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Why the Steam Machine Beat My PS5 and Xbox for Couch Gaming
Valve's reference box proves the living room PC dream was never about raw specs — it's about SteamOS finally growing up enough to make your actual library feel native on a TV.

Tom Holland Confirms Spider-Man: Brand New Day Copied Finishing Moves from Insomniac Games
Tom Holland just admitted the new Spider-Man movie stole its best moves straight from Insomniac's games — and honestly, the games earned it after years of doing the homework Hollywood forgot to do.

SEGA-Published Action RPG Stupid Never Dies Launches Oct 21 on PS5, PC
SEGA's betting a $50–60 price tag on a debut studio's deliberately campy zombie action RPG launching into the most brutal action-RPG season in years — and the 'Glorious Idiot' edition name might be the most honest marketing in months.

Stupid Never Dies Action RPG Hits PS5, PC Oct 21 with Sega Co-Publishing Deal
Former Resident Evil and Devil May Cry producers unleash a pop-punk zombie slayer with Sega's backing, though the studio's quiet split from NetEase adds an unexpected layer of intrigue.

Analyst: PlayStation's Physical Game Exit Bridges Hardware Cost Crisis But Risks Losing Casual Gamers to Mobile
Sony's digital-only pivot buys breathing room on $700 hardware, but the exit toll is a generation of casual players who never needed a console to begin with.

The Relic: First Guardian Prioritizes Stable Console Play, But PS5 Performance Targets Remain Unconfirmed
A promising debut action RPG launches this week, but PlayStation players still don't know if they're getting 30 or 60 frames per second — and for a small studio betting everything on launch momentum, that silence could cost them the audience they've earned.

Capcom Reports 93% Digital Sales in Q1 FY2026; RE2 Beats RE5 Record
Capcom's latest quarter reveals a 93% digital reality where even consoles are ditching discs, and a Resident Evil remake just dethroned the series' 15-year sales king.

Sonic Racing CrossWorlds TMNT DLC Launches: 4 Playable Turtles, Pizzafire Van & NYC Course for $5.99
With CrossWorlds barely cracking 2,000 concurrent players on Steam, SEGA's decision to lead with TMNT over Jet Set Radio feels less like celebration and more like triage for a kart racer still searching for its audience.

Claim Free PS5/PS4 Restaurant Sim Buffet Boss Forever - Easy Platinum Included
QubicGames' latest no-strings giveaway hands trophy hunters a six-hour platinum and signals how publishers are rewriting the rules of console marketing — one free license grant at a time.

Clair Obscur Director Calls End of Physical Discs 'Super Sad', Defends Tangible Game Ownership

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Multiplayer kaiju action game BeastLink will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam on August 18, developer Grove Street Games announced. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series versions will follow alongside the game’s full launch. Here is an overview of the game, via Grove Street Games: About The world did

Shigeru Miyamoto was "pleased" to sell the original Nintendo Switch for 8 years as "customers aren't always looking for the best specs"
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Xbox is down, just days after PlayStation outage, and it affects both digital and "disc-based" games
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Sony Ending PlayStation Discs Driven by Consumer Behavior, Says Former Valve Writer
Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek, who has worked on games like Portal , Half-Life 2: Episode One and the Left 4 Dead series among others, has offered his own thoughts on the discussions surrounding the end of physical games media . In a new YouTube video, Faliszek said that Sony’s announcement isn’

Some GTA 6 Players on PS5 May Have Activation Problems

Fit For A Spartan: Win a 1:18 Replica of a Special Halo-Inspired Ride
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Companies Should Provide Physical Releases if People Want Them, Says Rockstar Games Co-Founder
With the upcoming physical release of Grand Theft Auto 6 lacking a disc, as well as Sony’s announcement about the end of PlayStation discs in 2028, there has been quite a bit of discussion about the future of games and physical media. In an interview with IGN , former co-founder of Rockstar Games, D

"Nintendo was aware of our ambition and it did take a lot of collaborative effort to make it happen"
"Nintendo was aware of our ambition and it did take a lot of collaborative effort to make it happen" — CD Projekt Red s Artur Kepen on Cyberpunk 2077 for Switch 2, PS5 Pro support, Mac, cross save, and more Last year, CD Projekt Red released Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition as a launch title for Nin

Stop Killing Games Comments on PlayStation's Decision to Kill Discs

PlayStation ‘Blackout’ Planned In August To Protest Discless Future
Physical Games PlayStation PlayStation 5 Sony © Dado Photos (Shutterstock) It’s been almost a month since Sony announced that it will end disc production for all new PlayStation games starting in 2028 , and the internet is still pissed. Case in point, angry fans are now organizing an “economic and g

Kratos will return in a new God of War game after Laufey
Kratos will return in a new God of War game after Laufey Mustafa Mahmoud 9 mins ago Console , Featured Tech News , Software & Gaming , Tech News There has been a great deal of discourse surrounding the recently-announced God of War Laufey , with one of the most vocal issues being the fact that the s

Final Fantasy XIV officially launches on Switch 2 next week
Final Fantasy XIV officially launches on Switch 2 next week Mustafa Mahmoud 9 mins ago Console , Featured Tech News , Software & Gaming , Tech News Ever since the launch of the Switch 2 last year, Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida has expressed desires to bring the ever-popular MMO Final Fantasy

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls open beta beaten and bashed by PC performance issues, Arc System Works "apologise for the impact this has had on your experience"
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls pre-launch open beta has just wrapped up, having been open over the weekend. Sadly, those who ve given the fighter a go on PC over the past few days have run into a litany of issues, leaving developers Arc System Works apologising for the inconvenience and scrambling to

God of War Laufey finally has a release date, and there's some good news for Kratos fans too - Digital Trends
Sony gave fans their first look at God of War Laufey during June’s PlayStation State of Play, but the company did not share a release date at the time. Speculation about the launch window followed almost immediately, with industry insider NateTheHate pointing to a release in the first half of