The specifics that excite you might vary, but we’re particularly eager to see what the latest Enhanced PSSR support is bringing to a game that impressed us by a strong margin in our review (and managed to provide Electronic Arts with a solid standing in the first quarter of FY 2026).

We’re especially eager to check out what Madring, the new Brazil-based track, has to offer, considering that it’s built from the ground up and designed to show off all the new visual and gameplay improvements that the 2026 Season Pack is bringing to the table. You can check out the official announcement on Steam for more details, or our deep dive into the various features and new additions here.

Long story short: It’s more than just two new teams and four new drivers. With revamped vehicle designs, including the addition of Active Aero, and the new Overtake and Boost Modes, there should be plenty of high-octane moments to look forward to. We’ll see you on the tracks, so make sure you put your best foot forward (pun intended).

However, details have been scarce, and speculation rife about whether this would be an expansion to Cronos: The New Dawn, or a whole new title altogether. Well,  a couple of tweets from leaker intercelluar indicate that it’s the former.

That makes sense given the success of The New Dawn, a title we found quite impressive in how it presented its horror elements and world. The story was no slouch either, presenting a take on human greed, apathy, and the hope for a better tomorrow that was not only insightful but deliciously nuanced. There’s a reason it scored high in our review, after all.

While we’re taking the tweets with a grain of salt until we hear an official announcement, we can’t help but wonder if the leaked images hint at playing as ND-F077, who would become the Warden. What ultimately shaped his journey?

We’d be delighted if the outcome was somehow connected to the apocalypse that has befallen post-apocalyptic Poland, but of course, that’s just speculation at this point. The good news is that we won’t have to wait too long to find out if we’re right, so stay tuned for updates later this week.

Communications director Thomas Puha clarified this on Twitter, confirming it’s a PlayStation-exclusive benefit. Strangely enough, it’s not specified on the PlayStation Store, despite the platform-specific trailer indicating as much. Either way, if you’re on PC or Xbox Series X/S, it’s kind of a bummer.

Aside from this, Puha also confirmed that hands-on impressions are on the way, with Remedy venturing to Mexico City, São Paulo, Warsaw, Berlin and London to provide game access to the press and content creators. “We’ve been working on this the entire year. Setting this up all on our own has been a mammoth effort. Very excited to have folks get a good feel for the game and combat especially,” he said.

Pre-orders are now live for Control Resonant, and unlike many titles which have adopted the $70 price tag, the Standard Edition costs $59.99. This is despite being Remedy’s “biggest and most ambitious” game to date, right down to the 100 GB of installation space required on PC.

The Deluxe Edition costs $69.99, and aside from advanced access, you get an AWE Mission Outfit, a starter resource bundle, a digital art book and soundtrack, and an Untapped Artifact which serves as a “wallet.” Stay tuned for more details and gameplay in the coming weeks.

Yes, the initial gameplay trailer highlighted the sheer brutality that Wolverine is capable of. But this was on another level, especially when it came to the realistic damage that Logan could take. Fortunately, ever since the “inception of the project,” Insomniac never wavered.

“We knew that the number one most important thing was to bring the Wolverine fantasy to life. Not just that, but make it the ultimate Wolverine fantasy,” said game director Mike Daly to IGN. “And when you look at the aspects of the character and all the stories he’s been through in his history, it was clear that violence was a key part of that. So that was never really in question, and it was kind of baked into how we made decisions from the very beginning. So we knew that we were going to have to bring that out in gameplay, put it in your hands as a player, make it a part of the story.

“But at the same time, Insomniac Games, we want to have a grounded world with believable things that happen. So we didn’t want to go over the top. We really wanted to hit the bullseye on what is the best representation of Wolverine, what delivers fan expectations, and what’s going to keep the claw combat action satisfying over the whole course of the playthrough.”

The result is an “unapologetically violent” experience. “We knew it would have to accomplish that in order to accomplish our ultimate mission. And because of that, the gameplay retains satisfaction.”

For those who feel that it’s too much – and undoubtedly to appear to a wider audience – there will be an option to turn off the gore. “Now all that being said, we know that it’s not for everyone. And because we knew this was going to be a big part of the game from the beginning, we also implemented an accessibility feature to turn off gore. It’s clearly integrated into the game in a lot of different ways, and so it’s a nuanced feature that is very selective about what we show, what we censor, turning off blood and things like that, just in order to make it more palatable to people who don’t really want to have that part of the experience.”

Launching on September 15th, Marvel’s Wolverine is certainly an interesting take on the classic anti-hero. Though it’s an all-new story, it actually picks up three years after Logan left his team, as he scours the globe, saving mutants from the Reavers.

