Month: October 2026

The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past detailed: changes after Blood and Wine

CD Projekt Red and Fool’s Theory have shared new details on The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past ahead of its 2027 release. The add-on is pitched as a full story expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with branching dialogue, a new open-world region, and new combat mechanics.

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You can jump into Songs of the Past as soon as you finish the main quest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Players who already wrapped up Blood and Wine will also run into different dialogue and story beats, though the developers haven’t said how far those changes go.

The story brings Geralt out of retirement to help Dandelion, then heads into the bard’s homeland, family, and personal history. The team says the expansion leans into a “dreamier” tone, and Letten is being described as a full region on the scale of Toussaint.

There are new monsters too, including the hornet-shielded Swarmion, plus a silver chain weapon that lets Geralt yank enemies closer. Fool’s Theory is developing The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past with CD Projekt Red overseeing the creative side, and it’s being framed as the last expansion for The Witcher 3.

If you’ve been hoping for one more big Geralt story, this is one to watch. You just won’t be downloading it until 2027.

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Gears of War: E-Day PC specs are out: you need a ray tracing GPU

Gears of War: E-Day’s PC system requirements are out ahead of its October 6, 2026 launch on PC, and one thing jumps out right away: every preset calls for a ray tracing-capable graphics card.

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At the minimum setting, the game is targeting 1080p at 60fps with upscaling enabled. For that, you’ll need an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or 5050, or an AMD Radeon RX 6600 or 9060. CPU options on that tier are an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, an Intel Core i7-6850K, or an Intel Core i5-10400. Recommended pushes things to 1440p at 60fps or higher, with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or 5060, or an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT or 9060 XT, plus either an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 or an Intel Core i5-11600K. If you’re aiming for 4K Ultra at 60fps, the list gets steeper: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D or Intel Core i7-14700K, and about 12GB of VRAM. Across all of those targets, upscaling is part of the equation through Nvidia DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR 4, Intel XeSS 3.0, or TSR.

Storage matters too. You’ll need 115GB of free space on an SSD, and there’s no HDD option listed. That also means older Nvidia GeForce GTX-era cards and anything from before RDNA 2 on AMD’s side are basically off the table. If you’re planning to play Gears of War: E-Day on PC, check your hardware before you start the download.

Early access is already live for eligible players. The full PC release for Gears of War: E-Day lands on October 6, 2026.

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007 First Light gets free Extended Operations update: 00 difficulty and New Game+ arrive

IO Interactive rolled out a big update for 007 First Light on October 1. The free Extended Operations expansion adds New Game+, a brutal 00 difficulty setting, Photo Mode, sharper weapon-handling animations, and extra TacSim missions.

Released on October 1, Extended Operations is the studio’s biggest post-launch update so far, according to IO Interactive.

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One of the new missions is easy to pick out: it puts you in the Aston Martin Valhalla in the Slovakian mountains. It arrives after 007 First Light launched on May 27, when critics praised its Hitman-style mission design, combat, and Patrick Gibson’s take on a younger Bond. IO Interactive also says the game sold 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours and hit 4 million by August.

If you’ve already finished Bond’s origin story and want a reason to come back, or you’re after a tougher challenge, this update looks well worth downloading. There’s also still a Bawma story mission on the way, following September’s PC path-tracing upgrade.

Amazon’s Bond era is moving ahead too. Steven Knight and Denis Villeneuve are attached to a new film, and media reports are still circling around possible 007 picks including Jacob Elordi, Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, and Jack Lowden.

You can download Extended Operations now for free on any platform where you own 007 First Light.

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Magic: The Gathering unveils Corn Maze Superdrop: 8 Halloween Secret Lair drops

Wizards of the Coast has locked in October 12, 2026, for Magic: The Gathering’s Secret Lair: Corn Maze Superdrop. It brings eight Halloween-themed drops and keeps the company’s Secret Lair and Universes Beyond crossover streak going.

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Three of those drops are built around Labyrinth: Fear Me, Love Me, Should You Need Us, and Through The Labyrinth. The rest of the set includes Marvel Zombies, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Artist Series: Veronique Meignaud, Manufactured Grounds by See Machine, and Peace, Love, & Treefolk. Each drop costs $29.99 in non-foil or $39.99 in foil. Full bundles run $239.92 or $319.92, and orders over $199 come with a Labyrinth-themed Maze of Ith promo.

