The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – September 19, 2025

  What a week! We unveiled our next cover and <a href="https://gameinformer.com/cover-reveal/2025/09/18/cover-reveal-the-outer-worlds-2">it features The Outer Worlds 2</a>, published <a href="https://gameinformer.com/round-up/2025/09/18/all-40-games-shown-during-the-september-six-one-indie-showcase">a massive round-up of some cool looking indie games</a> from the equally excellent Six One Indie Showcase, and published multiple <a href="https://gameinformer.com/reviews">reviews</a>! But it's Friday and that means there's a weekend ahead of us and you!

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        <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-copy field--type-text-long field--label-hidden gi5-field-copy gi5-text-long field__item"><p>Ghost of Yotei is just a few weeks from launch, but if you're feeling a historical Japanese-themed hole in your heart, we have good news! Assassin's Creed Shadows has released its first major story expansion, which is free to those who pre-ordered the original game, and otherwise is available for purchase. The base game left some important threads unanswered, and this new expansion does a good job of helping to resolve some of those threads. Naoe and Yasuke are both given some new and satisfying targets to track down, taking them to a new island with additional story development. While Naoe gets a new weapon type (bo staffs!), the roughly 10 hours of new gameplay should otherwise feel pretty familiar. Nonetheless, this is a welcome addition for those who felt the game's plot didn't wrap up as well as it could have.</p></div>

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        <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-copy field--type-text-long field--label-hidden gi5-field-copy gi5-text-long field__item"><p>Like many, I am basically a sucker when it comes to Apple tech. I don’t get a new phone every year, or a MacBook, or a watch (I am a games journalist; let’s be reasonable), but I am always eager to get the new AirPods. With the exception of my phone, they are my most-used pieces of technology. I always have a podcast going, or they’re connected to my Switch 2, or my TV – I use them a lot. It’s a roundabout way to say, I got the new AirPods Pro 3 today, which required an update to iOS version 26. I fear change, so I don’t like the way it looks and animates (I will get over it), but I was surprised to see a new dedicated Games app.

I love this conceptually. As it stands now, I have a few folders on my phone labeled things like Apple Arcade, Games, and of course, Games II. I don’t like organizing them, and they have become unwieldy because I download a lot of games on my phone – far more than I actually play. I am fully on board with a separate app that automatically organizes them. It’s functionally like Steam. I don’t know if it will be as good as Steam, but I appreciate that Apple is trying to make a place to organize all of it. It will also, I hope, help with comparing high scores with friends and all that. Those elements have been available for some time, but it’s been hard to track up to this point.

All of this is to say, if you like playing games on your iPhone, don’t be scared of the new update.