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🦙 Fortnite ends the chart with 311 articles. Its annual Fortnitemares event launched on October 1st. News focused on Halloween-themed map updates, returning game modes like Horde Rush, and new crossover skins featuring Five Nights at Freddy's and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

💥 Arc Raiders is ninth with 324 articles. News focused on the trailer for the upcoming "Frozen Trail" update, an upcoming free trial weekend, plans for a movie and TV show adaptation, and new anti-cheat rules.

🐲 RuneScape is eighth with 351 articles, driven by major announcements from RuneFest 2026, including; the reveal of a new fourth RuneScape game in development, an animated TV show, and a new city map for Old School RuneScape. MMO’s trailer has been taken down by Jagex due to generative AI content.

🧙‍♀️ Aion 2 is seventh with 360 articles, following its September 30th Early Access and October 5th global free-to-play launch on PC. The game reached nearly 400,000 concurrent players on Steam, while its character creator went viral over its bust customization options.

🧌 World of Warcraft is sixth with 393 articles. Media coverage focused on Patch 12.1.5 details, including a new mega-Delve and single-boss raid, class and raid hotfix tuning, and the official launch roadmap for Wow:Forever. New trailers have been published, including a Class Highlight.

🟫 Minecraft is fifth with 471 articles, driven by the release of Java Edition Snapshot 26.4 on October 6th, which introduced the Ice Caves biome and Frozen Zombie mob. Media coverage also continued to focus on recent Minecraft Live reveals, including "The Sift" dimension, and Minecraft Dungeons II.

👽 Star Wars: Galactic Racer is fourth with 558 articles, following its October 6th release on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S. Amazon made the full single-player campaign, Arcade mode, and Scenario mode available to stream at no additional cost for Amazon Prime members via Amazon Luna.

⚔️ The Witcher 3 is third with 961 articles. The game achieved a new all-time Steam concurrent player peak of 137,724 players, following the Remastered edition released on September 29th.

🪖 Gears of War: E-Day is second with 1,003 articles, following its October 1st Early Access and October 6th global launch on Xbox and PC Game Pass. Coverage is also highlighting the ranked multiplayer feature being delayed to October 13th.

🚓 GTA 6 tops the chart with 1,750 articles. A bit more than one month ahead of launch, more details have been shared about the game, particularly the two main protagonists. The game received its official 18+ rating in early October, triggering speculation over explicit content.

Here's your roundup of last week's top game releases! 💻 Steam: ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE leads with 11,520 reviews (78% positive) 🎮 Kickstarter video games: SNAPTIC tops with 3,905 backers 🎲 Kickstarter tabletop games: The Lord of the Rings™: The King’s Gambit tops with 4,978 backers

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