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It's looking like there's gonna be plenty going on with the game as it celebrates its first birthday on February 8.
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Speedy Strats | Helldivers 2's first big patch of 2025 obliterates road safety laws to allow grenade and stratagem drive-bys while you’re leaning out of the FRV like a maniac
It's also brought back the mid-fall saluting everyone loved, so that's cool.
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Make The Switch | Nintendo Switch 2 "cannot come soon enough", analyst says for sales-related reasons, rather than just being desperate to play things on it like the rest of us
While it's now cleared the 150 million mark, sales of the current Switch are slowing up faster than Nintendo predicted.
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Prepped For Battle | Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's first mod arrives the day before the game itself, and it looks like a bunch more handy tweaks may be sneakily waiting in the wings
Your angriness could begone from day one, it seems.
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Of Course | Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 isn't even out yet, but it's already spawned a picture perfect bear sex distracted boyfriend meme
"Thank you, Larian Studios, for giving me unlimited power."
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WOW, a BG3 Thing | World of Warcraft-inspired Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign "Forsaken" releases a teaser level you can play right now, with plans for it to grow into the full mod
A nice starter ahead of a future main custom campaign course.
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Fetch A Towel | Evacuate the meme jacuzzi, those The Sims 1 and 2 re-releases are actually a thing, and you can grab 'em today
You can stop just perusing EA's weird Y2K website and properly fire up the early 2000s nostalgia machine.
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Invincible Summers | "Dragon Age isn't dead because it's yours now" ex-BioWare writer tells fans worried for the series' future following layoffs that weren't called layoffs
"If DA has inspired you to do something, if it sparks that invincible summer, then it's done its job."
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Purple Stuff | I don't want to alarm you, but Helldivers 2's Meridia black hole appears to be at the heart of some weirdly ominous Illuminatey happenings again
It could just be the divers getting the heebie-jeebies, but it looks like Arrowhead could be teasing the squids doing a thing.
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PS5 P50 | Ex-Xbox exclusive Forza Horizon 5 given the X-shaped green light to skid onto PlayStation soon, probably in a gold-wrapped Peel P50 with go faster stripes
Here's hoping it doesn't spin out because the upgraded engine it's put in its quirky microcar is too powerful for a motor that resembles a mini-fridge.
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Wei're So Back | Our Sleeping Dogs movie and sequel dreams may not be dead, and the Marvel star responsible has said the thing about pork buns to prove he knows the Wei
"Everyone's overwhelming love of Sleeping Dogs here has really given us life!"
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Good News | "There's a lot of love in this world" Elder Scrolls and Fallout voice actor Wes Johnson provides video update following medical emergency
"It's going to be a while as I work my way back, but I'm coming back."
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Bots Are Back | Helldivers 2's latest mission could spell the end for an old Super Earth foe, as the Illuminate carry on chilling in a galactic corner
It's back to the bot front for everyone, and yes, that also means you, bugdivers.
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Gone Cyberfishin' | Cyberpunk 2077 modder steps in to stop you accidentally running into your romantic interest's weird mute clone if you visit the wrong sofa snogging address
They'll now leave a nice note instead, which doesn't say 'Why are you in my house, you fool, I'm supposed to be doing a thing with you elsewhere!'
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Sigh | It looks like the entirety of Dragon Age: The Veilguard's main credited writing team is now no longer working at BioWare
Following the studio's latest bit of downsizing, the final few remaining writers appear to have departed.
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Restructuring | As work on Mass Effect 5 properly gets going, BioWare says it's downsized, with "many" devs moved to other EA teams and some staff departures
"Given this stage of development, we don’t require support from the full studio."
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Jingle Ls | Fortnite hands Call of Duty the L by 10 million hours in the most important battle there is: most playtime racked up by people ignoring their families on Christmas Day
Hey, it's as good a day to relax and shoot your way through some matches as there is.
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Squid Scrapper | No Man's Sky's Worlds Part 2 update brings "billions of new stars and planets" including huge gas giants, but I'm curious about the wrath of its trippy flying squid mums
Look, all those new worlds can wait, I'm off fishing and I may never return.
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Vice Looks Nice | GTA 6's map is being re-created as a GTA 5 mod that Rockstar may or may not make some phone calls about
YouTuber Dark Space has been busy creating their own version of Vice City.
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The War Rages On | "If we can keep it going for 10 years, we will": Helldivers 2 CEO addresses the game's future now director Pilestedt's taking a break from the front lines
"The vast majority of Helldivers is a team effort - it's not one Jesus figure."
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Sonypice Girls | Sony's 2 CEOs become 1, as Hideaki Nishino steps up "take the helm", with Hermen Hulst continuing to lead PlayStation's first-party studios
The next stage of the behemoth's post-Jim Ryan corporate chair-shuffling.
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Dinomocracy | Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 re-released on PC thanks to GOG, as it launches a tool you can use to help convince IP owners to let games you love make a comeback
A couple of Capcom classics just got a whole lot easier to grab on PC, if you don't happen to own a physical copy and a setup from the Jurassic period.
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Sim-ply Lovely | Rejoice, door-deleting murderers, The Sims 1 and 2 re-releases are reportedly arriving this week
EA's been teasing stuff as it celebrates 25 years of malevolent gods overseeing mysterious pool-related deaths.
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Mexican Stopoff | After a stop/start 2024, DLC-sized New Vegas mod Fallout Nuevo Mexico finally bites the cancellation bullet
"Letting go of something you’ve poured your heart into is painful, but it’s necessary."
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Super Sabbatical | Helldivers 2 director Pilestedt announces he's going on a "sabbatical", and when he returns, he'll "start working on the next Arrowhead game"
"11 years of working 'around the clock' on the same IP has made me set aside family, friends and my lovely wife... and myself."
