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CD PROJEKT RED put The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered live today on PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2. Existing owners get the free upgrade path; Switch 2 is a separate eShop product.
Neil Druckmann says Naughty Dog will fully reveal Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet in 2027 and stay quiet the rest of 2026. Early The Last of Us projects are also on the studio letter.
Mojang and Xbox Game Studios put Minecraft Dungeons II on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and Switch 2 today. The filing is a launch map for The Sift, co-op, and the Hero Cape bridge.
Twogether Studios has Eidolon: The Ghost Market on BackerKit pre-launch for an October 13, 2026 crowdfunding start. Keith Baker and Jenn Ellis are selling an ecto-punk Daggerheart city, not an official Darrington hardcover.
Bandai Namco dates Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve Deluxe early access for September 29 and the full launch for October 2. The filing is a SKU map before the early boot screens.
Minecraft Live confirmed The Sift as the first new dimension in over fourteen years. It debuts in Dungeons II on September 29, then lands in Java and Bedrock in 2027. Sequencing is the filing.
FC 27 launched September 25 with The Grounds and a free Lite download. Saturday filing: social playground plus on-ramp beat the annual feature laundry list for buy-or-try decisions.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Friday that is about nineteen days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Reality Fracture sealed events run September 25 through October 1 before the October 2 street date. Arena follows September 29. From Friday, that is day one at participating local game stores. Spoiler-light table pitch, not a forged meta list.
PS5 Digital Deluxe early access started September 22. Worldwide launch lands today, September 24, at 10:00 AM ET / 7:00 AM PT on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Dylan Faden at center, Jesse missing in the public pitch. Spoiler-light.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Thursday that is about twenty days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Konami dates SILENT HILL: Townfall for September 24 on PS5, Steam, and Epic. First-person fog on St. Amelia, Screen Burn Interactive, Annapurna co-publish. Spoiler-light launch-day calendar ask.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Wednesday that is about twenty-one days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Tuesday that is about twenty-two days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Monday that is about twenty-three days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
MokaSphere launched the online co-op horror Yandere Virus on Steam around September 21 after reporting 100,000 wishlists. Up to four players, Platonic Pumpkins, SCON Universe VTubers. Spoiler-light product note.
Tone Pro lands in Warhammer stores and independents September 26. Miniatures desk Monday: try before you flip your whole paint shelf. 30 colours, five tones each, media and brushes in the preview notes.
CESA canceled the entire Monday, September 21 program at Tokyo Game Show 2026 as Typhoon No. 25 approaches. Sunday, September 20 still proceeds. First planned five-day TGS for the 30th anniversary just lost its closing day.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Sunday that is about twenty-four days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Warhammer+ dates the three-part Kharadron Overlords series Arkanaut for October 2026, with Astartes II still aimed at December from the Autumn Preview. Streaming calendar, not a forged tabletop codex.
Fortune's Weave and LEGO Batman both landed this week. Retro desk files the portable backlog habit those launches still demand on a Saturday couch.
Back2Back is playable at Tokyo Game Show, aimed at PlayStation 5 in 2027 under Hajime Tabata's JP Universe with original writer Masahiro Yuki in the story room. Demo caveats still apply.
Games Workshop's Big Autumn Preview landed twelve reveals. Headliners: a new Age of Sigmar duardin army, Codex Adeptus Custodes with Aquilon Terminators, Kill Team Armageddon with Legion of the Damned, and Tone Pro paints on September 26.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the Saturday table pitch.
Among twelve Autumn Preview reveals, a full Necromunda roleplaying game is the underhive that will eat campaign nights. No forged street date yet. The ask is already on the table.
Games Workshop stages the show at 7 p.m. BST on Warhammer Community, Twitch, and YouTube. Kill Team, 40K, Age of Sigmar, Old World, and Blood Bowl teases are the table noise.
Fortune's Weave and LEGO Batman both ask for Switch 2 iron this week. Retro desk files the portable appointment culture that made Nintendo shelves feel like homework and reward at once.
