A new batch of games will be added to the PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra game catalogs next week, but many notable games will also leave Sony’s gaming subscription service before that happens. Fans of Rockstar Games in particular will be disappointed as two of the studio’s games are leaving PS Plus Extra’s catalog ahead of 2025, which will potentially see the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI. If you own a PS5, aren’t picking up Lego Horizon Adventures, and are wondering what you should be playing this weekend, consider checking out any of these games leaving PS Plus.
Rockstar’s most recent game as of 2024, Red Dead Redemption 2, is an excellent open-world western. A prequel to the original Red Dead Redemption, it follows Arthur Morgan, who’s part of Dutch van der Linde’s gang alongside John Marston, as the sun sets on the Wild West and their gang slowly falls apart due to infighting, death, and questionable decisions from leaders like Dutch. It’s an amazing story emboldened by a vast open world with a stunning amount of attention to even the smallest details. It’s worth a revisit if you need to remind yourself why Rockstar is considered one of the best developers in the game industry and why you should truly be excited for GTA 6. If you don’t own it, you don’t have much time left to get that refresher for free.
The PS4 version of Red Dead Redemption 2 leaves PS Plus Extra on November 19. It’s also available on PC and Xbox One.
It’s worth seeing the Grand Theft Auto series at its peak before playing GTA 6. To do that, you’ll want to check out 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. While it feels a bit dated to play nowadays and The Definitive Edition’s remastering job is far from perfect, San Andreas was a monumental release for the video game industry. Its story about street gangs in the Los Angeles-inspired San Andreas and immensely detailed open-world influenced not just Rockstar’s future games but almost all open-world games that have come since. Everyone should play this gaming classic at least once, so you should check it out before it leaves PS Plus.
The PS5 version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition leaves PS Plus Extra on November 19. It’s also available on PC, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch.
While those Rockstar titles are meatier adventures that are tougher to beat in a weekend, Superliminal is a condensed but memorable puzzle game that you should check out before it leaves PS Plus. The puzzles are all based on perspective. Take a small chess piece and look at it from a certain angle, and it will massively increase in size and be used to activate a switch. Superliminal finds plenty of clever ways to utilize this mechanic for some mind-bending puzzles that you need to play for yourself in order to be truly impressed. Intellectually stimulate yourself by beating this game in just a few hours this weekend.
The PS4 and PS5 versions of Superliminal leave PS Plus Extra on November 19. It’s also on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch.
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.