Game News Round-Up

Xbox Partner Preview digital showcase back this week with 25 minutes of games

• Including Like A Dragon and Alan Wake 2 DLC
• 6pm in the UK/10am PT on Thursday 17th October
• Will feature "over a dozen" new trailers across its 25-minute-ish runtime

Leaked trailer for Amazon's Secret Level reveals Arnold Schwarzenegger and Keanu Reeves

Final Fantasy 11 responsible for the birth of Discord, its creator says

• Discord creator Stanislav Vishnevskiy discussed the origins of the platform: he was "obsessed" with Final Fantasy 11 and developed a prototype software to use while playing.

Steam Next Fest is now live, featuring ‘thousands of free demos’

• The digital event is running until October 21st

Mobile game Destiny: Rising announced by NetEase and Bungie

• “Experience top-tier sci-fi shooting action in FPP or TPP as you embark on a new adventure in an alternate Destiny timeline. Play as these unique characters to defend future Earth and reclaim humanity’s future!”
• Free-to-play
• Pre-registration is now open ahead of the launch of its first closed alpha test, which is scheduled to begin on November 1 in the US and Canada.

Tron: Catalyst is a new isometric action game from Bithell Games

• Disney Tron: Catalyst is a story-driven isometric action game coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Series S/X and Nintendo Switch via Devolver Digital’s Big Fan Games publishing label.
• "Coming 2025"

Games Done Quick raises over $45,000 for hurricane relief

PlayStation horror Until Dawn's live-action movie hits cinemas next April

• 25th April 2025

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 shows off formidable new Hierophant Bio-Titan Tyranid in Season 2 trailer

• Coming "very, very soon"

Hamlet film made in GTA Online coming to US & UK cinemas and global streaming services

• Courtesy of UK distributor Tull Stories, the film (Grand Theft Hamlet) will be in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from 6th December 2024.
• That follows its UK premiere at the London Film Festival later this month, and other film festival appearances at Bath Film Festival (21st October), Cambridge Film Festival (24th & 25th October), and Leeds Film Festival (8th & 9th November).

PlayStation The Concert to tour over 200 cities in 2025 and 2026

Games leaving PlayStation+ on 18th November

• GTA: San Andreas - The Definitive Edition
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• The Sims 4 - City Living Expansion Pack
• Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
• Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme vs Maxiboost On
• Superliminal
• Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
• Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series
• Teardown
• Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX
• Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue
• Kingdom Hearts 3
• Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
• Chorus
• What Remains of Edith Finch
• Overcooked 2
• Blasphemous
• Moving Out

New Xbox Game Pass titles for console, PC and Cloud announced

• Arriving:
• South Park: The Fractured but Whole (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 16 on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
• Donut County (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 17 on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
• MechWarrior 5: Clans (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – October 17 on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 25 on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Cloud) – October 25 on Game Pass Ultimate
• Call of Duty: Warzone (Cloud) – October 25 on Game Pass Ultimate
• Ashen (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 29 on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
• Dead Island 2 (PC) – October 31 on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• StarCraft: Remastered (PC) – November 5 on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• StarCraft II: Campaign Collection (PC) – November 5 on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Leaving on October 31st:
• Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Headbangers (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Inkulinati (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Lonely Mountain’s Downhill (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Mineko’s Night Market (Cloud, Console, and PC)

Against the Storm has sold 1.2m copies

• In addition to the milestone, Publisher Hooded Horse also announced that Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic sold over 600,000 units, Norland over 300,000 copies since its EA launch in July, and more

Rare's Craig Duncan to become head of Xbox Game Studios as Alan Hartman retires

• Hartman leaves after a 36-year career that included forming Turn 10 and launching the Forza series
• Duncan has led Rare for the best part of 14 years, overseeing the studio's Kinect titles and the launch of its live service hit Sea of Thieves, which has had more than 40 million players since it launched in 2018.

Riot Games eliminates 32 roles

• Riot Games has confirmed 27 layoffs from its League team, and five further redundancies from its "publishing side."

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero sells 3m copies in 24 hours