Free League's 5E Lord of the Rings RPG remains a $29.99 Beyond download habit days after launch. Desk grades the VTT Maps rhythm, not a new novel.
Mantic dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch as the calendar tightens.
TT Games and Warner Bros. Games put Legacy of the Dark Knight on Nintendo Switch 2 today. Standard $69.99, Deluxe $89.99, Mayhem Collection with Joker and Harley, Absolute difficulty free update.
Games Workshop stages the Friday show at 7 p.m. BST. Kill Team, 40K, Age of Sigmar, and Old World teases are the table noise worth staying for.
Free League's 5E Lord of the Rings RPG is live on Beyond at $29.99. Day-after desk grades the VTT Maps habit, not a new Middle-earth novel.
Falcom and GungHo ship the SC remake today on PS5, Switch, Switch 2, and PC. Save carry from the 1st Chapter remake is still the softest honest sell.
Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive is live September 17 with Cai, Dietrich, Theodora, and Leda in Dagsion. Launch day is the appointment, not yesterday's countdown.
Before Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter modernizes Liberl again, Estelle's journey lived on aging PCs and translation patches. Remake day is a debt payment.
Before Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter modernizes Liberl again, the handheld stick kept Estelle traveling through airport terminals and lunch breaks.
Falcom and GungHo date the SC remake for September 17 on PS5, Switch, Switch 2, and PC. The demo progress is the softest honest sell.
Games Workshop stages the show Friday, September 18. Kill Team, 40K, and Necromunda teases are the table noise, not a rumor skull.
Mantic and PopCap date the co-op board game crowdfunding for mid-October. Zen Garden campaign math is the real table pitch.
Matt and Marty Forbeck's Temple of the Charged Creeper hardcover is live for preorder around $20. Illager math meets easy table rules.
Free League's 5E adaptation of The One Ring is live on D&D Beyond at $29.99. Journey rules meet VTT Maps beta, not a new Middle-earth novel.
RGG Studio's early-20th-century Japan epic still ships January 15, 2027. Netflix's live-action film is development theater next to a dated SKU.
Games Workshop stages the show Friday, September 18. Kill Team, 40K, Necromunda teases, and a burning-skull rumor are the table noise.
The Netflix comedy can wait. Sega already dated the next playable tip chase for 2027, and that is the SKU players can argue with.
Renegade's RPG line dates retail for November 23 after a record BackerKit run. Core book, starter set, screen, and minis are the carton math.
Before Netflix hired the Naked Gun writers, the fare was a yellow cab, a punk playlist, and a console that died too young.
No Loading Games Cyberpunk Edgerunners Hunted is a cooperative real-time table with David, Lucy, Rebecca, and Maine. Fall 2026 street estimates are the appointment, not a meme.
BlizzCon's Dominion cinematic sold a boxed open-world shooter set seventy years after Legacy of the Void, with Dan Hay promising a story that ends instead of a season that resets.
World of Warcraft: Forever opens beta access September 17 through October 21, then launches November 4 at 3:00 p.m. PST as a permanent home after Forsaken Kingdom and before Molten Core.
Epic confirmed Kingdom Hearts' Sora arrives in Fortnite later this week, with the v42.20 update on September 17 the likely drop window for the Keyblade fantasy on the island.
Overwatch's first live TTRPG one-shot ran September 13 with Mercer as GM Cassidy and four hero voice actors in Overland. Day-after filing, not a fake rulebook.
Diablo IV's Season of Hell's Legacy rolls out September 15 as the 30th-anniversary centerpiece, with Deckard Cain guiding a living history questline and Prime Evil remnants on the seasonal table.
Lynnvander and Steve Jackson Games stamp Munchkin 5.5E RPG for a BackerKit launch October 13, with Ye Olde Rulebook and The Deadliest Dungeon.
Sky Castle's Wildmagic Frontier Kickstarter (Sept 10) imports Hero Forge digital minis into a browser deck-building tactics RPG set on Astara.
