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Rockstar's highly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 will not feature any Generative AI.
Borderlands 4 delivered more of what its passionate fans wanted, and for the most part, its substantial 2026 roadmap looks promising, but what about that Nintendo Switch 2 port that was pushed aside at the last minute?
Pokémon Sun and Moon turn 10 this year. Feel old yet? It doesn't matter, as we're only just now learning new fun tidbits about their development and what the hell was up with the very divisive Ultra Beast designs.
A new stage in the Helldivers 2 galactic war for democracy has begun in earnest, spurred on by the Automatons stealing blueprints for Super Earth's Star of Peace space station. In response to this rebellious action, players will have to travel back to their home planet first introduced in the original Helldivers: Cyberstan.
The Nioh series isn't exactly known for its nuance: there is good and evil, strong and weak, and little in-between. From feuding clans to the machinations of political elites, this binary is at the heart of everything in Team Ninja's pseudo-historical canon. Nioh 3 takes this black-and-white worldview and applies it to the feuding Tokugawa brothers at the start of the Seventeenth Century. Your character, Takechiyo, is good: noble, just, proper. Your brother, a bitter little rat tempted by ancient powers beyond his understanding (of course), is evil. His desire for power and notoriety is so distinct, in fact, that it has somehow summoned a supernatural 'crucible' from the darkest reaches of space-time, and this consuming chaos is so profound, it has managed to seep into four major eras of Japanese history. Uh oh!
Stardew Valley is about to turn 10 this month and I'm turning to literal dust as I type this sentence. However, that isn't stopping Eric Barone (ConcernedApe) from updating the incredibly successful life/farming sim in big ways.
We're sure we'll be hearing a lot from The Pokémon Company this year, as the massive franchise is turning 30 this month and already announced a major spinoff in Pokopia. It's also reasonable to expect news on the next generation sooner rather than later, but first, Jigglypuff might show up at this year's Super Bowl. Yes, really.
The Evercade consoles remain one of the most fascinating pieces of modern hardware on the market. Mainly aimed at collectors, but also welcoming enough so that younger gamers become interested in retro gaming, they blur the line between modern emulation and older original consoles. Now, the king of retro shooters is coming to them: Doom is invading yet another platform.
Overwatch 2 had a problem. It's a problem a lot of live service games have, to be fair. It wasn't particularly exciting any more. It had a chance at launch a few years ago to excite people, to create a wave of momentum to surf thereafter, but it floundered, beset as it was with identity problems and a misguided obsession with PvE, which sounded lovely on paper but never really worked in practice. Plenty of good work was done since on the game but most people outside of Overwatch 2 don't care - or don't know, because they're not looking anymore. They've moved on, they're playing other things. Incremental updates weren't enough to turn their heads. As far as many people were concerned, Overwatch 2 was yesterday's news, been and gone. How, then, does Blizzard make people care again?
You wouldn't know it to hear it, but decorated video game actor Jennifer Hale - famously the voice of Mass Effect's Commander Shepard - is the person providing the meows of new Overwatch hero Jetpack Cat.
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