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Buying GTA 6 and a PS5 is the most expensive console-plus-game combo in series history
Grand Theft Auto VI ·

Buying GTA 6 and a PS5 is the most expensive console-plus-game combo in series history

GTA 6 launches at $80, skips PC at launch, and won't be on Switch 2 — meaning anyone who wants to play it needs an Xbox Series X/S or a PS5. That's a pricey barrier to entry, and a Kotaku breakdown of...
Game Informer's highest-rated games of 2026 so far
Resident Evil 9: Requiem ·

Game Informer's highest-rated games of 2026 so far

Game Informer has been updating its running list of top-scoring reviews for 2026, and the lineup already includes some heavy hitters. The list covers releases across PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, an...
Xbox cuts 3,200 jobs and parts ways with four studios in sweeping reset
· 24 sources

Xbox cuts 3,200 jobs and parts ways with four studios in sweeping reset

New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a sweeping overhaul of Microsoft's gaming division on July 6, cutting 20% of the organization — 3,200 jobs — over the next 12 months. Four studios are being divested...
Halo: Campaign Evolved is making a point of having an actual disc in the box
Halo: Combat Evolved · · 4 sources

Halo: Campaign Evolved is making a point of having an actual disc in the box

Xbox is leaning hard into the fact that Halo: Campaign Evolved will ship with a real game disc — and given the current state of physical media, that's no longer a given. Microsoft's official Xbox acco...
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launches July 9 — release times, preload details confirmed
Assassin's Creed Back Flag Resynced · · 4 sources

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launches July 9 — release times, preload details confirmed

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, Ubisoft's ground-up remake of the 2013 pirate classic, launches July 9, 2026 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Preloads are already live across all platforms, so t...
Level-5 offers staff significant pay rises for acing quizzes on its own games
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box ·

Level-5 offers staff significant pay rises for acing quizzes on its own games

Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has revealed that the Professor Layton studio runs internal knowledge quizzes based on its own games — and employees who ace them walk away with significant salary bumps. The...
Danganronpa 2x2 delayed to early 2027, Slayhem Mode detailed
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony · · 3 sources

Danganronpa 2x2 delayed to early 2027, Slayhem Mode detailed

Spike Chunsoft has pushed Danganronpa 2x2 — the remake of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — out of its planned 2026 window and into early 2027. Producer Shohei Sakakibara confirmed the delay in an offi...
Consoles are just worse PCs now, and Sony is proving it
· 3 sources

Consoles are just worse PCs now, and Sony is proving it

Sony dropped two pieces of bad news at once this week — physical disc production ends in 2028, and the PlayStation 3 and Vita online stores shut down next year. The simultaneous announcements read lik...
Haven's Couples Update turned a straight love story queer — and the game was already ready for it
Haven (2016) ·

Haven's Couples Update turned a straight love story queer — and the game was already ready for it

Two years after its 2020 launch, The Game Bakers quietly dropped the Couples Update for Haven, letting players gender-swap either protagonist. A game that shipped with a straight couple — Kay and Yu —...