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PMC bots are expected to appear significantly more often in raids. Escape from Tarkov developers are currently preparing to launch the prestige system in PvE. This system will allow players to reset their progress and level up their “prestige level” to receive various rewards. Battlestate Games head Nikita Buyanov posted several teasers in social media...

Bushiroad has started its Autumn Sale 2026 on Steam and Nintendo Switch, with discounts on four visual novels and card games running through October 8. Game Off What to expect ROAD59 -A Yakuza’s Last Stand- 50% A visual novel about supernatural yakuza, with a cast of 23 characters. Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days 2 30% More...

Players can now master new techniques and parry with their bare hands. In early October, Questline returned to the action RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon to release update 1.30 alongside a free expansion called the Fists of Fury DLC. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon received new armor sets and items, as well...

Digger is many things. It is the first Tom Cruise movie in over a decade not to feature recognizable IP, fighter planes, or both. It is director Alejandro Iñárritu’s biggest swing yet after divisive, high-brow films like Birdman and The Revenant. It is a brutal condemnation of late-stage capitalism. It is also a pretty clever...

Famous franchises will soon return alongside a new wuxia adventure. In early October 2026, Sony traditionally reminded gamers about upcoming releases. This month brings several projects from long-running franchises—Ace Combat, Call of Duty, Castlevania, and Star Wars—alongside Valor Mortis, a new release from the creators of Ghostrunner. The October PlayStation release schedule: October 2 —...

Fans have adapted a popular mod for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered. Not all of the developers’ ideas made it into the release version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. However, fans found work-in-progress materials in the files that helped restore the content. This resulted in the Brothers In Arms project, which includes both...

Directed by Michael Showalter, the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s polarizing novel Verity is out in theaters. The psychological thriller stars Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett. It delivers tension and turns before landing on a final discovery that reframes the entire story. The plot follows struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh, played by Johnson. She...

Romance is present in Star Wars, but it rarely acts as the main focus of George Lucas’ creation. Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) share a love story for the ages, yet most franchise fans explore romance between characters through their own creative work. Fanfiction leads the charge for many a Star...

The Coalition has also explained the reason behind their absence. Gears of War: E-Day launched without several familiar franchise features, including the ability to use enemies as meat shields, chainsaw duels, certain weapon types, private lobbies, and leaderboards. The Coalition explained that the cause was not a lack of interest in these options, but rather...

Some literary classics have managed to beat the unadaptable curse. Frank Herbert’s Dune is a key example, along with Stanisław Lem’s Solaris and Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. “If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed,” said director Stanley Kubrick, a statement that has proven to be true in...