Gaming News Roundup: Gears of War: E-Day Sales, Silent Hill's Next Waves, Sonic Racing x Final Fantasy 7 & More (Oct 10, 2026)
Gears of War: E-Day (image via IGN / The Coalition)
Gears of War: E-Day got great reviews, but early sales estimates say Game Pass ate most of the Xbox revenue. Konami says Silent Hill's "second and third waves" are already being planned, and Sonic Racing CrossWorlds' Year 2 lineup now includes Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Persona. Also on Saturday's list: Nintendo says to go ask Rockstar about GTA 6 on Switch 2, Arc Raiders is testing a no-PvP mode next week, Modern Warfare 4 dated DMZ early access, and a lot of Marvel's Wolverine buyers still went physical. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 10, 2026.
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Gears of War: E-Day (image via Eurogamer / Xbox Game Studios)
Gears of War: E-Day reportedly sold just 230,000 copies, while 1.7 million played on Game Pass
Alinea Analytics' Rhys Elliott estimates E-Day sold about 230,000 copies in its first week: 168,000 on Steam and only 62,000 through Xbox on console and PC. Meanwhile, roughly 1.7 million people played it through Game Pass, and around 722,000 of them paid $30 for the Premium upgrade to get five days of early access. Alinea puts total revenue at about $37 million. "The $70 premium SKU is – functionally – dead on Xbox," Elliott said. These are unofficial estimates, and Microsoft hasn't shared any numbers.
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Silent Hill 2 (image via Eurogamer / Konami)
Konami is already planning Silent Hill's "second and third waves"
The Silent Hill 2 remake, Silent Hill f and last month's Silent Hill: Townfall are all out, and producer Motoi Okamoto says Konami isn't done. "Successfully launching this 'first wave' comes with great relief, but we're not stopping here; we must think of the second and third waves," he told Famitsu, adding that Konami is "currently looking at a number of projects." He also said convincing his bosses to make more than one game wasn't easy, because "just one remake is not enough." We already know Bloober Team is remaking the original Silent Hill.
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Sonic Racing CrossWorlds (image via VGC / Sega)
Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Year 2 adds Final Fantasy 7, Persona, Hello Kitty and Godzilla, plus a price cut
Sega laid out Year 2 for CrossWorlds, which kicks off November 3. There are six paid crossover packs: Godzilla first (with Godzilla attacking Sonic Adventure 2's City Escape), then Evangelion, a Sanrio Puroland pack with Hello Kitty and Kuromi, a retro Segaland pack with Out Run and After Burner cabinet cars, a Final Fantasy 7 Remake "Midgar Pack" and a Persona pack. Free stuff includes Bayonetta at launch, a McLaren F1 car later in November and Aigis from Persona 3 Reload in early 2027. The Season Pass is $29.99, and the base game is now permanently $40 (down from $70), with the Digital Deluxe at $60.
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Grand Theft Auto VI (image via Kotaku / Rockstar Games)
GTA 6 on Switch 2? Nintendo of America says go ask Rockstar
Asked by Variety whether GTA 6 could eventually show up on Switch 2, Nintendo of America president Devon Pritchard said, "That's going to be a conversation for Take-Two and Rockstar, but nothing to announce on my end at this time." Switch 2 is the only current console not getting GTA 6 on November 19, and it's going head to head with it via the Ocarina of Time remake on November 5. Kotaku points out that GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 aren't on Switch 2 either.
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Arc Raiders (image via GamesRadar+ / Embark Studios)
Arc Raiders is testing a PvE-only option, and a full split is "possible"
From October 13 to 20, Embark is running a limited test that lets players opt into PvE matchmaking where Raiders can't hurt each other (Night Raids and the upcoming Frigate aren't included). Executive producer Aleksander Grøndal told GamesRadar+ that splitting the game into PvE and PvP is "quite possibly" where things end up: "the community is already split along those lines." Embark's own data says 37% of players are friendly co-op types, 34% are pure PvP, and 51% of surveyed players want a dedicated PvE option.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (image via IGN / Activision)
Update: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ gets early access on October 20
After this week's DMZ deep dives, Activision has locked in the launch rollout. If you pre-ordered the standard or Vault Edition, campaign early access starts Friday, October 16, DMZ early access follows Tuesday, October 20, and everything else (including core multiplayer) launches Friday, October 23 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2. Infinity Ward is calling the new DMZ the series' "definitive extraction shooter experience," and there's a new gameplay trailer to go with it.
