Gaming News Roundup: GTA 6 Radio Stations, Xbox XP Division, Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen & More (Oct 8, 2026)
GTA 6 owns Thursday from both directions. Rockstar officially revealed six of the game's radio stations, and hours earlier the Cyberleek leaker came back with 25 more minutes of footage. Xbox also launched a whole new division for movies, merch and theme parks, Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen and Hellraiser: Revival both arrived, and Arc Raiders' biggest update is live. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 8, 2026.
Grand Theft Auto VI (image via Game Informer / Rockstar Games)
Rockstar reveals six GTA 6 radio stations, plus podcasts you can play on foot
Rockstar added a music section to the official GTA 6 site today with previews of six stations: Cocoteo FM (modern Latin), Back Country Radio (country), AfroBank FM (African music), The Chamber 106.6 (classic metal), Flash FM (pop) and Dirty South Classics (Southern rap). Each preview runs 1 to 3 minutes and mixes DJ chatter with songs, and Kotaku spotted MGMT's "Electric Feel," Slayer's "Raining Blood" and Loretta Lynn in there. For the first time in the series, Jason and Lucia can listen to radio and new on-demand podcasts on foot through headphones connected to their phones. Rockstar says more on the score and the GTA 6 album is coming. With the game out November 19, Australia's Fair Work Ombudsman even posted a tongue-in-cheek guide explaining that wanting to play GTA 6 doesn't give you a right to unpaid leave.
Read on Game Informer → · Kotaku → · VGC (Australia leave guide) →
Jason and Lucia in Grand Theft Auto VI (image via GamesRadar+ / Rockstar Games)
GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek returns with 25 minutes of new footage
After going quiet in late August, the leaker known as Cyberleek posted a 25-minute video from GTA 6. VGC, which has seen it, says it appears to be authentic. It shows the Thrillbilly Mud Club event from the first trailer, a dirt bike race, a car getting customized for a street race, new cutscenes, first-person gameplay, and a lot of nudity. VGC notes a tank spawning out of nowhere, so some of it may have been tampered with. The video ends by asking for money for an unnamed "gaming related" project. Take-Two has already subpoenaed Microsoft, Discord, X and YouTube trying to identify the leaker, so if you want to avoid spoilers, start muting keywords now.
Xbox XP (image via Eurogamer / Microsoft)
Xbox launches XP, a new division for movies, TV, merch and theme parks
Microsoft's new XP unit has four arms: Xbox Pictures (film and TV), Xbox Products (licensing and merch), Xbox Partnerships (sponsors and brand deals) and Xbox Places (events and theme parks). Mojang president Kayleen Walters, an executive producer on A Minecraft Movie, will run it, and Reddit's former chief product officer Maria Angelidou-Smith takes over Mojang. XP will oversee things like the Fallout TV series, the Minecraft Movie sequel (July 23, 2027) and the Minecraft World attraction opening at the UK's Chessington in 2027. Eurogamer and GamesIndustry.biz both point out that it comes after roughly 3,200 job cuts in Xbox's reset this year.
Read on GamesIndustry.biz → · Eurogamer →
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen (image via GamesRadar+ / Capcom)
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen is out, and critics love it
Capcom's $30 expansion is out today on all platforms, alongside the Switch 2 version of the game, which includes the expansion. It adds the snowy region of Norgan, new enemies, a story-heavy questline and an improved character creator. It's sitting at 84 on Metacritic, which is a few points above the original Dark Arisen's 81 back in 2013. Push Square calls it "peak Dragon's Dogma" and "a transformative DLC," and Nintendo Life says the Switch 2 port is in excellent shape. A few reviewers warn that it won't win over people who bounced off the base game.
Read on GamesRadar+ → · Push Square review → · Nintendo Life review roundup →
Pinhead in Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival (image via GamesRadar+ / Saber Interactive)
Hellraiser: Revival arrives to very split reviews
Saber's first-person horror game, with Doug Bradley back as Pinhead, is out today on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2. GamesRadar+ loved it, calling Pinhead's return "glorious" and "a true love letter to the original movies," even if the combat feels weightless. Push Square says it's a faithful adaptation "let down by severe gameplay woes" and a shortage of resources. Eurogamer calls it messy and uneven but earnest. Fair warning: every review says it's extremely gory and sexually explicit.
Read on GamesRadar+ → · Push Square → · Eurogamer →
Arc Raiders: Frozen Trail (image via Polygon / Embark Studios)
Update: Arc Raiders' Frozen Trail update is live, and the game is free until Monday
On Monday we mentioned the free weekend tied to Frozen Trail. The update is now out, and it's Arc Raiders' biggest since launch. It adds Pendola Pass, an icy new map with tougher enemies, the Bantam and Stiletto weapons, weapon upgrades, a grappling hook, a photo camera and outposts you can furnish. Quests and milestones now give XP so leveling is faster, stash size goes up to 328 slots, and Solo vs. Squads is gone for now. Polygon says player numbers are already climbing, and the game is free to play until 4am ET on Monday, October 12.