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Best Wishes | UPDATE: Iconic Elder Scrolls and Fallout voice actor Wes Johnson suffers medical emergency, fundraiser to "help his family" raises over $130,000 in a day
"Wes has always been the friend who would give you his last dollar, as well as the shirt off his back."
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Modzoberranzan | “This doesn’t feel like an amateur production” Inside the ambitious Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign project aiming to release a demo this year
"I feel like I have been training and working towards this one mod for the past 25 years."
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Back On The Trail | EA Sports WRC hasn’t scratched my rallying itch enough to become a staple of my racing diet, and its latest DLC feels like it embodies why
There’s still the core of a good rally game in there, but it’s no Dirt Rally 2.0.
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Don't Be Gloomy | Helldivers 2's latest mission is about collecting samples, but it could have a much more interesting payoff: using the Gloom to zip about faster than light
Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme the extra FTL travel I desire.
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Farewell? | Dragon Age: The Veilguard's latest patch sounds like it could be the game's last big update, as BioWare says "Dareth shiral!"
"We were so happy with the game’s stability at launch and hope you have enjoyed our Quality of Life patches since then."
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Blue Boogie Burial | Blue Protocol gets the funeral every dying live service thing deserves, a massive hours-long rave with anime avatars busting a perfectly synced-up move
Dance til' the game's dead.
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Phew | Good news, Marvel Rivals players: you should no longer be at risk of getting stuck in a Clash of Dancing Lions match that straight-up never ends
Prior to a recent hotfix, going a goal behind could have some pretty catastrophic consequences.
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More Muties | Fallout season 2 reportedly might be adding another new face, this time with Marvel and Star Wars pedigree, to its cast
We already know Macaulay Culkin's dibsed the crazy genius-types, but this star's apparently in line to don Brotherhood robes.
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We're Hellback? | Helldivers 2 appears to no longer be blocked on Steam in some territories it was pulled from sale in during PlayStation account linking controversy
Good news if you live somewhere like the Channel Islands and want to battle the Illuminate, it seems.
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Upcoming J'aime? | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 brings a bit of French Final Fantasy-ish flavour to Xbox Developer Direct, and gets a proper release date
Just some oui folks going on an adventure with turn-based battles that features a wonky Eiffel Tower.
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Not So Far South | South of Midnight still looks cool as hell, and now it has a release date to prove it's a real game you'll be playing soon
South of Midnight has long been one of Xbox's most intriguing games of 2025, and today, we got to learn exactly when we're going to be playing it.
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Sound Familiar? | Would-be Disco Elysium successor studio Longdue's game revealed as Hopetown, an incredibly Disco Elysium-looking psychological RPG in which "words are your deadliest weapon"
It's set in a mining town and stars "a chaotic, self-destructive provocateur who sees humanity as inherently selfish and cruel".
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More Cards, Nice | Pokemon TCG Pocket's next expansion is Space-Time Smackdown, and apparently Dialga and Palkia are straight-up breaking the universe to get to your deck
They're arriving next week, because even messing with time apparently has its limitations.
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Hillo There | Fancy some chill off-roading with cosy vibes? Art of Rally and Absolute Drift dev Funselektor's next game, Over The Hill, looks like it'll crank your winch
In a good way, and with the same cool minimalistic art style the studio's made its trademark.
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Spring Scoring | Marvel Rivals' Spring Festival kicks off today, and it's got a new game mode that basically looks like Lunar New Year superhero Rocket League, but without the cars
Ok, so the cars are a big part of Rocket League, duh, but I challenge you to look at this and say there aren't lots of similarities.
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Graph Not Go Up | Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn't do as well as EA hoped, but EA Sports FC 25's struggles to score big financial numbers were an even bigger factor in it revising expectations
Damn, even the perennial cash cow that is EA's footy behemoth hasn't quite delivered in the way it hoped this year.
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Doomed To More Games | Watch the Xbox Developer Direct showcase for January 2025 here
More of the video games, this time from Phil Spencer and co.
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Red Reader | The Witcher 4's all about Ciri and even Geralt's fully aboard her hype train, but he won't fully explain why he's so excited, because he's pro-reading
White Wolf, more like the Word Wolf, amirite? Alright, put your steel sword away...
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Corsa Driver | Assetto Corsa EVO feels like a worthy heir to one of Steam’s racing titans so far, but it’s still got a lot of laps to go to get there
It’s still fairly barebones in its initial early access form, but there’s a solid core there to refine going forwards.
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Close Enough, Right? | Bloodborne PC emulation is now good enough that even everyone's favourite tech nerds think it "demonstrates the direction we'd want an official remaster to move in"
Things are looking "very encouraging" for DIY efforts bring the game people keep begging for a proper PC port of to PC.
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Helping Hand? | Helldivers 2's latest mission has had a big Illuminate invasion sting in the tail, leaving some players freaking out, while others reckon it's J.O.E.L helping out again
Bad news going forwards, or J.O.E.L chucking out another MO bone? We'll see.
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Desperate Shipping | Babe, wake up, a new GTA 6 trailer two release date theory has dropped, and it's definitely not people reading too much into some desperate shipping container maths
The moon may have let them down, but they theorise on, unperturbed.
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Nora-t Good News | Unannounced Horizon MMO from NCSoft reportedly cancelled, possibly leaving us with only one other multiplayer Horizon thing in the works
The Horizon multiplayer thing Guerilla itself's been working on is seemingly still coming at some point.
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In Mintyberranzan | Big Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod about an all-new adventure to Minthara's terrifying home town is aiming to release a demo pretty soon
Time to see if all the horrifying tales Minty's spun after starting a sentence with the dreaded 'In Menzoberranzan...' are true.