Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem Showcase didn't reveal much about the story, but it did go into detail about how the game will change depending upon which character you're playing, and the title will also introduce new difficulty settings to the franchise. The new heroine, Grace Ashcroft, will represent a more classic, horror-focused approach to gameplay, similar to Resident Evil 2 and 6. But when players are in control of Leon S. Kennedy, the tone of the game will shift to a more action-oriented style like Resident Evil 4.

It doesn't sound like players will get to choose which character they will control, since certain parts of the story are meant for one or the other. Although Grace is physically weaker than Leon, she will have some abilities to make up for that. She will be able to craft weapons using the blood of the infected. And when Grace needs to shoot her way out of trouble, she'll have a powerful gun called Requiem to fall back on. To keep players from relying only on Requiem, the ammo will be limited.

RE Requiem is also introducing some new difficulty settings. The easiest mode is Casual, which lets players concentrate on the story and gives them an aim assist. Standard difficulty is a little harder, while Standard (Classic) won't let players save their games without finding a limited number of ink ribbons to use. That's a throwback to the save system in the older games in the franchise.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons adds plenty of new features with the latest 3.0 update, including Resetti's Reset Service, which delivers a way for you to tidy up your island without doing all the manual labor yourself. There are some fees and limitations, but this guide will explain everything you need to know about unlocking and using Resetti's Reset Service.

Make sure to check out our complete Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide hub to help you make the most of island life. This offers starter tips, guides for upgrades, and highlights major features you don't want to miss.

Resetti's Reset Service gives you an easier way to clean up your island, which can be especially helpful when you're considering redecorating on a bigger scale--or even on an island-wide scale. Resetti can help you tidy up by doing most of the hard labor. First, you'll need to find him to unlock his services.

The 3.0 update in Animal Crossing: New Horizons adds plenty of free content to enjoy, but it also includes new crossovers with Splatoon and The Legend of Zelda, allowing you to purchase specific Amiibo figures to invite villagers and unlock themed items for your island. This guide will show you all the new characters you can add, and which Amiibos are compatible with them in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Note that for previous Amiibo and Amiibo cards, we have a separate Animal Crossing: New Horizons Campsite guide that goes over those topics. Make sure to check out all the new features of the 3.0 update, which includes a new Resort Hotel to unlock. We also have a complete Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide hub to help you with all of your island needs.

• Crossover characters for Splatoon and Zelda

You'll be able to add four Nintendo characters as visitors to your island with update 3.0. This includes Mineru and Tulin from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, as well as Cece and Viché, who are inspired by Callie and Marie from Splatoon.

In 2024, Magic: The Gathering entered the wasteland of Fallout with four preconstructed Commander decks, which featured many key characters, locations, and events from the Fallout video games. Today, an update on Magic's Secret Lair website points to a new collaboration with Bethesda's post-apocalyptic universe, but this time focusing on Prime Video's Fallout series, which will release for a limited time beginning January 26 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.

A new banner has appeared on the Secret Lair website, with three distinct images pointing toward the new Fallout drop. First is a picture of CX404, also known as the German Shepard called Dogmeat; next is a close-up shot of a hand holding a Lucky 38 casino chip; and third is a picture of Lucy, the intrepid Vault Dweller from Vault 33, as portrayed by Ella Purnell.

One card, a reprint of Mindcrank, was revealed via the official Fallout Instagram, but since then, nine cards--including three which are mechanically unique--from what's being called the Secret Lair x Fallout Rad Superdrop have been revealed:

The new 3.0 update has arrived in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, bringing new content alongside the Switch 2 edition of the game. One of the newest additions is the megaphone, a Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive item that lets you call out and easily locate residents on your island. This guide will explain how to get and use the megaphone in Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Switch 2.

Make sure to check out all the new features of the 3.0 update, as well as our complete Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide hub to help you make the most of island life. This offers starter tips, information on how to upgrade locations, and more.

In 2012, SYBO launched the mobile sensation Subway Surfers. That game went on to become one of most downloaded mobile titles of all time. Now, the sequel, Subway Surfers City, is set to launch next month on mobile devices.

The announcement of the game's release date was accompanied by a cinematic trailer that shows off the world of Subway Surfers City.

This endless runner takes place in Subway City across four unlockable neighborhoods: The Docks, Southline, Sunrise Blvd, and Delorean Park. New neighborhoods will be added each season, alongside additional characters, outfits, and hoverboards. Players will also be given new abilities, including a stomp move, and a bubblegum shield that can enhance jumps. There are also three new game modes:

We're called GameSpot, so we clearly love to play some video games. You're reading stories on this site called GameSpot, so it's safe to assume that you love to play some video games, too. However, we all need to be careful with how long we play video games because a new study suggests that logging too many hours could seriously hurt our physical, emotional, and mental health.

In a new study published in ScienceDirect's Nutrition journal and reported on by Medical Xpress, 10 different researchers from around the world investigated the effects "excessive gaming" has on young people. Led by Professor Mario Siervo of the Curtin School of Population Health in Perth, Western Australia, and surveying 317 students from five Australian universities with a median age of 20 years old, the study found that "high gamers"--people whose playtime exceeded 10 hours a week--were at greater risk of dietary issues, sleep deprivation, and weight gain.

