Season 2 of Lucasfilm’s Emmy® Award-winning series “Ahsoka” will premiere January 20, 2027, exclusively on Disney+. The new season, which once again stars Rosario Dawson in the titular role, is a story set after the fall of the Empire and the rise of the New Republic, which has Ahsoka confronting what it means to be a Jedi, while the galaxy faces a formidable opponent in Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Series creator and Lucasfilm President and CCO Dave Filoni, along with stars Rosario Dawson, Hayden Christensen, and Eman Esfandi, just took to the stage at the Honda Center in Anaheim for D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, where they debuted the teaser trailer and poster to a wildly enthusiastic response.
Season 2 continues the story of Ahsoka Tano and her extraordinary journey beyond the known galaxy. As Ahsoka and her Jedi apprentice Sabine Wren travel across a mysterious and perilous world to find their way home, their friends Hera, Ezra, Zeb, and Chopper, must face the powerful Grand Admiral Thrawn and his sinister allies, who seek to plunge the New Republic into war. Season 1 of “Ahsoka,” along with the full Star Wars Collection, is available to stream exclusively on Disney+.
“Ahsoka” stars Rosario Dawson, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lars Mikkelsen, Eman Esfandi, Ivanna Sakhno, Rory McCann, and Hayden Christensen. The directors are Dave Filoni, Jennifer Getzinger, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Anders Engström. The series is written by Dave Filoni, who also serves as an executive producer along with Jon Favreau and Carrie Beck. Karen Gilchrist is the co-executive producer, and John Bartnicki and Joan Schneider are the producers.
GSC Game World is thrilled to announce that Update 2.0 for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is launching on August 20, featuring a new version of the engine, a graphic overhaul, three types of binoculars, and much more.
Here’s what all owners of the game are getting for free:
Visual Evolution
Update 2.0 overhauls the Zone’s lighting and visuals:
Improved lighting. Players can expect a more natural and immersive look with more realistic shadows and reflections across the environment, both inside buildings and in underground locations.
Reworked landscapes and foliage to make the Zone feel more organic.
A-Life Improvements
A-Life now brings more believable activity and encounters to the Zone:
More contested points of interest, including campfires, bus stops, and other locations where stalkers and mutants can cross paths.
Numerous under-the-hood fixes address issues such as enemies shooting or throwing objects through walls and unexpected overpopulation in certain areas.
Customizable Experience
Update 2.0 introduces Custom Rules, allowing players to tailor the difficulty to their preferred playstyle. Adjust individual settings to create anything from a more forgiving survival experience to a truly hardcore challenge.
Players looking for an even tougher experience can also try Master difficulty and the optional Expedition mode, previously introduced in earlier updates.
Binoculars
Three types of binoculars are now available to help stalkers scout the Zone, identify targets, and plan their next move. Each model features different technology and functionality — find them throughout the Zone or purchase them from certain traders.
New Weapons and Scopes
Update 2.0 expands the arsenal with four new weapons:
Arev — assault rifle.
GP3A — designated marksman rifle.
SKP — designated marksman rifle.
Fora-230 — submachine gun.
A unique variant of one of these weapons can also be discovered somewhere in the Zone.
The update also adds new optics, including a x3 scope for Western-bloc weapons and a new red dot sight for Eastern-bloc weapons. Offset aiming has also been expanded beyond NVG use, giving stalkers more freedom to customize their loadouts.
In addition to that:
– Fog is now more than a weather effect — it is a gameplay mechanic. Both stalkers and their enemies have reduced visibility and hearing. The Light Rainy weather scenario has also received a visual overhaul to complement the updated environmental presentation.
– A new Statistics page has been added to the PDA, allowing stalkers to track their activity across the Zone.
– Bloodsuckers and Fleshes can now feature different appearances depending on their habitat, making encounters with these familiar threats more varied across the Zone.
Since the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, the Zone has continued to evolve alongside the community. Update 2.0 brings together years of feedback, technical improvements, and new ideas to make the Zone a better, stranger, and more immersive place.
Modiphius Entertainment has today announced the pre-order of new Fallout: Wasteland Warfare starter sets, officially launching its new edition, a refined version of the much loved adventure wargame.
Originally released eight years ago, Fallout: Wasteland Warfare sees players exploring a generated wasteland, supported by a vast range of miniatures for an expansive and innovative wargame.
