It’s now February 2022 and I’ve never seen this month packed with big games releasing so close to each other during the shortest month of the year. There’s a lot to look forward to, but here are the big games to keep an eye on.

Sony Interactive Entertainment today has announced that they will be acquiring the Destiny studio Bungie for 3.6 billion. This isn’t the first time a major platform holder has purchased the company.

Publisher Boss Team Games and developer Saber Interactive have announced that their upcoming multiplayer game Evil Dead: The Game has been delayed yet again to May 13, 2022. The developers simply want more time to make it “worthy of the Evil Dead franchise”.

IO Interactive’s Hitman 3 is finally available on Steam but it didn’t have the best launch as the Steam version was left with many complaints, which resulted in the developers giving players a free upgrade.

It was a good run but Ubisoft’s take on the battle royale formula is coming to an end as the company announced that they will shut down the free-to-play shooter for good on April 28.

Guerrilla Games has announced that Horizon Forbidden West has officially gone gold, and to celebrate, Guerrilla and Sony have revealed our first look at the sequel running on a PS4 Pro with three short clips of gameplay.

Valve has announced that their handheld device the Steam Deck will officially launch on February 25. The company plans to send out the first batch of order emails to users that were able to secure a reservation last year.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed the free games PlayStation Plus subscribers get to claim on February 2022 - EA UFC Sports 4, Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure, and Planet Coaster: Console Edition .

While the added features on the PS5 versions of these Uncharted titles are greatly appreciated, you are not completely missing out if you decide to pop in the PS4 iterations of either game instead - you will, however, be missing out on more frames and faster loading times.

Blizzard Entertainment announced that they are developing a new survival game with a completely new world as the studio is now in search for new hires to help build this new game.

Dying Light 2 releases next week and Techland has provided a roadmap of what kind of content you can expect after the game launches on February 4, and it looks like the first batch of free content will be factions-inspired DLCs.