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Francis Coulombe's pixel-art survival horror RPG Look Outside leaves PC for the first time on October 30, launching on PS5, PS4, Switch 2 and Switch after a year and a half of free updates.
Square Enix says the Romancing SaGa 2 remake has passed one million units shipped and sold digitally worldwide, the first SaGa game to do so since SaGa Frontier 29 years ago, with Romancing SaGa 3: Destinies United next on February 16, 2027.
Square Enix's HD-2D reimagining of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is out now on Switch 2, Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC for $49.99, with a free Chapter 1 demo whose save carries over.
Aspyr is remastering the 2004 Shrek 2 game with 4K visuals, online four-player co-op, a Photo Mode and a Cheat Mode. It launches November 10 for $29.99 on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch and PC, and pre-orders are open now.
Neos' board-and-card hybrid Culdcept BEGINS launches on Steam on October 28, following its July Switch 2 and Switch release, which has passed 100,000 units. A free demo is already live.
Steph Thirion's solo-developed arcade game Faraway, published by Annapurna Interactive, launches November 5 on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch and PC, with its console versions newly announced.
Stairway Games' farming sim Coral Island launches on Nintendo Switch 2 this winter with cross-play, alongside the free 1.4 "Kids Grow Up" update that lets children age through four life stages to their teens.
Panache Digital Games' evolution survival game launches on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 on December 8, 2026. The same day, a free update moves PC players to Unreal Engine 5 and adds documentary-style narration and a new photo mode.
Digital pre-orders of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 unlock the campaign today and DMZ on October 20, ahead of the October 23 launch. Activision confirms the game is a standalone purchase and won't join Game Pass until Holiday 2027.
Aggro Crab and Landfall's co-op climbing hit PEAK launches on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 on October 22 with crossplay and every update included, and a physical PS5 edition from Skybound is up for pre-order.
Nintendo has announced a three-wave Expansion Pass for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. Wave 1's Three Houses-inspired relic weapons are out now, three recruitable gods follow this holiday, and new stories arrive in 2027.
IO Interactive has confirmed 007 First Light launches on Nintendo Switch 2 on March 18, 2027, with pre-orders open now and the GoldenEye Suit as the pre-order bonus.
Capcom's free Monster Hunter Wilds Prologue Demo arrives on Switch 2 on October 19 (October 20 in Europe), with local play and save transfer to the full game, and digital pre-orders open the same day ahead of the December 4 launch.
Atlus has released a free Prologue demo of Metaphor: ReFantazio on Nintendo Switch 2, a month ahead of the full game's November 12 launch. It covers the game's opening chapter, and progress carries over to the full version.
Team17 has announced The Escapists 3, a fully 3D prison-break sandbox with five prisons, a skill tree, the open world beyond the walls and four-player online co-op. It is due in 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2 and PC.
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.
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.
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.
11 bit studios' original Frostpunk launches on Switch and Switch 2 on October 19, with a demo and pre-orders live now and a Complete Edition that bundles all three expansions.
Alientrap's four-player desert adventure leaves PC for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Android on October 19, with Switch 2 and Switch versions due later in 2026.
Supermassive and Bandai Namco's second Little Nightmares III expansion sends Low and Alone through a flooded seaside town, past leeches and into drowned sewers. It costs $7.99 or comes with the Secrets of The Spiral pass.
Mojang's co-op dungeon crawler sequel launches September 29 on Xbox, PC, PS5, Switch and Switch 2 for $29.99, with a connected open world, reworked enchanting and a first look at the Sift.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered unlocks at the same moment worldwide, 10:00 UTC on September 29, on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2. Here's the local time for every region, the download size on each platform, and who gets it free.
Square Enix has detailed battle-free Quick Scouting, a rare-monster Scout Run, two-party Joint Battles against giant bosses with four-player online support, and the priestess Almira ahead of the December 3 launch.
DreadXP and Vincent Adinolfi's 90s-style survival horror game Heartworm launches on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, PS4, Xbox One and Switch on October 1, having been on PC since July 2025.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered turns the Xbox release into a Play Anywhere title on September 29, handing Microsoft Store owners a save-synced Windows copy at no extra cost. Steam, GOG and Epic owners still get the free upgrade, just not the second copy.
Aspyr is bringing Shadow of Mordor's Game of the Year Edition and Shadow of War's Definitive Edition to Switch 2 on September 30 as Middle-earth: Shadow Bundle, with pre-orders open at $34.99. It is the first time either game has appeared on a Nintendo platform.
Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild's cemetery sim sequel is out today on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2 and Switch, adding a ruined town to rebuild and a zombie army to command. Demo saves carry over.
Drinkbox Studios has delayed its Metroidvania action RPG Blighted out of fall 2026 and into 2027, and used the same devlog to lay out the game's level structure, its Watcher's Peak hub and the parry that doubles as a traversal tool.
