Loot's Gaming Roundup

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Monday 2 November 2026

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Phantom Blade Zero tops four million sales in 72 hours

S-Game's wuxia action RPG launched digitally on PS5 and PC on 29 October and has already passed four million units. It peaked at over 431,000 concurrent players on Steam at launch, and a physical PS5 edition follows in 2027.

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HoYoverse's cosy life sim Petit Planet is coming to Switch 2 in 2027

The free-to-play galactic life sim from the Genshin Impact studio launches on other platforms on 4 December, with the Switch 2 version following next year. Push Square notes it's skipping PS5.

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Dune: Awakening's free Blood and Ice expansion lands on 1 December

Funcom's survival MMO trades the deserts of Arrakis for a frozen new map, and the studio says it'll keep expanding the game through 2027.

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Melvor Idle 2 becomes an official RuneScape spinoff

Jagex has partnered with Games by Malcs, and the sequel is now subtitled A RuneScape Adventure. It isn't set in Gielinor, but promises overhauled visuals, a level cap of 120 and no microtransactions.

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Modern Warfare 4 on Switch 2 has much worse input lag than PS5

Digital Foundry's testing shows a noticeable gap, which could put Nintendo players at a disadvantage in multiplayer.

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Honkai: Star Rail 4.7 brings the Aeon Aha on 11 November

The 'Now, Lay Laughter to All Stars' update adds the long-awaited 5-Star Aha, a huge buffer for characters on the path of Elation.

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Mega Man: Dual Override reveals Cook Man

He's the fourth Robot Master revealed, following Tank Man earlier this week. The game launches on Switch and Switch 2 in 2027.

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Fortnite's Pirate Shop makes the whole Item Shop free for two weeks

The One Piece crossover season has a hidden Pirate Shop, and the reward covers your whole squad. Battle Royale has topped five million concurrent players.

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Studio closure

Yakuza creator Toshiro Nagoshi's studio has been dissolved

Nagoshi Studio, set up under NetEase in 2021, was formally dissolved on 31 October, according to Japan's government gazette. It had announced the action game Gang of Dragon in December 2025.

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Forza co-creator Dan Greenawalt is reportedly retiring from Microsoft

The Turn 10 head is leaving after nearly 27 years, per an internal memo reported by The Verge, as Microsoft merges Turn 10 into Playground Games.

PC

GOG wants to bring back physical games

The store would love order-a-boxed-copy to be a click away, but calls it "a very, very complicated thing".

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Chronicles: Medieval's developer faces closure after losing funding

The studio says early access is within reach and it's "not going down without a fight".

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Valve's long-lost Portal prequel prototype F-Stop surfaces online

It came out of a 2007 post-Orange Box Valve game jam, and has finally appeared nearly 20 years later.