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PEGI is moving existing digital-only games rated PEGI 3, 7 or 12 that include paid random items, such as loot boxes, up to PEGI 16 across the storefronts that use its ratings, and the first live consequence surfaced when some Fortnite islands became unavailable in some regions on October 10.
Crimson Eye runs October 8–November 1 across eight Phasmophobia locations. The October 7 patch added an event-map toggle; Twitch Drops, Double XP and the charity week each have shorter windows.
Rust's October patch, released on October 1, 2026, adds cows and sheep that produce dung, milk and wool, a Biofuel Generator that turns raw or spoiled meat into low grade, and animal fencing. It also starts every wipe with the Air Wolf helipad in disrepair, so no one can buy an air vehicle at Bandit Camp until someone repairs it.
Xbox's first October Game Pass wave adds nine games between October 8 and October 16, among them Battlefield 6, and removes nine titles on October 15. The Xbox Wire post gives dates, plans and platforms but no reason for the removals and no date for a second wave.
Xbox Insiders can preview Mythic Achievements: completing a game's original list counts, later DLC achievements do not, and Xbox says eligible past completions already received badges. A general release date and Gamerscore value remain unannounced.
Blizzard schedules Diablo IV build 3.2.3 for October 14. It aims to prevent a Splinter of a Prime Evil from blocking the seasonal questline; already affected characters are not reset automatically, but Blizzard gives a same-partition workaround.
Version 7.1 offers a limited six-character selector gated by AR 18 and Act IV plus a standard-pool invitation gated by Wish access; both run to November 3. New-character banners end October 13, while anniversary rewards follow separate schedules.
Embark’s October 8 Frozen Trail 2.0 notes revise pass progression and the skill tree, introduce variable loot zones on Pendola Pass, add an Outpost, and distinguish the Snap Hook from the Grappling Hook. This explainer covers the connected changes for returning Raiders.
Sony announced QSSR on October 1 and patched Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei the same day, bringing a lighter tier of the PS5 Pro's AI upscaling to the standard console. Insomniac's patch note says Wolverine has it on by default while Sony calls it a graphics option, and the only published measurements put the cost at roughly 1.5ms to 4.4ms of frame time depending on the resolution target.
Blizzard's September 12 BlizzCon announcement puts World of Warcraft: Forever on November 4, 2026, with access included in a World of Warcraft subscription or Game Time and three upgrade packs adding a new race's starting experience, beta access, 30 days of game time and cosmetics. The same material leaves prices, the Hardcore date and the legendary reward unpublished, and it labels the launch hour with two different time zones.
Worlds 2026 Pick'Ems and Crystal Ball opened on October 10 and the first picks lock before the opening match on October 15. Riot's own Pick'Ems data lists participation and placement tiers plus a separate faction ladder, and the tournament runs through the November 14 final in Brooklyn.
Blood Pact puts a faction pledge inside Apex Legends' Wildcard mode from October 13 to November 3, 2026, with three Beast and three Demon Wild Cards, a night Kings Canyon that fog can close in, and a werewolf and demon store lineup. The announcement lists the contents without prices, and the same week brought weapon exploit fixes, the first Javelin anti-cheat figures and two queue-time tests.
