Steam's cut prices on three games today, GOG's had another four releases, and the trailer feed from PlayStation, Xbox and GameTrailers didn't let up. Here's the lot, each one linked back to where it came from.
Deals and sales
On sale on Steam
Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced: 50% off, A$22.47 (was A$44.95), until Friday 6 November. It's Rockstar's next-generation upgrade of the open-world crime game, with improved graphics, faster loading, 3D audio and access to Grand Theft Auto Online.
VOID/BREAKER: 40% off, A$24.89 (was A$41.49), until Thursday 19 November. It's a fast paced bullet hell roguelite FPS where you fight AI-driven machines, mod your weapons and tear up the environment to break free of an endless cycle.
Lightyear Frontier: 20% off, A$35.16 (was A$43.95), until Friday 13 November. It's an open-world mech farming game for one to four players, settling a homestead, building farms and crafting machines to support frontier colonies.
News
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition is out on GOG
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition is now available on GOG. It's a survival strategy base builder from SoonIN DEV where you lead the last survivors of the apocalypse, assigning roles, crafting tools and managing resources. You build up your town, level up your citizens and fortify the place against hordes of zombies.
Source: GOG
Heart Abyss is also out on GOG
Heart Abyss, an action-adventure platformer, has landed on GOG too. You play Leon, half-human and half-fox, whose ancestors once saved the human Empire from an invasion of Yokai demons. He's just escaped the cage he was locked in by humans, and GOG says the combat is built to match: sharp and bloodthirsty.
Source: GOG
The End of the Sun built its world from real Polish museum pieces
The End of the Sun is a first-person adventure set in Slavic folklore, where you play an Ashter, a fire mage investigating an abandoned village. Its developers partnered with Polish ethnographic museums, including the Open-Air Museum in Szymbark, scanning hundreds of real historical objects and buildings with photogrammetry and building quests around them rather than just using them as scenery. Xbox Wire says around 80% of the objects you find in the game came from those scans. It launched on Xbox Series X|S on 4 November at US$19.99.
Source: Xbox Wire
Halls of Torment's new Challenge Shrine changes how boss fights work
Halls of Torment's second expansion, The Lost Archives, is now on Xbox, adding a haunted library setting and two new heroes: the Inquisitor, a tank who marks and executes enemies, and the Blood Apostle, who trades her own health for power. A free update alongside it adds the Shrine of Torment, which sets a fixed weekly challenge and lets players tune their own kill goals for quicker runs, replacing the old fixed-timer boss spawns. There's also a new Scriptor feature tracking stats across all five base halls.
Source: Xbox Wire
Xbox Cloud Gaming previews phone controls and a new Nano Controller mode
Xbox is previewing two new ways to play its Cloud Gaming service. On supported Smart TVs you can now use your phone as a controller, with the controls opening right in the phone's browser and no physical controller needed. In the US, there's also a preview of Cloud Connect for the new Xbox Nano Controller, which uses Wi-Fi to talk straight to the cloud server instead of Bluetooth, aimed at cutting input lag. Both are early previews with limited game and device support while Xbox gathers feedback.
Source: Xbox Wire
November's Indie Selects hub is built around surviving and thriving
Xbox's November Indie Selects hub has six games under a survive-and-thrive theme. Silver Pines is a survival horror mixing Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Gears of War with a detective protagonist, Graveyard Keeper 2 is a dark medieval RPG with zombie recruitment and farming, and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 is a retro-style shooter with branching campaigns. The other three are Colorbound, a puzzle-platformer about a musician reshaping the world with colour, Ratatan, a rhythm roguelike RPG, and Tenebris Somnia, a horror adventure with live-action cutscenes and '70s giallo style. Xbox says a December edition of Indie Selects follows next month.
Source: Xbox Wire
Abashed is the latest GOG release
Abashed is a 2.5D narrative side-scroller, just out on GOG from SoonIN DEV. You play Isaac, a man living with psychosis, who wakes up alone and sets out to find his missing partner, confronting his deepest fears and darkest secrets along the way.
Source: GOG
PlayStation's October download charts: COD and Red Dead lead the pack
PlayStation's looked back at October's download charts. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 led the PS5 charts in both the US and Europe, with BeamNG.drive in the top three in both regions too. On PS4, Red Dead Redemption 2 topped both regions, followed by Batman: Arkham Knight and Gang Beasts. Hard Bullet led the PS VR2 charts, and on free to play, Once Human topped the US and Canada while Fortnite led in Europe.
