Iron Man and Storm get Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls-inspired costumes in Marvel Rivals on Thursday, Oct 29, at 9pm CT (7pm PT). The art has Iron Man in red-and-gold armor and Storm with glowing eyes and lightning already crackling. ⚡

GTA 6 is the cover star of Edge #430, with a 16-page report built on exclusive Rockstar interviews and new screenshots. The issue goes on sale Thursday, Oct 29, and GamesRadar says the full feature goes up free online that day. Time to squint at every new pixel 👀

Tifa's piano is back in Final Fantasy VII Revelation 🎹 The minigame returns with "new enhancements," Square Enix says, with a closer look at young Tifa and her music, and you play beloved FF7 melodies. It launches Apr 8, 2027, with early access Apr 7 for Premium editions.

VALORANT's newest Agent, Hush, arrives today with Patch 13.09, and Riot trimmed Clove's speed boost in the same update. 🪄 Hush is a telekinetic Duelist from Guangdong. Riot's patch notes say she can pick up weapons and, on attack, the Spike, and use switches from extra range. 💥 Her kit: Displacement pulls players to a point and concusses them if they hit a surface or another player, and it resets every two kills. Flashbulb is a flash you can redirect mid-air, Flow is a dash and hover, and her ult, Suspension, levitates everyone in the area. 🌸 Clove's Pick-me-up speed bonus drops from 15% to 10%. Killing Clove after Not Dead Yet now gives the killer an ult point and a signature refresh. 🔫 The Warden (2,900 credits) gets smoother early recoil. The 2nd bullet error goes from .25 to .2, and the 3rd from .6 to .5. ⚠️ Riot says Hush's Performance Score "may be a bit bumpy in the first few days." Source: Riot Games, Patch Notes 13.09

Life is Strange studio Don't Nod plans to cut nearly all of its non-managerial jobs and lean on outsourcing for its last game, according to the French game workers union STJV (Reported). 👥 STJV says the planned layoffs include 18 of 22 programmers, 6 of 6 animators, 8 of 10 environment artists, 4 of 8 game designers and 3 of 5 QA testers (Reported). 🎮 It says the planned organization is unsuited to finishing the studio's last project in development, codenamed P14, and that management is betting on outsourcing (Reported). ⚖️ Don't Nod's own Oct 20 statement says a Paris commercial court opened a safeguard procedure on Oct 19, a form of court protection. It had €9.9 million in cash on June 30 and flagged significant uncertainty about continuing past Jan 31, 2027. 📉 In the first half of 2026, its revenue fell 14% to €6.1 million and its net loss was €7.1 million, with Aphelion sales below forecasts. 🗓️ STJV says employee representatives give their opinion Nov 3, then the regional labor agency has 21 days to rule. If it approves, layoff letters could go out Nov 25 (Reported). Source: STJV, via Rock Paper Shotgun

Warhorse's website statement now says the attack involved unauthorized access to company systems and company data. CEO Martin Frývaldský calls it "a serious incident for Warhorse Studios and everyone affected." It hasn't said what was taken or whether player data is involved.

The Daily Echo, Tue Oct 27 ☀️ 🎮 Sucker Punch, the studio behind Ghost of Yōtei, is laying off 24 people, according to an ex-employee who spoke to Aftermath (Reported). A leadership email quoted by Aftermath cites "challenges in the market" and says more details come next week. Sony said Ghost of Yōtei passed 3.3 million copies in its first 32 days. 🔫 Auroch Digital, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2, has opened a redundancy consultation affecting around a quarter of its roles, per its statement as reported by Gematsu (Reported). Boltgun 2 launched Oct 14, and the studio says support for it and Warhammer Survivors will continue. 235 people were playing Boltgun 2 on Steam at 6:37am CT. 📱 Xbox Game Pass is coming to a U.S. phone plan for the first time. Starting in November, eligible T-Mobile T-Mix customers can pick Game Pass Ultimate or Premium as a plan benefit. T-Mix plans start at $55, $75 and $95 a month for one line with AutoPay. 🗡️ Arkane Lyon gets one more month. Microsoft told PC Gamer it extended the consultation period "by one additional month" while it explores options, including finding a partner to support the studio through "the development work still ahead," which PC Gamer ties to Marvel's Blade. Le Monde had reported a Nov 13 deadline, and VGC says the extension moves it to mid-December (Reported). 🍄 Super Mario Odyssey turns 9 today. It launched on Oct 27, 2017, and at 30.80 million units it is the fifth best-selling Switch game on Nintendo's list as of June 30, 2026.

ARC Raiders Update 2.3 landed this morning with the Soul's Offering player project and the new Noxious Set. Embark says weekly fixes stop after today and go back to every three weeks, with store updates still weekly. 39,735 players were on Steam at 7:30am CT.

Cyberpunk 2077's free 2.5 update just landed on Nintendo Switch 2 🎮 CD PROJEKT RED announced it this morning. Everyone else got it on Oct 22, and the patch notes had promised Switch 2 would follow.