Ame no Chi Hare Onna syncs a Japan-only free-to-play laundry fantasy to real forecasts this winter, with Pokemon director Shigeru Ohmori producing a magical girl who turns weather into mood work.
Warcraft III Reforged's new campaign shipped during BlizzCon with roughly thirty hours between Arthas and World of Warcraft, plus a free 3.0 Definitive Edition graphics update and the first new tavern hero in decades.
Dangeresque Presents: Crime Scene Tamperer is the Brothers Chaps party game from Greater Than Games, now in the available window at about $19.95.
Seventeen days to Chaosium's Horror on the Orient Express retail window. Sunday is for locking chairs, not inventing a second street date.
Darrington Press's Hope & Fear expansion hits friendly local game stores, Amazon, and bookstores on September 22. Digital already exists. The cult is nine days from the national sticker.
Homeworlds (Oct 9, 272 cards) keeps teaching Unlimited to armor the quiet object. Sunday continues the Fortify argument without cloning yesterday's attachment sermon.
BlizzCon 2026 stamped Diablo V for Spring 2029 with a fallen Sanctuary pitch: Diablo won, the old heroes failed, and players inherit a caravan through Hell's outpost of Westmarch.
Pegged to BlizzCon's Diablo V reveal and Diablo's 30th anniversary year, the 1996 original still owns town-hub dread and click-loot sweat that no Spring 2029 key art can fake.
Gargant plastic cleared the Saturday till. Sunday is the hangover: receipts, limited boxes walking, and whether you open a sprue before the next preview cycle.
Gargant plastic hit the preorder window and the tabletop calendar did not get quieter. Miniatures desk files the Sons of Behemat appointment without inventing a points cost.
Darrington Press's Hope & Fear expansion hits friendly local game stores, Amazon, and bookstores on September 22. Digital already exists. The cult is practicing patience in public.
Homeworlds (Oct 9, 272 cards) adds Fortify, Beast tokens, and Weakness tokens. Fantasy Flight's biggest set yet is teaching you to armor the thing you used to ignore.
Nintendo's 1998 N64 classic is getting another modern appointment on November 5. Retro desk files the calendar, not a fake remake score.
Insomniac's PS5 exclusive (street Sept 15, $69.99) is drawing day-of reviews that praise gore, story, and Liam McIntyre while calling the combat dated and the structure closer to a blockbuster gauntlet than Spider-Man's open world.
September 30 is the crisis-management board date for the Orient Express table. Miles files the appointment, not a fake BGG rank.
Good Smile restocks Crash Bandicoot Nendoroid for the 30th anniversary at $53.99, preorders through October 20, ship window April through June 2027. Retro desk: the grey-controller mascot as a chibi relic.
Modiphius unveiled Fallout: Wasteland Warfare 2e gameplay today: solo-first, fewer tokens, roster instead of cards. The Warbands Starter is £120/$165. Into the Wasteland solo sits nearer $80. November is the ship window, not a street date.
Atomic Mass Games' Leaders of the Separatist Alliance (SWQ49) hits shelves this Friday: five minis, three commanders, two operatives. Street-day filing, not a fake points gospel.
Darrington Press's first Daggerheart expansion hits Amazon and bookstores September 22. Guild shops and Critical Role already had it August 25. The wait is now the product.
Marvel Rivals Season 10: Butcher's Blasphemy is live after the September 11 9 AM UTC stamp. Launch-day filing, not a fake win rate for a Duelist who just got a login.
Disney Lorcana's last-chance qualifier is today at Disneyland Paris: 1,024 players, two 512 pods, sets 9 through 13, 110 euros. Format desk files the field, not a fake Top 8.
Eve-of-launch filing for September 11 at 9 AM UTC: Gorr the God Butcher joins as a melee Duelist, Scarlet Witch gets a rework, and The Godbomb battle pass opens after maintenance. No invented win rates.