Labyrinth is the big centerpiece of Secret Lair: Corn Maze Superdrop. The set leans hard into Jareth, David Bowie’s iconic performance in the film, and other imagery from the movie. The art is already getting attention too, including work by Rebecca Guay. Marvel Zombies goes in a very different direction, turning Wolverine, Thor, Captain America, Hulk, and Scarlet Witch into undead versions of themselves. K-Pop Demon Hunters brings in Rumi, Jinu, the other HUNTR/X members, Sussie, and Commander-friendly cards such as Underworld Breach and Freed from the Real.

If you collect Secret Lair, or you just like the crossover-heavy side of Magic: The Gathering, this one looks like an easy pickup, even if these premium, fandom-driven releases still divide longtime players.

You’ll be able to buy Secret Lair: Corn Maze Superdrop through Secret Lair when it goes live on October 12, 2026.

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The Big Bang Theory gets its first sequel, now on HBO Max: a sci-fi multiverse twist

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe premiered on HBO Max on July 23, 2026, and it’s the first direct sequel to The Big Bang Theory.

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This time, the story sticks with Stuart Bloom. Kevin Sussman leads a quicker, stranger single-camera sci-fi comedy, with Lauren Lapkus, Brian Posehn, and John Ross Bowie returning after Stuart breaks a device built by Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hofstadter, and Howard Wolowitz and kicks off a multiverse disaster.

That shift changes the whole feel of the show. It looks more cinematic, there’s more action, and the alternate-reality story gets a lot bigger, sending the group through the DC Universe with Jay Garrick’s Flash, into a comic-book reality, and out into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

It’s a much bigger genre swing than The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, or Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, even with cameos from Kaley Cuoco and Kunal Nayyar keeping Stuart Fails to Save the Universe tied to the original.

If you want to watch this franchise get a lot weirder, there’s a pretty good case for giving it a shot: HBO Max reportedly made Stuart Fails to Save the Universe one of its most-watched titles, FlixPatrol ranked it No. 2 globally behind House of the Dragon, its Rotten Tomatoes score climbed from 72% to 74%, season 2 is already ordered, and season 1 ends with the characters realizing they’re in a TV show.

You can stream Stuart Fails to Save the Universe now on HBO Max.

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An American company will launch an AI server into lunar orbit, this is the incredible mission

Starcloud has committed to sending its artificial intelligence data-processing hardware to lunar orbit aboard a Firefly Aerospace spacecraft.

Starcloud’s payload, known as SC-1L, will fly aboard Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicle during a NASA-backed mission whose launch is scheduled no earlier than 2028. The mission will demonstrate the technologies that Starcloud plans to use in AI data centers in Earth orbit, as well as around the Moon.

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Starcloud is going to the moon! 🌚🚀

I’m excited to share that @Starcloud_ has signed an agreement with @FireflySpace to fly onboard Firefly’s Elytra spacecraft in lunar orbit, validating capabilities for a future orbital lunar data center.

Integrated on Elytra, Starcloud’s… pic.twitter.com/Xo4uds1r8M

— Philip Johnston (@PhilipJohnston) September 30, 2026

AI’s next destination: the Moon

“Space is the future of data centers, and the Moon is the next frontier for that vision,” Ezra Feilden, Starcloud’s co-founder and chief technology officer, said today in a press release.

Starcloud made its mark in Earth orbit last year with Starcloud-1, a satellite equipped with an Nvidia H100 chip. Starcloud-1 successfully trained a large language model called NanoGPT, which was a first in the field of orbital computing. “We have successfully validated our ability to run and train AI models on enterprise-grade GPUs in low Earth orbit, and now we are going to take this proven technology to lunar orbit,” Feilden said.

Starcloud’s SC-1L payload will be integrated aboard the Elytra vehicle for a mission that will take Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander to a lunar region known as the Gruithuisen Domes. Once the lander separates from Elytra and descends to the surface, the vehicle in orbit will serve as a data relay for Blue Ghost. The future looks exciting.

In California they’ve decided to put limits on AI: it won’t be able to fire you or monitor you in the bathroom

California has passed new legislation to protect workers from firings and surveillance driven by artificial intelligence (AI), Governor Gavin Newsom announced. We’ve come to that point, having to ask AI not to fire us, it’s hard to accept.

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The new laws are aimed mainly at companies that use AI to make layoffs or monitor employees, and not at those that take advantage of this technology to replace workers.

Even so, it is one of the first pieces of legislation in the country that grants employees a say in how AI can be used in the workplace.

AI should expand opportunity, not come at the expense of workers.

That’s why I just signed first-in-the-nation laws to protect California workers as businesses adopt AI.

We’re now requiring human review before AI-driven firings, transparency when AI leads to layoffs, and new… pic.twitter.com/XghxU2b8UR

— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) September 30, 2026

AI as a tool, never the decision-maker

Split across several bills, the new rules prohibit employers from relying exclusively on AI when taking disciplinary action or deciding to fire someone, and require companies to ensure transparency if an AI system causes any mass layoff, transfer, or termination.

