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Following its release through the beta branch earlier this month, the May update for Starfield is finally available for all to download.

DOOM: The Dark Ages has surpassed 3 million players 7x faster than DOOM: Eternal – but with some major caveats thanks to its day-one Game Pass addition.

Microsoft has announced its next wave of Game Pass titles, including Metaphor: ReFantazio, Tales of Kenzera and much more arriving throughout the rest of May.

After just 3 years, Sony’s ‘new’ PlayStation Stars loyalty rewards program is winding down later this year - fully shutting in 2026.

In an interesting move, it seems Sony is planning to skip the typical Summer game announcements, with their next showcase currently penned for September.

Celebrating the game’s 1 year anniversary, Ninja Theory have announced Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Enhanced for PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro.

Despite launching with an LCD screen, Samsung is reportedly pushing Nintendo to go for an OLED panel for the Switch 2’s expected system refresh.

Naughty Dog has officially confirmed that they are working on two projects – Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and another mystery title.

Sony has announced the line-up of titles set to leave PlayStation Plus Extra / Premium next month, with Monster Hunter Wilds headlining the departees.

After Skipping Gamescom last year, Nintendo is set to return to the show, announcing their presence at the upcoming industry event.

As part of the latest firmware update, Xbox users can now declutter their consoles’ homescreens with new app customisation options.

It seems that despite announcing their new controversial Game-Key Card system, first-party Switch 2 games will not be using these cartridges.

With Death Stranding 2 just over a month away, Kojima has offered an update on his other projects – with the Death Stranding film planned for 2027.

Following its launch late last month, Days Gone Remastered has now gotten its promised 40fps balanced mode alongside support for VRR.

Ahead of the official launch for Death Stranding 2, Kojima Productions is going on a ‘World Strand Tour’ to 12 different cities across the globe.

Well over a year into the handheld’s lifecycle, the PlayStation Portal continues to be a "strong and profitable peripheral."

Zotac is preparing for the official debut of its second-generation gaming handheld, the Zone 2, set to be unveiled later this month at Computex 2025 in Taipei. Ahead of the show, Zotac revealed an important detail about the upcoming handheld: Zone 2 will run an ‘all-new Manjaro Linux-based OS' designed …

In what is the game’s biggest update yet, Helldivers 2 has gotten a swarth of new features, including a brand new loadout system.

ATLUS is teasing an upcoming announcement surrounding Persona 5 – possibly hinting at an international release for Persona 5: The Phantom X.

Nintendo Switch 2’s controversial Game-Key Cards will be slightly more user-friendly than it initially seemed - being untethered from the eShop.

.In the month following the official Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, we’ve gotten a drip feed of new details surrounding the upcoming system. While far from a game changer, the Switch 2 is set to include a much-welcome battery preservation feature – similar to that seen on other mobile devices.

Nintendo’s official big blowout reveal for the Switch 2 did not quite go as the company had hoped, with the upcoming console sparking backlash for its across-the-board increase in pricing alongside new incentives for subscriptions; the reduction in focus on physical media and more. With regards to the final point, a new leak has revealed another issue with Nintendo Switch 2’s cartridges and why so many publishers are opting for game-key cards.

Just over two years on from its release, the controversial Pokémon Scarlet / Violet have already become the second-best selling entries in franchise history.

In alignment with the game’s upcoming launch, PlayStation has announced a limited edition Death Stranding 2: On the Beach DualSense controller.

Following in the footsteps of other Microsoft releases, Gears of War Reloaded may not be getting any physical version on Xbox consoles.

Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition for the Nintendo Switch 2 will feature a couple bonus additions, including new weapons; armour; starting classes and more.

Celebrating the game’s 4th birthday. Returnal has gotten a surprise PS5 Pro patch, increasing the resolution by up to 2.5x.

After many years of service, The Louvre museum is finally retiring their Nintendo 3DS audio tour guide later this year in September.

For a while, it seemed as though both digital and physical mediums could co-exist in the games industry. Unfortunately, through the evolution of technology, the de-evolution of the industry and what seems to be a concerted effort to make the overall experience worse, physical media is now in many ways objectively inferior to digital.

Despite having the biggest slice of the player count pie, Game Pass users have put less time into Oblivion and Clair Obscur compared to Steam and PlayStation.