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After debuting in 1992, “Super Mario Kart” spawned an entire franchise for Nintendo. The series has been a staple on virtually every Nintendo platform since, providing chaotic and accessible racing fun to millions of gamers worldwide. True to its titular premise, the games primarily revolve around kart racing, with a whole selection of power-ups to…

At the end of a long day, Nick Bowman likes to retreat to his basement, boot up his PC and browse his massive video game library.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the Open July 2026 event for Mario Kart World. The checkered flag has been waved, and now the results are in!

PlayStation Plus subscribers can now pick up four additional free games to play on the service.

The Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2 PS5 ports have reportedly sold more than 7 million copies combined. The digital-only CoDreleases have become a massive success despite growing backlash over Sony’s decision to end physical PlayStation game production in 2028.

One of 2025’s most critically acclaimed PS5 action games is on sale for a massive discount. The new sale gets you the game for 67% off, including its newest DLC.

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET:Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said his team has traced today’s outage to the failure of a licensing service that “Xbox depends on.” That triggered sign-in scenarios to fail, followed by “many scenarios that require an entitlement check…such as listing out your Full Library and launching games that you own,” he tweeted.…

It happened two times in two weeks: First Sony’s PlayStation Network, then Microsoft’s Xbox experienced significant outages. Monday’s Xbox outage was particularly galling for users, since many Xbox games these days require authentication

Psychonauts developer Double Fine Productions was among the five studios spun off from Xbox as part of its ongoing restructuring, and while it (thankfully) avoided closure, the divorce has forced the team to make cuts. Specifically, the studio has announced the departures of 23 staff members.

Sony on Tuesday announced the next batch of PlayStation Plus monthly games, coming in August, and these games confirm for me that gaming inside to beat the heat all summer was one of my better ideas. People online rave about Signalis, and Dying Light 2 has generally favorable reviews on Metacritic. Big Walk seems like…