Video Game News 1/7/2025

#Sony
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New Sony Tech Will Put You Inside The World Of The Last Of Us

PlayStation 5 Is Getting A New Set Of Killer-Looking, All-Black Accessories

Sony Announces Helldivers And Horizon Zero Dawn Movies

HBO's The Last Of Us Season 2 Gets New Trailer And Surprise April Release Date

Sony's latest anime gamble is a Ghost of Tsushima: Legends adaptation, and it's pulling talent from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Star Wars: Visions, and Madoka Magica

Helldivers 2 is getting a film adaptation, and here's hoping it's not just a shot-for-shot Starship Troopers retread with Chris Pratt's face plastered over a Bile Titan

Horizon Zero Dawn Netflix show? What do you mean? You must be thinking about the live-action film adaptation Sony just announced

Sony's "Immersive Entertainment Concept" Could Potentially Let You Smell Zombies

Sony Debuts Tech Where Players Can See, Shoot, and Smell Baddies From Games Like The Last of Us

Horizon Zero Dawn Film Confirmed

Sony Announces Helldivers 2 Film in Production

The DualSense Edge controller has received a price cut in Europe

Sony shows off conceptual immersive gaming tech that lets you stand in a TV box and sniff The Last of Us

PS5 Midnight Black DualSense Edge, headset and earbuds unveiled

Sony Is Betting Big on the Global Growth of Anime

PS5 Accessories to Get New Midnight Black Colourway, Pre-Order from 16th January

Sony Subsidiary Crunchyroll to Release Manga App This Year

This Is Why Call of Duty Is Not Gonna Stop Launching on PS5

HBO's The Last of Us: Season 2 Debuts in April

Helldivers 2 Is So Big It's Already Getting a Hollywood Adaptation

Ghost of Tsushima Legends Is an Upcoming Anime Inspired by the PS5, PS4 Game

Crunchyroll Manga App Arrives in 2025

Sony unveils prototype VR headset Xyn for "creating 3D objects for films, animation, and games"

Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 movies announced

PS5/PS5 Pro Disc Drive Shortage Frustrates Players

Xbox’s Future in Console War Looks “Pretty Bright” – Analyst

Sony Announces Helldivers and Horizon Movies, Plus Ghost of Tsushima Anime

Sony announces a live action film adaptation of Helldivers 2 is in production

PlayStation Store Update Worldwide January 7, 2025

New PS5 Accessories Color Collection Announced

Horizon Zero Dawn Movie News Didn’t Go Down Well With Some

Helldivers Movie in the Works at Sony Pictures

Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 are getting movies plus a Ghost of Tsushima anime is coming

Midnight Black PlayStation 5 Accessories Revealed

#CES2025
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5 Things We Noticed In The Last Of Us’ New Season Two Trailer

Virtua Fighter 6's exhilarating proof-of-concept video at CES proves we're so back, and that you don't need 15 super meters and fantastical nonsense to make a sick fighter

Nvidia's DLSS 4 Promises Big Performance Gains For Both New And Old Hardware

Razer's New Remote Play Tech Will Soon Let You Stream Your PC Library To Your Phone

New Virtua Fighter Gets Unexpected First Look, But It's Not Gameplay

The $1999 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 makes the rest of the RTX 50 series look suspiciously sensible

CES 2025: AI Advancing at ‘Incredible Pace,’ NVIDIA CEO Says

Nvidia announces RTX 50-series graphics cards with DLSS 4 multi frame generation

The Until Dawn Movie Isn't a Direct Adaptation, Will Feature New Story, Characters

Your First Look at Virtua Fighter PS5 Will Drop Jaws

Accessories maker showing Nintendo Switch 2 dummy replica at CES 2025

Helldivers movie adaptation announced

NVIDIA announce 'Blackwell' GeForce RTX 50 Series, DLSS 4 and brings AI to Shaders with RTX Neural Shaders

Razer Unveils Groundbreaking Innovations at CES 2025

MSI Unveils Game-Changing DIY PC Innovations at CES 2025

Crucial Unveils High-Performance Memory and Storage at CES 2025

CES 2025 | Crunchyroll Unveils New Manga App

Gunnar Launches New Styles At CES 2025

#SteamOS
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Behold the Lenovo Legion Go S, the SteamOS handheld PC that isn’t a Steam Deck

Lenovo Legion Go S is the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld

Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2 and Go S handheld gaming PCs, including SteamOS model

Valve is bringing SteamOS to the Lenovo Legion Go S

Valve confirms a public beta of SteamOS is coming as 'SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck'

