Video Game News 1/6/2025

#NintendoSwitch
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A must-play JRPG is back on the Nintendo Switch after a short leave of absence

Nintendo Switch Cartridges Are Being Replaced With Googly Eyes

Nintendo Switch Players Are Reporting Their New Games Have Been Replaced With...Googly Eyes

Square Enix's 'Triangle Strategy' Returns to Nintendo Switch eShop

Tales of 30th Anniversary Art Book Comes Out in March

Some Nintendo Switch game buyers say they’re getting googly eyes instead of cartridges

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered physical release revealed for Nintendo Switch

UK software sales chart for the week ending January 4, 2025

Rumor: Metroid Prime dev Retro Studios was once working on a music RPG

Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club producer surprised how smoothly Nintendo approved the project

Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved coming to Nintendo Switch this year

Nintendo Switch 2 Patent Reveals DLSS-Style Technology

Triangle Strategy is Available Again on the Nintendo eShop

Review: Universe for Sale (Nintendo Switch)

Freedom Wars Remastered overview trailer

#MarvelRivals
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Everything Coming In Marvel Rivals’ Fantastic Four-Focused Season

These Are The Two Best Vanguard Heroes In Marvel Rivals

Marvel Rivals Is Pitting The Fantastic Four Against Dracula

Marvel Rivals Reveals Season 1: Eternal Night Falls and the Arrival of the Fantastic Four

Marvel Rivals codes for January 2025

What does SVP mean in Marvel Rivals?

I can’t get enough of these Marvel Rivals edits that pair Wolverine fails with Maroon 5

Marvel Rivals Season 1 release date, start time, and news

Marvel Rivals Season 1 is days away, and it has a surprising new villain

The Fantastic Four arrive in Marvel Rivals this week, as part of vampiric first season

Marvel Rivals' First Proper PS5 Season Starts 10th January

Marvel Rivals Dev Apologises After Mistakenly Banning Players for Cheating

Marvel Rivals Season 1: Eternal Night Falls begins this week

Marvel Rivals Season 1 brings the entire Fantastic Four and a Dracula theme on January 10

Marvel Rivals adds the Fantastic Four this month

Here’s Who Marvel Rivals Characters Remind Me Of

#FantasticFour
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Marvel Rivals Season 1 details and first trailer released

Marvel Rivals Season 1 Begins January 10th at 1:00 AM PST

Marvel Rivals Season 1: Eternal Night Falls Starts on January 10th

#Xbox
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New Xbox Controller Is Basically A Fancy PS5 Gamepad

Xbox Game Pass Is Coming To Another Brand Of Smart TVs Later This Year

Hyperkin Announces New DualSense-Inspired Controller For Xbox Consoles And PC

Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to LG TVs

PS5-style controller announced for Xbox platforms

Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to LG TVs

Soon you will be able to play your Xbox with a PS5-style controller

This New Xbox Controller Looks Exactly Like a PS5 Pad

Insider Denies Next Generation Xbox Console Rumors

Hyperkin Reveals Xbox Controller That Mimics The DualSense

Xbox brings cloud gaming to LG Smart TVs

STALKER 2 PS5 Version Not Planned at the Moment

Black Myth: Wukong’s director blames Series S for Xbox delays

Xbox Cloud Gaming heads to LG Smart TVs with pre-installed app

Insider claims Xbox will launch next-gen console in 2026, but Jez Corden isn’t so sure

#January2025
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The Best Video Game Moments Of 2024

Genshin Impact codes January 2025 and how to redeem

Fishing Simulator Codes (January 2025)

NBA 2K24 Locker Codes List (January 2025)

PUBG Mobile Codes (January 2025)

Reaper 2 Codes (January 2025)

All Warhammer Tacticus Codes: Active and Expired (January 2025)

Dead by Daylight Mobile (DBD) Codes List (January 2025)

Wuthering Waves Codes (January 2025) – 2.0 Preview Broadcast Codes!

Roblox All Star Tower Defense Codes — ASTD (January 2025)

Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos launches January 2025 in the west

Monsters & Memories looks back at end-of-year testing, updates engine, models, and classes

MMO Week in Review: Throne takes the crown

#Valorant
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Valorant is adding a whole new type of cosmetic designed entirely so that you can flex on other players

Valorant welcomes new Initiator – Tejo

New Valorant agent Tejo is a slick explosives expert

Everything We Know So Far About Valorant’s New Agent 27

All of Tejo's abilities in Valorant

Valorant Showcases Ballistics Expert Tejo in Latest Gameplay Trailer

#ResidentEvil4
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If you had any doubt that everyone's favourite horror hunk Leon Kennedy is the king of the genre, the Resident Evil 4 remake is now the series' fastest selling entry

Resident Evil 4 Remake Reaches Big New Sales Milestone

Resident Evil 4 Remake Sales at Nine Million, Series' Fastest-Selling Game

Resident Evil 4 remake has crossed over 9 million units sold

Resident Evil 4 Remake Sales Cross 9m, Capcom Announces

Resident Evil 4 remake tops 9 million copies sold

#LGSmartTVs
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Xbox and LG to Bring Cloud Gaming to LG Smart TVs

Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to LG TVs in 2025

#CarmenSandiego
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Carmen Sandiego is coming to Netflix Games this month, ahead of other platforms

Carmen Sandiego release date set for March, new trailer

Carmen Sandiego Reboot Release Date Revealed

Carmen Sandiego Reboot release dates announced

Carmen Sandiego Can Be Found On Switch This March

#PlayStation
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Welcome to PlayStation: 34 must-play games across the generations on PlayStation Plus

Talking Point: Is PlayStation Right in Saying PC Isn't a 'Major Risk' to Console Business?

