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Watch: Nintendo Indie World Showcase October 2026 - Live!
Indiedeed. Ah yes, just when you thought October couldn't get any busier! Nintendo's next Indie World Showcase is right around the corner, promising 15 minutes of news and announcements on all those incredible indies heading to Switch 1 and 2. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
"Taking several years with several thousand people… It's almost impossible" – PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi on the current state of gaming
Middlesbrough is probably the last place we expected to meet Ken Kutaragi, widely known as the father of the PlayStation. He admits he hadn't heard of the northern UK town before he was invited here to give a talk at the second Game Republic New Horizons event on October 15. Read more
Hot Wax sets fire to the Tetris playbook with slow-burn puzzle mechanics and a dollop of eldritch menace
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been conscious of an eerie background humming and hissing. For a while I thought it was just tinnitus, brought on by one too many listens of Control's Ashtray Maze OST, but then I realised that it was actually RPS regular quasiotter whispering in my ear about Hot Wax, which launches on Steam this week after a spell of Itch.io exclusivity. It's the new arcade puzzler from PUNKCAKE Délicieux, otherwise known for inflicting shotguns on chess and forcing the alphabet to wear trousers in the name of archaeology, somehow. Hot Wax is actually quite straightforward by PUNKCAKE standards. It's Tetris, but all the blocks are candles, and rather than filling a line on the grid to clear blocks, you have to plant unpredictably dropped flames on wicks to slowly sizzle the mass away. Relatively straightforward, yes, but fiddly in practice. Did I mention that you're doing all this in a temple, under the eye of a "not unfriendly" eldritch god? Read more
As Skydance merges with Warner Bros. and Paramount, the company offers voluntary redundancy and mandates return to the office
Skydance - the newly formed corporate megazord combining Warner Bros and Paramount - has issued a full five-day return-to-office mandate to employees, and offered voluntary buyouts as the merging of the companies begins. Read more
Dwayne Johnson gets snapped up by a hippo and falls in love with Jack Black in new trailer for final Jumanji movie
It's the end of the world in the new Jumanji: Open World trailer
GTA 6 actors get advice from Grand Theft Auto veterans: "Listen to Rockstar" and "get ready"
"They're going to lead you in the right direction"
Final Fantasy Resonance and Clair Obscur success points to Square Enix making a mainline turn-based JRPG, analyst says
"Square Enix has left a significant chunk of JRPG players behind" by focusing on action RPGs, he suggests
‘Silent Hill’ remake confirmed for release next year
Gabrielle Fritz and Jade Matthew have reportedly been cast in the psychological horror The post ‘Silent Hill’ remake confirmed for release next year appeared first on NME .
"Morale Has Been Terrible" - EA Workers Criticise Publisher's Cost-Cutting After Latest Layoffs
The mass effect of mass affects. Last week, legendary RPG studio BioWare announced that it was shutting up shop as part of EA's latest round of layoffs . It was one of many studios hit by cuts from the company on the same day, which supposedly wiped out around 400 jobs. One week on, and several current and former EA employees have anonymously spoken to Vertical Slice about their time at the publisher. Unsurprisingly, they paint a rather bleak picture of what it's like behind closed doors in 2026. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
'An Important Landmark' - The Forgotten Nintendo Warehouse That Launched the NES Has Been Found
"It’s still standing and looks nearly identical". The Nintendo Entertainment System is an iconic piece of gaming history that set its parent company up for global success at a time when the situation in North America's future was anything but assured. The 1983 video game crash had dented retail and consumer confidence in console gaming, and Nintendo took a big risk trying to resurrect that sector of the market. While its Famicom system had become phenomenally successful in Japan, there was no guarantee it could do the same on the other side of the Pacific. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Valve has ‘a significant number’ working on Steam’s visibility dilemma but says it won’t gatekeep games made with AI
Developers have complained that Steam Next Fest was full of 'AI slop' games
New SupaBoy SNES Handheld Colours Are Out Now On Amazon
🤝 Like our website? Support us as an independent publisher by tipping , joining our paid community or checking out our accessories brand GAMENOOK ! The SupaBoy has had a refresh, and it's looking better than ever. Hyperkin's portable SNES handheld has been around for a long time
Most horror board games are Scooby Doo-level scary, Nemesis can bring pure terror to your Halloween
Spooks abound in the world of Halloween board games, but Nemesis is on another level entirely.
GTA 6 file size revealed at 210GB, but SSD upgrades aren't the answer if you're already running out of space
GTA 6's 210GB file size could topple your PS5's internal storage, but with the prices of SSDs these days I'd recommend checking out external hard drives instead.
"We basically rewrote the entire State of Decay game": Undead Labs spent years trying to make State of Decay 3 into a full-blown zombie apocalypse MMO
State of Decay 3 was announced with a snazzy cinematic trailer all the way back in 2020 . The open-world zombie game was due to move to colder climes, where you would face undead deer and survive the frigid elements. We've since learned that the teaser bore very little resemblance to what was actually being worked on , and was pushed out the door to plump up a Microsoft showcase. However, what the teaser also didn't reveal was that Undead Labs' ideas for the game were much larger in scope than the two survival games that came before. For several years they were trying to make State of Decay 3 into an MMO that captured the scale of a global zombie apocalypse. Read more
New Clayface fan theory might explain Matt Hagen's erratic behavior at the end of the DCU movie
A wild Clayface fan theory might explain Matt Hagen's obsessive behavior
All Anime Ball Duels codes (October 2026) and how to redeem them for free spins
Anime Ball Duels codes gift coins to use at the in-game gacha machines and free Wheel of Fortune spins
COD MW4 Multiplayer: Best meta HAN 86 build
The best meta attachments for the HAN 86 assault rifle in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
Phantom Blade Zero will already be "well past" 1 million copies sold, analyst says
"It'll sell a lot of copies this year in a crowded market"
The Rings of Power season 3 will introduce a departure from Tolkien's work: an "orc with an arc"
Marnûkh is a defector from Sauron's army, but can we trust him?
Here's the Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown release time for your region
Set sail in the sprawling RPG's first full-fledged DLC.
Arduview Review: The World's First Fully Transparent Handheld With A See-through Screen
🤝 Like our website? Support us as an independent publisher by tipping , joining our paid community or checking out our accessories brand GAMENOOK ! I've seen handhelds with crystal cases, and I've seen handhelds with clear PCBs, but I've never had the chance to hold
1994 PC Engine CD Classic The Legend of Xanadu Receives New Fan-Translation
Xanadu! Xaaahaanadu! Some delightful news for classic RPG fans: Falcom's PC Engine CD release of The Legend of Xanadu has received a brand-new fan-translation patch, courtesy of homebrewer "Elmer" and interpreter "SamIam". The patch is now available to download from GitLab . Originally released for the PC Engine Super CD-ROM 2 in 1994, The Legend of Xanadu (Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu) is the eighth title in the epic fantasy series Dragon Slayer , launched in 1984 with a series of games for Japanese home computers. Read the full article on timeextension.com
"We need to understand what the need is here" - Arc Raiders studio still undecided about the future of PvE despite a seemingly successful test
Arc Raiders recently ended its first-ever test for a dedicated PvE mode , following months of player requests. While feedback has generally been favourable, developer Embark has gone quiet about whether the mode will return as a permanent addition. Read more