PlayStation is crushing the Black Friday console wars with $100 discounts across all PS5 models. Meanwhile, Xbox and Nintendo aren’t offering any major console deals, leaving Sony as the only player with significant hardware discounts this season.
Windows Insiders can now test the Xbox full screen experience on all Windows handhelds. The feature promises improved gaming performance and console-style navigation. It’s part of preview build 26220.7271 that includes several other new features.
PUBG Corporation is launching PUBG: Black Budget, an extraction shooter that blends battle royale mechanics with the popular extraction genre. The game features a shrinking playable area and time loop difficulty scaling. Closed alpha testing runs December 12-14 and 19-21.
The developers behind Vampire Survivors have unveiled Vampire Crawlers, a deckbuilding dungeon crawler spin-off. The game reimagines characters and artifacts as cards in a first-person perspective, set for global release next year.
Genshin Impact developer miHoYo has revealed Varsapura, a new open-world game with strong Control vibes. The 31-minute gameplay demo shows a surreal city plagued by Mind Rot and bureaucratic organizations.
Nvidia has finished rolling out its RTX 5080-level Blackwell servers to GeForce NOW Ultimate members. The upgrade enables 5K gaming at 120FPS and introduces DLSS 4 support. A new Chromebook Fast Pass also makes cloud gaming more accessible.
The developers behind Godfall have revealed their next project: Armatus, a third-person roguelite shooter set in a devastated version of Paris. The game is scheduled for release in 2026 across Xbox Series, PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2.
In a surprising industry move, Epic Games is partnering with rival Unity to bring Unity-built games directly into Fortnite. The collaboration represents a significant step toward Epic’s vision of an open metaverse. Both engines are also expanding cross-platform commerce support.
Sony is releasing a Japan-only PS5 digital edition for 55,000 yen ($354) on November 21. The move comes as Nintendo’s Switch 2 has sold 2.6 million units in Japan since its June 2025 launch, while PS5 lifetime sales sit at 7.1 million since 2020. Japanese media believes this is Sony’s attempt to reg
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick thinks the gaming industry is moving decisively toward PC platforms. His comments come as Valve revives Steam Machines and Microsoft reportedly plans a PC-based Xbox. The era of closed console ecosystems may be ending.
