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Steam quietly killed a perk: you used to be able to buy a bundle at the discount even if you already owned some of the games in it. Now some bundles only let you purchase as a gift instead.

Not every bundle does this yet, and Valve hasn't explained the change. Redditors on r/Steam are still trying to figure out when it happened.

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Xbox scrapped the next mainline Halo before it went into full production, then handed the franchise to Activision instead of finishing it internally.

Per The Verge: leadership didn't want to wait the several more years it would've taken Halo Studios to ship it. The irony: Activision starting from scratch will likely take just as long.

Halo Studios keeps a skeleton crew for Campaign Evolved and Infinite support only.

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Meta VR Glasses: 100 grams, micro-OLED 5K display, and a $1,299.99 price tag. Battery and processors sit on a separate puck clipped to your belt so the weight never hits your face.

Line-up starts with Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR. Spring 2027.

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Persona Super Live is back for the first time since 2022, three days in Yokohama next March 19-21. Past shows have doubled as reveal stages, and this one lands right after Persona 4 Revival ships Feb 18, 2027, exactly when Atlus would start pushing Persona 6.

Only confirmed teaser so far: green as the game's color, a graveyard, and a hand looming over one massive tomb. Rest is speculation until March.

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Blizzard says its 2030 StarCraft open-world shooter won't be an Xbox exclusive. Only confirmed platform so far is Xbox itself, and Blizzard says it will demand corrections on any report calling it Xbox-exclusive.

What's still unclear: more consoles, or just PC and Xbox. No answer yet.

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Microsoft just confirmed it: the next mainline Halo game is being made by Activision, not Halo Studios.

268 layoffs hit Halo Studios and other Xbox teams today as part of Asha Sharma's restructuring. Rare and World's Edge also move under Activision. Halo Infinite followed 343, then Call of Duty's team takes the wheel.

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The Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom artbook, Secrets of the Zonai, just got pushed from October to April 2027, despite launching in Japan back in August 2024.

One Reddit fan asked it best: "What is in this book that takes 3 years to localize?"

Ocarina of Time Remake still ships in November.

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Bungie's new studio head admits it: "We are not done with Destiny." All previously vaulted Destiny 2 content, including the Red War campaign, raids and destinations, is coming back.

And Marathon? It got good reviews but missed its player targets, so it's being reworked into a bigger survival experience.

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Silent Hill Townfall review verdict: gripping story, brutal problem. German outlet 4Players says the mystery-driven survival horror on Scottish island St. Amelia nails the series' essence over roughly 20 hours.

But its stealth system keeps breaking its own rules mid-chase, turning tense encounters into frustration.

Out now on PS5 and PC.

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Stellar Blade's Switch 2 port nearly holds 60fps and feels "unchanged" from PS5/PC, SHIFT UP's Kim Hyung-tae tells Denfaminicogamer. Upscaling and frame generation cover both modes.

Free Bayonetta collab outfits included. Out Nov 6.

$43.99 (-27%) at GameBillet

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BlizzCon 2026 opened with StarCraft news, Diablo 5, a Warcraft 3: Reforged single-player campaign 'Forgotten Kingdoms,' and World of Warcraft: Infinite.

Same week: TGS 2026 opened, Kojima confirmed Bill Skarsgård leads PHYSINT, and Netflix-Sega greenlit three shows.

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"The craziest numbers I've seen in 17 years working at Blizzard." That's WoW Classic dev Josh Greenfield on the World of Warcraft: Forever beta, which got so flooded it broke.

Disconnects, laggy loot, hour-long queues to get in. Forever launches November 4.

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Marvel's Wolverine has sold 1.9M copies as of September 17, just 3 days after launch. 1 million of that came from digital pre-orders alone. Disc sales? Only 22.9%.

That's $130M in revenue, already ahead of Death Stranding 2's PS5 launch numbers ($129M).

Mixed reviews didn't slow it down.

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Heart Machine, the studio behind Hyper Light Drifter, just laid off nearly its entire team.

A publishing deal for an unannounced game fell through, and that was apparently enough to gut the whole studio.

Hyper Light Drifter: Special Edition is $11.99 (was $29.99, -60%) at GOG.

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Rockstar's files leaked again: a ~200GB dump with early GTA 6 assets and tester builds for every platform.

Also buried inside: two scrapped GTA Online DLCs, a Liberty City expansion and one with a spaceship and an Arabian mansion.

GTA 6 ships Nov 19 on PS5 and Xbox.

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Juliet Starling is back. Lollipop Chainsaw 2: Back2Back was just announced at Tokyo Game Show 2026, exclusive to PS5 in 2027.

Developer JP Universe (founded by ex-FFXV director Hajime Tabata) traps her inside a zombie movie shoot in Jaredwood, a rebuilt version of the original's San Romero. The series has sold 1.5M copies since 2012.

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Tokyo Game Show 2026 just opened, and for the first time in its 30-year history it runs 5 days straight.

1,138 exhibitors (540 Japanese, 598 international) from a record 53 countries, beating last year's turnout. Business days Sept 17-18, public days Sept 19-21 at Makuhari Messe.

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PS5 firmware 14.0 is out, and it's mostly a PS5 Pro update: the console now enables the latest PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) implementation by default.

Translation: sharper upscaling, no settings menu required.

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Three big Game Pass drops in two weeks: Dune: Awakening (Sept 22, Premium/PC/Ultimate), Minecraft Dungeons 2 (Sept 29, day-one on PC/Ultimate) and Gears of War: E-Day (Oct 6, day-one on PC/Ultimate).

Own Dune instead? $42.49 (-15%) at Fanatical.

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GTA 6 is dropping the auto-flip feature from GTA 5. Rob Nelson (Rockstar North) confirmed cars stay upside down after you crash, no more steering yourself back onto four wheels.

Vehicles feel heavier and handle closer to GTA 4 than GTA 5, so rollovers should just happen less. GTA 6: $78.99, out Nov 19 on PS5 and Xbox.