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Comic book shops have to agree to keep the Absolute Batman Day 2026 secrets if they want to take part
The list of games that get played the most on PlayStation and Xbox is nearly identical across the two console platforms, and the games themselves are either long-running live service titles or annualised sports games. This has been the case for years, and analyst Mat Piscatella recently reminded everyone that no real change has occurred.
A new rumor suggests Xbox may keep disc support on its next-gen console, even as Sony moves to cut physical media owners off entirely.
He’s been saying it for years: blockbuster game development is unsustainable today, and given that Shawn Layden used to lead PlayStation’s entire roster of first-party studios, he likely knows a fair bit about the issue. “Every generation it costs twice as much to build a game,” he told Tom Phillips more recently.
“I think I’m gonna die in this house,” sings Charli XCX on the soundtrack of Wuthering Heights. It could just as easily serve as the unofficial motto of contemporary pop culture, and perhaps of our generation as well. Over the past few years, films, TV series, books, and music have all seemed to revolve around…
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Sony has been attracting serious heat over plans to stop manufacturing physical copies of its games, with gamers all over the world expressing concernsabout retaining ownership of their media. Sony announced on July 1 that all physical game disc production for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will be discontinued starting in January 2028, restricting…