Gears of War: E-Day launched worldwide at 8 a.m. PT for buyers, Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass with The Coalition’s October 5 fixes, Star Wars: Galactic Racer unlocked at 2 a.m. PT with a new recommended PC spec on Steam, and October’s PS Plus games are claimable through November 2.
Hellblade developers say their roles have ended or are at risk as Xbox’s closure consultation moves ahead. We compared Xbox’s July and September memos and checked Senua’s store listings.
With FanFest Seattle set for November 12 and the $899.99 Series X25 due November 13, we adjusted every Xbox launch price for inflation using BLS data and Microsoft’s own price sheets.
25 critic scores put Kingdom Hearts Collection [I～III] at NGC 86. Newcomers get a bargain and Switch 2 finally gets native games, but Kingdom Hearts III and 0.2 run unevenly there while PS5 holds 60fps. Per-game platform notes, upgrade math and who should buy.
Creator Radec lost his PSN account on October 3 in the same support-desk pattern that hit Colin Moriarty in May. We checked the advice against PlayStation’s own support pages and mapped what owners can change.
Nintendo and Sony both report on November 5, with Microsoft due in late October. We lined up each company’s own June-quarter figures and full-year targets to show what the holiday quarter has to deliver.
NBA 2K25 comes off sale October 30 and loses MyCAREER and MyTEAM when servers close December 31, Kingdom Hearts Collection needs 131GB on Switch 2 and carries three PS5 Platinums, and Gran Turismo 7’s Spec IV Part 1 lands at 11 p.m. PT on October 14.
A teardown of the Marvel’s Wolverine Battle Yellow PS5 bundle found a new EDM-051 board with revised liquid-metal containment, a new heatsink, a cheaper HDMI retimer and an easier-to-reach CMOS battery. Here is what changed, how it fits the Slim’s revision history, and what owners should do.
The ROG Xbox Ally X20 shares its Z2 Extreme chip, 24GB of memory, 1TB SSD and 80Wh battery with the $999.99 Ally X. We map what the $1,299.99 price really pays for, the microSD Express catch, and how it stacks up against Steam Deck OLED and Switch 2 after this year’s price hikes.
Developer ZiZc3’s public Alpha 1 of XPSemu, a native PS5 port of xemu, boots original Xbox titles on jailbroken consoles. We map the reported frame rates and the hard limits for stock PS5 owners.
