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Xbox Game Pass Just Changed Everything: 50% Price Hike, New Plans, and 75+ Day-One Games

Xbox Game Pass Just Changed Everything: 50% Price Hike, New Plans, and 75+ Day-One Games

Overhauled Tiers and Pricing On Oct. 1, 2025, Microsoft announced a major overhaul of Xbox Game Pass news.xbox.com. The old Core plan is now Game Pass Essential ($9.99/mo) and Standard becomes Game Pass Premium ($14.99/mo), while Game Pass Ultimate remains the top tier. In the U.S., Essential and Premium keep their prices; Ultimate is raised to $29.99/month news.xbox.com reuters.com. (Microsoft also quietly raised the PC Game Pass price to $16.49/month windowscentral.com.) Xbox says the hikes reflect a much larger game catalog and new benefits. As Xbox’s announcement put it, “Ultimate is now priced at $29.99/month, reflecting the expanded catalog, new
1 October 2025
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Ghost of Yōtei Review Bombshell: Is PlayStation’s New Samurai Epic a Masterpiece—or Just More of the Same?

Ghost of Yōtei Release Date CONFIRMED – Atsu’s Revenge Lands in October 2025

Release Date & Global Launch Times Sony and developer Sucker Punch officially announced in April 2025 that Ghost of Yōtei hits PS5 on October 2, 2025 blog.playstation.com. As GamesHub notes, that means most players will see the game unlock at 12:00 AM on Oct. 2, but U.S. west-coast players get an earlier start. Specifically, the global launch schedule is: Sep 30, 2025 – 9:00 PM PDT (Oct. 1) for Pacific Time; 10:00 PM MT; 11:00 PM CT; and 12:00 AM EDT (Oct. 2) gameshub.com egamersworld.com. Meanwhile Europe, Japan, Australia and other regions all go live at midnight local time on Oct. 2 egamersworld.com khelnow.com. In
1 October 2025
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Finally, Minecraft’s Copper Age Update Arrives – Golems, New Gear & More

Finally, Minecraft’s Copper Age Update Arrives – Golems, New Gear & More

The Copper Age Update On September 30, 2025, Mojang officially “entered The Copper Age”, rolling out Game Drop 3 of 2025. Minecraft’s blog excitedly proclaims that players can now “express yourself in every shade of copper” as they use the versatile metal for tools, light sources, smart storage, and even lively mechanical companions known as copper golems windowscentral.com. In its trademark tone, the developers say “this is the start of a new clonking era of creativity!” windowscentral.com. In short, copper – an ore mostly used for decoration since its introduction – finally gets a wealth of new uses. This update
1 October 2025
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Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) – $50 Billion Buyout Buzz Sends Stock Soaring (Sept 2025)

Gamers Stunned: Saudi-Backed Consortium Snaps Up EA in Record $55B Deal

Key Facts: A consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), with private equity firm Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, will take Electronic Arts (EA) private in an all-cash transaction valuing the company at roughly $55 billion. EA shareholders get $210 per share – about a 25% premium to the pre-announcement stock price apnews.com ir.ea.com. Including debt, it is the largest leveraged buyout of a public tech company on record (well above the prior $32B Texas utilities deal) apnews.com reuters.com. The deal was approved by EA’s board and is expected to close in Q1 FY2027, pending regulatory
29 September 2025
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Fortnite Pulls ‘Peacemaker’ Dance Emote Over Nazi Symbol Concerns – Fans Outraged

Fortnite Pulls ‘Peacemaker’ Dance Emote Over Nazi Symbol Concerns – Fans Outraged

Background: Fortnite’s Peacemaker Crossover Fortnite frequently adds pop‑culture crossovers in its Item Shop. In mid-September 2025 it launched a DC Comics collaboration featuring Peacemaker (the James Gunn TV series starring John Cena). The bundle included a Peacemaker character skin, Eagly back-bling, a shield-themed pickaxe and wrap, plus two emotes thegamepost.com. One of those emotes – Peaceful Hips – recreated the silly hip-swaying dance from the show’s Season 2 opening credits fortnite.fandom.com fortnite.fandom.com. As the Fortnite wiki explains, Peaceful Hips “is based on the opening credits sequence for the second season of Peacemaker” fortnite.fandom.com, and it was available for purchase (400 V‑bucks)
28 September 2025
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Minecraft LIVE 2025 Unveils “Mounts of Mayhem” – Spear, Nautilus and Zombie Horses Revealed

Minecraft LIVE 2025 Unveils “Mounts of Mayhem” – Spear, Nautilus and Zombie Horses Revealed

Mounts of Mayhem – New Combat and Exploration At Minecraft LIVE, Mojang’s developers introduced Mounts of Mayhem – a game drop themed around new rideable creatures and combat gear. The centerpiece is the Spear, Minecraft’s first multi-material (“tiered”) weapon in years minecraft.net. As the official blog explains, the spear can be crafted from copper up to netherite, and “will give you an edge in both melee and mounted combat” minecraft.net. It offers two attacks: a quick jab from foot to keep enemies at bay, and a charge attack that can knock foes off their mounts with the right timing minecraft.net.
27 September 2025
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Forza Horizon 6 Speeds Into Japan – Release Window, New Features & Everything We Know