Building from the original sandbox philosophy, the new, second edition starter sets available for pre-order incorporate years of insights from the community. Modiphius Entertainment have refined the game that existing players know and love, to create a streamlined solo and cooperative adventure wargame that is accessible to new players, and which succeeds in offering an engaging narrative experience.
In Fallout: Wasteland Warfare’s second edition players emerge from a home settlement to procedurally explore a randomized wasteland around them, creating a campaign map of locations and enemies as they move around the map.
Combat encounters see their warband taking on mutants, wasteland wildlife, and other human factions as they fight for survival and supremacy in the post-atomic wastes quintessential to the Fallout franchise.
Players can play as one of four core factions on launch: Survivors, Super Mutants, the Brotherhood of Steel, and Wasteland Raiders, with more factions like the New California Republic and Caesar’s Legion being published later.
Modiphius’ extensive 32mm scale miniatures range will continue to be compatible with the new edition of the game, with core sets in multipart plastic kits, and its award-winning resin miniatures supplementing tabletop wastelands around the world.
“Fallout: Wasteland Warfare has a new lease of life with this edition, and we’ve worked hard to make solo and cooperative gaming the focus and better than it ever has been.” Said Evie Moriarty, Lead Game Designer. “With a streamlined ruleset, massively expanded campaign rules, and an innovative enemy AI system, we can’t wait for you to get to grips with it and let us know about your stories out in the Wasteland.”
Available to pre-order are two starter sets, Into the Wasteland, and Warbands
Today, 2K and Hangar 13 announced the Man of Honor expansion* for Mafia: The Old Country, the newest entry in the critically-acclaimed action-adventure franchise developed by Hangar 13 and published by 2K, is available worldwide for PlayStation®5 (PS5®), Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.
Man of Honor Expansion
In Man of Honor, players step back into the role of Enzo Favara in two new chapters working alongside Ennio Salieri, the future Don of the Salieri crime family and main antagonist of Mafia: Definitive Edition. Check out the launch trailer.
Set in Sicily during the winter of 1905, Enzo Favara has proven himself a reliable soldier of the Torrisi crime family in the months since his initiation. Now, the Don entrusts him and Cesare with a delicate assignment of assisting Ennio Salieri. At Salieri’s side, Enzo is drawn deeper into the volatile underworld of the Valle Dorata, where loyalty is tested, debts are settled, and every move carries weight.
These chapters explore a previously unseen period during Enzo’s early days as a soldato, and Man of Honor owners have the option to jump directly to the new narrative content if they have played far enough in the storyline, or experience it as a seamless part of the main campaign.
The Man of Honor expansion features fresh environments, weapons, and new content for Free Ride mode in which players can take on Challenges and Jobs given by Salieri himself, including races, combat, and stealth encounters. With the Dinari players earn from story missions and Free Ride Challenges, they can purchase newly added outfits, vehicles, and horses, alongside powerful weapons and Charms.
Play the full Mafia Series with Mafia: The Omertà Collection
Also available today, the Omertà Collection allows players to experience four distinct eras of organized crime by bringing all four together in in one prestigious bundle to experience this beloved series on Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. See the launch trailer.
Mafia: The Omertà Collection includes:
Mafia: The Old Country Definitive Edition, including the Man of Honor expansion and Deluxe Edition content
Mafia: Definitive Edition
Mafia II: Definitive Edition, including all DLC
Mafia III: Definitive Edition, including all DLC
To celebrate the launch of Mafia: The Omertà Collection, a special introductory price of $49.99 for a limited time** and special discounts for players who more or one games including:
Steam:
Players who own one or more games from the Omertà Collection on Steam will automatically be granted the best available price using Steam’s Complete Your Collection pricing.***
Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S: Players who own Mafia: Definitive Edition, Mafia II: Definitive Edition, and/or Mafia III: Definitive Edition are entitled to a discount for that same platform on Mafia: The Omertà Collection.***
Players who own Mafia: The Old Country receive an even bigger discount for that same platform.***
Mafia: Definitive Edition Optimized for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
As an added bonus for players on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, Mafia: Definitive Edition has been optimized for the platforms and features improved visual performance and technical improvements including support for 60-FPS gameplay, increased resolution, reduced load times, and additional bug fixes.
