Phantom Blade Zero's launch day, and Justice's GTA 6 score

Since last night's post, Vi.ki has shipped three releases, all of them following the news. Phantom Blade Zero came out, Rockstar announced a second Grand Theft Auto 6 album, and several games we cover changed under their players' feet. Here is what is new.

Phantom Blade Zero is out

Phantom Blade Zero unlocked on schedule at 2:00 a.m. UTC on Oct 29 (7 p.m. PT on Oct 28) on PlayStation 5 and PC, and its viki followed it through the day:

• Launch day, as it happened. The release date and time page now tells the story of the launch. On Steam the game reached 431,541 concurrent players that morning and a peak of 723,876 by 14:00 UTC, as SteamDB recorded it. That counts Steam only: neither the Epic Games Store nor the PlayStation 5 publishes player numbers.
• Weapons you win from bosses. S-Game's launch post on the PlayStation Blog explains that most weapons are claimed from the bosses you defeat. The weapons page has its examples, such as the Scarlet Wraithblade from Hua, Deadly Betrothed, an optional early boss, whose finishing combos summon spider lilies that slow enemies.
• Memory Flowers. The same post explains the blue flowers scattered through the world: each one shows a glimpse of the past, and finding all of a place's flowers raises Soul's health. The skills and upgrades page has the details.

The PS5 and PS5 Pro page also gained Digital Foundry's look at the console modes.

A score album for Grand Theft Auto 6

On Oct 29, Rockstar announced "Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score" by Justice, 30 tracks out Dec 11, 2026 on streaming services, CD and vinyl, three weeks after the game. The soundtrack page has it beside the 34-track album due Nov 19. And the Criminal Profile page now carries Edge's Oct 29 cover story: the profile runs from Professional to Irredeemable, and Rockstar says it will shape how Jason and Lucia's story unfolds.

The vikis keep growing

All told, 65 pages across the vikis changed since the last post, most of them in two daily passes. A few highlights:

• Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era: the balance update left the public beta and reached everyone on Oct 29 as v0.82.06, with a damage formula that now depends only on Attack minus Defense, smarter adventure map AI and two new neutral creatures, the Mummy and the Kitsune.
• ArcheAge Chronicles: five days before Early Access, XL Games said gender-locked classes will open one at a time, starting with a female Warrior in the first update in December, and that no class should be locked by full release.
• Modern Warfare 4: Infinity Ward's Oct 28 update is the game's first weapon tuning pass, with stronger SMG arm hits, longer ranges for the M4, Kastov 762 and Striga, and a 23% slower dive after a sprint jump.
• Aion 2: the new Prelude to Flight pass runs to Dec 2, and the cash shop page lists the Halloween Twitch Drops, which end with the Chubby Panda helm at eight hours watched.
• Crimson Desert: the main quests page now shows where the Charting the Unknown expansion joins the story, with the ocean storyline after Chapter 3 and the three character stories after the ending.

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