut, calling it the first Korean-developed single-player packaged game to hit the mark. The In the Jungle expansion sold a million copies in two months, and the iOS and Android version arrives September 17 for $9.99 with no ads or IAP.
SEGA pushed the Samba de Amigo Content Drop live on September 9, making the maraca-shaking Dreamcast mascot a free playable racer alongside a Classic skin, the Locomotive de Amigo machine and three Jukebox tracks. SEGA calls him the twelfth and final free character of Year One - with a six-pack Season Pass 2 headlined by Godzilla and Evangelion taking over this fall.
Nintendo's Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct dated the Ocarina of Time remake for November 5, 2026 on Switch 2 with its first real gameplay trailer, revealed the live-action film's logo and confirmed it has no subtitle, announced a four-continent concert series opening in Chicago on February 22, 2027, and showed a Link and Epona LEGO set plus a playable ocarina.
Capcom has dated Year 4's second Street Fighter 6 fighter for October 13, 2026. Arjun is a fugitive Indian police officer whose 'Bare-knuckle Yoga' kit builds around held breath: redirectable kicked projectiles, a screen-length shoulder charge, delayed Air Geyser okizeme and a forward-walking super armour move.
Firaxis used the franchise's 35th anniversary panel at PAX West to announce Arc of Tomorrow, a free 2027 update adding an Atomic Age that runs to the 2050s, plus Earthrise, a paid expansion threading space and environmental systems through every Age. Update 1.5.0 and the True Start Earth map land this month.
Daman Mills is the third English Kanji Tatsumi, revealed with a live dub and a world-premiere character trailer at the ATLUS Presents panel - completing a total recast of the Investigation Team ahead of the February 18, 2027 launch.
Infinity Ward's first substantial campaign showing follows one mission from snowbound ruins through stealth, a vehicle chase and incoming missile strikes - in a notably quieter register than the beta build-up suggested.
Pearl Abyss's first paid Crimson Desert DLC lands October 15 for $24.99, adding a player-commanded ship, uncharted islands, a full underwater layer with sunken ruins, new bosses, and a housing mode you can run for profit.
Double Fine Action Labs' first reveal is a monochrome bus-driving game where the rules change daily, the Thank-o-meter buys you time, and repeat offenders get ejected through the back door mid-route.
A 30-minute The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct airs September 8, followed by a 45-minute general Nintendo Direct on September 9 and a Treehouse: Live session showing extended gameplay.
Capcom's latest Ascendance weapon breakdown shows the Boost Bracer turning the Dual Blades into an extended-reach demonic barrage, with per-weapon Boosted Actions unlocking at Master Rank.
Capcom's 20-years-in-waiting Onimusha revival launched worldwide today, three weeks ahead of its original date, with a launch trailer and a commemorative illustration by Jujutsu Kaisen creator Gege Akutami.
Review
Rebel Wolves' debut has the best-written open world since The Witcher 3 and the nerve to refuse you a happy ending, built around a thirty-day clock that genuinely changes how you approach an RPG map. It is also a first game, and it plays like one: targeting that never gets fixed, an enemy roster that runs dry, and a launch-week technical picture on PC that ranges from flawless to stuttering depending on whose rig you ask. Go in accepting you will not see everything, and it is one of the year's most memorable RPGs.
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The most atmospheric Hell Let Loose yet, and the least finished. The jungle setting, the helicopter-versus-tunnel asymmetry and the river boats are the smartest things this series has done - but a soft audio mix, locked-out servers, AMD crashes and a thin weapon pool make the first week hard to recommend at $39.99. In three months this could be definitive.
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A genuinely strong, faithful Unreal Engine 5 rebuild of a genre-defining classic, undercut at launch by a rough PC release - the remake itself deserves better than the series-low score it's carrying.
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A small, ferociously focused samurai boss-rush whose order-based difficulty system turns a familiar genre into something that plays differently every time - gorgeous, fair, and completely unapologetic about who it's for.
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