The Pedestrian coming to Switch on January 18

Hey gamers! Guess what’s about to spice up your gaming life? Summoners War: Sky Arena is dropping a bombshell on January 31st with a mind-blowing collaboration – and it’s none other than The Witcher! Com2uS just teased us with a killer clip, and I’m here to spill the tea on The Witcher Collab with Summoners War. Get ready because Sky Island is turning into a Witcher wonderland!

Apple plans to introduce significant changes to the iOS App Store, allowing users to download apps from third-party sources. The company is reaching a deadline imposed by the EU under the Digital Markets Act, which requires the company to allow the installation of apps from outside the App Store. The company has until March 6 to implement the app sideloading, and iOS 17.4 appears to be the update that will bring the necessary changes.

As W.H. Auden once wrote: “our apparatniks will continue making / the usual squalid mess called History: / all we can pray for is that Videogame News Writers may still appear to blithe it.” Welcome one and all to another week of addled product journalism care of your ever-salivating host, the Maw, ravenous hype god and certainly not a silly metaphor I’ve come up with to make my job sound grander than it should be.

Indiana Jones and The Great Circle has really hit the nail on the head when it comes to the voice of its iconic relic-hunting protagonist. 

Plants vs Zombies 3: Welcome to Zomburbia is coming to mobile devices this year, a whole 11 years after the last mainline entry.

Bethesda has announced The Elder Scrolls: Castles, a new mobile experience from the team behind Fallout Shelter.

EA has announced that Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Zomburbia will be soft-launching for mobile today in select markets, with a full worldwide release happening later this year.

Developer Team Ninja has updated the PS5 store page for its upcoming open-world action title Rise of the Ronin, offering more details on the various factions that are part of the game’s story and setting of the Bakumatsu era.

Time for another week desperately shovelling quotes, release dates and trailers into the Maw, our weekly news liveblog and also, an abyssal abomination poised to guzzle the waking world and all forms of existence, unless we can satisfy its hunger for headlines. The year is starting to pick up, with a few intriguing titles slated to drop this week in addition to the widely acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, out 18th Jan, which Katharine has called "a deep and challenging Metroid-like with some of the best platforming this side of Moon's Ori games".

One Red Dead Redemption 2 player online believes they may have found the highest point in the game's entire map. Red Dead Redemption 2's map is one of the most expansive and detailed in gaming, and it's interesting to see even more details uncovered.

In Dragonflight’s latest update, Seeds of Renewal, discover the buried history of Azeroth and the Dragon Isles through the Azerothian Archives Public Event, take Dragonriding to the skies of old-world continents, storm Dragonflight Dungeons alongside NPC companions, complete new campaign chapters in the continuation of the Dragon Isle epilogues, and more! Commemorate the occasion with new Twitch Drops! Watch any Dragonflight stream on Twitch.tv from January 23, 10:00 a.m. PST, until January 30, 10:00 a.m. PST to earn The Grim Campfire Toy.

After targeting iOS and Android devices in November, Hitman: Blood Money – Reprisal has a new console on the hit list. The upgraded version of the 2006 stealth classic is coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop on January 25.