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The standard price is for individual memberships. Family memberships will cost $79.99 per year. Both are in addition to NSO subscription costs.​

During the recent Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct, where Nintendo unveiled the Ver. 2.0 update and Happy Home Paradise DLC, it also confirmed the pricing plan for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. An individual membership will cost $49.99 for 12 months while a family...

Following in the footsteps of its predecessors, PlayStation players will get some exclusive "benefits" in Call of Duty: Vanguard.​

Call of Duty has had an exclusive marketing deal with PlayStation for a number of years at this point, and every year, that goes hand-in-hand with those playing on Sony’s console getting exclusive content or access in the new Call of Duty games. Modern Warfare, for instance, had Spec Ops’ Survival...

The top five most-played PlayStation VR titles worldwide were also revealed with titles like Rec Room and Beat Saber leading the pack.​

Sony has announced that in addition to the free PS4 and PS5 games that PlayStation Plus subscribers receive each month, there will also be three PlayStation VR titles provided. This will start in November with more details coming in the “next few weeks” (possibly when it announces next month’s...

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• Destiny 2 is now available with Xbox Game Pass for PC.
• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members can utilize Cross Save functionality across Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
• The Festival of the Lost event...

A UI expert explains the process of adapting mouse & keyboard controls for PS5, out October 21.

When we started development on Disciples: Liberation, we knew one of the biggest hurdles we’d face would be bringing a genre not that widely available on consoles to an entirely new audience of players. Taking something like a dark-fantasy-strategy RPG, a genre that had predominantly lived on the PC platform, and moving it across...

"Select games will also have the option to play the original European PAL version with language options," Nintendo says.​

Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack’s announcement at the recent Nintendo Direct was certainly a crowd-pleaser, thanks to its promise of bringing N64 and Sega Genesis games to the online subscription service, but some aspects of it drew some skepticism. For instance, there were many who feared that in...

Returning to the origins of the massively popular Resident Evil franchise, filmmaker Johannes Roberts brings the games to life for a whole new generation of fans. In Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town.

The company's exodus left the city a wasteland...with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, a...

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! Here we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows PC as well as upcoming Xbox Game Pass and soon-to-be released ID@Xbox games! Get more details on these games below and click their profiles for pre-order details when available (release dates are subject to change). Let’s jump in!

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PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan is satisfied about how the PS5 has started off, and more excited about what's still in the pipeline.​

The PS5 has gotten off to a strong start since its launch in November, and its lineup of exclusive game releases in its first year has been better than what you’d usually expect for a new consoles. Following a launch lineup consisting of the likes of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Demon’s Souls...

Though Nintendo had previously stated that the new Switch model would use the same Joy-Cons as the base model, it's now been confirmed that improvements have been made after all.​

If there’s one piece of the Nintendo Switch’s hardware (or two pieces, actually) that’s been on the receiving end of widespread criticism, its the analog sticks on its Joy-Con controllers, which have been...

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• Season Six launches with new Multiplayer, Zombies, and Warzone content, including Forsaken, the final chapter in the Cold War Dark Aether storyline.
• Complete the Verdansk ’84 storyline in Warzone as you navigate a leveled Stadium and Downtown following a major attack.
• Duke it out in three new Multiplayer maps: Amerika, Gluboko, and Deprogram, the latter of which offers a new and surreal 6v6 experience...

Xbox has confirmed that its Xbox Series X server blade upgrades have been completed, and users should see improvements very soon.​

Microsoft had been upgrading its xCloud server blades to Xbox Series X hardware, in order to let gamers enjoy streaming with better quality and at better framerates. As confirmed in a recent statement to The Verge, Microsoft has confirmed that it has now completed that upgrade.

Players should see...