Cody Harwell 
Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase streams October 28 at 7 AM PT on its official YouTube channel, running about 15 minutes with indie news for Switch and Switch 2.
The Pokémon Company and TiMi Studio Group will shut down the free-to-play MOBA on March 23, 2027. Gem sales and new UNITE Club memberships stopped on October 27.
The 44th Golden Joystick Awards named 12 Ultimate Game of the Year nominees and opened public voting until October 30. Alix Wilton Regan hosts the November 11 ceremony.
Sega and Creative Assembly pulled Total War: SHOGUN 2 Complete Edition from sale two days after launch and reinstated the 2011 original amid AI-art backlash.
A datamined Mass Effect crossover event reportedly set for N7 Day has been pulled from Battlefield 6 after EA’s layoffs and BioWare’s closure.
Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest, the franchise’s first standalone game after 100+ books, released October 23 on PS5, both Switch consoles, Xbox Series X|S and PC for $29.99.
Arrowhead shipped Easy Anti-Cheat in update 7.2.0 on October 20 and warned some mods may stop working. PC players are review-bombing the game in response.
Cyberpunk 2077’s Edgerunners 2 Update adds dual-wielding pistols via the Double Trouble perk and mod.io mods to consoles. Here is everything in the patch.
Le Monde reports Arkane Lyon, developer of Marvel’s Blade, could close on November 13; Puck reports Xbox countered Netflix’s $500M IP offer at $800M.
A real internal trailer for the canceled Mass Effect Universe, BioWare’s next Mass Effect game, leaked a day after EA shut the studio down, and Jason Schreier verified it.