Crunchyroll's landed on PlayStation in three new Southeast Asian markets, Housemarque's gone deep on the odd recordings behind Saros's sound design, and GOG's had a big day with five new releases. Here's the rest, each one linked back to where it came from.
News
Crunchyroll lands on PlayStation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
Crunchyroll is now live on PS5 and PS4 in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, through the PlayStation Media Hub. The Mega Fan plan gets you ad-free streaming, offline downloads, four simultaneous streams and the Crunchyroll Game Vault, a pack of anime-themed mobile games. Pricing is IDR 49,000 in Indonesia, MYR 14.90 in Malaysia and THB 119 in Thailand. The library runs to hundreds of anime titles, including Black Clover Season 2 and Overgeared.
Source: PlayStation Blog
Stygian: Outer Gods is out of early access on GOG
Stygian: Outer Gods has left early access on GOG. It's an action horror game with RPG elements, set in a hostile world where you're unravelling a thousand-year-old mystery while trying to keep your sanity and face down the Outer Gods. GOG's also selling a soundtrack, an artbook and a Heretic's Arsenal Pack alongside it, plus a Deluxe Edition. The base game's on a 20% discount at $27.95 USD.
Source: GOG
How Housemarque built the audio for Saros's world of Carcosa
PlayStation Studios has posted a deep dive on the sound design behind Saros, built on the audio legacy of Returnal under what sound supervisor Loic Couthier calls "Refinement, not Reinvention". Some of the source recordings are odd: a didgeridoo became the basis for the Yellow King's voice and the wider Corruption sound palette, enemy drones were pulled from processed floppy disk recordings, and the ocean ambience came from recordings of prepared poultry and walnuts. Cosmic enemies blend Mongolian throat singing with shakuhachi, and the final mix was done at Abbey Road Studios across 3D Audio and Dolby Atmos. PlayStation's Accessibility Team helped build in separate controls for dialogue clarity, sound effects, and combat versus exploration music.
Source: PlayStation Blog
Ecstatica and Ecstatica II are back on GOG
Both Ecstatica games are now on GOG, rebuilt by SNEG to run on modern hardware. The original is a survival horror adventure set in the cursed village of Tirich, built entirely from geometric shapes rather than textured polygons, where you're exploring, fighting or dodging creatures and solving puzzles to lift the curse. Ecstatica II has you playing a prince returning to a kingdom wrecked by demons, casting spells and fighting your way toward restoring the Elder Sign to free the sorceress Ecstatica. GOG's also got the soundtracks and 8K pre-rendered backgrounds up as extras.
Source: GOG
Olga - Episode 1 is out on GOG
Olga - Episode 1 has launched on GOG from developer SoonIN DEV. It's a short, episodic first-person walking simulator: Olga's parents leave for what looks like the opportunity of a lifetime, and she's left with her grandparents in the isolated mountain village of Belovodica while the story unfolds piece by piece. Future episodes are expected to keep building on it.
Source: GOG
Dragon Ruins II: Aftermath is out on GOG
Dragon Ruins II: Aftermath, an arcade fantasy RPG from SoonIN DEV, is now on GOG. It's set a hundred years after the first game's heroes killed the ancient dragon: Queen Elisaria has since died, the royal family's spent decades infighting, and Prince Horatio V has taken the throne over a weakened kingdom that's turned into mercenary territory. GOG has the standalone game plus a soundtrack and series bundles.
Source: GOG
A solo dev built a zombie shop simulator without ever playing one
The Walking Trade is out now on Xbox Series X|S and PC, made solo by Adam Carmichael at Microwave Games. You run a store in a zombie apocalypse: stock shelves, set prices and serve survivors, then grab a melee weapon or a gun when the zombies raid the place. Carmichael started building it in October 2024 after a layoff and just before his first child was born, working from tycoon games like RollerCoaster Tycoon and The Sims rather than other survival games. Your first staff member is a survivor named Robin, after his son, and players on YouTube and Twitch have made a point of keeping him alive through the whole playthrough.
Source: Xbox Wire
Dark Messiah's Community Edition is heading to Steam this year
The 20-year-old orc-kicking RPG Dark Messiah is getting a Community Edition on Steam later this year, adding co-op, content cut from the original, and maps built specifically for console. It's a fan and modder project, done with backing from Ubisoft and Valve.
Source: PC Gamer
Emberville's early access launch is delayed to January
Emberville was meant to enter early access on 27 October but it's been pushed back more than two months, to 7 January 2027. The developers say the extra time is for "essential improvements" before it reaches players. It's an action-adventure RPG that mixes Stardew Valley-style farming and community building with combat, set in a magical underground dungeon.
Source: GameSpot
Trailers
Farming Simulator 25 adds a South American region in its Beans & Alpacas trailer
Farming Simulator 25's new Beans & Alpacas content adds Catuai, a South American region built around coffee and banana farming, with production chains for coffee capsules, banana milk, tiramisu and cake.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube)
Village in the Shade is out now on PS5
Village in the Shade has launched on PlayStation 5. It's billed as quiet countryside living, as long as you follow the village's rules.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube)
Sunstone of Time gets a release date on PS VR2
Sunstone of Time is a narrative VR escape room game built for room-scale play, where you grab, turn and piece together puzzles to solve. It launches on PS VR2 on 25 November.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube)
ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet launches on Switch 2
ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet is out now on Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch. You join the Straw Hat Crew as a new staff member, helping turn a second branch of the Baratie floating restaurant into the best in the seas.
Source: Nintendo (YouTube)
Scramble Knights Online is live on Xbox Game Pass
Scramble Knights Online, a multiplayer adventure RPG, is out now on Xbox Game Pass. You explore a big online world with friends, clear dungeons, earn loot and head home to upgrade gear before heading back out. Xbox Wire's own piece on the game covers how the team changed its genre partway through development to save the project.
Source: Xbox (YouTube), also reported by Xbox Wire
Marvel Cosmic Invasion's Siege of Castle Doom DLC arrives 10 November
Marvel Cosmic Invasion's second DLC, The Siege of Castle Doom, lands on PS4 and PS5 on 10 November. A Siege Gauge fills as you play, and you're racing to stop Doctor Doom activating the Cosmic Inductor by gathering Battery Cells and completing challenges for defense, damage or tactical upgrades. PlayStation Blog has a separate piece with more gameplay detail.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by PlayStation Blog
Orbitals picks up critic praise on Switch 2
Orbitals is out exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2, an asymmetric two-player co-op game where you play Maki and Omura trying to save a settlement together. The trailer collects what critics have said about it so far.
Source: Nintendo (YouTube)
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