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Collab
Razer's New Honkai: Star Rail Collection Turns Silver Wolf's Hacker Style Into Gear
Razer has teamed with HoYoverse again, this time wrapping a keyboard, mouse, headset and gaming chair in Silver Wolf LV.999's reality-hacking aesthetic.
Game Catalog
PS Plus Game Catalog Adds Death Stranding 2, Like a Dragon and Atomfall This November
Sony's November PS Plus Game Catalog brings Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Atomfall and six more titles to Extra and Premium.
Now Live
FragPunk Adds Farlands, a Persistent PvPvE Delivery Mode, in Early Access
Bad Guitar Studio's shooter adds Farlands, a persistent delivery-driven PvPvE mode with shifting factions and weather, now live in early access on PC and console.
Platform Update
Nintendo eShop Will Let Family Group Members Gift Each Other Digital Games
Nintendo's eShop adds digital gifting November 16, letting family group members send each other eligible Switch and Switch 2 games, DLC, and upgrades instantly.
Roadmap
Marathon's Symbiosis Update Finally Brings a Permanent PvE Mode on December 8
Bungie's extraction shooter gets its first permanent PvE mode, a new Runner shell and an overhauled Perimeter zone when Symbiosis launches December 8.
Handheld
Sony's New PlayStation Portal Player Adds Internal Storage, But Only for Japan
Sony's Japanese PlayStation Blog revealed a refreshed PS Portal with internal storage and a shorter name, arriving December 10 for 39,980 yen — Japan only.
Release Date
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy Locks In a January 28, 2027 Launch Date
Owlcat Games has confirmed Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy launches January 28, 2027 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with a Switch 2 version to follow.
Launch
Hozy Brings DualSense-Powered Home Restoration to PS5 Today
Cozy restoration sim Hozy launches on PS5 today, using the DualSense's haptics and adaptive triggers to make mopping, prying and arranging feel real.
Earnings
Sony's PlayStation Division Posts an 83% Profit Jump as PS5 Hardware Sales Keep Sliding
Sony's Game and Network Services segment posted an 83% jump in operating income for its July-September quarter, even as PS5 hardware shipments kept falling.
Preservation
EA Mines a 20,000-Tape Vault to Resurrect Road Rash and Six Wing Commander Games
EA restored Road Rash and six Wing Commander games into new Anniversary Editions, built from master tapes rescued from a 20,000-asset studio vault.
Earnings
Nintendo's Switch 2 Hardware Sales Slow 37% as Operating Profit Jumps 49%
Nintendo's half-year results show Switch 2 hardware sales down 37.4% to 6.49 million units, while software and digital sales push operating profit up 49.1%.
Anniversary
NVIDIA Marks 20 Years of the GeForce 8800 GTX With a Playable Steam Tribute
NVIDIA marks 20 years since the GeForce 8800 GTX launched by releasing a free Steam demo that recreates unboxing the card using modern RTX ray tracing.
Anniversary
Where Winds Meet Marks Its First Anniversary With the War-Torn Hutuo Region
NetEase's wuxia open-world RPG turns one on Xbox this month with the war-torn Hutuo region, two new boss fights and a Dual Spears martial art.
Anniversary
Gears of War Marks 20 Years With a Free RAAM Unlock and Season 2 in December
The Coalition marks Gears of War's 20th anniversary with a free RAAM skin for every E-Day player and confirms Season 2, "Legacy," launches December 1.
New Hardware
Xbox Nano Controller Launches at $49.99 With a Direct Wi-Fi Link to Cloud Gaming
Microsoft's $49.99 pocket gamepad launched today, and a new Xbox Wire preview lets it skip Bluetooth and connect straight to Xbox Cloud Gaming over Wi-Fi.
Dev Diary
Sucker Punch Details How It Rebuilt Jin Sakai for Ghost of Yotei's Most Wanted Mode
Sucker Punch's team explains how they retargeted 60-plus attacks, rebuilt Jin Sakai's face and voice, and brought the Ghost of Tsushima hero back as a playable character.
Black Friday
PlayStation Store's Black Friday Sale Opens November 4 With Discounts Up to 75%
Sony's biggest storewide PS5, PS4 and PS VR2 discount event of the year kicks off November 4, cutting prices up to 75% on thousands of titles through November 30.
Platform Update
Xbox Rolls Out a Faster, Simpler PC App and Refreshed Cloud Gaming Today
Xbox Insiders get a PC app that launches up to 60% faster today, plus a refreshed cloud gaming web experience and newly updated TV and VR apps.
