Xbox caps Game Pass cloud gaming: Ultimate drops to 15 hours per month
Game Pass plans will include five to 15 cloud hours from November. Extra playtime will be sold separately, but Xbox has not revealed the price.
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01OPENCharting the Unknown takes Crimson Desert to sea: date, price and everything announced
Crimson Desert's first DLC adds sailing, underwater exploration, expanded housing and new stories. It launches in the US on October 15.
02OPENLara Croft and the Temple of Osiris feels as though it was made for mobile
We finished it in about three and a half hours on an iPhone 13 Pro. Sharp touch controls, smart puzzles and brisk pacing make this more than a convenient port.
03OPENGaming dictionary: the terms everyone uses but nobody explains
From aggro to VRR through meta, proc and roguelite: a living glossary for understanding games and conversations without pretending you already knew.
04OPENGTA 6's two limited-edition DualSense controllers cost $84.99: release date and pre-orders
PlayStation will launch black and white controllers on November 19, the same day as GTA 6. Pre-orders open September 10, with tighter distribution for the black model.
05OPENHow to protect your Steam, PSN and Xbox accounts, and recover them if hacked
Secure the linked email account before protecting or recovering Steam, PlayStation or Xbox. If you detect an unfamiliar login, use a trusted device.
06OPENDragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen reveals relic expeditions and a formidable ice dragon
Capcom reveals how expeditions, the ice dragon Fimbl and relic appraisal work. The expansion launches October 9, while the base game receives a free update today.
07OPENRoblox has 132 million daily users: how it works and which parental controls to enable
Here is what the download contains, how Robux and experiences work, and which controls families should enable before a child begins playing.
08OPENHow much space Onimusha: Way of the Sword needs and what to clear before Friday
Capcom requires 50GB and an SSD on PC. PS5 and Xbox downloads can differ, so players should leave room for the launch update.
09OPENDune: Awakening launches on consoles without full crossplay, but Funcom has promised it later
PS5 and Xbox Series get the game September 22. Xbox can share servers with the Windows Store version, while Steam and PlayStation must wait.
10OPENHonor of Kings vs Mobile Legends: switching MOBAs is easy, leaving your account behind is not
Both deliver fast 5v5 matches, but their maps, pacing, heroes and years of account progress make the choice more complicated than another download.
11OPENSpain's video game market reaches €2.29 billion as 28% of people aged 65 to 75 now play
Twenty-eight percent of Spaniards aged 65–75 play games. The market reaches 22.8 million players while local development still needs stability.
12OPENHe worked up to 17-hour days on DOOM, then lost his job before the expansion launched
Producer Andrew Willis describes two months without a day off to finish Revelations of the Dark Ages. id Software and Microsoft have not answered his account.
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- Xbox caps Game Pass cloud gaming: Ultimate drops to 15 hours per month
- Ping, jitter and packet loss: finding what breaks an online game
- Gran Turismo 7 plans its biggest 2026 update with 12 cars and two tracks
- How much internet speed and data cloud gaming uses per hour
- Crossplay, cross-save and cross-progression are different: check before switching consoles
- Charting the Unknown takes Crimson Desert to sea: date, price and everything announced
- Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris feels as though it was made for mobile
- Gaming dictionary: the terms everyone uses but nobody explains
- GTA 6's two limited-edition DualSense controllers cost $84.99: release date and pre-orders
- How to protect your Steam, PSN and Xbox accounts, and recover them if hacked
- Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen reveals relic expeditions and a formidable ice dragon
- Roblox has 132 million daily users: how it works and which parental controls to enable
- How much space Onimusha: Way of the Sword needs and what to clear before Friday
- Dune: Awakening launches on consoles without full crossplay, but Funcom has promised it later
- Honor of Kings vs Mobile Legends: switching MOBAs is easy, leaving your account behind is not
- Spain's video game market reaches €2.29 billion as 28% of people aged 65 to 75 now play
- He worked up to 17-hour days on DOOM, then lost his job before the expansion launched
- How much space The Blood of Dawnwalker needs on PC, PS5 and Xbox before you download it
- GTA 6 has not been announced for PC: every requirements list you see today is made up
- What SBMM is and why so many players hate it
- DLSS 5 launches September 3: better realism costs frames and starts on RTX 50
- Nintendo Switch 2 now costs $499.99 as the price increase takes effect
- You pay $70 and press buy, but the digital game does not become yours
