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Its been a busy week of gaming news. Marathon had its public server slam and impressions are not that great. Playstation is rumoured to be withdrawing away from PC releases of its single player exclusives and Xbox leader Asha Sharma has been doing the rounds with interviews and the Xbox community is lapping it up...all over again. Resident Evil Requiem has come out wowing many and Wolverine has a...

What an insane week for gaming! So much turmoil and drama. Firstly, Sony suddenly kills Playstation studio Bluepoint, responsible for delivering great titles out of the blue which results in the Playstation community calling for Hermen Hulst to be fired and the very next day, industry legend and Head of Xbox Phil Spencer announces his retirement! And Sarah Bond then decides to resign with him! In...

Watch my solo stream moments after it was announced that Phil Spencer was retiring and Sarah Bond was resigning.

The internet seems to suggest that Playstation's State of Play was actually a good show which is at odds with my impression of it and it suggests to me that Stockholm Syndrome has set in for many onlookers who have adjusted their expectations after successive bland Sony shows have now caused people to accept a lower standard from the market leader. But maybe I'm wrong? Playstation is getti...

Having missed Developer Direct, there is a lot for us to catch up on including the deep dives of Fable and Forza Horizon 6! However, Xbox financials and milestones look horrendous with decline in all key areas. What is the future of Xbox with these kind of consistent downtrends? Should fans be concerned? Joining me will be Jez Corden ► https://www.youtube.com/@jez.c

We have entered a strange phase in the industry where PC parts have absolutely skyrocketed because of the AI crazy amongst the industry. Insider Gaming has reported about talks of next gen consoles being delayed. Where does this leave the console platforms, particularly Xbox which is set to release its new hybrid console sooner than Playstation? 2026 is a fundamentally important year for Xbox not...

Xbox has announced its Developer Direct which will now be confirmed to have a deep dive into the next Fable game, Forza Horizon 6 and Beast of Incarnation along with one surprise title. Nvidia delivered a major upgrade with DLSS 4.5, murmurs of GTA 6 being delayed yet again surface from Jason Shreier, The Division 3 has been announced, Blizzard are apparently working on a Starcraft title, Wolfenst...

Industry legend Vince Zampella sadly passed away this previous week in a car crash and he left behind an incredible gaming legacy that changed the modern landscape in gaming. We take a look back at what he contributed to the gaming space and what the industry has lost. Gaming in 2025 was incredible and 2026 looks even better. Is the gaming industry finally healing itself? Are we in gaming nirvana...

How on Earth was The Game Awards 2025 a D rated show?! The court of public opinion was a lot more harsher than I was and usually, its the other way round!

It has been quiet on the news front the last couple of weeks but now things are really starting to pick up with a big blow to the PC gaming community with insane price hikes to RAM and Crucial shutting down because Micron wants to invest into AI....yeah. Metroid Prime 4 has been awaited for several years and its review reception has been quite lukewarm compared to the lofty heights of previous ent...

Its been a crazy week as Steam steps into the console arena with its compact PC device designed to plug into your TV that has caused all manner of distress on the internet for people who are labelling it a PC or console depending on whatever narrative suits them. Did Valve just completely derail Xbox's next-gen ambitions? Sony also angered a lot of fans by announcing 2 mobile games from their...

The details of the next Xbox are starting to come out and there are some very intriguing details there that even detractors of Xbox are quite clearly silently intrigued. Halo Studios revealed Halo Campaign Evolved but we now hear that both Halo 2 and 3 are having remakes too. Meanwhile, the multiplayer space FINALLY gets a tetanus shot this generation with Battlefield 6, Battlefield RedSec and Arc...

The downward spiral of the Xbox brand continues in magnificent fashion as we start to understand just why Xbox is in the state it is in, who really is in control of this once amazing gaming brand and then with the reveal of one of its pillars that made the entire Xbox console viable in the first place, Halo, releasing on the Playstation 5 day and date. HARAM!Sign up for exclusive greatness at ► ht...

