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Positive reviews boost the new Korean hack-and-slash game Stellar Blade on the PlayStation Store's top 25 best-selling games in the United States.

This week on a special AI-Powered TT Show, Generative AI is everywhere you look. From Apple's new iPhone to the PS5 Pro, it's even showing up in movies.

Microsoft may have a laissez-faire approach to managing its new $70 billion acquisition, Blizzard developers feel empowered by the hands-off style.

Target has officially confirmed plans to drastically reduce and limit the sale of physical media like TV shows and movies, but video games aren't affected.

Following the Fallout TV show's success, Fallout 4 has conquered PlayStation Plus' popularity charts and Fallout 76 isn't very far behind.

Microsoft is significantly leveraging its competitor's platform to sell games, showing just how inter-connected both Xbox and PlayStation really are.

Three more PC games are getting NVIDIA DLSS support this week, including one of the most highly anticipated PC releases in months - Manor Lords.

Enthusiasts are being a customized vintage 3dfx 'VoodooX' graphics card, a custom card with 'new' VSA100 chips that were used on Voodoo4.

Would you rather pay $18 or $130 to play Ubisoft's new Star Wars game? That's the subscription value proposition the publisher is posing to customers.

Roblox is opening its User-Generated Content storefront to more people, but you might have to pay an advanced upfront fee to sell your digital wares.

With franchise-based subscriptions being a potential new avenue for long-term engagement, will Square Enix launch its own service for Final Fantasy?

Call of Duty is so big that even the disappointing games are huge sellers, and it's possible COD Vanguard hit 30 million copies sold in less than 2 years.

The Fallout TV show was designed from the get-go to take advantage of binge culture, and the plan has worked quite well for Bethesda, Amazon, and Xbox.

Acer's insanely impressive dual 4K 32:9 57-inch ultrawide gaming monitor is almost here, and its going to launch $500 cheaper than initially expected.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's game sales on PS5 may be missing Square Enix's expectations, selling half as many copies as Remake did in a similar time period.

Sony's machine learning PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaler is the secret sauce of its new PS5 Pro, and work is underway for 8K display support.

Another jam-packed episode of The TT Show, as Jak and Kosta go deep on Samsung's new TVs, Frame Generation on PS5, and humanity colonizing Mars.

As budgets rise and profit margins shrink, gaming's new $70 price tag feels like it's here to stay...but one gaming CEO thinks prices will fall over time.

There are some games big enough to define an entire franchise and introduce multiple new differentiated and synergistic biz model revenue streams.

Xbox Game Pass could grow to 200 million subscribers by 2034, analyst Michael Pachter predicts, which is almost double Microsoft's own 2030 forecast.

Rockstar Games ups the price of GTA+ by 33% shortly after adding Red Dead Redemption to the subscription service, also promises to add Bully and others.

Apple will start allowing console game emulators on the App Store as the European Union's Digital Markets Act shakes up the global digital landscape.

Microsoft is officially accelerating its plans to create the most technologically-advanced Xbox console, but it may be smarter than it is powerful.

Microsoft's stellar track record with backwards compatibility will carry forward into Gen 10 consoles as the company gears up for a huge technical HW leap.

A new rumor says that Bungie is working on Destiny 3 under codename Payback, and that the sequel will make sweeping changes to the core of the game.

Nearly 10 years after release, Fallout 4 is getting a big refresher with optimizations on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, a new PC update, and an Epic Store SKU.

Hellblade II: Senua's Saga will prioritize visuals and graphics over in-game frame rate, opting for dynamic resolution scaling with a 30FPS limit.

A new study has found that some people see the world at a higher temporal resolution, or 'frame rate,' than others, which really helps in gaming.

Arbiter Polar 65's adjustable magnetic switches are impressive, but the overall quality of the build and components makes this a buttery smooth keyboard.

ASUS' new ROG Falchion RX Low Profile Keyboard is a stunner and one of the best low-profile keyboards we've encountered, thanks to its excellent switches.

Although Sea of Thieves is a first-party Microsoft game, Xbox and Rare will offer two different sets of exclusive cosmetics to PlayStation 5 gamers.

Helldivers 2's chaotic new Democratic Detonation warbond refreshes stock with new gear--including a crossbow that fires explosive bolts of justice.

The Knights of the Old Republic's PS5 remake hasn't been lost in the divestment of Saber Interactive and the project is apparently still alive and kicking.

Google engineers managed to get the PlayStation Portal handheld to natively play PSP games, but consumers and gamers will never be able to do the same.

Sony PlayStation is taking Microsoft Xbox on at its own game by signing multiple deals to bring select indie games to PlayStation Plus as day one releases.

Rockstar Games is ramping up the value of its $5.99 per month GTA+ subscription by packing in GTA Online additions and a rotating content library of games.

Capcom's new high fantasy RPG sequel Dragon's Dogma 2 is a big hit and has already sold over 2.5 million copies across all platforms.

Arrowhead goes above and beyond with the new Helldivers 2 update, not doubling but TRIPLING the game's level cap while adding in some new hazards.

Ex-PlayStation boss Jim Ryan recently said PS2 was at 160 million shipments, which is 5 million over Sony's official number. So...who is actually right?

Tekken 8 has lots of monetization now, including cosmetics, premium microtransaction currency, and a new dual-pronged paid battle pass pay scheme.

No one actually knows if Grand Theft Auto 6 will run at 60FPS on the PlayStation 5 Pro or not, but Rockstar's past history adds weight to GTA6 at 30FPS.

Generative artificial intelligence might have a long, long way to go before it can beat game developers and deliver convincing interactive experiences.

Independent game developers are having a hard time securing funding for their games, and the lucrative Xbox Game Pass and Epic Store deals are dwindling.

Warzone Mobile's debut revenues are reportedly down by some 67% from Call of Duty Mobile, and it may present an issue for Xbox's grand expansion efforts.

Take-Two's short-term revenue forecasts and release pipeline may have been significantly affected by the recent $460 million acquisition of Gearbox.

Gearbox Entertainment is officially spinning out of Embracer Group as Take-Two Interactive offers $460 million in stock to acquire the Borderlands dev.

Microsoft gaming CEO Phil Spencer reiterates that Xbox is not only profitable, but the business is growing as a whole, even if the industry isn't.

One analyst speculates that CD Projekt could plan to release two games by 2027, potentially starting first with Polaris and then with Project Sirius.

CD Projekt ended 2023 with 1.3 billion PLN (about $326 million) in cash and cash equivalents, enough money to fund its ambitious new project pipeline.

67% of CD Projekt RED's developer workforce is currently tackling the next Witcher game, and full-on dev production is set to start sometime in 2024.