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Square Enix Continues To Impress With Final Fantasy VII Revelation, As TGS 2026 Demo Stuns With Intense Cutscenes And Combat

Tokyo Game Show 2026 has officially begun, giving attendees the chance to try out games launching on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 in the coming months. One of the stars of the show is Final Fantasy VII Revelation, which Square Enix is letting the public try out for the first time with a brand new demo, which is being received extremely well, judging from the first impressions of attendees Amidst the sea of off-screen footage circulating online, the footage captured by @aitaikimochi is the most impressive, as it is direct capture footage that provides a […]

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Hideo Kojima Thanks Xbox For Backing His Vision, As Physint Casts It Star Bill Skarsgård Amid PlayStation 2026 Fallout

As the confirmation that PlayStation would be backing away from publishing Kojima Productions' PHYSINT was fresh, not many expected to see an update on the project that will be published by Xbox. However, Hideo Kojima surprised everyone by making a brief appearance during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show showcase earlier today to provide an update on both the action-espionage game and the horror game OD. OD Will Test The Thresholds Of Fear After recounting a visit to Redmond earlier this year and a discussion with Xbox head Asha Sharma about the future of games and digital entertainment, the legendary game designer delivered a brief […]

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Unreal Engine 5 Switch For The Witcher 4 Wasn’t About Engine Limitations, But A Bigger Studio Identity Shift

CD Projekt Red created the incredible The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (whose remaster with path tracing support is launching later this month) using their own REDengine, which also powers Cyberpunk 2077, another open-world RPG which launched in a rough state, but eventually got turned around with multiple updates and the Phantom Liberty expansion. Future games from the studio, such as The Witcher 4, will be powered by Unreal Engine 5, and the switch wasn't motivated by any limitation of the studio's proprietary engine, but by the studio's desire to not be a tech company, but one that wants to tell […]

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Sony’s Project Canis PS6 Handheld Leaks Unveil 540p Base Rendering, Yet PSSR 3.0 Nearly Matches PS5 Pro Power

PC hardware website GameGPU has shared a leak about the PS6 handheld, known by its codename Project Canis and referred to as "PSP 3" in the article. The article recaps the handheld console's specs: a custom 3-nanometer AMD Canis processor featuring six Zen 6 cores (including four standard Zen 6c cores and two power-saving Zen 6 LP cores), paired with 24 GB of shared LPDDR5X memory using a 192-bit bus, and strict power limits between 15 W and 25 W. The graphics unit is equipped with 16 Compute Units built on the newer RDNA 5 architecture, which supports Dual-Issue FP32 instructions. When used […]

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Game of Thrones: War for Westeros Puts “Rule of Cool” Ahead of Balance, and Wants You Rewriting the Show’s Ending

Melbourne-based developer PlaySide Studios sat down with us at gamescom 2026 to walk through Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, fresh off the game's first gameplay reveal at Opening Night Live and a second showcase that officially added two more heroes to the roster (Gregor 'The Mountain' Clegane and Arya Stark). The pitch is that of a classic real-time strategy game where you build armies, claim territory and fight for the Iron Throne, playing as House Stark, House Lannister, House Targaryen, or the White Walkers. What PlaySide is chasing, in their own words, is the battles people picture while watching […]

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Hellraiser: Revival Blends Resident Evil Puzzles With Brutal Combat, But Genesis Configuration Steals The Show

At last year's gamescom, I had the chance to try out Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, the first proper game based on the horror franchise to see the light of day. As the demo started from the very beginning of the game, I did not manage to test out the game's combat, but what I did experience looked promising enough: the first close encounter with the Cenobites, Pinhead included, the cultists who originally owned the Genesis Configuration Sunny opened before getting kidnapped by the otherworldly beings, and main character Aiden's escape from their clutches felt every bit Hellraiser as it should […]

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NVIDIA DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Fuels UNCANNY Remastering Engine, And Both Classic and Modern Games Suddenly Look Like New Titles

While many are opposed to NVIDIA DLSS 5 neural rendering due to its uneven results in certain games (although some devs like Kingdom Come: Deliverance series director Daniel Vávra are consistently praising it), it's undeniable that it is set to bring significant changes to the gaming industry, as even AMD is reportedly working on its own neural rendering tech. Although it is still in its early days, NVIDIA DLSS 5 is already being put to some very interesting uses, as it powers, along with other tech, a new real-time neural remastering engine called UNCANNY, which could bring significant improvements not only […]

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WARDOGS Hit Two Million Units Sold in Five Days, as Bulkhead’s CEO Says He Expects His Team to Crunch

