Hazelight’s outspoken studio founder Josef Fares believes EA has been painted to be the villain much more than other companies, stating: There’s not a publisher in the world that hasn’t fucked up now and then. Read more

   Styx: Blades of Greed is probably one of my most anticipated games this year, so I am pleased to let you know that there is now a demo available to try out. Read more

   Would you believe me if I told you Code Vein 2 is one of the most enjoyable Souls-like games I’ve played in years? That it not only improves upon systems and quirks present in the original game, but also offers something truly fresh in a genre packed with fierce competition? It’s all true After...

   Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds didn’t cause a commotion when it launched last year, but it quietly became a compelling alternative to Mario Kart World’s offerings, which many felt were on the simpler (albeit extremely polished) side. Now, a little over a month since the native Nintendo Switch 2 version...

   BioWare’s multiplayer shooter Anthem was terminated this week because EA no longer wanted to maintain servers for people to play the game on, and without them, no one can play the game. But the former executive producer of Anthem has revealed that BioWare had technology working, close to the game’s...

   Before 2026 heats up, we’ve got several small and mid-sized game releases coming our way fast, but unexpected arrivals like Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown could be making the coming weeks busier than initially anticipated. Read more

   Oh, Funko Pop. What have you done? Well, unless my eyes are deceiving me, I think you may have let slip a yet-to-be-aired and potentially pivotal plot point for the second season of Amazon’s Fallout adaptation. Read more

   It’s gone. In case you didn’t know, the servers for BioWare’s multiplayer game Anthem have been switched off, rendering this online game no longer playable. For all intents and purposes, Anthem no longer exists. Read more

   Monolith Productions’ closure last year remains one of the hardest gut punches the Western games industry has seen recently. From iconic shooters like FEAR to the inventive Shadow of Mordor & Shadow of War, the studio always excelled, no matter the genre. Now, unearthed materials allegedly...

   French publisher Ubisoft is promising a nostalgic 2026, with remakes of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time nearing completion, and the first Division game also getting a re-release of sorts. For many of the developers at key studios, however, the year is off to...

   Yesterday, Lego fully unveiled its official Pokémon sets, which include the rather chonky Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise model. This chap was notable not only for its size and price tag (it is retailing for 579.99), but the fact that if you pre-ordered it, you would also get your hands on the...

   The new year is upon us Actually it’s been upon us for a couple weeks now, but listen: this is a very long list, so you’ll understand if it took us a little while to pull together. Read more

   No matter how you feel about Arc Raiders’ use of AI for NPC voices, it’s hard to deny the game has been a massive success that’s cracked open the extraction shooter subgenre for casual players and even harpooned some older live service whales. Now, it’s hit a new milestone which positions it as one...

   The dispute between Grand Theft Auto 6 studio Rockstar and over 30 of its former developers rages on, with those affected denied interim pay by a UK tribunal. Read more

   Much has been written about Stellar Blade’s handling of its lead female character, the culture war surrounding it, and developer Shift Up’s several eyebrow-raising missteps as the game broke through into mainstream consciousness. Regardless, the PS5 title was a big success and a sequel is now in...

   Capcom has announced a Resident Evil showcase, which will give us all a closer look at what the team has in store for its upcoming release, Requiem. Read more

   We already knew Hytale was likely to have a major early access release this week, but developer Hypixel Studios has now revealed the long-awaited Minecraft-a-like has sold so many copies ahead of its launch that it’s made enough money to fund the next two years of development. Read more

   Peter Molyneux’s Masters of Albion - which the game creator has said is the culmination of his life’s work - has landed itself a release date. Read more

   Gaming can’t escape the shadow of global economic uncertainty, and things are going to get worse following 2025’s price hikes due to the memory shortages caused by the AI and data centre gold rush (which doesn’t seem to be producing much gold just yet). What about Nintendo Switch 2 following a...

   A lot of you are gaming hard, it seems. Steam has been on a steady growth trajectory for years now, with the Covid pandemic alone adding five million unique users only in 2020. On 1th January, Valve’s platform crossed the 42 million barrier, setting a new record. Read more

   Lego has lifted the lid on its previously announced Pokémon sets, which include Pikachu and Poké Ball, Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise and Eevee. Read more

   Call of Duty is coming to Switch 2. That we know for sure. Key Xbox and Activision figures have underlined how important Nintendo’s hardware is for the brand moving forward, with their last comments on the matter happening last year following Black Ops 7’s reveal. Read more

   Pocketpair has announced Palworld Official Card Game, which is, yes, an official card game based on the developer’s monster catching survival game, Palworld. Read more

   With the first expedition window for Arc Raiders concluded in December, Embark Studios has revealed that just over a million players opted in to reset their characters in exchange for various rewards. Having sold over 12m copies according to analyst estimates, that’s under 10 percent of all players...

