Animal Crossing: New Horizons made a huge impact on the world of cozy gaming back in 2020, and it's about to make a big resurgence. With the game now available on both the original Switch and the Switch 2 (with an even more upgraded Switch 2 Edition landing January 15), Nintendo's flagship cozy game is back. Whether you've been playing consistently since launch, or want to dive back in and see what your villagers have been up to over the past few years, you may be looking to make your grand entrance on a shiny new Switch 2. Doing so, though, will require you to first move your island to Nintendo's newest console. Here's how to do so using the Animal Crossing island transfer tool.

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• How to transfer your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island to Switch 2

How to transfer your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island to Switch 2

When setting up your Switch 2 for the first time, you can use the onboard system transfer to move most of your save files to your new console, but New Horizons is an exception that requires a special process. For New Horizons, you'll need the island transfer tool, which is a free download in the Nintendo eShop. You'll also need the Switch console that your island save data was previously on.

The Island Transfer Tool is required to move your save file to a Switch 2.

To get started transferring your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island, you'll have to head to the eShop and download the Animal Crossing Island Transfer Tool on your Switch and Switch 2. When the transfer tool has been downloaded on both consoles, you'll be able to begin.

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Amazon 4K Blu-ray Sale: 3 Movies for $33

Ends January 19

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One of Amazon's best 4K Blu-ray promotions has returned. Over 100 popular 4K Blu-rays are available for $11 each when you buy three. This is Amazon's first 3 for $33 movie sale since last April, so physical media enthusiasts should take advantage of this awesome offer while they can. The catalog of eligible 4K Blu-rays features some of the most popular movies of 2025, including Weapons, F1 The Movie, Superman, Sinners, and Jurassic World Rebirth.

Amazon's 3 for $33 movie sale runs through January 19. The retailer often adds movies to these types of promotions while it's running, so it's worth checking back to see if there's anything new you want. Amazon also tends to remove movies from its 4K Blu-ray sales, so if you see a movie you want, grab it while you can. Newer movies and all-time classics frequently sell out during 3 for $33 promotions.

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It's a new year, and that means more free games for Amazon Prime members. Amazon has now announced the 10 games that subscribers can grab on PC and 13 via the cloud for a total of 23 freebies.

One of the biggest free games for January is EA's Madden NFL 26, which is the newest entry in the professional football series. It's coming to Luna for cloud streaming on January 10 just in time for the start of the NFL Playoffs, which begin with Wild Card matchups the same day. This is also the day that Prime will host the Chicago Bears vs. Green Bay Packers game, so it's all very synergistic.

Other notable freebies for January include Sid Meier's Civilization VII and The Jackbox Party Pack 3. You can see the full rundown of free games for Prime members below, spread between downloadable PC games and titles that can be streamed via the cloud on Amazon Luna.

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Unbeatable introduces itself with a simple, yet punchy premise: we find a group of teens in a band, on the run from and getting into fights with the local authority. The twist? Instead of playing out as a traditional story-driven game, the beating drum of the experience is structured around rhythm-based gameplay.

Sequences such as dreams and combat encounters are all guided by Unbeatable's take on the classic Guitar Hero notes-on-a-fretboard style gameplay, in which prompts tell you which buttons to press in time with the music. Here, it's only two buttons: up and down. And while there are more traditional gameplay moments--like minigames where you must memorize movement patterns and react to the beat of different tempos--in a similar fashion to Rhythm Heaven, it's the harmonious intersection with all the game's other sections, which would normally play out as mere cutscenes, that makes Unbeatable stand out.

A decade ago, right around the time that Rock Band and Guitar Hero launched their respective swansongs marking the decline of the domestic rhythm game era, it would have been novel to see a studio blend rhythm game mechanics into a narrative adventure. But Unbeatable is just one example of this approach; dozens of studios have been toying with the intersection of music games with other genres. Now, 10 years after the rhythm game heyday, they're basking in a renewed appreciation of those elements.

