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A Used PS5 Pro at GameStop Costs $500 More Than a New One. GameStop Hasn’t Said Why.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Video Games,
GameStop is selling used PS5 Pro consoles for $1,399.99. A new one has an MSRP of $899.99, which puts the secondhand unit $500 over the sealed one. Pre-owned special editions are listed at $1,499.99.
That gap would be easier to shrug off if you could buy the cheaper option. GameStop has no new Pros in stock online, so the used listing is the only PS5 Pro the retailer will actually sell you today. Nobody at the company has explained the math.
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Xbox Elite Series 3 Controller Specs Leaked Out of Microsoft’s Own Design Lab
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Microsoft, Rumors, Video Games,
Microsoft has not announced an Xbox Elite Series 3. Its own Design Lab appears to have described one anyway, down to the thumbstick options.
A Reddit user says they got into the backend of Spectrum Customizer, the configuration system that powers Xbox Design Lab, and pulled out configuration records and 3D component models for a controller carried internally under the codename Edessa. Digital Foundry reported the find. The files are no longer reachable, and Microsoft has confirmed none of what follows.
Nintendo’s Two New Free Switch Apps Are for Toddlers, and a Wooden Block Calls Up the Character
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Software, Toys, Video Games,
Nintendo put out two new Switch releases this week that cost nothing, run with the Wi-Fi off, and are built for someone who cannot read the title screen. Hello, Peach! and Hello, Luigi! are on the eShop now, free on Switch and Switch 2, and here is the complete list of things to do in them: poke a cartoon face, stretch it, spin it, and play peekaboo.
There is no score, no levels and nothing to unlock, and both run single player in handheld mode only. Nintendo's store pages file them under the genres "Action" and "Simulation," which is funny until you picture a toddler dragging Luigi's nose across the screen and decide the tag is doing its best.
Xbox Finally Has a Platinum Trophy, and It’s Called a Mythic Achievement
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, Video Games,
Unlock every achievement in an Xbox game and nothing much happened. Your Gamerscore went up, the list showed complete, and that was the ceremony. PlayStation has handed out a platinum trophy for the same work for years. On September 29, Microsoft announced its answer, the Mythic Achievement.
The bar is every original achievement in a game. Clear them all and the game goes Mythic. Achievements added later by DLC or a title update don't count against you, and they can't take it back. "It's yours to keep," senior product manager Alex Charters said.
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Quake Champions Tore Out the Battle Pass and Loot Boxes. Now It Costs $10.
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Games go free-to-play. That is the direction the traffic moves, and it has been for a decade. On Wednesday, id Software and Bethesda drove the other way. They took a nine-year-old free-to-play arena shooter, pulled the monetization out of it, and put a $9.99 price tag on the Steam page.
The 1.31 point release notes do not bury it. "Today's update marks a new chapter for Quake Champions as we transition the game from a free-to-play service to a paid application on Steam," id wrote. "Battle Passes and microtransactions have been removed. Quake Champions is now available for one low price on Steam." One sentence later, id adds that "No additional content updates are planned at this time."
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Beat Saber Goes Controller-Free and Supernatural Comes Back in Meta’s Connect Games Slate
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Video Games,
"VR gaming is alive and well," Andrew Bosworth said on the Connect stage tonight. It's a confident thing to say eight months after Meta closed three of its own VR studios, and Meta backed it up with a games slate built around playing without controllers.
Most of these games are coming to Meta's new VR Glasses, the $1,299.99 lightweight headset that ships next spring (we covered the hardware separately), and most also run on Quest. The headliner is a Beat Saber you can play with bare hands. The surprise is Supernatural, the fitness app Meta bought and then stopped updating, which returns this fall without Meta.
Twitch’s CEO Put GTA 6 Multiplayer in 2027. Nobody at Rockstar Has.
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The most specific thing anyone has said about Grand Theft Auto 6's multiplayer mode this year came from a man who doesn't work at Rockstar Games.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy sat down with Bloomberg to talk about what GTA 6 will do to his platform's numbers, and somewhere in the middle of it he put a date on an online mode nobody has announced. "You are going to see this big bump with GTA 6, but then an even bigger one next year when they launch multiplayer." Next year is 2027. Rockstar has never said that, and neither has Take-Two.
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Nintendo’s Zelda 40th Anniversary Pro Controller Comes with a Display Stand
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Nintendo built a controller that comes with its own display stand, which tells you exactly what it expects you to do with it.
The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller: The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition showed up at today's Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct and lands October 29. The right grip is green, the left is black, a gold Triforce runs across the middle of the face, the trigger buttons are gold, and there's a small Hylian crest tucked up top. It launches the same day as the matching Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition Switch 2 console and a carrying case with screen protector, both wearing the same gold Triforce on black (we've got a separate post on the console).
LEGO’s Next Zelda Set Puts Link on Epona With 1,750 Pieces
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LEGO started its Zelda line with a tree. Then it built a castle. Now it wants you to build a horse, and it would rather not say what the horse costs.
The LEGO The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Link & Epona set got a few seconds of screen time during Nintendo's Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on Tuesday. Nintendo's own description calls it a 1,750-piece collectible display model for adults, due in spring 2027. That is the whole spec sheet. No price, no set number, no dimensions, and no preorder date.
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The Zelda movie is called The Legend of Zelda, and drops on April 30, 2027
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Editorial, Movies, Video Games,
Nintendo had the biggest Zelda stage it has built in years, a 40th anniversary Direct packed with a remade Ocarina of Time and a themed Switch 2, and when it came time to talk about the live-action movie, it showed a logo. The title is The Legend of Zelda. No subtitle, no footage, no release date you didn't already know. Shigeru Miyamoto came out, said a few careful sentences, and that was the segment.
I don't think that's nothing. A logo reveal is still a reveal, and Miyamoto on camera talking about a movie is rare enough that people will pull it apart frame by frame. But seven months out from a worldwide theatrical release, "here's the font" is a strange thing to lead with, and the way Nintendo framed it tells you a lot about how it plans to run this campaign.
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