It’s bloody freezing out and about in the UK right now, so I hope you’re all keeping nice and toasty with some added layers, fashionable scarves and silly bobble hats, as needed. But despite the chill over here, the games industry in doing its stretches and warming up for the year. Things are going to start getting really interesting again in the next few weeks, after the slumber that always settles in over the end of year holidays.
So without much further ado, let’s get to the news…
In the News This Week
- Rumours suggest more Xbox games will be coming to PS5 and Switch including Halo, Gears and Flight Sim
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows delayed again to March
- Marvel Rivals Season 1 called Eternal Night Falls, Fantastic Four join the fight
- Transformers: Reactivate has been cancelled, staff to be laid off
- Xbox Developer_Direct stream will feature Doom: The Dark Ages & more on 23rd January
- The Lenovo Legion Go S will be the first third party SteamOS handheld
- Hyperkin is remaking the PS5’s DualSense, but for Xbox
- Monster Hunter Wilds Open Beta 2 is coming in February
- RGG and Sega share new Virtua Fighter Project pre-development concept video
- Helldivers and Horizon Zero Dawn movies announced by Sony
- The Last of Us Season 2 trailer confirms April 2025 release
Games in Review & Featured Articles
There’s a heavy degree of 2024 catchup in our review pool this week, as you’d expect, though we are on to some early 2025 releases.
- Ys Memoire: The Oath of Felghana – PS5, PS4, NSW – 9/10
- Songs of Silence – PS5, XSX|S, PC – 8/10
- Skydance’s Behemoth – PSVR 2, Quest 2&3, SteamVR – 7/10
- The Edge of Allegoria – PC – 7/10
And we had a new gamepad review as well, which has got a teensy little screen built into it.
- Manda One – NSW, PC, iOS, Android – 7/10
Away from the reviews, we had one big preview, and it’s a real doozy. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is shaping up very, very well after the first 8-10 hours spent with the game. Want to see how it looks on PS5 Pro?
Rounding things out as always, What We Played featured Marvel Rivals, Destiny 2 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.
Most Wanted 2025
Continuing on from the start of the year, we’ve then been looking at our most wanted games of the next twelve months. We’re on the cusp of declaring our top five, which will be broken out over the next working week, but here’s where we’re up to so far:
- Our Most Wanted Games of 2025 – #50 to #46
- Our Most Wanted Games of 2025 – #45 to #41
- Our Most Wanted Games of 2025 – #40 to #36
- Our Most Wanted Games of 2025 – #35 to #31
- Our Most Wanted Games of 2025 – #30 to #26
- Our Most Wanted Games of 2025 – #25 to #21
- Our Most Wanted Games of 2025 – #20 to #16
- Our Most Wanted Games of 2025 – #15 to #11
- Our Most Wanted Games of 2025 – #10 to #6
That’s a lot of big games!
Trailer Park
Atomfall gameplay video delves into the world and dangers
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii new combat features revealed
The fifth world from Revenge of the Savage Planet has been revealed
Your Achievements
Let’s see what you’ve been up to:
- Andrewww has been prepping for a house move, so gaming has been limited to just a smidgeon of Astro Bot, which was a Christmas present, and a bit of Life Is Strange: Before The Storm.
- TSBonyman, meanwhile has been having a blast of nostalgia with RoboCop: Rogue City. The slow movement works for combat, but less so when doing detective work, but it’s really having the authentic likenesses and actors from the original movies represented that does it.
That’s the round up for this week. Hope you have a great weekend ahead!
