Gaming News Digest — October 18, 2026

Gamera Interactive announced an isometric soulslike RPG set in the final decades of the Roman Republic.

The Blood Pact Halloween event runs until November 3, with Beasts and Demons factions in Wildcard mode on Kings Canyon.

The pinball roguelite shooter launches November 26 on PC via Steam with Russian text support.

The first of three Age of Sigmar episodes is already streaming on Warhammer TV for Warhammer+ subscribers.

Update 1.6 «Sanctuary of Ink» arrived October 15 with a story continuation, a new location and two characters.

The Free Roam open world set in the Eifel region arrives December 9, 2026 in update 0.10.

A toggleable body-shape system lets Karia gain weight from feeding, following a survey of over 38,000 players.

Premium edition owners can play the campaign now, while everyone else waits until October 23.

Evil Empire's game hit a franchise record of 18,261 concurrent Steam players on launch day.

New hero Violet, a painter wielding magical Living Ink, is now live in-game.

Patch 3.2.3 quietly added an interactive cow near Old Tristram's cathedral that grants the Foreshanks of the Bovine gloves.

The first-person psychological horror about a father searching for his daughter in burning Italy arrives in 2027 on PC via Steam.

A new "plaguecore" extraction shooter enters beta soon, with details still scarce.

Fans want reworked combat physics, fewer copy-paste outposts and livelier settlements after the game was confirmed in pre-production.

The PS5 exclusive earned $407M, 3% below Ghost of Tsushima's $418M, despite selling fewer copies at 5.4M versus 7M.

Rockstar released the launch trailer and ramped up Miami marketing a month before release, drawing criticism from officials.

Digital Foundry noticed the new trailer is free of the RAGE engine's long-standing animation micro-stutter.

The city approved GTA 6 street ads from October 15 to December 31, 2026, with Rockstar paying over $3 million.

Version 1.0 adds 24 classes, 6 factions and roughly double the content when it launches in March 2027 on PC and PS5.

A Microsoft Store page briefly appeared, with Aspyr handling the remaster and an official reveal set for October 20.

A new story trailer shows Snoop Dogg as Orpheus, a smuggler bringing Makoto Daito to Kokura in 1915.

Retroware's 2D beat 'em up offers four-player local co-op across seven mutated levels and seven playable characters.

Bulkhead's Joe Brammer admitted Season 2 flopped, removed the Blue Team bonuses and added 24-hour bans for exploiters in patch 0.25.

Bulkhead is considering moving the next season up after the October 15 update let players reach high-end gear almost immediately.

Swaps the in-game rifle for an M16 in Command & Conquer: Renegade; drop the zip contents into the Data folder.

A casual clicker where you raise a waifu's perversion level, with online ranking and clothes removed per level gained.

A first-person post-apocalyptic survival game about scavenging, crafting and building shelter in a ruined American city.

A UVSR TAIGA-1 melee model for Escape From Tarkov.

Deadlock has 124,487 online, Planet Zoo 2 is new in the top 100 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is the #1 top seller.