🗡️ Nintendo’s new overview trailer takes another trip through its Switch 2 remake of Ocarina of Time ahead of the November 5 launch. Link can hum a learned melody into the console’s microphone—or play it on a real instrument—to trigger his ocarina. The Hall of Fallen Heroes lets you revisit defeated monsters for rematches. Add rebuilt visuals, voiced scenes and an orchestral score, and this is becoming much more than a familiar song in a sharper wrapper.

🎮 Modern Warfare 4’s full 16-mission campaign is playable now for digital preorders and prepurchases, a week before the October 23 launch. The new wrinkle for Xbox players: Activision says the game is a separate purchase and won’t join Game Pass at launch; it currently expects Game Pass availability in holiday 2027. DMZ early access follows October 20 for eligible digital buyers. If you were counting on a subscription, check that plan before the squad assembles.

🧩 Valve has started a Steam client beta for Achievement Sets. Supported games can divide their trophies into groups, such as a base game and later content, with separate progress bars and a profile trophy for each completed set. Adding new achievements to an existing set won’t erase your finished-set status. For anyone who watched a 100% badge disappear after a DLC update, this is a welcome adjustment—but it’s a beta and developers have to add support.

💻 Epic has released a preview of its rebuilt Games Launcher on Windows, macOS and, for the first time, Linux. It promises faster starts, a cleaner library with live search and more useful download details. Epic calls this an early, limited feature release, so the preview is for people who want to test where it’s headed. Your account, purchases, cloud saves and progress carry over if you give it a spin.

🎭 PlayStation Plus: October’s Game Catalog arrives October 20 with Mafia: The Old Country, Horizon Forbidden West and day-one Mycopunk; Premium adds Dino Crisis 2 and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3.

🏎️ Gran Turismo 7: Spec IV Part 1 is out with Sugo Circuit and six cars. The separate limited-edition DualSense got its first look too.

🍄 Mario Kart World: The October Open runs October 17 at 5 p.m. ET through October 18 at 9 p.m. ET, with a route to December’s Fall Cup for eligible North American players.

🕹️ Demo season: Steam Next Fest starts October 19 and runs through October 26. Free demos make for a fairly crowded wishlist.

👻 Tenebris Somnia: The retro survival-horror game with filmed cutscenes launches today, October 16; the production uses practical creature effects.

🐳 Game Pass: Beyond These Stars arrives on PC Game Pass today. Build a city on a space whale, then explain that sentence to somebody who doesn’t play games.

10/16 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 · digital preorder Campaign early access
10/16 - Resident Evil 2 Deluxe Edition - Switch 2
10/16 - Resident Evil 3 - Switch 2
10/16 - Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition - Switch 2
10/16 - Tenebris Somnia · launch
10/17–18 - Mario Kart World Open October event
10/19–26 - Steam Next Fest · begins and ends at 1 p.m. ET
10/20 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 · eligible digital preorder DMZ early access
10/20 - PlayStation Plus October Game Catalog additions
10/22 - Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves - Switch 2 digital
10/22 - Final Fantasy Resonance
10/22 - Nintendo Switch Sports Resort
10/23 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
10/29 - Phantom Blade Zero
10/29 - The Wolf Among Us Remastered - PS5

11/5 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
11/5 - Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Encore Edition - Switch 2
11/5 - Stellar Blade Complete Edition - Switch 2
11/12 - Metaphor: ReFantazio - Switch 2
11/12 - Pikmin 4 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Dandori Academy
11/12 - Sonic Pico Park
11/19 - Grand Theft Auto VI

12/1 - Hela: of Mice & Magic - Switch 2
12/3 - Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World
12/3 - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
12/4 - Monster Hunter Wilds - Switch 2
12/10 - Professor Layton and the New World of Steam

1/28 - Metroid Ravenous
2/12 - Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
2/23 - Fable
2/25 - Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity - Definitive Edition
3/4 - Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember
4/8 - Final Fantasy VII Revelation
5/20 - Persona 4 Revival
Spring 2027 - Kirby and the World Beyond
Spring 2027 - Mega Man: Dual Override
2027 - Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance
2027 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past
2027 - Xenoblade Genesis
2027 - Kena: Scars of Kosmora - PS5 and PC · date TBA

2026 - The Duskbloods
TBA - KINGDOM HEARTS IV
TBA - Pokémon Winds and Waves
TBA - Persona 6

Dates can change. Release, platform and early-access distinctions are labeled where known.