PlayStation Plus is required to play online on your PlayStation 5, and it’s available in three different tiers. The cheapest is Essential, which nets you a few free games per month, which crucially don’t leave your library if your subscription lapses. You also get Cloud Save functionality and some goodies for free-to-play games.

The latest from legendary developer Hideo Kojima, and a sequel to his eclectic 2019 game about a post-apocalyptic “porter” — basically a FedEx guy — who wanders a haunted countryside, delivering packages and reconnecting a United States that has gone into hiding.

Without further ado, here are all the new games coming to Xbox in January 2026: MIO: Memories in Orbit (January 20): "Awaken MIO, a nimble robot with extraordinary abilities, and unravel the mysteries of the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with lush vegetation and machines gone rogue."

Thousands of games release on Steam alone each year, beckoning to you from algorithmic recommendation engines, the bottom halves of TikTok videos, and the review sections of websites like PC Gamer. So how the heck do you decide which are the best PC games to play right now?

Here's the must-play multiplayer and co-op games of 2025 to dive into if you're looking to celebrate the end of the year together

Many RPG fans want to know whether they need to play the older games before jumping into Larian Studios’ upcoming Divinity, and here’s answer.

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When the first Humble Bundle launched as a studio initiative in 2010, it was a novelty: a compilation of indie games at a bargain price, which drove huge sales volume. Fifteen years later, bundles are commonplace and subject to the same abundance problem ...

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