Deals
someone traded a box of broken PlayStations and Xboxes for $10,690 — here's the real math
GameStop store credit for a pile of dead consoles sounds like a scam until you actually run the numbers against eBay.
Ledger · Aug 25 · 6 min
xbox
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Gaming
Riot just gave up on 2XKO — 11 months after launch, and everyone's getting refunded
The fighting game launched in January to real critical love. Riot says it still isn't making enough money to justify building it.
Hitbox · Aug 23 · 6 min
Gaming
xbox just posted its worst physical sales number ever — barely 4 out of every 100 discs sold in the us this year
Circana's 2026 numbers put Xbox at just over 4% of new physical game sales in the US, miles behind Nintendo's 63% and PlayStation's 32%.
Hitbox · Aug 22 · 6 min
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
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
Gaming
a new survey just measured how far Xbox has fallen — and the number is brutal
85% of US console gamers regularly play PlayStation. 76% play Nintendo. Xbox trails both at 58% — and its own new CEO just called the division 'unhealthy.'
Hitbox · Aug 13 · 6 min
Gaming
the Xbox outage stopped physical discs from working — and quietly proved you don't really own your games
A 16-hour outage of a licensing service blocked sign-ins and game launches across three Xbox generations. The uncomfortable part: even physical disc games refused to start. Here's what happened and why.
Hitbox · Jul 30 · 9 min
Gaming
Xbox is quietly becoming a publisher that happens to sell a console. I don't think that's the mistake everyone says it is
3,200 jobs cut, four studios let go, Halo shipping on PlayStation, and a 2027 super-console still being funded. everyone's reading that as collapse. I've been staring at it for a week and I think it's a deliberate — and defensible — bet.
Hitbox · Jul 20 · 9 min
Gaming
for the first time in 25 years, Master Chief is on a PlayStation. Halo's exclusivity era is over
a ground-up Unreal Engine 5 remake of the campaign that sold the original Xbox, launching July 28 on PlayStation 5 the same day it hits Xbox. I've been trying to work out whether that's a triumph or a surrender, and I've landed somewhere annoying.
Hitbox · Jul 20 · 8 min
Gaming
Microsoft raised Game Pass 50%, lost 'millions' of subscribers, then quietly rolled it back
$19.99 → $29.99 → $22.99, and a CEO admitting Ultimate had become 'too costly'. companies almost never concede a price hike failed. this one did, and I think it tells you more about Game Pass than any subscriber number.
Hitbox · Jul 20 · 7 min
Gaming
Microsoft's Xbox handheld launched in 45 countries and still didn't dent the Steam Deck
the ROG Xbox Ally spiked in month one, then fell off sharply. Steam Deck still accounts for roughly half of every handheld gaming PC sold — and the whole category is smaller than you think.
Hitbox · Jul 19 · 5 min
Gaming
Xbox cut 3,200 jobs — and is quietly funding a 2027 super-console
AMD says the next Xbox chip supports a 2027 launch. Microsoft hasn't confirmed a retail date, and that distinction matters more than most coverage admits — here's how I'd read the timeline.
Hitbox · Jul 19 · 7 min
Gaming
Xbox just cut 3,200 jobs in a memo that literally says 'our business is not healthy'
the memo is titled 'Resetting Xbox.' four studios get handed to new owners, ~3,200 roles go over the year — and it lands the same month Xbox admits its studios lose money on most of what they make.
Hitbox · Jul 19 · 5 min