Bullshit how the fuck do you leave off Gears of War!!!!!

XBOX Game Pass Is Coming to Eligible T-Mobile Customers news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/10/…

After 25 years of gaming across every major platform, I’ve finally settled into being a full‑time Xbox player. It wasn’t a sudden switch — it was a slow shift shaped by hardware, ecosystem, and the way Xbox fits into how I play today. Full story. #XBOX25 🔗 windowscentral.com/gaming/xb…

REPORT: GTA 6 has had almost no impact on Xbox sales in comparison to PS5. “The thing is, though, when you look at PlayStation 5 compared to Xbox Series — Grand Theft Auto VI is coming out on both platforms, whether people know it or not — the Xbox Series numbers were bad. It was the lowest September ever for Xbox, 27% below last year in units. So there was no impact of the GTA VI reveal on Xbox, or no noticeable positive impact, at least” says Mat Piscatella from Circana, speaking to @GamesBeat.

PS5 outsells Nintendo Switch 2 worldwide in September, VGC estimates PS5 outsells Xbox Series more than 8:1 Sales by Platform: 🔵 PS5 - 1.1M 🔴 Switch 2 - 802K 🔴 Switch - 169K 🟢 Xbox Series - 128K

‘Gears Of War: E-Day’ Cost Xbox $500 Million, Says New Report via @forbes forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2…

Nintendo Switch 2 has been hacked, as first jailbreak blows modding, emulation, and homebrew floodgates wide open. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mphbazue

Xbox Cloud Gaming introductory launch pricing revealed: -10hrs for $3.99 -25hrs for $7.99 -50hrs for $11.99 news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/10/…

jesus this is bleak

Microsoft reportedly sending emails to some Xbox console users to sell their consoles to Best Buy for up to $375

Xbox tax, part 1,364 Push Square on soft sales: 🟦 Wolverine (PS): ‘Somewhat Soft, But Here’s Why I’m Not Worried’ 🟩 Gears of War: E-Day (Xbox): ‘Dire Estimated Gears of War: E Day Sales’ Same site. Same writer. 1 day apart!

Ghost of Yotei has sold 5.4M copies (36.8% physical!), generating $407M in revenue via copies sold alone - @alineaanalytics estimates. Yotei shifted another 500K copies in Q3 of this year – close to $30M in revenue. Yotei continues to sell well despite rare discounts on the PlayStation Store (just two two-week discounts to $50 so far). On October 1, PlayStation launched Yotei’s Echoes of Sekigahara story expansion and the new Most Wanted run-based mode. It also delisted the original Yotei SKU and replaced it with a $70 Complete Edition that includes the base game and the new content. Existing players can pay $14.99 USD to upgrade. Nearly 50K folks have bought the digital-only Complete Edition since it launched a little over two weeks ago (over $2M in revenue), which is mostly in line with the digital sales trajectory in Q3 for the prior base edition of this evergreen seller. And many more existing players returned to upgrade and check out the new content. Our estimates show that Yotei was averaging around 150K DAUs in the two months leading up to October 1, but when the new content dropped, that spiked to over 300K (peaking at 327K) DAUs. This means that over 6% of the player base returned for the update, which is a solid result during this VERY busy period for games. More on Substack (link in bio!)

Grand Theft Auto VI is coming to XBOX Series X|S on November 19, 2026. Pre-order now: xbx.lv/4k0dGKZ

Watch the Grand Theft Auto VI Launch Trailer, featuring the debut of “Flower in a Hurricane" from original score composers Justice feat. Tame Impala, SZA, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Grand Theft Auto VI arrives November 19: rockstargames.com/VI/ps5

Cyabra did an investigation and analysis into the PlayStation physical backlash. Below are some of its findings: "The boycott campaign’s visibility created an opening that inauthentic accounts moved into. Cyabra identified 842 inauthentic accounts in the conversation, making up roughly 25% of the boycott narrative. Their behavior was more targeted than their share suggests, and their content generated 113,444 engagements and 1,031,105 potential views. Rather than competing for reach in original posts, they concentrated in the reply sections of official PlayStation handles, where as much as 43% of comments on relevant posts were inauthentic. The hashtag data makes the pattern visible. The campaign’s own hashtag, #PhysicalForever, ran at 8.2% inauthentic, close to the dataset average. Misspelled and reordered variants, #NoDiskNoBuy and #ForeverPhysical, ran at 86-89% inauthentic. These near-identical tags didn’t originate from the campaign. They were built alongside it, designed to look like it, and almost entirely automated. Individually, inauthentic posts generated little to no engagement. Their impact came from volume: reply sections flooded, hashtags inflated, the apparent scale of the backlash expanded beyond what the organic conversation alone would have produced On the authentic side, 54.9% of engagement concentrated on just 50 posts from 42 accounts. The most influential post came from an account with 137 followers and generated over 104,000 engagements. 28% of the key posts came from accounts with fewer than 5,000 followers." You can download the entire report here 👇🏼 cyabra.com/blog/the-playstat…