Month: October 2026

Forbidden Planet has opened pre-orders for the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Naked Snake statue, a merch tie-in for Konami’s upcoming Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater remake. The retailer’s listing puts the release date at October 26, 2026. You’re getting Naked Snake in dark green tactical gear with his black bandana, done as a roughly 20 cm PVC statue with a display base and printed box, priced at £26.99.

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For a straightforward shelf piece tied to the remake, this seems like a solid pickup if you’re not hunting for some premium collector’s item. The catch is the wait. Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater launches on August 28, 2025, and this statue doesn’t arrive until more than a year later, so it reads less like launch-day merch and more like part of a longer rollout.

As for the game, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is Konami’s Unreal Engine 5 remake of 2004’s Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. It’s being co-developed with Virtuos and appears to stay pretty close to the original, right down to keeping the original voice recordings. Early preview coverage has landed in that mixed-but-positive range: people have praised the visuals and controls, pushed back on the idea that the remake may be too conservative, and Screen Rant gave it an 8/10.

Pre-orders for the statue are live at Forbidden Planet now. Konami says Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be playable on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, and the rest of the project’s orbit keeps getting bigger too, with more merchandise, Fox Hunt multiplayer, and even growing interest in Hideo Kojima’s Physint riding alongside it.

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Bandai Namco has revealed a new round of Pokémon Scale World Hoenn figures. Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza are coming back as collectibles, with a May 2027 release date, and this isn’t tied to any new Hoenn game announcement. Preorders are already live at BigBadToyStore.

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The Pokémon Scale World line has been around since 2021, and even with all the social media talk about Hoenn showing up again in 2027, Nintendo, Game Freak, and The Pokémon Company still haven’t announced a new Pokémon Ruby, Pokémon Sapphire, or Pokémon Emerald release, remake, Nintendo Switch port, or any other Hoenn-related project.

Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire first hit Game Boy Advance in 2002, then Pokémon Emerald followed in 2004. Those games introduced Hoenn, 135 new Pokémon, Double Battles, and Contests. Hoenn came back in 2014 with Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. As for the late-2026 Nintendo Switch rumors tied to reported code references and official Japanese footage, those are still unconfirmed.

If you collect Pokémon merch, this is the part that matters. BigBadToyStore has Groudon listed at $164.99, Kyogre at $129.99, and Rayquaza at $107.99, plus roughly 10% non-refundable deposits, so these are premium pickups.

You can preorder all three now through BigBadToyStore ahead of their May 2027 release.

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The Miami Heat and Rockstar Games are teaming up for A Night in Vice City, a one-off Grand Theft Auto 6 promotion set for the Heat’s home game against the Milwaukee Bucks at Kaseya Center in Miami on November 18, 2026.

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For one night, the arena gets a Vice City makeover: a themed court, reworked Heat uniforms, and in-arena activations, all folded into a nationally televised ESPN broadcast. It lands just hours before the East Coast midnight launch, so this is a lot more than the usual theme-night packaging.

The matchup makes sense on its face. Rockstar’s Miami-flavored Vice City has a natural overlap with the Heat’s long-running Vice identity. Back in 2018, the team’s original Vice jerseys reportedly outsold every other NBA City Edition uniform in their first season, based on reports from the time. Rockstar is also pushing the campaign beyond game night with the much-discussed Welcome to Vice City roof sign at Kaseya Center, a display widely reported to be worth nearly $1 million.

The Heat will also sell a Vice City Collection through Court Culture. And if you’re planning to load into Grand Theft Auto 6 at launch, this crossover is worth keeping an eye on, even if the full financial terms still haven’t been disclosed, the bigger long-term play isn’t clear yet, and there’s still the question of whether an NBA tie-in brings criticism because of the series’ crime-and-violence focus.

Grand Theft Auto 6 hits PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19.

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Rockstar Games announced the $399.99 Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection on September 25, and the GTA 6 marketing campaign is already catching heat as videos of free influencer merch packs spread online. The bundle itself includes Oakley sunglasses, a Macca the Gator figure, apparel, a New Era cap, and other accessories, but the game still isn’t included, so you have to buy that separately.

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Reports and creator unboxing videos suggest those free influencer boxes also contain unreleased T-shirts, tote bags, a money clip, and, in some cases, a Zippo lighter. On X and Reddit, a lot of fans are saying those extras look more useful, easier to wear, and closer to what they’d actually want to own. Some have gone further and said they’d rather have the free creator kit, or just cancel their orders outright.

If value matters to you, this collector’s edition looks more like something to watch for now than something to buy immediately. A lot of the frustration on X and Reddit comes down to influencers getting free items that look more exclusive than what paying customers get, on top of comparisons to the better-received Red Dead Redemption 2 collector products. YouTuber MoistCr1TiKaL has also reportedly singled out the nearly $400 package, with no copy of the game included, as one of the worst recent examples.

You can pre-order the Vice City Collection from Rockstar Games now. At the same time, some leaked references on Rockstar’s website suggest a few of the influencer-only items may eventually be sold to the public as the promotion grows, including a wider push in Miami and a Miami Heat Vice City tie-in.

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A set of supposed World of Warcraft Forever patch notes started circulating online today. If they’re real, the beta update would raise the level cap to 30, set full launch for November 4, add a new Excavation Site: Wetlands zone aimed at levels 26-31 alongside Razorfen Downs and Uldaman, and cut bonus dungeon-quest XP by 50% beyond standard quest values in an effort to slow leveling.

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The same supposed notes also list a grab bag of smaller economy, UI, and quality-of-life changes. Among them: white and green wands would sell for 1 copper, skinning would only work once before creatures disappear, rain would be easier to see, barber shops would be added to Darnassus and Thunder Bluff, camping text would read more clearly, the Boosted Rest debuff would stand out more, campfires would be safer, Rogue-class and racial cooldown support would be added, duplicate spell ranks would be cleaned up, Cannibalize and Eureka would get racial limits, and Druids would get a long round of tuning. That Druid pass includes removing Tiger’s Fury, removing King of the Jungle, giving shapeshifting immunity to Disarm, adding more Rage from crits in Bear forms, and letting Swipe scale with attack power.

If you keep up with World of Warcraft updates, this is something to keep an eye on, but not something to treat as official. Blizzard Entertainment hasn’t announced any game called World of Warcraft Forever, and several details in these supposed notes don’t line up with anything live or formally revealed, including references that seem to point to Undead Paladins.

There’s also nothing to download at this point. These supposed World of Warcraft Forever patch notes read more like a hypothetical ruleset, or maybe a fan-made one, than a confirmed Blizzard Entertainment release.

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