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Xbox cloud gaming is breaking out of Game Pass. Microsoft has started selling Cloud Playtime Packs to Xbox Insiders: blocks of cloud streaming time you buy on their own, with no Game Pass subscription required. The packs come in 3 sizes at introductory launch pricing: 10 hours for $3.99, 25 hours for $7.99, and 50 … Read more
Rockstar Games keeps blurring the line between Miami and Vice City. This week, two of Grand Theft Auto’s most famous in-game restaurant chains opened their doors in real life: Burger Shot and Cluckin’ Bell are now serving actual food inside Miami’s Kaseya Center. Fans attending Miami Heat games spotted the fully branded stands, and photos … Read more
BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, is closing its doors after more than three decades. Electronic Arts confirmed the shutdown on October 21, 2026, ending one of the most storied runs in role-playing game history. BioWare itself broke the news in a farewell statement posted … Read more
ARC Raiders is Embark Studios’ PvPvE extraction shooter: you deploy from Speranza into the Rust Belt, grab loot, dodge killer ARC machines and rival raiders, then extract before it all goes to waste. Die with a custom loadout and everything you carried — except what sits in your safe pocket — is gone. If your … Read more
AMD and Microsoft announced on October 20 that AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 4.1 is coming to Xbox consoles, giving the Series X and Series S a long-awaited graphics technology upgrade. What FSR 4.1 does FidelityFX Super Resolution is AMD’s machine-learning upscaling technology. It renders a game at a lower internal resolution to save performance, then … Read more
Your next Xbox could cost as much as a high-end gaming PC. According to a new Fortune profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s next-generation hardware effort — codenamed Project Helix — carries an internal price projection of $1,200 to $1,800 for consumers, unless the company decides to subsidize the hardware. That is a staggering … Read more
Arrowhead Game Studios is pulling the plug on Helldivers 2’s anti-cheat — and swapping it for a proven heavyweight. Starting today, October 20, the PC version of Helldivers 2 replaces GameGuard with Easy Anti-Cheat as part of update 7.2.0. Arrowhead announced the change in a Steam post on Monday, being unusually blunt about the reason: … Read more
Battlefield 6 turned one this month, and it’s a good moment to take stock. The game launched on October 10, 2025, on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, built by the collective of Battlefield Studios — DICE, Criterion, Ripple Effect, and Motive — and published by EA. The standard edition launched at $69.99 with a … Read more
The Swedish studio Liquid Swords is shutting down. Founder Christofer Sundberg confirmed the closure in a post on X on October 19, bringing an end to the short-lived team behind the crime action game Samson: A Tyndalston Story. Sundberg is best known as the creator of Just Cause and a central figure behind Mad Max … Read more
If you’ve got a Game Pass backlog, this is your 11-day warning: eight games rotate out of the Xbox Game Pass catalog on October 31, and a couple of them are the kind of games that eat entire weekends. The departures were spotted in the “Leaving Soon” section of the official Xbox app, and the … Read more
