Each month, Sony updates its PlayStation Plus Essential line-up with 3-4 titles which subscribers can claim and keep forever as long as they have an active membership. Despite stating that they would be de-prioritising last-gen titles in 2026, 3 of the 4 additions for February offer PlayStation 4 versions, including Subnautica: Below Zero and Ace Combat 7.

According to insiders, multiple major 3rd party titles are planned to release on Switch 2 this year, including Expedition 33 and Metaphor: ReFantazio.

9 months after reaching 10 million copies sold, Monster Hunter Wilds has only just managed to shift a further 1 million units.

Thanks to a surprising influx of players, Rocket League has now reached a total of 1 million concurrent players for the first time in half a decade.

CDPR partners with Devolver Digital for Reigns: The Witcher – the next entry in the choice-based series in which you swipe left or right to make decisions.

Following a strong launch, the team at Embark have now released their latest roadmap for ARC Raiders, confirming major content updates on a monthly basis.

Following a major restructure at Ubisoft, insiders have offered an update on the future of the Watch Dogs franchise – or lack thereof.

According to one industry insider, Microsoft is planning to host a second Xbox Developer Direct sometime later this year.

Insiders have offered details on the unannounced Resident Evil: Code Veronica remake, with claims that the title will release during the first half of 2027.

This week’s free Epic Games Store offering is Rustler (Grand Theft Horse) – a top-down open world action-adventure comedy inspired by the old school GTA games.

Following a year and a bit of Early Access, Greedfall 2: The Dying World is set to officially launch in March on PC and consoles.

Game Freak’s impressive-looking action RPG Beast of Reincarnation is officially launching this Summer on PC, Xbox Series X|S and PS5.

Forza Horizon 6 is officially launching on Xbox and PC on the 19th of May, with a PS5 version scheduled to release later this year.

During the Xbox Direct, Playground Games offered a deep dive into the upcoming Fable reboot, confirming that the game will arrive later this year in Autumn.

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD has gotten a free update, adding Dixie Kong; a new Turbo Attack mode and bringing resolution / loading improvements on Switch 2.

With a total of 436 Game of the Year wins so far, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has dethroned Elden Ring as the most awarded game of all time.

Less than a year on from its release, the Elder Scrolls inspired ‘Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon’ has sold over 1 million copies.

Ahead of its official launch on the 19th of March, Pearl Abyss have announced that the open world RPG Crimson Desert has now gone Gold.

With Season 2 of Battlefield 6 being delayed by a month, the team at BF Studios have offered an early look at their future plans for the game.

Throughout 2025 we saw an increasing number of leaks and rumours surrounding Ubisoft’s long-awaited Prince of Persia The Sands of Time Remake, with recent reports claiming that the title is scheduled to launch as early as this month. While this may have been the case at one point, Ubisoft have now announced “a major organizational, operational and portfolio reset” which includes the cancellation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake and 5 other projects...

Sony has revealed that the PS5 Pro version of Bungie’s Marathon runs at a native 5K resolution, which is then downsampled to 4K using PSSR.

Sony is set to remove a total of 9 titles from its PlayStation Plus library next month, including Cult of the Lamb, Rez Infinite; The Ascent and more.

Following an indefinite delay, it appears as though Borderlands 4 for the Switch 2 is now set to arrive next month on the 27th of February.

HITMAN: World of Assassination is getting yet another welcome update, with the game set to receive full cross-progression support starting next month.

Following some stumbles, 1047 Games have unveiled a major update coming to Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, with patch 2.2 overhauling the game’s battle royale mode.

Microsoft has unveiled the rest of January 2026’s Xbox Game Pass line-up, with Death Stranding, Ninja Gaiden Ragebound and more joining the service from today.

January’s PlayStation Plus Extra / Premium line-up is officially available, including RE: Village, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and half a dozen other games.

Though purely speculation, a job listing has fans hoping that more remasters of legacy PlayStation Japan Studio titles could be in the works at Bandai Namco.

A developer who worked on Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games revealed that Nintendo had some interesting mandates when it came to marketing the titles.

Ahead of Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct, xCloud users have received a pop-up indicating that an ad-supported tier for the service may be on its way.