Forza Horizon 6 Goes Full Send: Japan Setting, 2026 Launch, ‘Biggest Map Yet,’ PS5 Post‑Launch—All the Breaking News From Sept 25–26, 2025

Key facts (Sept 25–26, 2025) The announcement: what Xbox and Playground confirmed Xbox lifted the wraps on FH6 at Tokyo Game Show 2025 with a short cinematic that nods to prior Horizon locales before panning up to Mount Fuji, confirming Japan as the next Horizon festival site and 2026 as the release window.  PC Gamer+1 On timing and platforms, Microsoft’s official FAQ is explicit: Xbox Series X|S and PC first in 2026; PS5 post‑launch. It also reiterates Game Pass day one, with Cloud Gaming access.  Forza Support “For a long time, Japan has been top of Horizon fans’ wish lists,” says art director Don Arceta, calling the country’s cars, music,
26 September 2025
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Forza Horizon 6 Speeds Into Japan – Release Window, New Features & Everything We Know

Forza Horizon 6 Speeds Into Japan – Release Window, New Features & Everything We Know

Overview: A New Horizon in 2026 After months of rumors, Microsoft officially unveiled Forza Horizon 6 at Tokyo Game Show 2025, confirming that the open-world racing series will make its long-awaited leap to Japan news.xbox.com. Playground Games returns as the developer, with publishing by Xbox Game Studios, continuing the partnership that’s made Forza Horizon a genre-leading franchise. The announcement included a short cinematic teaser (initially leaked via an Instagram ad) that dropped tantalizing clues – a beckoning maneki-neko cat, a butterfly revealing the Japanese word for “Legend,” and a distant Mt. Fuji – before the FH6 logo slammed onto the screen windowscentral.com windowscentral.com. It’s now official:
25 September 2025
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PlayStation State of Play Sept 2025 – Xbox Exclusive Lands on PS5, Classic Comebacks & More Shocks

PlayStation State of Play September 2025 Stuns with Wolverine, New PS5 Exclusive and Surprise Reveals

Wolverine and a New Exclusive Steal the Show Sony capped the event with its most anticipated first-party title: Marvel’s Wolverine. The new trailer gave fans a grisly first look at Insomniac’s take on Logan, featuring “fast, fluid… attacks and techniques that’ll dismember or break anyone who gets in his way,” as the developers embrace the character’s savage combat blog.playstation.com. Set for a Fall 2026 release on PS5, the game will take Wolverine from the frosty Canadian wilderness to the neon streets of Madripoor and beyond twistedvoxel.com. The footage even teased iconic adversaries like the mutant Mystique and villainous Omega Red lurking in the
25 September 2025
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Marvel’s Wolverine PS5 Trailer Unleashes Brutal Action, Fall 2026 Release Revealed

Battlefield 6 Campaign Reveal: How This Epic Trailer Aims to Upstage Call of Duty

Battlefield 6’s Campaign Unveiled at State of Play Sony’s September State of Play event gave gamers their first-ever look at the Battlefield 6 single-player campaign. During the livestream, a new story trailer for BF6 was one of the show’s headline reveals notebookcheck.net. The footage (now available on YouTube) offers a glimpse into the game’s cinematic ambitions, blending fast-cut gameplay with narrative scenes. It opens with Dagger 13 operators executing a synchronized takedown, and then erupts into a montage of global combat set-pieces gamespot.com. In one moment we see the player character sprinting through a bombed-out Brooklyn neighborhood under heavy fire; the next,
25 September 2025
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PlayStation State of Play Sept 2025 – Xbox Exclusive Lands on PS5, Classic Comebacks & More Shocks

PlayStation State of Play Sept 2025 – Xbox Exclusive Lands on PS5, Classic Comebacks & More Shocks

Housemarque’s Saros Steals the Show with Next-Gen Sci-Fi Action Sony kicked off the event with a bang by showcasing Housemarque’s new PS5 exclusive, Saros. This title, from the makers of Returnal, delivered on Sony’s promise of an “extended look” at gameplay tomsguide.com. The nearly five-minute demo of Saros highlighted its fast-paced third-person combat and vivid sci-fi world. Players take on the role of hero Arjun Devraj, equipped with high-tech weaponry and unique abilities gamespot.com. One standout feature is the Soltari Shield, which lets Arjun absorb incoming projectiles and then unleash them back at enemies using a charged Power Weapon attack
25 September 2025
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Mystery, Rage & Record‑Breaking Horror: Why Silent Hill F Is Surprising Everyone

Mystery, Rage & Record‑Breaking Horror: Why Silent Hill F Is Surprising Everyone

Return of a Horror Classic For years, the Silent Hill series was dormant in a fog of uncertainty. The last mainline entries in the early 2010s had been met with mixed reception, and Konami’s iconic horror franchise went over a decade without a new chapter. Now Silent Hill f is being hailed as a spectacular comeback. It’s the first completely new Silent Hill game in years, not a remake but a fresh story – and critics say it “fully understands the appeal of the franchise” while taking bold risks northcountrypublicradio.org. This revival comes on the heels of last year’s well-received
22 September 2025
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