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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.
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.
Hours before the Netflix premiere of An Extended Look, Rockstar developers broke a thirteen-year silence on how Grand Theft Auto VI plays: food changes Jason and Lucia's weight, exercise builds visible muscle, skipped sleep shows on their faces, the in-game phone carries working social feeds, and pulling a rifle in public makes Vice City react. Plus the scale numbers - a team more than doubled since Red Dead Redemption 2, and an entire Los Angeles office devoted to pedestrians.
Pawprint Studio confirmed at Gamescom 2026 that free-to-play open-world creature collector Aniimo launches September 16, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, with iOS and Android following on September 23. Its Twining mechanic hands you direct control of your creature for combat, traversal and puzzles. Cross-platform progression is shared, so mobile players join a world that has been live for a week.
Wuthering Waves Version 3.6, Lamplight in Mirage, Sword's Resolve in Heart, is live: Qingxiao debuts in Phase 1 with Denia, Jingran headlines Phase 2, the Ren Realm region opens with two story chapters, and Kuro Games says a programming language switch adds roughly 10 FPS across platforms.
Neverness to Everness Version 1.3 went live August 19 with the Duskmoor coastal region, the Fogden Game story chapter, S-Class newcomers Zankou and Linko across two banner phases, a summer event slate, and 600 Annulith in free compensation.
Gangstar Mirage City soft-launches on iOS and Android on August 20 across Southeast Asia, South Asia, MENA, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Developed by Gameloft and published by Tencent's Level Infinite, it turns the long-dormant crime series into a persistent online city built on co-op heists, territory control and PvP - with 6.6 million pre-registrations already banked.
Hidden Mountain's second chapter lands August 20 UTC with a high-altitude cliff region unlocked by a server-wide Cloudtop Ascent event, the Inkpincer Scorpion and Cloud-Seizing Serpent world bosses, two new martial skills, and three new modes including a Ghost Festival survival horror mode.
Sucker Punch is bundling Ghost of Yōtei, Legends and two brand-new additions into a $69.99 Complete Edition on October 1, with a $14.99 upgrade for existing owners. Echoes of Sekigahara reaches into Atsu’s past at the 1600 battle, while Most Wanted is a roguelike bounty mode that finally makes Oyuki and Nagato playable. PS5 only, one day shy of the game’s first anniversary.
Gameloft's long-running GTA-alike returns as an online open world published by Tencent's Level Infinite, launching August 20 on iOS and Android across Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America, MENA and Eastern Europe. Co-op heists, PvP shootouts and street races anchor a loop built on reputation, territory and money.
Palworld's 1.0 release lands July 10 on PC, PS5, Xbox and Game Pass, nearly doubling the map with a World Tree and Sky Islands, adding PvP and its biggest wave of new Pals - free for owners.
Ubisoft's ground-up Black Flag remake, rebuilt on the latest Anvil engine with ray tracing, dynamic weather and new pirate storylines, launches July 9, 2026 on PS5, Xbox and PC.
Neverness to Everness' first major update, Version 1.1 'Dreamwalk Corridor,' adds a fully drivable Porsche 918 Spyder via the Everdriving Mystery Box (June 3–July 8), plus new areas Sunward Island and the Corridor of Echoes and limited S-Class hunters Lacrimosa and Chaos — live now on iOS and Android.
Everstone Studio's wuxia open-world action game Where Winds Meet got a Hidden Mountain trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, with a new region, air races and more arriving in July 2026.
Aniimo, a free-to-play open-world creature-collecting action RPG from Pawprint Studio and FunPlus label Kingsglory, revealed its Global Closed Beta running this summer on PC, iOS and Android. Set in the world of Idyll, it features a 'Twining' mechanic to merge with creatures, ahead of a Q3 2026 cross-platform launch on PS5, Xbox, PC and mobile.
Milestone revealed Hot Wheels Infinite Rush at Summer Game Fest 2026 - the first open-world game in the franchise, with four explorable islands, 150-plus collectible vehicles across four classes, full cross-play and four-player split-screen. It launches September 24, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC.
Playground Games' Japan-set racer has blown past 6 million players in seven days, hitting 270,000+ concurrent on Steam and a 91 on OpenCritic. A PS5 version is still due later in 2026.
TT Games' biggest brick-built Batman yet is out now, packing an open-world Gotham, an explorable Batcave and 86 years of comics, TV and film lore into one sprawling adventure.
Xbox has delayed Fable, Playground Games' fantasy RPG reboot, from autumn 2026 to February 2027 so the game can have 'a window of its own' - a move that also steers it clear of Grand Theft Auto VI. Fable remains a day-one Game Pass title and launches on Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC.
A 14-person indie studio just shipped a sustainability-flavored road-trip RPG to Game Pass Ultimate. Build your own house on wheels, source power from sun, wind, or water, and bring three friends along — Subnautica 2's three-day head start was no accident.
HoYoverse confirmed Genshin Impact 6.6 Luna VII drops May 20 with Nicole, Lohen, and Prune — the first playable members of the Hexenzirkel — plus two new Sumeru Archon Quest acts and a Dottore boss fight.
Hogwarts Legacy is free on the Epic Games Store until May 3. Claim the $60 open-world wizarding RPG for nothing — once it's in your library, it's yours to keep forever.
Pearl Abyss's 190-fix Crimson Desert update introduces Memory Fragment boss rematches across all 69 campaign bosses and a Reblockade system that lets 13 enemy factions try to reclaim cleared strongholds — a direct fix for late-game emptiness.
HoYoverse confirms Genshin Impact Version 7.0 launches August 12, 2026, bringing the Snezhnaya region with a train network, Slavic-inspired music, and visual upgrades — the culmination of the story mobile and PC players have followed since launch.
From the Tower of Fantasy studio, NTE launches April 29 as a supernatural urban open-world RPG across mobile, PS5, PC, and Mac with full cross-play and over 100 free pulls at launch.
NTE: Neverness to Everness, the supernatural urban open-world RPG from Hotta Studio, launches April 29 on iOS, Android, PS5, PC, and Mac with full cross-platform play. Built on Unreal Engine 5 with Devil May Cry-inspired combat and a massive explorable modern city, the free-to-play title has already surpassed 20 million pre-registrations worldwide.
Hotta Studio's massive supernatural open-world RPG launches April 29 across iOS, Android, PS5, and PC — free to play, with 25 million pre-registrations and full cross-platform support from day one.
Pearl Abyss's Crimson Desert surpasses four million copies sold just weeks after launch, with Steam reviews climbing to Very Positive and DLC plans confirmed.