GOG had five things to talk about today, Xbox unveiled a new XP division with two leadership changes to go with it, and the trailer feed ran hot again with thirteen new ones out of PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo. A couple of hardware deals are still worth a look too.
Deals and sales
RX 9060 XT 8 GB graphics card down to $400
The RX 9060 XT 8 GB has dropped to $400, its lowest price in the past month. PC Gamer points out it's still above MSRP, but less so than most other graphics cards right now, which says more about the state of the GPU market than the deal itself.
Source: PC Gamer
OLED gaming monitor deal still live at $270
An OLED gaming monitor deal from Prime Day is somehow still running, now down to $270. PC Gamer calls it the best OLED monitor deal of the whole sale, and reckons they haven't seen better for the price.
Source: PC Gamer
News
Dead of Darkness is out now on GOG
Dead of Darkness, an action adventure horror game, landed on GOG today. It's set in 1985 England, where private investigator Miles Windham follows a lead on his daughter's death to Velvet Island, only to find the locals turning strangely hostile toward him. A sequel, Dead of Darkness 2, is already up to wishlist on the same page.
Source: GOG
Distant Worlds 2 gets its second expansion, Shadows Rising
Distant Worlds 2's second major expansion, Shadows Rising, is out now on GOG. It drops you into a galaxy broken by a Cataclysm: hyperspace travel is dangerous, planets lie shattered, and a new threat called the Hive is loose in the wreckage.
Source: GOG
Take Notes brings logic puzzles to GOG
Take Notes, an adventure puzzle game from SoonIN DEV, is now live on GOG at $6.99, 30% off at launch. It's built around logic puzzles that lean on observation and problem solving rather than reflexes.
Source: GOG
Project Afterfall is a Thea spin-off set a thousand years later
GOG has put up a coming soon page for Project Afterfall, a turn-based strategy survival RPG. It's a spin-off of Thea: The Awakening and Thea 2: The Shattering, set a thousand years later in a retro-futuristic city steeped in Slavic folklore, with character creation, NPC recruiting and card based tactical combat.
Source: GOG
Cthulhu Mysteries: Veins of Arkham heads to GOG
Cthulhu Mysteries: Veins of Arkham, a horror point and click, is coming soon to GOG. You play a detective working a string of mysterious deaths in Arkham, searching locations and piecing together evidence with hidden object and investigation mechanics mixed in.
Source: GOG
Xbox unveils XP, a new division built around its franchises
Xbox has launched XP, a new division meant to grow its franchises outside of games themselves: film and TV, merchandise, live events and partnerships. It's led by new president Kayleen Walters, who spent 13 years at Lucasfilm and helped grow Minecraft past 425 million units sold. Xbox's Matthew Ball says games stay "at the center of these franchises," with XP acting as a partner to the studios rather than replacing them.
Source: Xbox Wire
Two leadership changes come with the new XP division
Alongside XP, Xbox named Maria Angelidou-Smith as the new CEO of Mojang and Minecraft, starting October 19. She's coming off roles at Meta, where she ran Facebook Groups for 1.8 billion monthly users, plus stints at Reddit and Personio. Xbox says it wanted someone technical who still understands Minecraft's community first.
Source: Xbox Wire
Monster Hunter Stories 3 heads to Xbox PC on November 18
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is coming to Xbox on PC on November 18, with Xbox Play Anywhere support carrying saves and achievements between Xbox Series X|S, Windows 11 and compatible handhelds. The turn based RPG is already out on console, and a free trial, with progress that carries over, lands October 22-25 alongside the series' 10th anniversary.
Source: Xbox Wire
Indie Selects for October goes heavy on horror
Xbox's weekly Indie Selects hub has its October picks up, six games themed around exploring strange worlds: Mortal Shell II, Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, Mewgenics, The Sinking City 2, Woodo and Lou's Lagoon. The Sinking City 2, a Lovecraftian survival horror set in a flooded 1929 Arkham, is discounted from $49.99 to $39.99 as part of the spotlight.
Source: Xbox Wire
Trailers
At Fate's End gets a gameplay trailer built around family betrayal
At Fate's End has a new gameplay trailer out, built around the relationship between protagonist Shan and her brother Roman. PlayStation describes it as a game where you fight the people you love, with your skill tree doubling as your family tree. It's coming to PS5 in 2027.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by Xbox (YouTube)
Killing Floor 3 goes full Halloween with a new event
Killing Floor 3's Halloween Horrors: Ghastly Getaway event has arrived, redecorating the player Stronghold for the season and giving every base Zed, plus the Moorcroft boss, new horror movie inspired models.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube)
Forever Ago launches with a road trip through grief
Forever Ago is out now on Xbox Series X|S. It's a single player road trip adventure following Alfred as he travels north after a tragic stroke of fate, taking photos and meeting people along the way.
Source: Xbox (YouTube), also reported by Xbox Wire and PlayStation (YouTube)
Nintendo Switch Sports Resort launches October 22 on Switch 2
Nintendo Switch Sports Resort launches October 22, exclusive to Switch 2, with pre-orders open now. It expands the sports line to 12 activities, including archery and bowling, playable solo or with others.
Source: Nintendo (YouTube)
Hell is Us passes 2 million players with a bestiary update
Hell is Us has passed 2 million players on PS5, just under a year after launch. To mark it, a major update adds 10 new Hollow Walkers to the bestiary, out now.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube)
ARC Raiders' Frozen Trail update is live
ARC Raiders' Frozen Trail update is out now, sending Raiders into the icy Pendola Pass after a new, colossal threat starts tearing through the Rust Belt.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube)
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival is out now
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival has launched on PS5, rated Mature. The launch trailer doesn't give away much beyond that it's out now.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by Nintendo (YouTube)
Gear.Club Unlimited 3 launches, with a first stop in Japan
Gear.Club Unlimited 3 is out now. For the first time the series arrives in Japan, and its story mode takes you between Japan and the French Mediterranean coast chasing down the best drivers for the love of car culture.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube)
Neon Abyss 2 drops into the cybermyth roguelike grind
Neon Abyss 2 is out now, a neon soaked cybermyth roguelike where death comes easy and survival is the real punishment. It's a bullets first dive into a pixel world ruled by gods.
Source: Xbox (YouTube), also reported by PlayStation (YouTube)
BrokenLore: Don't Play traps a hikikomori in his own game
BrokenLore: Don't Play is a first person psychological horror game following Hideo, a hikikomori obsessed with games and the need to be seen. After he gets a mysterious experimental console, the line between the game he's playing and reality starts to blur, across five increasingly disturbing levels.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube)
Faaast Penguin kicks off Season 13 with FPX: Badlands
Faaast Penguin, a free to play 40 player survival race, has started Season 13: FPX Badlands. It's set in a wasteland of dust and fire, with players stomping rivals, chaining attacks and cutting shortcuts to the finish line.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube)
Signal Veil brings classic survival horror to PS5
Signal Veil is a classic style survival horror game coming to PS5. After inheriting her mother's old phone, Aki starts seeing supernatural phenomena no one else can, as her school's buried past of false memories and silence starts to surface.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube)
Cyclops joins Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on November 2
Cyclops is joining Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on November 2, bringing Optic Blasts and the Phoenix's cosmic flame to the roster. He builds Solar Shards to channel the Phoenix's power, balancing raw strength against the risk of destruction.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by PlayStation Blog
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