This previous week noticed the top of 2024, the arrival of 2025, and, arguably, a predictably gradual begin to the often-relentless information cycle of video video games. However gradual information hardly means no information, and we kicked off the brand new 12 months with a have a look at the video games to maintain a watch out for this month. Additionally, the chief artistic officer at Arrowhead, the studio behind Helldivers 2, chimed in on “DEI” in video games in a web-based change, the devs of Black Fantasy: Wukong hinted at why final 12 months’s blockbuster has but to reach on Xbox, and the oldsters behind a shocking fan remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion utilizing the Skyrim engine introduced that we will anticipate that huge undertaking to launch this 12 months. Learn on for these and extra tales.