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Koei Tecmo will release a Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered demo on September 24, a week before the game's October 1 launch. A free update adding online two-player play, which the remaster ships without, is scheduled for release by January 2027.
SHIFT UP has put a free Stellar Blade Complete Edition demo on the Switch 2 eShop six weeks before the November 5 launch, and shown a vignette for the four free Bayonetta outfits coming to Switch 2, PS5 and PC.
The second Persona 4 Revival Broadcast introduced the rest of the Investigation Team, a brand-new Social Link in Aiya's Aika Nakamura, and Location Episodes, a system that digs into Inaba's past.
Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto says a Switch 2 version of Monster Hunter: World would mean remaking the game from scratch, because it runs on MT Framework rather than the RE Engine every Capcom Switch 2 port uses.
CESA has cancelled the whole of Monday, September 21 at Tokyo Game Show 2026 as Typhoon Dujuan bears down on Kanto. Sunday still goes ahead as planned, Monday tickets will be refunded, and some of the day's stage shows may move online.
EA Sports FC 27 does not launch until September 24, but Ultimate Edition early access is live and a ten-hour EA Play trial has opened on Xbox, with progress carrying over to the full game.
Capcom has confirmed the Switch 2 version of Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen runs on a 30fps base and uses frame generation to present motion equivalent to 60fps, the first time the publisher has shipped the technique on Nintendo's console. It can be switched off, and it is capped at 2x on purpose.
Square Enix's revised Materials Usage Policy for Final Fantasy XIV, effective 16 September, spells out a ten-condition framework for fan-made physical items — and bans both 3D printing and AI-generated derivative works outright.
Kalypso will release Tropico 7 Special Edition on Nintendo Switch 2 on January 28, 2027, the same day as the PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC versions, with Joy-Con 2 mouse controls and GameChat support.
IGGYMOB's new Action trailer for Gungrave G.O.R.E: Blood Heat leads with a parry and parry counter, the biggest change yet to a series built on never letting go of the trigger. The Unreal Engine 5 rebuild is still without a release date.
Director Naoki Hamaguchi says the trilogy's finale will install at roughly 200GB, which means every physical copy ships incomplete. Square Enix's own store listing also spells out the Story Expansion Pass: a Sephiroth chapter first, then Vincent and the Turks.
Denuvo GmbH has filed a DMCA anti-circumvention suit in California's Northern District against an anonymous cracker known as voices38, naming 26 games from Resident Evil Requiem and Black Myth: Wukong to FIFA 20. The complaint asks for an injunction covering any past, present or future game protected by Denuvo Anti-Tamper.