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Good news for lovers of Hollow Knight because those boffins over at Team Cherry have just released a brand new current-gen version of the game for Xbox Series S/X, PS5 and Switch. This shiny new edition of Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition boasts an improved fumarate, better resolution and "additional effects." Hollow Knight is now available on Nintendo Switch 2, Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S with higher frame-rates, higher resolution and additional effects!

Many Nintendo Switch 2 owners find the Joy-Con 2 (or the console itself) difficult to hold for extended periods. They're not exactly the most ergonomic controllers in the world. The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller might be a better bet. It's sturdy and comfortable to hold and it has a premium feel, thanks to the smooth and responsive controls. The inclusion of a 3.5mm wired headphone jack is very welcome.

The Analogue 3D, a premium gaming console that's fully compatible with Nintendo 64 games, just got of translucent colorways replicating five colors that were prototyped for the N64 but never released. The new Analogue 3D: Prototype Editions follow the limited release of Analogue's Funtastic line, which replicated the N64's Funtastic colorful translucent shells last December and in less than two hours.

Danganronpa and The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy are the types of games it's hard to get a big company behind. One's a murder mystery about teenagers killing each other, the other is a sprawling visual novel with 100 different endings. Kazutaka Kodaka, the lead on both these projects, explained how he gets games like this out the door, and it sounds like the key to getting a teenage deathmatch murder mystery approved is lying to your bosses.

Nintendo's Switch 2 Pro controller committed the one cardinal sin no gamepad should ever perpetrate: it made me lose. Nintendo's $90 first-party controller exclusive to the Switch 2 has large, snappy stickstoo snappy, in fact. Flicking the joystick from one side and releasing it will cause it to flick back so fast that the gamepad will register an input in the opposite direction.

A multiplayer, co-op Assassin's Creed game was reportedly cancelled by Ubisoft as part of restructuring efforts at the company. The game, codenamed Assassin's Creed League, was in development at Ubisoft's Annecy team, but was shut down recently. The Assassin's Creed title was not among the six other cancelled projects that Ubisoft confirmed last month, according to a report published in French outlet Origami on Thursday.

From a simple tweet to a mural in NYC to a trailer delayed by a massive hurricane, here's the complete marketing timeline for GTA V Grand Theft Auto V launched over a decade ago on Xbox 360 and PS3 in September 2013. And its sequel, the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6, is seemingly, finally, actually, for real, launching this November.

Xbox released a lot of big games in 2025. It was one of the only good bits of Xbox-related news from last year. And in 2026, it will release new entries in four of its oldest franchises: Forza, Gears, Halo, and Fable. But new reporting indicates that while these projects, and others including a Fallout 3 remaster, are on track, Xbox is trying to avoid Grand Theft Auto 6 's big launch in November.

Cozy games are all about finding space in the chaos of life--where slow days on the farm, gentle strolls through enchanted towns, or warm chats with your favorite romanceable NPC are the main attractions, and combat and aggression is left at the door. Anyone and everyone can join in, with the slower pace and wholesome stories that usually fit within the "cozy" label.

Here, you'll be able to team up with a couple of friends to hunt killer machines, Monster Hunter style. Guerrilla says it's designing the hunts to be challenging and replayable. "Combat is tactical, reactive, and deeply skill-based, building on the tactical precision of the Horizon games while embracing the dynamics of team play," game director Arjan Bak wrote on the PlayStation Blog. The game also has a more stylized look compared with the more grounded visuals of the mainline games.

The funniest co-op games always seem to involve some combination of chaotic countdown timers, awkward miscommunications, slapstick physics, or out-of-the-box ideas. Whether you're shouting at each other across the room in couch co-op or losing it over voice chat as everything falls apart, these games are designed to make you and your pals laugh, while still providing a solid gameplay experience.

But right now, of all times, feels one of the worst possible moments to reveal Hunters Gathering to a world wide web primed to make a Kombucha Girl face at everything it's doing. The last two years have been littered with the corpses of failed, cancelled, or still dying live service games. A lot of players are, understandably, tired of these things and unsure of whether they should even invest any time into caring, as so many seem to flop or shut down.

Obviously, Escape from Ever After owes an awful lot to Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Hell, even the opening splash screen where the characters are lined up is basically a one-to-one recreation of the famous Nintendo title. It's like they ambled into Nintendo, stole Paper Mario, realised they couldn't sell it like that and quickly learned origami so they could toss some new characters in. A bit of paint later, and voila, new Paper Mario game...er, I mean, new game.

Following a leak and with absolutely no fanfare from Ubisoft, The Division: Definitive Edition has been released on Xbox, PlayStation and PC storefronts for £45. The reason for the lack of hype is immediately obvious: it has replaced the existing Gold Edition of the game and only adds a couple of extra items. You get the three paid expansions, the Let It Snow cosmetic pack, the Parade cosmetic pack and a further 6 cosmetic packs.

The next-generation Xbox console is on track to launch in 2027 - at least that's what chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices believes. At its latest quarterly earnings call, AMD said the development on the custom chipset that will power the next-gen Xbox was "progressing well" to support the launch of the console in 2027. Initial reports and leaks placed the launch of the next Xbox, believed to be a PC/console hybrid running Windows, in 2027, along with Sony's PlayStation 6.

For the past 28 years, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has recognized those who have made a significant contribution to the video game industry, from those creating iconic characters and games that have become cultural cornerstones, to those who have inspired others to create games or provided opportunities for the next generation or developers without the necessary resources to shine in a competitive working environment.

Shaking up what fans have come to expect from the series, it tosses out the old formulas of straightforward missions and replaces them with an open-world twist that works shockingly well. In the midst of wandering the hidden corners of Japan, players will find fantastic secrets and evocative battles, but what's gained from this ambitious scope is just as often hampered by a surprising lack of challenge and a deadweight story that completely overstays its welcome.

A cancellation so close to release can be particularly devastating for younger team members who don't have decades of past shipped titles on their resumé. It's tough to suddenly absorb that the past four years of hard work you were proud of, and looking forward to seeing out in the world as your new calling card, will now never see daylight. Words like loss and grieving might seem exaggerated, but artists put their hearts into their work.

Intrepid Studios has shut down in a way that I did not expect. What I can share is what I experienced. On January 28, toward the end of the workday, I was informed that we would be laying off 100 developers. I was devastated - these are hardworking people who were going to lose their jobs. Still, I believed it was something we could face together and find a path forward from.