The fallout continues from Dispatch launching in a censored state on Switch and Switch 2 last week. While developer AdHoc Studio initially implied this issue was because of the platform holder, Nintendo responded that it "does not make changes to partner content." Now, AdHoc is admitting that "people have a right to be pissed" and is hoping to release an update for the game "to address at least some of the censored content."

Eurogamer received a new statement from AdHoc about why nudity was covered up on Switch and Switch 2--along with changes to other sexual content. "We initially assumed, like some of you, that because games like Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk [2077] are on the platform with similar types of uncensored mature content, Dispatch would be allowed to do the same," AdHoc said. "During the porting process, it became clear that was not the case."

AdHoc added that "it was our intent to go out of our way to tell people looking to buy the game that the content was censored." The Dispatch developer explained that the disclaimer about the censored content should have been more prominent on the eShop store page for the game. "Wires got crossed, and we put the disclaimer in the field literally titled 'Disclaimer' instead of the 'About The Game' section," AdHoc said. This created a situation where the PSA was put in "the absolute worst spot that makes it look like we were trying to hide it," according to the developer.

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Nioh fans hoping the latest entry would arrive on more than just PC and PlayStation 5 may be in luck, as the game's latest trailer suggests that it could arrive on other platforms just six months after its launch later this week.

According to a features trailer posted to PlayStation's official YouTube channel on January 29, Team Ninja's upcoming souls-like will be allowed to release on other platforms six months after its PC and PS5 debut on February 6. The language is quite specific: "[Nioh 3 will not be] available on other consoles until at least [six] months after February 6, 2026." This means the latest souls-like action-RPG from the Japanese developer could land on Xbox--and maybe even Nintendo--consoles as soon as August 2026.

If you remember the previous entries in the franchise--2017's Nioh and 2020's Nioh 2--neither came to any other platform, staying locked to both PC and PlayStation consoles for the duration of their releases (and even to this day).

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It's a scientific fact that two of the coolest things in life are military fighter jets and the Devil May Cry franchise. So what happens when you smash the two together? You get Delivery Must Complete, a "high-speed Acelike Roguelike with SSStyle" created by Australia-based developer Yoyoyollie. Revealed last year, Delivery Must Complete is what happens when a sidewinder missile locks onto the laws of physics and promptly blows it out of discussion, leaving behind a game where every fight is a spectacle and the sky truly is the limit.

The Steam page explains that you really will need to make a delivery via a fighter jet express courier service, but in the middle of an aerial warzone. Fortunately, blimps, dragons, and mechs are no match for an ace pilot who can tear across the sky, powerslide out of harm's way, and parry missiles. Every map is procedurally generated, with weather changes, varying cloud cover, terrain anomalies, and random map events that add variety to each zone.

Since revealing the project, Yoyoyollie has been joined by sound designer Jonathan Foe and Project Wingman composer Jose Pavli. Speaking to GameSpot, Yoyoyollie revealed that a wide range of influences had inspired the design of Delivery Must Complete--like Ace Combat, Project Wingman, Devil May Cry, Ultrakill, Afterburner, Sephiria, and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. The game's cel-shaded look was born of Yoyoyollie's desire not to be bogged down by the time-consuming pursuit of realistic graphics, and because the cel-shaded design was refreshingly different.

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Fallout Season 2's penultimate entry, Episode 7, puts all the chips are on the table.

While Lucy (Ella Purnell) is with Hank (Kyle Maclaclan) in the Vault-Tec executive bunker, The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) finally partied up with Maximus (Aaaron Moten) and Thaddeus (Johnny Pemberton) in the wake of the chaos at Area 51. Meanwhile, Norm (Moises Arias) discovered that Vault 33 is set to be used for an experiment involving the “Forced Evolutionary Virus” and Overseer Stephanie (Annabel O’Hagan) struggles with her authoritarian rule over Vault 32 while prepping for her wedding to the unwilling Chet (Dave Register). With the odds stacked against all of our main players, can someone take the jackpot, or does the house always win?

