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Shock Return to Form? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Campaign Reviews Are In — And Critics Are Pleasantly Surprised

Spooky season is officially here in Pokémon Pokopia: the Pumpkaboo's Sweet Surprises event runs from 17th October to 1st November, and Nintendo Life has a full guide covering everything from Pumpkin Candy to evolving ...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Campaign Wows Critics — and It's on a Nintendo Console for the First Time in 13 Years

It's a good day to be a Nintendo fan. Beyond the Modern Warfare 4 Switch 2 news (more below), Nintendo Life confirms **Zero Parades: Director's Cut** — the next CRPG from ZA/UM, the controversial studio behind *Disco ...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Launches Next Week Without Game Pass — While Testers Vote to Strike

Nintendo's booth at MCM London Comic Con (October 23rd–25th) will feature **19 playable demos**, per Nintendo Life — including Layton, Metaphor, and 007. If you're in London next week, that's your queue-avoidance home...

Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 Wows in Hands-On Previews — and It's Only Three Weeks Away

It's wall-to-wall Hyrule today. Nintendo Life's preview of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 says the remake "brims with breathtaking detail, plus one familiar irritation" — and their roundup of fellow ...

Resident Evil's Switch 2 Takeover, Epic's Reported "AI-First" Order, and a Spooky Pokémon Go Debut — The Gaming Digest for October 14, 2026

The big story today is Capcom's horror lineup hitting Nintendo's newest hardware. Nintendo Life's review of **Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition** on Switch 2 declares it the "gold standard for remakes" — high praise from a...

Epic Reportedly Delays Secret Marvel × Star Wars Shooter as It Forces Developers Into "AI-First" Mode

The AI conversation landed on Nintendo's doorstep too: Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has released a brand-new game that he says was completely AI-generated in just 30 minutes, telling VGC (via Nintendo Life) "It's t...

Arc Raiders 2.0 Rockets to a Seven-Month Player High While Call of Duty's DMZ Drops Early

Physical media collectors can breathe easy: Nintendo has no plans to abandon cartridges, according to Bill van Zyll, vice president and general manager of Nintendo Latin America. In other Switch 2 news, Capcom's three...

Arc Raiders 2.0 Swings to a Seven-Month Player High

That's the digest for October 11th — a grappling hook, a Squadron 42 sighting, and DMZ right around the corner. See you at the Galaxies Showcase on the 15th!

Gears of War: E-Day Stumbles Out of the Gate — Your Daily Gaming Digest for October 10, 2026

Bobby Kotick Returns to Power as Modern Warfare 4 Starts Selling Better DMZ Spawns

The 30th anniversary machine keeps rolling. Santa Cruz's Pokémon 'Blind Bag' skateboard decks return this month with three Chase Decks to hunt ([Nintendo Life](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/10/pokemon-blind-b...

Arc Raiders 2.0 "Frozen Trail" Is Live — and the Grapple Hook Is Already the Star

Pokémon HOME's latest update quietly made two GBA games compatible with the service, and Nintendo Life notes it's the newest spark for persistent online rumours that Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire are Switch-bound. No confir...

Kanto Comes Home — Pokémon HOME Finally Adds FireRed & LeafGreen Support

Fortnitemares is in full swing in Chapter 7, Season 4, and Destructoid has two essential guides: a full roundup of every Fortnitemares Sprite, their abilities, and how to unlock them — plus a walkthrough for piecing t...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Bets Big on DMZ, Freddy Krueger Haunts Fortnitemares, and Kingdom Hearts Finally Goes Native on Switch 2

It's a quiet day on the Pokémon beat, but Switch 2 is eating good. Kingdom Hearts Collection arrives this week, and Nintendo Life's review round-up confirms it's a proper native port at last — though the site's PSA wa...

Arc Raiders Goes Free for Four Days as Its Biggest Update Ever — Frozen Trail — Launches

The first weekend event in Pokémon Go is here, and Destructoid has a guide for earning the Astronaut Pikachu cosmetic skin that was teased ahead of time — go grab your space-suited mouse before the window closes. Over...

ARC Raiders Goes Free Next Week Ahead of Frozen Trail, and Digital Foundry Calls Switch 2's Witcher 3 "a Colossal Upgrade"

The biggest Switch 2 story of the day is Digital Foundry's tech breakdown of **The Witcher 3 Remastered**, which Nintendo Life summarizes as "a colossal upgrade" that's easy to recommend — especially since owners of t...

ARC Raiders Opens Its Doors Free Next Week as Frozen Trail Looms

Pokémon TCG's **Mega Evolution—Delta Reign** lands November 6 as the last announced set of the year, and IGN reports preorders are already a battlefield — fitting for a set that keeps the Mega Evolution spotlight burn...

Steam's Autumn Sale Unleashes 44,000+ Games for $5 or Less as the Platform Eyes Its First-Ever $20B Year

Halloween is creeping onto the Switch. Nintendo Life's Talking Point asks how everyone's enjoying the **Castlevania: Belmont's Curse** demo, which lets you play the opening section free before the 15th October 2026 la...

