Friday ended with a bit of a shocker, as Microsoft announced that it would soon be jacking the price of Xbox Live Gold up considerably. Many pundits presumed that this was an effort to drive more people towards adopting an Xbox Game Pass subscription, but whatever the true reasoning behind the move, folks weren’t exactly impressed.
Sooner or later, video game prices are going to break past that almighty threshold. And on the cusp of a new generation of consoles, NBA 2K21 is looking to be the first game on the court to set that new precedent. While NBA 2K21’s effort to dunk its way towards a PS5 and Xbox Series X score was inevitable, it’s next-gen price came as a surprise to faithful fans.
The price of PlayStation Plus has increased in North America. There's no word on a similar hike in the rest of the world. Yet.
Xbox Live Gold is tripling in price locally, and it's for all the reasons you expect
Excited for Dying Light's massive The Following expansion? You might want to buy into it a little early to save yourself some money.
The price of the PlayStation 4 locally has been confirmed to be going up with the next batch that arrives.
Yesterday, the annual price of Xbox Live increased from $49.99 to $59.99 in the US. It’s not really much of an increase – that extra $10 equates to  about 83c US or R5.80 per month, but it’s still an increase in world where the competitor’s online platform is free. That considered, how do they justify the increase? It’s all about …
Well here’s some bad news for any Xbox Live members in the US, UK, Canada or Mexico… or anyone using one of those countries as your illicit residence for Live purposes. Major Nelson has announced a price increase effective as of the 1st of November for each one of these areas. The worst affected for once is the US which …
Humans want connection and the internet is so far the best connection machine. A …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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