Hello everyone. I’ve got a lovely spread of stories below for you to enjoy on this fine Tuesday. Sure, the world is on fire and everything is horrible, but at least you have Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku’s daily round-up of news and stuff you might care about. That’s something to be happy about, right? Today we have news about a lawsuit …
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Costco isn’t looking like the place to go for Xbox products this holiday. Ahead of the 2025 holiday season, Costco stores have been removing all Xbox consoles, gift cards and products from their shelves across the US. This comes directly after Microsoft’s recent announcement that it would be raising prices on the Xbox Series consoles in response to “changes in …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Push Square on YouTube161k Update [Fri 19th Sep 2025, 6:45pm]: Technical experts Digital Foundry has now shared its verdict on the performance of Borderlands 4 across PS5 Pro, base PS5, and the Xbox Series X|S systems, and it agrees the looter shooter is facing issues under the hood. The idea that performance worsens the longer …
Read More »Starting on October 3, Microsoft says Xbox consoles will be getting yet another price bump, this time ranging anywhere from a $20 increase on the company’s entry-level model to $70 for a special edition model with 2TB of storage. If all of this sounds familiar, there’s a good reason, the last time xbox prices were raised was only a few …
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Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S / X consoles in the US next month. The Xbox Series X will be priced at $649.99 in the US starting October 3rd, up from its existing $599.99 price. The Xbox Series S will move to $399.99, up from $379.99. Microsoft blames the price hikes on “changes in the macroeconomic …
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The physical release of Final Fantasy 7 Remake on Switch 2 will be on a game key card and will take up around a third of the console’s storage capacity. Some Switch 2 physical games are sold as game key cards, which use the card solely as a key to download the full game. Many third-party publishers are …
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Hades 2 has landed itself a full fat release date. As shared during this afternoon’s Nintendo Direct, Supergiant’s action-roguelike sequel will release on 25th September across Switch and Switch 2, as well as PC, following a stint in early access on Steam. Yes, you can play it now. You can check out a new trailer for Hades 2 below. Hades …
Read More »We’re now several months into a brand new Nintendo generation, and waiting impatiently for important information such as the release date for Metroid Prime 4 and the whereabouts of the next 3D Mario game. But in the meantime, the company has been gradually updating its various retro console emulators on Nintendo Switch Online, with the latest being the Game Boy …
Read More »The rising cost of play: AAA games, consoles, and GPUs surge in cost TechSpot Gaming consoles are becoming more expensive as they age for the first time in history — gamers blame tariffs for PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch price increases Tom’s Hardware Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced Ars Technica Why Are Games Getting More Expensive? GamesHub Why are video games getting more expensive? …
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Overall, though, you can see a clear and significant downward trend to the year-over-year pricing for game consoles released before 2016. After three years on the market, the median game console during this period cost less than half as much (on an inflation-adjusted basis) as it did at launch. Consoles that stuck around on the market long enough could expect …
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