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This Shouldn't Be Weird Anymore, But This Is Still Very Weird
5.5.2025
On May 5, Xbox announced a new remaster of the original 2006 Gears of War. Yes, this is the second time Xbox has remastered Gears of War. But this time, Xbox is doing something that a decade ago would have seemed extremely unlikely: Gears of War Reloaded is coming to PlayStation 5. And while it’s...
Cheat Your Way To Greatness With The Best Oblivion Remastered Console Commands
5.5.2025
Oblivion Remastered is a fantasy RPG that, on the surface, revolves around exploration and story, of uncovering minute details and lore tidbits in dungeons, all while fighting terrible beasts from other planes of existence. To some, it’s all about the power creep; it’s about becoming stronger, more...
Gears of War Getting New Remaster, Coming To Xbox And PS5 This Summer
5.5.2025
Xbox announced today that a new remaster of the original Gears of War, first released on Xbox 360 in 2006, will be launching on Xbox Series X/S, PC, and for the first time in the franchise’s history PlayStation in August.Read more
Nintendo Sues Accessory Maker Who Flaunted Console Mockup At The Height Of Switch Leaks
5.5.2025
A very strange thing happened earlier this year, prior to Nintendo officially revealing the Switch 2: A small accessory maker, Genki, brought a mockup of the mysterious new console to CES 2025 and flaunted it on the show floor, suggesting to press that the 3D printed replica was accurate and based...
Xbox Consoles And Games Get A Price Hike, Borderlands 4 Gets A Showcase, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
3.5.2025
This week saw gaming website Polygon sold to Valnet, the company that owns Screen Rant and Game Rant among other sites, and many of its staffers laid off. Meanwhile publication at another gaming site, Giant Bomb, is currently on hold as owner Fandom engages in what it calls a “strategic reset...
Don't Wait If You're Planning To Buy A New PS5
2.5.2025
At the start of this week you could snag a used Xbox Series S in the U.S. for around $250. Just days later, Microsoft hiked the price of new Series S units to $380, and the Series X all the way to $600. The tech giant blamed “market conditions,” AKA President Trump’s trade war with China....
Welp, GTA 6 Is Definitely Going To Be At Least $80 Now
1.5.2025
Grand Theft Auto 6 is set to launch later this year. Maybe in October? Regardless of when it arrives, it seems very likely now—after Nintendo and Microsoft have both announced $80 games—that the open-world sequel will cost at least $80 as well, if not more.Read more
Fans React To Xbox Price Hikes And $80 Games
1.5.2025
An Xbox Series X with 2TB of storage now costs more than a PlayStation 5 Pro. The next Call of Duty could be Microsoft’s first $80 game. Microsoft announced major price hikes for the entire Xbox ecosystem on Thursday and fans are in shock. Read more
Microsoft Announces Massive Xbox Console Price Hike, Xbox Games To Cost $80
1.5.2025
Microsoft has announced it will be raising the prices of all Xbox consoles, accessories, and games, and the increases are huge. Console and peripheral prices will go up today, May 1, by an enormous amount, while new first-party game prices will all hit $80 by the holidays.Read more
Even Atari Game Cartridges Are Getting More Expensive Because Of Tariffs
30.4.2025
Atari has put out updated versions of multiple classic consoles in recent years, following up its Atari 2600+ replica console from 2023 with the 7800+ in late 2024, all accompanied by honest-to-god physical cartridge releases containing classic Atari games like Berzerk, Space Duel, and Ninja Golf....
Nintendo Quietly Made A Big Change To The Nintendo Switch eShop
30.4.2025
The Nintendo Switch received a major firmware update today that paves the way for its integration with the Switch 2 and institutes a less than stellar new regime of virtual game sharing. But firmware version 20.0.0 also made some other equally notable but less advertised changes, including a major...
Nintendo's Big Switch Update Adds Virtual Game Sharing And More, With One Important Catch
30.4.2025
The Nintendo Switch just got a major update to prepare for the arrival of Switch 2 in June. Ver. 20.0.0, released overnight, adds system transfers to Switch 2 as well as support for the new console’s GameShare feature and the sharing of virtual game cards. Players have quickly discovered a major...
Here's How Forza Horizon 5 PS5 Players Can Race With Xbox Folks
29.4.2025
After many years of Xbox and PC exclusivity, the Forza franchise is finally making its debut on PlayStation hardware with the release of Forza Horizon 5 on PS5. As exciting as it is for Sony fans to finally get a chance to dive into this exciting open-world racing series, it’s fair to wonder...
How Long Of A Ride Is Forza Horizon 5?
29.4.2025
With the formerly Xbox-exclusive Forza series now heading to PS5, more people than ever before can enjoy Playground Games’ massive driving sim. Forza Horizon 5 sends players racing through a gorgeous recreation of Mexico in their effort to become the Horizon Champion. With a bevy of cars to find...
A Ton Of Big Games Like GTA 5 Are Leaving PS Plus In May
28.4.2025
Grand Theft Auto V’s latest PlayStation Plus tour is about to end. Rockstar Games’ perennial bestseller (over 210 million copies to date) is leaving the subscription library after just six months, ahead of Grand Theft Auto VI’s arrival sometime in the fall. But it’s not the only big name departing...
Many Physical Switch 2 Games Don't Contain The Game At All
25.4.2025
As pre-orders for the Switch 2 went live earlier this week, we started to learn more about many of the launch and post-launch games that will be available for Nintendo’s next big console. And it turns out that a lot of physical Switch 2 games are “Game Key Card” carts which, rather than actually...
Nintendo Warns Some Switch 2 Pre-Order Invites Might Not Arrive Until After Launch
24.4.2025
Nintendo has updated its website about pre-ordering a Switch 2 console with a warning that because of “very high demand” it can’t promise it will be able to deliver consoles by the June 5 launch date. It even warned that its pre-order emails might not arrive for some until after the console’s...
Switch 2 Pre-Orders Are Popping Up On Ebay Already
24.4.2025
Just an hour after Switch 2 pre-orders went live on April 24 in the United States, Kotaku has spotted over two dozen eBay listings for the upcoming Nintendo console. Some are real. Others are actually people making fake listings to throw off bots and scalpers. Read more
Switch 2 Preorders Are Live And Pure Chaos
24.4.2025
Switch 2 preorders went live online at 12:01 a.m. ET and were every bit the mess some fans feared: pages timing out, error messages that weren’t real, and email cancelations being received just moments after it seemed like orders had gone through. There must be a better way to do these. Not in time...
Latest PS5 Update Brings Back Retro Themes And Adds Some New Features
23.4.2025
Late last year, Sony added a couple of nostalgic PlayStation 5 dashboard themes the recreated the experience of using an older PlayStation console. People really liked these themes, but Sony said they were temporary and eventually they were all removed. But now they’re coming back for good. Read...