"What stood out was students gaming up to 10 hours a week all looked very similar in terms of diet, sleep, and body weight," Siervo said. "The real differences emerged in those gaming more than 10 hours a week, who showed clear divergence from the rest of the sample."

Amazon Games has announced that the MMO New World: Aeternum will go offline at the end of January 2027. The announcement isn't a total surprise, though, as some theorized this would be the case after the developer announced that the MMO would get no more new content after the Nighthaven seasonal update last year. In October 2025, Amazon cut more jobs at its gaming division that specifically impacted the MMO teams.

Aeternum's final day on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S is January 31, 2027. As of today, January 15, the game is being delisted. Everyone who has the game can keep playing, and Amazon announced that the Nighthaven event is being extended until the eventual shutdown.

"We want to thank the players for your dedication and passion. We are grateful for the time spent crafting the world of Aeternum with you. Together we built something special. While we are saddened to say goodbye, we’re honored that we were able to share so much with the community," the developer wrote in the announcement.

The boss of digital PC storefront GOG has weighed in on the conversation around Anthem's demise, saying that there may be a future in which fewer games could be developed and published if regulators demand that creators keep them alive forever.

Speaking to Eurogamer on January 15 after Anthem was laid to rest, GOG's managing director, Maciej Gołębiewski, said it's good that the discussion around game preservation is happening once again, but that the conversation gets a little tricky when talking about games that were designed as online-only experiences.

"There is a broader discussion to be had within the industry of what does an end-of-life cycle look like in games--what is a fair end-of-life cycle for a game?" he said. "Should it just be buried and killed and no one can access it any more, and people who spent five or seven years working on it cannot really look at their creation any more because the service turned off? There is a very interesting and very complicated discussion that Stop Killing Games probably kick-started out of frustration."

Animal Crossing: New Horizons' big 3.0 update is now available, and it includes a new Resort Hotel for your island adventures. Once you gain access to the hotel, you can decorate rooms, plan outfits for guests, and more. In this guide, we show you how to unlock and find the Resort Hotel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Make sure to check out all the new features of the 3.0 update, and we also have a complete Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide hub to help you make the most of island life. This offers starter tips, help with various features, and information on how to upgrade locations.

The Arc Raiders winter event, Cold Snap, has concluded, and now developer Embark has shared some statistics about the milestones players achieved during it.

In a graphic shared on social media, the developer listed off what players did, including throwing 95 million snowballs. A total of 91 million players got knocked out by snowballs. Additionally, players used snowballs to take down Arc enemies--10,577, to be precise. What's more, 3.5 million players were knocked out due to the cold.

Embark also added fireworks to the game for the Cold Snap event, and players fired 2.9 million rounds of fireworks and threw 9.2 million firecrackers. Players were also feeling festive and relaxed, apparently, as a total of 108 players played instruments for more than 20 minutes without stopping during the event.

Earlier this month, word leaked about a new Life is Strange game that's on the horizon. Now, Square Enix has confirmed that the next Life is Strange is coming soon, but players will need to wait another five days for the full details.

As noted on X, the latest installment of Life is Strange will be announced on a livestream on January 20, at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.

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Thanks to the leak from the Pan-European Game Information, we know the name of the game is Life is Strange: Reunion. And as the title implies, it will reunite the leading character, Max Caulfield, with her best friend, Chloe Price.

In light of Anthem's recent shutdown, the topic of games going away for good is once again a hot-button issue. Below, we examine this reality in a feature originally published in July 2025.

In a July 2025 shareholders meeting, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot made a salient yet obvious point about online video games: "You provide a service, but nothing is written in stone, and at some point, the service may be discontinued. Nothing is eternal." He added: "Support for all games cannot last forever."

This was in response to "Stop Killing Games," a consumer movement that rallies against purported "planned obsolescence" of online video games from publishers. Sparked by the shutdown of Ubisoft's The Crew, the movement has gained traction in the past year through petitions directly to European governments.

Another Fallout show is in the works for Prime Video, though it'll be quite different from the popular scripted drama starring Walton Goggins. Amazon is developing a competition series with the working title Fallout Shelter, and the company just put out a casting call online.

According to the casting call, contestants (or "dwellers") will "live together in a top-secret vault" and compete in games related to "core attributes" from the Fallout universe. Loyalty and alliances between dwellers will also be tested, with an official Fallout X account describing the game as containing "escalating challenges, strategic dilemmas, and moral conundrums." Casting applications close on February 15.

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British production company Studio Lambert, most famous for Undercover Boss, The Circle, and The Traitors, is behind the project. The studio also produced another reality competition tie-in to a dystopian streaming show, working on Squid Game: The Challenge for Netflix.

One of the big draws of Marathon is the opportunity to embrace the Runner lifestyle. Expensive biosynthetic shells that house the consciousness of a person inside of them, each Runner shell is also highly customizable, and developer Bungie has outlined how players can fine-tune each one to help them survive Tau Ceti.

