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Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie thinks about boxes of chocolate; Victoria eats mini-eggs; Connor skives off work; Marie calls for Walker but Bill keeps on answering; and Matt feels all warm and fuzzy inside. Read more

Senior producer for The Division series Julian Gerighty has announced his departure from Ubisoft, heading over to Battlefield Studios. Read more

In a sign it really has hit the big time, viral multiplayer Roblox smash Steal A Brainrot - which was the first game on the platform to surpass 25m concurrent players following its launch last year - has announced it's getting its first celebrity concert, with Bruno Mars set to make a "pop up" appearance to promote his new single this weekend. Read more

It's the end of an era. After five years, Animal Crossing: New Horizons ' risqué but incredibly popular "adult only" island has been deleted by Nintendo. Read more

The person allegedly once earmarked for the role of lead designer of The Elder Scrolls 6, Kurt Kuhlmann, has said that if they had their way, the game would have been like the beloved Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back. Read more

The original Dragon Quest 7 is a masterpiece. But, despite its legendary status, even those who love it dearly should be able to readily admit that it is also highly flawed. One person who knows that acutely well is Takeshi Ichikawa - the producer at Square Enix in charge of shepherding Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined, an imminent remake of the game, to market. Read more

Arknights Endfield has surpassed 35,000,000 pre-registered players ahead of its release on the 22nd January. Read more

That music which was reuploaded for Assassin's Creed: Black Flag was apparently just due to "technical issues", so stop reading too much into it, ok. Read more

EA has unveiled The Sims 4 's first major expansion of 2026. It's called the Royalty & Legacy Expansion Pack and promises to be bring familial dynasties, scandal, and intrigue when it launches for all platforms on 12th February. Read more

Ace Combat 7, the brilliant flight sim combat game from Bandai Namco, has sold over 7,000,000 copies since releasing in January, 2019. Read more

When provocative horror game Horses was banned from sale on Steam and the Epic Game Store late last year, it nearly led to the closure of acclaimed Italian studio Santa Ragione - denied, as it was, access to some of the world's largest paying game audiences. But amid the panicked delistings there was another company determined to sell Horses and throw Santa Ragione a lifeline : Poland-based onlin…

Capcom's upcoming Resident Evil Requiem will be "an experience with an emotional range unlike any other Resident Evil title to date", complete with ... (checks notes) ... a cleaning zombie. Read more

Amazon Games has announced that New World, its MMORPG first released in 2021, will shut down on the 31st January 2027. This comes a few months after the developer "gutted" a vast number of staff late last year . Read more

I cannot begin to tell you how much I was looking forward to hoisting megaphone and bellowing insults at Chops from halfway across my island in Animal Crossing: New Horizon's Switch 2 Edition, but the whole voice recognition thing is so flakey - so prone to drawing the attention of entirely the wrong villager - there's liable to be Honaloha-wide revolt if this goes on. I've already shoved the dam…