It also protects against the use of surveillance tools in workplace bathrooms and prohibits lawyers from “completely handing over fundamental legal tasks,” such as drafting filings, to AI.

California’s new laws may have been motivated, in part, by complaints from Meta employees, who said the company was using biased AI tools that flagged people who had taken medical leave for firing.

Valve will change how Steam discounts work by 2027

Valve has been changing many aspects of Steam in recent years and it seems that the next big change is going to be how they present their deals. In particular, the daily deals, the recommended ones, and the personalized ones. According to the company, by early 2027, they plan to completely change how they handle these aspects of the store. The goal is to give it a “more dynamic and personalized for each customer” look.

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As they’ve explained in the blog post, their goals are “to show the right games to the right users. That’s why, over the last few months, we’ve been testing ways to replace some of the curated slots with dynamic and personalized recommendations. By featuring games in a more personalized way in the ‘Discounts and Events’ section, we managed to show customers in that section 10 times as many games over the course of a day”. That means more sales.

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Although they say that “in the coming weeks, we’ll have a clearer idea of the release date for these changes” and that, by extension, still don’t know for certain when these changes will happen, they’ve already stated that it’ll be during 2027. Specifically, in the first half of next year.

Insisting that all this won’t affect all the marketing plans already planned, it seems Valve wants to push an algorithm-based approach similar to that of other similar stores and services. This has raised concerns in some quarters, because some fear it could be an excuse to introduce dynamic pricing, something Sony is also considering for the PlayStation Store, although Valve hasn’t confirmed anything about that. So we’ll have to wait to learn more about the exact implications of these discount changes.

Sifu lands on iPhone and Android on October 12

Sifu hits iOS and Android on October 12, Sloclap said, bringing its stylish kung-fu brawler to phones and tablets.

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If you haven’t played it yet, you step into the role of a young martial artist chasing revenge. Every time you die, you come back older, stronger in some ways and more fragile in others. That twist gives the whole thing its edge. It’s a tense third-person action game built around reading enemy patterns, tightening up your execution, and getting through each level a little cleaner on the next run.

The mobile version also includes the tough, Pak Mei-inspired combat that made Sifu stand out when it first launched in February 2022, along with all of the free updates added since then. That means difficulty options, modifiers, outfits, and the Arenas mode. More than 4 million copies sold, according to Sloclap. It also picked up nominations at The Game Awards 2022 for Best Independent Game, Best Action Game, and Best Fighting Game.

If you’ve been waiting for a portable version, this one looks easy to recommend. Still, there are a few blanks. Sloclap hasn’t said how touch controls will work, whether controller support is included, what the monetization looks like, how well it’ll run across devices, or if launch timing will vary by region.

You’ll be able to download Sifu on iPhone and Android starting October 12, according to Sloclap. It’s already available on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Steam, Epic Games Store, and Microsoft Store.

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GTA 6 gets a second trailer: Lucia, Jason and more Vice City characters

Grand Theft Auto 6 now has a second trailer, and Rockstar Games has posted new character details to go with it. Together, they give the clearest look yet at Lucia, Jason, and the game’s romance-driven crime story, even with the release now looking like it may have slipped into 2026.

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The biggest change in this new batch of info is how much more clearly Rockstar defines the two leads. Lucia and Jason are presented as a Bonnie-and-Clyde-style couple trying to build a better life for themselves across Leonida and a modern Vice City. Lucia comes out of prison looking like the more assertive half of the pair, and she also marks the first female protagonist in a mainline 3D Grand Theft Auto. Jason, by comparison, is more reserved, shaped by a hard upbringing and time in the military, then drawn back into small-time jobs and local drug-running after leaving the Army.

Rockstar also suggests you’ll be able to switch between Lucia and Jason during missions. There may even be a trust-based system that changes combat, dialogue, and the way their relationship evolves, pushing the partnership further than Grand Theft Auto 5‘s character switching ever did.

The supporting cast, based on the details posted on Rockstar’s official site, includes Brian Heder, Cal Hampton, Boobie Ike, Dre’Quan Priest, Real Dimez members Bae-Luxe and Roxy, and veteran bank robber Raul Bautista. Leonida itself also looks thicker with detail and more reactive, with NPC routines, social media, and side stories all feeding into the setting.

If you’re trying to figure out what Grand Theft Auto 6 is actually about, this is the update to watch.

You can watch the new trailer and read the character details on Rockstar Games’ official site now.

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