D&D: World of Warcraft gameplay expansion streets November 17, 2026, with WPN early access November 3. A 256-page book of species, subclasses, dungeons, and faction renown. Table stamp filing, public product facts only.
Chaosium's Horror on the Orient Express board game streets September 30: Adam Kwapinski co-op for one to four, Dreamlands crisis management, $135 MSRP. The Call of Cthulhu campaign that ate a year of Tuesdays finally fits a box.
Age of Sigmar Sons of Behemat wave preorders Saturday September 12 around 1 p.m. ET, streets September 26. Battletome, Stomper Tribe, Brawlers of Behemat, Boss-stompers, Ma Maegran. While-stocks-last boxes are the chase.
Set 72306 recreates the original PlayStation and first controller in 1,911 pieces after State of Play, with functional buttons, a plug-in pad, and Gran Turismo plus Ape Escape dioramas inside the shell.
Brotherwise's Mistborn Campaign Setting hits public digital on September 9 after the September 2 backer drop. Handbook, World Guide, Legacy. Second Cosmere RPG setting after Stormlight. Physical still aims at November.
Assassin's Creed Animus remains on an October 2026 Kickstarter shipping window with retail Christmas language behind it. Era-spanning assassin miniatures are still the product inside the board game carton.
Zelda 40th Direct stamped the Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2 on November 5, 2026, with Aonuma gameplay, mic ocarina tricks, and a Zelda themed Switch 2 aisle on October 29.
Wizards' Reality Fracture mechanics piece lands empower Jace, Heartwood tokens, and Preparation. Prerelease September 25 to October 1. Street October 2. Echoverse variants are the costume. The keywords are the carton.
Renegade's revised Castle Ravenloft board game is on preorder for February 2027: $100 Standard unpainted, $200 Premium pre-painted, Adventure System co-op retained. The carton is the till, not a fake September street.
Launch day filing: Deep North ships September 9, 2026 on PC, Xbox, plus day one PS5 and Switch 2, full crossplay, $29.99 for new buyers, free for Early Access owners. No invented score.
Europe Championship runs September 11 to 13 at Disneyland Paris hotels in Core Constructed. Two hundred main event seats, LCQ Friday, Worlds tickets for the top eight. Championship week, not another sealed calendar.
Star Wars: Legion Leaders of the Separatist Alliance streets September 11 at about $62.99 with Dooku, Trench, Grievous, Ventress, and Savage. Three commanders, two operatives, cards included.
Daggerheart's first expansion already opened specialty and digital on August 25. Wide retail hits September 22 with Witch, Warlock, Brawler, and Assassin. Not another Cosmere filing. The classes are the product.
Future Flip from Fowers and Larsen hits UK and EU retail this week with double sided rooms, flipping disguises, and cybernetic SysOps. Kickstarter demand already proved. The till is the new test.
The Zelda 40th Anniversary Nintendo Direct hits September 8 at 7 a.m. PT for about thirty minutes, promising anniversary initiatives and Ocarina of Time remake details. Eve of show only. No invented feature sheet.
September 9 ships Deep North plus day one PS5 and Switch 2, full crossplay, and a $29.99 price for new buyers. Existing owners update free. The finished Viking is the product.
The Necromunda Skirmish Core Set ships two gangs, a play mat, Factoria pipes, a hardcover rulebook, cards, and markers at a $165 MSRP. That closed loop is the board-game handshake inside a miniatures aisle.
Athena Game's CONQ: Crown of No Quarter hit State of Play and Steam as a 2027 PC/PS5 tactical action hybrid. Cross-era armies, sea-to-land warfare, and Coronation kills are the published bet.
Wizards' ten-episode Reality Fracture arc ends September 11 after a September 8 debut stream. Different angle from the preview calendar: the serialized Jace/Echoverse story is the till date that trains the sealed season.
Square Enix dropped a free HD-2D Final Fantasy Resonance demo on September 3 across major platforms, with save carryover to the October 22 launch. Sephiroth is the optional challenge with a still-secret reward.
