Sunday, October 4th 2026
This Week in Gaming (Week 41)
Welcome to the first full week of October and boy do we have a packed week full of new releases and we have two major releases this week, with one being a prequel in a popular Xbox franchise and one being a sequel MMORPG. As for this week's other releases, we start the week with some racing in the Star Wars universe, followed by a game based on a famous horror movie. Continuing on the horror theme we got a 2.5D survival horror metroidvania and we end the week with a seemingly peaceful drive in the countryside valleys. Don't forget to check out this week's other releases as well.
Gears of War: E-Day / This week's first major release / Tuesday 6 October
Experience the horror and brutality of Emergence Day. Fourteen years before the original Gears of War, join Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago in a gripping origin-story campaign as the Locust Horde first erupt from below, igniting a desperate fight for survival. Rally your squad and fight on in multiplayer with a reimagination of Gears' iconic PvE mode, Horde Siege, or go head-to-head with a refined Versus PvP. Steam link
AION 2 / This week's second major release / Monday 5 October
AION 2 is the only MMORPG built around a world where the sky is the battlefield. Choose your faction, ascend as a Daeva, and fight a faction war across a world 36 times larger than the original. PC only, on Unreal Engine 5. Steam link
Star Wars: Galactic Racer / Tuesday 6 October
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a runs-based, high-stakes reinvention of racing born in the lawless Outer Rim. With the Empire gone and the galaxy rebuilding, The Galactic League is created: an underground, unsanctioned circuit where syndicates bankroll chaos and champions are forged. Steam link
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival / Demo available / Thursday 8 October
Experience a new chapter in the legendary horror series like never before. Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival takes first-person action horror survival to the next level. Wield the powers of the Genesis Configuration puzzle box to survive your bargain with the infamous Pinhead. Steam link
Silver Pines / Demo available / Thursday 8 October
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption. Steam link
Truckful / Friday 9 October
Drive your pickup truck through seemingly peaceful countryside valleys, deliver much-needed goods to local townsfolk and unravel the small town mystery. Beware, the old forest is watching. Steam link
Also launching this week: Order of the Sinking Star, Invokyr, Forever Ago and Permafrost.
Gears of War: E-Day / This week's first major release / Tuesday 6 October
Experience the horror and brutality of Emergence Day. Fourteen years before the original Gears of War, join Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago in a gripping origin-story campaign as the Locust Horde first erupt from below, igniting a desperate fight for survival. Rally your squad and fight on in multiplayer with a reimagination of Gears' iconic PvE mode, Horde Siege, or go head-to-head with a refined Versus PvP. Steam link
AION 2 is the only MMORPG built around a world where the sky is the battlefield. Choose your faction, ascend as a Daeva, and fight a faction war across a world 36 times larger than the original. PC only, on Unreal Engine 5. Steam link
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a runs-based, high-stakes reinvention of racing born in the lawless Outer Rim. With the Empire gone and the galaxy rebuilding, The Galactic League is created: an underground, unsanctioned circuit where syndicates bankroll chaos and champions are forged. Steam link
Experience a new chapter in the legendary horror series like never before. Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival takes first-person action horror survival to the next level. Wield the powers of the Genesis Configuration puzzle box to survive your bargain with the infamous Pinhead. Steam link
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption. Steam link
Drive your pickup truck through seemingly peaceful countryside valleys, deliver much-needed goods to local townsfolk and unravel the small town mystery. Beware, the old forest is watching. Steam link
11 Comments on This Week in Gaming (Week 41)
Truckful could be a nice little game (in the vein of Dredge), but I'm getting tired of the "X but like splashes of supernatural horror" genre.
Permafrost could actually be something for our little playgroup.
permafrost
and unfortunately nothing on GoG "This Week in Gaming (Week 10)"
I'm curious about Star Wars Racing but only to see if they captured the speed :) so I'm waiting to gameplay stuff from them :)
About the supernatural horror... You gotta cut some slack for Lovecraft here. The poor guy died miserably without seeing his legacy ever taking off... It was decades after his death that this stuff became popular.
As for Lovecraft, I don't care.
Same with Wolverine, high budget, yet another turd
The Western Devs are lost, I see more firing in their future
Aion 2 is fun; but I bought into it out of sheer nostalgia given Aion 1 was my 1st ever true MMO I got to play proper, so I'm biased.
Galactic Racer I'll wait for reviews and proper gameplay footage; I'm hoping it'll be almost as fun as the OG Podracing games I used to play at Toys R Us and at a friend's house. If it proves out, I'll probably buy it.
Aside from that, I'm still enjoying Ace Combat 8.
The other two games I'd like to try are Truckful and Silver Pines.