Comeback
Assassin's Creed Valhalla Finally Adds New Game+, Reversing a 2022 Refusal
Ubisoft marks Assassin's Creed Valhalla's 40 million-player milestone with New Game+, new runes, a stash system and a PS5 Pro-only PSSR upgrade.
Update
Helldivers 2's Noxious Terminid Update Adds Poison Mechanics and New Bug Caves
Arrowhead has deployed the venomous Noxious Terminid strain to Helldivers 2, adding a new poison status effect and expanding bug caves to more biomes.
Store Charts
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and BeamNG.drive Top PlayStation's October Charts
Modern Warfare 4 topped PlayStation's PS5 download charts in the US and EU for October, with BeamNG.drive's car-crash sandbox landing in third on both.
Expansion Launch
Age of Wonders 4's The Silver Seas Expansion Brings Pirates and a Mercantile Culture
Paradox's strategy sequel sets sail with a new maritime culture, pirate captains, two new forms and four tomes, out now as part of Expansion Pass 4.
Content Update
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Kicks Off Year Two With a New Duel Mode and Lower Prices
Sega's Year Two update for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds adds a one-on-one Duel Mode, a Gadget-boosting Super Slot and permanently cuts prices across every edition.
Gamepad Support
World of Warcraft: Forever Launches November 4 With Native Gamepad Support
Blizzard's new WoW: Forever client launches November 4 with an official Gamepad (Alpha) mode that lets players target, loot and run dungeons entirely from a controller.
Launch Prep
PlayStation Confirms Grand Theft Auto VI Pre-Download Opens November 10
Sony says pre-ordered copies of Grand Theft Auto VI can start downloading on PS5 starting November 10, nine full days before the November 19 launch day.
PS5 Debut
PlayStation Confirms Derelikt's Retro Sci-Fi Horror Shooter Launches Day One on PS5
PlayStation's own blog confirms Hyperstrange and Visuwyg's PS1-style horror shooter Derelikt launches day one on PS5 alongside its PC debut on November 13.
Hardware
PlayStation's LISA Limited Edition DualSense Launches and Sells Out Within Hours
Sony's DualSense Wireless Controller made with BLACKPINK's LISA launched October 30 in strictly limited numbers, and resale prices spiked within hours.
Dev Diary
Nintendo's Ocarina of Time Remake Team Details What Changed, What Stayed
Ahead of the Switch 2 remake's November 5 launch, Nintendo's own developers detail the design choices and cut features that shaped Ocarina of Time's return.
Launch
Queen's Domain, a King's Field-Style RPG, Launches Day-and-Date on Four Platforms
Freshly Baked Games' first-person action RPG washes players onto the Isle of Neasied, launching day-and-date on PC, PS5, Xbox Series and Switch 2.
Hardware
Acer's Predator Atlas 8 Launches Today With Intel's New Arc G3 Extreme Chip
Acer's first Predator-branded handheld goes on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99, pairing Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme chip with a 120Hz display.
Patch Notes
Deadlock's Halloween Update Reworks the Mid-Boss and Adds Candy Cauldrons
Valve's Halloween patch for Deadlock reworks the Mid-Boss fight, tunes comeback mechanics, and adds candy-hunting Cauldrons through November 2.
Game Pass
VOID/BREAKER Exits Early Access and Escape Academy 2 Arrives on Xbox Game Pass
VOID/BREAKER leaves Early Access and Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School debuts day one on Xbox Game Pass, leading a packed first week of November on Xbox.
Peripherals
Razer's New EVA-01 Collection Turns Evangelion's Unit-01 Into Gaming Gear
Razer's new Evangelion collection reskins a mouse, keyboard, chair, soundbar and mousepad around Unit-01, exclusive to Asia-Pacific retailers.
Launch Day
Phantom Blade Zero Launches on PS5 and PC With a Boss-Weapon Deep Dive From Sony
S-Game's wuxia action-RPG launches on PS5 and PC after a 50-day delay, as PlayStation's own blog details the boss-weapon system driving its combat.
Avatar State
Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game's Avatar State Patch Reimagines Aang and Korra
Xbox's new Avatar State update redesigns menus and ranked mode, adds reimagined Avatar State forms for Aang and Korra, and rebalances every fighter.
RTX Remix
NVIDIA's RTX Remix 1.6 Brings Real-Time Path Tracing to Minecraft Java Edition
NVIDIA's RTX Remix 1.6 update adds an experimental Minecraft: Java Edition path-tracing mod, DLSS 5 neural rendering and 6X frame generation support.
Season 1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Season 1 Merges It With Warzone on November 6
Infinity Ward's first seasonal update lands November 6 with new multiplayer maps, a DMZ facility, Warzone integration, and a 100-tier Battle Pass.