Indie developer kemomimic launched a free Steam demo for their parry-focused boss rush action game that strips away all progression systems, demanding pure player skill to survive intense one-on-one duels against warriors from different eras.
IO Interactive’s James Bond game reveals surprisingly demanding PC specs requiring high-end hardware for basic 1080p performance, partnering with NVIDIA for DLSS 4 multi-frame generation to compensate for Glacier engine performance issues.
Kazutaka Kodaka revealed at CEDEC 2025 that an argument with his part-time coworker at a game shop made him question his life choices, pushing him to contact his former connections and eventually create the Danganronpa series.
Dreamhaven’s crew-based PvPvE shooter launched July 2025 to just 7,000 peak players, now struggling with 229 concurrent. Epic Games Store freebie through January 8 is a last-ditch attempt to revive player count.
Xbox Game Pass Wave 1 for January 2026 brings Ubisoft’s underrated open-world Star Wars game, Resident Evil Village, Atomfall, Warhammer 40K Space Marine, and seven more titles including day-one releases.
Grasshopper Manufacture’s wildest action game yet launches February 11, 2026, combining Suda51’s signature absurdist chaos with surprisingly deep combat mechanics that might finally answer the ‘style over substance’ criticism.
Intel’s Panther Lake Core Ultra 3 processors debut with Arc B390 integrated graphics that deliver 77% better performance than the previous generation and embarrass AMD’s best Radeon 890M by 73%, targeting handheld gaming PCs.
BioWare’s doomed looter shooter shuts down January 12, 2026, but players report the EA app won’t let them reinstall the game they own, denying fans a final goodbye to the failed mech shooter.
Bandai Namco’s vampire action RPG sequel launching January 30, 2026, changes the term ‘Revenants’ to ‘Kyuuketsuki’ (vampires) in Japan while keeping the original terminology for international releases, creating an unusual reverse censorship situation.
2025 delivered an embarrassment of riches for gamers, from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s record-breaking nine Game Awards wins to surprise indie hits, long-awaited sequels, and Nintendo’s biggest year in console history.