Bloober Team's gameplay showcase for the Cronos: The New Dawn story DLC details three of the Pathfinder's new tools: instant teleportation, a ghostly decoy that turns him invisible, and a piercing rifle called the Gladius.
Devolver Digital and Kenny Sun and Friends have announced Risen Ballbylon, a BALL x PIT expansion that sends the lift up into a floating city instead of down into the pit. It arrives November 12 on every platform the base game runs on, but only unlocks after you have finished the game.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Square Enix's Tokyo Game Show trailer for Final Fantasy Resonance leans into a story of vengeance and bonds, confirms an October 22 release, and points players at a free demo that is live on every platform right now.
Capcom's TGS 2026 Spotlight ended with an extended cut of the Ascendance trailer that reveals Teostra, names two more monsters, and confirms weapon swapping without a Seikret. The bigger news was buried: paid Character Edit Vouchers are being discontinued on December 3, with free appearance edits from the 2027 expansion update.
Capcom's TGS 2026 Spotlight brought the main trailer for Dark Arisen, out October 9. On Switch 2 it is a single package with the base game; everywhere else it is $29.99 DLC adding the snowbound Norgan region, twelve Lost Rites dungeons and a free technical update for everyone.
Team NINJA's Three Kingdoms sequel launches 4 March 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2 and PC, day one on Game Pass. The alpha demo is live now through 30 September with the Changban open field, full character creation and three-player co-op.
IO Interactive has delayed the Nintendo Switch 2 version of 007 First Light from summer 2026 to March 2027, the second slip for that platform and the third date change overall. The studio says the extra months are going entirely into performance polish. The PS5, Xbox and PC versions launched on 27 May and sold three million copies in two weeks.
Blizzard announced Diablo V at BlizzCon 2026 for spring 2029, and the premise is that the heroes already lost - Diablo has ruled Sanctuary for seven years and turned Westmarch into an outpost of Hell. Towns are replaced by a travelling caravan, the Plague Knight joins Demon Hunter and Monk, and Diablo II-style Runewords and stat requirements are back. Diablo IV hits Switch 2 on 15 September alongside Season of Hell's Legacy.
Days after a mass Steam achievements leak surfaced the name, Nightdive Studios has officially confirmed The Tarnished Mirror, a new campaign for Thief: The Dark Project Remastered. The full reveal lands 2 November; the teaser opens by admitting the secret is already out.
Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed that Kingdom Hearts IV is being made inside Creative Studio 1, the same Square Enix studio he runs and that is building Final Fantasy VII Revelation. Tetsuya Nomura still directs KH4 - but both of the company's 2027 tentpoles now ship out of one org.
Type-Moon, French-Bread and Aniplex have dated Melty Blood: Twi-Lumina for April 22, 2027 across PS5, PS4, Switch 2, Switch, Xbox One and Steam. The release-date trailer confirms White Len, a new Gauntlet mechanic, a Kinoko Nasu story mode, and a beginner-friendly one-button Act control scheme.
The Hunting Horn's Ascendance breakdown is the tenth of fourteen weapon videos Capcom has released daily since September 2 - leaving Long Sword, Switch Axe, Lance and Heavy Bowgun to land exactly on the eve of the September 16 Capcom Spotlight.
Nintendo of America's Customer Appreciation Sale runs September 12-26 with 30% off dozens of Switch games, and the company says tariff-related refunds helped pay for it - while arguing in court that the customers who paid the tariff-era prices are not entitled to a cent.
Nintendo's system version 23.0.0 adds variable refresh rate in TV mode to Switch 2 - gated behind a separate dock firmware update - plus full Switch 2 to Switch 2 system transfers, a Settings menu and online-license escape hatch for Virtual Game Cards, GameChat screen sizing, Mii QR codes, Handheld Mode Boost in Quick Settings and Brazilian Portuguese accessibility support.
At LEVEL5 VISION 2026 II, Akihiro Hino announced Inazuma Eleven: Bold Revolution, a direct sequel to Victory Road, and introduced Shane Starfall (Nagi Furuhoshi) as another protagonist whose "unusual background" will drive the story. Platforms, release window and gameplay are all unconfirmed - Hino says the title's meaning will be explained at the next Vision showcase.
LEVEL-5 closed its Vision 2026 II showcase by announcing Professor Layton and the Curious Village Remake for PS5, Switch 2, Switch and PC in 2027 - the 2007 DS original's first console release, rebuilt widescreen with new animation. New World of Steam was dated December 10, both Layton games are playable at Tokyo Game Show, and Akihiro Hino teased a "major title" for LEVEL-5's 30th anniversary.
Capcom announced during the September 9 Nintendo Direct that the RE2 Deluxe Edition, RE3 and RE4 Gold Edition remakes are coming to Switch 2, digitally on October 16, 2026 and physically on January 29, 2027. They are native ports with the DLC bundled in, and their arrival makes every mainline Resident Evil game playable on the console.
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.
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.