Welcome to StarMoon Forest, which has been abandoned for a long time. After you come here to take over, you can join hands with the local residents to restore the former prosperity, take advantage of the fertile land here, which is located at the intersection of various towns, start planting crops, making delicious food, opening stores for sale, rebuilding apartment communities, building road traffic, restoring convenient exchanges between nearby towns, and allowing residents from all over the world to buy goods and rent apartments here. Build your dream farm, make use of vast land, cultivate all kinds of crops, arrange crop machines reasonably, make all kinds of delicious food and sell it, so that residents of towns and cities can come here to buy necessary food. Rebuild hotel buildings, build bridges and transportation, so that more urban residents can travel conveniently and rent hotel to live in. Meet residents from all over the world, communicate with them, explore their stories, and establish friendship.

Designated Driver Simulator is an open-world game set in a bustling city where you take on the role of a designated driver. Meet diverse passengers, take them safely to their destinations, and earn money along the way! Your goal is to pay a set amount of money to your demanding boss each week. Fail, and your contract is terminated, ending the game. But if you succeed, greater upgrades and new opportunities await!

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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Code Vein 2 features three different endings, but unlike many similar games, they don't require you to enter New Game Plus to access them. Instead, they unlock after meeting certain conditions in the main story, allowing you to pick up after your previous ending to see another one through. Meeting these conditions will require some work on your part, though, as you'll need to change the past at four separate points to reach the game's true ending. Whether you do this before the first ending or choose to knock it out later will be up to you--but we'll fill you in on what to expect below.

Note: Spoilers for Code Vein 2's story ahead.

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• All Code Vein 2 endings

All Code Vein 2 endings

There are three endings in Code Vein 2. The first ending unlocks automatically, while the other two are continuations of the story accessed in their own way.

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