Microsoft will showcase its slate of upcoming games in the Xbox Games Showcase 2025, scheduled for June 8, the company announced Tuesday. The digital-only broadcast is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. ET on June 8, and will be followed by a whole showcase specifically about The Outer Worlds 2. “It all begins with our annual Xbox Games Showcase, bringing you a look at upcoming titles from across our first-party...

Tax season is upon us. Individual income tax returns are due April 15 in the United States. If you haven’t filed your taxes yet, why not procrastinate a little bit longer and play some games instead? Here are five games about taxes to play to procrastinate filing your taxes. Some involve filing virtual taxes, some involve avoiding them, and one actually helped people prep their real taxes in 2022. But...

Season 2, the second major content update for Marvel Rivals, is based on the Hellfire Gala, a red carpet event from the X-Men series. Season 2 will add two new characters to the game: Emma Frost, a vanguard, and Ultron, whose class type hasn’t been revealed yet. There’s also the new Krakoa map. As with season 1, season 2 will be split into two halves. Emma Frost and the Krakoa...

January’s Nintendo Switch 2 reveal event took the wraps off the console, but left a lot of details unanswered until now. After the initial reveal, I put together an analysis of the possible pricing for the console, using Nintendo’s own historical pricing strategies to guide my thinking. My conclusion then was that it would cost $399. I… was wrong. The Nintendo Switch 2 will debut in June starting at $449.99,...

As if Canada didn’t have enough reasons to hate Donald Trump, the reality-TV-star-turned-politician’s excessive tariffs will delay Switch 2 pre-orders not only in the United States but in the Great White North as well. Statement from Nintendo of Canada:Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in Canada will not start on April 9, 2025 in order to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the U.S. Nintendo will provide...

At least one analyst expects the price of Nintendo Switch 2 to increase in response to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. Research firm DFC Intelligence said Monday that it’s “modeling a 20% price increase over the next two years” for Switch 2, which could put the base price of the next-gen console as high as $540. Nintendo announced the launch price of Switch 2 at $449.99 last Wednesday, but that...

New games for the Nintendo Switch 2 can cost as much as $79.99, but Newegg is currently offering a deal that’ll save you some money at the Nintendo eShop. For today only, you can save $5 on every $50 gift card purchase for the Nintendo eShop. This promotion is valid for today only and is limited to purchases of $250 or less, but is an easy way to get a...

BDS, a pro-Palestinian human rights movement focused on pressuring Israel to comply with international law by promoting boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the country and its economic partners, added Microsoft and Xbox to its list of targets on April 7. “Microsoft partners with the apartheid regime of Israel and its prison system,” the Palestinian BDS National Committee’s official statement explains. “It provides the Israeli military with Azure cloud and AI...

You’ll need to “hire a supply or medic specialist” as part of Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2’s Week 7 weekly quests. Doing so will reward you with a whopping 30,000 XP, so you might as well pick up one of these NPCs if you’re nearby to get that. Below, we explain where to find supply and medic specialist NPCs for hire in Fortnite. Where to find a supply or medic...

The C button is one of the Switch 2’s most talked-about features. First, it was because of the secrecy about what it does. Then, after the tell-all Direct showcase, where some of us were slightly deflated to learn its actual purpose (which is to initiate GameChat in any game, and GameShare with select titles), the discourse then shifted from curiosity to concern. It’s going to be a subscription-gated button after...