If you’ve got an Xbox console or an account on PC, chances are you also have an Xbox Game Pass account. Microsoft’s all-you-can-game buffet is stupidly good value for money, a regularly rotating selection of games that aren’t just blasts from the pasts but also features newer releases arriving on launch day as well.

Where’s the PlayStation 5, or are we in for another repeat of the PlayStation 3 era that lasted a good couple of years longer than the regular hardware refresh cycle? Maybe not, because it sounds like the PlayStation 5 rumours are going to start picking up steam soon. That’s according to the sometimes accurate, sometimes not scoops of industry insider Marcus Sellers, who claims that developers are currently playing around with dev kits of the PlayStation 5 console.

With hardware that makes it a heavyweight in the 4K gaming scene, you can bet that all of that fancy new technology comes with a price tag that requires a substantial investment from consumer. Not everyone can afford that kind of setup however, making the Xbox Scorpio very much a luxury good. Luxury. That leaves Microsoft with a more select group to woo for their next mid-gen console, a group of people who don’t have to splash cash on the idiot tax known as the Powerball lottery every weekend in the vain hope that they’ll one day be rich and happy (hi mom!).

It’s been business as region-locking usual with Nintendo over the years, but it looks like they may be changing their tone on region-locking with the NX.

The gaming industry might have a new powerhouse publisher in the making over at Amazon.

Nigeria are getting their own gaming expo in the form of the West African Gaming Expo.

Playstation are not the only ones that have been thinking about Early Access. Developers have been requesting the same from Xbox.

European State of the Industry Surver results are out. What are European game developers main interests?