The episode opens up with a pre-war flashback on the Canadian border. Now a territory of the United States, two prisoners manage to escape an internment camp and run through the woods toward the border. The prisoners are revealed to be Stephanie and her mother, fighting for a better life than the one they have as prisoners in Canada. As they near the border, they’re stopped by a Marine in USMC Power Armor. Hope seems lost for a brief moment, until another prisoner appears, and turns out to be a suicide bomber--killing the Marine in the resulting blast. While Stephanie and her mother manage to get away, her mother is injured from the explosion and, as she dies, motivates Stephanie to make it to the border by any means needed, even if it means killing innocent people. As Stephanie crosses the border into the United States, she’s stopped by a Border Patrol guard and prepares for her first kill.

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A gospel rendition of Super Mario music just won The 8-Bit Big Band its second Grammy Award. The orchestra, famous for its jazz arrangements of video game soundtracks, overcame stiff competition in the category of Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella.

The arrangement, titled "Super Mario Praise Break," beat out Wicked star Cynthia Erivo, saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf, and the brass quartet The Westerlies for the award. The medley includes lively takes on the Super Mario Bros. theme, Bob-Omb Battlefield from Super Mario 64, Gusty Garden Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy, and the Athletic Theme from Super Mario World.

"In this offering to the VGM community, we humbly present this medley of some of Super Mario Bros. greatest melodies to help you gain entrance into the Mushroom Kingdom of heaven," the video's YouTube description reads.

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Super Bowl LX is coming up this Sunday, February 8, and the broadcast will feature ads galore like usual. At least one of them will be themed around video games, as a new report from Deadline said a trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will be shown during the big game.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie comes to theaters on April 1, and it has big shoes to fill, as 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie earned more than $1.3 billion globally. Illumination produced that movie and is back for the sequel. Illumination will also air a trailer for Minions 3 during the Super Bowl, the report said.

The Super Bowl broadcast may also include new trailers for Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, the Michael Jackson biopic Michael, Pixar's Hoppers and Toy Story 5, as well as The Mandalorian & Grogu from Disney. The report added that Marvel will not have trailers for Avengers: Doomsday or Spider-Man: Brand New Day with Sony. There also won't be any trailers from Apple or Warner Bros., the report said.

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Youtuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach's feature film adaptation of the horror video game Iron Lung has gotten off to an impressive start at the box office, earning $21.5 million globally. Of that total, $17.8 million came from the US box office during its opening weekend, and internationally, the movie grossed $3.6 million across seven foreign markets.

With a budget reportedly of $3 million, Thursday night previews pulling in $3.5 million, and minimal marketing spend, the low-budget film is a profitable venture after just a single weekend. Iron Lung creator David Szymanski had a succinct response to the film's doing better than expected, which saw it beat Evil Dead director Sam Raimi's Send Help to claim the top spot in the US:

What the fuck https://t.co/YbF25bCnbn

— David Szymanski (@DUSKdev) January 31, 2026

First released in 2022, Iron Lung is a short horror game where an unnamed convict pilots a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon. In April 2023, Markiplier announced that he would produce, direct, and star in a live-action adaptation of Iron Lung, with Szymanski being heavily involved in the project.

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The Walt Disney Company could vote on its next CEO soon, and the person considered to be the top candidate for the job, Josh D'Amaro, is the person spearheading the Disney x Fortnite project and the executive who wants to do more with gaming overall going forward.

The Wall Street Journal reported that current CEO Bob Iger is planning to resign prior to the end of his current contract on December 31 this year. A meeting will take place this week at the company's headquarters in Burbank, California to vote on his replacement, the report added.

The WSJ report added that Iger would stay on for "several months" to help mentor the incoming CEO, while it's possible Iger could remain a board member after he steps away as CEO.

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Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Combat Zone

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CD Project Red's open-world RPG Cyberpunk 2077 is lauded for its sprawling, dystopian sci-fi cityscape, but some of the best tales of Night City took place outside of the game. The most notable of these side stories is Cyberpunk Edgerunners, an exciting--yet painfully short--anime series that introduced fans to new characters and a reimagined vision of Night City. In a surprising twist, the anime was later adapted into a tabletop game called Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Combat Zone--which, yes, means it's a board game adaptation of an anime spin-off of a video game adaptation of a pen-and-paper tabletop RPG inspired by classic cyberpunk novels and anime. Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Combat Zone lets you relive pivotal moments from the show through its fast-paced combat encounters, and makes for a fast-paced way to play in the expansive Cyberpunk universe. If that piques your interest, you're in luck; it's on sale for $70 (was $100) at Amazon for a limited time. Just make sure you grab this fast before the deal disappears.

