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Walmart Looks to Have Leaked Two Nintendo Switch Online GameCube Classics — and Some Fans Think It's Now Over for a Metroid Prime 2 Remake

January 28, 2026
Walmart is advertising Nintendo Switch Online with a poster that includes several GameCube classics yet to be made available via the service. An image visible now on Walmart.com shows a library of Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack titles including the brilliant Pikmin 2 and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, neither of which are currently playable on Switch 2. Metroid Prime 2 is of particular interest…
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New Super Mario Bros. Wonder Amiibo Are Up for Preorder

January 27, 2026
I know it’s been sacrilege for nearly three decades now, but I’ve always preferred 2D Mario games to those newfangled 3D ones. (I’m an elder Millennial; leave grandpa to his ramblings). So I couldn’t be happier Super Mario Bros. Wonder is getting the “Switch 2…
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'FTL in a Warhammer 40,000 Skin' Game Pulled From Steam After What May Be a Nuisance DMCA Takedown From a Troll Claiming to Be Games Workshop

January 27, 2026
A strategy game dubbed ‘FTL in a Warhammer 40,000 skin’ was recently pulled from Steam, with its developer suggesting it may have been on the receiving end of a nuisance DMCA takedown from a troll claiming to be Games Workshop. Last week, Tundra Interactive posted a message on the Void War Steam forum to say the game was “temporarily unavailable” after it had been pulled from Steam without…
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Palworld Developer Pocketpair Reveals Unusual Hiring Requirement for Its Game Designers: It Wants 'True Steam Players'

January 26, 2026
Palworld developer Pocketpair has an interesting way of screening job candidates. The Japanese game studio requires those applying for game designer positions to submit screenshots of their Steam libraries as part of the hiring process. In a recent tweet on X / Twitter, CEO Takuro Mizobe shed some light on how Pocketpair hires new game designer talent (as spotted by Automaton). Mizobe explained…
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Xbox Developer Direct 2026: Everything Announced

January 23, 2026
Microsoft kicked 2026 off with a new Xbox Developer Direct showcase, which featured some of the biggest games the company has coming out this year. We got fresh looks at Playground Games’ Forza Horizon 6 and Fable, Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation, and a…
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'Are We Cooked?' — Pokémon Go Looks to Be Adding a New 'Currency' to Access Mega Raids, Though Players Are Split on Whether it Will Revitalize Mega Pokémon

January 23, 2026
Pokémon Go looks set to add another battle currency to the ever-popular mobile game, this time focused around raids for Mega Pokémon. As Pokémon Go prepares to roll-out the first of Pokémon Legends Z-A’s new wave of Mega Evolutions next month as part of its upcoming Go Tour Kalos event, the game also appears to have a major rework of its Mega Raid system in the offing. Datamined…
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