Last week, as Gamescom 2026 first began to open up to media and business visitors, I double-timed it to CD Projekt Red's booth. I had been promised the very first slot to see a blowout on Songs of the Past, an expansion coming 11 years after the launch of the base game. Rumours about this add-on have been swirling for the better part of a year now (though apparently the idea for Geralt's visit to the ancestral homeland of Dandelion have been percolating for even longer), and CD Projekt Red has clearly been putting a lot of resources into making sure this new tale lives up to the expectations fans have after completing the base game, Blood & Wine, and Hearts of Stone. Read more

For nearly 25 years, Grand Theft Auto games have uniquely mapped your sprint movement to a face button on a controller. Although some Rockstar games offered alternate control schemes, the default has always required players to tap X or A (depending on your platform) to run. But GTA 6 is bucking the trend. Read more

No Rest for the Wicked - the upcoming Action RPG from Ori developer Moon Studios - has been delayed into next year. Originally intended to release into version 1.0 in October, it will instead launch in March of 2027. Read more

Rockstar Games hasn't said much of anything about GTA 6's potential multiplayer offerings, but the developer is making strides for GTA Online's roleplaying community. A watch-only nopixel 5 closed beta is coming next week. Read more

Almost two decades on from its first heavy-metal-infused open-world game, Double Fine pinky promises it'll finally make Brutal Legend 2… if the developer's new Kickstarter campaign somehow manages to scrape together $100m (about £74m). Read more

As PlayStation's plan to scrap the production of game discs inches closer, Sony's lawyers are arguing that "reasonable consumers" already know that they don't own digital games. Read more

Polish developer CD Projekt Red apparently never considered charging players for the recently revealed Remastered edition of The Witcher 3, and it has explained more about how the expansion Songs of the Past came to be, citing a couple of "happy accidents". Read more

On Saturday, Mortal Shell 2 received its biggest update yet, a little over a week after release. Developer Cold Symmetry was seemingly keen to address as many points of criticism as possible because the updates touch almost every aspect of the game. The patch is available now on Steam, and soon on PlayStation and Xbox, and it adds new stuff to the game alongside all of the changes. Read more

I've got a bit of a funny relationship with Paradox's grand strategy games. I love the idea of them, of waging and flirting my way across history on the most granular of levels. But despite my enthusiasm, and despite my best efforts, I've never probably cracked one: it doesn't take long before I'm feeling thoroughly overwhelmed and my attention quickly begins to wane. I bring this up, because my relatively brief hands-on time with Paradox's new post-apocalyptic grand strategy game Afterworld suggests - thanks to some smart design decisions - it might finally be the one for me. Read more

French game developer and publisher Don't Nod - creator of the Life is Strange series and games like Remember Me, Vampyr, Banishers, Jusant and most recently Aphelion - seems as though it's about to enter another round of layoffs. Read more