Stop Killing Games has been fighting the good fight since 2024 in answer to publishers like Ubisoft shutting down The Crew and other online-only games and cutting access to them. In 2025, the European Citizens' Initiative launched by the group was blasted by several major publishers as such a move would be "prohibitively expensive." Now, the initiative has flown past its goal and cleared almost 1.3m verified signatures.
Resident Evil 9 (aka Requiem) is all about the swings. After three hours with a clearly more-or-less final build of the game, one rather gets the impression that the entire game has been built around the idea of a pendulum swinging back and forth. Exhilarating highs and stomach-churning lows (of the good sort). What surprised me the most about the hands-on, however, is how quickly Requiem sets that ticking and tocking cadence.
"Imagine there's no such thing as Sushi," Resident Evil: Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi asked me to ponder. It's a strange request, but it comes at the end of an animated chat with a clearly very thoughtful creator. I nod along - imagining a terrible world, as far as I'm concerned. But what does this analogy have to do with Resident Evil?
As Nintendo's first-party offerings begin to fully focus on Switch 2, there's one more major release still targeting its predecessor in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. With January 2026 now on its way out, the company has set a new Nintendo Direct for this Thursday.
Blizzard has teased a selection of big reveals starting the 29th January, which will cover almost its entire repertoire of games, including World of Warcraft, Diablo, Hearthstone, and Overwatch.
Autumn 2026 could be the definitive release window for Xbox and Playground Games' Fable, which last week confirmed its journey to PS5 on top of Xbox Series X/S and PC. Years after its original announcement, it's had its ups and downs, but the powers that be appear to have a solid grasp on what they want to achieve with it. Now, we also know it'd been a dream project for the developer for a while.
I do love a Soulslike, but I'm a bit of a purist at heart - if you don't give me the exact combination of forlorn ambience, intricate world design, lore excavation, and precision combat developer FromSoftware so consistently delivers, I’m probably going to struggle to care. So, having completely overlooked Bandai Namco's anime-hued Soulslike Code Vein when it released back in 2019, its sequel was well off my radar. Until, that is, dark forces (Eurogamer editor-in-chief Tom Orry) conspired to nudge it into my orbit. And having now played a good few hours of Code Vein 2 over this last week, I'm both surprised and delighted to discover I'm having a lovely time.
Fallout Season 2 has been great fun so far, and it seems folks continue to tune in to find out what's next for Lucy, The Ghoul, and Maximus. Its ratings are positioning it as one of Prime Video's biggest seasons of TV ever. Now, we've received word straight from Amazon MGM Studios that episodes 7 and 8 will drop a bit earlier to accommodate East and West Coast viewers.
In a year full of awesome new game releases (many of which were Nintendo Switch 2 exclusives), many agreed Kirby Air Riders was one of 2025's top bangers. Now, a new surprise patch has made it even better.
Red Hook Studios has announced that the Darkest Dungeon board game, which was being manufactured and shipped out by Mythic Games, can no longer be produced. This leaves those without their orders out of luck.
Hytale has had a remarkably strong early access start, despite a number of development hiccups and it broadly not being that different to genre-leader Minecraft, so it comes as no surprise modders are already hard at work on all sorts of additions and tweaks.
Splatoon 3 will be four years old later this year, and despite Nintendo ending regular update plans in late 2024 and Splatoon Raiders being deep into development, we're still getting new content and gameplay patches.
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The UK Court of Appeals has ruled that MMO currency can be treated as property, and the stealing of such currency can be deemed criminal theft.
Highguard launched last night on Steam, and quickly had an influx of players saddle up to try out the biggest topic in games right now. It turns out, the game proved quite popular on its first day, nearly reaching 100,000 concurrent players during its launch day.
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