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Marathon’s director has explained the decision behind the game not being free-to-play. Developed byBungie, Marathon is an extraction shooter. The game sees players form a crew of three to battle against up to 18 other players in each zone. Over the weekend, Bungie debuted the first gameplay from the game, as well as therelease date and closed alpha plans. Bungie also confirmed that the game will be a “premium product,” though the studio has yet toconfirm the price....

Microsoft has announced several upcoming Black Friday deals including discounts on consoles, subscriptions and accessories. XboxGame Pass Ultimate and Xbox Live Gold members will get early access to the deals beginning on Thursday November 21. Discounts will be available to all from November 24 and run until December 2. They’ll include a range of newXbox One Xconsole bundles featuring “the season’s hottest games” for $349.99. Microsoftsays it will also offer discounts of $100 off anyXbox OneS console, including the Xbox One S All Digital Edition, which will be available for $149....

Microsoft has officially announced its latest Xbox controller colour. Confirming a previous leak, the Astral Purple wireless controller is available to pre-order now for $64.99 / £54.99 ahead of its launch on September 19. The controller can connect toXbox Series X/SandXbox Oneconsoles,PC, mobile phones and tablets via Bluetooth andXboxWireless. Microsofthas already released at least seven new Xbox controller designs in 2023. In February it revealed and released the blue-purpleStellar Shift controller, followed by theVelocity Green controllerin March....

Microsoft says it was the top publisher on the PlayStation Store for pre-orders and pre-installs in the first quarter of 2025. During an earnings call on Wednesday for the company’s financial results for Q3 FY25 – covering January to March 2025 –MicrosoftCEOSatya Nadellanoted that the company’s games had the most pre-orders and pre-installs on both thePlayStationStore and theXboxStore during that period. The company also reported that gaming revenue grew 5% compared to the same period the previous year, while Xbox content and services revenue grew 8% “driven by growth in Xbox Game Pass, Call of Duty andMinecraft“....

Microsoft has confirmed plans to raise the price of major first-party Xbox Series X/S releases from $60 to $70 beginning in 2023. Starting next year, the likes ofForza Motorsport,Redfall, andStarfieldwill cost $69.99 at launch in the US. In a statement toIGN,Microsoftsaid regional pricing may differ and didn’t offer specifics for other countries. “This price reflects the content, scale, and technical complexity of these titles,” a Microsoft spokesperson said. “As with all games developed by our teams atXbox, they will also be available with Game Pass the same day they launch....

Xbox users will get their first chance to play MLB The Show when Sony launches a technical test for the latest series instalment later in February. Running from February 23 until March 1, the technical test will enablePlayStationplayers and a limited number ofXboxusers to sample a work-in-progress version of MLB The Show 21. Participants will “play online to help stress the servers, try out online match-making with cross-platform play, and cross-generational play”....

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues to be the fastest-selling entry in the long-running shooter series, according to publisher Activision. Havingtopped $800 million in sales in its first three daysof availability, the game crossed the $1 billion mark in 10 days. In doing so it surpassed the record previously held by 2012’s Black Ops 2, which took 15 days to reach $1 billion in sales. Activisionsaid over 200 million hours were spent playing over one billion Modern Warfare 2 matches acrossPlayStation,XboxandPCplatforms in the game’s first 10 days....

This MultiVersus LeBron James guide will give you the moves and strategies you need to master the NBA and Space Jam star. If you want to know how to use LeBron’s special moves, this guide breaks them all down and gives tips on how to use them. It also gives general strategies on the best way to use LeBron when fighting against opponents online. And if you don’t even know who LeBron James is, we’ve got you covered there too....

NBA 2K24 is getting a surprise release on Xbox Game Pass today, Microsoft has confirmed. The game wasn’t listed as coming toXbox‘s subscription service when the platform holder announcedMarch’s first wave of Game Pass releaseslast week. But it has sinceconfirmedthat2K’s basketball title will join the subscription service today for consoles and cloud gaming. Titles which joined Game Pass earlier this month include Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (Cloud, Console, andPC) and Paw Patrol World (Cloud, Console, and PC)....

Netflix’s The Witcher series will launch on December 20. The company confirmed the release date and launched a new trailer for the show on Thursday. The Witcher’s first season will consist of eight one-hour episodes. The live-action adaption of Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy novelsreceived its first trailer in July, offering a look at monster hunter Geralt (Henry Cavill), sorceress Yennefer (Anya Cholatra) and princess Ciri (Freya Allan) in action. Showrunner Lauren Hissrich has saidthe “very adult” show takes the franchise in a different direction toCD Projekt’s game series, which helped popularise The Witcher....

Microsoft has revealed the next batch of titles heading to Xbox Game Pass for console, PC and Xbox Cloud Gaming. Disney Dreamlight Valley: Founder’s Edition (Cloud, Console, andPC), Opus Magnum (PC) and Train Sim World 3 (Console and PC) join the service today. They’ll be followed by Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (PC) and DC League of Super-Pets: The Adventures of Krypto and Ace (Cloud, Console, and PC) on September 13....

Unlike companies like Xbox, Ubisoft and Bethesda, Nintendo is somewhat less reliant on E3 as its pillar event to make every big announcement. Due to the Japanese publishing giant’s Direct format, which it has been doing since 2011 – and now has its fair share of imitators – there isn’t the same pressure to make huge reveal after huge reveal in one two-hour segment. This year’s E3Nintendo Directlargely showcased titles we already know about, with slightly more details....

Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in the US in November 2021, while Call of Duty: Vanguard debuted atop the monthly software sales chart. According to research firm theNPD Group, theSwitchfamily of consoles sold 1.13 million units in November, with 550,000 sold during Thanksgiving week, making it the best-selling console over the Black Friday period. Switch has now been the top-selling video game console for 35 out of the last 36 months in the US....