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Sunday 8 November 2026

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Call of Duty: Warzone lands free on Switch 2

Warzone arrived on the Switch 2 eShop with the start of Modern Warfare 4's Season 1. It's free-to-play, needs an Activision account but no Switch Online membership, and brings cross-play and cross-progression. Heads up: Nintendo Life's full Call of Duty install now sits at 122GB. PS4 and Xbox One support ended at the same time.

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Path of Exile 2 goes free-to-play at 1.0 on 11 December

Grinding Gear Games used ExileCon to lock in the full launch: free-to-play on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, the dagger-and-trap Shadow and stance-swapping Duelist as new classes, Acts 5 and 6 to finish the campaign, a storyline for the endgame, and the Conquerors of Wraeclast siege league.

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Gears of War turns 20 and hands every E-Day player RAAM

The Coalition marked the series' 20th birthday by giving RAAM away as a multiplayer character in Gears of War: E-Day, claimed just by logging in. A two-week event adds limited-time modes, and Season 2, Legacy, starts on 1 December with returning maps, modes and skins.

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NieR: Automata's Steam patch balloons the install to 366GB

A language update adding Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean made each DLC count as a full copy of the game on download. Square Enix is investigating; until it's fixed, untick the DLC under Properties in Steam to grab the roughly 50GB base game.

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Sony delays its Pulse Elevate speakers days before launch

The PS5 desktop speakers were due on 12 November, but Sony says quality testing found a production issue and has pushed them back with no new date. It echoes the FlexStrike arcade stick, which has sat indefinitely delayed since August.

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Sony brings back 'PlayStation Exclusive' branding on PS5 games

The label has started appearing on tentpole first-party PS5 games, starting with Ghost of Yōtei and Until Dawn 2, as Sony leans back into keeping its single-player games off PC.

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Xbox Cloud Gaming tests your phone as a controller on smart TVs

In a preview on supported smart TVs, you launch a cloud game without a pad, scan a QR code, and get touch controls in your phone's browser. Supported TVs and games are limited for now.