https://scoredapps.com/news/Mobile app and game news from ScoredApps.en Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://scoredapps.com/news/witcher-3-remastered-free-upgrade/https://scoredapps.com/news/witcher-3-remastered-free-upgrade/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamCD Projekt Red's remaster of The Witcher 3 lands on September 29, and the studio announced it as a free upgrade for everyone who already owns the game rather than a new purchase. There is a second part that matters more for anyone holding only the base game: both original expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, become free for current owners, and both are built into the remastered version.News https://scoredapps.com/news/god-of-war-laufey-preorders/https://scoredapps.com/news/god-of-war-laufey-preorders/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamSony announced on September 28 that pre-orders for God of War Laufey open the next morning at 10am local time, with the game arriving on PlayStation 5 on February 16, 2027. Two editions were detailed — a Standard and a Digital Deluxe — along with what each carries. One thing the announcement does not carry is a price, for either of them.News https://scoredapps.com/news/minion-rush-sunset-2027/https://scoredapps.com/news/minion-rush-sunset-2027/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamGameloft is closing Minion Rush, the endless runner that has been on phones since June 2013. Its own sunset FAQ sets three dates: a farewell event from October 1 to 28, removal from the App Store and Google Play on October 30 along with the end of in-app purchases, and servers off on January 29, 2027. Anyone who keeps the app installed gets to keep playing offline afterwards, without events, leaderboards or cloud saves.News https://scoredapps.com/news/fortnite-fnaf-fortnitemares-2026/https://scoredapps.com/news/fortnite-fnaf-fortnitemares-2026/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamEpic confirmed the crossover on September 27 with a trailer on Fortnite's own channel: the Fazbear band moves into Battle Royale as animatronic bosses, and Fortnitemares begins on October 1. It lands on the same day another crossover leaves — the Kingdom Hearts skins Epic put in the shop this month come out of it on October 1 — which makes next Wednesday a swap rather than an addition.News https://scoredapps.com/news/tiktok-alabama-settlement-teen-limits/https://scoredapps.com/news/tiktok-alabama-settlement-teen-limits/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamTikTok has agreed to hard limits on how long teenagers can use it, as part of a settlement with the state of Alabama announced on September 25. The state gets at least $100 million within 45 days and up to $300 million if certain conditions are met. The product changes are the bigger story: a two-hour daily cap, no access between midnight and 6am, cosmetic filters switched off for teens and a non-personalised feed by default.News https://scoredapps.com/news/pokemon-masters-ex-turkiye-end-of-service/https://scoredapps.com/news/pokemon-masters-ex-turkiye-end-of-service/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamDeNA has told players in Türkiye that Pokémon Masters EX stops working there with an update scheduled for December 22. The notice, posted on the game's official site late on September 24, says every feature stays available until that day and that the app will not play afterwards even if you open it. What it does not say is anything about money: no purchase cutoff, no refunds, no word on gems you have already paid for.News https://scoredapps.com/news/minecraft-the-sift-dimension-2027/https://scoredapps.com/news/minecraft-the-sift-dimension-2027/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamMinecraft is getting a new dimension for the first time in over fourteen years, and phones are last in the queue. The Sift was revealed at Minecraft Live on September 26 and arrives first inside Minecraft Dungeons II, which launches September 29 on consoles and PC. Java and Bedrock — the edition that runs on Android and iPhone — get it in 2027, with no month attached.News https://scoredapps.com/news/gta-6-collector-box-backlash-prices/https://scoredapps.com/news/gta-6-collector-box-backlash-prices/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamA day after pre-orders opened on September 24, the loudest reaction to Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection is arithmetic: players are laying the €399.99 box next to earlier Rockstar collector's sets and asking what the money buys. Rockstar's own store answers part of that question, because most of what is in the box is sold there separately, and the last time the company shipped a game-less collector's box it filled it with something else entirely.News https://scoredapps.com/news/warzone-operator-skin-toggle-mw4/https://scoredapps.com/news/warzone-operator-skin-toggle-mw4/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamActivision announced on September 24 that Warzone gets an Operator Skin toggle when Modern Warfare 4's first season starts. Switch it on and every Operator from an older Call of Duty that other players are wearing is replaced on your screen by a Modern Warfare 4 one — enemies, squadmates and party members alike, in the lobby and in the match. Your own choice stays untouched, nobody else's game changes, and the filter is off by default.News https://scoredapps.com/news/gta-6-goodtime-state-vice-city-collection/https://scoredapps.com/news/gta-6-goodtime-state-vice-city-collection/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamRockstar