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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.
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.
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.
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 their political opponents"._VCqbKI8.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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".
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.
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At some point today, EA will turn the Anthem servers off, rendering BioWare's multiplayer online shooter inaccessible and unplayable, presumably forever. And fond farewells have already started to pour in.
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.
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 has raised $2.44 million (£1.8m) for its latest cause, Prevent Cancer Foundation.
US game retailer GameStop has reportedly shut hundreds of stores.
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".
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".
EA has stressed to its community that "the values of The Sims are unchanged" as we head into 2026.
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