Gaming News Roundup: Cyberpunk 2077 Movie, Forza Horizon 6 PS5 Date, Ace Combat 8 Hits 1 Million & More (Oct 9, 2026)
Cyberpunk 2077 (image via Eurogamer / CD Projekt Red)
Night City is heading to theaters. Paramount is making a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie with CD Projekt Red co-producing, Forza Horizon 6 finally has a PS5 date (plus its first expansion), and Ace Combat 8 just became the fastest-selling game in the series. Also on Friday's list: Rainbow Six Mobile is shutting down, Charlie Cox recorded 40 hours of lines for a mystery Sega game, a YouTuber lost his whole channel over Hellraiser: Revival, and Richard Garriott is about to get Ultima back from EA for free. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 9, 2026.
Cyberpunk 2077 key art (image via VGC / CD Projekt Red)
Paramount is making a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie, with CD Projekt Red co-producing
Deadline broke it and CD Projekt Red confirmed it: a live-action film set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe is in development at Paramount Pictures, with Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura attached alongside CDPR. There are no story, cast, writer or director details yet. CDPR co-CEO Michał Nowakowski said the studio is "excited about Paramount as a future partner who shares our creative ambitions for the Cyberpunk franchise." Cyberpunk 2077 has sold 40 million copies and Phantom Liberty another 15 million, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 hits Netflix on October 20. Paramount, now part of the newly merged Skydance, also has a Street Fighter film and a Call of Duty movie in the works.
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Forza Horizon 6 (image via VGC / Playground Games)
Update: Forza Horizon 6 on PS5 is officially January 26, alongside its first expansion
Earlier this week the PS5 version was reported to be slipping into 2027. Now Playground Games has made it official with a new trailer: Forza Horizon 6 arrives on PS5 on January 26, 2027, the same day as the game's first major expansion. Premium Edition pre-orders get up to five days of early access, and any PS5 pre-order comes with a pre-tuned Ferrari J50. There are no details yet on what the expansion actually is. The game was previously announced for 2026 on PS5, so it's technically a delay, though it does keep the racer well clear of GTA 6.
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Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve (image via VGC / Bandai Namco)
Ace Combat 8 passes 1 million copies, the fastest in series history
Bandai Namco says Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve has topped one million copies worldwide in a little over a week, faster than any other game in the series. It's also the second-best-reviewed Ace Combat, sitting at 87 on Metacritic per VGC, just behind Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies at 89. The game launched October 2 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. (Our full Ace Combat 8 review roundup is already up if you missed it.)
Rainbow Six Mobile (image via VGC / Ubisoft)
Ubisoft is shutting down Rainbow Six Mobile less than a year after launch
Rainbow Six Mobile soft-launched back in 2023 but only went global in February 2026, and now it's being sunset. The game stays playable until January 15, 2027, and the next season still releases as planned next week. "There's no easy way to put it: we have made the difficult decision to sunset Rainbow Six Mobile," the dev team wrote, adding that the team will move on to "other long-term strategic projects." More details on the transition are coming in the next few weeks.
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Charlie Cox at NYCC 2026 (image via IGN)
Charlie Cox recorded about 40 hours of lines for an unannounced Sega game
Gustave from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is doing games again. At New York Comic Con, Charlie Cox told IGN he's finished recording for a Sega game that "doesn't have a name yet," and that it took around 40 hours. Best part: the team apparently didn't realize he was English until his first day. "All of them went, '...oh, he's English.' They'd hoped, they'd wanted him to be American," Cox said, so he did all 40 hours in an American accent. Sega's announced lineup includes Stranger Than Heaven, Persona 6 and Alien: Isolation 2, but nobody knows yet which project this is.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival (image via Kotaku / Saber Interactive)
A YouTuber's 190K-subscriber channel was deleted over a censored Hellraiser: Revival video
French creator J0nathan says YouTube permanently banned his channel for a Hellraiser: Revival gameplay video, even though he put black boxes over the nudity in the game's explicit opening. YouTube cited its sex and nudity policy. The video was labeled "Not Made for Kids" but wasn't age-gated. He told IGN he lost 10 years of work and more than 3,000 videos, his first appeal was rejected within minutes, and uncensored footage of the same scene is still up on other channels. He says he's considering an appeal under the EU's DSA and legal action if YouTube won't take another look.