opened pre-orders on September 24 for Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection, a €399.99 collector's box that ships on November 19 — the same day the game launches. The set is built around Macca the Gator, the mascot of an in-game Leonida TV show, and Rockstar's own store listing ends with the line that matters most: the game is sold separately.News https://scoredapps.com/news/ares-iron-vanguard-giganto-machia/https://scoredapps.com/news/ares-iron-vanguard-giganto-machia/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamA week after its global launch, Com2uS Holdings has given Ares: The Iron Vanguard its first major update: the timed boss raid Giganto Machia against the giant Kassias, a 20-player Interception against the dragon Barbatos with the rare Xenosprime mount as a drop, and a new Operator Cell progression layer that both feed.News https://scoredapps.com/news/whatsapp-watch-emoji-chat-search/https://scoredapps.com/news/whatsapp-watch-emoji-chat-search/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamTwo WhatsApp changes landed this week. On September 21 reactions on Apple Watch stopped being limited to six emoji: the watch app now carries the full picker in eight categories with recents on top. And since September 17 a search button has been rolling out inside iPhone conversations, so finding an old message no longer means opening the chat info screen first.News https://scoredapps.com/news/urban-jungle-cuisineer-mobile-releases/https://scoredapps.com/news/urban-jungle-cuisineer-mobile-releases/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamTwo small PC games landed on phones in the past week. Urban Jungle, the plant-arranging puzzle from Assemble Entertainment, went up on September 16, free to download at 230 MB. Cuisineer, the dungeon-crawling restaurant roguelite, arrived on September 15 through Crunchyroll's Game Vault — free on the store page, but playable only with a Mega or Ultimate Fan membership.News https://scoredapps.com/news/tap-to-pay-iphone-eight-countries/https://scoredapps.com/news/tap-to-pay-iphone-eight-countries/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamApple announced on September 22 that Tap to Pay on iPhone now works in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Peru. Any business there can take contactless payments on an iPhone alone — no card reader, no dongle — with customers tapping a phone, watch or card against the merchant's handset.News https://scoredapps.com/news/solo-leveling-karma-tgs-trailers/https://scoredapps.com/news/solo-leveling-karma-tgs-trailers/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamNetmarble brought two trailers for Solo Leveling: KARMA to Tokyo Game Show on September 17 — a cinematic and a gameplay one. They set the game inside the 27-year Monarch War, a period the series has not covered, and show the roguelite loop: mixed weapon types, procedural runs and more than 200 stacking buffs. It is still dated only as 2026, on iOS, Android and PC.News https://scoredapps.com/news/sanrio-kawaii-me-live-january-2027/https://scoredapps.com/news/sanrio-kawaii-me-live-january-2027/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamSanrio announced on September 21 that Sanrio Kawaii Me Live!, the first game under its own Sanrio Games label, launches globally on iOS and Android in January 2027. Pre-registration opened the same day. It is a rhythm and dance game with Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll, My Melody, Kuromi and Pompompurin, two difficulty modes, and original songs written for it by six Universal Music acts.News https://scoredapps.com/news/samsung-one-ui-9-android-17-delay/https://scoredapps.com/news/samsung-one-ui-9-android-17-delay/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamThe wider One UI 9 rollout — Samsung's Android 17 — did not arrive on September 21 as planned. A Samsung press release first moved the date to September 28, then dropped the specific day and now says only "September 2026". Galaxy S26 owners were the first in line after a four-month beta; Samsung has not explained the hold-up.News https://scoredapps.com/news/roblox-the-hunt-20-event/https://scoredapps.com/news/roblox-the-hunt-20-event/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamThe Hunt: Roblox 20 opened on September 17 and closes on September 28. It walks through twenty games, one for each year from Crossroads in 2006 to Grow a Garden in 2025, with a badge in each and a free item for every year cleared. Finishing all twenty unlocks Year Infinity, a second set of twenty games standing for Roblox from 2026 on. No codes, no purchases.News https://scoredapps.com/news/pubg-mobile-one-punch-man-collab/https://scoredapps.com/news/pubg-mobile-one-punch-man-collab/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamKRAFTON has put One-Punch Man into PUBG Mobile: the crossover went live on September 20 and runs to October 20, with character sets for Saitama, Genos, Garou, Terrible Tornado, Hellish Blizzard and Watchdog Man, a Mumen Rider bicycle, a Kar98K skin, voice packs and collectible cards. It sits on top of the 4.6 update that has been live since September 9.News https://scoredapps.com/news/pokemon-go-astronaut-pikachu/https://scoredapps.com/news/pokemon-go-astronaut-pikachu/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamNiantic announced Astronaut Pikachu for World Space Week: the costumed Pokémon appears from October 4 to October 10 in one-star raids and through free Timed Research, with a shiny version possible. Research