Twenty-three stories made Friday's cut: Capcom's confirmed a data breach, Once Human's headed out to sea with a new free expansion, and ten launch trailers rounded out the day. Here's the lot, each one linked back to where it came from.
Deals and sales
Black Friday controller deals are starting to roll in
Black Friday's rolling around again, and PC Gamer reckons controller peripherals could turn up some of the better deals of the sale. Worth a look if you've been eyeing off a new pad for the silly season.
Source: PC Gamer
News
Once Human's Isles of Abyss expansion lands on PS5
Once Human's biggest free expansion yet, Isles of Abyss, landed on PS5 October 22. It turns the survival game's whole ocean into the stage: you build a customisable ship as a mobile base and head into five new ocean regions, each with its own threats like fog, tides and storms. There's a kaiju-sized boss waiting down there too, called The Sunken Lord. It's free to anyone already in the game.
Source: PlayStation Blog
PlayStation's September download charts: Wolverine and FC 27 up top
PlayStation's rounded up September's top downloads. Marvel's Wolverine topped the US and Canada PS5 charts with EA Sports FC 27 right behind it, and the two swapped places in Europe. Red Dead Redemption 2 held the top PS4 spot in the US. On the free-to-play side, Call of Duty: Warzone led the US chart with Once Human and Fortnite close behind, while Aniimo topped Europe's.
Source: PlayStation Blog
How Lara Croft's new look came together for Legacy of Atlantis
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is out February 12, 2027 on PS5, built by Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog with Amazon Game Studios backing it. PlayStation Blog went through how the team rebuilt Lara for the job: hair made from individual strands instead of solid polygon chunks, subsurface scattering on her skin, and thousands of facial expressions from custom blend shapes. For one outfit they had a tailor make the real thing, then scanned it onto a mannequin. The team says they kept her intelligence, fearlessness and thrill-seeking spirit through all of it.
Source: PlayStation Blog
Cyberpunk 2077's free Edgerunners 2 update is live
Cyberpunk 2077's free Edgerunners 2 update went live October 22, tying in with the anime's second season on Netflix. The big new mechanic is dual wielding: pistols or revolvers in both hands at once. There's a new quest built around Weak Kingsley from the anime, a batch of new cosmetics and hairstyles, a new in-game radio station, and mod.io support for browsing community mods straight from the game. Cyberpunk 2077 also now supports Xbox Play Anywhere, so one purchase covers both Xbox and PC with saves carrying over.
Source: Xbox Wire
Xbox Insiders can test Cloud Playtime, a pay-as-you-go cloud gaming option
XBOX Insiders without a Game Pass subscription can now test Cloud Playtime, a way to buy cloud gaming hours outright instead of subscribing. The preview pricing is 10 hours for $3.99, 25 hours for $7.99 or 50 hours for $11.99, and the hours don't expire until you use them. It's rolling out more broadly in November, and the existing ad-supported free cloud gaming option isn't going anywhere.
Source: Xbox Wire
Point-and-click adventure Dimhaven - The Lost Source is out now
Dimhaven - The Lost Source, a new point-and-click puzzle adventure from SoonIN DEV, is out now on GOG. It's set on a remote, abandoned island, once a tourist spot, now shrouded in mist after some mysterious events. It's launched with a 20% discount, and there's a soundtrack up for sale alongside it.
Source: GOG
Stellaris: Willpower is up for pre-order on GOG
Stellaris: Willpower, the strategy game's newest expansion, is up for pre-order on GOG now. It adds Ideologies, letting your empire's founding Ethics evolve into something with real sway over the rest of the galaxy. GOG's listing it for release later in 2026.
Source: GOG
Thirty years of Lara Croft, as told by the person who wrote the book on her
Xbox Wire marked thirty years since Lara Croft's 1996 debut from Core Design in Derby, England, with a look back from Meagan Marie. She's the Director of Brand Creative at Crystal Dynamics, wrote 20 Years of Tomb Raider, and was the first journalist to reveal the 2013 reboot. She points to the original six-person dev team's work, and says what's stayed constant across every era since is Lara's curiosity, sense of wonder and physical prowess. The anniversary lines up with Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, due February 12, 2027, built on Unreal Engine 5.
