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GTA 6 console bundles: what's actually on sale (US)

I checked PlayStation Direct, Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and GameStop. There's no GTA 6 console bundle yet, so here's the DIY price a real one would have to beat, and a promise to update when one lands.

Hitbox · Sep 25 · 5 min

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Gaming

GTA 6 on Xbox Series S: what's confirmed (and what isn't)

It's a confirmed launch platform, and the boxed copy is a code, so the disc-free Series S is fine. Beyond that, Rockstar and Microsoft haven't said a word about Series S performance. Here's what to watch for.

Hitbox · Sep 25 · 5 min

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Gaming

Which console should you buy for GTA 6? (2026)

Only what Rockstar, Sony and Microsoft have actually said, plus prices checked today. The cheapest route is $542.99, you don't need a disc drive, and the PS5 Pro's GTA 6 enhancements aren't announced yet.

Hitbox · Sep 25 · 7 min

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Gaming

GTA 6: PS5 vs PS5 Pro, what's actually confirmed

GTA 6 is "PS5 Pro Enhanced", but Rockstar hasn't said what that means. Sony's own definition, the $300–$756 price gap as of today, and who should actually buy the Pro.

Hitbox · Sep 25 · 6 min

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Gaming

PS5 just outsold Switch 2 worldwide — and it comes down to one region

VGChartz's July 2026 estimates hand PlayStation a rare global win over Switch 2, but Nintendo is still winning the region that matters most to it.

Hitbox · Aug 27 · 6 min

A PlayStation 5 game case standing on a shelf, illustrative of Persona 6's confirmed physical release

Gaming

everyone's calling this a Persona 6 release-date leak. it's actually just Atlus being Atlus

SEGA confirmed Persona 6 gets a PS5 disc release. Fans did the math and landed on 2027 — but there's a much simpler explanation for the footnote.

Hitbox · Aug 26 · 6 min

Jonathan Blow, director of Braid, The Witness and Order of the Sinking Star

Gaming

jonathan blow's next game has a release date — the guy who helped build it still isn't speaking to him

Order of the Sinking Star drops October 8. The designers whose puzzles are baked into it are still publicly furious with the man whose name is on the box.

Hitbox · Aug 22 · 6 min

A PlayStation 5 console. US unit sales fell 58% year-over-year in May 2026 after Sony's second price hike in less than a year.

Gaming

PS5 sales just fell 58% — and Nintendo won by doing the one thing Sony and Microsoft wouldn't

PlayStation 5 unit sales fell 58% and Xbox hit its worst month ever after price hikes tied to the AI memory shortage — while Switch 2 grew 38% by holding its price. That's about to change.

Hitbox · Aug 21 · 7 min

Gaming

Rockstar is skipping YouTube for GTA 6's next trailer. Netflix gets it six hours early.

August 27, 3pm ET, only on Netflix — then everyone else waits until 9pm. Here's why Rockstar just rewrote how game trailers drop.

Hitbox · Aug 18 · 6 min

Key art for Serious Sam: Shatterverse showing the game's chaotic co-op shooter action

Gaming

Serious Sam is coming back to PS5 on August 31 — and the twist is it's fighting itself

Serious Sam: Shatterverse drops multiple universes' worth of Sam into one co-op shooter — here's what's actually new and what isn't.

Hitbox · Aug 14 · 5 min

A ruined medieval fortress in a mist-covered valley, the kind of setting the classic Gothic RPG trilogy is known for

Retro

The RPG that out-aged Skyrim is finally landing on consoles — all three of them, this year

Gothic, Gothic II and Gothic III are coming to PS5, Xbox and Switch 2 between July and November 2026 — the first official console release in the trilogy's 25-year history.

Chiptune · Aug 13 · 6 min

A police-operated mecha in the style of Patlabor's Ingram unit, the kind of Labor featured in the new PS5 action game

Retro

A mecha series nobody's mentioned since 2005 just got a real PS5 comeback

Patlabor: The Case Files launches September 17 — 21 years after the franchise's last game — and it looks like a proper budget action title, not a cash-in.

Chiptune · Aug 13 · 6 min

A PS5 DualSense controller — PlayStation Plus's August 2026 catalog adds Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Vampire Survivors and Hell Is Us

Gaming

PS Plus just added four genuinely great games in one month — here's what to play first

Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Vampire Survivors and Hell Is Us all join PlayStation Plus in August, and for once the free additions don't feel like filler.

Hitbox · Aug 13 · 5 min

Hardware

every way to buy a gaming GPU just got more expensive — all at once

AMD, Nvidia, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all raised prices in 2026. it's the same memory shortage breaking every platform.

Voltage · Aug 5 · 7 min