PlayStation Blog has opened its Players’ Choice poll for September 2026, asking readers to vote for the best new game released last month. The post, titled “Players’ Choice: Vote for September’s best new game,” went live on October 5, 2026 from the PlayStation Blog editorial team. The poll covers releases from September, the month that just ended, and is embedded directly in the post so readers can cast their vote on the page.
In the post, the team looks back on September as a month filled with an extensive release of games. The month’s slate ranged from story-driven spectacles to smaller mini-adventures. The post names four of September’s bigger releases as examples: Marvel’s Wolverine, Control Resonant, Dune: Awakening, and NBA 2K27. It then asks readers a simple question: which game from that month was their favorite?
How the poll works
The Players’ Choice poll is a recurring feature that PlayStation Blog runs at the end of every month. The September edition follows this monthly schedule. Each edition opens after the month ends and asks players to vote for the best new game released that month. Once the polls close, the blog tallies the votes and announces the winner on its social channels and on PlayStation.Blog. The winner is revealed only after the voting window closes and the results are counted.
The voting criteria are left up to the player. The post asks readers to consider a single question: if you could only recommend one new release to a friend that month, which would it be?
Eligibility and nominee selection
Re-released games do not qualify for the poll, but remakes do. PlayStation Blog spells out this rule as a note to voters and defines remakes as ambitious, larger-scale rebuilds. The post names Resident Evil 4 (2023) and Final Fantasy VII Remake as examples of that category.
The nominees themselves are chosen by the PlayStation Blog editorial team. It gathers a list of the month’s most noteworthy releases and uses that list to seed the poll, so readers vote from a curated shortlist rather than the full September release slate.
