As games pile into September to avoid GTA 6, Ghostrunner studio's promising Soulslike Valor Mortis is shifting its release to escape the rush

It didn't take much of this year's Summer Game Fest to realise that, in racing to escape the orbit of GTA 6 , the games industry has created a new problem : a September 2026 so packed with releases that it's going to take some dedication - not to mention time and money - for players to get through even a fraction of them all. So it was only a matter of time before someone blinked. Which brings us