Bulkhead's new game WARDOGS, a 100-player tactical first-person shooter, needed to sell 400K copies to keep the lights on. It's done five times that figure in under a week. According to the British studio (previously known for the World War II shooter Battalion 1944) and publisher Team 17, WARDOGS has sold over 2 million copies in less than 5 days after entering Steam Early Access on September 10. The game peaked at 428,666 concurrent players on Steam on September 13, per SteamDB. Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer claimed that the studio knew there was excitement, but nothing had prepared them for seeing that […]

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Cronos: Lazarus Won’t Reinvent Survival Horror, Yet Its Teleportation and Decoy Combo Turns Every Fight Into a Frantic Scramble

Cronos: The New Dawn was among the best gaming surprises of 2025. Following the release of the successful Silent Hill 2 remake, Bloober Team proved they have everything it takes to create a compelling, original survival horror experience that can deliver both great atmosphere and gameplay. Roughly one year after the launch of the base game, the Polish development studio doubles down on its original survival-horror game with the Cronos: Lazarus expansion, which proved, in my gamescom 2026 test, to be an even more fun experience, thanks to its action-heavy gameplay. The session Bloober Team invited me to during this […]

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Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Review – An All-Out 150-Hour+ Assault with Only a Few Tactical Missteps

While the game doesn't feature Mario, Link, or other big shots, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave has been positioned as one of Nintendo's biggest Switch 2 games of 2026. As I said in my hands-on preview, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is pushing the ambition bar hard, drawing inspiration from the entire series to date, serving up Fire Emblem: Three Houses-style management sim elements, dungeon crawling, and, of course, plenty of grid-based tactical battles. Do the lofty ambitions of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave pay off? Or does the game strategically overextend itself? March onward for the answer. In order to even begin […]

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WoW: Forever Effectively Replaces the Sequel Fans Wanted, as Blizzard Admits It Won’t Risk Throwing Away Its “Incredible” 25-Year-Old Engine

When Blizzard unveiled World of Warcraft: Forever at BlizzCon 2026 as the third permanent version of WoW, the implication was that the true sequel some fans have longed for is nowhere to be seen in the studio's plans. Indeed, Kris Zierhut, World of Warcraft: Forever's Principal Designer at Blizzard, clarified to IGN exactly why there are no current thoughts to make WoW 2: I think one of the things that's singularly great about WoW is we have this game and this world and this design that has been continuously developed for the last 25 years. And we keep making it […]

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Square Enix Has Yet To Release Final Fantasy Resonance, But Modder Fixed One Of Its Biggest Issues 1 Month Ahead

With Final Fantasy Resonance, Square Enix is bringing back the popular JRPG franchise to its roots, with a gorgeous HD-2D presentation and turn-based combat. Although this new rendition of the mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is setting up to be one of the best JRPGs of the year on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2, it's not without issues. While this didn't really bother me during my gamescom 2026 demo session, playing the public demo released earlier this month highlighted how vague the skill descriptions are. Instead of hoping Square Enix would fix the issue, one […]

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PlayStation 5 System Software Update 14.0 Is Now Live, Yet Only PlayStation 5 Pro Users Will See A Real Improvement

With the PlayStation 5 generation close to hitting its sixth year, chances of new features getting added to the system withy system software upgrades are slim. Still, Sony is continuing to make small improvements to both the base system and the PlayStation 5 Pro, the latest of them having come today with system software update 14.0. The biggest improvement introduced by this new update is a PlayStation 5 Pro exclusive feature. As announced last month, the new update makes the Enhance PSSR Image Quality a default setting. "When you update the system software, this setting automatically turns on. When you […]

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Leaker Says AMD Has Its Own DLSS 5-Like Neural Rendering Coming with RDNA 5, Explains How He’d Rather It Worked

According to renowned and well-respected AMD leaker Kepler_L2, the upcoming RDNA 5 GPU architecture will include its own version of DLSS 5-like Neural Rendering. In a series of posts on the Anandtech forum, Kepler_L2 wrote: Neural rendering is anything that replaces traditional shaders with neural networks. AMD will have their own version of "Neural Lighting" like DLSS 5 next-gen. When asked whether it would be limited to RDNA 5, the leaker claimed it's probably going to be the case: Probably, this stuff is pretty heavy. In the final post on the subject so far, Kepler_L2 shared a list of ways […]

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Trails In the Sky 2nd Chapter Review – Falcom Delivers A Faithful Remake Of One Of Its Best Role-Playing Games