Toss a Cart to Your Witcher — The Witcher 3's Free Remaster Is Here, and It's Already Dividing Players

Spooky season is officially upon us: **Pokémon Pokopia** has announced a limited-time Halloween in-game event headlined by Pumpkaboo — "Pumpkaboo, I see you," as Nintendo Life put it. The Switch 2 release calendar kee...

Fortnitemares 2026 Unleashes Two Freddies Tomorrow as Halloween Season Takes Over Gaming

The big one for trainers: Pokémon HOME's compatibility update for FireRed & LeafGreen lands next week, making October 2026 the month those GBA remakes finally plug into the modern storage ecosystem. Mark your calendars.

Fortnite's Five Nights at Freddy's Crossover Just Became the Game's Biggest Tweet Ever

Pokémon trainers, start stretching those Happy Meal muscles. Nintendo Life reports that Pokémon cards are seemingly returning to McDonald's Happy Meals in the US soon — and as the outlet notes, past promos have "spelt...

Freddy Fazbear Invades Fortnite: Five Nights at Freddy's Collab Is Now Epic's Most-Liked Reveal Ever

The Pokémon TCG's 30th anniversary celebrations have taken a dark turn: Kotaku reports that as scalpers exhaust misprints and "contextual excuses" to inflate prices, one eBay listing is leveraging the death of a 12-ye...

Halo 2 & 3 Remakes Reportedly Canceled as Halo Preps for a Full Reboot Under Activision

Arc Raiders Is Testing a No-PvP Mode, Halo's Remakes Reportedly Axed, and Fortnite's Season Overload Takes Heat

It's a big weekend for **Splatoon 3** fans: Nintendo Life reports that Splatfests return next month with another spooky Halloween showdown, continuing the annual tradition. Even more impressive — four years after laun...

Arc Raiders Is Finally Testing a PvE-Only Mode — Embark Says It "Can't Ignore What the Data Is Telling Us"

Halo Goes to Activision as Xbox Cuts Bite, Metroid Dread Prices Soar, and Arc Raiders' Frozen Trail Looms Large

No Warzone patch notes today — but the Activision side of the equation is dominating headlines. Eurogamer reports World's Edge, the studio behind Age of Empires, lost "nearly half" its staff during yesterday's Xbox cu...

Activision Takes Charge of Halo as Xbox's "Reset" Claims 268 More Jobs — While Pokémon TCG Chaos Rages On

The Pokémon Trading Card Game's 30th Anniversary expansion launched 16th September, and the aftermath is grim reading: Nintendo Life describes an "expectedly messy" launch day with lengthy early-morning queues, while ...

Suspiciously HD Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire Footage Sets Switch Port Rumors on Fire

The Ruby & Sapphire rumor mill is spinning at full speed: after an official Pokémon account shared that suspiciously crisp footage, Eurogamer says the games "might join their third-generation handheld siblings" on the...

Pokémon-Like Aniimo Blows Past 160,000 Concurrent Players on Steam

The Pokémon-like gold rush continues: **Aniimo** has crossed 160,000 concurrent players on Steam, with PC Gamer declaring it the latest Pokémon-inspired game to blow up. If you've been waiting for the creature-collect...

ARC Raiders Teases Its "Biggest Update Yet" — Premiere Set for Next Week

The countdown is ON: Nintendo Life has launched a nine-week countdown to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 with a dungeon-crawl retrospective series, kicking off with a "tree-mendous" introduction to th...

ARC Raiders' "Biggest Update Yet" Premieres Next Week — Plus Metroid Pre-Order Heartbreak and a Pokémon Plane

Nintendo's victory lap continues: bolstered by Switch 2 sales — the fastest-selling video game hardware device in US history — and the Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake reveal, Nintendo of America's COO promises "This is ...

Pokémon TCG Turns 30: Amazing Pull Rates Are Demolishing Card Prices — But Scalpers Are Crashing the Party

The big one: the Pokémon TCG's 30th Celebration set is officially here, marking the first global simultaneous release in the TCG's history, and it's absolute chaos out there. Kotaku reports the set boasts incredible p...

Kingdom Hearts Storms Fortnite, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Launches Today, and Mads Mikkelsen Joins Call of Duty — The Gaming Digest for September 17, 2026

It's a bittersweet birthday for card collectors. The Pokémon TCG turns 30 today, but Nintendo Life's report on the celebration's special global drop is grim reading — "To say I'm really deflated about this hobby right...

Xbox Says It Has "Nothing to Announce Today" as Game Pass Day-One Launch Rumors Swirl

Valve's Steam Frame Opens Orders at a Lens-Watering $1,059 — While Sora Drops Into Fortnite and Arc Raiders' Expeditions Faces the Axe

Beyond Pokémon, Game Freak is cooking up Ame no Chi Hare Onna, a magical-girl title whose aspects will change depending on whether it's sunny or raining in the real world, according to Kotaku — a genuinely wild design...