   UPDATE 7.30PM GMT: And it’s gone. It’s unclear exactly when the servers went down but I checked shortly before 7pm GMT and I couldn’t connect to the game’s server. That appears to be it, then, the end of Anthem. Read more

   When Cyberpunk 2077 was sort of relaunched with its 2.0 update and the Phantom Liberty expansion, female V took over as the face of the game. More than two years later, and with the RPG still selling well and attracting new players, that hasn’t changed. Read more

   Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is still trucking along, and with an ambitious 2026 roadmap to boot, while development on the third game continues. More shocking, though, is the apparent tease that The Division 1 is making a return for its 10th anniversary. Read more

   Hytale’s founder Simon Collins-Laflamme has revealed the team expects over a million players on the game’s Early Access launch day on the 13th January. Read more

   It wasn’t Larian’s choice to not release Baldur’s Gate 3 on Switch 2. Read more

   Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 has raised 2.44 million ( 1.8m) for its latest cause, Prevent Cancer Foundation. Read more

   US game retailer GameStop has reportedly shut hundreds of stores. Read more

   Former Assassin’s Creed director Alexandre Amancio has shared his thoughts about AAA development, suggesting we need smaller teams and admitting that big-budget developers cannot solve a problem by throwing people at it . Read more

   Code Vein 2 is just a few short weeks away now, and to celebrate, Bandai Namco has dropped an all-new teaser trailer entitled The Blinded Resurgence Offspring . Read more

   As X Twitter owner Elon Musk moves Grok’s widely condemned AI image manipulation feature to paid-only and users flood the town square with thousands of sexualised images, Epic Games boss said that senators calling for the removal of X from the Apple and Google stores are trying to censor all of...

   Surprise We finally have a release date and a subtitle - Broken Things - for Poppy Playtime 5: 18th February, 2026. The console release for Chapter 5 will reportedly follow in the months ahead . Read more

   EA has stressed to its community that the values of The Sims are unchanged as we head into 2026. Read more

   Phasmophobia developer Kinetic Games reckons 2026 will be one of the biggest [years] in the game’s history as it moves towards the full release of the game. Read more

   Forza Horizon 5 has reportedly sold more than 5 million copies on PS5. Read more

   Hello and Happy New Year - is it okay to say that now? I’m not sure where the cut-off point is. Some people still have their Christmas trees up. We had ours out before New Year. Welcome back to What We’ve Been Playing Or as I like to call this particular edition of it: What We Played Over Christmas...

   Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian will certainly consider getting its upcoming release Divinity onto Switch 2. Read more

   Roblox has begun its global rollout of facial age verification onto the popular gaming platform starting today, in an attempt to improve child safety following a deluge of criticism. This comes after a partial rollout of the technology back in December. Read more

   Earlier this week, reports indicated that big moves were happening at Discord. According to Bloomberg, the company responsible for gaming’s most popular social platform had confidentially filed for IPO, indicating a major move towards going public. Read more

   Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian has changed its stance on generative AI following backlash faced at the end of last year. Read more

   Eve Online - the sci-fi MMO space-faring epic - saw a surge in players at the tail end of 2025. The game had over a million players take to the stars in 2025, and it has benefited from the largest influx of new and returning players in years. Read more

   Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin would probably be quite surprised by how the world of Elden Ring - which he helped developer FromSoftware create a backstory for - actually turned out in the end. Read more

   January is the month that, where I live, in the south of England, everyone gets serious again. All the paraphernalia of Christmas - all the merriment and cheer and colourful lighting - is cleared away in favour of sobering goals for the year ahead. It’s never something that’s appealed strongly to...

   Cygames, the Japanese video game developer responsible for a variety of popular games including Umamusume: Pretty Derby, has announced its intention to create an AI-focused subsidiary company. Read more

   Former Xbox exclusive role-playing game Avowed is coming to PlayStation 5, and it’ll be released on the game’s first anniversary: 17th February 2026 (note: the original PC and Xbox Series S X release happened on 18th February 2025 but it’s only a day’s difference). Read more

   Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall underestimated just how much players would engage with the game’s various sidequests and optional content, and as a result of this extra grinding would find the final boss fight a tad underwhelming. Read more

   It’s been a busy year so far for a game that’s over 10 years old. If you’ve not been following, last week, we asked is there really going to be a new Witcher 3 expansion this year? , responding to comments from Borys Nieśpielak, a trusted source of Polish games industry information....