Something for the Weekend – 19/09/26

This month has been racing along with so many big games launching and barely enough time for even the most gluttonous of gamers to try them all out. It will be a little while before the dust settles for all these GTA avoiders, before we see the winners and the losers, but hopefully there’s more of the former than the latter.

In the News This Week

Let’s get into this week’s news:

• Twitch CEO claims GTA 6 Online will launch in 2027
• The Steam Frame costs £889 or $1,059, and the purchase lottery is now live
• Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album revealed, and it’s coming out on physical media
• Bill Skarsgård with star in Hideo Kojima’s PHYSINT
• Capcom removes one of the suckiest microtransactions for Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance
• The Last of Us 2 multiplayer mod shut down by Sony
• Rayman Legends Retold has been delayed to December
• 007 First Light for Switch 2 delayed until 2027
• Black Salt Games establishes Team Trifold studio, reveals Nothing Lost
• Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember flaps to release in March 2027 – play the alpha demo today

Games in Review & Featured Articles

There were two of the biggest games of this hurried release season on the review docket this week:

• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave – NSW2 – 9/10
• Control Resonant – PS5, XSX|S, PC – 8/10
• Moonlight Peaks – NSW2, NSW, PC – 8/10
• Crisis Core – Final Fantasy VII Reunion for Switch 2 – NSW2 – 8/10
• Hot Wheels Infinite Rush – PS5, XSX|S, NSW2, PC – 7/10
• The Relic; First Guardian – PS5, PC – 4/10

Away from the reviews, I went hands on with The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, another of the potential heirs to Mass Effect’s place in the sci-fi RPG genre. Then went micro and played Kingdom III: Rising Realms for the latest evolution of the side-scrolling strategy series.

Nick P had a horror two-fer, with Kumarn: The Wandering Spirit and the hotly anticipated Alien: Isolation 2, and Nic B had a go with Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance (and the Switch 2 port).

We wrap up with What We Played featuring Control Resonant and Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave.

Trailer Park

See 16-minutes of carpet-riding gameplay from 1001 Threads of Mizan

Two Point Museum: Ride & Relics bolts Theme Park World onto the side of your museum

Cyberpunk immersive sim Tokyo Walled City revealed

See (and hear) how they’ve made the soundtrack for Star Wars: Galactic Racer

That’s the round up for this week. Hope you have a great weekend and we’ll see you back here on Monday!

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