Capcom Shows off More RE Requiem
Plus a bad week for the gaming industry
Capcom posted a new video describing their upcoming game, Resident Evil Requiem. Find out the details below. Also, Meta and other game developers are already cutting jobs. All the latest news of the week. Let’s go!
Resident Evil returns
Capcom held a Resident Evil showcase to promote Resident Evil Requiem, the latest game in the franchise which launches in February. The video showed off new gameplay, including the differences between playing as the game’s two protagonists, Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft.
The video also discussed changes to the in-game zombies, difficulty settings and different ways you can spend money within the game. The video is less than 15 minutes, and worth checking out if you are a Resident Evil fan.
A bad week for game developers
A significant number of game developers will start off 2026 by searching for a new job.
Multiple studios announced layoffs last week, headlined by Meta. The virtual reality company has lost billions, and plans to trim their Reality Labs workforce by 10%. Last week, they announced the closure of three studios, Twisted Pixel, Sanzaru Games, and Armature Studio. Twisted Pixel recently launched the Deadpool VR game, while Sanzaru is known for the highly-regarded Asgard's Wrath. Overall, over 1,000 employees will lose their jobs.
Meta was not the only company announcing layoffs:
- Warner Bros Games laid off an undisclosed number of employees at their San Francisco studio at the end of December.
- Ubisoft laid off workers at Massive Entertainment, the studio behind The Division and Avavar. This is already Ubisoft's second round of layoffs this year.
- Former Xbox executive Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb was laid off from Unity after 18 months.
Gaming writers also had a bad week. The Verge laid off multiple reporters, while Inverse cut almost their entire gaming staff.
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Side Quests (more stories worth reading)
🏆 Our editor posted his favorite games of 2025.
⚔️ The Amazon MMO New World: Aeternum is planning to go offline Jan. 31, 2027, although the developers of the game Rust have offered to buy it.
📅 Season 2 of Battlefield 6 has been delayed until Feb. 17. It was originally scheduled to release Jan. 20.
🤖 Valve has significantly rewritten Steam’s guidelines for how developers must disclose the use of generative AI in their video games.
🦔 Sega announced plans to celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog’s 35th anniversary.
🆕 Final Fantasy 7 Remake games on existing platforms are getting new features this week as the games launch on Switch 2 and Xbox.
🐬 After being stagnant for decades, there are “multiple” Ecco The Dolphin games in development.
♟️ Root and Arcs designer Cole Wehrle and others are leaving Leder Games to start their own board game studio.
🎩 Monopoly Go has made over $6 billion in revenue, faster than any other mobile game.
🤖 An indie developer is delisting his game from Steam because his new girlfriend convinced him use of AI is “a disgrace.”
🧱 Lego revealed their first Pokémon sets.
🚓 Rockstar has pulled GTA Online player-created missions that involve the Charlie Kirk assassination.
👏🏽 Games Done Quick raised over $2.4 million for charity.
🏎️ Forza Horizon 6 is releasing on May 19th, according to an advertisement in Horizon 5.
🎭 Actor Ron Perlman jokes that he was paid “$40 and a sandwich” to record the “war never changes” intro for Fallout 1.
🌟 Sea of Stars is coming to mobile devices in April.
☢️ Amazon is creating a Fallout-themed reality show where contestants live inside vaults and compete for cash prizes.
📈 Round numbers: Arc Raiders sold over 12 million copies in three months.
New Releases this week:
1/20: MIO: Memories in Orbit (PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and PC)
1/22: The Last Faith - Awakened Ancients (PC)
1/22: Perfect Tides: Station to Station (PC)
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