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Video game subscription spending reached a new monthly all-time high in the U.S. in June 2025. That’s according to the ever-insightful Circana executive director and analyst Mat Piscatella, who shared details on video game spending during the month via a Bluesky thread on Wednesday. Per Piscatella, the Nintendo Switch 2 sold 1.6 million units, setting a record for the highest …

Microsoft has walked back on its previous decision to hike the price of its new first-party Xbox games up to $80 USD this ‘holiday season’, saying it’s sticking to a lower price point “in line with current market conditions”. Hints of a pricing rethink first emerged earlier today, when Microsoft first-party studio Obsidian Entertainment revealed its upcoming sci-fi …

Microsoft-owned developer Obsidian Entertainment is announcing a price drop for the The Outer Worlds 2 today. The game was originally supposed to debut at $79.99 in October, but it’s now going back to the regular $69.99 Xbox game price. Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would be raising the price of new Xbox first-party games from $69.99 to $79.99, …

Forza Horizon 5 is the highest-selling game on PS5 this year so far, surpassing 3m copies sold. That’s according to analyst firm Alinea Analytics, which has estimates on the top selling games of the year. Forza Horizon 5 was previously an Xbox-exclusive, but released on Sony’s rival platform at the end of April. By comparison, Forza Horizon 5 has been …

Xbox has announced that it will not be selling The Outer Worlds 2 – or any of its holiday games, for that matter – for $80 after all. Instead, it will be kept at $70. An Xbox spokesperson shared the pricing changes with IGN today: “We’re focused on bringing players incredible worlds to explore, and will keep our full priced …

Microsoft’s push to separate the concept of Xbox games from the Xbox console itself has always felt a little…annoying? The corporation’s “This is an Xbox” campaign has been more confusing than anything else. However, the really significant aspect of this detaching of the games from the machines is the releasing of once-Xbox exclusives onto Sony’s consoles. And in the case …

The success of the PS5 port for Forza Horizon 5 is well documented by this point, but a new sales update for the open-world racer claims it’s selling so well that it’s now become the console’s best-selling new game of 2025 so far. According to data from Alinea Analytics, the racing title surpassed three million sales on PS5 alone last …

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If you’re on the fence about whether to snatch up a $450 Nintendo Switch 2, or if you’re still hemming and hawing about that upcoming Xbox handheld made by Asus, there’s one more device that looks set to make your wallet scream bloody murder. We haven’t seen hide nor hair of Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 for about six months now, …

Moon Studios, the developer behind the Ori games, will focus on PS5 over Xbox for its forthcoming game No Rest for the Wicked due to “current market conditions”. No Rest for the Wicked is currently in early access on PC, with a console release due in future. But on the game’s Discord, studio CEO Thomas Mahler stated: “given current market …