Last week gave us the announcement of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen coming to the Switch systems. This would've been celebrated under normal circumstances, but Nintendo and The Pokémon Company chose to skip the Nintendo Switch Online service in favour of a paid re-release of the original games at £16.99 (or $20) each. A silver lining was mention of support for the Pokémon Home service, but now that's up in the air.

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The developers of Mewgenics, the cat breeding indie hit from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh, are "getting a little bit excited" about what's next for the hit roguelike.

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Balatro developer LocalThunk has marked the second anniversary of his hit indie roguelike with a heartfelt blog post that ended: "Yes, I'm still working on 1.1."

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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, Victoria knows something her husband doesn't; Tom endures the perennial terror known as entertaining a child over half-term; Bertie realises he's missed something important again; and Will makes mech combat somehow sound rather fun.

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Jake Solomon, a decorated game designer known for his work at Firaxis on games like XCOM and Marvel Midnight Suns, has announced that his studio Midsummer is going to close. In doing so, he also shared a pre-alpha look at the "Life Sims + The Truman Show" game the studio was making, called Burbank.

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Every year, Pokémon holds a presentation to mark the anniversary of the original Pokémon Red and Green titles launching in Japan for Game Boy, and this year is no exception. One thing that does make this February's Pokémon Presents a little different, though, is that this year marks 30 years since Red and Green made their debut.

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Match of the Day football commentator Guy Mowbray has revealed he gave EA permission to create an AI voice clone of himself in order to assist with some of the more onerous aspects of recording commentary for EA Sports FC.

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The long-awaited remake of the first Witcher game is seemingly on the back-burner as CD Projekt Red has reportedly added support studio Fool's Theory to the massive development effort of The Witcher 4. Moreover, there have been recurring rumours of an all-new Witcher 3 DLC made by the same studio. Meanwhile, original lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec has been revisiting Geralt of Rivia's first big RPG adventure, giving longtime fans all-new insights into the game's making.

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Despite what confused Call of Duty players who changed teams would have you believe, Battlefield 6 is a notable modern military FPS that's doing fine a few months in, usual bumps in the road included. Now, Season 2 has finally arrived following a delay, and it's kickstarted new positive and negative discussions.

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Pokémon Pokopia is almost here, and we're confident it might be a hit, especially after learning Minecraft-like persistent servers are part of the game. Now we're just hoping it delivers on all its promise when it launches on 5th March. Wanna get more hyped tho?

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Mewgenics, the cat breeding indie hit from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh, has broken a rather impressive Steam record.

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Some upcoming skins for Battlefield 6 which initially had edgy skull masks appear to have been drastically changed to look a bit more realistic, judging by community findings.

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So, we know Pokémon Pokopia is looking impressive so far, and we've also been told it's a pretty long game even if you aren't planning on sticking around after the credits roll. With so much to do and a multiplayer option that's promising one of the most relaxing experiences of the year, how do its online functionalities work exactly?

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A console release for Steam's cat-breeding roguelike Mewgenics is currently in the works.

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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 plays a classic but finds himself getting a bit bored; Marie adopts a black cat called Salem; Tom can't get out of the menus; Victoria makes a young child cry; Dom Platinums a game and feels very smug about it; and Connor finds an inventive way to play two MMOs at once.

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It's tempting to believe that the Diablo 3 playerbase has been eclipsed by a resurgent Diablo 2: Resurrected on one side, and Diablo 4 on the other, but according to Blizzard, that's not the case. Apparently there's still a "massive" playerbase playing Diablo 3, and it counts players in the "millions".

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EA has stressed to its community that "the values of The Sims are unchanged" as we head into 2026.

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Hello and Happy New Year - is it okay to say that now? I'm not sure where the cut-off point is. Some people still have their Christmas trees up. We had ours out before New Year. Welcome back to What We've Been Playing! Or as I like to call this particular edition of it: What We Played Over Christmas, because it's been a couple of weeks since we've talked.

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Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has changed its stance on generative AI following backlash faced at the end of last year.

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Eve Online - the sci-fi MMO space-faring epic - saw a surge in players at the tail end of 2025. The game had over a million players take to the stars in 2025, and it has benefited from the largest influx of new and returning players in years.

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