If you've been waiting for last year's GameSpot Game of the Year winner, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, to go on sale, then you're in luck. Steam is not only offering a discount on Expedition 33--it's also bundling the title with the 2024 GameSpot Game of the Year winner, Metaphor: ReFantazio.

As part of Sega's Year of the Horse sale on Steam, the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 x Metaphor: ReFantazio bundle is available for $72. Separately, Metaphor: ReFantazio is on sale for $35, which is 50% off its $70 price. Clair Obscur only has a 10% discount, bringing its price down from $50 to $45. However, the bundle takes an additional $8 off the sale price of the two games together.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 amassed several top awards in 2025, including The Game Awards' Game of the Year. GameSpot's review scored it a 9/10 and praised its emotionally engaging story and the compelling cast of characters who live in that world. It's an RPG that "blends aspects of traditional JRPGs with reactive, parry-heavy action." Reviewer Richard Wakeling closed out his review by saying, "This is a supremely confident game that reinterprets familiar mechanics with an imaginative eye. Its combat is a consistent delight, delivering thrills with thoughtful strategy and reactive action in equal measure, complementing a heartfelt story of shared grief and camaraderie."

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Ahead of The Last of Us Season 3, star Bella Ramsey has said they aren't that interested in working on productions like The Last of Us or Game of Thrones going forward.

"I'm really steering away from … I mean, things like The Last of Us and Game of Thrones," Ramsey told The Hollywood Reporter.

Ramsey said Game of Thrones and The Last of Us were "absolutely incredible experiences," and they see them as "launchpads" for their career. But now, things have changed, and Ramsey wants to try new things.

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The annual Game Developers Conference is coming up next month in San Francisco, and Microsoft has now announced it will be at the event with a variety of panels. One of them will feature next-generation Xbox leader Jason Ronald discussing the "vision shaping the future of Xbox."

A panel called "Building for the Future with Xbox" will take place on Wednesday, March 11, featuring Ronald sharing insight into Microsoft's vision for the platform today and into the future.

A description of the panel states that Xbox has a "legacy of innovation," singling out things like the Xbox console platform itself, Xbox Live, Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and the Rog Xbox Ally most recently. Whatever Microsoft has cooking for its next Xbox will be just the latest evolution.

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In the wake of Highguard developer laying off staff and announcing that only a "core" group of developers will continue work on the game, one former developer has reflected on the entire situation surrounding the game, from its much-discussed reveal at The Game Awards to where it stands today.

Josh Sobel was a lead tech artist at Wildlight until he was laid off on February 11, and the developer began their message by discussing the time right before Highguard was revealed to the world at The Game Awards on December 11. This was an exciting time in Sobel's life. They were amped for the world to see what Wildlight had been working on in secret for the previous 2.5 years.

"The future seemed bright. Everyone I knew who had any connection to the team or project had the same sentiments: 'This is lightning in a bottle.' 'I trust this team wholeheartedly.' 'If there's one project nobody in the industry is worried will fail, it's yours.' 'This has mainstream hit written all over it.' 'There's no way this will flop.' 'I could play this game all day,'" Sobel said.

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Fresh from kicking off Season 28 of Apex Legends, developer Respawn Entertainment outlined the next year of new content and changes for the battle royale. The studio's roadmap includes two new playable characters and a major map update, though specifics were rather sparse.

A video update from the team at Respawn shared that the next Legend, a Skirmisher character, is arriving in Season 29 this May, with another due to be added in Season 32, scheduled for February 2027. Respawn said that both characters are designed to "shake up how you build your squad and find new ways to take on fights together." The last new Legend, Sparrow, was added to the game last May.

Promises for the coming year also included additional reworks for existing characters, an overhaul to looting, and "game reliability efforts." But the promises come as players raise issues with the game's latest seasonal update, particularly the controversial changes to Ranked Mode.

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Grand Theft Auto Online is celebrating Valentine's Day in its own way this week, as complimentary champagne is going to be available at all bars in Los Santos' bars and nightclubs. However, Rockstar Games isn't stopping there. To mark the occasion, GTA Online is giving away Valentine's Day-themed onesies to any player who logs in from now through February 18.

Crime gets comfortable in GTA Online's Valentine's Day onesies.

