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The mobile card game's 21st expansion, B4a, launched August 26 with 110 cards, 38 of them secret rares. Team Rocket's Articuno ex, Zapdos ex and Moltres ex headline, backed by six new Trainer cards and a month of events including the Great Puzzle Challenge running to September 30.
Raw Fury and Bytten's creature-collector sequel arrives March 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC, with Switch 2 to follow. The gamescom trailer named seven cast members - including Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon and Samantha Beart - and detailed online co-op and adaptive rogue beasts.
Raw Fury and Spooky Doorway's 1897 Irish detective mystery comes to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Nintendo Switch 2 on October 27, 2026, exactly a year after its PC launch. The Steam version sits at Overwhelmingly Positive with 3,830 user reviews.
Rebellion's first-person Alien shooter arrives spring 2027 on Xbox Series X|S, PC and PlayStation 5. The gamescom breakdown details the escalating mega-storm, four alien types that hunt in packs, 3D-printed weapon upgrades and objectives delivered as diagnostics rather than waypoints.
Rockstar handed Netflix 27 uninterrupted minutes of Grand Theft Auto VI running on a base PS5 - and it finally showed the Jason-and-Lucia premise as a mechanic rather than a story. A six-star wanted level that persists after you torch the car, Max Payne-style gunplay with pickup weapons, a slim jim for quiet car thefts, Red Dead-style NPC conversations with a karma nudge for petting dogs, and a Leonida dense enough that the size is the least interesting thing about it.
Four weeks after global launch, Devsisters' idle RPG has 2.5 million players and 20 billion won in revenue - and it just got the co-op raid mode it was missing. Guild Crumb Clash lets every member fight the same boss on their own schedule while five guilds race each other across servers, with exclusive Cookies and Pets behind a Guild Medal store. Brightseeker Cookie arrives at TSSR, Pinot Noir and Tea Knight fill out SSR, and bulk quest clearing finally cuts the daily menu tax.
The Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy Voice Over Reveal Trailer at gamescom 2026 puts names to the first wave of Owlcat's companion cast - and the roster quietly confirms you will be running an Inquisitorial cell with two xenos in it. Aaron Sinn, Jonathan Cox, Britaney Chanel, Stephen Spencer, Rhiannon Moushall, Chris Sharpes and Ian Russell take the first seven roles, with Owlcat saying more allies and notable names are still to come.
Sony's September 2026 Monthly Games drop breaks the usual three-title pattern: Rebellion's occupied-France sniper sim with Axis Invasion and 16-player multiplayer, this year's baseball game on PS5 with a Plus-exclusive Jump Start Bundle, a four-player split-screen sandbox, and one of the best indie JRPGs of the decade on PS4. Claimable 1 September through 5 October - and you have until 31 August to grab Signalis.
Tribute Games has released Back in the Band, a $3.99 DLC adding Stephen Stills, Kim Pine and Knives Chau as playable fighters with three new assists. It ships alongside Coin-Op Chaos, a free update introducing a score-chasing Arcade Mode with four-player local and online co-op and cross-platform play.
Bandai Namco's new Bleach mobile RPG is set after Thousand-Year Blood War and casts you as your own rank-and-file Soul Reaper. Combat runs on three-person teams and attack cards that chain into team-wide Link Attacks, and customisation extends all the way down to the blade, guard and sheath of your Zanpakuto. Launching on iOS and Android in 2026.
Telltale's fairy-tale detective story returns on 29 October 2026 across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, Xbox One, Switch and PC. The headline addition is Noir Mode, which renders all five episodes in black and white, alongside over an hour of bonus material and confirmation that The Wolf Among Us 2 is still in development.
Series producer Motoi Okamoto told press at Gamescom 2026 that Konami's aim is "an annual release of new games" for Silent Hill, and that "many projects" remain unannounced. The recent record backs him up: the Silent Hill 2 remake in 2024, Silent Hill f in September 2025, and Townfall on 24 September 2026, each from a different external studio.