PlayStation officially revealed its next PlayStation 4-era remaster at its September State of Play on Tuesday. Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered will be the latest first-party title to get a fresh makeover for PlayStation 5 and PC, and it’ll be released October 31.
There haven’t been a ton of changes here, although it’s gotten a big visual upgrade. A PlayStation spokesperson noted during the presentation that it’s been brought up to the standards set by its sequel Horizon Forbidden West, with redone character models, textures, assets, and cameras.
Sony also announced that Guerrilla and Nixes, which helped with the remaster, added 10 hours of conversations with new mocap. As with other remasters, it will come with 3D audio support and DualSense adaptive triggers to work with PS5-specific accessories
If you’re already played the game when it came out on the PS4 but want to check out the upgrades, PlayStation is offering the remastered version for just $10 for owners of the original game.
Horizon Zero Dawn originally released in 2017 from Guerrilla Games exclusively on the PS4. The open-world action game follows Aloy in postapocalyptic America where humanity lives in smaller tribes and have to go up against violent machine. Aloy is tasked to leave her village and travel across the desolated continent to uncover the mysteries of why the previous civilization died off. The game received The Frozen Wilds story DLC later that year.
Sony has been keeping the Horizon series alive beyond just releasing sequels. In 2020, the company brought Horizon Zero Dawn to PC, and then released a PS5 patch the next year that unlocked 60 frames per second. Series spinoff Lego Horizon Adventures was also announced to be releasing in November.
The game leaked last week when a rating listing appeared on the ESRB website. It didn’t contain any new information that wasn’t already in the original Horizon Zero Dawn, however.
This is the latest PlayStation first-party remaster/remake to hit PS5 and PC. Other projects include an Until Dawn remake, out this October, and The Last of Us Part I from 2023. In general, PlayStation brings its console exclusive offerings to PC after a certain amount of time. God of War Ragnarok, which originally released in 2022, hit PC last week.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.