Nintendo will reportedly reveal Switch 2 this week

Nintendo Switch 2 will be revealed this Thursday, January 16, it’s claimed. That’s according to the previously reliable PodcastNate the Hate, which claims that a reveal trailer planned byNintendowill focus on the Switch 2 hardware, with a software showcase coming later in late February or early March. “I can share with you thatNintendo Switch 2will be revealed in the coming week… I have been told Switch 2 will be revealed on Thursday, January 16… just a few days from now,” they said....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 457 words · Steven Flores

Nintendo-owned company worked on Death Stranding 2

Nintendo’s visual content company, Nintendo Pictures, worked on Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, the PS5 game’s credits reveal. NintendoPictures is a CG animation and motion capture company located in Tokyo, Japan.Nintendo acquired the company, then known as Dynamo Pictures,in 2022 and renamed it to “focus on development of visual content utilising Nintendo IP”. In its previous incarnation as Dynamo Pictures, Nintendo Pictures produced CG for a number of movies and TV shows....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 353 words · Samantha Jordan

Perfect Dark, Turok and more are coming to Nintendo Switch Online today

Nintendo has announced four new titles coming to Nintendo Switch Online. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Four Swords, Metroid Zero Mission, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, andPerfect Darkwill be added to the service later today. Perfect Dark will feature four-player online multiplayer. NES, SNES, Game Boy and Game Boy Colour games are available as part of the standardSwitchOnline subscription, which costs £3.49/€3.99/$3.99 for a one-month membership, £6.99/€7.99/$7.99 for a three-month membership, and £17....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 254 words · Ashley Martinez

Pet Simulator 99 codes (November 2024)

Latest update1st Nov 2024 / 10:00 am A new Pet Sim spin-off is out now. Check outPets Go codesnow. Pet Simulator 99 codescan be used in theRobloxexperience to get free bonuses to Luck and other metrics. Developed by BIG Games, it’s a sequel to the popular Pet Simulator X, which itself was a sequel to the classic Pet Simulator experience. Pet Simulator 99 gets updates almost every week, with plenty of ways to boost your currencies beyond simply breaking boxes....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 339 words · Patrick Carey

Platinum veteran revealed as Resident Evil 3 director

Resident Evil and Platinum Games veteran Kiyohiko Sakata has been revealed as the game director for Capcom’s upcoming Resident Evil 3 remake. According to an interview with Japanese publicationDengeki, Sakata is leading the remake from his company Red Works.Resident Evil 3is also being co-developed byCapcomsubsidiary K2 Inc and new company M-Two Inc. Sakata worked on the first fourResident Evilgames as a programmer and designer and notably was the lead coder forResident Evil 4....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 223 words · Randall Fisher

PlayStation Plus members can now claim a free Vanguard and Warzone Combat Pack

PlayStation Plus members can claim a new Call of Duty Vanguard and Warzone Combat Pack. The free in-game bundle has been released to coincide with the launch ofVanguard and Warzone Season 4, Mercenaries of Fortune. Viewable in the trailer below, the Combat Pack includes a Legendary Operator Skin for Halima Zambardi, two Legendary Weapon Blueprints and a double XP token. Select Vanguard and Warzone content being made available early to PS4 and PS5 players won’t be released on other platforms until November 1, according to the trailer....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 233 words · Ryan Delgado

PlayStation VR sales top 4.2 million

PlayStation VR sales topped 4.2 million units worldwide as of June 27, 2025, Sony has claimed. Its console VR hardware launched almost two-and-a-half years ago, in October 2016. The PS VR sales milestone was announced by Sid Shuman, the platform holder’s social media director, in aPlayStation Blog post. It coincided with the release of the first episode ofPlayStation’s State of Play video series, aNintendo Direct-style broadcast featuring new trailers, game announcements and gameplay footage....

July 17, 2025 · 1 min · 165 words · Ellen Avery

Pokémon Center London warns it will sell out of exclusive items this week

The Pokémon Center London will start to sell out of its store-exclusive items this week, it’s warned. Since the pop-up store opened on October 18, it has sold out of popular items such as the London City Pikachu plush before 2pm on most days. Shoppers looking to visit the storehave faced queue times of up to five hours, with anyone arriving after 10am unlikely to enter the store in time to purchase exclusive items....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 278 words · Angela Collins

PUBG cross platform play now available for Xbox One and PS4

PUBG Corporation has launched cross platform play for the Xbox One and PS4 versions of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. PUBG cross-play support for consoleswas announced atGamescomin August and first made available in late September via the game’s public test server. Now widely available through PUBG update 4.3, it enables players on both systems to enter the same matchmaking pool and go face-to-face in the battle royale game. The update also introduces a new progression system called Survival Mastery, a fresh care package weapon in the form of the double-barrelled, pump-action DBS shotgun, plus a host of other changes and bug fixes which are detailed in thepatch notes....

July 17, 2025 · 1 min · 188 words · Julie Stafford

Rainbow Six Quarantine is a 3-player squad-based survival FPS

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Quarantine is a three-player squad-based survival FPS being made by a new team within Ubisoft Montreal. Lead designer Bio Jade Adam Granger took to the stage duringUbisoft’s E3 press conference to reveal the title, which is set to be released onPS4,Xbox OneandPCin early 2020. A description accompanying the reveal trailer reads: “The Rainbow Six operators will face off against a mysterious threat infecting human hosts and their surroundings....

July 17, 2025 · 1 min · 95 words · Jennifer Leonard

Rell Seas codes for release (January 2025)

Latest update1st Oct 2024 / 10:40 pm Despite a video suggesting open testing for all would open soon, the Rell Seas release date is back up in the air. AreRell Seas codesreal? Not right now, no. But they certainly will be once the long-awaitedRobloxOne Piece game finally releases. Developed by Rell Games—the brothers behindShindo Life—Rell Seas is just one of many projects they’ve been working on for years now....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 322 words · Mia Griffin

Review: Disney Illusion Island is a charming but basic family-friendly Metroidvania

You don’t have to search too hard to find high quality Metroidvania games these days, but finding one that’s child-friendly is a much harder task. Disney Illusion Islandis an attempt to fill that niche, offering a more colourful take on the genre and including Mickey Mouse and his chums as playable characters. The game sees Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy travelling to the island of Monoth, where they meet a little creature called Toku....

July 17, 2025 · 7 min · 1427 words · Thomas Stevenson

Roundup: The best of VGC’s Summer Game Fest coverage

Summer Game Fest and its surrounding games industry events have come to a close, but VGC’s coverage of the Los Angeles shindig continues to roll in. We know that with so much news and reaction piling in all at once, it can be difficult to keep track of it all, so we’ve rounded up all the best of VGC’s original coverage below in one handy place. Stay tuned to the site, as we’ll have more previews, interviews and reaction over the coming week....

July 17, 2025 · 7 min · 1414 words · Sara Miller