Your daily read on shooters, RPGs, MMOs and fighting games.
S-GAME's kung fu action RPG unlocks on PS5 and PC worldwide at once, at 12pm AEST on 29 Oct.
Sources: S-GAME, Phantom Blade Zero official site, GamesRadar+
Activision's first free update brings Backstab, Canyon and a reimagined Shoot House at launch, plus X01 for DMZ and two Warzone maps.
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Sources: PlayStation Blog (Activision), Dexerto
Pearl Abyss's expansion adds the ocean, ships, romance and castles. The new character stories need the main story finished first.
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Sources: Pearl Abyss, Pearl Abyss, PC Gamer
A bug blocked any name containing 'con'. Blizzard says the fix comes with each region's next realm restart.
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Sources: World of Warcraft Forums (Blizzard community manager), World of Warcraft Forums (Blizzard community manager), Wowhead
Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8 and Marvel Tōkon lead the São Paulo event, set for 26 to 28 Mar 2027.
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Sources: Evo Brazil, EventHubs, Esports Insider
Three see-through colours: Flare Orange, Emerald Green and Graphite Gray. Pre-orders open 10 Nov.
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Sources: PlayStation Blog, VGC
Epic's Marcus Wassmer says engineers are no longer writing the bulk of the code, and names Claude Code and Codex.
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Sources: PC Gamer, Polygon
At a developer event in South Korea, Valve staff said 'a significant number of people' are working on low-quality games crowding Next Fest.
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Sources: VGC, Eurogamer, PC Gamer
Off Chops and Rooster are out. The upper semi-finals in Brisbane start on 30 Oct at 10am AEST.
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Sources: Liquipedia, DFRAG
Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, "I have been harmed." Take away the complaint, "I have been harmed," and the harm is taken away.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.7, trans. George Long (1862)
