The Awesome Games Done Quick 2022, the annual week-long marathon showcasing amazing speedruns of your favorite games, is back and now live from January 10 until January 16. It’s a charity event where all proceeds go to cancer research and is easily one of the big gaming events to look out for at the start of the year.

Capcom’s Monster Hunter Rise is set to launch on the PC platform via Steam next week and we had a blast with the Switch version which launch last year. If you’re excited to play this new version of this game here’s all you need to know as we get closer to its launch.

The Entertainment Software Association confirmed that E3 in 2022 will be a digital-only event and says the main reason for the decision is “due to the ongoing health risks surrounding COVID-19”. This marks the second year in a row that the E3 has skipped an in-person event due to the ongoing pandemic.

Respawn Entertainment has revealed the next event for their free-to-play battle royale shooter Apex legends titled ‘Dark Depths’ which will start on January 11 and will run until February 1. The event will feature a new Arenas map called Habitat, themed cosmetics, and weekly Flash Events.

The Castlevania series has reached a new milestone as this year marks the 35th anniversary of the franchise, and Konami decided to kick off the celebration by announcing a Castlevania NFT collection that will be auctioned off online next week.

Valve has announced the winners of Steam’s 2021 Steam Awards and Capcom’s Resident Evil Village was crowned as Game of the Year by Steam’s community.

The second major DLC for Ubisoft Tornoto’s Far Cry 6 titled Pagan: Control is set to launch on January 11, 2022. This piece of content is part of the game’s Season Pass and it let’s players embody Far Cry 4 antagonist Pagan Min to explore the character’s psyche.

Publisher Square Enix and developer PlatinumGames has announced that the co-op action RPG Babylon’s Fall has officially gone gold way ahead of it’s March 3, 2022 release date. It was announced during the developers first livestream for the game.

Ubisoft announced that the next entry in the Rainbow Six series Rainbow Six Extraction will be available in Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service for both PC and Xbox platforms. The game comes out this January 20, 2022.

Sony starts the year with first details on the new VR headset for the PS5. The official name of the new device is the PlayStation VR2 and the controllers paired with it will be called the PlayStation Sense controller. The device will feature new sensory features, eye tracking and an OLED display with a 90-120Hz refresh rate.

Microsoft announced that games such as The Pedestrian, Outer Wilds, Spelunky 2, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and more are coming to Xbox Game Pass for console and PC platforms in early January.