Arkane Lyon has a little more time. Microsoft has extended the formal consultation over closing the French studio behind Dishonored, Deathloop and the still-unreleased Marvel's Blade by a month, buying more room to find someone who'll take it on.
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Factorio 2.1 goes stable as Wube's last major update
Wube Software marked Factorio 2.1 stable on 23 October, two years after Space Age. It's the game's last major update before long-term support.Modern Warfare 4 launches today without Game Pass
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launched on 23 October with 20 multiplayer maps and 33 weapons. It won't join Game Pass until Holiday 2027.Power To The Players Act aims to let gamers own their games
US Rep Ritchie Torres wants buying a game to mean owning it, with offline modes before servers close. GameStop's boss says let's talk.World of Warcraft: Forever free stress test moves
Blizzard moved the free World of Warcraft: Forever stress test to 21 October US time, 7:30am 22 October in Adelaide. The game launches 4 November.Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition from sale
Sega and Creative Assembly pulled Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition two days after its 13 October launch and brought back the 2011 original.Gears of War: E-Day patched after DDoS knocked out logins
A DDoS attack knocked Gears of War: E-Day logins offline on 11 October. The Coalition's 14 October patch fixes login and ranked bugs.Enshrouded 1.0 leaves Early Access on PC and PS5
Keen Games' Enshrouded hits 1.0 at 1:30am ACDT Friday with a new biome, a story ending, level cap 50 and 16-player co-op on PC.Planet Zoo 2 launches on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series
Frontier's Planet Zoo 2 is out on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series with aquatic animals, flying birds and Wildlife Reserves.No Man's Sky comes to iPhone and iPad on 28 October
Hello Games' No Man's Sky launches on iPhone and iPad on 28 October, free to try with a US$19.99 unlock. It runs on the iPhone 11 and later.Squadron 42 opens Steam wishlists ahead of Q2 2027 release
Cloud Imperium has put Squadron 42, its Star Citizen single-player game with Mark Hamill and Gary Oldman, on Steam wishlists ahead of a Q2 2027 launch.Xbox launches XP division for films, TV, merch and events
Xbox launched XP on 8 October to take its games into film, TV, products and events. Kayleen Walters leads it, and Mojang gets a new CEO.Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] out now on Switch 2, PS5, Xbox
Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] is out natively on Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC from 8 October.GTA 6's Leonida is about twice GTA 5's map, Game Informer says
GTA 6's Leonida is about twice the size of GTA 5's map, with more than 170 animal species. It launches 19 November on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.Capcom's REX plan readies RE Engine for AI tools, not AI art
Capcom's Satoshi Ishida laid out the REX upgrade for RE Engine on 2 October. It's aimed at AI coding and testing, and AI-made assets stay out of games.Persona 4 Revival gets a Shadow trailer, still due 18 Feb 2027
Atlus released a Shadow trailer for Persona 4 Revival on 3 Oct. The remake hits PS5, Xbox and PC on 18 Feb 2027, and Switch 2 on 20 May.Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II arrive on Switch 2
Square Enix's Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II hit Switch 2 on 1 October for US$59.99 each, with a sharper picture and smoother frame rates.007 First Light's free update adds New Game+ and Valhalla runs
IO Interactive's free Extended Operations update for 007 First Light landed on 1 October with New Game+, a 00 difficulty, photo mode and over 700 fixes.Football Manager 27 launches 10 November on PC, console, Netflix
Sports Interactive's Football Manager 27 launches on 10 November on PC, Xbox, PS5 and Netflix mobile. Cup draws and Deadline Day are back.Sony brings QSSR AI upscaling to the standard PS5
Sony's QSSR brings AI upscaling to the standard PS5. Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei got patches to use it on 1 October, and more games can follow.
