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Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 has raised $2.44 million (£1.8m) for its latest cause, Prevent Cancer Foundation. The annual speedrunning fundraiser – just one of...

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What we’ve been playing – “I then made fishcakes and fed them to a time-frozen lad called Pirate Pete”

adminJanuary 10, 2026

10th January Hello and Happy New Year – is it okay to say that now? I’m not sure where the cut-off point is. Some people...

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Our New Year 2026 gaming resolutions – “I want to see how close I can get to 100 percenting the game in 24 hours”

adminJanuary 9, 2026

January is the month that, where I live, in the south of England, everyone gets serious again. All the paraphernalia of Christmas – all the...

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2026’s rumoured Witcher 3 expansion will take us further afield than ever before, per new rumours

adminJanuary 8, 2026

It’s been a busy year so far for a game that’s over 10 years old. If you’ve not been following, last week, we asked “is...

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Oops, League of Legends was briefly unplayable as Riot Games forgot to renew the digital licence

adminJanuary 5, 2026

Popular MOBA League of Legends was briefly unplayable over the past 24 hours, as the digital licence for the game expired. The game’s digital certificate,...

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Xbox suffers “worst year on record” for console sales in the UK

adminJanuary 3, 2026

2025 has been the worst year on record for Xbox console sales in the UK. That’s according to The Game Business’ Chris Dring, who reports...

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Rainbow Six Siege still struggling after Ubisoft was forced to briefly “intentionally” shut it down following third-party hack

adminDecember 31, 2025

Rainbow Six Siege is still struggling today after hackers gave out “billions” in in-game currency, forcing Ubisoft to briefly “intentionally” shut down the game. While...

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Despite a load of great games in 2025, No Man’s Sky is the happy place that keeps drawing me back in again

adminDecember 29, 2025

If we’re plotting out the year based on unexpected obsessions, mine were (in no particular order) weird Italian genre cinema of the 60s and 70s,...

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Donkey Kong Bananza might not be the best game of the year, but it’s surely the one I loved the most

adminDecember 28, 2025

I think these days, after years of Nintendo outright eschewing the console power rat race and focusing instead on different ways to play and honing...

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In 2025, Clair Obscur proved smaller-sized games from passionate developers are the future players want

adminDecember 26, 2025

“It’s OK to make a small game,” said Astro Bot director Nicolas Doucet at this year’s GDC. For many, Astro Bot was 2024’s Game of...