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IssueIssue #51 - 27 September 2026 Stories12 stories

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The Division 2 Survivors extraction test is open for sign-ups, and you can apply without owning the game.
WARDOGS passed 3 million sales while its boss admits launch was a war against cheaters and DDoS attacks.
Warzone will let you hide every crossover skin once Modern Warfare 4 Season 1 lands.
GTA 6 fronts Game Informer on September 29 with 12 new screenshots.
Escape from Tarkov Pays Battle Pass Progress for Lighthouse Firefights
Delta Force's Next Operations Map Mixes Difficulty Tiers in One Raid
Active Matter Cuts Motion-Sickness Effects and Fixes Squad Auto-Fill
Top-Down Co-op Extraction Game No Such Place Enters Early Access October 14
Silent Hill: Townfall Launches to an 81 From Critics and 71 Percent on Steam
Sony Surveys PS5 Owners After the Disc Backlash While Testing $10 Store Credit
PS Portal Update 7.1.7 Caps Charging at 80 Percent by Default
Logitech Reveals the PRO X3 Superstrike Mouse and 14 More Products at G PLAY 2026

Story 01 Extraction shooters Ubisoft

The Division 2 Survivors Opens Extraction Test Sign-Ups, No Copy Required

Ubisoft opened PC registration on September 24 for The Division 2: Survivors, a winter survival expansion it calls a high-stakes extraction shooter. Runs drop you into a frozen Washington, D.C. where weather, time of day, loot, routes, and extraction points change each session, and PvP can be switched on or off. You do not need to own The Division 2 to sign up, and the base game is on a free trial across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox until September 28.

Read full story Source: Ubisoft (ubisoft.com)

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Story 02 Extraction shooters Insider Gaming

Escape from Tarkov Pays Battle Pass Progress for Lighthouse Firefights

Battlestate Games started a new Escape from Tarkov event on September 26 built around Scavs and PMCs (player-controlled mercenaries) fighting over stolen TerraGroup documents. Refreshed daily tasks now pay battle pass documents toward the Kord Breach pass, and Lighthouse gets heavier airdrop traffic along the coast. To get the new tasks you either wait for the daily refresh or use the replace option, which can cost trader reputation.

Read full story Source: Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)

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Story 03 Extraction shooters MMOBomb

Delta Force's Next Operations Map Mixes Difficulty Tiers in One Raid

Team Jade laid out Delta Force's next year in a second-anniversary stream on September 26. The headline for extraction players is Siege: Valkyrie, an Operations map arriving in early 2027 that puts players from different difficulty tiers into the same match inside a city under siege. Detonation, a 5v5 bomb-defusal mode, entered beta on PC and mobile on September 27, and a new Unreal Engine 5 Warfare map follows in November.

Read full story Source: MMOBomb (mmobomb.com)

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Story 04 Extraction shooters Active Matter

Active Matter Cuts Motion-Sickness Effects and Fixes Squad Auto-Fill

Gaijin's Active Matter shipped The Fundamental Protocol update on September 24, nine days after launch. It adds a reward track that unlocks at Monolith Access Level DELTA and lets players spend Merits outside other Harmonization Cycles (the game's rotating reward events). It also removes view shake during extraction, strips the distortion ripple under extraction portals, halves the post-explosion double vision, adds a camera sway option, and fixes squad auto-fill.

Read full story Source: Active Matter (activematter.game)

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Story 05 FPS DualShockers

WARDOGS Hits 3 Million Sales as Its CEO Admits Launch Was a Fight Against Cheaters

BULKHEAD's WARDOGS passed 3 million copies sold on PC in just over two weeks of Steam early access, the studio confirmed on September 26. CEO Joe Brammer said the team spent launch fighting cheaters and DDoS attacks (floods of traffic that knock servers offline), and that most staff needed time off afterwards. PS5 and Xbox versions are set for 2028, and he ruled out monetisation beyond cosmetics until the 1.0 launch.

Read full story Source: DualShockers (dualshockers.com)

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Story 06 FPS Call of Duty blog

Warzone Will Let You Hide Every Crossover Skin in Modern Warfare 4 Season 1

Activision confirmed on September 24 that Warzone gets an Operator Skin toggle with Modern Warfare 4's Season 1, which lands shortly after the game's October 23 launch. When switched on, every operator or skin from another Call of Duty title shows as a standard Modern Warfare 4 operator for enemies, squadmates, and lobby members. It is off by default, it only changes what you see, and your own equipped skin stays as picked.

Read full story Source: Call of Duty blog (callofduty.com)

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Story 07 Coming soon No Such Place on Steam

Top-Down Co-op Extraction Game No Such Place Enters Early Access October 14

ChillyRoom's Crit Team announced on September 24 that No Such Place launches in Steam early access on October 14. It is a top-down PvE co-op extraction game for up to four players: you loot relics, samples, and documents across roughly ten dimensional zones, then reach an extraction point before the timer runs out. Early access opens three areas.

Read full story Source: No Such Place on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

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Story 08 Coming soon Push Square

GTA 6 Fronts Game Informer on September 29 With 12 New Screenshots

Game Informer confirmed on September 25 that GTA 6 is the cover story of issue 382, which goes live digitally on September 29. The 14-page feature has exclusive interviews with Rockstar Games and a dozen new screenshots, and it covers the weather system, wildlife, and how Rockstar researched Florida to build Leonida. GTA 6 is still dated for November 19 on PS5.

Read full story Source: Push Square (pushsquare.com)

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Story 09 Just released gagadget

Silent Hill: Townfall Launches to an 81 From Critics and 71 Percent on Steam

Konami's Silent Hill: Townfall launched on September 24 on PS5, Steam, and the Epic Games Store at $49.99. Critics sit around 81 to 82 on Metacritic, but Steam user reviews landed at 71 percent positive. Players point at repetitive stealth sections, optimisation issues, and a price that feels high next to the Silent Hill 2 remake.

Read full story Source: gagadget (gagadget.com)

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Story 10 Console specifics Push Square

Sony Surveys PS5 Owners After the Disc Backlash While Testing $10 Store Credit

A new PS5 user survey surfaced on September 25, and physical-media fans are using its open text boxes to push back on Sony's July decision to stop making discs in 2028. Some players reported the link closing quickly. Sony is also testing Wallet Credit, an unannounced scheme that adds $10 of PlayStation Store credit after buying select new games such as The Blood of Dawnwalker, first spotted in the US and now showing up in the UK and Germany.

Read full story Source: Push Square (pushsquare.com)

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Story 11 Hardware Push Square

PS Portal Update 7.1.7 Caps Charging at 80 Percent by Default

Sony pushed PlayStation Portal firmware 7.1.7 on September 25. After updating, the handheld charges to 80 percent by default to slow long-term battery wear, and you can raise the cap in Settings, System, Battery. Sony warns that going above 80 percent may reduce battery health. The update also adds PlayStation Link and stability fixes.

Read full story Source: Push Square (pushsquare.com)

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Story 12 Hardware PC Guide

Logitech Reveals the PRO X3 Superstrike Mouse and 14 More Products at G PLAY 2026

Logitech G showed 15 products at its G PLAY 2026 event on September 24 and 25. The headliner for competitive players is the PRO X3 Superstrike mouse, which uses new HITS technology that Logitech says cuts the delay between a click and the in-game action. The lineup also includes the PRO X3 Lightspeed headset, the PRO X2 Rapid keyboard with adjustable key sensitivity, and G HUB Replay software. Prices and dates were not in launch coverage.

Read full story Source: PC Guide (pcguide.com)

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