- The best mobile gacha games in 2026, picked for how you want to play
- Modern Warfare 4 PC requirements: minimum, recommended and Activision's warning
- Onimusha returns after 20 years, with far more than a sword at stake for Capcom
- PlayStation will air two State of Play shows on September 3 and save Final Fantasy VII Revelation for last
- Fable shows 34 minutes of gameplay, and Bowerstone finally feels like a real city
- Do not share your password: use Steam Families to share games instead
- GTA 6 at 60 FPS on PS5 Pro sounds great, but it is still a $899 rumour
- I returned to Pokémon TCG Pocket. 68 packs later, Team Rocket had me again
- Roguelike or roguelite? The difference is what survives your death
- Your game runs at 120 FPS but still feels slow: how input lag works
- Rubius sees more than two hours of GTA 6. Here is what Rockstar let him reveal
- Moldwasher review: cleaning mould has never been this relaxing
- GTA 6 shows 27 minutes on Netflix. The 6-star wanted level is back
- The most anticipated games of 2026 and 2027: dates, platforms and Game Pass
- Final Fantasy VII Revelation arrives in spring 2027 with the Weapons and Highwind
- Silent Hill: Townfall is the series' first full-length first-person game and launches September 24
- 32,000 Battle Points per hero: how to unlock heroes without spending Diamonds
- Smooth gameplay matters more than playing on Ultra. How we configure Mobile Legends for better aim
- LEGO Skylines is a Paradox city-builder, but Colossal Order is not making it
- Heroes of Might and Magic III is getting a remake that keeps 25 years of community maps
- Rainbow Six Tactics finally turns the series into a turn-based game
- Xbox will turn thousands of discs into digital licences: how it works
- HoYoverse leaves anime behind for Nodusfall, a co-op hunt through broken mythology
- Dispatch puts the game in the box as Sony and Rockstar move away from physical media
- ‘Heartbreaking’: Rockstar confirms the GTA 6 leaks and keeps its November 19 launch
- Nobody has ever completed Mobile Legends' Golden Road. Team Spirit are two tournaments away
- Crimson Desert Enhanced is free: new story scenes, five new dubs and 20% off
- The Blood of Dawnwalker has a launch trailer, and September 3 cannot come soon enough
- Mega Man: Dual Override brings back Proto Man, but Capcom has not confirmed he is playable
- The Witcher 3 Remastered launches September 29, and every owner gets both expansions free
- Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. Release date, price and what changes
- Cyberleek burned tokens valued at $1 million. The paradox is that it may make more money
- Until Dawn 2 trades the snow for a tropical island. Its most painful choice remains
- The Witcher 4 targets 2028 as CD Projekt asks for patience with its most ambitious game
- StarToU reveals its first gameplay and introduces hip-hop idol group MacGuffin
- PS Plus September 2026 already has one launch and ten games leaving
- Nine leaks, four subpoenas and a Netflix exclusive: the Cyberleek GTA 6 case
- How to tell whether a game will run on your PC before buying it
- Fortnite gives away 40,000 XP and six Sprites: all 21 working Override codes
- The Pokémon TCG introduces cards you cannot play alone, and Mega Rayquaza returns after eleven years
- The Blood of Dawnwalker asked for an RTX 5090 and now settles for half, 13 days out
- Xbox Series X25 European price leaks ahead of Black Friday
- Take-Two goes after the GTA 6 leaker and asks Microsoft and Discord to name him
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 hits Netflix on 20 October, and there is still a fifth character in the dark
- Team Rocket's Ambition hits Pokémon TCG Pocket on 27 August
- The Guild returns on 17 September with a new name, and not to sell more copies
- 73 of Mobile Legends 133 heroes run the same battle spell. It is not always the one you want
- The best Mobile Legends items and equipment for every role, and the order to buy them
- Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days leaves Early Access in March 2027 and lands on five platforms at once
- Black Flag Resynced review: the sea is still untouchable, the swordplay is stuck in 2013
- Best Mobile Legends emblems for every role (2026)
- The GTA 6 leaker shot his own name into a wall inside the game: the definitive proof
- 1000xRESIST is getting a physical PS5 and Switch 2 release: date and extras
- How to enable 120Hz and VRR on PS5, and fix them when they do not appear
- Modern Warfare 4 beta: dates, start time and how to get access
- Everything we know about Intergalactic, Naughty Dog's already divisive new game
- Every Mobile Legends rank in order, star requirements and season reset (2026)
- When is the MARVEL Cosmic Invasion Doctor Doom DLC coming out? Everything confirmed
- Agefield High: Rock the School review: a disaster not worth your time
- The best games coming out in September 2026
- How to expand PS5 storage: which SSD to buy and how to install it
- Is PS5 Pro worth buying just for GTA 6?
