The latest stories from the gaming world
Call of Duty: Mobile's first community-voted season, Vampires vs Werewolves, launches October 14 with the Fang Wars faction event, a Leader's Kill Confirmed mode, the free Grav assault rifle and early season downloads.
Riot's League of Legends tag fighter gets two final champions instead of one on October 27, as Sett joins Samira ahead of the end of active development in December.
Paradox and Tantalus are bringing Cities: Skylines – Expanded Edition to Switch 2 on October 28, with 25 buildable tiles, a Map Editor, mouse support and most of the DLC included. PC and console players get two new Content Creator Packs the same day.
Arc System Works' first Year 1 Pass fighter, Phoenix Cyclops, joins MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls on November 2 with a Dark Phoenix transformation fuelled by Solar Shards. The game's first PS Store sale and a three-hour PS Plus Game Trial are live now.
Battlefield 6 and day-one Valor Mortis join Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on October 13. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, A Plague Tale: Requiem and seven more games leave on October 15.
Skydance has closed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and folded both companies' games divisions into one group under Tony Driscoll, putting Hogwarts Legacy, Mortal Kombat and Batman alongside Star Trek and TMNT.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor launches today on PS5, Switch 2 and Switch, completing its console rollout. Ghost Ship has also revealed Knockout, a paid expansion with a melee Brawler class, a new biome and a new mission type.
Thunder Lotus has delayed At Fate's End, its follow-up to Spiritfarer, from 2026 to 2027. A free demo is out now on Steam, alongside a new gameplay trailer that introduces Shan's brother Roman.
Auroch Digital's Warhammer bullet-heaven launches November 10 on PC, consoles and mobile for $7.99, with PS5 pre-orders open now, a new Steam demo, and Morvenn Vahl and Lyssa Revenya joining the roster.
Arknights: Endfield's Sanctuary of Ink update arrives October 15 with two new operators, a story set inside a painting and an inn-and-farm side mode. The same day, the game launches on Steam with cross-progression, so mobile players can carry their saves to PC.
Gears of War: E-Day unlocks for everyone at 8 a.m. PT / 15:00 UTC on October 6 on Xbox Series X|S, PC and Steam. Here are the local start times, where to play and what's in the launch.
Infinity Ward has detailed Modern Warfare 4's DMZ extraction mode ahead of its October 23 launch, from the upgradable Forward Operating Base and 70-level progression track to three deployment types and roaming bosses in Hajin.