Players who own Mafia: Definitive Edition on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One (digital only), will receive a digital version on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S for free. Please see our FAQ page for full details on eligibility, access and save transfers.****
Mafia: The Old Country is available on PlayStation®5 (PS5®), Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.
Marvel Television’s “VisionQuest,” an all-new original series coming exclusively to Disney+ October 14, concludes the epic trilogy that began with 2021’s groundbreaking, award-winning “WandaVision” and 2024’s acclaimed “Agatha All Along.” The Vision himself, Paul Bettany, and Ultron, James Spader, joined executive producer and president of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige on the stage of the Honda Center in Anaheim at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event moments ago, where they teased fans with a first look at the trailer and poster for the upcoming series.
Vision, rebooted and having escaped from those who sought to weaponize him, has been in hiding. Searching for new meaning, he consults the AI personas embedded in his programming, including F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., J.A.R.V.I.S., and the infamous Ultron. His discreet existence ends when a bounty placed on his head thrusts him on the run with Thomas Shepard, a mysterious boy who may be Vision’s son, reincarnate. As Vision evades capture, he must confront his nature, resist Ultron’s influence, and unravel the enigma that is his young companion if he’s to survive.
“VisionQuest” stars Paul Bettany, James Spader, Ruaridh Mollica, Todd Stashwick, T’Nia Miller, Lauren Morais, Orla Brady, Diane Morgan, Polly Frame, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, with Emily Hampshire and James D’Arcy. The series is directed by Christopher J. Byrne, Gandja Monteiro, Vincenzo Natali, Terry Matalas, and written by Terry Matalas, Cindy Appel, Christopher Monfette, Nicole Falsetti, and Matthew Okumura. “VisionQuest” is created for television by Terry Matalas, based on the Marvel Comics. The executive producers are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Mary Livanos, Terry Matalas, Jac Schaeffer, and Christopher J. Byrne, and the producer is Roopesh Parekh.
Fans can stream every Marvel Television series alongside their favorite films from across the MCU in the “Marvel” Collection on Disney+.
Good Smile Company Inc. has announced that its upcoming PlayStation 5/PC game Patlabor: The Case Files will be released on September 17, 2026.
In addition to Japanese, the game will support English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean, making it available for purchase by players worldwide.
Players can enjoy a variety of experiences unique to the game, including:
Missions that can be played from different perspectives, including that of Special Vehicle Section 2 and those who oppose them.
More than 20 Labors appear in the game, allowing players to pilot iconic machines including the Ingram, Griffon, and Zero Type.
A Simulator Mode where players can take on shooting training exercises and Labor-versus-Labor battles.
Labors are a general term for robots developed for industrial use.
While they became widely used in the construction and civil engineering industries, crimes involving Labors also increased rapidly.
In response, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department established the Special Vehicle Section 2 Patrol Labor Unit to combat these crimes.
Battlefield Studios and Electronic Arts released an official trailer for its upcoming Top Gun collaboration update for Battlefield 6. Prepare for take-off by watching the trailer and seeing the two new jets – the F-74A Seacat and the F/A-81F Super Spectre – in action as well as Wake Island and two new modes that celebrate Battlefield’s scale and Top Gun’s iconic cinematic action: Carrier Strike and Gauntlet: Fighter Sweep.
Players will also be able to jump into the flight boots of iconic Top Gun characters such as Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw (Miles Teller), Lt. Robert “Bob” Floyd (Lewis Pullman), and Adm. Solomon “Warlock” Bates (Charles Parnell).
The Top Gun collaboration arrives August 18 as part of Battlefield 6’s biggest seasonal update yet.
Last week, alongside the THQ Nordic Digital Showcase, Titan Quest II received a major new update introducing its crafting system. Today, we’re taking a closer look at how aspiring heroes can put their hard-earned loot to work and shape their equipment to better suit their builds.
Crafting offers several ways to alter and improve the items players find, but keep in mind: items cannot be created from scratch. Repeated crafting attempts will also increase material and gold costs, eventually making it more worthwhile to find a new base item to work with.
Crafting offers several ways to alter and improve the items players find, but keep in mind: items cannot be created from scratch. Repeated crafting attempts will also increase material and gold costs, eventually making it more worthwhile to find a new base item to work with.