Along the way, he fights alongside the likes of Jean Grey and, surprisingly, Sabretooth, his on-again, off-again nemesis from the comics. Rather than battling Wolverine, he’ll actually help out in a “competitive” manner, potentially stealing kills and bantering back and forth. Daly teased other allies to team with, but we’ll have to wait to find out.

“We wanted to build upon the strengths of the modern God of War combat system, and at the same time, we wanted to inject a little bit more of that old school classic God of War DNA into it,” said Yeh. “So, with the addition of jump, there’s a lot of fun, new, more over-the-top things that you can do in this game compared to the grounded nature of the previous two games.

“And I think it leads to a fresh yet familiar feel to the combat system that I think everyone will enjoy.”

Peterson added, “We knew that we wanted to push on Faye’s mobility. And by allowing her to transition seamlessly between the air and the ground states, it led to this hyper responsiveness that quickly became fundamental to what made her so fun to play.”

That agility also comes in handy when dealing with enemy attacks. For instance, Faye leaps over a fiery wave while fighting against Begtse, but if she’s too slow to dodge in mid-air, he can follow up with his own juggles.

Besides the increased speed and movement options, you also have two new companions – Rue and Phranque. The former is the guardian of the sword that Faye wields, manifesting as ribbons attached to the hilt, but she’s far from frail. Using Rue, Faye can pull enemies to her or close the distance, and even whip them with area-of-effect attacks.

Phranque also helps out during combat, and if you push an enemy at him, he’ll launch them into the air for a follow-up. Of course, this is only the bare minimum of what they’re capable of.

“Over the course of the game, you’ll be able to upgrade both Ru and Frank to tailor them to your own play style,” says Yeh.

And while Faye formed a large part of the focus in the playthrough, he says, “at the other end of the spectrum, there are plenty of evil gods, gigantic creatures, and spectacular sequences to experience in the game.”

Potential Zeus return? Maybe Odin appearing for Faye to deal out some much-needed vengeance? Time will tell, and God of War Laufey lacks a release date on PS5. Fortunately, it shouldn’t be too long, with Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier claiming it isn’t “years away” from release.

You would think that the latter is another villain that players would have to deal with. But surprisingly, they’re actually working together as a team. Don’t expect the same dynamic as with Jean, however, as game director Mike Daly told IGN, “Logan and Sabretooth have a very competitive dynamic between them. Whereas Jean Grey might give you an opportunity to get a kill, with Sabretooth fighting alongside you, it’s more like you think you’ve got a kill and he rushes in to steal it from you, and their combat banter brings out that dynamic and makes the whole fight more fun.”

Wolverine will have “other allies” to fight alongside throughout the experience, and we’d be surprised if Mystique isn’t in the running. Don’t worry – his partnership with Jean isn’t a one-off thing. “They will work together more later on in the game, and Jean can use her telepathy to help Logan in stealth segments as well to give him an edge by dimming enemy perceptions,” says Daly.

Of course, given the history between Wolverine and Sabretooth, it wouldn’t be surprising if they eventually end up coming to blows. It’s iconic, if nothing else.

Marvel’s Wolverine launches on September 15th for PS5. Pre-orders are available with the Standard Edition costing $69.99 and the Deluxe Edition retailing for $79.99. Taking notes from Insomniac’s Spider-Man series, the latter includes five exclusive suits and claws, and you also get three Technique Points for an early edge.

Those who pre-order either edition will receive the Classic Brown Suit and the Reflective Claws as early unlocks along with one Technique Point. Stay tuned for more details and gameplay in the coming months, as Wolverine’s mission to stop Trask and the Reavers is fully revealed.

The obvious standout is that players will need 100 GB of installation space on a solid-state drive. Compare that to Control Ultimate Edition, where, even with the base game and both expansions, it only requires 42 GB. It seems Remedy wasn’t kidding about it being their “biggest and most ambitious game” to date, especially when it comes to the installation space.

On the minimum side, you’ll need an Intel Core i5-8500 or equivalent AMD CPU, 16 GB RAM and a GeForce GTX 1070 or Radeon RX 5600 XT. The recommended requirements include a Ryzen 7 3700X or equivalent Intel CPU, the same RAM and an RTX 3070 or an RX 6700 XT. The graphics settings, target resolution, and more aren’t mentioned, but these are simply “initial” requirements. At least it supports Windows 10 64-bit alongside Windows 11.

Aside from PC, Control Resonant launches on September 24th for Xbox Series X/S and PS5, with Remedy aiming for 60 FPS on all platforms. Expect more gameplay and the final PC requirements as we near its release.

One of the biggest features available on the Nintendo Switch 2 that isn’t on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S will be the unique version of Nvidia’s DLSS for image upscaling. Assandri noted that the technology has worked quite well, even allowing the company to output the title at full 4K when the console is docked, since power consumption isn’t a concern at that point. DLSS has helped the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Rayman Legends Retold to be “quite on par” with the Xbox Series S in terms of visual fidelity and performance, he said.

