Big night for CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33, winning 9 trophies at the Game Awards

NEWS THIS WEEK

• 2025 Game Award Winners
• Everything Announced At The Game Awards 2025
• Everything Shown During Frosty Mini 2025
• Netflix Considers Warner Bros. Games To Be Pretty Much Worthless
• Paramount counters Netflix with hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery
• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 introduces Netflix’s Stranger Things expansion

RELEASE RADAR

• SPLITGATE: ARENA RELOADED - 17 December 2025 - PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4
• YOOKA-RE-PLAYLEE - 18 December 2025 - PlayStation 5, Switch 2
• DADISH 4 - 18 December 2025 - Mobile, PC, Switch
• DRINK HUMAN BEANS - 18 December 2025 - PC

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