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This Guy Is Spending Way Too Much On Pokémon TCG Pocket
22.1.2025
As we’ve extensively covered, Pokémon TCG Pocket is a lovely mobile card game version of the 30-year-0ld trading card game, but also a wide-open doorway to gambling mechanics. It’s shocking to realize, early on in your time with the game, that it lets you pour as much as 720 Poké Gold a day into...
Netflix Is Raising Its Prices Again, Even For People Watching With Ads
22.1.2025
The most popular streaming service behind Stranger Things and other hits is raising its prices for the second time in as many years. Netflix announced it will charge users anywhere from $12 to $24 more a year depending on their subscription tier. Even viewers who are already watching ads will have...
Disney And Starbucks Have A $50 Collab That May Not Suck
11.1.2025
Starbucks is looking to reignite consumer interest by teaming up with Disney for a limited-edition Minnie Mouse-themed collection. Read more
PlayStation 5 Is Getting A New Set Of Killer-Looking, All-Black Accessories
7.1.2025
The PlayStation 5 lineup of consoles and accessories continues to expand. Just a couple of months after the 30th Anniversary set was released, Sony has revealed another lineup of color variants, this time in all-black. The new PlayStation Portal looks especially slick. Read more
Call Of Duty Keeps Getting More Expensive To Make Even Though It's Selling Fewer Copies
7.1.2025
Call of Duty is the best-selling game almost every year, but even that might not be enough to keep up with its ever-ballooning blockbuster budgets. New court filings reveal that 2020's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million to make over the life of the game, despite selling 10 million...
How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions
27.11.2024
In mid-2019, then-President Donald Trump threatened to extend existing tariffs on industrial components and other goods to popular consumer products like iPhones, laptops, and video game consoles. The big three—Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, long-time competitors in the gaming space—rallied...
PlayStation's Shuhei Yoshida Leaves Sony After 31 Years
27.11.2024
Sony’s head of independent development at PlayStation and long-time game development leader for the console maker, Shuhei Yoshida, is leaving the company after over three decades. He helped produce some of the PlayStation’s earliest hits before moving onto help lead the global platform across...
Report: Sony To Buy Owners Of Elden Ring Developer, FromSoftware
19.11.2024
Reuters is reporting that Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa Corporation, the company that owns FromSoftware, Spike Chunsoft and many other Japanese businesses. If successful, it would be a big move for Sony, gaining names as big as Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Danganronpa, and be a strike back...
Nintendo Swears Its Switch 2 Announcement Plans Haven't Changed With the Console Still MIA
5.11.2024
The Switch 2 is still nowhere in sight, but Nintendo promises that it hasn’t changed its announcement timeline for the new console. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said on Tuesday in an online press conference that a reveal of the new hardware was still on track for this fiscal year ending...
Daniel Craig Reportedly Told Netflix's CEO His Business Model Was 'F***ed'
18.10.2024
James Bond actor Daniel Craig was reportedly not happy with Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos during a Knives Out 2 premiere in 2022, cursing at him during the event over the streaming giant’s continued refusal to embrace theatrical releases for its biggest movies. Read more
Diablo 4 Players Have Spent $150 Million On Skins And Microtransactions
16.9.2024
Blizzard’s 2023 action RPG dungeon looter Diablo 4 has been criticized for its microtransactions and pricey skins. But apparently, that hasn’t stopped plenty of players from spending over $100 million on in-game cosmetics and other items since it launched.Read more
Microsoft Promises No games Cancelled Amid 650 More Xbox Jobs Cut
12.9.2024
Microsoft is laying off another 650 employees from its Xbox gaming division, the company announced in an overnight companywide memo. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer stressed that no new games were being cancelled or studio closed as a result of the latest round of cuts. Read more
You Can Be A Chipotle Bag For Halloween This Year If You’re Perpetually Stuck In 2022
8.9.2024
This Halloween, Chipotle wants to spice things up and do more than just feed customers; it wants to dress them, too.Read more
Switch 2 Rumors Are Hitting A Fever Pitch
5.9.2024
Nintendo Switch owners have been waiting for upgraded hardware for years. They might finally get a glimpse of that later this month, as rumors continue pouring in about an imminent reveal of a Switch 2 console in September, including that it will boast backwards compatibility so that fans’ vast...
Surprise! This Might Be The Last Nintendo Direct Before We Hear About The Switch 2
26.8.2024
The big Nintendo Direct usually doesn’t happen until September, but this year the Mario maker is sneaking out a slightly smaller showcase at the tail end of August for indie and third-party games. Does that mean we’re getting the official reveal of the Switch 2 next month instead?Read more
Report: Developers Told Not To Expect Switch 2 Before April 2025
13.8.2024
The question on everyone’s lips right now is: Switch 2 when? Now in its eighth year, the current handheld hybrid is more than a little long in the tooth, and the evidence continues to mount that fans still have a bit of a wait to go before Nintendo launches its next console.Read more
Nintendo Plans To Sell Over 10 Million More Switches But No One Knows How
2.8.2024
The Switch is in its eighth year. That’s longer than any Nintendo system has gone without getting a successor. But the company is still bullish on the hybrid console’s future even as fans wait to hear about a Switch 2 as soon as this September. Nintendo is planning to sell over 12 million...
Bungie CEO Seemingly Spent Over $2.3 Million On Classic Cars After Sony Acquisition
31.7.2024
Sony purchased Bungie, the original studio behind Halo and the maker of Destiny 2, for a whopping $3.6 billion in 2022. Following the sale, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons purchased over 20 classic cars in online auctions costing millions of dollars, according to his account on the website Bring A Trailer....
Twitch Fans Spark $30K Bidding War Over Chance To Game With Pokimane
16.7.2024
How much would you pay to game with your favorite online personality? For Imane “Pokimane” Anys, the answer for multiple people out there is “over $30,000.” Fans, AKA internet strangers, are currently in a low-key bidding war for an exclusive one-on-one gaming session with the Twitch icon as...
Fortnite's Free Cars Will Get You Killed Faster Than Its Paid Ones, New Video Shows
3.6.2024
A new viral video shows that many of Fortnite’s premium cars—which can only be unlocked by purchasing them with V-Bucks—are safer to drive around in compared to the free models in the game. This is proving to be a problem in Fortnite’s newest car-focused season, and it seemingly goes against Epic’s...