Crimson Desert (image via VGC / Pearl Abyss)
Pearl Abyss exec says Crimson Desert's critics didn't get "a fair chance to explore"
Talking to The Game Business, Pearl Abyss Europe CEO Lybee Park explained why she thinks Crimson Desert landed at 77 on Metacritic while players were much more positive. Her argument: reviewers played a build that wasn't the same as the launch version, and they had limited time, so they mostly followed the main quest while the game's charm is "spread all over our in-game world." She did add that "both parties have fair points, especially the critics." Pearl Abyss has kept patching the game since March and is targeting a Switch 2 version in the first half of next year.
Street Fighter 6 (image via Kotaku / Capcom)
Street Fighter 6's producer says the series might have "died in 10 years" without a reboot
Producer Shuhei Matsumoto says that during the Street Fighter V era, he and director Takayuki Nakayama realized the IP "would probably die in 10 years" if nothing changed. The SFV player base was mostly 35 to 45 years old, and people knew of the scene but weren't actually playing. So for SF6 they acted "as if the current generation doesn't know us," which led to Modern controls, the Battle Hub and World Tour. It worked: Street Fighter 6 passed 7 million sales this summer, and the live-action movie is out October 16.
Resident Evil Requiem (image via IGN / Capcom)
Resident Evil Requiem started out as an online game
In Capcom's Biohazard 30th anniversary fan book, producer Masachika Kawata revealed that director Koshi Nakanishi originally went as far as developing Requiem as an online game. Research partway through development "was not favorable," so the team dropped it and went back to horror. Kawata also said Leon was the first protagonist locked in, but a Leon-only game was too action-heavy for horror to work, which is how Grace came into the picture.
Ghost of Tsushima: Legends anime (image via Gematsu / Aniplex / Crunchyroll)
The Ghost of Tsushima anime slips to 2028
Crunchyroll and Aniplex say the Ghost of Tsushima: Legends anime is moving from 2027 to 2028. It's still directed by Takanobu Mizuno at Kamikaze Douga with Gen Urobuchi on story composition. New cast members include Mayumi Saco, who voiced Tomoe in the original game, and Shinya Fukumatsu (One-Punch Man), both in roles not yet revealed. Keiji Inai is composing the score. It'll stream exclusively on Crunchyroll.
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Mafia III: Definitive Edition (image via Push Square / 2K)
Mafia III gets a surprise free 60fps upgrade on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
2K quietly dropped native PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of Mafia III: Definitive Edition with 60fps and other technical improvements. It's free if you already own the game on PS4 or Xbox One (or the Omerta Collection), and if you don't, it's 80% off right now, as low as $5.99 on the PS Store. The PC version on Steam also got a big patch with fixes and quality-of-life updates. Push Square notes a native PS5 Mafia II: Definitive Edition has been rated too, but it isn't out yet.
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Ultima artwork (image via TweakTown / Electronic Arts)
Richard Garriott is taking Ultima back from EA in 2027, for free
Ultima creator Richard Garriott says he'll regain the series' copyrights from EA in 2027 using a US copyright rule that lets original creators reclaim rights after 35 years with no money changing hands. He told YouTuber Jesse Petrilla he notified EA in April, and EA replied that "we know that's the law and we will act accordingly." Garriott says he's in talks about whether to work with EA, and that at minimum he could re-release the old games or make a sequel. "It's been 26 years since a new Ultima."
Yoko Taro (image via IGN)
Yoko Taro says he'd retire, but fear of dementia keeps him working
Asked about new projects at a talk in Tokyo (reported by Denfaminicogamer), the NieR creator said "nothing really" and "I'm done with working." He says he already hit his life goal with his first directing job, Drakengard, and has kept working mostly for income. He's thought about retiring on savings and pension, but worries about developing dementia after retirement, so when work gets hard he tells himself, "This is good for preventing dementia." As IGN notes, this is Yoko Taro, so take it with the usual grain of salt.
The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Nintendo Switch 2 (image via Nintendo Life / Nintendo)
Best Buy is doing a midnight launch for Ocarina of Time, with extra Zelda Switch 2 stock
If you missed the sold-out Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 or Pro Controller, Best Buy is giving you one more shot. Select US stores will open at midnight ET on Thursday, November 5 for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and they'll have "limited numbers" of the Zelda Switch 2 and Pro Controller on hand. Best Buy hasn't said how many units each store gets, and participating locations are listed on its website.
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Roundup compiled Oct 9, 2026 (America/Chicago). Reporting credit to the linked sources; images via the linked outlets and publishers.
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