Source: PlayStation Blog
PC Gamer: WoW Forever's launch was smooth after a rocky beta
PC Gamer says World of Warcraft Forever's launch went smoothly despite the queuing problems the beta had. Its own verdict on the day: "big ups to Blizzard."
Source: PC Gamer
Zelda: Ocarina of Time's remake shows off the Switch 2, GameSpot says
GameSpot reckons the Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time might be the best showcase yet for what the console can do. Since Switch 2 launched last year, Nintendo's leaned on its extra hardware power to build what GameSpot calls the definitive version of the 1998 original, and says it looks noticeably better set side by side with the N64 game.
Source: GameSpot
PCGamesN: WoW Forever's launch day went fine, against the odds
PCGamesN wasn't expecting much from World of Warcraft Forever's launch day, since MMO launches are usually a mess, but says this one went well. Players on Reddit reported short queues with no lag or crashes, and only one early hiccup stopped some players picking their ruleset before Blizzard fixed it. A big pre-launch patch touched every class and improved controller support, and the article notes some players even found the opening areas a bit too empty, since the game spreads players across layers to avoid overcrowding.
Source: PCGamesN
Infinitevania is the week's other new metroidvania on GOG
Infinitevania, a 2D platformer in the metroidvania style, is also now on GOG. It mixes the look of classic retro games with modern, fluid platforming, sending you through different worlds to beat bosses and absorb their powers on the way to destroying the game's Core.
Source: GOG
A free multiplayer mod for Cyberpunk 2077 has a launch date
Open 77, a free mod adding full multiplayer to Cyberpunk 2077, launches on 6 November for anyone who already owns the game. PCGamesN calls it an ambitious project, with roleplay servers, racing and co-op world bosses on top of the core multiplayer, plus a server browser for finding games or hosting your own. Setup instructions and the server browser are up at the mod's own site.
Source: PCGamesN
Trailers
VOID/BREAKER is out now on PlayStation 5
VOID/BREAKER's launch trailer confirms the roguelite FPS is out now on PlayStation 5. It's billed as an adrenaline-fuelled fight to escape the system, with the trailer's own tagline putting it plainly: escape is possible, break the system, break free.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by Xbox (YouTube)
Ghost Haunting is a low-res point-and-click coming to PlayStation
Ghost Haunting has an announcement trailer out, confirming it's coming soon to PlayStation. It's a 2D point-and-click adventure in deliberately low resolution, built around solving puzzles among ghosts and monsters to rescue Gigi's grandmother from the realm of the dead. PlayStation describes it as a story about growing up and death, and how the two connect.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by GameTrailers (YouTube)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Season 1 DMZ trailer drops you into X01
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Season 1 DMZ trailer shows off the new X01 Black Site, a heavily fortified zone patrolled by elite enemies. There are new DMZ Orders to complete, and high-tier loot on offer if you can extract with it.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by GameTrailers (YouTube)
Lords of the Fallen II's combat gets a full overhaul
A new Lords of the Fallen II gameplay trailer shows off its combat overhaul, Steel and Sorcery. It adds mid-combo weapon switching, new quickfire and counterstrike abilities, boss weapons and dedicated magic and ranged stances, plus instant spellcasting and what the trailer calls infinite base ammunition.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by GameTrailers (YouTube)
Anno 117: Pax Romana heads to Egypt in its Dawn of The Delta DLC
Anno 117: Pax Romana's Dawn of The Delta DLC has its launch trailer out now. It takes the city builder to Egypt, where you have to balance Roman rule against traditional Egyptian religion and culture, and leaning too far either way draws consequences from rival factions.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube)
Voxotron is a 30-second, no-brakes racer out now on Steam
Voxotron is out now on Steam, and its launch trailer carries a flashing lights warning for good reason. It's a psychedelic, hyper-speed racer with no speed limit and no brakes, dodging and boosting round a rotating cosmic cylinder where runs last 30 seconds and death is instant. You can chase world records, race ghost replays, or play with up to seven friends.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube)
Age of Wonders 4's Silver Seas expansion adds ocean warfare
Age of Wonders 4's Silver Seas expansion is out now, with a launch trailer to match. It adds expanded ocean gameplay, two new forms and a new Mercantile culture to the strategy game, and comes included in Expansion Pass 4 alongside two more expansions due in 2027.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube), also reported by Xbox Wire
Bolt of Whalington's demo lands ahead of its 2027 release
Bolt of Whalington has a demo out now on Steam ahead of its full PC release in 2027. It's an exploration-first metroidvania where a Siamese cat and his mech explore a floating whale city with rules of its own, hacking the world's logic at mysterious Rule Terminals scattered through it.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube)
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