Your daily read on shooters, RPGs, MMOs and fighting games.

Saturday 31 October 2026

GTA 6's Criminal Profile tracks you from Professional to Irredeemable

GTA 6 rates Lucia and Jason from Professional to Irredeemable, and Rockstar says it shapes the story.

Read the story Shooters

Sources: PC Gamer, IGN

Image: Rockstar Games

Shooters

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 key art with three soldiers in tactical gear walking down a dark street

Image: Activision

Activision will cut real Itaewon crush footage from Modern Warfare 4's opening

Activision apologised to victims' families and says the footage goes in a 12 Nov update.

2 min read

Sources: MBC News (Korean), PC Gamer

Image: Romero Games

John Romero says Romero Games has a new publisher for its shooter

The Doom co-creator has rehired about 10 staff, and the redesigned shooter runs on Unreal Engine 5.8.

1 min read

Sources: Shacknews, Game Developer

RPG and action

Crimson Desert Charting the Unknown key art with Kliff and companions in front of a tall sailing ship

Image: Pearl Abyss

Crimson Desert gets a free 5-hour trial on Xbox and PS5

Pearl Abyss says progress carries over to the full game. It's open to every Xbox player and to PS Plus Premium and Deluxe members.

2 min read

Sources: Pearl Abyss, Xbox Wire

Dark Souls III artwork of the Ashen One standing in armour against a burnt yellow sky with a castle in the distance

Image: Bandai Namco / FromSoftware

FromSoftware takes Dark Souls 2 and 3 servers offline over a server issue

Online play is down on all platforms, and as of 31 Oct FromSoftware hasn't given a time for the servers to come back.

1 min read

Sources: FromSoftware on X

Persistent worlds

Image: Cryptic Studios / Gearbox Publishing

Star Trek Online players hold in-game vigils for Sir Patrick Stewart

Galaxy-class honour guards and torchlit gatherings filled the MMO, and Cryptic posted its own tribute.

1 min read

Sources: Star Trek Online, Kotaku

Fighting games

Image: Arc System Works

Japan

Arc System Works warns of possible TeamArc data leak after email service breach

The Guilty Gear studio says names, addresses and card details weren't held by the breached service.

1 min read

Sources: Arc System Works (Japanese), EventHubs

Tech and AI

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card on a black background with green light waves

Image: Nvidia

RTX 5080 disappears from Nvidia's US store as prices hit US$2,000

It follows the RTX 5090 off Nvidia's US Marketplace. Nvidia hasn't said why.

1 min read

Sources: IGN, VideoCardz, OC3D

Oceania

WoW Forever podcast artwork with a developer in headphones and the words Tech Talk, Layers, Day/Night Cycle

Image: Blizzard Entertainment

OCEMMO

WoW: Forever devs weigh an Australian day/night cycle for OCE players

OCE players are stuck in darkness on NA clocks. Blizzard's devs asked if they'd accept sudden day-night jumps.

2 min read

Sources: World of Warcraft on YouTube, PC Gamer