Games

News: Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve’s reviews have landed ahead of its early October launch, with an 88 average and a “Mighty” rating on OpenCritic putting it among 2026’s best-reviewed games.

News: Aspyr Media is bringing the Nemesis System back with the Middle-earth: Shadow Bundle, packing the definitive versions of Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War onto Nintendo Switch 2 on September 30.

News: Rogue Factor has delayed the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Hell Is Us for a second time, from October 8 to October 27, and is pushing back the game’s first major update so every platform launches together.

News: Nintendo has released an extended clip of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2, giving a closer look at Ganondorf’s reworked introduction ahead of the remake’s November 5 launch.

News: Mojang used Minecraft Live 2026 to reveal The Sift, the game’s first new dimension in over a decade, alongside Minecraft Dungeons II’s September 29 launch, an upcoming Ice Caves biome, and more from the recap.

News: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed Xbox’s ongoing restructuring in a new interview, calling Asha Sharma’s cost-cutting “streamlining” that’s “great to see,” days after Age of Empires studio World’s Edge became the plan’s latest casualty.

News: A federal court has ordered James Williams, known online as “Archbox” and a leading moderator of r/SwitchPirates, to pay Nintendo $4.5 million after he never formally answered the company’s copyright lawsuit.

News: Gears of War: E-Day has gone gold ahead of its October 6 launch. Here’s when preload and early access start in your time zone, what’s in each edition, and the PC specs you’ll need, including a mandatory ray tracing GPU.

News: According to a new Insider Gaming report, Ubisoft Milan spent much of 2023 developing a Legend of Zelda spin-off built around Ganondorf before Nintendo canceled the project, a decision that eventually led its director to found a new independent studio.