XDefiant, developed by the Ubisoft San Francisco team, is officially shutting down as the free-to-play FPS will only have its servers open until June 2025. It was also reported that two Ubisoft studios are shutting down, effectively laying off up to 177 employees, with the rest being moved to other projects.

The live service online game Fallout 76 is now on Season 19 with the release of the Gleaming Depths update that went live on December 3. This new update adds a new vault raid for avid players and new rewards for The Scientific Forge season.

I recently had the chance to play an early build of Two Point Museum, the latest simulator from the developers of Two Point Campus and Two Point Hospital. With three levels available during my limited playtime, I got a taste of how this quirky formula evolves in its newest iteration, set to launch on February 27, 2025.

This will be music to the ears of kids who grew up on the series, but for the uninitiated, there’s nothing quite like the Mario & Luigi games. Mario & Luigi Brothership does its best to appeal to a wide range of players with charming presentation and a strong new Battle Plug system, but not everyone will be enamored with its reflex-testing gameplay.

Light of Motiram’s lengthy gameplay footage shows the game’s base building elements, resource gathering, and a boss encounter. The game is set to launch as a free-to-play title on PS5, PC, and mobile devices sometime in 2025.

Developer Larian Studios announced Baldur’s Gate 3’s eighth major game update that adds significant features to the game such as cross-play, photo mode, and 12 new subclasses.

PlayPark has officially revived online action RPG Rakion as it’s now available once again in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. To celebrate the launch, there will be events in the coming days in the Philippines as well as a login event that rewards in-game rewards to all players daily by simply logging in.

Spanish indie developer Unfinished Pixel revealed their new game called Blightstone, a tactical roguelite RPG set to release on Steam early access sometime in 2025.

After 15 years Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is now available on PC, Xbox Series, and even PC Game Pass. But it didn’t launch smoothly as at launch players experienced numerous bugs and issues as they returned to The Zone.

Developer Double Eleven has released their new game Blindfire on the PlayStation 5 as an early access title. It’s an FPS arena shooter where gunfights happen in the dark.

Life is Strange: Double Exposure brings back Max Caulfield with new time-manipulation powers, but struggles to capture the original’s emotional weight. While the dual-timeline mechanic is engaging, the story’s weak twists, forgettable characters, and technical issues hold it back. A nostalgic revisit, but not a standout entry in the series.

The Patapon spiritual successor Ratatan, is still set to release sometime in 2025 as we get a new gameplay trailer showcasing a more polished look of the game since we last saw the title in action. Developers TVT and Ratata Arts have also made a deal with an Asian publishing called Game Source Entertainment to be the their title’s publisher.