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Pokemon Go's Precious Paths season rolls on with a variety of events in January. In addition to a new assortment of Raid bosses and Spotlight Hours, this month will see the arrival of a handful of new Pokemon, including shiny Fidough and Shadow versions of Chespin, Fennekin, and Froakie.

On top of that, the game will host two Community Days in January, and Unova's legendary dragons are returning to Gyms for a special Kyurem Fusion Day. The nefarious Team Go Rocket are also crashing the festivities later this month, culminating in a Shadow Raikou Raid Day event.

There are plenty of other activities on the horizon beyond that. You can read more about the biggest Pokemon Go events happening in January below.

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Highguard players have shared their desire for expanded match-ups, and the game's developer, Wildlight, has listened. Starting today and going through the weekend, Highguard is introducing an "experimental" five-on-five Raid playlist. This isn't meant as a replacement for the game's three-on-three Raids, but it could potentially become a full-time part of the game.

Per Wildlight's announcement, the 5v5 Raids will have 10 lives to players instead of the standard six. It will also take slightly longer to respawn during raids in order to allow more time for generator bombs to be planted or defused. Wildlight cautions players that while the current patch has some optimization improvements, 5v5 Raids aren't going to have improved performance.

The dev team also notes that Firing Range doesn't support 5v5 yet, which is why the Play button will be grayed out when parties are over three.

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Megan the bear has just informed me that it has been five years and six months since I last booted up Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In the intervening days, the town has changed a lot. There's a coffee shop in the museum now (added in New Horizons 2.0), run by a taciturn pigeon named Brewer. A hotel stands over one of the town's two piers. The first time I visit the resort, Tom Nook immediately ropes me into crafting items to extoll my island's virtues and helping design rooms in the new hotel.

These are substantive changes from the base game, ones that offer welcome expansions to the sometimes-slight feeling original release. Yet, these changes fundamentally enlarge, rather than change, New Horizon's design. The game's recent major update, 3.0, represents a further drift from the frictions and idiosyncrasies that made the Animal Crossing series so beloved in the first place.

Upon launch, New Horizons was somewhat barren, despite all the quality-of-life additions and feature overhauls it brought to the franchise. Standard features of prior games, such as Brewster's café, gyroids, and Kapp'n's boat tours, were totally absent. New Horizon's first major update, released in November 2021, reintroduced most of those features. This 2.0 patch represented a substantial solidifying of the game's basics, though it wasn't enough to lure me back in. I've written before about my dissatisfaction with New Horizons, and by the time this update rolled around, I was fully put out. Nevertheless, a new update does represent an opportunity to rearrange the game's pieces. After so long away, I was curious about what New Horizons would feel like in my hands.

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WWE 2K26 is officially stepping into the ring this March, and 2K is betting big on scale, nostalgia, and player freedom. Headlined by reigning World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk on the cover, the latest entry in the long-running wrestling franchise promises new match types, sweeping upgrades across every mode, and the largest roster in series history.

WWE 2K26 launches March 13, 2026, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam. Premium editions arrive a week earlier on March 6. GameSpot participated in a virtual press conference in which 2K and Visual Concepts went through the ins-and-outs of what players can expect from WWE 2K26.

CM Punk Takes Center Stage

CM Punk graces the Standard Edition cover, marking his second time as a WWE game cover star after WWE '13. Fittingly, Punk also headlines this year's 2K Showcase mode, titled Punked: CM Punk's Personal Journey.

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Many are wondering if the upcoming third season of HBO's The Last of Us could be the show's final set of episodes, and that appears to be increasingly likely.

HBO programming boss Casey Bloys was asked by Deadline if the third season will be its last, and he replied, "It certainly seems that way." He didn't totally confirm anything, though, as Bloys went on to say, "On decisions like that, we defer to the showrunners. So you can ask them."

Season 3 is expected to premiere sometime in 2027, though HBO has yet to set an official date. Craig Mazin is the sole showrunner for Season 3, following the departure of Neil Druckmann.

