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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Netflix comedy can wait. Sega already dated the next playable tip chase for 2027, and that is the SKU players can argue with.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The sequel launched August 18. Movies Games and Tech filed today. I have not finished it. The public reviews and Frogwares' own pages already argue the case.
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.
The prequel lands tomorrow on PS5, Xbox, and PC, day one on Game Pass. I have not finished it. The reviews landing today, the studio interviews, and two games of hiding already argue the case.
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.
After The Duskbloods connectivity headaches and Nightreign, the studio’s director is talking like a man who misses a closed door.