As you can see from the picture above, it's not exactly an intimidating look for GTA Online's antiheroes. The perfect touch would have been if NPC characters could laugh at any players who walk around in these outfits.

These aren't the only outfits themed for the holiday, and GTA Online's lineup of Valentine's Day clothing is going on sale for 50% off the standard price through February 18.

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Carlito's Way Steelbook Edition (4K Blu-ray)

$53 | Releases April 7

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When you put famed filmmaker Brian De Palma, Al Pacino, and a gangland story together, then you're looking at a recipe for success. That cinematic main course was served up in the 1993 crime drama Carlito's Way, and if you haven't seen it yet, you can pick up a new 4K Blu-ray on April 7. Priced at $53, the limited-edition steelbook includes the film on a standard Blu-ray disc and a digital streaming code.

Carlito's Way Steelbook Edition (4K Blu-ray) $53 | Releases April 7

The steelbook cover for Carlito's Way features Al Pacino on the cover--and in character as the former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante--and on the rear, you'll find a memorable quote from the film. Inside, the cover features an image of Carlito enjoying a night out on the town in '70s New York City. This version of Carlito's Way is a full 4K restoration with HDR10 support and includes several special features. These are primarily archival special features pulled from older Blu-ray and DVD releases, including deleted scenes, featurettes, and interviews.

Carlito's Way special features

• Deleted scenes
• The Making of Carlito's Way
• Brian De Palma interview on Carlito's Way
• Original promotional featurette
• Theatrical trailer

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It's worth noting that Arrow Video's 4K Blu-ray release includes a few extra bonus materials not found in the steelbook version above, as well as a standard Blu-ray copy of Carlito's Way. It's also cheaper at $25 (was $50) and comes with a sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork, exclusive interviews, several audio commentary tracks with film critics and experts, and all the aforementioned archival materials. Standard Blu-ray and DVD versions are also available at a low price.

• 4K (2025 steelbook edition) -- $53 | April 7
• 4K (2023 Arrow Video release) -- $25 ($50)
• Blu-ray -- $8.66
• DVD -- $8.53

Based on the novels Carlito's Way (1975) and After Hours (1979) by Judge Edwin Torres, Carlito's Way tells the story of Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) and his efforts to escape his criminal past after spending five years in prison. The movie featured an ensemble cast alongside Pacino, including Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzmán, John Leguizamo, Jorge Porcel, Joseph Siravo, and Viggo Mortensen.

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Business at Ubisoft continues to grow in some areas, as employees protest layoffs and game cancellations. A newly released Ubisoft earning report states that Q3's "overperformance versus expectations was primarily driven by partnerships and the Assassin’s Creed franchise." Net bookings for Q3 stood at €338 million (approximately $401 million), which is 12% higher than the same quarter in last fiscal year.

Most of the quarter's income (€297m) came from Ubisoft's back catalog. In particular, Assassin's Creed as a franchise had 28% more total players than the same time last year, thanks in part to free DLC for Assassin's Creed: Mirage and the Switch 2 release of Assassin's Creed: Shadows. The report also names The Division 2 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora as games that saw significant growth in Q3--in the case of Avatar, it likely saw an influx of players as hype picked up for the latest Avatar film. Overall, 130 million unique players booted up Ubisoft games during the quarter, which the report claims is evidence of "the appeal and strength of the Group’s portfolio of franchises."

In January, the publisher closed Ubisoft Halifax, fired 70 employees, and canceled multiple in-development projects. Ubisoft also fired a 12-year veteran without stated cause, though the termination was shortly after he criticized the company's "return-to-work" mandate. The earnings report outlined further plans to "reshape [Ubisoft's] HQ into a leaner and focused organization" via "a voluntary departure plan." In response to the layoffs, 1,200 Ubisoft employees, primarily in France, have gone on a three-day strike.

Embracer Group teased that it'll be releasing a mysterious, "long-awaited" game sometime during the next fiscal year.

This (via Shinobi602 on X) came as part of the company's Q3 2025 interim report, which informs investors on how the company at large is doing. While providing an outlook of the upcoming fiscal year, the report states, "we look forward to one long-awaited, major, in-house developed and in-house published title together with a range of important mid-sized titles."

For Embracer Group, the next fiscal year will take place between April 2026 and March 2027. That means we should expect a high-profile game from one of the studios and from one of the publishers the troubled gaming conglomerate owns. The fact that the report won't directly name the game makes it even more mysterious.