Although the series is not a household name for JRPGs as much as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest are, The Legend of Heroes: Trails series has managed to get quite a fandom in the West. With a story spanning more than 10 titles, I always felt that Falcom's franchise was the true successor to Konami's Suikoden series, not shying away from delivering a riskier interconnected narrative. Though it has stumbled at times, no one can deny that there's no series like it. Much of the franchise's success relies on how it was nicely set up by the Trails in the Sky games, whose […]

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Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember Fixes The Combat That Held Back The Original, As Deflection No Longer Dominates Encounters

Japanese development studio Team NINJA has been long known for the Ninja Gaiden series, but it also successfully branched into a genre all of its own known as Masocore, where the team's incredible action game design is combined with the level design and challenge level typically seen in Soulslike games. Following the first two entries in the Nioh series and Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, the developer attempted creating a more action-oriented Masocore game with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, set in China during the late Han Dynasty. Although I did like the game, I couldn't help but feel that […]

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The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Hands-On + Q&A: We (Nearly) Cooked a Human-Protomolecule Hybrid Monster With a 3,000 °C Sunlight Mirror

At gamescom 2026, I had my third pre-release slice of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn. During last year's gamescom, I watched as developers walked through the Pinkwater Station demo; that same level was subsequently available to play ahead of the public Closed Beta test, and that's when I first went hands-on with the upcoming third-person action RPG by Owlcat Games. Gamescom 2026's appointment was a mix: I played a new level while Creative Director Alexander Mishulin (whom I had previously interviewed shortly after the game's announcement) explained what I was seeing on screen and later answered my questions. This meaty new […]

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FromSoftware’s Elden Ring Gets Surprise Overhaul 4 Years After Launch, As Mod Ports Over Highly Requested Nightreign Mobility

Compared to the first entries in the Dark Souls series (whose slow, deliberate pace has heavily inspired the upcoming Guns of Eschaton), Elden Ring is a much faster game. While it doesn't hit the extremes Bloodborne does, the open-world game developed by FromSoftware accommodates the open-world design of The Lands Between with a more agile character who can also ride the steed Torrent to traverse through the world quickly. This enhanced mobility was the basis for the one seen in Elden Ring: Nightreign, which many have long wished to see in the 2022 game. Well over 4 years since release, […]

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007 First Light Finally Gets the Path Tracing Mode Delayed at Launch, Demanding NVIDIA RTX 50-Series Power to Shine

IO Interactive has now released a major PC visual update for 007 First Light, adding full path tracing and NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction to the excellent James Bond origin story. As you may remember, the game was supposed to include these features when it launched back in May, but they were delayed until now, presumably for optimization reasons. The update is available alongside the game's existing DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support, giving GeForce RTX owners a significantly more demanding but visually superior way to experience the action/adventure game. The headline feature is the introduction […]

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Sword Sage Awakening Is Still Rough Around the Edges, Yet Its Weapon Durability and Defensive Mechanics Show Promise

During this year's gamescom, I had the opportunity to try out all sorts of games, ranging from new entries in established series like Final Fantasy VII Revelation, Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, remakes like Persona 4 Revival and brand new IPs, such as Guns of Eschaton and Stupid Never Dies. Checking out these new IPs often proves to be more interesting than playing sequels that don't take risks, as developers often take more creative risks with these games. Sword Panda Games' Sword Sage: Awakening was among the new IPs I checked out during this year's event. Set for […]

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New Game Pass Rumor Says Price Drops to $19.99, But Microsoft Allegedly Guts the Feature That Made It Worth Subscribing

ResetEra moderator Slayven posted a rather shocking rumor earlier today, suggesting that Microsoft is about to radically overhaul how its Game Pass subscription model will work going forward. First and foremost, there will be a small price reduction, but there are two big caveats: new titles won't launch on day one anymore, and cloud gaming will be completely separated into its own add-on bundle. Here's Slayven's message in full: One service with Ads, one without: the Ads tier will cost $12.99 a month. Game Pass without Ads will cost $19.99 per month or $239.99 annually. They are reducing the price […]

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Square Enix Suggests More Could Come After Final Fantasy VII Revelation, Yet Final Fantasy XVII Remains A Complete Mystery

Square Enix is clearly going all in with Final Fantasy VII Revelation, and for good reason. The third and final entry in the remake series is set to redefine JRPGs with its open-world approach, and the combat system and character customization refinements, and the incredible combat design of Cid and Vincent are going to make the upcoming PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 game one that will be really fun to play. The enduring popularity of Cloud, Barret, Tifa, Aerith, and Sephiroth is what led to the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII and the remake series, […]

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Valve’s Steam Frame Is Out Now, with First Reviews Praising Comfort and Streaming While Slamming $1,059 Price and Battery Life

