This week on Zerocade

Not every October game costs $70 (about ₹6,650). Here are six cheaper picks, from a free Witcher 3 upgrade scoring 91 on OpenCritic to a ₹2,400-ish Warhammer shooter scoring 83, with prices, platforms and who each one is for.

Gears of War: E-Day landed with an 88 on Metacritic, a series-best Steam peak and an estimated 1.7 million Game Pass players, right after a year of Xbox layoffs and sale rumours. Here's why it matters to Xbox beyond the game itself, and what it doesn't fix.

Xbox Disc to Digital turns supported Xbox One and Series X|S discs into free digital licences. Here's how to claim one, which publishers are missing, the 2013-14 pressing problem and why selling the disc can cost you the game.

Xbox's best-reviewed game in years launched on October 6, a day after staff at Hellblade studio Ninja Theory began announcing layoffs. Here's what E-Day offers, how it's been received, what happened to Ninja Theory and Hellblade 3, and why both stories are true at once.

Warhorse co-founder Martin Klima expects publishers to move game development to cheaper countries, India among them. Here's what he said, the layoffs around it, where India's industry really stands in 2026, and what this kind of work would mean for developers here.

The Witcher 3, Octopath Traveler, Kingdom Hearts and Dynasty Warriors 3 all got re-released within two weeks. Some upgrades are free, one is half price for owners and some cost full price again. Here's exactly what each one changes and how to check before you pay twice.

E-Day scores 87 to 88 with critics but sits around 75-78% positive on Steam. We break down the gap: what players are actually complaining about, how much is review bombing, and why the numbers keep moving.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told staff that Project Helix is a family of devices, led by a console, with partner-built hardware alongside. Here's every confirmed comment, the reported 2027 handheld and 2028 console timing, and which spec and price leaks are still rumours.

PS6 and Xbox Helix leaks are full of TFLOPS figures. Here's what the number measures, how it's worked out for every current console, why memory bandwidth matters just as much, and why a bigger number doesn't always mean better games.

One chip, no separate graphics card, lots of shared memory. Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops went on sale in the US from $2,599, but not in India. ASUS already sells three Ryzen AI Max laptops here, starting at ₹1,79,990. Here's how the two platforms compare and which makes sense for Indian buyers.

billbil-kun said Forza Horizon 6 would reach PS5 on January 26, 2027, not this year as Playground promised. Hours later it was official. Here's how the leak played out, who called it first, and why the PS5 version slipped.

Forza Horizon 6 reaches PS5 on January 26, 2027, on disc and digital, from ₹5,499 in India. Premium Edition owners start five days early. Here's every edition, what the PS5 version offers, how big the game already is on Xbox and PC, and what's still unknown.

Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark laptops from Microsoft, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and MSI went on sale in the US on October 16 from $2,599.99. Here are the chip tiers, every model's US price in rupees, how the games support looks, and where an India launch stands.

A teardown of the Marvel's Wolverine Limited Edition PS5 found a new EDM-051 motherboard, PS5 Pro-style liquid metal cooling and an easy-swap clock battery. Here's what changed, why it matters for long-term owners, and what Sony hasn't said.

NBA 2K25 leaves digital stores on October 30 and loses its servers at the end of 2026, taking MyCareer with it. Here's the difference between a game being delisted and its servers shutting down, what you keep in each case, and a checklist for when it happens to a game you own.

4K at 120Hz on PS5 or Xbox Series X needs an HDMI 2.1 port on your TV. Here's what HDMI 2.1 actually unlocks, which games use 120fps and at what resolution, how to check your TV and cable, and the exact console settings to turn on.

The ASUS TUF A14 is a gaming laptop with no separate graphics card. Here's how shared, unified memory makes that work, how much of it the graphics can borrow, what reviewers measured against RTX 5060 and 5070 laptops, and where a real GPU still wins.

Every new laptop now lists an NPU and a TOPS number. Here's what the chip does, what the number measures, where 2026's Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and Apple chips sit, why the biggest figure isn't always the one that counts, and whether any of it matters for gaming.

Cyberleek resurfaced on October 8 with a 25-minute 'Extended Leek' of alleged GTA 6 gameplay, then said the leaks would stop. Here's what the footage reportedly shows, what's verified, the full timeline, and how Take-Two's subpoenas to Microsoft, Discord, X and Google are going six weeks before launch.

Meta has picked up 43 of Sony's US VR patents, part of a deal reportedly covering about 419 patents worldwide. Sony hasn't said PS VR2 is finished, but here's what the sale signals, and what it means if you own the ₹57,990 headset.

Details of an Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, codenamed Edessa, reportedly leaked from Xbox Design Lab: Hall effect or TMR sticks against drift, voice coil haptics like the DualSense, an audio wheel and direct-to-Wi-Fi. Here's the full leak, how it compares with the Elite Series 2, how much to trust it and what it might cost in India.

GameNative is a free, open-source Android app that downloads the PC games you already own from Steam, Epic, GOG and Amazon and runs them on your phone, with no streaming. Here's how it works, what's new in version 1.1, which phones suit it, what runs and how to get started safely.

Stick drift comes from parts that rub and wear out. Hall effect and TMR sticks use magnets instead. Here's how each sensor works, how they compare on precision and battery, which controllers use them (with India prices from ₹1,999), and why Sony and Microsoft's own pads still don't.

Battlefield 6 hits Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on October 13, a year after launch. It costs ₹4,999 to buy on Xbox in India, while Ultimate is ₹1,089 a month. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leaves on October 15.

Gigabyte says new Intel processors are coming for old LGA1700 boards, with BIOS support now covering every Z790, B760 and H610 model, both DDR4 and DDR5. An 'early 2027' date has since vanished. With RAM prices high, DDR4 boards may get a second life.

RAM prices have exploded in 2026, with a 32GB DDR5 kit going from about $150 to $450 in a year. Here's what actually separates DDR4 from DDR5, why memory got so expensive, and why the gap matters less for gaming than the price tag suggests.

AnyPS5 is an open-source project that converts PS5 games to run directly on Windows and Linux, without emulating the console. It now recognises every PS5 shader instruction and covers most system functions it knows about, but only one small 2D game is confirmed playable. Here's how it works and what's next.

A leaked factory notice said Nvidia had stopped making the RTX 5090 so its GB202 chip could go to pricier RTX Pro cards. Nvidia's Jeff Fisher says the card isn't discontinued, but retailers are dropping models. Here's what's confirmed, what isn't, and what it means for prices in India.

The RTX 5090 and Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 are built from the same GB202 chip. Binning is the reason. Here's how chipmakers sort and cut down chips, why it keeps prices lower, and why it means the RTX 5090 can lose out when chips run short.