Grand Theft Auto VI (image via Kotaku / Rockstar Games)
Rockstar's HR boss grilled over a Discord "mole" at the union-busting tribunal
The case brought by 31 fired Rockstar developers (backed by the IWGB union) continued in Glasgow, where Rockstar Lincoln HR manager Charlie Kinloch was cross-examined. The claimants say an anonymous employee known as "AB" passed him screenshots from a union Discord for about two years, including info suggesting the group was close to the threshold needed for union recognition. Kinloch says he had "little interest" in who was in the union and was focused on leak risk ahead of what he later learned was a major announcement. The firings happened at the end of October 2025, and Rockstar announced GTA 6's delay to November 2026 days later. Rockstar maintains the staff were fired for gross misconduct and leaking.
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skate. (image via IGN / EA)
Skate's devs are fine with mods, just not ones that unlock paid cosmetics
ReSkate, a mod platform that lets you play EA's online-only Skate offline with custom maps, cosmetics and servers, hit 350,000 downloads in a matter of hours. Developer Full Circle responded that it's "not against creativity from players," but "where we have to draw the line is when mods or other tools bypass our systems to unlock paid cosmetics, release gated/unreleased content, or profit from these unauthorized assets." The studio also promised deeper creation tools down the road. For now, nobody's taking action against ReSkate.
Marvel's Wolverine (image via GamesRadar+ / Sony)
Discs aren't dead yet: 35% of Marvel's Wolverine launch sales were physical
Ampere Analysis numbers (via The Game Business) put Wolverine at No. 2 on PS5 for September with 2.16 million copies sold, and about 35% of those were boxed copies. The Blood of Dawnwalker (36%) and Onimusha: Way of the Sword (30%) were similar, and Silent Hill: Townfall hit 45% physical on PS5. That's a lot of plastic for a company that plans to stop producing PlayStation discs in January 2028.
Star Wars Zero Company (image via Push Square / EA)
Star Wars Zero Company passes one million copies
EA says Bit Reactor and Respawn's XCOM-style Star Wars tactics game has sold more than a million copies, and version 1.2 is coming next week (no patch notes yet). It's good news for Bit Reactor too, which Push Square notes has been able to bring back some furloughed staff thanks to the game's success.
Street Fighter (2026) (image via IGN)
A Street Fighter movie sequel is already being written, if the first one does well
Director Kitao Sakurai told MovieWeb a follow-up is "something that we're thinking about and developing," and "we're writing currently," but it "depends on how people react to this one." The movie, which also includes animated sequences about Ryu and Ken's backstory with Gouken and Akuma, hits theaters October 16. Fans have already noticed Sagat hasn't shown up in any of the marketing.
Slitterhead (image via Eurogamer / Bokeh Game Studio)
Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama's studio is reportedly casting a new horror game
Per MP1st, Bokeh Game Studio (Slitterhead, from the director of the original Silent Hill and creator of Siren and Gravity Rush) is hiring motion capture performers for an untitled project. The casting sheet lists characters named River, Dean, Lyra, Hazel, Becca, Dena and Emma plus an eight-year-old girl, with mature themes including drugs, trafficking, abuse and grief, and several characters tied to "creature transformation." River's references are River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain, and Lyra's tonal reference is Mia Goth.
Avalanche Studios Group x Supermassive Games (image via GamesIndustry.biz / Nordisk Games)
Update: Avalanche will now publish Supermassive's games
A few days after Supermassive's latest round of layoffs, owner Nordisk Games announced that sister studio Avalanche Studios Group (theHunter: Call of the Wild) will globally publish, market and distribute Supermassive's titles, starting with this year's Directive 8020. The two will share finance, people and IT support, but Nordisk says both stay "fully creatively independent" and keep their own development plans.
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams (image via PC Gamer / Assemble Entertainment)
Leisure Suit Larry's Wet Dreams games are getting delisted on October 23
Assemble Entertainment says Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry and Wet Dreams Dry Twice are being pulled from Steam on October 23, and both are 95% off (under $2 each) until then. No reason was given. PC Gamer guesses an expiring license, and notes the original Larry games were already delisted in 2025.
Roundup compiled Oct 10, 2026 (America/Chicago). Reporting credit to the linked sources; images via the linked outlets and publishers.
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