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Strange Scaffold's Super Slick Revenge Shooter Is Out Now On Switch 2
Beast your eyes. Strange Scaffold — the developer behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown , El Paso, Elsewhere , Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator and more — announced last month that it was bringing its super slick FPS I Am Your Beast to Switch 1 and 2. Well, what do you know, it's available right now! The game launched on the eShop yesterday (20th October), where it can now be found for $19.99 . There's no sign of a listing on the EU storefront at the time of writing, but we're sure it won't be far behind. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
"I want room to make a wrong turn": Following Samson dev's bankruptcy, its founder is considering how AI might factor into new studio plans
Over the weekend, Swedish reports revealed that Samson studio Liquid Swords have gone bankrupt less than a year after releasing their debut crimebrawler. Founder and former Just Cause lead Christofer Sundberg subsequently confirmed that Liquid Swords are headed for closure. However, he was also quick to make clear that he won't be disappearing from game development, announcing plans to form a new studio that he's now offered a bit more insight on. Read more
Warhammer 40K fans have some very specific questions about the Blood Ravens' origins, so I put them to Dawn of War 4's director
Right, let's get one important thing out of the way first: I've played a fair bit more of Dawn of War 4 's main campaign, after my initial impressions of a single mission last year , and I think it is very good . The action is as screen-filling as ever, the Orks are a delight, and the combat director, which sees individual combatants lock onto each other with bespoke animations when groups fight in melee, remains a genuine feat of RTS engineering. I'll have much more to say on that front soon, though I'd like a little more time with it first. Read more
Xbox is reportedly planning three waves of layoffs between now and January
The last batch took place in September at Halo Studios
Dawn of War 4 clearly loves the Warhammer 40K strategy games that came before, but it misses that they loved to reinvent themselves
I may have set my expectations for Dawn of War 4 too high, but it's a series that, to my mind, never retreads the same ground. It's therefore been disappointing to feel, having played it across two its campaigns that this long-awaited sequel may have taken too few risks - or been too reverent of the games that came before. Read more
A 4,000+ Piece Croft Manor Brick Set Has Been Announced For Tomb Raider's 30th Anniversary
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! Fans of the Tomb Raider franchise may know that this year marks the 30th Anniversary, more specifically on 24th October, and with that comes an array of
Xbox’s new console could cost $1800, new report claims
Project Helix is reportedly set to launch in 2028 The post Xbox’s new console could cost $1800, new report claims appeared first on NME .
Feature: After 15 Years Of Coming "Directly To You", Here Are The Best Nintendo Direct Moments Ever
Direct message. That’s right, the humble news delivery machine that is the Nintendo Direct celebrates its 15th birthday on 21st October and to celebrate, we’re chronicling the 15 top moments from their illustrious history. To do so, yours truly has scrubbed through dozens upon dozens of nearly hour-long videos packed full of games, announcements, skits, deep dives, questionable logo reveals, triumphant trailers and lead balloons, before brutally whittling away some treasures until we’re left with moments that were the best of the best. A few things to keep in mind with this list: Read the full article on nintendolife.com
I've played 2 of Dawn of War 4's campaigns, and they're everything I hoped they'd be
We're so back, baby!
Adorable Dr. Mario Inspired Puzzler 'Annalynn MD' Aims to Make the World 'A Little Bit Healthier'
Just what the doctor ordered! It’s been five years since support for the last entry in the Dr. Mario series, the mobile title Dr. Mario World , was shut down. As a result, people have mostly had to revisit older entries for their daily dose of medicine-themed puzzle-solving. Out of the shadows, however, it appears that a new doctor is now ready to take on patients — one that doesn’t have a killer moustache, a penchant for psychedelics, and a famously life-or-death obsession with the monarchy. Read the full article on timeextension.com
It's not just Xbox celebrating 25 years - retro translucent green tech is taking over
This week marks the launch of the Xbox X25 special edition anniversary controller, but plenty of other gadgets are getting in on the action as well.
