Video Game News 1/3/2025

#MarvelRivals
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Marvel Rivals Vanguard Tier List - All 8 Tank Heroes Ranked

Marvel Rivals Strategists Tier List - All 7 Support Heroes Ranked

Marvel Rivals Devs Apologize After Banning Players For False Cheating

Marvel Rivals Dev Apologizes for Mistakenly Banning Players for Using Cheats

Marvel Rivals unbans Steam Deck and Mac players wrongly caught up in cheater purge

‘Get ready’ – Marvel Rivals is adding four new characters

Marvel Rivals dev reverses bans and apologizes for cheating accusations

Marvel Rivals' Season 1 heroes teased

The Fantastic Four are Coming to Marvel Rivals Season 1

Marvel Rivals Devs Apologize for Accidental Ban Wave on Legit Players

Marvel Rivals Leak Reveals New Game Mode on the Way

Marvel Rivals unbans players accidentally flagged as cheaters and teases the Fantastic Four’s arrival

Marvel Rivals team issue a statement on recent bans for Steam Deck and macOS players

#Sonic
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Sonic 3 star Jim Carrey says he's "open to the idea" of returning for Sonic 4, after casually pulling another of the top 10 faces of all-time

New Sonic The Hedgehog Lego Sets Feature Metal Sonic, Super Shadow, And Tails' Cyclone Mech

The star of the Sonic movies says he could yet return for Sonic 4

Jim Carrey 'Open' to Reprising Robotnik Role in Subsequent Sonic Movies

Sonic Galactic – Beta Demo

Jim Carrey "Open To The Idea" Of Playing Robotnik In Future Sonic Movies

Sonic movie 3 seemingly releasing digitally on 21st January

#Steam
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One Rise Of The Golden Idol Dev Is Making A New "Idol-Like"

Why was 1000xResist’s best sales day 7 months post-launch? ‘Not being in The Game Awards,’ dev says

Get Shenmue, Ori, Condemned, and 5 other AGDQ games for $12 at Humble

Discoveries

Beyond Citadel is a top-rated, retro-style boomer shooter with anime girls

Surprise, $7 multiplayer hit Liar’s Bar is getting its own answer to Balatro

Save a huge 20% on a Steam Deck OLED from Valve, while stocks last

The best Slay the Spire mods

Stellaris dev says espionage “isn’t satisfying,” so a rework is on the cards

Random: Assassin's Creed Origins Catching Strays as Ubisoft Review Bombing Gets Underway

Rust Player Count Reaches New All-Time High Almost Seven Years After Release

11 year-old MMORPG Royal Quest resurfaces on Steam after a four year-long shutdown

Valkyrie Squad: Siege Breakers launches in February

Eternal Strands getting public PC demo this month

Co-op farming survival game Farm Folks reveals first gameplay trailer

Hades II Next Major Update Release Date Announced

Puzzly games

#SquidGame
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Yo dawg, Call of Duty Black Ops 6's Squid Game crossover comes with a premium battle pass on top of another battle pass, so you can battle pass while you battle pass

Call Of Duty Patch Notes For Black Ops 6, Warzone, And Zombies Reveal All The Big Squid Game Updates

First Call of Duty Update of 2025 Ushers in Squid Game Crossover, Increases Mantle Speeds, and Adds a New Wildcard

Movement in Black Ops 6 and Warzone just became even quicker and slicker

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players lament "battle passes in between battle passes" with Squid Game event

#Helldivers2
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"Make good games, don’t make a contemporary political statement,” says Helldivers 2 director, as players massacre infected citizens for leaders worried about "anti-democratic brainwashing"

Helldivers 2’s director says he’s already planning Arrowhead’s next game

6 games that could be bigger hits than you're expecting in 2025

Helldivers 2 Dev Is Starting to Think About What's Next

Helldivers 2 Creative Director is Working on the High Concept for Next Project

#CallDutyBlackOps6
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There's An Easy Way To Get Your Previously Hidden Call Of Duty Skill Ranking

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Squid Game Update Has Gone Live

#PS5
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Microsoft May Bring "All Their Big Games" To PS5, Analyst Says

Feature: 34 Under the Radar PS5 Games to Watch Out for in 2025

Wuthering Waves Has, Predictably, Jumped Straight to the Top of PS5's Most Downloaded in Japan

Game of the Year: Push Square Readers' 20 Most Anticipated PS5 Games of 2025

New Honkai: Star Rail 3.0 Relic Items Are Wishful Resin, Variable Dice

HoYoVerse Explains Lack of Ether Agents in Zenless Zone Zero

Wuthering Waves finally releases version 2.0 featuring the new Rinascita region

PS5 Issue Reportedly Caused by Vertical Placement Possibly Fixed

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PS5 Sales Didn’t Flop, Producer Clarifies

PS Store Holiday Sale Gets January Refresh With Thousands of Discounts

PS5/PS5 Pro Disc Drive Shortage Frustrates Players

New Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Update is Good News for Fans

#Go
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Mechabellum Season 2 brings a square-jawed Sergeant specialist who’s definitely seen things no man should see

All Monopoly Go events, tournaments, dates, and rewards

When is the next Monopoly Go Golden Blitz event?

Free Monopoly Go dice links January 2025

Daily free Monopoly Go dice links (January 2025)

#StardewValley
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Stardew Valley continues its wholesome farming dominance with latest sales milestone

Stardew Valley Sales Appear to Be Increasing Exponentially

Stardew Valley passes 41 million units sold across all platforms – and it’s not done yet

#HonkaiImpact3
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8.0 Honkai Impact 3rd Update and Durandal Battlesuit Release Date Set

Honkai Impact 3rd to launch version 8.0 In Search of the Sun this month

Honkai Impact 3rd Is Launching v8.0 Update ‘In Search of the Sun’ Soon

#GTA6
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Huge new GTA 5 mod will let you run around a full recreation of Liberty City as Michael, Trevor, and Franklin, if you fancy returning to Niko's old haunts ahead of GTA 6

IGN UK Podcast 781: The Big 2025 Movies and Games Preview

The best open-world games 2025

Unsurprisingly, GTA 6 Projected to Make a Staggering Amount of Money

#Valve
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Refurbished Steam Deck OLEDs are currently available from Valve

Half-Life 3 Rumor Claims the Game Has Reached Vital Development Stage

Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems

#2D
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Review: Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable Feels Clumsy

2D platformer Super Onion Boy+ out on Nintendo Switch next week

#January2025
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League of Legends Mythic shop January 2025 - what’s on sale now?

All Genshin Impact Codes (January 2025) – Update 5.3 Livestream

Blox Fruit But Bad Codes (January 2025)

All Pokemon GO Codes (January 2025)

Are There Any The First Descendant Codes? (January 2025)

ST Blockade Battlefront Codes (January 2025)

The Complete Bleach: Brave Souls Codes List (January 2025)

Criminal Tycoon Codes (January 2025)

Complete Fortnite Codes List (January 2025)

#BrightMemoryInfinite
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Bright Memory: Infinite is coming to mobile with a surprisingly low price tag

Bright Memory: Infinite is Launching on Android with Console-Quality Gameplay

#RPG
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Don't Sleep On 2024's Most Underrated Tactics RPG

SpaceCraft is aiming for the gap between Starfield, Satisfactory and Eve Online

Reverse 1999 codes January 2025

Torchlight Infinite codes 2025

Valhalla Survival, Lionheart Studios' upcoming mobile release, now has an official launch date