October’s video game release calendar is a little too stacked

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By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

October is a lousy month for games. It’s just stuffed full of some of the biggest releases of the year. Remember back in the summer when Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, and Final Fantasy XVI all released in the span of five weeks? October is that on steroids — a greater number of high-profile games concentrated in a much shorter stretch of time. Here’s what we’re looking at.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage is billed as a return to the series’ action-adventure roots. The game returns to the Middle East having you play as Basim, a character AC fans might recognize from Valhalla as he comes into his own as a Hidden One, the precursors to the Assassins. Ubisoft is all in on Assassin’s Creed. There’s a live-action Netflix series in the works, a mobile game, Assassin’s Creed Jade, and three more Assassin’s Creed projects — Hexe, Red, and Infinity — for which we’re still waiting on details.

This part of October gets absolutely unmanageable with hit after hit after hit launching in the same week.

Sonic Superstars is no Sonic Mania 2, but judging from all the trailers I’ve seen, it might as well be. Like Mania, Superstars combines classic 2D side-scrolling with modern Sonic remixes like new power-ups and four-player co-op.

Everyone’s gonna have their eyes on Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Not only is it a Mario game launching in time for the holiday Switch-buying season but it’ll also be the first time longtime Mario voice performer Charles Martinet will not be playing the role of the titular plumber. Nintendo’s been secretive about who it got to step into the overalls, saying that we’ll know