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IssueIssue #62 - 8 October 2026 Stories14 stories

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What matters today

ARC Raiders Frozen Trail lands today, and Embark admits it expected the extraction shooter player count to sag first.
Battlefield 6 hits Game Pass on October 13, so casual lobbies are about to fill with fresh recruits.
A Discord bot breach put IPs tied to 28 million accounts in a hacker's hands.
Halo Studios is reportedly building Firefight as its last job before shutting down.
ZERO Sievert Is Rewriting Its Enemy AI So Bandits Flank You as a Squad
Call of Duty League Caster Maven Steps Away After Revealing He Is Dating His Partner's Ex-Wife
Denuvo Wants Discord, Valve, and Reddit to Unmask the Cracker Behind 26 Pirated Games
Forza Horizon 6 Reportedly Misses 2026 on PS5 and Lands January 26
Sony Sells 419 VR Headset Patents to Meta as PS VR2 Support Stays Thin
Respawn Veterans' Studio Gravity Well Lays Off 40+ Before Showing Its First Game
Star Wars Zero Company Studio Brings Furloughed Devs Back After a Strong Launch
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Is Out, and One Reviewer Needed 50 Hours to Finish It
Spiritfarer Studio Delays At Fate's End to 2027 but Drops Its First Steam Demo
Google Launches Playground, a Browser Tool That Turns Text Prompts Into Games

Story 01 Extraction shooters GamesRadar+

ARC Raiders' Frozen Trail Lands Today, and Embark Says It Knew Players Would Leave First

Embark Studios' Frozen Trail update hits ARC Raiders on October 8 with the snowy Pendola Pass map, a grappling hook, and a crashed Emperor ARC to raid. Executive producer Aleksander Grøndal told GamesRadar+ on October 7 that Embark "accepted the fact that we would have less players" when it moved to one big drop roughly every six months. Steam concurrents sit near 43,000, down from close to 500,000 at the November 2025 peak. The game is free on Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation until October 12.

Read full story Source: GamesRadar+ (gamesradar.com)

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Story 02 Extraction shooters ZERO Sievert on Steam (October Update Preview)

ZERO Sievert Is Rewriting Its Enemy AI So Bandits Flank You as a Squad

The team behind ZERO Sievert, the top-down, Tarkov-style extraction shooter, posted an October update preview on Steam on October 7 built from more than 2,000 survey replies. Enemy AI is being rewritten from scratch so enemies move, flank, and push as squads. More guns and proper rabbit footstep audio are also planned. Two requests got a flat no: a collect-all button for ammo containers, and official co-op, which stays reserved for ZERO Sievert 2. No release date was given.

Read full story Source: ZERO Sievert on Steam (October Update Preview) (store.steampowered.com)

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Story 03 Free to try Pure Xbox

Battlefield 6 Joins Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on October 13

Microsoft's mid-October Game Pass wave, announced October 7, adds EA and DICE's Battlefield 6 on October 13 for Ultimate and PC Game Pass members on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and cloud. The same wave brings Valor Mortis and Deep Dish Dungeon on October 13 and Neon Abyss 2 on October 8. It is a subscription addition, so access lasts while the game stays in the catalogue, and no leave date has been announced.

Read full story Source: Pure Xbox (purexbox.com)

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Story 04 FPS Kotaku

Halo Studios Is Reportedly Building Firefight for Campaign Evolved Before It Shuts Down

Halo insider Rebs Gaming reported on October 6 that about 30 Halo Studios staff spared from the recent Xbox layoffs are building one last free update for Halo: Campaign Evolved, with Firefight (a co-op horde mode) and Theater mode on the plan. The report, covered by Kotaku on October 7, says the studio will likely close after Halo Fest in December while Activision builds a separate Halo team. Halo Studios has not confirmed any of it.

Read full story Source: Kotaku (kotaku.com)

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Story 05 FPS Kotaku

Call of Duty League Caster Maven Steps Away After Revealing He Is Dating His Partner's Ex-Wife

Longtime Call of Duty League (CDL) shoutcaster Clint "Maven" Evans said on October 7 that he is leaving the CDL "for the foreseeable future." In a post on X, he confirmed he is now dating Maurisa, the ex-wife of his casting partner Joseph "MerK" DeLuca, and called the relationship "unconventional/taboo." He did not say whether the league asked him to go.