Brotherwise's Mistborn Campaign Setting hit Kickstarter backers digitally on September 2. Public PDFs and VTT editions follow September 9, with retail hardcovers aimed at November.
Warhammer Community's September 4 Factoria Pipes guide sells modular Zone Mortalis plumbing with column spacing, vertical runs, and Gunk Tank silo crossover. The underhive's personality is industrial, and this kit is how you buy it.
Assassin's Creed Animus is targeting October 2026 Kickstarter shipping. Thousands of backers. A shelf of era-spanning assassin miniatures. The board game is how the plastic arrives.
Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons puts Invoke's 2027 action adventure in the Ravenloft domain of Darkon. Kaatri, Tasha, Raw Magic, and a single-class fantasy are the published bet. The Realms can wait.
Renegade Game Studios is bringing Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft back for February 2027. Standard unpainted at $100. Premium pre-painted at $200. Same Adventure System crawl. New aisle sticker.
NES - Nintendo Classics added Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom around September 1-2, 2026, with Ikari Warriors and R.C. Pro-Am II. The classic trilogy is finally a single login, not a museum gap.
The September 2026 D&D Beyond Drop adds Dusklings, the first playable species in the monthly claim, plus four non-combat spells. Season of Magic just grew legs.
On September 4, 2026, Wizards mapped Reality Fracture previews: debut September 8, gallery cadence after, street date October 2. The Echoverse sells attention first, boosters second.
Necromunda's second-wave Goliath and Escher kits, journals, cards, and dice go up for pre-order September 5, 2026, with a September 19 street date. Pets included. Pronunciation footnotes included.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword launched worldwide September 4, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, and PC. First new Onimusha in twenty years. The sword is no longer a trailer prop.
Brotherwise and Dragonsteel set Stormlight: War for Roshar for Kickstarter on October 13, 2026. John D Clair's hero-driven war game, public claims only, no invented pledge tiers.
Daggerheart: Hope & Fear opened Critical Role shops, Guild stores, and digital storefronts on August 25. Wide retail is September 22, 2026.
On September 4, 2026, Nintendo announced a Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct for September 8 and a general Nintendo Direct for September 9. The remake date is still blank. The calendar is the product.
Official Disney Lorcana North America Championship recap: Dillon LeDuc wins via LCQ on Amber/Amethyst, Emerald/Steel takes 24.4% of the room, Europe Championship is September 11 to 13.
State of Play and State of Play Japan air back to back on September 3, 2026. Sony named Final Fantasy VII Revelation as the English show's extended-look finale before a single other title hit the Blog lede.
Star Wars: Unlimited's ninth set lands October 9, 2026 with 260+ cards, Beast and Weakness tokens, and the first base upgrades. No Altered ghost stories required.
WPN early access for Arcana Unleashed and Deadfall started September 1. Season of Magic Encounters begin this week, with wide release September 15, 2026.
An honest miniatures shelf argument after a thin news day: Hivestorm's living-room kit math still explains why skirmish fire teams eat display-parade space in 2026.
BLEACH - Bankai Battle (Roll and Clash) from Don't Panic Games and Team Kaedama hits September 22, 2026 for $39.99. Fast asymmetrical family combat, public copy only, no invented mechanics.
SPACE KING: The Board Game crossed roughly $2.7 million on Kickstarter within days of its August 30 launch, with Recruit around $99 and deeper pledges packing PVC Psycho Warriors. The meme built the audience. The box is collecting the hobby money.
Valheim 1.0 launches September 9 with the Deep North biome on PC, Xbox, and day-one PlayStation 5 and Switch 2, plus full crossplay. Iron Gate is ending the test and selling the finished Viking.
Secret Lair x MSCHF: The Zeta Set hits the Chaos Vault September 2 for $19.92, a seven-card randomized booster wearing 1990s photocopy treatments across 121 cards. Wizards sold the origin myth as a lottery.