Each Runner shell is built to focus on a different gameplay archetype--like intel gathering, combat disruption, or combat healing--and their visual design makes them easy to distinguish from a distance, so you'll know how to deal with one in the heat of battle. Players can customize their Runner shell using the cores, implants, weapons, and mods they bring with them on each run, and they can also be visually customized with cosmetics earned from a variety of sources.

For example, players can go all in on agility, modifying the "Combat Anarchist" Vandal shell to be a scout that can triple-jump and quickly move across the map. Prefer to cause some chaos instead? Then you'll want to invest in mods that give you a tactical advantage in the air and allow you to cause some splash damage when you land. Cores--powerful standalone perks--also have the potential to be combined to create interesting effects.

Early in your Hytale journey, you're going to need weapons. While you might just want to explore, gather some resources, and build the base you and your friends have envisioned for your Hytale multiplayer sessions, Hytale still features dangerous mobs that can strike at any minute. You'll need a way to defend yourself and even defeat those mobs, as they can drop some valuable materials that you need for other recipes.

Hytale offers a linear weapon progression system that lets you craft more advanced weapons as you discover rarer resources. However, learning the crafting recipes for those weapons, figuring out what they are, and even how to upgrade them are all things you need to know before you can really start exploring your map.

• All weapon crafting recipes in Hytale

There are several different types of weapons in Hytale, and each of these types has several different variants that use specific resources. As you progress, you can upgrade your weapons to utilize rarer and rarer resources, which increases a weapon's strength and durability.

When the Steam Machine is finally in the hands of players, it'll already have a large volume of compatible games with the "Verified" green checkmark, with Valve indicating to developers that they won't have to worry too much about the verification process.

Valve designer Lawrence Yang told outlet Game Developer in an interview that the Steam Machine Verified badge will require "fewer constraints" than Steam Deck verification. Yang added that "if your title is Verified on Steam Deck, it will be Verified on Steam Machine."

Games earn the Steam Deck Verified label after testing by Valve. Being verified isn't necessarily an indicator that a game will run flawlessly on the handheld device, but rather that it checks off requirements of full controller compatibility, proper display settings, and middleware support.

The frighteningly excellent Resident Evil Village will creep its way onto Xbox Game Pass on January 20, but before that, Capcom made the survival-horror game available on the Xbox Ally and Windows PC via Xbox Play Anywhere as of January 15. However, you might want to wait before downloading it on any of those devices because the game is reportedly busted right now.

According to a Windows Central report, RE: VIII picked up Xbox Play Anywhere support despite not initially being announced for the service, which went live all the way back in September 2016. There are now over 1,000 games in the initiative--which lets you buy the game once and play it across Xbox platforms, Windows PCs, and some PC gaming handhelds (like the Xbox Ally)--and while RE: VIII is the latest, it also appears to be the most broken as the installation file isn't anywhere to be found on the Ally or PC.

As Windows Central noted in its January 15 story, the "install" button you can click on doesn't actually install the game. Instead, it downloads a 10MB container that doesn't contain the actual game. You can still sync your saves from Xbox Series X|S, but strangely, the game doesn't launch. When you try to launch it, you'll just receive a "This game has crashed" message on these devices, meaning Xbox Play Anywhere has broken RE: VIII's release for now.

World of Warcraft players have long asked for communal Guild Halls to hang out with guildmates in between adventures, and it sounds like that dream is finally becoming a reality, as Blizzard has confirmed what new housing-related features are currently in the works.

In an interview with PC Gamer about the future of WoW player housing, many of the biggest names on the WoW development team, including Blizzard VP and executive producer Holly Longdale and senior game director Ion Hazzikostas, outlined what players can expect from housing in the months and years to come.

Among a long list of improvements and new features coming to housing in the near future are Guild Halls. According to PC Gamer, principal designer and housing lead Jesse Kurlancheek said Guild Halls are not only coming, but that they will go live "relatively quickly." They will not, however, be part of the upcoming Midnight pre-patch arriving on January 20.

The ongoing RAM shortages and the associated increase in RAM prices are starting to affect other pieces of hardware that make use of fast memory. Graphics cards are especially susceptible, which has seemingly forced Nvidia to start discontinuing at least two 50-series cards that ship with 16GB of VRAM.

A report by Hardware Unboxed states that several GPU manufactueres have designated both the RTX 5070Ti and the 16GB version of the RTX 5060Ti as "end of life," meaning that no new stock is being produced. At CES 2026, Asus, one of the largest AIB partners Nvidia works with, confirmed stock of the two cards was difficult to acquire from Nvidia and that current stock of both cards would be the last until further notice.

The report mentions that Asus is not alone in this decision, and that several other manufacturers and retailers (specifically across Australia) have noted the same for existing stock of both SKUs. The RTX 5070, which features 12GB of VRAM, seems unaffected for now, while cheaper cards with 8GB of VRAM, such as the regular RTX 5060, will continue to be produced. That leaves the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 as the only cards part of this generation of Nvidia GPUs that ship with 16GB or more VRAM, with both still only available at inflated prices.