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If you're working your way through Stella Montis, Arc Raiders' first post-launch map, you may have the Snap and Salvage quest. This multi-step quest requires you to find multiple spots of interaction, as well as recover some specific pieces of loot. It can take some time to figure all of this out on your own, so we've put together a step-by-step process to get you through it.

Note that each part of this quest can be completed across multiple runs, so there's no need to wrap it all up in a single raid. That being said, you'll need to extract with the Magnetron and Flow Controller items once you find them, so it's probably best to bring in an augment that has a safe pocket or two to ensure you don't accidentally lose these precious items if you find them during your raid.

Here's how to complete Snap and Salvage in Arc Raiders.

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Prolific video game voice actor Troy Baker said he believes the generative AI revolution is a "good thing," in that it will push people to seek out "authentic" experiences made by artists as opposed to AI "gruel."

In an interview with The Game Business, Baker said there is no doubt "AI can make content way better than humans" and can "crank it out no problem." It is important to remember, however, that what AI makes is merely content, not art, Baker said.

"AI can create content but it cannot create art," Baker said. "And the reason why is because that invariably requires the human experience.

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This year marks the 15th anniversary of Fallout: New Vegas, the beloved spin-off that was developed by Obsidian Entertainment. Bethesda hasn't entrusted the franchise to many other developers, and according to studio boss Todd Howard, Obsidian was the only choice to take on New Vegas.

"They were the only choice," Howard told Game Informer (via GamesRadar). "They had done something similar with [Star Wars] Knights of the Old Republic 2, and we knew them really well. We knew we were going onto Skyrim, the franchise was back, but we knew there was going to be a long break until Fallout 4--how can we keep this going?"

Obsidian was founded by ex-Interplay and Black Isle Studios devs who previously worked on the original Fallout as well as a canceled version of Fallout 3. That made the studio a natural home for New Vegas. Howard also said that the only note Bethesda had ahead of development was to focus on the game's warring factions and the players' ability to choose between them.

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Dungeons & Dragons is one of the main throughlines in the Netflix sci-fi hit Stranger Things, but the show's finale found inspiration from the acclaimed D&D game Baldur's Gate 3, according to one of the show's creators.

Spoilers for the Stranger Things finale follow.

Stranger Things co-creator Matt Duffer mentioned to Variety that he was playing the Larian Studios-developed title while working on the final season. Duffer implied that the climactic showdown with Vecna and the Mind Flayer shared themes and elements with both D&D and Baldur's Gate 3.

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Highlighting an ongoing trend, the most popular games on PlayStation and Xbox are multiplayer, online, live-service titles that aren't necessarily "new," at least not in the traditional sense.

Circana's Mat Piscatella revealed that 2025's top five most-played games for PlayStation and Xbox in the US were the same as 2024's, and in the case of PS5, the ranking was exactly the same.

On PS5, the top five most-played games in the US were Fortnite, Call of Duty, GTA V, Roblox, and Minecraft, ranked in that order. That was the same as 2024, according to Circana's Player Engagement Tracker, which is ranked by an "active panel" of players.

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There are few guarantees in life, such as death, taxes, and how rare Pokemon cards can be more valuable than any collectible out there. WWE performer and social media influencer Logan Paul is auctioning off his rare PSA 10 Pikachu artist edition. Paul took the card to Goldin Auctions and initially asked $1.3 million--the auction has already reached $1.45 million and still has 40 days to go.

"The Pokemon craze was in full swing in 1997. With the blockbuster Game Boy games, a primetime animated series, and now record-setting TCG, Japan was abuzz with excitement about what was in store for Pokemon," the official listing reads as it explains why the card is so rare. "In November 1997, a contest ... called 'Pokemon Card Game Illust Artist Contest,' challenged readers to draw their own Pokémon card and send it to the magazine. The following January issue of CoroCoro Comic announced the three winners, who each received 20 Pokemon cards featuring their own illustrations along with one copy of the Pikachu Illustrator card."

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Paul took to Twitter and said the card will also come with the customized chain he had made, valued at $75,000, and he would personally deliver it to the winner.

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