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IGN Fan Fest delivers Xbox game dates and reveals
IGN Fan Fest: Fall Edition 2026 featured over 90 reveals, including several Xbox-bound game dates and trailers. The announcements add concrete timelines for upcoming releases on Xbox Series X/S and other platforms.

Sega Pulls Shogun 2 Remaster After AI Graphics Backlash
Sega and Creative Assembly are temporarily removing Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition from sale after player backlash over apparent AI-upscaled art and bugs. The original 2011 version is being reinstated while the companies investigate, and buyers can keep playing the Complete Edition.

Rockstar Releases GTA 6 Launch Trailer, Captured on PS5
Rockstar released the official GTA 6 launch trailer, captured on PS5 and set to a new Justice track, ahead of the game’s November 19 launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Ocarina of Time Remake Adds Dedicated Jump and Sprint
Hands-on previews of the Ocarina of Time remake highlight quality-of-life updates including on-demand jumping, sprinting, and faster item selection. The changes aim to align the 1998 classic with conventions from recent Zelda titles while preserving its core experience.

Danish registry breach exposes 8.8M records via '123456' password
According to Danish newspaper Politiken, a hacker accessed Denmark's Central Register of Persons using the password '123456' on accounts held by Pays ApS, exposing details of 8.8 million people. The incident underscores how weak password practices at a contractor can compromise a national database.

Xbox and IGN to Showcase 18 Games in ID@Xbox Event
Xbox and IGN will hold the next ID@Xbox Showcase featuring 18 games. The event will include trailers, gameplay and multiple world premieres for Xbox and PC titles.

Epic delays its Marvel and Star Wars shooter and goes “AI first,” Bloomberg reports
Epic Games has delayed its Marvel and Star Wars shooter with Disney, which had been slated for March 2027, and told developers to switch to an “AI first” production model using tools such as Anthropic's Claude, Bloomberg reports. No new release date has been set.
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Star Wars Zero Company pairs turn-based tactics with the Clone Wars era in a relaxed, story-driven campaign that favors breezy satisfaction over ironman tension. The result feels heartfelt and thoughtful yet visibly patched together from a difficult development.
20K peak daily Steam players now hear the announcer call their actual name during key moments in The FINALS Season 12. The new Dynamic Commentary feature runs on AI and includes an anonymous mode to keep callouts generic.
A modder has recreated Middle-earth: Shadow of War's Nemesis System in Red Dead Redemption 2 with the enRage mod, which names every NPC and tracks individual rivalries across the O’Driscoll Boys, Lemoyne Raiders, and other factions.
Steam Next Fest 2026 opens with 8,202 demos, more than double last year's count. Concerns over undisclosed generative AI use, plagiarism, and discoverability are already surfacing among developers.
Funcom announced restructuring and layoffs after Dune: Awakening's console versions launched 22 September. Scott Junior, 25 years at the company, succeeds Rui Casais, who led for 11 of his 22 years there.
League of Legends Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage Round 1 matchups are set after the Los Angeles draw. Karmine Corp opens against Anyones Legend following its 3-0 Play-Ins win.
LOUD took a 3-1 Grand Final win over Vitality at Valorant Champions 2026. The Brazilian roster became the youngest to claim the title, averaging 20 years and five months in age.
Modern Warfare 4's campaign holds a 92 percent Very Positive rating on Steam from more than 3,100 reviews. It is the highest-rated Call of Duty in over a decade, compared with last year's Black Ops 7 at 37 percent.
Inscryption is coming to mobile, Daniel Mullins Games announced during a Twitch stream marking the horror card game's fifth anniversary. No release date was given, and the studio said in a Reddit post that no new DLC is planned, Engadget reports.
Dataminer Doneda has shown off a massive prototype coliseum level that appears to have been cut from Dark Souls 2 early in development. The files also contain mines, an underground tower and crypt sections that may be tied to what became the Undead Crypt, PC Gamer reports.
After fans accused Battlefield 6 of AI-made cosmetics, Battlefield Studios says a correction update for the "Secuty" typo on the McNeil skin is planned for Season 5 Phase 2. The five-pistol Midnight Mirage outfit is an intentional nod to over-the-top action movie tropes, the studio said, per Eurogamer.
Alliance Arts canceled the Drunken Goddess Reflux demo planned for Steam Next Fest, saying it couldn't police footage under its publishing rules and feared the demo would make generative AI clones easy. The game has over 25,000 Steam wishlists; players can apply for closed tests on Who You's Discord ahead of its Dec. 8 launch, Polygon reports.
Pure Xbox's early Xbox Series X impressions of Samson praise its open-world city of Tyndalston but call the old-school GTA-style missions hit-and-miss. The Xbox release has drawn a warmer reception than the PC launch, and developer Liquid Swords is reportedly facing bankruptcy.
Clive Barker told Dread Central that Hellraiser: Revival is a "wake-up call" for anyone adapting a franchise like Hellraiser. "I'm proud as f**k at the end result," he said. "I was fearful at one point that the game would be overly censored, but I'm genuinely astonished by how far they've been able to push it."
Liquid Swords, developer of the open-world game Samson, has reportedly been declared bankrupt after months of unpaid wages.
An anonymous Reddit leaker claims a remaster of the 2004 RPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is in development, stressing it is not a remake. The claim is unverified.
Barry Sloane, the actor behind Captain Price, thanked fans and asked them to avoid spoilers as early reactions to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's campaign turned positive. Players have called the story mode one of the series' more brutal entries, Steam reviews sit at Very Positive, and IGN scored the campaign 8/10.