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Dragon Age: The Veilguard
2024 video game
| January 2025 | Active development of Dragon Age: The Veilguard was ended, with future updates limited to fixing game-breaking bugs. |
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
2024 video game
| April 8 2025 | Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was nominated for four British Academy Games Awards: Animation, Multiplayer, Technical Achievement, and Y'lan Noel was nominated for Performer in a Leading Role as Troy Marshall |
Dragon Age: Inquisition
2014 video game
| January 2025 | EA publicly discussed Veilguard's performance, with CEO Andrew Wilson acknowledging it as a high-quality launch while suggesting the need for single-player games to expand beyond their core audience through shared-world features. |
Minecraft
2011 video game
| April 2025 | A live-action Minecraft movie was released, expanding the game's franchise beyond video games. |
Grand Theft Auto VI
Upcoming video game
| January 1 2025 | A Reddit user posted a photograph and two videos of a PlayStation 5 development kit running the game, reportedly taken at a Rockstar office in mid-2021. |
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
2024 video game
| March 2025 | Square Enix reported Life Is Strange: Double Exposure sales as a 'large loss' in their Q3 financial report, indicating significant commercial disappointment for the game. |
Silent Hill 2
2001 video game
| April 8 2025 | Silent Hill 2 is longlisted for Technical Achievement at the British Academy Games Awards |
Dragon Age: Origins
2009 video game
| October 31 2024 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard was released. |
Red Dead Redemption
2010 video game
| December 2024 | Red Dead Redemption reached 25 million units shipped. |
Monster Hunter Wilds
2025 video game
| April 2025 | First Title Update planned for release, promising to add new monsters, gear, quests, and a multiplayer Grand Hub. |
Silent Hill 2
Video game remake
| April 8 2025 | Luke Roberts is nominated for Performer in a Leading Role for his portrayal of James Sunderland at the British Academy Games Awards |
Metaphor: ReFantazio
2024 video game
| January 21 2025 | Manga adaptation began serialization in Shueisha's V Jump magazine, drawn by Yoichi Amano. |
Fortnite
2017 online video game
| April 2025 | Jam Stage expanded to allow single players to manipulate all four positions within a musical mashup, previously requiring up to four players. |
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
2020 video game
| April 2 2025 | Third seasonal update for Black Ops 6 released, continuing to expand game content. |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
2004 video game
| August 2024 | Meta Platforms confirms the planned VR version of San Andreas for Quest 2 is 'on hold indefinitely' |
Concord
Defunct 2024 video game
| October 29 2024 | Sony officially announces the closure of Firewalk Studios and the halting of Concord's further development, ending the game's short-lived existence. |
Geometry Dash
2013 video game
| December 19 2023 | Released update 2.2 after over 6 years of development, adding a new platformer mode and hitting a peak of 80,000 simultaneous players on Steam. |
Shadow Generations
2024 video game
| January 24 2025 | Game sales reached over 2 million copies. |
Until Dawn
2015 video game
| October 2024 | The Until Dawn film adaptation's release date was set for April 25, 2025. |
Black Myth: Wukong
2024 video game
| April 2025 | Game Science, 8082 Audio, and QQ Music released an official Black Myth: Wukong music album on vinyl. |
Ghostwire: Tokyo
2022 video game
| May 2024 | Tango Gameworks was closed by Microsoft, creating uncertainty about the sequel's development |
Among Us
2018 social deduction video game
| March 25 2025 | Innersloth released an update improving matchmaking and collaborated with Sega's Like a Dragon series, featuring a Crewmate in Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble. |
World of Warcraft
2004 video game
| April 2025 | Blizzard allowed users to begin signing up to beta test Mists of Pandaria Classic. |
Horizon Zero Dawn
2017 video game
| June 25 2024 | A cookery book titled 'Tastes of the Seven Tribes' by Rick Barba and Victoria Rosenthal was released. |
Detroit: Become Human
2018 video game
| October 2024 | Quantic Dream announced the game had sold over 10 million units. |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
2023 video game
| October 2024 | Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members granted ability to stream the game via Xbox Cloud Gaming. |
The Last of Us
2013 video game
| August 2023 | The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival was removed from the Nintendo eShop after a copyright claim from Sony. |
Cyberpunk 2077
2020 video game
| April 2025 | During Nintendo Direct, CD Projekt announced the Ultimate Edition would be a launch title for Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5, 2025. |
Genshin Impact
2020 video game
| March 2025 | HoYoverse replaces John Patneaude with Jacob Takanashi as the English voice actor for Kinich, leading to controversy within the voice acting community over the SAG-AFTRA strike. |
Mario & Luigi: Brothership
2024 video game
| November 7 2024 | Official release of Mario & Luigi: Brothership for the Nintendo Switch, marking the first home console entry in the Mario & Luigi series. |
Poppy Playtime
2021 episodic survival horror video game
| January 30 2025 | Mob Entertainment announced Chapter 4 with a planned release date. |
Elden Ring
2022 video game
| September 2024 | Elden Ring reached 28.6 million copies sold worldwide by September. |
League of Legends
Multiplayer video game developed by Riot Games
| January 2025 | Game director Andrei van Room acknowledged mistakes in the reward system, explaining a design oversight that affected player progression calculations. |
Alan Wake 2
2023 video game
| December 2024 | Game sales exceeded 2 million units, with the game finally generating royalties after recouping development and marketing costs. |
Ghost of Tsushima
2020 video game
| April 23 2025 | Announcement of the game's release date for PlayStation 5, scheduled for October 2, 2025. |
Phasmophobia
2020 video game
| October 29 2024 | Kinetic Games finally released the console versions of Phasmophobia after multiple delays. |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
2015 first-person shooter video game
| December 2024 | Black Ops III reached over 43 million copies sold by the end of December 2024. |