Warhorse Studios, the Prague studio behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance, says it has been hit by a cyberattack. In a statement posted this morning, it says it's working with cybersecurity specialists to understand the full extent. It hasn't said when it happened or what was hit.

Helldivers 2's recent Steam reviews have dropped to Mostly Negative: 39% of 9,333 reviews from the last 30 days are positive (Official, Steam). Arrowhead swapped GameGuard for Easy Anti-Cheat on Oct 20 (Official), and it has broken popular mods (Reported, TheGamer).

Capcom's first-half results are in, and PRAGMATA has passed 2.7 million copies while Onimusha: Way of the Sword has passed 1.7 million (Official). 📈 The total: Capcom sold 36.86 million game units from April to September, up from 23.85 million a year earlier, and its Digital Contents (games) operating profit rose 66.7% (Official). 🤖 The new IP: PRAGMATA, which launched in April, is past 2.7 million. Capcom's June 30 list had it at 2.50 million (Official). ⚔️ The comeback: Onimusha: Way of the Sword, out since Sept 4, is past 1.7 million, and the Onimusha series is now at 11 million (Official). 🧟 The catalog: Resident Evil Requiem is past 8 million and Devil May Cry 5 is past 14 million (Official). 💻 The split: 92.4% of Capcom's unit sales were digital, with PC digital at 57.1% (Official). Source: Capcom

Final Fantasy XIV's Evercold expansion adds a new NPC race, new creatures and new gear (Official). The official art shows a cat-like character in overalls, a huge creature above the clouds and 8 outfits. More comes at the Tokyo Fan Festival keynote on Friday, Oct 30, at 9pm CT.

The Daily Echo, Sun Oct 25 ☀️ 🏭 Factorio 2.1 is stable. Wube's Friday Facts (Oct 23, Official) landed two years after Space Age, with quality-of-life fixes and space logistics. PC Gamer reports Wube calls it the last major update. 13,825 people were playing on Steam at 12:55am CT. 🃏 The FBI and Santa Ana police are on the PSA card theft. PSA (Official) says 6,451 graded items were stolen from a FedEx truck on Oct 13, and it has now published the full list, deactivated the certs and refunded grading fees. TheGamer counts 2,978 Pokémon and 898 One Piece (Reported). 🎮 Today is the last full day of Steam Next Fest, which ends Monday at 12:00pm CT (Official). Polygon reports Valve's most-played demos include Worst Class Ever, Fart Together and Frostrail, and Funcore Games says Worst Class Ever has passed 300,000 players (Reported). 🗡️ Knightmare is getting a free, officially licensed point-and-click game on PC in 2027. VGC reports it brings back the original cast, including Hugo Myatt as Treguard, with hand-drawn art and "no use of AI whatsoever" (Reported). 🏀 NBA Live Mobile shuts down Tuesday, Oct 27. EA's service updates page lists it as NBA Mobile 26 (Official), and GameRant reports it is the last EA basketball game with live servers.

Wuthering Waves is giving players 10 free pulls for logging in, through Nov 11 (Official). Log in on 1 day for Radiant Tide x5 and Premium Tuner x100, and on 3 days total for another Radiant Tide x5 and Crystal Solvent x5. The game had 9,299 Steam players at 11:20pm CT.

Modern Warfare 4's Oct 24 update fixes a DMZ bug where a party leader could pull teammates out of a match and get their Active Duty Operators marked MIA, per Infinity Ward (Official). It also fixes the vanishing Exfil helicopter and too-far bomb defuses in Search and Destroy.

Halloween week check-in: Dead by Daylight has 48,280 players on Steam right now, nearly four times Phasmophobia's 12,532 (Official, Steam data, as of 6:55pm CT). Lethal Company is at 3,811.

Both of Commander Shepard's voice actors are now backing #SaveMassEffect, and the petition is fewer than 4,000 signatures short of its 150,000 goal. 🎙️ Mark Meer, the voice of male Shepard: "I like it too. Hold the line." (Official) 🎙️ Jennifer Hale, the voice of female Shepard: "my space brother is wise" (Official) 📈 The petition has 146,334 signatures as of 4:52pm CT, up from about 120,000 this morning. 🏢 It asks EA to fund the next Mass Effect with another team or license the IP, after EA announced Oct 21 that BioWare is closing. 👍 Meer's post and Hale's first post each have more than 11,000 likes. Source: Change.org

PAYDAY 2's h3h3 Character Pack is getting hammered on Steam: 18% of its 204 reviews from the last 30 days are positive, against 38% of 1,381 all-time (Official, Steam data as of 4:25pm CT). The pack added Ethan and Hila Klein as heisters in 2017.

A second giant GTA 6 mural is going up in Los Angeles, on the Wilshire Professional Building, per GTA 6 Countdown (Reported). Only the top band is painted so far: a purple sky, birds and part of the logo. The first LA wall was finished Oct 16. GTA 6 launches Nov 19 (Official).