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Polish developer CD Projekt Red, which is celebrating Polish donuts today, is also increasing its profit goals for the near future. The game company said today that it plans to increase is profit projections for the financial years 2026-2029 to 5 billion złoty, which is about $1.4 billion USD.

CD Projekt said this proposed "earnings condition" is an "ambitious" target but also one that aligns with the company's belief that it has good games coming up that will return money to investors.

"Achieving PLN 5 billion in cumulative net profit in the financial years 2026–2029 assumes further dynamic business growth through consistent implementation of CD Projekt's development strategy," the company said.

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Earlier this week, Overwatch debuted the game's latest support hero, Jetpack Cat. But it hasn't taken long for players to figure how to utilize Jetpack Cat's abilities in unexpected ways that are making Overwatch's battles even wilder than before.

For example, using Jetpack Cat to carry allies can give a team a tactical advantage as they rain fire from above.

One Overwatch player on Instagram described the following pairing of Jetpack Cat and Reaper as "the chandelier of death and despair."

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Following a brief delay, the much-anticipated Season 2 update will finally arrive to Battlefield 6 and Redsec on February 17. Battlefield Studios has now revealed the full roadmap of content players can expect for Season 2, including new maps, more guns to unlock, and additional vehicles. There will also be limited-time modes and a new battle pass to level up.

Just like Season 1, Battlefield 6's Season 2 content will be released in three phases: Extreme Measures, Nightfall, and Hunter/Prey.

Extreme Measure launches on February 17, and this first phase of content includes the new Contaminated multiplayer map, three new guns, two new gadgets, and the return of Battlefield's AH-6 Little Bird as an additional vehicle. The update also includes the new VL-7 psychoactive smoke, which is described as "distorting the battlefield" with non-lethal hallucinogenic effects.

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Grand Theft Auto 6 is one of the most heavily hyped video games ever, and everyone is expecting the game to have a giant launch later this year. But just how much money could the game bring in?

According to broker data company Visible Alpha, GTA 6 is estimated to reach $5 billion in revenue by 2030, the Financial Times reported. It could sell 100 million copies by that time period, the firm predicted.

This follows on from a previous estimate from DFC Intelligence that said GTA 6 could sell 40 million copies and bring in $3.2 billion during its first year alone. That figure includes revenue from physical and digital game sales, as well as microtransactions. DFC also predicted that GTA 6 will get another sales boost when it comes to the (unannounced but expected) next PlayStation and Xbox consoles, as well as PC.

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Overwatch players might feel as if they're facing off against a Spartan in recent matches. Fans were quick to draw comparisons between Emre, one of five new heroes added to Blizzard's multiplayer shooter, to Master Chief from Halo, prompting some to clamor for an official crossover.

As observed by GamesRadar, the resemblance between Emre's abilities and Halo mechanics go beyond the character just being a guy with a gun--his three-round-burst rifle is remarkably like the Battle Rifle from the Xbox-published franchise, and his semi-automatic pistol packs a punch like Halo's Magnum.

And not only do his frag grenades behave like Halo grenades (even letting players grenade jump), but one of Emre's perks can make them stick to opponents. You can even argue that his passive health regeneration ability is similar to how a Spartan would regenerate armor. And to top it all off, he interacts with a Cortana-like AI program.

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The 30th anniversary for Diablo means all sorts of cool announcements--like the newest Warlock class on the way for multiple games--but so far, Switch 2 isn't a part of the celebration. Eurogamer decided to ask developer Blizzard about Diablo IV coming to Nintendo's new system or even a Switch 2 upgrade for Diablo II: Resurrected. A spokesperson responded that they had nothing to comment on about those topics.

Earlier this week, Blizzard revealed major updates for Diablo IV and Diablo II: Resurrected. The former is receiving the Lord of Hatred expansion in April, while the latter just got the Reign of the Warlock DLC (which is available on Switch).

The dungeon-crawler franchise first arrived on a Nintendo platform with Diablo 3: Eternal Collection on Switch in 2018. In fact, the game even got The Legend of Zelda crossover items, such as a Triforce portrait. This was followed by Blizzard bringing Diablo II: Resurrected to Switch in 2021, so there is precedent for the series on Nintendo's home console.

