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Ten months after Microsoft and ASUS put the Xbox brand on a handheld gaming PC for the first time, the ROG Xbox Ally is selling for less than $500. Best Buy has been listing the base model at $497.99 to $499.99 through late July and into August 2026, a roughly 17 percent discount off the…

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Videogames have long been considered a premium form of entertainment, but in recent years, they have become a very expensive hobby for many of us. The ongoing memory shortage caused by surging demand from the artificial intelligence sector has driven the prices of consoles, PC components, and related products to unprecedented highs.

AMD’s newest handheld chip just shipped inside a $999.99 device, and it is only 12% faster in real gaming benchmarks than the chip it replaces. That is the uncomfortable headline buried inside the launch of the ROG Xbox Ally X, the $200-pricier successor to the ROG Ally X that ASUS and Microsoft put on shelves…

Epic Games has significantly reduced FortniteSprite Dust costs, making it much cheaper for players to resummon their lost Sprites. Regular resummon prices have dropped by 10%, while some Mythic Sprite variants now cost 33% less.

We develop a framework for assessing, and achieving, sustainable events from a climate change perspective using welfare economics and the principle of shared responsibility. We apply this framework to two case-studies as illustrative examples: an ex-ante analysis of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and an ex-post analysis of the 2024 Coldplay European tour. Our estimates…