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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

March 19 2025 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 received an Honorable Mention for Best Technology at the Game Developers Choice Awards

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 4 2025 Scheduled theatrical release of A Minecraft Movie in the United States.

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

March 15 2025 Silent Hill 2 receives pending nomination for Best Action Adventure at Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards 2024

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

March 2025 First free content update ('Title Update') planned, featuring the monster Mizutsune and additional updates.

Silent Hill 2

Video game remake

March 15 2025 Silent Hill 2 receives pending nomination for Best Action Adventure at Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards 2024

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

March 2025 An update to the Fortnite item shop limited the number of purchasable songs and changed the frequency of new song additions, with the daily free song selection increased to over 40.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

2020 video game

February 13 2025 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was nominated for multiple D.I.C.E. Awards, including Action Game of the Year, Online Game of the Year, and Outstanding Achievement in Animation

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.

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

January 2025 Game Science released a Chinese New Year short film introducing their official merchandise brand BLACK MYTH.

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

November 21 2024 Blizzard launched the 20th Anniversary Edition of World of Warcraft, featuring quality-of-life updates and a return to the 2004 version of the game.

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

January 2025 Cyberpunk 2077 achieves an 'overwhelmingly positive' rating on Steam, over four years after its initial launch.

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.

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

November 2024 The game was nominated for Most Anticipated Game at the Game Awards, highlighting industry anticipation for the title.

Phasmophobia

2020 video game

October 29 2024 Kinetic Games finally released the console versions of Phasmophobia after multiple delays.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

Upcoming video game

March 4 2025 The game surpassed 6 million copies sold less than four months after its initial release.

Hogwarts Legacy

2023 video game

March 2025 Bloomberg reports that Warner Bros. cancelled an unannounced story expansion and potential Definitive Edition, citing insufficient content to justify the anticipated price.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

2002 video game

January 2025 A team of Russian modders released an unofficial port of Vice City to the Grand Theft Auto IV engine.