
Single-Player Exclusives? Xbox Says Don't Count on It
Xbox's renewed push for exclusives already has a major asterisk: leadership says single-player games being console exclusive isn't "carved in stone."
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Xbox's renewed push for exclusives already has a major asterisk: leadership says single-player games being console exclusive isn't "carved in stone."

Insomniac dropped a cinematic trailer for Marvel's Wolverine featuring Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth, and brutal claw combat. The comment sections barely noticed, because they're still furious about Sony killing physical discs.

Sony's July PS Plus lineup leads with Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Rise of the Ronin, but the two PS2 classics buried at the bottom of the list are the picks I'm most excited about.

The FlexStrike was supposed to launch alongside Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls on August 6. Now it has no release date at all.

Santa Monica Studio has confirmed God of War Laufey will be available on disc, all but guaranteeing a launch before Sony's January 2028 deadline to end physical game production.

Disney Dreamlight Valley's latest paid expansion opens a gate to Honeyglow Woods, bringing Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore into the cozy life sim alongside beekeeping, Pooh Sticks, and four new regions.

Fiesta Online, the anime MMORPG that first launched in 2007, is making the jump to PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms. Gamigo hasn't set a date, but the game will appear at Gamescom.

Toby Fox's team has patched Chapter 5 to squash memory leaks that were tanking PS4 stability, plus several softlocks and combat glitches.

Schedule I's latest update brings gamepad support to the heist sim, alongside a major systems overhaul and performance improvements across the board.

Trophy lists for the upcoming Black Ops 1 and 2 PlayStation ports have surfaced, and they paint a picture of classic features left behind. Wager Matches, Theater Mode, and League Play all appear to be missing.

The Revelations DLC's flagship weapon, the Chain Spear, shipped without a keybind on console. Players are greeted with a "??" button prompt and can't progress until they toggle a controller preset.

Season 9 brings Jubilee, a full Black Widow rework, a revamped Team-Up system, and balance changes touching 80% of the roster. This is the biggest Marvel Rivals update yet, and it's not particularly close.

The matchmaking servers across all Age of Empires titles are coming down for scheduled maintenance this Wednesday. Plan your matches accordingly.

Sony's PSN requirement means Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls won't be available on Steam in 132 countries. It's the Helldivers 2 fiasco all over again.

Wall Street loves what players hate. Sony's stock climbed 3.2% the day it announced the death of physical PlayStation discs, even as overwhelming player polls show near-universal opposition.

The director of the Video Game History Foundation has publicly agreed that piracy is now the only functioning form of game preservation, after Sony announced it will stop producing PlayStation discs in 2028.

Five years after Sony backed down from killing the PS3 and Vita storefronts, the company is pulling the plug again. This time, there's no fan campaign that's going to save them.

Battlefield Studios sent every player an in-game message celebrating a switch to in-game XP Booster timers, then yanked it back and called it an error. Sound familiar? It happened three weeks ago too.

Sony co-invented the compact disc in the 1980s. Now it's pulling the plug on physical media for all new PlayStation games starting January 2028.

Microsoft acquired Undead Labs in 2018. Eight years and zero shipped games later, the State of Decay studio is reportedly searching for a buyer to avoid being shut down.

Evo 2026 packed in a wild spread of fighting game announcements, from a chibi Tekken cartoon to 2XKO wrapping its first DLC season. Here's everything that happened.

The final team for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is a deliberately weird mix of Ghost Rider, Blade, Loki, and Deadpool. Arc System Works owns it.

Black Tides wraps up Assassin's Creed Shadows with a three-hour finale that outclasses the base game's storytelling in almost every way, and it couldn't have arrived at a better time.

Sony is stripping 551 previously purchased Studio Canal movies from PlayStation users' libraries this September, offering zero compensation in return.