Wardogs Races Past One Million Copies as BlizzCon Delivers a Diablo IV x The Witcher 3 Crossover

The headline-grabber for Nintendo fans: despite the company's long-stated philosophy of putting gameplay above story, Nintendo maintains (and updates) an official Legend of Zelda timeline — and its latest revision see...

BlizzCon 2026 Goes Nuclear — Diablo 5 Confirmed for 2029, Diablo 4 Hits Switch 2 Next Week, and WoW Forever Steals the Show

The biggest Switch 2 news of the weekend came from BlizzCon: Diablo 4: Age of Hatred Collection is officially bringing Hell to Switch 2 next week, after months of rumors, ratings leaks, and even early store sightings....

Wardogs Storms Steam With 266K Players in Minutes — and the FPS Crown Has a New Challenger

Nintendo squeezed two Directs into as many days, and the fallout keeps giving. Nintendo Life has a running pre-order guide for the "stunningly detailed" Ocarina of Time reimagining of the N64 classic and its accompany...

Metroid Ravenous Revealed for Switch 2 With January 2027 Release — Nintendo Direct Steals the Show

That's the day, folks — a Direct for the ages, a new Metroid with a date, and a challenger crashing the FPS party. See you at 266k concurrents. 🎮

Metroid Ravenous, a New 3D Kirby, and a Free Mario Kart World Update — Nintendo's September Direct Absolutely Delivered

If you missed today's Direct, Destructoid has the full roundup of everything announced — and it's a big one, building on the recent Ocarina of Time remake reveals. The headliners, via Nintendo Life:

Ocarina of Time Dated for Switch 2, Zelda's 40th Gets a Special Edition Console — and Steam Just Leaked Half the Industry

Yesterday's Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct was *the* event, and it delivered. Beyond the Quick Hits: Nintendo Life confirms price and box art for Ocarina of Time were revealed — a win for physical media dieha...

It's Zelda Day — 40th Anniversary Direct Drops In Hours, And The Ocarina Of Time Remake Price Has Seemingly Leaked Early

The big one: The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct airs later today, and Nintendo Life says the company has hinted at what to expect with a cheeky "you probably already know" — fitting, since the outlet separate...

Valve Confesses It "Leaked" Its Own Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer After the ESRB Blocked It

The rumor mill is running hot: Nintendo Life reports that leaker 'malo392' — who apparently still has something to prove — claims a fresh Super Smash Bros. is in development, plus Nintendogs, Metroid, and 3D Mario. Sa...

The Blood of Dawnwalker Sells 1 Million Copies in 3 Days While Wolverine's Ending Leaks Online

Quiet day for Pokémon trainers, but the Nintendo beat is buzzing.

Double Direct Incoming — Nintendo Stacks Back-to-Back Zelda 40th Anniversary and General Showcases for September 8–9

The Direct doubleheader is the story of the week, full stop. Nintendo Life reports Nintendo popped up with not one but two showcases just after a busy Gamescom, with the Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct kicking things of...

Final Fantasy VII Revelation Dated for April 8, 2027 — and Sephiroth DLC Is Already on the Calendar

Square Enix delivered the date everyone's been waiting for: **Final Fantasy VII Revelation arrives April 8, 2027**, with the Switch 2 release date confirmed by Nintendo Life. Better yet, a live Steam listing reveals a...

"The Internet We Once Loved Is Gone": SteamDB Sold as Steam Smashes Its All-Time Release Record

The day's biggest story, full stop: Rock Paper Shotgun reports that SteamDB's founders have handed the community-run database over to the owners of Nexus Mods, who've run that site for 13 years. Kotaku quotes SteamDB'...

$38 Billion and Out: Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward Steps Down From the Saudi Fund That Owns Pokémon Go

The industry story of the day: Eurogamer reports Ward oversaw $38 billion of investment across gaming companies — including the Pokémon Go developer — during his tenure, and Kotaku frames his exit as five years and "a...

Dragonite Makes 30-Year History at Pokémon Worlds — Plus Singapore 2027, Ed Sheeran, and a Steam Mega-Leak

Massive Valve Leak Surfaces Half-Life 2: Episode Three Traces — While Pokémon Worlds Drops a Movie, Mega Evolutions, and Morpeko

What a weekend in San Francisco. President Tsunekazu Ishihara closed the 2026 Pokémon World Championships by announcing *Pokémon: Wild Card*, an animated film based on the Trading Card Game arriving in 2027 — per IGN,...

PokémonXP Drops Dual-Type Cards, an Aardman Stop-Motion Series, and a Disney+ Deal — While Activision Films Itself Ambushing a Cheat Maker

It's a massive weekend for Pokémon fans, and if you're not in San Francisco, Kotaku's reporter is right there with you — suffering "FOMO" over an event that's "off to an incredible start," including a Pokémon 8-Bit Bi...