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Nintendo Announces Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch 2 Edition and a Free Update to the Base Game

Nintendo has brought Animal Crossing: New Horizons back into the big time with a Switch 2 Edition and a free update to the base game.Both launch January 15, 2026, with preorders coming soon, Nintendo said.Here’s the official blurb:With enhanced resolution, mouse controls using the Joy-Con 2 controller, expanded online play, ...
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Arc Raiders is out now, and the best thing about it so far is bumsliding through a buried desert city

I’m not that keen on extraction games like Arc Raiders. The last two I played at length were Tom Clancy's The Division (specifically its Survival mode), which features possibly my favourite videogame piles of trash, and Hunt: Showdown, which features possibly my favourite (i.e. the absolute worst) videogame spider. I ...
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Pokémon TCG: Full Release Schedule for 2025

The Pokémon Trading Card Game shows no signs of slowing down in 2025. Whether you're a competitive player, a casual collector, or someone who's just dropped way too much money on framed booster art, this year's TCG lineup is going all in with new mechanics, nostalgic reprints, and plenty of ...
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Capcom Gets Behind Nintendo Switch 2 With Resident Evil Requiem Switch 2 Pro Controller, the First Ever Resident Evil Amiibo, and a RE7, RE8, RE Requiem Generation Pack

Capcom is throwing the full force of Resident Evil Requiem at the Nintendo Switch 2 with a number of exclusive announcements for the console.First up is the Resident Evil Requiem-themed Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller, which Nintendo will release alongside the game on February 27, 2026. It's the first Switch ...
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Amazon have reportedly cancelled their Lord Of The Rings MMO, again

Amazon have cancelled their second attempt at a Lord Of The Rings MMO as part of recent mass layoffs, according to a now-former senior gameplay engineer at Amazon Games. Read more ...
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Biped 2 Waddles Onto Switch Next Month With Even More Nintendo-Style Co-Op Chaos

Step by step.We had a good time with Biped — the robo co-op platformer all about putting one foot in front of the other — when it arrived on Switch back in 2020, and what do you know, META Publishing has got even more up its sleeve.Biped 2 is set ...
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Battlefield 6 Season 1 Map Blackwell Fields in the Firing Line as Players Report Being Killed From as Far Away as Enemy HQ Spawn Points

Battlefield 6 Season 1 is here, and players have already turned their attention to one major issue: Blackwell Fields.The California sun-soaked fields of EA and Battlefield Studios’ first new post-launch map are home to an army of oil pumpjacks, smoky hills, and an orange tint that blankets every scrap of ...
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VVVVVV and Super Hexagon’s Terry Cavanagh is back with a joyfully cracked platformer about eggs

Once upon a time, the great graven cave troll Terry Cavanagh rose from his slumbers, scratched the opals from his beard of woven copper, and said to himself: "Today I will make a 3D egg platform game in which a 3D egg goes platforming, like my hit game VVVVVV, but ...
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Surprise! The Next Shantae Game Is Now Officially In Development

"We hope you look forward to it".WayForward's Shantae series has been expanded with all sorts of games over the years, and following the recent revival of the lost GBA title, the series director Matt Bozon has now shared a major update.Read the full article on nintendolife.com ...
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Pokémon Legends Z-A Update Planned For November, Will Address “Known Issues”

Here's what you can expect, trainers.Pokémon Legends Z-A has been out for a few weeks now and during this time The Pokémon Company and developer Game Freak have identified some issues.In response to this, a response has been issued about the "current known issues and planned fixes" on the way ...
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