Last week Xbox completely self-sabotaged itself with its Xbox Game Pass price hike and this week rumours suddenly started swirling with some insiders suggesting Xbox might be cancelling its next gen hardware. Subsequent reports have poured cold water over that but can Microsoft really be trusted here? How committed is Xbox really to the next gen machine? Battlefield 6 is doing incredibly well, bea...

Xbox stepping on rakes is an almost weekly affair at this point but this rake is a big one. One that smacked Xbox so hard that its concussed even the most hardcore of Xbox fans. Xbox Game Pass has now seen price massive price hikes and changes that have caused subscribers to leave the service in droves! This is a storm Xbox may not be able to weather! In other news, Saudi Arabia got into gaming in...

Playstation is finally getting into its stride with its first party releases. Its recent State of Play wasn't exactly brilliant but it was saved by the showings of 2 first party Playstation games, Saros and Wolverine. Ghost of Yotei has also received great reviews, besting the original and apparently even benefits from a better visual upgrade than many anticipated. Meanwhile, Xbox had a tepid...

The Playstation fandom is currently dealing with a very similar set of feelings as the Xbox hardcore fanbase as the reality of the platform's multiplatform strategy dawns on them. Playstation first party title Returnal is now rumoured to be going to Xbox and this has caused all manner of emotions to fly. Helldivers 2 embraced Halo this week with its Halo ODST collaboration which made the reali...

Xbox is seeing a lot more success as a third party publisher it seems, especially on Playstation! Xbox dominated the PlayStation sales chart, Game Pass broke records making crazy revenue numbers and the naysayers are writhing around uncomfortably to justify their old narratives regarding its sustainability. The Playstation 6 had its specs leaked. Battlefield 6 got its multiplayer reveal and it loo...

More developments and yet another visceral gut punch to the Playstation Nation; Playstation is embracing its third party nature faster than the fanboys can process. Now Sony is expanding PlayStation Studios titles across Steam, Epic, Xbox, Nintendo and Mobile. This has already caused absolute hysteria in the stables as some try and hold on to the expired idea of the Playstation they love. Xbox als...

Its time Parris Lilly and I had a proper chat about the reality of Xbox and its future strategy. A no holds-barred convo! Playstation fanboys are a special breed and few no that better than Parris! Also, I missed last week's show and there's some news to catch up on! This week though we also got another GOTY contender with Donkey Kong Bonanza.

What an insane gaming week and not all that positive. Mass layoffs laid waste to Microsoft and Xbox studios as multiple unannounced projects got cancelled along with Perfect Dark and Everwild. The Initiative was shut down, Turn 10 lost half its staff and there were layoffs across various Xbox studios. Then the following day, Helldivers 2 suddenly is announced for Xbox and this supposedly first par...

Despite its impressive software run, a lot of Xbox fans were questioning the future of the platform in the hardware space. Many stated that there was one narrow way that Xbox could really not only remain relevant but also change the game completely and it looks like Xbox is doing that as President of Xbox Sarah Bond announced the bold step that Xbox is taking going forward. In other news, to recon...

In a hilarious twist of fate, an Xbox branded handheld device shattered the urethera of the Playstation fandom who have been celebrating Xbox's multiplatform status for months on end. Now all sorts of existential questions are being asked about what constitutes an Xbox when previously the This Is An Xbox ad campaign was mocked ad nauseum, especially by me. Now the reality of Microsoft's st...

Here we go! The big annual Xbox showcase event and this week we also had State of Play from Sony. Will Xbox deliver enough to satiate people? The Nintendo Switch 2 released this week and the reception has been a bit tepid. Black Myth Wukong is now coming to Xbox exactly one year after the Playstation release. Not suspicious at all!

We are a week away from the Xbox Games Showcase and already we've had some bad news that Xbox has sidelined its handheld project 'Pembrook' according to Windows Central. What of the rest of Xbox and its expectations for next week? Last year it delivered a stellar show. This year expectations seem to be a bit mixed but why? The new Cyberpunk game was officially revealed as Cyberpunk 2 a...