Nathan Drake might not be done climbing after all. A new report says Naughty Dog is building a brand-new Uncharted game — not a remake, not a remaster — marking the series’ first original entry in nearly a decade. The report comes from MP1st, and it’s already been picked up and corroborated by outlets including … Read more
South Korea is still the undisputed king of League of Legends on the international stage. On October 2, the Korean national team swept Chinese Taipei 3-0 in the final of the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games, defending the gold medal it first captured when esports became an official medal event at Hangzhou 2023. The final at … Read more
Seven years after Skies Unknown, Bandai Namco’s flagship flight series is back on the runway — and the reviews say it was worth the wait. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve launches today, October 2, 2026, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam, and critics are already calling it the strongest entry … Read more
The best-looking AI upscaling in PlayStation’s arsenal is no longer locked to the PS5 Pro — at least, not entirely. Sony has unveiled Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), a new AI upscaling tier engineered specifically for the standard PlayStation 5, and two games are already patched to use it. Announced Thursday on the PlayStation Blog, … Read more
Fortnitemares 2026: FNAF and Freddy Krueger Hit Fortnite Fortnite is haunted again — and earlier than ever. The v42.30 patch landed on October 1, 2026, kicking off Fortnitemares 2026, the earliest start the annual Halloween event has had in years. For comparison, last year’s edition didn’t begin until October 9, and the 2024 one waited … Read more
The Locust Horde is here early. Gears of War: E-Day has gone live on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and cloud today, October 1, as five-day early access opens for Premium Edition owners. Everyone else — including Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers — gets access when the full launch lands on Tuesday, … Read more
OpenAI is teaming up with Synopsys, the company whose software sits behind a huge share of the world’s chip design, to build an AI model that does chip-design work itself. The model, called GPT-Synopsys, will be trained and tuned specifically for the semiconductor business, the two companies announced Wednesday at a Synopsys investor summit. Chip … Read more
Microsoft’s Xbox chief has gone on the record to quash one of the industry’s loudest rumors: the company is not shopping its gaming division around. In a New York Times profile published Wednesday, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma addressed the speculation head-on with a four-word denial: “Xbox is not for sale.” She followed it with a … Read more
October’s PlayStation Plus Monthly Games are official, and Sony is covering a lot of ground with this trio. Starting Tuesday, October 6, subscribers can claim F1 25, Hunt: Showdown 1896, and Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2, with all three staying available until Monday, November 2. F1 25 headlines the month. The official game of … Read more
Microsoft is giving Game Pass subscribers one more reason to stream in September while quietly running down the clock on unlimited cloud play. In the final wave of September updates to the “Stream Your Own Game” library, Xbox added cloud gaming support for 47 titles — meaning subscribers with a digital copy of any of … Read more