NBA 2K27 (image via GamesIndustry.biz / 2K)
US console sales just had their worst August since 2013
Circana's August report says hardware unit sales fell 15% to 559,000, the lowest August since 2013. Xbox was down 31% and PlayStation 11%, and the average new console now costs $541. Physical game spending is somehow up 5% this year, mostly because spending on Switch 2 game-key cards jumped 631%. NBA 2K27 was August's top seller, followed by Madden NFL 27, Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, EA's Kickoff bundle and Star Wars Zero Company. Elden Ring jumped to No. 7 after its Switch 2 release.
Read on GamesIndustry.biz → · Kotaku →
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ (image via Eurogamer / Activision)
Update: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ lets you pay to spawn in a helicopter
Earlier this week's DMZ deep dive left out one detail. The new progression trailer shows five ways to deploy into a match, paid for with in-game DMZ Cash. The free option drops you on foot at a random spot. $5,000 gets you an off-road buggy, $25,000 an armored truck, $50,000 a helicopter, and $100,000 an aircraft that seems to let you pick where you start. The truck and helicopter also need a story mission to unlock, but Eurogamer argues that richer squads will have a big edge in what's supposed to be a fair-start extraction shooter.
The Witcher 3 Remastered (image via Kotaku / CD Projekt Red)
Update: Witcher 3 Remastered patch 5.01 lets console players turn off bloom
The fixes CD Projekt Red promised are out on PC, PS5 and Xbox. Patch 5.01 (about 5.5GB on console, 8.5GB on PC) adds bloom, light shaft and depth of field toggles on console, fixes the bug where dialogue got quieter after using the pause menu, and improves console performance. It also fixes runaway boats, stamina draining when you sprint and dodge at the same time, and PC picking the wrong GPU. A separate Switch 2 patch to sharpen the blurry image is coming "in the following days."
Read on Eurogamer → · Kotaku →
Capcom (image via IGN)
Update: Capcom says no generative AI in its games after its RE Engine comments
Last week we covered Capcom's talk of turning the RE Engine into an "AI-generation" engine with its REX project. A Capcom spokesperson has now told IGN that it has no plans to use generative AI to make its games. AI in the RE Engine will only be used to speed up development, through better tools, automated code testing and data analysis, and not to create assets. That matches what Capcom told shareholders in March: "We will not implement assets generated by AI into our games."
Google Playground (image via Eurogamer / Google)
Google and Unity launch AI game makers, and Unity's CEO says they won't make you Kojima
Google's Playground, now in testing in the US, builds simple games from text prompts and lets you share them with other users. Unity Spark, which is "coming soon," is the more serious tool. It works inside Unity's engine, and Playground users can hand their projects off to it. Unity CEO Matt Bromberg told Game File that Spark isn't about "one-shotting" games: "Asking the AI to reproduce a game that has already been made does not make you [Hideo] Kojima." Spark's tagline is "Prompt it. Perfect it. Publish it." and the demo game, Space Corridor, didn't impress many people.
Read on Eurogamer → · GamesRadar+ →
PlayStation VR2 (image via Push Square / Sony)
Sony is selling 419 VR patents to Meta
ZDNet Korea reports that Sony plans to transfer 419 VR-related patents worldwide to Meta, and 43 US patents have already changed hands between June and September. Sony was early to head-mounted displays, and the original PSVR was a hit on PS4, but PS VR2 never got much support from first-party games. Meta is still pushing ahead with its VR Glasses due in 2027. Combined with Sony skipping next year's CES, it's a strong hint that PlayStation is done with VR hardware.
Hollow Knight in Fortnite (image via GamesRadar+ / Epic Games)
Fortnite's Hollow Knight bundle costs more than Hollow Knight, and more than Silksong
The Knight joined Fortnitemares as a sidekick, with a Grub back bling and the Nail as a pickaxe. The full bundle is 2,000 V-Bucks, about $22.49. That's more than Hollow Knight on Steam ($14.99) and even Hollow Knight: Silksong ($19.99). The bench and the Shade show up too. The bundle is in the shop until October 15.
The 800XL (image via VGC / Atari / Retro Games Ltd)
Atari is bringing back the 800XL as a full-size replica with a working keyboard
Atari and Retro Games Ltd are following up The 400 Mini with a full-size remake of the 1983 Atari 800XL. It has a mechanical keyboard, HDMI out, USB ports, a working cartridge slot and Atari BASIC built in. It comes with 25 games including Asteroids, Centipede, Berzerk and Boulder Dash, plus an upgraded joystick, and it runs Atari 400/800/XL/XE and 5200 software from carts or USB. Pre-orders are open now ($219.99 / £199.99), and it ships in April 2027.
Roundup compiled Oct 8, 2026 (America/Chicago). Reporting credit to the linked sources; images via the linked outlets and publishers.
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