January 2026

XDespite being a moderate success, Amazon’s New World MMO will be taken out behind the woodshed on January 31, 2027 and put down for good. But Facepunch Studios chief operating officer Alistair McFarlane says “games should never die,” and has thus made an offer to buy it—and a couple other well-known industry figures have said…

The first Sims 4 expansion of the year has been revealed and it’s cause for celebration for two groups of players: the Romantasy fans who are going to start churning out ‘enemies to lovers’ warring dynasty storylines and everyone who’s been asking to finally get an expansion with an African theme. The Sims 4 Royalty…

Embark is enjoying the organic trading culture that’s emerged in Arc Raiders, but when it expands on trading in the future, it won’t be in the form of an Escape From Tarkov-style auction house. That’s because, according to design lead Virgil Watkins in an interview with GamesRadar+, they tried it during development and found that…

need to know What is it? A first-person sim where you’re a zombie plague “doctor”Release date: January 12, 2026Expect to pay: $20/£17Developer: Brigada GamesPublisher: Devolver DigitalReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Steam Don’t try to hide a hand grenade in your butt. That may sound like advice so obvious…

The majority of survivors in Quarantine Zone are a randomised mix of normal-looking folks. Every now and then you’ll come across someone with “left leg” tattooed on their left leg, but it doesn’t often get weirder than that. So, when a survivor arrives at the checkpoint with skeleton hands and an unremovable bag over his…

You might have gotten used to following the rules in Quarantine Zone, but every now and then a quest requires you to bend them. Modern Prometheus asks you to take a pretty big risk by allowing a survivor with a zombified head in his baggage to enter the camp. What’s more, the survivor wants you…