January 2026
The Studio Behind The Sonic Boom Games On 3DS Has Been Shut Down
BOOM! There have already been multiple layoffs and closures in the opening weeks of 2026, and in case you missed it, Meta (formerly Facebook) last week announced the closure of three studios. Apart from Armature, one of these developers was Sanzaru Games, which was acquired by Meta in 2020 and had been working under Oculus…
Marathon’s full voice cast includes talent from Deus Ex, Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Red Dead Redemption and loads more
Marathon got a release date earlier today, confirming a March 5 launch for Bungie’s extraction shooter. The studio hasn’t skimped where voice talent is concerned: actors from pretty much every successful game from the last decade are present, though it’s yet to be confirmed what roles each will play (and how big they’ll be). Among…
Nintendo Music Adds Another Legendary Zelda Soundtrack, Here’s Every Song Included
Now, how about Spirit Tracks? To get the Zelda 40th anniversary celebrations underway, Nintendo Music has this week added The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass soundtrack. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Video: Nintendo Highlights Enhanced Switch Games On Switch 2
Free updates are available for each of these titles. Since the arrival of the Switch 2 last June, Nintendo has served up enhancements for multiple first-party games. These come with all sorts of updates from optimised visuals, HDR support to Joy-Con 2 mouse controls. Now that the holiday season is pretty-much over, and there’s likely…
Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod disappears after mod maker decides he’d rather take it down than make it free
The maker of the popular R.E.A.L. VR mod for Cyberpunk 2077 has accused CD Projekt of “iron-clad corpo logic” after the studio issued a DMCA demanding the mod’s removal. “Many of you have noticed that two of my recent posts disappeared about a week ago,” mod maker Luke Ross wrote over the weekend on his…
Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod disappears after mod maker decides he’d rather take it down than make it free
The maker of the popular R.E.A.L. VR mod for Cyberpunk 2077 has accused CD Projekt of “iron-clad corpo logic” after the studio issued a DMCA demanding the mod’s removal. “Many of you have noticed that two of my recent posts disappeared about a week ago,” mod maker Luke Ross wrote over the weekend on his…
Jail Break – A 1986 Arcade game is coming to the Amiga via JOTD!
Well this is brilliant news, as I found out yesterday by a good friend of ours that the 1986 Arcade game called ‘Jail Break’, which was also released on many different systems such as the Amstrad, C64 and ZX Spectrum, is coming to the Amiga as an arcade conversion/port by JOTD. The same developer who…
Devs recall ‘sweating bullets’ at showing The Beatles Rock Band to the actual Beatles, and ‘tough customer’ Yoko Ono making sure they made John Lennon a ‘balls out rock and roll god not giving a f**k’
The Beatles: Rock Band was the single greatest thing to come out of the games industry’s plastic instrument craze, an absurdly lavish and beautifully judged tribute to the most important music band in history. It cost me an absolute tonne but I still have an old 360 in the garage somewhere with all the DLC,…