- Marvel's Wolverine previews praise its violence and debate almost everything else
- Steam's AI label is already hurting games
- Twitch is training Amazon's AI on your streams and chat: here's how to stop it
- Three GTA 6 episodes on Netflix? The rumor that could reshape Trailer 3
- Crimson Desert's biggest updates
- Mobile Legends diamond codes for August 2026: the latest batch and how to redeem them step by step
- Oblivion Remastered lands complete on Switch 2. 2006's Game of the Year now fits in your pocket.
- Battlefield 6 resurrects Wake Island: naval warfare, two-seater jets and the Top Gun cast
- What is ray tracing, explained simply: why it eats your fps and when it's worth switching on
- Lara Croft, now in your pocket. Temple of Osiris hits iOS and Android on September 8
- PS Plus Extra and Premium in August 2026: every Game Catalog title, dates and what to play first
- Magic Chess: Go Go turns the board into a concert. Season 7 arrives with Alpha, its first 7-Gold hero
- What is gacha and why it's got you
- The best Android emulators in 2026, from the NES to the PS2 in your pocket
- PlayStation reveals the Marvel's Wolverine Limited Edition PS5, with two designs and a 649.99-dollar bundle
- The best free PC games in 2026, from shooters to gacha without spending a cent
- The best multiplayer mobile games in 2026, from MOBA to battle royale
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review, the turn-based RPG that earned its Game of the Year the hard way
- Baldur's Gate 3 review, the RPG masterpiece that plays slow and remembers every choice
- Mobile Legends roles and lanes explained: what the jungle, gold, exp, mid and roam actually do
- Free diamonds in Mobile Legends: the methods that actually work and the scams to dodge
- From REANIMAL's surprise DLC to a return to the Road 96 universe, everything the THQ Nordic Showcase 2026 left us
- The Dead by Daylight creators turn Serious Sam into a co-op roguelite, and it lands before August is out
- Gamescom 2026: dates, times, showcases and confirmed games
- 20 minutes of GTA 6 or just five? What's rumored about the August 27 look, and what's smoke
- Rockstar drops a new GTA 6 look on August 27 and lands it on Netflix first, not YouTube
- Phantom Blade Zero shows 11 minutes of gameplay and opens pre-orders: the game is finished and lands October 29
- The best RPGs for PS5 and PC in 2026: from the Clair Obscur phenomenon to the timeless Baldur's Gate 3
- The best horror games for PS5 and PC in 2026: from Resident Evil's scares to Silent Hill's dread
- The best Steam Deck games in 2026: from roguelikes that devour hours to the AAA games that finally run
- Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave lands September 17, Switch 2 only, and its big idea is rewinding time
- How to rank up fast in Mobile Legends: the guide to escaping Epic hell
- The best zombie games for PS5 and PC in 2026: from Dying Light's parkour to Resident Evil's horror
- GTA 6's map: what we know about Leonida and Vice City, and the huge map the community is already building
- Masks of the Void: Origins, the Spanish roguelite that turns any object on the map into a weapon
- Dying Light 2 joins PS Plus free this August, with Signalis and Big Walk alongside
- GTA 6: release date, price, characters, map and every detail Rockstar has confirmed
- Jujutsu Kaisen skins remain available in Mobile Legends until September 11
- 300 Diamonds to turn Aulus into a space corsair: Mobile Legends' August VIP
- GTA 6's third trailer smells imminent: insiders point to 6 August and Rockstar is already sweeping YouTube
- Snezhnaya is now available in Genshin Impact: release date, characters and everything new in version 7.0
- Xbox is officially more expensive. As of today, the Series X costs €749 and even the small one starts at €449
- A mod turns Baldur's Gate 3 into a third-person game, and suddenly it looks like a different game
- Mobile Legends tier list: the best heroes of season 41 across all ranked matches
- Which console should you buy for GTA 6? PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X and Series S, compared after the August price hike
- Nothing can stop the EA sale now. On 4 August, Saudi Arabia takes EA Sports FC, The Sims and Battlefield
- The best heroes to start with in Mobile Legends in 2026: two per role, picked from our 133 hero guides
- The best co-op games on PS5 to play as a couple (2026)
- Yes, you can share PS Plus and your games with another PS5. Here's how it works
- PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra or Premium: prices, differences and which tier is worth it in 2026
- Diving in Pokémon Pokopia won't cost you a thing. The €34.99 pass buys the town at the bottom of the sea
- Mobile Legends x Street Fighter 6: how the event that ended August 18 worked
- PS Plus August 2026 games confirmed: Dying Light 2, Big Walk and Signalis
- Agefield High wanted to be the Bully 2 Rockstar will not make. IGN played six missions, and it looks rough
- Expeditions: Samurai enters early access on 7 August with only its first act, and English is the only language
- Gothic Classic hits PS5 and Xbox at €29.99. The PC original costs $9.99 on Steam
- Amazon's head of gaming puts Tomb Raider: Catalyst in 2028. The company still says 2027
- Every PS5 Pro game compatible with upgraded PSSR: the updated 2026 list
- DLSS, FSR and PSSR explained: the differences and which one you should use in 2026
- GTA 6's boxed PS5 code is region locked: be careful when importing it
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2 hits Switch 2 this week with 4K, 60fps and a Blade nobody expected
- The 10 best Nintendo games to play in 2026: these make a Switch 2 worth owning
- Fable: release date, platforms, story and everything we know about the return to Albion
- Fable has reportedly blown past its budget. Now Microsoft's PS5 strategy makes a lot more sense
- What games are coming in August 2026? Marvel, Star Wars and the impossible return of Metal Gear Solid 4
- Video games are a money-making machine, but the industry no longer knows how to sell them
- The 5 games that ruled July: Palworld at 30 million copies sold and the fifth is not out yet
- The Gaspi tribute at La Velada: his motto was 'give and don't get hit', and his mother came on stage to correct him
- Marta Díaz's sister took her hood off at La Velada and gained 200,000 followers that same night
- La Velada del Año VI, summed up: TheGrefg wins the main event, eight million watching and not a single record broken
- PS5 emulators have woken up: the race to build one that actually works has begun
- Fake footage of Jason surfing shows why GTA 6 needs Trailer 3 now
- Resident Evil returns without Leon or Claire. Its new trailer finally seems to understand the games
- God of War Laufey launches February 16, 2027. Kratos comes next
- Black Flag Resynced sells 3.5 million copies in 14 days. In Barcelona, 51 jobs remain at risk
- Xbox brings its classics to PC. If you bought them on console, you do not pay again
- Warhorse trademarks Kingdom Come Salvation. The name fits its next game; the multiplayer theory does not
- PlayStation Network goes down and locks some downloaded games. Sony never acknowledged the outage
- Marvel’s Wolverine hits PS5 on September 15, and its new trailer wants you to forget Spider-Man
- The Blood of Dawnwalker gives you 30 days to save your family. Exploring will not waste a minute
- MindsEye was Leslie Benzies' grand return after GTA. One year later, the disaster is bigger than the game
- EA has Europe's approval: the Saudi-led $55 billion buyout faces one final test
- Is preordering GTA VI worth it? Almost everything on offer is yours even if you don't pay now
- GTA VI will sell obscenely well. That doesn't make its campaign good
- The new PS5 update brings almost nothing. Install it anyway
- Rise of the Ronin joins PS Plus. Sony may be testing a second life for its exclusives
- GTA 6 price guide: what each edition includes and why the physical box ships without a disc
- The Witcher 3 is getting a new expansion after eleven years: Songs of the Past debuts August 25
- NVIDIA finally shows DLSS 5's controls, and it can now leave a character's face alone
- Rockstar still has not shown GTA VI gameplay, but its patents offer clues about NPCs, traffic and interiors
- ZA/UM considers up to 32 layoffs just two months after launching Zero Parades
- Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters are official, but Bethesda is keeping the big details quiet
- Halo: Campaign Evolved launches July 28: price, Game Pass and the PC you need
- The Duskbloods network test opens July 22: requirements, European times and how to apply
- GTA VI skips PC at launch. Should you wait, or buy a console for one game?
- El Xokas responds to Burger King, says he was paid and has no intention of changing
- GTA VI pre-orders may have made $180 million: here is what the estimate covers
- PS Plus adds Avatar and Rise of the Ronin as Sony puts an end date on physical games
- Xbox Game Pass in July 2026: every new game, what is leaving and what is worth playing