“The DLSS is working quite well, as you can see,” said Assandri, “When it’s docked, it’s full 4K because we don’t have to care about power consumption, so we can go a bit higher. Essentially, on Switch 2, we are quite on par with the Xbox Series S [version in terms of] quality.”

There were plenty of technical decisions made to ensure that Rayman Legends Retold would run well on Nintendo Switch 2, especially when it comes to more resource-intensive techniques like ray tracing. Since Ubisoft Montpellier is aiming to run the title on Nintendo’s hybrid console at 60 FPS, it had to work hard to ensure that Ubisoft’s in-house Snow Drop engine was up to the task.

“As you might know, ray tracing is quite costly,” he said, “ [In Star Wars Outlaws on Switch 2], they deal with it by running at 30 FPS, but we are aiming for 60 on all platforms, from the most humble – Switch 2 – to the most high end, a PS5 Pro, or high end PC – so it was quite a challenge… we [had] to really push the limit of Snow Drop from 30 FPS to 60.”

“One of the tricks we used to reach that quality is to lower the resolution. For most of the GPU [resources] it depends on the resolution, so the more we reduce resolution, the less costly it will be.”

Among the tweaks made to the Snow Drop engine involved changing things that weren’t quite needed for Rayman Legends Retold. Since the engine was designed around rendering massive open worlds for Ubisoft’s other games, Assandri noted that the team had the freedom to change things like how level of detail is calculated.

“We develop a thing where the level of detail is not based on distance [from parts of the environment] but it’s based on ratio and scale,” he explained. “So, depending on the size of the character on screen, it will change the level of detail accordingly to that… the amount of detail that we have on PS5 is approximately the same as on Switch 2.”

These decisions ultimately helped the studio ensure that it could target 60 FPS at the same resolution on all platforms, regardless of the number of players on the screen.

Rayman Legends Retold is slated for an October 1st release on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2.

Billbil-kun has also noted that they were able to corroborate reports of EA Sports College Football 27 coming to PC. Unfortunately for Nintendo Switch 2 players, however, it looks like the title will once more skip the hybrid console.

As for pricing, the PC version of EA Sports College Football 27 is expected to be priced similarly to its console counterparts, with a standard edition coming it at $69.99, and a Deluxe Edition priced at $99.99. European players might find that the PC version is €10 cheaper than the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions, however, with the standard edition priced at €69.99 on PC and €79.99 on consoles, and the Deluxe Edition priced at €99.99 on PC and €109.99 on consoles.

There are also going to be pre-order bonuses for the Deluxe Edition, including 4,600 College Football Points, 3 days of advanced access, exclusive solo challenges, Ultimate Team Player Items, Dynasty Coach Points, and Road to Glory Skill Points. The PC version is expected to come out on the same day as the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions – on July 9th.

Along with this, Billbil-kun’s report has also indicated that Madden NFL 27 will be coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2 on August 13th. While the PC version will only be available digitally, there are plans for physical editions for the consoles.

All of these details come just a day before EA’s planned official showcase for EA Sports College Football 27 and Madden NFL 27. The showcase was announced just last week, and will feature a deep dive into the two titles, giving us a look at some of their new features and updated rosters. Both titles are slated to be part of “one connected showcase”, with EA promising new game modes and innovations.

Just this week, EA had also revealed the cover athletes for EA Sports College Football 27’s standard and Deluxe Editions. The title will feature Oregon quarterback Dante Moore, Miami wide receiver Malachi Toney, and Ole Miss running back Kewan Lacy on the standard edition. The Deluxe Edition will feature Texas linebacker Colin Simmons, Notre Dame cornerback Leonard Moore, and USC quarterback Jayden Maiava. Legendary coach Curt Cignetti will also be present on the cover.

While you wait for the newest iteration of the EA Sports College Football series, take a look at our review of last year’s release, which we gave a score of 8 out of 10 thanks to the sheer number of customization options it offered, its fleshed-out offense and defense play, and its authentic depiction of school stadiums, among many other reasons.

Pre-orders are live now on the Nintendo eShop, with the Standard Edition costing $69.99 and the Deluxe Edition retailing for $89.99. As with other platforms, purchasing the latter entitles you to three days of early access and various DLC packs, including the Mayhem Collection.

Speaking of which, it launches on the same day, offering a new story mission starring The Joker and Harley Quinn where they escape from Arkham Asylum. You also get to rampage through Gotham City in Mayhem Mode. There’s also the Sinister Pack, and based on datamining, it may see players controlling several Task Force X characters.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is currently available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC. You can check out our review here – we gave it a nine out of ten, praising the combat, visuals, and open world. Whether it fills the gap left by Rocksteady’s Batman Arkham series will vary from person to person, but it’s an incredible tribute to the Caped Crusader.