Source: Xbox Wire
Nine indie horror games PlayStation reckons are worth a look this Halloween
PlayStation's spooky season picks cover a fair spread: the slot-machine roguelite CloverPit, co-op exploration horror Escape the Backrooms, the cosy monster-building game Fangtopia, zombie-town sim Graveyard Keeper 2, folk-horror Hunter's Moon, ghost-hunting co-op Phasmophobia, narrative co-op Reanimal, detective horror Silver Pines and the clay-animated adventure The Midnight Walk.
Source: PlayStation Blog
Hands-on with Stranger Than Heaven, RGG Studio's next game
PlayStation Blog went hands-on with Stranger Than Heaven, the next game from RGG Studio, the team behind Like a Dragon, with producer Hiroyuki Sakamoto at the helm. It follows Makoto Daito across fifty years of his life. Combat splits control of his left and right limbs across the shoulder buttons and triggers, with weapons ranging from quick one-handers to two-handed sledgehammers. There's a music business side too: collect "Inspiration" sounds around the city, arrange them into tracks, then run live shows juggling cast, staging and lighting against the cost of putting it on. It's out January 15, 2027 on PS5.
Source: PlayStation Blog
Capcom warns of a data breach affecting over 11 million accounts
Capcom's revealed a data breach affecting more than 11 million Capcom ID accounts, the login needed to play online in games like Street Fighter 6. The publisher says it first noticed suspicious activity around the service on October 19. Capcom's warning account holders to watch out for phishing emails using the stolen details.
Source: Rock Paper Shotgun
Terrinoth: Heroes of Descent brings the Descent board game to PC
Terrinoth: Heroes of Descent is out now on GOG, the first PC adaptation of the Descent board game series. It's a standalone prequel to Descent: Legends of the Dark, with its own original story rather than a straight port of the board game. You lead a company of adventurers through dungeons against an occult enemy, and it's launched with a 20% discount.
Source: GOG
Trailers
Cotton Reboot! High Tension! is out now
Cotton Reboot! High Tension! is out now digitally, BEEP's cute and chaotic shoot 'em up, published by Clear River Games.
Source: PlayStation on YouTube
No More Room in Hell 2 gets its first free update
No More Room in Hell 2 just got its first free update, Camp Blood. It adds a new map, the 80s slasher-inspired Ruby Lake, plus more rewards for players further into the zombie co-op shooter.
Source: PlayStation on YouTube
Halls of Torment's Lost Archives DLC is out on Xbox
Halls of Torment's new DLC, The Lost Archives, is out now on Xbox.
Source: Xbox on YouTube
Crossout Remastered brings a graphics overhaul
Crossout's been remastered with a graphics overhaul: reworked lighting, landscapes, effects, dynamic water and shadows. The update also brings an updated Clan Wars mode, UI improvements and a Halloween event.
Source: PlayStation on YouTube
Moadra, a dark sci-fi Metroidvania, is out now
Moadra, a dark sci-fi Metroidvania following Lieutenant Moadra Meras on the forgotten planet Protea VI, is out now on Xbox Series X|S.
Source: Xbox on YouTube
Back to the Dawn returns with new voice acting
Back to the Dawn, the escape RPG set in a maximum-security animal prison, is out on PS5 with new subtitles and Japanese and Chinese voice acting.
Source: PlayStation on YouTube
Hail to the Rainbow just released on Xbox
Hail to the Rainbow, a first-person story adventure mixing horror and shooter elements, just released on Xbox.
Source: Xbox on YouTube
The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother gets a release date
The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother, the first console game based on the popular series, releases March 18, 2027 on PS5. It's a new story put together with the series' own author, and pre-orders are open now.
Source: PlayStation on YouTube
Once Human's Isles of Abyss, in motion
This is the launch trailer for Once Human's Isles of Abyss expansion, which we covered above.
Source: Xbox on YouTube
A demo for Let It Die: Inferno is out now
A demo for Let It Die: Inferno is out now on PS5, with more content than the earlier version and the usual Hell Gate PvE loop.
Source: PlayStation on YouTube
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