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Bowser's Fury is celebrating its 5-year anniversary today, February 12, 2025. Below, we look at how the unusual experiment married classic Mario level design with an open world, and what it could mean for the future.

Bowser's Fury launched as a bonus, bundled alongside a game Nintendo had already finished selling to its audience. Five years later, that framing feels misleading. What looked like an extra now reads as a compressed design thesis, a Mario game caught between the tight structure of its past and the exploratory freedom that could shape its future.

Bowser's Fury occupies a strange and revealing place in Mario's long history. Released as a companion to Super Mario 3D World on the Nintendo Switch, it was easy to treat it as a six-hour-long side adventure rather than a statement. Now it reads less like an add-on and more like a snapshot of Mario in transition, capturing a rare middle ground between the tightly structured design of 3D World and the freeform exploration that has defined 3D Mario since Super Mario 64.

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Releasing Pokemon into the wild is never fun. Even if you've become apathetic towards your little creatures, it's a pain to catalogue and release hundreds of Pokemon for the sole purpose of freeing up Box space. Modern games, like Pokemon Legends: Z-A, make this process quicker by letting you release multiple Pokemon, but there's no tangible gameplay benefit to sending your Pokemon back to where they came from. Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, Capcom's monster-taming spin-off series, puts an exciting twist on this mundane aspect of the genre. It's called Habitat Restoration, and after playing 10 hours of Monster Hunter Stories 3, it might just be my favorite thing about it.

The Monster Hunter Stories subseries can be summed up as turn-based Monster Hunter. The crafting mechanics are streamlined, but the core Monster Hunter loop is largely intact: Kill monsters to craft equipment so you can hunt bigger monsters and craft better equipment. Where the Stories subseries sets itself apart from the mainline series, however, are the monster-taming mechanics. Iconic monsters from the franchise--or Monsties as they're called here--fight alongside you.

New Monsties can be acquired by raiding a monster den and digging up randomized eggs from a nest. Once you have a few eggs, you can return to camp, hatch them, and throw them in your party. However, like Pokemon, no two Monsties are the same. Even ones that share the same name might have different passive abilities and movesets thanks to their genes. Alongside Monster Hunter's classic hunt and craft gameplay loop, collecting better and better monsters is a core aspect of the game.

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The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red is based in Poland, and the company is leaning into its Polish heritage with a fantastic social media post.

Today, February 12, is celebrated as Fat Thursday in Poland. It's the annual celebration of the last Thursday before Lent begins, and in the country, people eat a lot of food today, including pączkis AKA Polish donuts. To mark the occasion, CDPR released a Witcher-themed image celebrating Fat Thursday featuring 10 hidden pączkis. Can you spot them all? Look for yourself in the image below.

And if you need some help, here's where to find all of them. If you're looking for pączkis, they are sold in the US as well, at Polish bakeries and grocery store chains like Big Y right now for the Polish festivities. Seriously, if you like donuts, you owe it to yourself to try a pączki as soon as possible.

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Game developer Hjalmar Vikstrom, a video game industry veteran who worked at Grin and Avalanche Studios before co-founding GTFO developer 10 Chambers, has left his job and plans to work on smaller-scale projects going forward.

"Making games is hard. And these past years have taken their toll," he wrote on LinkedIn.

Vikstrom said he plans to go independent and make "way smaller games" as he focuses on his health and family "and just enjoying game development."

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Publisher Nexon has revealed that Arc Raiders has "significantly exceeded expectations" as part of the company's investor presentation for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. The new numbers posted for the extraction shooter back that up, revealing that the game sees 6 million players weekly and has now sold 14 million copies since launching in October.

Those are staggering totals, especially considering Arc Raiders just topped 12 million units sold last month. That means the game has moved almost another 2 million copies in fewer than four weeks--and it's happening months after launch. Nexon and developer Embark plan to "sustain strong player engagement and sales momentum" with monthly updates, with an early 2026 roadmap already released. In fact, a new Shared Watch event went live in Arc Raiders earlier this week.

With all of this in mind, it's probably unsurprising to learn that Arc Raiders has been "very profitable," according to Embark CEO Patrick Soderlund. It spent 11 weeks as the most-played game on Steam and was one of Xbox's most-popular games in 2025.

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