Read full story Source: Kotaku (kotaku.com)

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Story 06 Other Dexerto

Discord Bot Double Counter Breach Exposes IPs Tied to 28 Million Accounts

Double Counter, an anti-alt-account bot used in more than 600,000 Discord servers, said in an October 5 incident report that a hacker copied about 12GB of data in 25 minutes. The data ties to roughly 28 million Discord accounts: usernames, IDs, IP addresses, and city-level locations, with about one million email addresses copied in full. The attacker got in through an old, unpatched server. Dexerto reports Discord paused new bot installs afterward.

Read full story Source: Dexerto (dexerto.com)

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Story 07 Other VGC

Denuvo Wants Discord, Valve, and Reddit to Unmask the Cracker Behind 26 Pirated Games

DRM maker Denuvo has asked a court for permission to subpoena Discord, Valve, and Reddit, VGC reported on October 7, citing TorrentFreak. The target is "voices38", a cracker Denuvo sued last month for stripping its protection from 26 games, including Resident Evil Requiem, Stellar Blade, 007 First Light, and Doom: The Dark Ages. The complaint lists their Discord user ID, a Reddit account, and seven Steam accounts.

Read full story Source: VGC (videogameschronicle.com)

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Story 08 Console specifics VGC

Forza Horizon 6 Reportedly Misses 2026 on PS5 and Lands January 26

Deallabs writer billbul-kun, who has an accurate track record on release dates, claims Forza Horizon 6 arrives on PS5 on January 26, 2027, with a physical edition, VGC reported on October 7. Playground Games said as recently as September that the PS5 version would ship "later this year" and has never set a firm date. This is an unconfirmed leak for now.

Read full story Source: VGC (videogameschronicle.com)

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Story 09 Hardware Push Square

Sony Sells 419 VR Headset Patents to Meta as PS VR2 Support Stays Thin

Sony has transferred 419 XR and VR headset patents worldwide to Meta, including 43 US patents that changed hands between June and September 2026, according to ZDNet Korea, with follow-up from Road to VR. Push Square covered the sale on October 7. Sony has made no statement. PS VR2 still gets new releases on the PS Store, but first-party support for the headset has been thin since launch.

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

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Story 10 Other Insider Gaming

Respawn Veterans' Studio Gravity Well Lays Off 40+ Before Showing Its First Game

Gravity Well, the studio former Respawn developers Drew McCoy and Jon Shiring founded in 2020, said on October 6 it is laying off more than 40 people after its funding partner pulled out over the summer. Its first AAA game, in development for at least six years, was never shown publicly. Leadership says a smaller team will keep going but calls the studio's future "uncertain", Insider Gaming reported on October 7.

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

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Story 11 Other VGC

Star Wars Zero Company Studio Brings Furloughed Devs Back After a Strong Launch

Bit Reactor CEO Greg Foertsch said on October 7 the studio has started returning furloughed staff to work. Around 80% of the team was reportedly sidelined without pay before the tactics game launched in late August because money was running out. Newzoo ranked Star Wars Zero Company the sixth-best PC game of August by revenue across six major Western markets, and Foertsch promised more updates "soon."

Read full story Source: VGC (videogameschronicle.com)

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Story 12 Just released PC Gamer

Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Is Out, and One Reviewer Needed 50 Hours to Finish It

Capcom's $29.99 Dark Arisen expansion for Dragon's Dogma 2 releases on October 8 in the US and October 9 in the UK, Europe, and other regions, more than two years after the base game. Early reviews posted October 7 are strong: Push Square calls it an excellent expansion set in a large new region to the north, and says the main story and side quests took around 50 hours before an endgame opened. You do not need to finish the base game to start it.

Read full story Source: PC Gamer (pcgamer.com)

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Story 13 Coming soon Gematsu

Spiritfarer Studio Delays At Fate's End to 2027 but Drops Its First Steam Demo

Thunder Lotus, the French-Canadian studio behind Spiritfarer, announced on October 6 that its action-adventure At Fate's End slips from 2026 to an unspecified 2027 date because it needs "more love and care." The studio paired the delay with a new gameplay trailer and the game's first playable demo, live now on Steam. It is still listed as coming to Xbox Game Pass.

Read full story Source: Gematsu (gematsu.com)

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Story 14 Other VGC

Google Launches Playground, a Browser Tool That Turns Text Prompts Into Games

Google opened Playground on October 7, an experimental browser platform that builds simple games from typed prompts and lets creators share them by link. A Unity-powered version called Unity Spark, which generates 3D games from Unity store assets, is due later this year. Unity CEO Matt Bromberg said the tool is about building original experiences and warned that one-shotting a copy of an existing game does not make anyone the next Hideo Kojima.

Read full story Source: VGC (videogameschronicle.com)

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