The Steam Frame, Valve's first standalone headset, finally launched yesterday, with the Steam company billing it as more than just a mere successor to 2019's Valve Index. The Steam Frame runs SteamOS on ARM hardware, streams from your PC over a dedicated wireless link, and plays a chunk of your existing library without a PC at all. The first reviews are in, and they're strikingly consistent: this is the most comfortable headset anyone has worn, the streaming is excellent, the price is painful, and the battery is a serious problem. Let's start with the pricing, though. Pricing and What's in […]

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PUBG DED.NET Was Built to Reach People PUBG Never Could, and Its “Useful” AI Placeholder Art Is Being Fully Replaced

Krafton surprised just about everyone at gamescom 2026's Opening Night Live with PUBG: DED.NET, an announcement that was on no one's bingo card for the show. Developed by the US-based studio PUBG Madison, it's a multiplayer first-person shooter that trades the franchise's signature Battle Royale formula for roguelite progression across runs. The setting is a neon-soaked, distinctly strange version of 1990s Cascadia in the Pacific Northwest, with locations such as Cryptid Cove, Cult Church, Summit, Ward, and the Cascadian Wilderness. Krafton's own press release mentions dead-eyed fiberglass cryptids roaming the map, which points to a PvPvE layer sitting on top […]

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Nintendo Switch Emulation Takes A Leap Forward, As Suyu 0.0.4’s Static Recompilation Brings “Native” PC Performance

Nintendo Switch emulation often allowed PC players to enjoy games released on the system at higher resolutions and framerates than on the system itself, but the Japanese company soon put an end to the widespread distribution of emulators such as Yuzu and Ryujinx. This didn't prevent other developers from working on other emulators, such as suyu, a fork of Yuzu which continued to provide PC players access to games that will never release on the platform. Today, work on suyu also comes to an end, but the emulator has literally gone away with a bang by introducing an advanced feature […]

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Daniel Vávra Maintains That NVIDIA DLSS 5 Is the Future, as It Allows KCD2 to Reach the Intended Aesthetics

Czech veteran developer Daniel Vávra, known for his work on the Mafia and Kingdom Come: Deliverance franchises, has never been afraid to step into controversies. Back in 2018, just after the first Kingdom Come: Deliverance launched, Vávra was accused of having pro-Gamergate views, which caused some journalists and users to boycott the game. After an article on the subject was published on the now-defunct website PC PowerPlay, the developer called out the author for creating a clickbait article that failed to seek his comments. More recently, though, Vávra has been an outspoken supporter of NVIDIA's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering technology. […]

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FromSoftware’s Unforgiving Formula Shines In Guns of Eschaton, As It’s The Soulslike That Brings Dark Souls To Mind The Most

With so many games coming out throughout any given year, there are some that inevitably fly under the radar, especially new IPs that don't have the push of an established franchise to prop them up. Thankfully, events like gamescom are the perfect opportunity to discover these gems, and, as last year's show put One More Game's Valor Mortis on my radar, this year's gave me the opportunity to play one of the few games that truly seems to deserve the Soulslike tag. In many ways, Eschatology Entertainment's Guns of Eschaton is one of the few games that truly captures what […]

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Diablo V Promises More Classes Than Any Previous Diablo Game, as Blizzard Brings Back Procedural Overworlds and Diablo II Runewords

Blizzard's most surprising reveal at BlizzCon 2026 was undoubtedly the announcement of Diablo V, of which we had had no rumors prior to the Opening Ceremony. Even more interesting is the fact that Diablo V won't be about stopping the titular Lord of Terror, but about what happens after he's already taken Sanctuary. That premise had fans excited about this twist, and the ‘Forging the Next Era’ panel offered them plenty of details about the project due in Spring 2029. The panel featured Blizzard president Johanna Faries as the host, while Senior Game Director Joe Shely, Senior Production Director Tiffany […]

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FromSoftware and Bluepoint’s Demon’s Souls Remake Emulation Progress Skyrockets In 24 Hours, as KyTyPS5 Emulator Hits 30 FPS Milestone

FromSoftware is among the most beloved Japanese game development studios, but I'd wager the development studio headed by the uncompromising Hidetaka Miyazaki will soon become even more loved in the PC gaming community thanks to a rather interesting fact, as its games originally developed by the studio have kick-started proper PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 emulation. Although not in the same state as Bloodborne emulation, the Demon's Souls remake emulation progress has skyrocketed in just 24 hours, finally hitting a major milestone. As reported on Reddit, the Bluepoint Games remake of the action RPG originally created by FromSoftware has gone […]

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Square Enix Left Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy Broken On PC For 12 Years, But Fix Finally Solves High FPS Issues