What Time Is Sony's CES 2025 Press Conference?

Physint, Kojima’s Next PlayStation Game, Suffers Delays

PlayStation CEO Don’t See Consoles Disappearing Anytime Soon

PS5 Lifespan Expected to Be Similar to PS4

PlayStation Already in the Process of Reviving Some Old IPs – Report

PlayStation System Updates Will Be More Frequent Going Forward

#PS5
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50 Percent Of PS5 Owners Are Freaks And Actually Shut Their Console Down When They Stop Playing

AMD Ryzen AI Max Strix Halo announced as PS5-beating gaming laptop CPU

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Will Conquer a Hefty Chunk of Your PS5's Storage

PS5's Astro Bot Now the Most Decorated Platformer Ever with Over 100 GOTY Awards

Unfortunately, PS5's Disc Drive Add-On Shortage Doesn't Seem to Be Getting Better

PS5 Pro, Cash Bonus Rewarded to All Stellar Blade Dev Employees

PS5's Awesome Welcome Hub Was Designed by a Small, Passionate Team

Civ 7 Historian Hopes 'Gateway Drug' Will Renew Interest in Subject

Monster Hunter Wilds Kung Fu Tea Promotion Begins

Honkai: Star Rail KFC Campaign Features Jiaoqiu And Feixiao

Honkai: Star Rail Remembrance Trailblazer Memosprite Mem Introduced

Street Fighter 6 Luke Revoltech Figure Pre-Orders Open

Szayelaporro Grantz Is the Latest Bleach Rebirth of Souls Arrancar

Yumemizuki Mizuki Is a New Genshin Impact Anemo Character

See the FFVII Rebirth Minimum, Recommended, and Ultra PC Specs

Classic Shooter Getting Native PS5 Port

Another PS5, PS4 Platinum Trophy Lost to Server Shutdown

Half of PS5 Users Put Their Consoles in Rest Mode, Says Sony

PSA: First PS5 Console Exclusive of 2025 Is Out Now

Rumour: Developer Resume Suggests Gotham Knights May Be Heading To 'Switch 2'

#YearEevee
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Pokémon Declares 2025 To Be The 'Year Of Eevee'

The Pokémon Center Declares 2025 the Year of Eevee

Pokémon claims 2025 as the Year of Eevee

2025 is "Year Of The Eevee", According To Pokemon

Pokemon Center's "Year of Eevee" Promises Tons of Eevee-Themed Merch in 2025

The Pokémon Center Has Dubbed 2025 "The Year Of Eevee"

#Steam
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GTA copycat Paradise is an alleged crypto scam, yet continues to gain Steam wishlists

Artifact saw a mysterious player count jump over new year, six years after Valve’s trading card game died off

Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 6, 2025)

New Steam shooter Project Tower lets you transform into a space maggot

Vicious new roguelike is Enter the Gungeon in Vietnam, and you can try it now

Best VR games on PC 2025

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen hits a new concurrent player high, opens a new server to compensate

Steam saw more games released in 2024 than any other year prior

2.5D sci-fi metroidvania game Somber Echoes launches this month

Anime-themed boomer shooter Beyond Citadel now available

Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved adds Switch port

New Tokyo Xtreme Racer launches this month

#RPG
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Best Path of Exile 2 Witch build, skills, and equipment

Freedom Wars Remastered announced for Switch

Whatever happened to multiplayer voxel RPG Cube World and its successor, Cube World Omega?

Freedom Wars Remastered showcases game systems in new trailer

Triangle Strategy Is Back Up On The Switch eShop

#PS5Pro
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Stellar Blade might not be everyone's cup of tea, but when all the staff get a PS5 Pro and $3.4k as an end of year bonus after a year full of layoffs, you can't help but cut it a bit of slack

Stellar Blade Developer Shift Up Gave All Its Employees a PS5 Pro As a Bonus

Stellar Blade Dev Had Such a Great Year That It Gifted All Staff PS5 Pros

#Nintendo
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The first Batman-ish game to (maybe) come to Switch 2 is one that you probably don't want

Bayonetta Turns 15, Announcements Planned to Celebrate

"I Was Honestly Surprised" - Yoshio Sakamoto On Nintendo's Approval Of Emio

Platinum Games announce Bayonetta 15th anniversary celebrations

#Japan
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Shōgun Celebrates Golden Globes Sweep With Season 2 Update

Gundam fans are getting a tabletop game

There’s Another McDonald’s Evangelion Commercial

Sanrio Mascots Are Asleep in New Figure Designs

Kingdom Hearts Heartless Dolls to Appear in Crane Games

Japanese economist: Japan is a country of equality, where everyone is helpless and poor

PlatinumGames Is Celebrating 15 Years Of Bayonetta With Year-Long Event

#Switch
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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved announced for Switch

New Freedom Wars Trailer Showcases The Upcoming Remaster's Fresh Features

Fans Reckon The 'Switch 2' Joy-Con May Be Usable As A Mouse

#XboxCloudGaming
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Backbone One iPhone And Android Controller Is 50% Off

Xbox Cloud Gaming Is Coming to LG Smart TVs