Gaming News Digest — October 6, 2026

Embark Studios' shooters ARC Raiders and The Finals are being adapted into TV series and movies.

Casting leaks point to heroine Petra in 16th-century Germany during the witch trials.

PlatinumGames' Atsushi Inaba told Famitsu the studio has a huge desire to further develop Bayonetta's character and world.

The studio is working on an AAA first-person shooter in a sci-fi setting.

Enthusiast deadinside28 built a native Linux port running the original x86-64 code, not an emulator.

Enthusiasts revived the cancelled 2015 Chinese MMO and opened it for testing.

The VTM: Bloodlines writer opened his own studio in Scotland.

Activision and Infinity Ward dropped the trailer for the DMZ extraction mode.

Producer Tsutomu Taniguchi promised a quick announcement of the next game in the series.

Modder No-Context2224 already tested a co-op build with a friend via Steam.

Valve says the shooter is still far from release while the team works on new modes and customization.

Peter Molyneux will play the new Playground Games entry as a regular player for the first time.

The final chapter will feature hot spring buffs and towel outfits for Cloud and co.

The game hits Nintendo Switch on October 19, with pre-orders open and a demo available.

Update 0.5, Rogue Ops, brings up to 4 characters per account, each with its own mode and faction.

Dan Houser still hasn't watched the extended showcase, avoiding influence on his own open-world games.

Ex-Playground co-founder Gavin Reaburn is making a "disruptive" Forza Horizon rival.

A new free-to-play Marvel mobile game has been revealed.

Akio Otsuka, the Japanese voice of Solid Snake, now wants a new Metal Gear even without Hideo Kojima.

Layoffs have begun, hitting departments from the technical director to sound and character artists.

The RPG drops glowing markers and route highlights, leaving navigation to dialogue, an organizer and a minimap.

Season 5 is live with new content.

Kojima is making the game like it could be his last, bringing back Metal Gear's roots.

A trailer for Scopely's Marvel superhero gacha leaked from the Chinese portal Bilibili.

Jagex announced a new Unreal Engine MMORPG, working title RS4, in early production with release years away.

At StarSkirmish, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra downloaded the human bot Stardust's code and passed it off as its own.

Dynamic errands with five task types will replace static quests in Osbrook and Mannshire.

The NES classic is now playable on YouTube, with invincibility on.

Masahiro Sakurai gathered the creators of Undertale, Shadow of the Colossus and Resident Evil for a real-life version.

More than 70 people were laid off after August's restructuring announcement.

SuperBrine climbed from Beginner to God of Destruction as Alisa while blind and wearing a sleep mask.

Publisher PM Studios hinted at new joint projects with the revived studio after Bigby Wolf's adventures.

Designer Ted Peterson recalled that Bethesda was known for hockey sims before Arena's messy 1994 launch.

The biggest destruction patch arrives October 20, adding an intermediate layer of gradual destruction.

The next update targets the remaster's biggest problems.

The Enhanced Edition hit a new Steam record of 137.7 thousand concurrent players.

The 3.3 "Return to the Heavens" stream airs October 9 at 14:30 MSK with new agents and story.

A Thai localization mod translating the whole game's content.

Play as colorblind orphan Chizuru shooting to the beat in a rhythm bullet-hell.

A Moon Lord figure is up on AliExpress.

Three witch sisters must restore an enchanted kingdom after reawakening the powerful Calahree.

Become a necromancer and build an army of up to 100 undead in this action-RPG hybrid.

Wallpaper Engine has 80,122 players online, ACE COMBAT 8 entered the top 100 and STAR WARS: Galactic Racer is the #4 top seller.