Video Game News 1/14/2026

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#SplosionMan
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Meta has closed several studios, including ‘Splosion Man studio Twisted Pixel and Asgard Wrath’s Sanzaru Games

Meta Shuts Down VR Game Developers Armature Studios, Twsited Pixel and Sanzaru Games

Meta Lays Off 10 Percent of Reality Labs Division Staff Including VR Studio Closures of Twisted Pixel Games and Sanzaru Games

Meta Shuts Down The Studios Behind Deadpool VR, Asgard's Wrath 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR

Meta shutters three VR studios as part of Reality Labs layoffs

Meta closes three VR studios following 10% cut to Reality Labs metaverse division

Meta is closing 3 VR studios and laying off roughly 10% of Reality Labs as it shifts focus from the metaverse to AI wearables, its next sure-fire, can't-miss idea

Meta Studio Shutdowns Reportedly Hit Sanzaru Games, Twisted Pixel

Meta Shuts 3 VR Studios and Lays Off Hundreds of Devs as It Pivots From Virtual Reality and the Metaverse to AI

#ArcRaiders
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ARC Raiders Sales Surpass 12.4 Million Units Worldwide

Arc Raiders Hits 12 Million Sales Milestone, Gamers React

How to complete Unexpected Initiative in ARC Raiders

How to get the Gilded Pickaxe raider tool - ARC Raiders

Why is ARC Raiders giving us a codpiece and corset pants in the latest update?!?

ARC Raiders Trigger 'Nades Will Now Take Twice As Long To Detonate

If I could change one thing in Arc Raiders this year, I'd abolish late spawns

ARC Raiders Review

Arc Raiders Sales Officially Pass the 12m Mark

#StarTrekVoyagerAcrossTheU
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Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown announced for Nintendo Switch 2

Star Trek: Voyager Game Release Date Revealed With New Trailer

Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown Comes To Switch 2

Survival Strategy Star Trek Voyager Targets PS5 Release Next Month

Star Trek: Voyager - Across The Unknown Beams Onto Switch 2 Next Month

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a combat deep dive and release date

Story-driven strategy game Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown beams down Switch 2 version and release date

#NewRequiemDetails
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Resident Evil Showcase To Air January 15

Resident Evil Showcase Announced For This Week

Capcom’s Resident Evil Showcase Drops New Requiem Details, But Gamers Want VR

Resident Evil Showcase Prioritizes Requiem Gameplay

Resident Evil Showcase Coming Thursday, Includes Brand-New Requiem Footage

Resident Evil showcase happening Thursday, rumour of additional game being shown

#Battlefield6Season2
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Battlefield 6 Season 2 Coming Next Month as Season 1 Gets Extension

EA delays Battlefield 6's next season a month to 'further polish and refine Season 2,' and the only words I want to hear next are 'bigger maps'

Battlefield 6 Season 2 delayed until February, but more content for Season 1 and events are on the way

Battlefield 6 Season 2 Delayed to Mid-February, Season 1 to Be Extended

Battlefield 6 Season 2 Delayed to February as EA Tackles Community Feedback With an Extended Season 1

Battlefield 6 Season 2 delayed like many of us expected, but we're getting a new update and a bonus battle pass path

#NintendoYear
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Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review just released

2025 Nintendo Year in Review Switch and Switch 2 Game Stats Shared

Nintendo Switch 2025 'Year In Review' Is Available Now

Nintendo 2025 Wrap-Up: See How Much You Played On Switch And Switch 2 Last Year

Your Year in Review for Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch now available

#Switch2
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High On Life 2 leaked for Nintendo Switch 2

High On Life 2 Adds Switch 2 Version On April 20

Comedy Shooter Sequel 'High On Life 2' Is Coming To Switch 2

High On Life 2 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Revealed - Where To Preorder Now

High on Life 2 for Nintendo Switch 2 leaks on Amazon as Game-Key Card

#DeadpoolCanLiterallyDoItA
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Marvel Rivals’ Deadpool Debuts on January 16th as Its First 3-in-1 Hero

Deadpool Just Looks Perfect in Marvel Rivals on PS5

Marvel Rivals' Deadpool Can Literally Do It All

Deadpool will be a Duelist, Vanguard, and Strategist in Marvel Rivals, as the prophecies foretold

Deadpool is joining Marvel Rivals later this week, and he can pretty much do anything he wants

#InazumaElevenVictoryRoad
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Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road ‘Ares & Fabled Seed’ Update Revealed Alongside Mobile Spinoff

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Sequel Announced

Work Already Underway on Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road's Sequel

Level-5 CEO Says He's Already Started Work On The Next Inazuma Eleven Game

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Sales Reach 800k, Second Big Update Coming

#Hazelight
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‘EA is getting more shit than they deserve’: Split Fiction director Josef Fares defends Hazelight’s publishing partner

'You Can't Do GTA for $10 Million': Split Fiction's Josef Fares Champions Diversity in Games and Budgets

After Expedition 33's success, Split Fiction's Josef Fares warns publishers not to "only do" double-A