Hellraiser Revival studio had an ‘unofficial goal’ to be ‘banned, unrated, or restricted’ somewhere in the world
"We'd done our jobs right" if the game pushed the boundaries, its lead writer says
All Lanterns codes (October 2026) and how to redeem them for free Lantern Coins
With the latest Lanterns codes, you can boost your XP to unlock new powers, collect Lanterns Coins, and more
"AI is a technofascist, anti-human and anti-art project", says creator of lefty tech satire Future? No Thanks!, before explaining why he used it anyway
Prominent capital-p Political game developer and left-wing academic Paulo "Molleindustria" Pedercini has revealed that he used generative AI tools for aspects of recent ecosocialist satire Future? No Thanks! . According to Pedercini, "a tiny fraction of its code was written with AI support" towards the end of the project, specifically to assess and fix bugs. The game also uses text-to-speech voice-acting for a couple of characters, generated with ElevenLab software, with Pedercini noting that the characters in question are intended as a spoof of wonky artificial intelligence. He insists that none of the game's art or writing is AI-generated. These insights arrive weeks after the game's Steam release, which was delayed due to Valve's concerns about sexual material. Back then, there was no genAI disclosure on the game's storepage. There is one now . Read more
Riot is finally changing Mel's reflect, but I'm going to miss League of Legends' most busted mechanic
Mel's W, is finally getting a complete overhaul. As League of Legends players everywhere rejoice, I'm actually a little sad it's gone.
Indies and original IP blew up in 2026
Research by Sensor Tower – done at the request of GamesIndustry.biz – shows that indies and original IP made up a much higher proportion of the biggest PC and console games of 2026 when compared with 2025. Read more
Football Manager 27 is launching for free for a limited time, following troubled 26 game
Players will be able to try FM27 for free for 5 days later this month
Even Call of Duty has a parry now and it's kind of brilliant - but do we need it in every game?
I, for my sins, enjoy parry mechanics. I use 'parry slop' lovingly as a shorthand to refer to action games I want to play which feature parrying as a predominant mechanic. I am also a Call of Duty campaign enjoyer, and those games rarely feature any melee combat, let alone something as advanced as parrying. So, to say I was genuinely surprised to see Modern Warfare 4 bring the two together would be an understatement. Read more
Award-Winning Indie Horror 'Mouthwashing' Finally Arrives On Switch This Month
Eye spy. Creepy space horror Mouthwashing became something of an indie sensation when it launched back in 2024. After racking up over 500,000 Steam sales, publisher Critical Reflex announced that a Switch version was in the works and now (a year on from that announcement), we finally have a release date. As revealed in yesterday's Xbox Showcase, Mouthwashing will launch on the Switch eShop on 29th October — yep, as in next week . It's already available to pre-order on the North American storefront , in fact, for $12.99 . We've noticed that the store lists its release date as 10th October, but we're sure that's just a typo (we've reached out to Critical Reflex just to double-check). Read the full article on nintendolife.com
80% of Samsung's data center memory is already sold for 2027, meaning yet another double-digit price increase for RAM expected and more likely to come
Next year isn't looking so hot for sensibly priced hardware upgrades either…
110 million votes later Nurse Harrow has finally made it into Deadlock, with special thanks to a particularly dedicated player who 'cast exactly 1,000 votes for her'
Nurse Harrow voters did, however, prove themselves to be of the most skilled players.
Here's our second wave of Xbox Game Pass games for October 2026
Microsoft has revealed the second batch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass this month, and there are few genuine corkers, including the console debuts of The Séance of Blake Manor and Mouthwashing , and the addition of Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade - which only arrived on Xbox earlier this year. Read more
Crimson Desert DLC features everything from shipbuilding to marriage
Also you can use a turtle as a mount
Subnautica 2 adding its "scariest" region ever in next major update, the developers say
Subnautica 2 has begun its "voyage to Early Access 2.0", developer Unknown Worlds has said, with the revelation of a new update containing the "scariest" region they've ever made for the underwater game. Delightful. Read more