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Peter Levin of Griffin Gaming Partners explains to Yahoo Finance Executive EditorBrian Sozzi why Xbox could be strategically expendable within Microsoft while its franchises, platform, and intellectual property may represent a multibillion-dollar standalone asset. He then breaks down why Grand Theft Auto takes a decade to develop—and why GTA VI could generate extraordinary demand.

Microsoft quietly rewired how tens of millions of people access Xbox games this month. Starting with the August 4, 2026 content wave, a new Game Pass Premium tier began appearing on individual title listings, slotted between the long-running Ultimate plan and the PC-only subscription. It isn’t a splashy rebrand with a keynote attached. It’s a…

Seventh-generation console emulation hit a milestone this summer. On July 31, 2026, the RPCS3 team tagged version 0.0.42 after 244 commits across 58 days of work, adding ARM64 optimizations and graphics stability fixes to the PlayStation 3 emulator. A few weeks earlier, on June 8, 2026, the Xemu project shipped v0.8.136, its latest stable build…

The handheld gaming PC market just got its clearest fork in the road yet. On one side sits Valve’s Steam Deck OLED, a device that has spent three years proving that a Linux-based, console-like handheld can outsell expectations and keep getting cheaper relative to its power. On the other is Asus and Microsoft’s joint effort,…