New subscription tiers and prices: Microsoft has renamed the service’s tiers and raised the price of the top-end Game Pass Ultimate plan.Essential: The new name for the former Xbox Game Pass CoreUltimate: The highest-tier plan received a significant price hike but also added major new content and benefits. Major content additions: As part of the new tiered structure, Xbox…
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Battlefield 6 Arrival Aims to Reinvigorate the FPS Series
Introduction: The Battlefield franchise is one of the cornerstones of the decades-long rise of the first-person shooter genre. Since the early 2000s, this gaming series, along with titles like Call of Duty, has managed to establish competitive FPS games as one of the most popular online genres. Despite its success, Battlefield and its publisher, Electronic…
Stop Killing Games Campaign Gains Traction and Possible Solutions
Introduction: In the last 12 months, the initiative known as Stop Killing Games, or SKG for short, has managed to constantly increase attention around it. The same process began in 2024 as a decentralized campaign to stop video game developers and gaming publishers from pulling support from online games, which are basically terminated once that…
The Halo Series is Considering Moving into Different Genres and Platforms
Introduction: In the entire Microsoft and Xbox gaming library, the Halo series is among the most famous titles, but also one of the most lucrative ones. Over the past two decades, it managed to expand outside of the video game space. It turned its military science fiction stories into TV shows, comics, collectible figurines, and…
Popular Sci-Fi Series is becoming an Action RPG Game with The Expanse: Osiris Reborn
Introduction: The 21st century brought about a lot of fantastic science-fiction works that were mainly created by young authors. One of the best examples is the case of James S. A. Corey, which is the pen name of writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Together, they created The Expanse series, arguably one of the best…
007 First Light is Bringing James Bond back to the Gaming Audience
Introduction: The James Bond franchise is not just the most famous spy thriller series from the world of cinema. It is also a huge pop-culture phenomenon that has been going strong for more than 50 years. The franchise’s success in the video game industry, however, has been a rocky road that did not see a…
Elden Ring Nightreign Promises a New Era of Soulslike Cooperative Gaming
Introduction: The FromSoftware developers, along with the publishing arm of Bandai Namco, recently launched their latest soulslike game – Elden Ring Nightreign. However, unlike so many of their previous titles, this game is all about its multiplayer mode, more precisely the cooperative play feature. In a procedurally generated world, the release provides a chance for…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a Surprise Smash Gaming Hit
Introduction: Almost immediately after it entered the video game market, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 became one of the biggest hits of the year. At the same time, the same debut game by Sandfall Interactive studio is extremely atypical and drastically different from most AAA and AA gaming success stories, despite the fact that it provides…
Split Fiction is an Unforgettable Co-op Adventure
Hazelight Studios first got on the gaming radar in 2018 with their debut title, A Way Out. The stealthy prison breakout game established Hazelight’s signature thus far: making co-op games that can only be played with two players. Further improvements on the formula were made with their 2021 adventure, It Takes Two, resulting in an…
Oblivion Remastered is Breathing New Life into the Elder Scrolls Series
Introduction: The previous years saw many game development studios – in particular the biggest AAA companies – reach back into their library for new releases. That resulted in a tidal wave of remade, remastered, and rebooted titles that resided on the appeal and strengths of established franchises. At the same time, many gamers felt bitter…