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Reportedly, Game Pass Causes Some Games To Lose Up To 80% Of Sales
Without a doubt, Xbox Game Pass has become one of the best deals in gaming, to the point where it’s allowed Microsoft to shift their focus from consoles and instead create an ecosystem where anything, from your PC to your portable phone, can be an Xbox. However, with some games being launched day one on Game Pass, one may wonder how Microsoft is recuperating the cost of lost sales. As it ...read more
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GameStop Quietly Closed a Large Number of US Stores
Video game retailer GameStop seem to be closing a significant amount of its U.S. stores after the holiday. The corporation has yet to make a statement on the matter. GameStop employees and customers discuss store closures As seen in several posts on the GameStop subreddit, it seems a large number of U.S. stores are shuttering. The company has not said anything about the closings, but current ...read more
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Next Monster Hunter Wilds Beta Confirmed for February
2025 is shaping up to be one of the biggest years for Monster Hunter fans as we rapidly approach the release of Monster Hunter Wilds on February 28, 2025. Fans were able to check out the game in an early beta, and Capcom has been very forthcoming with details about the upcoming title. However, Capcom is showing its generosity once more and inviting players to participate in a second open beta for ...read more
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Rocksteady Studios Hit by New Round of Layoffs Before the End of 2024
The studio behind the Batman: Arkham franchise of games, and more recently Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Rocksteady, has been hit by a new round of layoffs. According to Eurogamer, the layoffs happened before the end of 2024, and included programmers, members of the artist teams, some of the QA staff. Parent company Warner Bros. Games hasn’t made any comment on the layoffs ...read more
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Xbox says its handheld will combine ‘the best of Xbox and Windows’
Microsoft is once again talking about its as-yet-unannounced handheld, this time claiming it will combine “the best of Xbox and Windows.” As attended by The Verge, Microsoft’s VP of “Next Generation,” Jason Ronald, took part in a roundtable at CES titled “The Future of Gaming Handhelds,” where he shared further details about Microsoft’s planned portable. “We’ve been ...read more
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Physical video game sales collapsed in the UK last year
Video game revenue in the UK dropped 4.4% to £4.6bn in 2024, it’s been revealed. This was driven mainly by a collapse in physical game revenue in the region, with just £324.4 million generated by sales of boxed games in the UK last year. That’s a drop of nearly 35% over 2023. This data is courtesy of the Entertainment Retailers Association, and based on data from Nielsen/GfK, India ...read more
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Fans Worried About Gameplay Downgrade
Assassin’s Creed fans are worried about a gameplay downgrade with Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the next major Ubisoft release coming in February. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set to follow in the footsteps of Assassin’s Creed Origins, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla before it, which is to say be more open-world RPG than linear stealth game. For more modern ...read more
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Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to LG TVs
Xbox Cloud Gaming will be available on select LG smart TVs later this year, Microsoft has announced. The feature will enable Game Pass Ultimate members to play their games directly from the Xbox app on supported TVs via Xbox Cloud Gaming. In November, Xbox started letting Game Pass Ultimate members play select titles they own outside the Game Pass catalog via cloud streaming on PC, phone, ...read more
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Resident Evil 4 Remake Sells Over 9 Million Units
Capcom has provided a sales update on Resident Evil 4 remake, which launched in March 2023. A recent tweet by the development team (dated December 19th, 2024) revealed that it’s sold over nine million units in its lifetime. The last major sales figure for the title was revealed in October, with over eight million copies sold. The sudden jump could potentially have been from holiday sales ...read more
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DOOM 64 Rated by ESRB for Xbox Series X/S and PS5
Following its launch of DOOM 1 + 2, id Software looks to be bringing DOOM 64 to modern platforms. The Entertainment and Software Ratings Board (ESRB) in the United States recently rated the remaster for Xbox Series X/S and PS5. The excessive blood and gore earned it a Mature 17+ rating. DOOM 64 is available for Xbox One, PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch, with backwards compatibility support for ...read more
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