Gaming News - 4th January 2025

  • The Fantastic Four are coming to Marvel Rivals - A new trailer will be released on Monday at 4pm.
  • Players who received a 100-year ban for playing Marvel Rivals on Steam Deck, Mac & Linux have had their ban lifted.
  • Stardew Valley has sold over 40 million copies.
  • Awesome Games Done Quickly begins today (Saturday 4th January) with Pikmin at 5pm.
  • Humble Bundle has a AGDQ bundle containing speed run games including: Have a Nice Death, Ori and the Blind Forest, Sonic Lost World, Shenmue I & II, BPM: Bullets Per Minute, New Super Lucky’s Tale, and Condemed: Criminal Origins - Speedrunning with Awesome GDQ (pay what you want and help charity)
  • The creator of Minecraft, Markus “notch” Persson, has announced that he is working on what is essentially Minecraft 2
  • There are some upcoming game server closures in the next couple of months including:
    • Divine Knockout - For all platforms, closing on February 17th
    • Realm Royale Reforged - PS4, XB1, Switch & PC, closing on February 17th
    • EA Sports UFC 3 - PS4, Xbox One, closing on February 17th
    • Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance - PS5, PS4, XB1, XBS|X, PC - Closing February 24th