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The Amazon-owned retailer Woot is running a massive Games Mega Sale from until February 6 that includes dozens of physical video games, accessories, collectible mini consoles, and PC hardware. Even better, you can also save an additional 20% on video games and hardware at Woot until February 1 when you use the discount code GAMER at checkout. To top it all off, Amazon Prime members can even get free shipping on their orders. There are many great discounts, and we've rounded up some of them in the lists below. Just keep in mind that these deals may end abruptly or sell out before the Games Mega Sale ends next week.

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The bread and butter of this sale is, of course, the games. Dozens of physical games are discounted, including numerous Nintendo Switch first-party releases, which rarely go on sale. Several Pokemon games are among the marked-down titles, including Pokemon Legends: Z-A, Pokemon Scarlet, and Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu on the original Switch. You can even save on full-priced games like the recent Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 with the GAMER discount code at checkout. You'll also find deals on PS5 games like Elden Ring: Nightreign, the Amazon-exclusive version of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, and even 50% off the massive Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Collector's Edition, plus discounted Xbox releases like Stalker 2, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and more.

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While the upcoming God of War television show for Prime Video has mostly been casting new faces for key roles, fans of the game can expect to see at least one actor reprising his original role. Welcome back, Mimir.

A report from Deadline confirmed that Scottish actor Alastair Duncan will once again portray Mimir, the self-declared "smartest man in the world." Duncan first appeared as Mimir in the 2018 installment, and his other video game credits include Death Stranding 2 as the President and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance as the nano-machine-loving Senator Armstrong.

Mimir was Odin's advisor before his imprisonment in Midgard, forever bound to a tree. Kratos then freed him (by chopping his head off and getting it resurrected, mind you), and Mimir's talking disembodied head became a permanent companion throughout the game and its 2022 sequel.

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Developer Respawn Entertainment has announced that it is shutting down the servers for the battle royale game Apex Legends on Nintendo Switch. However, the game will remain playable on Switch 2.

The upcoming Apex Legends Season 29 will be the final update for the game on Switch. Beginning with Season 30 on August 4, 2026, Apex Legends will no longer be playable on the OG Switch.

Until then, people can play normally. Any leftover allotment of in-game currency can be migrated to the Switch 2 version if people opt to keep playing on the new system. Additionally, all gameplay progress is tied to an EA account, so that will migrate to other platforms as well.

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Google has rolled out a new AI technology, Project Genie, that claims to allow users to create interactive worlds "generated in real time." Apparently some video game investors are spooked, as a number of gaming companies saw their stock prices get hammered today.

In particular, Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two's stock price took a massive beating, falling by more than 9% today, wiping out billions in market cap along the way. Roblox Corp., which makes the hugely popular game Roblox, saw an even steeper sell-off, with the share price dipping by more than 12% today alone. Unity, the company that makes the popular Unity game engine, saw a massive 30% stock price slip today.

Stock prices are known to bounce around in this way based on real-world news headlines, but the sell-off happening today is more substantial than normal. People have already used Project Genie to make worlds that rip off Mario, and it's not hard to imagine how things may snowball from here and invite lawsuits.

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Epic Games has acknowledged players' complaints about Fortnite's recent stability issues, and it's taking action to fix them. Fortnite design director Ted Timmins has announced a new "multi-discipline live-ops strike team" will now be watching over Fortnite to catch any issues and help improve the game's quality of life.

According to Timmins, members of the live-ops strike team will meet daily, prioritize feedback, and take action when needed. Timmins recently asked players to report any bugs that they encountered. This appears to be the natural next step to deal with some of Fortnite's in-game issues.

"This new team is going to be a permanent addition to the development teams setup and I'm excited to see the results," wrote Timmins. "It's not to say they will catch everything, so I don't want to set false expectations, but I am confident that you will see an improvement in the months and seasons ahead."

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The video game movie Iron Lung, which was self-financed by YouTube star Markiplier, is off to a good start in theaters, it appears.

Deadline reported that the movie, which was written and directed by Markiplier, who also stars in the movie, pulled in $3.5 million from its Thursday night previews in the US. The movie's budget was said to be under $3 million, with only "barebones" marketing spend. The Iron Lung movie opens widely today, January 30.

The Thursday night box office numbers for Iron Lung in the US were higher than the Thursday preview numbers for Spider-Man director Sam Raimi's Send Help ($2.2 million). Iron Lung booked $6 million in presales and is projected to earn as much as $10 million for its first weekend.

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