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Game Pass Now Lets You Give Friends Free Trials On PC
2.5.2023
Game Pass PC is full of great games, and a new referral program now lets you invite friends to play them with you free for two weeks. The new benefit arrives alongside Redfall, Xbox’s latest co-op shooter featuring an eerie open world and lots of vampires.Read more
The Reason Regulators Blocked Microsoft's Activision Deal Makes No Sense
28.4.2023
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) potentially torpedoed the biggest tech acquisition in history this week and hardly anyone understands why. There are plenty of reasons to prevent a giant corporation from trying to buy huge competitive advantages just because it can flood the zone...
PS5 Sales Are Unstoppable, And Sony Thinks It's Just The Start
28.4.2023
The PlayStation 5 continues to outperform Sony’s wildest expectations. The console manufacturer announced another banner year for hardware sales, including over 6 million in the last quarter alone. With Spider-Man 2 just around the corner, Sony says it’s planning to sell an unprecedented 25 million...
Microsoft Is Struggling To Sell Xboxes, Again
26.4.2023
Two years in, Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S is already losing steam. The tech giant reported on Tuesday that revenue from console hardware sales was down 30 percent from the same time in 2022 after big games like Starfield got delayed. Game Pass didn’t seem to be making up the difference. Read more
Former PlayStation Boss Says They 'Cancel So Many Games'
25.4.2023
In a new interview published Monday, PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida talked about how difficult and expensive it is to make video games, explaining that the company behind hits like God of War and The Last of Us cancels “so many games” in order to “save” developers from getting stuck on something....
Physical Copies Of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Still Require Digital Downloads Even Though It's Single-Player
25.4.2023
The next big Star Wars game is nearly here and it sounds way too big for the Blu-ray disc it’s copied on. Jedi: Survivor requires 155 GB of available space to install on PC, and a warning on the front of the box indicates at least some of the data will have to be downloaded, whether you own...
Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Sold Out Immediately And Scalpers Are In Heaven
21.4.2023
The long awaited Pixel Remasters of Final Fantasy I through VI finally arrived on Switch and PlayStation 4 on April 19. Unfortunately for longtime fans, the physical editions of the collection sold out immediately on Square Enix’s website and show no signs of coming back in stock. Scalpers are...
PlayStation Plus Axes Marvel’s Spider-Man, One Of Its Biggest Games, Soon
12.4.2023
It’s a new month, which means Sony’s adding another crop of games to its PlayStation Plus vault for Extra and Premium subscribers. There are some good additions here, including Dishonored and Doom Eternal. But, as the saying goes, out with the old and in with the new: Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s...
The Best Version Of Xbox’s Next Big Exclusive Won’t Arrive At Launch
12.4.2023
Just days after Redfall gameplay footage from IGN was lampooned across the internet for looking stiff and unimpressive, Microsoft revealed that its first big blockbuster of 2023 won’t support 60fps at launch. It’s another disappointing data point for a first-person shooter arriving as a new-gen...
A Bunch Of PlayStation And Xbox Games Just Got Steep Discounts
11.4.2023
Both PlayStation and Xbox are running big spring sales right now. From Lego Star Wars to The Last of Us Part 1, it’s the perfect time to dip into some of 2023’s biggest blockbusters so far, or catch up on last year’s releases.Read more
Someone Built A NES That Could Probably Murder You
10.4.2023
Some retro gaming enthusiasts are so preoccupied with what they could build, they won’t stop to question if they should. One such diabolical maker has combined his love of retro consoles with his expertise in 3D printing and robotics to build the NESdestroyer: a repurposed NES console shell with...
Microsoft Escalates War Against PlayStation, Nintendo Emulation On Xbox Series X/S
6.4.2023
Microsoft shut down classic game emulation on the Xbox Series X/S on April 6 and a small but passionate community of retro enthusiasts, preservationists, and homebrew devs are up in arms. They’re calling on the console maker to reverse course and make legal emulation easy again, even if it means...
Sony Lashes Out At Government For Not Shutting Down Microsoft Activision Deal
6.4.2023
While not set in stone, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) now appears likely to approve Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, and Sony seems pissed. In its latest regulatory filing it blasted UK regulators over their “surprising, unprecedented, and irrational”...
New Xbox Controller Is Made From Recycled Old Junk
5.4.2023
Microsoft today announced a new and very cool Xbox controller: the “Remix Special Edition”, which is (partly, at least) made up of recycled plastic.Read more
Your Next Roguelite Obsession Is Now On Xbox Game Pass
4.4.2023
Xbox announced its first round of April Game Pass offerings in a blog post earlier today. I’ll cut to the chase and tell you the best part—you can play one of the more intriguing titles, Loop Hero, right now. Read more
The Best-Looking Video Game Consoles Of All Time
4.4.2023
You silly fans. All these years arguing over things you thought were important, like specs, and libraries, and exclusives, and controllers, wasted. Not once have you considered the most crucial thing about a video game console: how good it looks.Read more
Xbox Manager Claims Game Pass Isn’t 'Disruptive’
31.3.2023
The director of Xbox’s indie division would like you to believe that the Game Pass is not ‘disruptive’ to the gaming ecosystem despite the company’s ambitions for massive PC growth. These comments were made in response to people wondering whether the popular subscription service would fundamentally...
Final Fantasy XVI Dev Is Out Here Promising Next-Gen PS5 Wind You Can Feel
31.3.2023
More new-gen exclusives are slowly starting to trickle out onto the PlayStation 5 and developers are now trying harder than ever to explain why they needed to ditch the PS4, and why it’s worth making a game a console exclusive. Previously it was Guerrilla Games with Horizon Forbidden West’s Burning...
The Best Moments In E3 History
30.3.2023
Before E3, everyone gets excited for the big new announcements. But after E3, all anyone remembers—and cherishes—are the kind of screw-ups, misfires and awkward heroism you can only get when corporate executives and video game developers have to get on stage and act like salespeople in front...
Retro Atari Game Found After Being Lost For 40 Years
30.3.2023
As efforts to preserve video game history continue, we still stumble upon things that once seemed lost to time. This includes games dating back to the Atari 2600 days, such as this 44-year-old title made by Atari back in the 70s.Read more