Hazelight Founder Josef Fares On EA: "Let's Be Honest, There's Not A Publisher In The World That Hasn't F****d Up"

"I Don't See AI Taking Over" - Split Fiction Director Josef Fares On The Rise Of AI

Josef Fares vows to never take Hazelight public

Split Fiction and It Takes Two director Josef Fares doesn't see AI "taking over", but admits "who knows what happens in the future"

EA gets "more **** than they deserve", says Split Fiction director Josef Fares

#PlaystationPlusGameCatalo
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A number of January’s major PlayStation Plus Game Catalog titles have been leaked

Resident Evil Village and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Coming to PS Plus Extra/Premium – Rumor

PS Plus Extra, Premium Users Pleased With January Games Leak

New PS Plus Free Game Possibly Being Teased

PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for January 2026 Leaked

Multiple PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium titles for January have leaked

#NewHorizons
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How to download the Version 3.0 update - Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Boom! The Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 Update Is Now Available

10 Animal Crossing: New Horizons tasks to do before update 3.0 drops

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 update is out early

Surprise! Animal Crossing: New Horizons' free 3.0 update for Switch releases early

My anticlimactic return to Animal Crossing: New Horizons four years after I last logged in

#GamesWorkshop
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Games Workshop ban staff from using genAI in Warhammer, saying they're not “excited about it yet”

"We do not allow AI-generated content," Games Workshop CEO says

Games Workshop says its senior managers aren't excited about AI, prohibits its use and laments that it's 'included on our phones or laptops whether we like it or not'

Games Workshop Announces AI Ban For Content and Design

#Helldivers2
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Shush, Helldivers 2's Redacted Regiment warbond is all about being sneakily stealthy and silently suppressed

Helldivers 2: Redacted Regiment Warbond launches Jan 20

Helldivers 2 Support Continues in the Latest Warbond Drop, Out Next Week

Helldivers 2 Redacted Regiment Warbond Sneaks Onto the Scene Next Week

#Daybreak
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Move over, cottagecore: Palia goes cardigancore with its Winter’s Wonder update

Palia Winter’s Wonder: Snowbound Sanctuary Update Patch 0.199 Releases Today

Palia Manages To Get Even Cozier With Winter’s Wonder: Snowbound Sanctuary Update

Palia’s Winter’s Wonder: Snowbound Sanctuary Update Live

#VerifiedInSteamDeck
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Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme

Steam Machine’s “Verified” Program Will Have “Fewer Constraints” for Developers Than Steam Deck

Steam Machine Verified requirements will have 'fewer constraints' than Steam Deck, says Valve

#Microsoft
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Bobby Kotick alleges a lawsuit against Microsoft’s Activision acquisition was secretly aimed at helping Embracer Group

Bobby Kotick claims lawsuit objecting to Microsoft-Activision deal was "tied to Embracer's desire to boost sales"

Bobby Kotick Claims Activision, Call of Duty, and Consoles Are Doing So Poorly It Proves He Was Right to Sell Activision Blizzard to Microsoft for $69 Billion

#MajorNelson
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Former Xbox executive Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb says he’s been laid off from Unity after 18 months

Larry Hryb, better known as Xbox hype man Major Nelson, has been laid off from Unity less than 2 years after joining the company

Xbox Legend Major Nelson Is Unity’s Latest Layoff

#Eclipse
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The Disney Afternoon Collection seems to be coming to Nintendo Switch 2, Switch

An Overlooked Disney Collection From Digital Eclipse Has Been Rated For Switch

Disney Afternoon Collection has been rated for Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch

#NintendoSwitch
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Reanimal demo released on Nintendo Switch 2

THQ Nordic Drops REANIMAL Demo on Nintendo Switch 2, But Gamers Want More

The Demo For Reanimal Is Now Available On Switch 2

#CodeVein
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Code Vein 2 Details Its Vast, Secret-Filled World and Combat in New Overview Trailer

Chunky Code Vein 2 Overview Has Everything You Need to Know About the PS5 Action RPG

Code Vein II Overview Trailer Released

#TheElderScrolls6
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The Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout 5 Are “No-Win” Situations for Bethesda, Says Former Lead Artist

The Elder Scrolls 6 Was Announced Early So People Wouldn’t Be Mad

Former Bethesda lead says The Elder Scrolls 6 got announced so early because the studio had to make sure 'people were not just pissed at us' for revealing Starfield instead

#TheSwitch2
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Yakuza Kiwami Xbox Series X|S Review

Free Yakuza Kiwami 3 Costumes Up for Grabs Ahead of Release

Free Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties DLC Given to Sega Account Holders

#EarlyAccess
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Hytale Server download is now live with Early Access release – here’s how to get it

Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support

Hytale Enters Early Access After A Decade After Surviving Cancellation

#PerformTheWorkOf100People
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CEO of Stellar Blade dev claims AI is essential for smaller nations competing with the manpower of China and the US

Stellar Blade's director says AI can see 'one person can perform the work of 100 people' but that won't wind up in job losses, somehow

Stellar Blade Dev Believes ‘One Person Can Perform The Work Of 100 People’ With AI