During the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 generation, Japanese developers and publishers released tons of console ports on Steam, but PC players were often left with subpar releases that never got fixed to take advantage of the more powerful hardware available to gamers. Square Enix is far from the only offender in this regard, but its ports of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy still required fixes from the community to become better PC ports. And with a new fix, the three forgotten games have now reached a state that's as close as it gets to proper, modern ports. Over the weekend, KartinX released […]

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Square Enix Continues To Impress With Final Fantasy VII Revelation, As TGS 2026 Demo Stuns With Intense Cutscenes And Combat

Hideo Kojima Thanks Xbox For Backing His Vision, As Physint Casts It Star Bill Skarsgård Amid PlayStation 2026 Fallout

Unreal Engine 5 Switch For The Witcher 4 Wasn’t About Engine Limitations, But A Bigger Studio Identity Shift

Sony’s Project Canis PS6 Handheld Leaks Unveil 540p Base Rendering, Yet PSSR 3.0 Nearly Matches PS5 Pro Power

Game of Thrones: War for Westeros Puts “Rule of Cool” Ahead of Balance, and Wants You Rewriting the Show’s Ending

Hellraiser: Revival Blends Resident Evil Puzzles With Brutal Combat, But Genesis Configuration Steals The Show

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Fuels UNCANNY Remastering Engine, And Both Classic and Modern Games Suddenly Look Like New Titles

WARDOGS Hit Two Million Units Sold in Five Days, as Bulkhead’s CEO Says He Expects His Team to Crunch

Cronos: Lazarus Won’t Reinvent Survival Horror, Yet Its Teleportation and Decoy Combo Turns Every Fight Into a Frantic Scramble

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Review – An All-Out 150-Hour+ Assault with Only a Few Tactical Missteps

WoW: Forever Effectively Replaces the Sequel Fans Wanted, as Blizzard Admits It Won’t Risk Throwing Away Its “Incredible” 25-Year-Old Engine

Square Enix Has Yet To Release Final Fantasy Resonance, But Modder Fixed One Of Its Biggest Issues 1 Month Ahead

PlayStation 5 System Software Update 14.0 Is Now Live, Yet Only PlayStation 5 Pro Users Will See A Real Improvement

Leaker Says AMD Has Its Own DLSS 5-Like Neural Rendering Coming with RDNA 5, Explains How He’d Rather It Worked

Trails In the Sky 2nd Chapter Review – Falcom Delivers A Faithful Remake Of One Of Its Best Role-Playing Games

Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember Fixes The Combat That Held Back The Original, As Deflection No Longer Dominates Encounters

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Hands-On + Q&A: We (Nearly) Cooked a Human-Protomolecule Hybrid Monster With a 3,000 °C Sunlight Mirror

FromSoftware’s Elden Ring Gets Surprise Overhaul 4 Years After Launch, As Mod Ports Over Highly Requested Nightreign Mobility

007 First Light Finally Gets the Path Tracing Mode Delayed at Launch, Demanding NVIDIA RTX 50-Series Power to Shine

Sword Sage Awakening Is Still Rough Around the Edges, Yet Its Weapon Durability and Defensive Mechanics Show Promise

New Game Pass Rumor Says Price Drops to $19.99, But Microsoft Allegedly Guts the Feature That Made It Worth Subscribing

Square Enix Suggests More Could Come After Final Fantasy VII Revelation, Yet Final Fantasy XVII Remains A Complete Mystery

Valve’s Steam Frame Is Out Now, with First Reviews Praising Comfort and Streaming While Slamming $1,059 Price and Battery Life

PUBG DED.NET Was Built to Reach People PUBG Never Could, and Its “Useful” AI Placeholder Art Is Being Fully Replaced

Nintendo Switch Emulation Takes A Leap Forward, As Suyu 0.0.4’s Static Recompilation Brings “Native” PC Performance

Daniel Vávra Maintains That NVIDIA DLSS 5 Is the Future, as It Allows KCD2 to Reach the Intended Aesthetics

FromSoftware’s Unforgiving Formula Shines In Guns of Eschaton, As It’s The Soulslike That Brings Dark Souls To Mind The Most

Diablo V Promises More Classes Than Any Previous Diablo Game, as Blizzard Brings Back Procedural Overworlds and Diablo II Runewords

FromSoftware and Bluepoint’s Demon’s Souls Remake Emulation Progress Skyrockets In 24 Hours, as KyTyPS5 Emulator Hits 30 FPS Milestone

Square Enix Left Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy Broken On PC For 12 Years, But Fix Finally Solves High FPS Issues

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