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Microsoft is raising Xbox Series prices worldwide from August 1: $100 more for 512GB models, $150 for 1TB, and the 2TB model is discontinued entirely.
Take-Two has confirmed GTA VI's physical edition ships with no disc, just a download code in the box. The $80 game arrives November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series.
Facing soaring memory costs, Sony signals it may sell fewer PS5s and skip discounts rather than cut prices, with knock-on effects for the future collector market.
Sony's June 19 SEC strategy report drops last year's pledge to bring first-party games to PC and leans hard into AI instead.
The EU has reportedly decided against mandatory game preservation legislation, choosing a voluntary industry code instead, disappointing preservation advocates.
Sega producer Yosuke Okunari says he is cataloguing all of Sega's roughly 4,500 games and wants the entire library playable on modern formats.
Bobby Prince, the composer behind Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died at 81. His Doom score entered the Library of Congress just a month earlier.
Microsoft reportedly plans to close Compulsion Games, with Ninja Theory and Double Fine also at risk, in a sweeping Xbox restructuring.
Sega is bringing back Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage, with the original Jet Set Radio creators leading a separate comeback.
Microsoft is reportedly considering spinning off Xbox into a separate company, according to a report from The Information. The move would raise major questions about Xbox's backward compatibility and digital preservation.