Tom Phillips    Forza Horizon 6 will launch with a 59.99 Premium Upgrade Bundle that unlocks four days of early access albeit at almost the same cost as buying the game again.

Michael Cripe    Embark has laid out a new Arc Raiders roadmap, revealing that a new map, Expedition Windows, Arc threats, a new Raider Deck, and more will launch between now and April 2026.

Wesley Yin-Poole    Palworld developer Pocketpair has an interesting way of screening job candidates. The Japanese game studio requires those applying for game designer positions to submit screenshots of their Steam libraries as part of the hiring process.

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Lauren Harper    See our list of all working and active codes for Heartopia. Redeem them for free gifts including Gold, Wishing Stars, and more.

Tom Phillips    Fortnite fans have gained a first look at how The Office characters Michael Scott and Dwight Scrute will appear in the game, when they become available later tonight.

Wesley Yin-Poole    The creator of the Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod CD Projekt recently hit with a DMCA strike has paused his Patreon page and pulled access to all his mods after receiving another strike from a different publisher.

Wesley Yin-Poole    Steve Downes, the actor behind Master chief’s iconic voice, has said deceptive AI reproductions of his voice cross a line that gets into an area I am uncomfortable with and he wants it to stop.

Tom Phillips    BioWare is slowly beginning to build itself back up following the downsizing it experienced in the wake of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, with hiring now underway for a new senior role on Mass Effect 5.

Wesley Yin-Poole    Remember those mockumentary-style interview sections in the original reveal trailer for Fable? Well, those will actually be in the game, and they’re inspired by an unlikely source The Office.

Wesley Yin-Poole    Battlefield 6 ended 2025 as the best-selling game in the U.S., beating its first-person shooter rival Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which ended down in fifth place. Black Ops 6 was 2024’s number one best-selling game in the U.S.

Tom Phillips    Remedy Entertainment has spoken out to defend its publishing deal for Alan Wake 2, which saw the game launch on PC exclusively via the Epic Games Store. More than two years later, there’s still no sign of it coming to rival storefront Steam.

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Tom Marks    There really isn’t a better way to describe it other than it’s basically Minecraft 2.

Tom Marks    An impressive port for both newcomers and those returning to Midgar.

Rebekah Valentine    The Nintendo Switch 2 was the best-selling console of 2025 in the U.S., both in unit sales and dollar sales, selling a total of 4.4 million units in the U.S, and continuing its streak of selling faster than the original Nintendo Switch.

Ryan McCaffrey    Sovereign Tower has an entertaining concept that draws its characters and dialogue equally from fantastical tradition and modern life. Couple that with a deliciously detailed art style and a sense of what’s most entertaining to do in both management games and visual novels and that’s enough to sell...

Chris Reed    Everything you need to know to preorder Forza Horizon 6 for Xbox or PC, including what comes in each edition, how much it costs, when it comes out, and more.

Rebekah Valentine    Today, Game Freak’s upcoming action game Beast of Reincarnation reemerged at the Xbox Developer Direct. So I sat down with Kota Furushima, game director of Beast of Reincarnation, to chat about what we saw, as well as get some further details on what exactly the game will be.

Rebekah Valentine    We just got our first lengthy, proper look at Beast of Reincarnation, the upcoming game from Pokemon developer Game Freak that, at least based on what we saw today, seems to be their most ambitious non-Pokemon game yet. But as a Pokemon fan, that does leave me with a big question: is Game Freak up...