UK charts: Switch games dominate physical games charts this week

I wish I’d known this one stupidly simple trick when I started Baby Steps—it makes some of the harder early climbs much easier

I’ve only played about five hours of Baby Steps, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned during that time, it’s that you always need to have complete visibility over where Nate is putting his feet. Since this is a “walking simulator” and this logic applies to real life too, it may seem overly obvious. And…

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Keeping Classics Alive: Arcade Archives Reaches 500 Titles with Space Invaders

Category: Games January 16, 2026 Keeping Classics Alive: Arcade Archives Reaches 500 Titles with Space Invaders Melis Arslan Aksoy, Hamster Corporation, Overseas Promotion Coordinator Summary With Space Invaders, The Arcade Archives series reached a milestone of 500 titles on December 25, 2025. Launched in 2014 and released across various platforms, the Arcade Archives series has…

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Microsoft CEO Phil Spencer is open to breaking the seal on some forgotten games: ‘If teams want to go back and revisit some [games] … I’m gonna be all in’

Whether you think Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard is a move toward a dry gaming monopoly or a financial windfall for Activision and Blizzard games both, it’s definitely happened. The UK’s CMA has given the thumbs up, Kotick’s on his way out—the deal’s closed, and now we get to see the impact ripples spread….

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‘We’re going to make some horrendous mistakes,’ Peter Molyneux says about his upcoming swan song Masters of Albion: ‘Horrendous, horrendous mistakes’

Masters of Albion is not only Peter Molyneux’s final game (so he says, anyway), it’s also a sort of getting-the-band-back-together moment with collaborators from the early days at Lionhead. All of which is apparently rather nerve-wracking: In an interview with The Game Business, Molyneux describes the team as “incredibly inexperienced,” and warned that there will…

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Intel has the memory chips it needs to keep shipping Lunar Lake: ‘we were relatively aggressive in terms of getting the memory early’

Intel says it has enough memory stockpiled to continue to sell Lunar Lake to plan. According to CFO, David Zinsner, the company has dodged the worst of the ongoing memory crisis by being “relatively aggressive” in securing memory for the mobile chip. “I think we’ve got what we need based on the current forecast,” Zinsner…

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