Well, here we are once again, and it’s time to look at what’s been happening in the gaming world this week. These weeks really do seem to fly by, don’t they? Perhaps that’s just us.
As usual, while there hasn’t been a great deal of tremendously important news, there’s plenty to pore over, especially if you’re a fan of industry goings-on.
Grab that all-important drink, find your comfiest chair, and settle in as we take a look at what’s been going on when it comes to gaming over the past seven days or so!
There’s a new Dissidia Final Fantasy game…sort of
The Dissidia Final Fantasy spinoff series gave many people some much-needed handheld joy back in the day, and now, Square Enix is reviving the franchise, although perhaps not in the way you might want.
Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy takes classic characters from the franchise into modern Tokyo to do battle with monsters, taking the form of a team-on-team boss battle rush rather than a classic arena fighter.
The catch? It’s a free-to-play mobile game, which almost certainly means it’ll be stuffed with all of the usual microtransactions and monetisation strategies you’d expect from such a title.
A huge Pokemon leak has seemingly revealed the franchise’s future
Another big Pokemon leak took place this week, and it looks like it’s revealed what the franchise is planning for the future, including details about the tenth generation of mainline games, new spinoffs, and more.
If the leak is to be believed, then Gen 10 will take place in a Southeast Asian island setting. It’ll be open-world just like Scarlet and Violet, and it’ll be a Switch 2 exclusive as well.
There’s also supposedly another Pokemon Legends game in the pipeline, this one set in Sword and Shield’s Galar region, as well as a more open-ended game that takes place across the series’ first four regions.
Assassin’s Creed’s franchise lead has departed Ubisoft
Marc-Alexis Côté, the man responsible for the overall stewardship and direction of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, left Ubisoft this week.
According to an internal staff memo seen by IGN, Côté’s decision to leave was “disappointing” to Ubisoft exec and Vantage Studios head Christophe Derennes, and Côté “had his own expectations and priorities” as regards the running of Vantage.
For what it’s worth, Côté himself says that he didn’t leave of his own volition, but was “asked…to step aside” by Ubisoft after the company decided to “transfer the leadership of the Assassin’s Creed franchise to someone closer to its new organisational structure”.
Your October PlayStation Plus games have been revealed
Sony announced what games you can expect to arrive on PlayStation Plus as part of the October Game Catalog lineup for 2025 this week, and there are some spook-tacular titles to enjoy.
Games coming to Extra and Premium members include the likes of Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake, the PS5 rework of Until Dawn, and vampiric survival game V Rising.
Meanwhile, Premium members can enjoy iconic PlayStation fighter Tekken 3, in addition to all of the titles outlined above. It’s a good month to be a PS Plus subscriber (and not so much to be a Game Pass member).
Dead or Alive’s Tomonobu Itagaki dies at 58
Tomonobu Itagaki, the man best known for creating the Dead or Alive franchise and for bringing back Ninja Gaiden as the now-iconic series of 3D hack-and-slashers, died this week.
The news was revealed via a post on Itagaki’s Facebook page, then corroborated by his friend James Mielke over on social media platform Bluesky. Mielke said Itagaki was “like a brother” to him, and that the auteur will “always be a ninja”.
No cause of death was revealed, so we’re not entirely sure how Itagaki died, but we would like to extend our sincerest condolences to his family and friends, as well as to the industry at large.
Heavy Rain’s Quantic Dream announces a new competitive multiplayer game
This week, Star Wars: Eclipse and Heavy Rain studio Quantic Dream announced a new competitive multiplayer game by the rather unimpressive name of Spellcasters Chronicles.
The game will see players taking part in “intense 3v3 action-strategy battles” in which players will “summon hundreds of creatures, cast devastating spells, and call upon the might of Titans”.
It all sounds very generic, if we’re honest, and we can’t really see this one making it past the starting line given the fierce competition on offer (as well as the studio’s usual pedigree).
Battlefield 6 has sold very well indeed for EA
After the disastrous launch of 2021’s Battlefield 2042, it was important for EA to get the release of Battlefield 6 right, and if new sales figures are to be believed, that’s exactly what the studio has done.
According to EA itself, Battlefield 6 has managed to sell seven million copies across all of its platforms (and across both physical and digital, of course) since launching earlier this month.
Of course, EA still has a lot of work to do to make sure the game’s player base remains with it rather than migrating to one of the available alternatives, but the foundation is promising, at least.
Nintendo appears to think it’s going to have a record-breaking year for console sales
If a new Bloomberg report is to be believed, then Nintendo is asking its suppliers to ramp up production and make as many as 25 million Switch 2 units by the end of March 2026, suggesting the company is expecting a bumper year.
According to Bloomberg, Nintendo will likely sell around 20 million Switch 2 units by the end of the fiscal year (which comes in March, as you’ve probably already surmised), thus “comfortably” beating analysts’ expectations of around 17-18 million.
As always, it’s worth bearing in mind that this is based on a third-party report; these aren’t official Nintendo manufacturing figures. What’s more, things could change as we draw closer to Christmas and Nintendo gets a better idea of just what demand for the Switch 2 looks like.