Lenovo Legion Go S with Valve's SteamOS is official, expected to launch in May

#Tencent
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“We are not a military company or supplier,” Chinese gaming giant Tencent responds to landing on list of companies that give the US Government the heebie-jeebies

The US just added the world's biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies

US labels Tencent as a Chinese military company

Gaming Colossus Tencent Added to US Blacklist, Accused of Ties to Chinese Military

US adds Tencent to list of firms allegedly connected to Chinese military

Tencent Added to US List of Companies Allegedly Aiding Chinese Military

Tencent pushes back against its classification as a Chinese military company by the US government

Tencent Labeled A "Chinese Military Company" By US Government

#Rocksteady
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Suicide Squad Developer Let Go Of More Employees At The End Of 2024 - Report

Suicide Squad studio Rocksteady reportedly suffers more layoffs

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady hit by end-of-year layoffs

Suicide Squad Dev Rocksteady Suffers More Layoffs

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Developer Hit With Layoffs

Rocksteady cut further jobs at the end of 2024

Suicide Squad Studio Rocksteady Reportedly Hit by More Layoffs

Rocksteady ended its tumultuous 2024 by laying off staff

#CallDuty
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Call Of Duty Keeps Getting More Expensive To Make Even Though It's Selling Fewer Copies

Court documents reveal just how much more expensive Call of Duty games are to make compared to even PlayStation's biggest exclusives

Call Of Duty Budget Reportedly As High As $700 Million Per Game

Call of Duty’s Astronomical Development Budgets Revealed — Activision Pumped $700 Million Into Black Ops Cold War Alone

Activision asks judge to strike Uvalde parents’ Call of Duty lawsuit, citing protections for ‘creative expression’

School shooting lawsuit reveals that Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million, the highest development cost yet reported by a publisher

Brutal FPS game Hell Let Loose is more popular on Steam right now than ever

Development costs for 2020's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War exceeded $700m

Ballooning Call of Duty Budgets Revealed, Black Ops Cold War Cost $700m

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War development cost a massive $700m

#AI
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Valve quickly shoots down Steam Deck 2 rumours just as AMD announces a new processor designed for handhelds like the Steam Deck

PUBG and inZoi Are Getting AI Companions Called Co-Playable Characters (CPCs) You Can Talk to In-Game

Why World Foundation Models Will Be Key to Advancing Physical AI

Why Enterprises Need AI Query Engines to Fuel Agentic AI

Building Smarter Autonomous Machines: NVIDIA Announces Early Access for Omniverse Sensor RTX

Now See This: NVIDIA Launches Blueprint for AI Agents That Can Analyze Video

New GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs Double Creative Performance in 3D, Video and Generative AI

NVIDIA Announces Nemotron Model Families to Advance Agentic AI

NVIDIA and Partners Launch Agentic AI Blueprints to Automate Work for Every Enterprise

NVIDIA Media2 Transforms Content Creation, Streaming and Audience Experiences With AI

NVIDIA Makes Cosmos World Foundation Models Openly Available to Physical AI Developer Community

NVIDIA Launches DRIVE AI Systems Inspection Lab, Achieves New Industry Safety Milestones

NVIDIA DRIVE Partners Showcase Latest Mobility Innovations at CES

Nvidia announces the RTX 50-series, led by the $1,999 RTX 5090 with 'twice the performance of the 4090'

DLSS 4 can increase your gaming PC frame rate by 8x, says Nvidia

PUBG unveils chatty co-op buddy powered by generative AI that's designed to play and talk like a human teammate

Apple has reportedly stopped production on its $3,500 Vision Pro

Mir 5 Introduces "First AI Boss" In Upcoming MMORPG

Krafton Shows Off Use of AI Technology in PUBG (Realistic bot teammate) and inZOI (Realistic NPCs)

#SteamDeck
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Razer Is Releasing A Handheld Dock For Steam Deck, Windows Handhelds, And Mobile Devices

Acer’s newest Steam Deck rival is enormous with Nintendo Switch like controllers

Acer unveils dubiously portable Nitro Blaze 11 handheld gaming PC with 10.95-inch screen

Native GeForce Now App Coming to Steam Deck Later This Year

GeForce NOW is getting full Steam Deck support with a native app

#Steam
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Discoveries

Voice-controlled murder mystery Dead Meat hits Steam this year, but its embrace of generative AI might spoil a great idea

PC Gaming in the Cloud Goes Everywhere With New Devices and AAA Games on GeForce NOW