Additionally, crafting offers several ways to fine-tune an item’s affixes. Reforging an affix allows players to select one affix per item and reroll its values, with the possible range clearly displayed. Players can also replace an affix, exchanging an unwanted property for something more useful. The available replacements depend on the prefixes or suffixes the item could naturally have rolled, so players won’t simply be able to choose any property they want! Another option is adding an affix, which lets players add another property to items that haven’t yet reached their maximum number of affixes.
Sometimes you find the perfect item while leveling, only to eventually outgrow it. The crafting system lets players upgrade an item’s level and postpone that painful goodbye. This one-time crafting option increases an item’s base properties as well as the tier of its affixes. There is a limit, however: an early-game item can’t simply be transformed into a perfect level 55 piece of equipment, as its affixes will eventually hit a ceiling.
Today at the VR Games Showcase, Fast Travel Games debuted the first gameplay trailer from PAYDAY®: Aces High, the officially licensed VR co-op heist game set in Starbreeze Entertainment’s iconic PAYDAY® universe. Fast Travel Games also announced a closed community playtest beginning August 20 through August 24. Playtest slots are limited; interested players can learn how to register on the game’s official website for their chance to pull off a PAYDAY heist on Meta Quest 3 ahead of its release later this year.
After being framed by business titan Warren Jupiter, players team up to take revenge through the signature chaos of a PAYDAY heist. The gameplay reveal shows exactly what that looks like in VR: designing a unique loadout mixing weapons, gadgets, and skills, surveying the scene, and choosing the perfect moment to go loud and secure that payday.
“The reception since we first revealed PAYDAY: Aces High has been incredibly warm, from both longtime heisters and the VR community, and that means everything to our team,” said Erik Odeldahl, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder at Fast Travel Games. “Now it’s time to hand over the keys. With the community playtest, players will experience PAYDAY: Aces High for the very first time – and we can’t think of a better crew to help us shape the ultimate VR heist.”
“PAYDAY has always put you inside the heist, first person, and right in the middle of the chaos. VR takes that further, and Fast Travel Games are delivering with Aces High. We’re proud to have them shaping this corner of the universe, and we can’t wait to see how the community reacts once the playtest goes live,” Adolf Kristjansson, CEO at Starbreeze Entertainment, said.
PAYDAY: Aces High Key Features:
The Rush Of The Score: Roll out with up to three partners in crime. Plan the job, stack your tools, and execute with precision. Every alarm you dodge, every bag you haul, every trigger you pull pushes you closer to that flawless payday… or the kind of heat that burns cities to the ground.
Guns, Gadgets, Getting Even: Gear up and hit the score with an arsenal that keeps growing – ARs, SMGs, shotguns, pistols, plus gadgets like grapple and sentry guns. Spend your hard-earned cash and rep to unlock the skills, gear, and toys that crank your heisting game to the next level.
Four Aces To Choose From:
Ace of Hearts: The Mastermind – The brain behind the chaos. Lines up every angle, every fallback, every escape.
Ace of Clubs: The Ghost – Silent, surgical, gone before anyone knows they’ve been fooled.
Ace of Diamonds: The Technician – Gadget freak. Orchestrating the theater of destruction.
Ace of Spades: The Enforcer – The hammer that keeps hitting when things get loud.
Start your engines as JDM: Japanese Drift Master speeds onto PlayStation 5 with a new Physical Edition that includes the entire base game as well as a DLC code for the ‘Made in the USA’ pack containing 6 new all American classics as well as 30 unique tuning parts made especially for them. The cars included in the pack are:
Ironvale Thunderbolt T40
Ironvale Stallion ’69
Taipan
Delray Vanquisher TR
Delray Venom
Falcon HellFeather
“A hugely ambitious and earnest racer” – IGN
Curveball Games and Poland based company, Gaming Factory, are excited for drifting fans to finally get their hands on a physical copy of the game. JDM: Japanese Drift Master is packed full of content as you drift across the fictional Guntama, filled with more than 250km of main roads, racing tracks and instanced events, you’ll perform takeovers against winding mountain passes and contend against dynamic weather conditions and a full day/night cycle system.
The game features a host of original cars and brands but also includes officially licensed cars from iconic Japanese brands such as Honda, Mazda, Nissan, and Subaru!
Purchases are now available through Curveball’s retailer, The Game Collection as well as all major retailers across EMEA and North America for £34.99/$39.99/€39.99.
