Come watch our Zelda: Breath of the Wild live streamThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildSwitch and Zelda: Breath of the Wild impressionsWill you play Switch more as a console or a portable? Impressions of the final Switch hardwareTomorrow Corporation on initial Switch games, future projectsWill you still pick up Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Wii U? WATCH THE LATEST VIDEO ON LEGO® DIMENSIONS™ SEE WHAT’S COMING NEXTYou may want to safeguard your bank accounts. Fall 2015 is shaping up to be a blockbuster season, even if the lion's share of this year's most intriguing releases are sequels. Here are the biggest games coming for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U and Nintendo 3DS this fall.SOMAYou're inside an underwater research facility, overrun by you'll-just-have-to-see-for-yourself, spawned from the minds of the studio that gave us one of the scariest games about not confronting monsters in the history of our medium.PC, Linux, Mac, PlayStation 4September 22Animal Crossing: Happy Home DesignerTake the manage-a-town vibe of the Animal Crossing series and dial it back to architecting just the homes, and you get Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, like a cutesier version of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.September 253DSLEGO DimensionsBatman meets Scooby-Doo meets Gandalf meets The Simpsons times at least 10 other franchises (including Doctor Who
, Back to the Future and Ghostbusters) in this madcap Lego-verse mashup.PlayStation 3 and 4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and OneSeptember 27Rock Band 4The pretend-you're-in-a-band party game returns, this time spotlighting a freestyle mode that lets guitarists (though alas, only guitarists) jam on their plastic axe's stringless fretboard, scoring higher if their improvised licks dovetails with harmonic and rhythmic cues.Playstation 4, Xbox OneOctober 6Transformers: DevastationAfter decades of other studios squandering opportunities to make a great Transformers game, Platinum Games (MadWorld, Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) may finally be onto something with this beat-em-up take on Hasbro's revered franchise.PC, PlayStation 3 and 4, Xbox 360 and OneOctober 6Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight BelowSquare Enix's Dragon Quest roleplaying series gets a hack-and-slash makeover (and tongue-twisting moniker) courtesy the studio behind Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors.PlayStation 3 and 4October 13The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone10 gazillion hours wasn't enough to spend in CD Projekt Red's colossal tromp through an otherworldly realm plucked from Polish folklore?
Hearts of Stone should add another dozen to the mix.PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox OneOctober 13Yoshi's Woolly WorldIsn't yarn-Yoshi just the cutest thing since Pikachu? Nintendo certainly hopes you agree, allowing a string-ified version of Mario's enemy swallowing dino buddy to flutter-jump through a side-scrolling world designed by the studio that brought us Kirby's Epic Yarn.Wii UOctober 16Guitar Hero LiveThe fall's other be-a-rock-star shoe drops mid-October, in this case rethinking the medium's control scheme by introducing a 6-button plastic guitar alongside full-motion video of filmed concertgoers whose reactions change in response to your performance.iOS, PlayStation 3 and 4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and OneOctober 20Tales of ZestiriaThe 15th installment in the popular roleplaying Tales series cranks out another grand fantasy yarn, shifts to an open world format and adds a few new wrinkles to the longstanding realtime combat system, including topography that impacts your battle tactics.PC, PlayStation 3 and 4October 20Assassin's Creed SyndicateAfter the mess Unity made of Ubisoft's annualized franchise last year, Syndicate has some serious bridge-rebuilding to do with fans hoping its romp through Victorian London playing as either Jacob or Evie Frye won't disappoint.
Playstation 4, Xbox OneOctober 23The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force HeroesNintendo's newest Legend of Zelda game is a handheld dungeon-delver focused on cooperative play, so while solo play's supported with a robo-companion, the game's primary mode requires three discrete 3DS gamers to explore.3DSOctober 23Halo 5: GuardiansWe know surprisingly little about Halo 5: Guardians' carefully concealed campaign, which pits series paragon Master Chief against edgy newcomer Spartan Lock (with support for four-player online co-op) in a perspective rethink that could upend Xbox OneOctober 27Need for SpeedSleek cars and self-absorption go hand-in-glove in EA's stab at a Need for Speed franchise reboot, plugging wannabe gangsta-Andrettis into a massive open world playground with event-focused roleplaying elements.PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox OneNovember 3Call of Duty: Black Ops IIIContinuing its sci-fi march forward, Call of Duty: Black Ops III transpires in 2065, 40 years after Black Ops II and 11 after last year's Advanced Warfare, this time playing off the idea of battle zones teeming with cybernetic super-soldiers.
PC, PlayStation 3 and 4, Xbox 360 and OneNovember 6Yo-Kai WatchIf Yo-Kai Watch looks like a Pokémon clone, with its collectible critter-concealing spheres and player-partnered skirmishes, that's because it is, though it inverts some of Pokémon's tropes, like presenting the Japanese folklore-inspired Yo-Kai as gremlins, and making battles realtime instead of turn-based.3DSNovember 6Fallout 4In the war to eliminate our ability to play more than just one game a year, post-apocalyptic roleplaying free time vortex Fallout 4 has several legs up, including over 700 weapon mods and the option to build (and tear down) entire settlements from scratch.PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox OneNovember 10Rise of the Tomb RaiderOriginal franchise developer Crystal Dynamics' 2013 Lara Croft rethink was both improbably and incredibly well-executed, and the sequel looks to continue that course correction, this time letting players explore the mythic Siberian city of Kitezh.Xbox OneNovember 10StarCraft II: Legacy of the VoidBlizzard's strung out StarCraft II trilogy--it launched half a decade ago!--finally concludes this fall
, shifting the focus to the alien Protoss in a real-time strategy battle to thwart another wickedest-thing-you've-seen-yet Blizzard villain.PCNovember 10Star Wars BattlefrontIt may not be open world, story-driven Star Wars game fans wanted, but Star Wars Battlefront has plenty going for it, including Endor, Hoth, Tatooine, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett and cooperative battles you can play either offline (with bots) or online with friends.PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox OneNovember 17Pokémon Super Mystery DungeonPlay as a Pokémon (as opposed to a Pokémon's human trainer) in the second 3DS installment of the Super Mystery Dungeon series, exploring randomly generated levels to--what else?--save the world.3DSNovember 20Bloodborne: The Old HuntersThe Old Hunters will be hack-and-slash Bloodborne's only expansion, replete with new areas, outfits, enemies, weapons and magical abilities--and that's frankly just fine, given how adroitly demanding From Software's masterpiece is already.PlayStation 4November 24Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six SiegeRainbow Six Siege has seven years of anticipation to indulge, but early reception's been positive, so if you're looking for a first-person, team-driven tactical shooter, keep an eye on this one.