Gaming News Digest — September 20, 2026

The launch Twitch Drops marathon runs September 18 to 25, with rewards for up to five hours of viewing.

Now playable via NVIDIA GeForce NOW on any subscription tier, including Free, on PC, SHIELD TV, Chromebook and Firestick.

Respawn banned 258 Predator-ranked players for 60 days for account boosting, with 115 PlayStation and 143 Xbox punishments.

The teaser trailer shows Deathwatch Terminators and a helmetless warrior for the Warhammer 40,000 animation.

Sound designer Kamil Nowak works solo on audio, with new horse sounds in development.

WARDOGS hit 428,666 peak concurrent players last week, with a 24-hour record of 342,220.

Update 2.2.0 moves the game to Unreal Engine 5.8.2 with Iris networking, roughly halving server delays; The Legacy of the Giant-Kings: Part Two starts October 6.

The PS5 remake now runs on PC via the KyTyPS5 emulator, shown in a 22-minute 4K video on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RTX 4080.

Early access is live with up to 7 days ahead, 6000 FC Points and a Premium Pass; full release is September 25.

RX Studio and Nexon showed the first playable demo at Tokyo Game Show, an Unreal Engine 5 bishoujo project with hybrid real-time and turn-based combat.

The Beans & Alpacas expansion adds coffee, banana and alpaca wool production chains in the Kataui region.

A quality-of-life update speeds up interface tabs, raises the community cap to 200 and reworks dungeon rewards.

ARC Raiders' first major expansion gets a showcase on September 23 and releases October 8 with a new map and ARC enemy.

Combat is now part of story progress, with battles on a specific day of the week and sewer brawls.

The Warhammer animated series Arcanaut premieres on Warhammer TV in October 2026, split into three parts.

Season 5, Rage of the Frostborn, arrives October 1 with boss Morditas, the Rage of Morditas mechanic, three new skills and 18 new uniques.

Sold 1.9 million copies in three days, earning $160 million, per analyst Rhys Elliott.

Veteran Bruce Straley apologized to Santa Monica Studio for calling God of War Laufey an example of AAA stagnation.

The cyberpunk bartending sim hit a million wishlists ahead of its September 29 release.

From September 18 to 21, contracts give double XP and rewards, plus a 6th Anniversary Charm via two hours of Twitch viewing.

A documentary covers the making of CONTROL Resonant, its most ambitious project, with tunable difficulty.

A roughly 192 GB leak exposed scrapped GTA V Liberty City DLC, cut dialogue, unreleased missions and an early GTA VI map.

A 200 GB leak of source code and work files includes early GTA 6 map drafts, cancelled Trevor DLC assets and scrapped mission plans.

Alpha 4.10.1 adds 14 contracts for three weeks of rebuilding Orison after the Nine Tails attack, plus themed armor and weapons.

Sold a million copies in a week on a $40M budget, per Bloomberg, with a 160-person team and no crunch.

A massive third-anniversary update starts a new chapter on October 20 with upgraded graphics, realistic destruction and reworked arenas.

The retro beat 'em up is out now with Rick, Daryl, Michonne and Negan across 12 levels.

Devs showed a Revenant build combining Warfare and Spirit masteries with the Deathward Beam.

Launches October 13 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S for $39.99, with no pre-orders and a roughly 20-hour campaign.

The anime roguelike launches September 22 on Steam, following a burned-out worker in a mysterious tower world.

Studio head Albert Zhiltsov said the game won't be cheap due to large-scale development debts, targeting paying adults aged 18 to 75.

Players avoid the blue team in 3x33 battles because it keeps losing; studio head John Brammer acknowledged the imbalance.

Season 2 content cut from the early access launch could arrive in as little as three weeks, per studio head Joe Brammer.

A major balance update reworks all classes and nerfs Golden Toughness alongside the free Depths of the Damned update.

Adds a Replay Mode for main story quests from versions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3; the update drops September 30 with Xiang and Suo Ming.

The preview broadcast detailed the Prism's Illusion, Heart's Illumination update, with broadcast codes now live.

A Monkey King Destiny Man resin figure is available as a decorative item.

A light-hearted sim about breaking a curse on anime-boys through jobs, stat points, dates and gifts.

A post-apocalyptic turn-based vehicular combat game with accurate physics and battles of up to 20 vehicles.

A mod adds Georgian language localization, described only as ქართული.

An alien force mines a Kuiper Belt dwarf planet while transnational groups coordinate Earth's response.

Arena Breakout: Infinite climbed 18 spots, RuneScape: Dragonwilds is the #8 top seller, and TBH: Task Bar Hero has 75,124 online.