tasks must be finished and claimed by October 12. The costume follows a real Pikachu toy that spent 67 days aboard the International Space Station this spring.News https://scoredapps.com/news/once-human-isles-of-abyss-expansion/https://scoredapps.com/news/once-human-isles-of-abyss-expansion/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamNetEase and Starry Studio dated Once Human's largest update yet on September 21: Isles of Abyss goes live globally on October 22 — October 21 in Pacific time — free on phones, PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with cross-play and cross-progression intact. It adds five ocean regions, ships that work as mobile bases, and a server-wide threat called the Sunken Lord.News https://scoredapps.com/news/nothing-os-5-android-17-open-beta/https://scoredapps.com/news/nothing-os-5-android-17-open-beta/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamNothing OS 5.0, the company's build of Android 17, opened as a public beta on September 22 for the Phone (4a), Phone (3a) Pro and Phone (3a). Enrolment runs for one week through the Beta Hub app; miss it and the next stop is the stable release in early November.News https://scoredapps.com/news/monopoly-go-monster-mash-collab/https://scoredapps.com/news/monopoly-go-monster-mash-collab/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamScopely announced a two-month season for Monopoly Go: Monster Mash runs from September 23 to November 25 and opens with a KPop Demon Hunters crossover — HUNTR/X, the Saja Boys, a concert event and the game's first licensed songs — plus a Ghostbusters tie-in with a proton-blaster treasure hunt and a street race through Seoul.News https://scoredapps.com/news/meta-muse-tops-app-store/https://scoredapps.com/news/meta-muse-tops-app-store/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamMeta's personal AI agent, Muse, took the number one spot on the free iPhone chart in the US App Store this week, pushing ChatGPT into second. Meta launched it on September 8 as an agent that acts rather than answers: it opens a browser, fills forms, sends mail, books and pays, and keeps working after the app is closed. It is US-only for now, free for basic use with paid tiers above it.News https://scoredapps.com/news/iphone-18-pro-face-id-reboot-reports/https://scoredapps.com/news/iphone-18-pro-face-id-reboot-reports/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamDays after the iPhone 18 Pro went on sale, owners started reporting the same fault: a failed Face ID attempt inside a locked app freezes the phone and reboots it. The reports point at the Passwords app and private Safari tabs rather than the lock screen, and crash logs show kernel panics. Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 owners are separately reporting Neural Engine timeouts.News https://scoredapps.com/news/ios-27-2-beta-anti-snatch-lock/https://scoredapps.com/news/ios-27-2-beta-anti-snatch-lock/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamApple released the second iOS 27.2 developer beta on September 21, and it carries code for an unannounced feature that locks an iPhone automatically when the phone detects it has been grabbed out of a hand. The same beta shows a redesigned Health app, album countdowns in Apple Music and a CarPlay Ultra theme. On the same day Apple stopped signing iOS 26.6.2, so iOS 27 can no longer be rolled back.News https://scoredapps.com/news/honkai-star-rail-4-6-pearl-update/https://scoredapps.com/news/honkai-star-rail-4-6-pearl-update/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamHoYoverse announced on September 20 that Honkai: Star Rail Version 4.6, "Dance With the Beast Before Moonrise", arrives on September 28 on iOS, Android, PC and PS5. It brings one new 5-star, the Ice Elation character Pearl, reruns for Evanescia and Mortenax Blade, two new outfits — and confirmation that Zenless Zone Zero's Ellen and Astra Yao cross over into Star Rail in Version 4.8.News https://scoredapps.com/news/got-kingsroad-global-content-alignment/https://scoredapps.com/news/got-kingsroad-global-content-alignment/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamNetmarble opened pre-registration on September 22 for the Global Content Alignment server of Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, which goes live on October 13. It is a rebuild rather than an update: redesigned progression, rebalanced combat with a dual-weapon system, a membership and battle-pass economy, and a reward programme that carries over what players did on the Western server.News https://scoredapps.com/news/google-motion-assist-non-pixel/https://scoredapps.com/news/google-motion-assist-non-pixel/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamMotion Assist, the Android feature that puts moving dots on screen to cut car sickness, started reaching non-Pixel phones on September 21 through Google Play services 26.37. It needs Android 17 and the current Play services build; Samsung's Galaxy line is first outside Pixel. The dots move with the car in real time and can be tuned or switched on from Quick Settings.News https://scoredapps.com/news/golf-clash-dechambeau-backyard/https://scoredapps.com/news/golf-clash-dechambeau-backyard/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamEA Playdemic has tied Golf Clash to Bryson DeChambeau's Backyard Games, the ten-day contest that started on September 22 at the golfer's home and ends with a three-hole match for $100,000. The game gets a course modelled on that backyard, Front 9 and Back 9 tournaments on it, and themed rewards while the contest runs.News