Football Manager 27 will be free to play for five days before its full release, in "industry first" for a game of its kind Here's our second wave of Xbox Game Pass games for October 2026 Subnautica 2 adding its "scariest" region ever in next major update, the developers say Xbox reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs, with the first wave coming as early as this month Resident Evil: Requiem made more money from PlayStation discs than on Xbox in total, reportedly, as Sony's march to a discless future continues Xbox's next-gen console to reportedly cost up to $1,800, with a Helix handheld coming in 2027 and a full release in holiday 2028 Ex-Call of Duty designer "who survived the crunch" in order to launch Black Ops 1 & 2 calls out executives "raking it in" from sales of remasters Helldivers 2 swaps over to Easy anti-cheat, with developers admitting Gameguard "wasn't as effective as it could have been" People who've finished Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on the new YOLO, single-life difficulty share experiences and tips for doing so European age-ratings body PEGI begins raising age-limit of loot box games, like EA Sports FC, to 16. You can play Football Manager 27 on PC and Mac for free this year for five full days later this month, in a first for the series and apparently an "industry first" for games of its kind.