Arcade Archives Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh launches September 3 on Switch and PS4 for $7.99, with Arcade Archives 2 on Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series for $9.99. Hamster restocked Taito's sequel as a download, not a cabinet funeral.
Pathfinder Adventure: The Dead God's Hand hits shelves September 2 for $49.99, a levels 1-6 Absalom dungeon arc based on Erik Mona's office campaign. Society scenarios drop the same Wednesday under replayable rules.
September's Miniature of the Month is a Space Marine Scout available from September 5, plus an Ogor Mawtribes coin. Warhammer Community says it is the last traditional free store miniature before an unnamed October offer.
Crimson Moon launches today at $19.99 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series. ProbablyMonsters is selling a gothic co-op habit, not a seventy-dollar pilgrimage. I have not finished it. The coverage already tells you what the product is.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword launches September 4 on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC. The Switch 2 demo already added the Oni Refuge and boss Daidara. This is a new Musashi on current hardware, not a PS2 relisting.
Arcader recirculated Polygon's Altered Recommends piece today. The real US till was September 13, 2024, the Kickstarter was $6.7M, and Equinox's 2026 shutdown proved the game was always a print queue with a race attached.
Asmodee US puts DCeased and three expansions on shelves Friday, September 11. CMON is using retail cash to print the games 2023 backers already paid for. End of 2026 is the new promise.
Time Without Tide opens on BackerKit today with a free 62-page quickstart, a $3 Delver pin reservation, and an original d6 light-and-survival system that is not Call of Cthulhu in steampunk drag.
Sky Castle Studios opens Wildmagic Frontier on Kickstarter September 10: a buy-once deck-building tactics RPG for PC and browser that imports your Hero Forge minis into Astara, solo or three-player co-op.
Serious Sam: Shatterverse launches today as Behaviour Interactive's five-player co-op roguelite, not another Croteam campaign. The 25th-anniversary product is the lobby of Sams under Mental.
HoYoverse revealed Nodusfall at Gamescom Opening Night Live as a free-to-play four-player monster hunt on PC, with characters unlocked by playing instead of random draws. Five days of coverage later, the company that sold banners is selling a squad.
Happinet and NIS America put Brigandine Abyss on Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series, and Steam this weekend with a launch trailer, a two-season demo, and an $89.99 Limited Edition. The lineage is 1998. The box is current hardware.
Xbox opened $899.99 translucent green Series X25 pre-orders and, on the same day, started turning physical discs into digital entitlements. The numbered console is the birthday souvenir. Disc-to-Digital is the quiet product.
Playground Games put nearly eighteen minutes of narrated Bowerstone gameplay on the gamescom table, months after Xbox slid the reboot to February 2027 so a fairy-tale RPG would not fight a crime game for the winter.
CD Projekt already patched this game into the current generation in 2022. Now it is doing it again, for free, with Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine thrown in, because the next saga is two years out and the wolf still has to occupy the shelf.
Take-Two is in federal court chasing Microsoft and Discord records. Bloomberg says Rockstar is angry and still on the August 27 date. The clips keep coming.
Clear River, Square Enix, and Limited Run pulled Quintet's missing cartridge onto modern hardware for 2027. Physical copies. A 4:3 window. And a press quote that should make importers nervous.
Pokémon’s Delta Reign cycle is already teaching a new class of collectors the worst lesson: hype is not a price floor.
After The Duskbloods connectivity headaches and Nightreign, the studio’s director is talking like a man who misses a closed door.
Master Collection Vol. 2 lands August 27. The last great game trapped on dead hardware gets a new passport - and loses the ritual of the yellowing fat PS3.
The new playtest does not treat ceremorphosis as flavor text. It treats it as a build.
Creardo’s licensed Foundation game wants deck-building, politics, and Asimov’s math of collapse. The tension is the whole pitch.
Zeratul, a siege tank, a Ravager, an Immortal, Lost Temple terrain - and a shipping calendar that is already arguing with the models.