Smite 2 release date, gameplay, progress transfer, and latest news

Yakuza Game News Coming in Like a Dragon Direct This Week

Rust Celebrates 260,000 Concurrent Players on Steam

Tokyo Xtreme Racer Coming to Steam Early Access on January 23

Hello Kitty Island Adventure launches for PC and Switch this month

WWE 2K25 announced

Dokapon! Sword of Fury coming to PC with English support

Prince of Persia The Lost Crown Achievements Guide

#GhostTsushima
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Ghost of Tsushima Anime Coming Exclusively to Crunchyroll in 2027

Helldivers 2 is getting a film adaptation, even though Starship Troopers already exists

Gen Urobuchi Working on Ghost of Tsushima Anime

Ghost of Tsushima to get anime adaptation

Ghost of Tsushima anime series announced

#Crunchyroll
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Crunchyroll has already conquered anime, and now it's setting its sights on manga... again

Start 2025 with the overlooked feel-good anime of 2024

Sony's Ghost of Tsushima gets "groundbreaking" anime adaptation on Crunchyroll

Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms Anime Adaptation Feels Adept

A Ghost of Tsushima anime series is in development at Sony

#LastUs
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As The Last of Us season 2 gets a release month, a very red trailer teases some recognisable, miserable moments made live-action

The Last of Us season 2 trailer teases two of the game's most impactful scenes

The Last of Us TV series season 2 premieres in April

#MarvelRivals
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5 Superhero Games To Play If Marvel Rivals Ain't Your Thing

Marvel Rivals Details the Fantastic Four, New Maps, and Mode Coming in Season 1

Competitive shooters are at a crucial crossroads in 2025: 'sweaty' teamplay vs. casual fun

Mister Fantastic's First Marvel Rivals PS5 Gameplay Looks, Well, Fantastic

Marvel Rivals Ban Players Using macOS Emulators

Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman Abilities for Marvel Rivals Revealed

Reverse: 1999 steps into the hidden war with new Assassin's Creed collaboration

Fantastic 4 Marvel Rivals release date

Marvel Rivals breaks down Season 1’s updates and features as Nexus Mods removes weirdo political content

#PS5
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PS5 Midnight Black Collection Revealed - DualSense Edge, PlayStation Portal, And More

Black PlayStation Portal, DualSense Edge and Pulse accessories announced

New Midnight Black Collection of PS5 accessories launches next month

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion PS5 Remake Gets a Little More Potential Evidence

PS Plus Essential's January 2025 PS5, PS4 Games Available to Download

Do You Put Your PS5 in Rest Mode or Shut It Down?

PlayStation Unveils Midnight Black PS5 Accessories

The Herta Meets an Aeon in a New Honkai: Star Rail Trailer

Borderlands 4 – Gearbox CEO “Wouldn’t Use ‘Open World'” to Describe It

#NintendoSwitch
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Dead by Daylight Junji Ito Collection Includes Tomie

Suikoden 2 HD Remaster Footage Shows Neclord

Action adventure game The Tale of Bistun incoming for Nintendo Switch

Dungeons 4 getting Not Another Multiverse DLC on Nintendo Switch next week

Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana launch trailer

Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana review for Nintendo Switch

Nintendo Switch 2 Leak Reveals Mystery New Pokemon Game

Ys Memoire The Oath in Felghana Remastered Launches Today

Poll: Does Anyone Actually Use The Switch Joy-Con Straps?

Rumor: LAZIRO reveals Switch 2 case

#Go
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I got hands on with the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld PC with Valve's SteamOS—and it seems like a bit of a winner to me

Free Monopoly Go dice links January 2025

All Monopoly Go events, tournaments, dates, and rewards

When is the next Monopoly Go Golden Blitz event?

Daily free Monopoly Go dice links (January 2025)

#Acer
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New 'Handheld' Gaming PC Is So Big You Could Kill Someone With It

Acer announced the new Nitro Blaze 8 and massive Switch-like Nitro Blaze 11 gaming handhelds

Random: Let's Be Thankful The 'Switch 2' Won't Be As Big As Acer's Ridiculous New Handheld

#RPG
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The OG Diablo Is Coming To Game Pass

Ys Memoire: The Oath In Felghana Refined Edition Now Available For PS5 And Nintendo Switch

The Wait For Elder Scrolls 6 Just Reached A Sad Milestone

Game of Thrones: Kingsroad Gets New Gameplay Trailer, Gameplay Details Ahead of Closed Beta Test

EN World’s most anticipated TTRPGs are all familiar faces fighting dragons

The 15 best soulslike games in 2025

The Seven Deadly Sins: Idle Adventure’s latest update brings new characters and events to the fray

Undecember teases new Trials of Power season that's set to launch in a few days

Epic Fantasy tier list - best heroes to collect and use

Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana Review