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Stellar Blade Sales Outpace the Hate with 3 Million Copies SOLD and a Message to Gaming Media

Stellar Blade Sales Outpace the Hate with 3 Million Copies SOLD and a Message to Gaming Media

While the gaming industry drowns itself in vague misleading phrases like “players engaged,” “units shipped,” and “active users,” Stellar Blade just dropped the clearest, most honest sales metric a game can offer.

Over 3 million copies SOLD.

Not shipped. Not downloaded on a subscription. Not clicked for 30 seconds on a cloud platform. Sold.

Reporter Who Mocked Gamers About Dragon Age: The Veilguard Now Calls it a “Debacle,” Blames Everything But Identity Politics for Game’s Failure

Reporter Who Mocked Gamers About Dragon Age: The Veilguard Now Calls it a “Debacle,” Blames Everything But Identity Politics for Game’s Failure

On Halloween 2024, Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched to a quick flash of attention on Steam. For a few hours, BioWare’s long-delayed fantasy RPG topped sales charts. That short-lived momentum was all it took for Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier to mock the game’s critics...

Splitgate 2 Director Caves to Gaming Media, Apologizes for Wearing ‘Make FPS Great Again’ Hat at Summer Game Fest

Splitgate 2 Director Caves to Gaming Media, Apologizes for Wearing ‘Make FPS Great Again’ Hat at Summer Game Fest

The launch of Splitgate 2 was meant to be a celebration, but controversy quickly overtook the spotlight, centered not on gameplay, but on a hat.

At Summer Game Fest this past weekend, game director Ian Proulx of 1047 Games took the stage wearing a black baseball cap adorned with the phrase “Make FPS Great Again.” The slogan, a play on the well-known campaign phrase associated with President Donald Trump, immediately sparked criticism across social media and major gaming outlets, who framed the gesture as politically charged.

Nintendo Switch 2 Review – Does it Deliver Despite High Price Tag?

Nintendo Switch 2 Review – Does it Deliver Despite High Price Tag?

The Nintendo Switch 2, successor to the third-best-selling console ever made, promised to dominate with its portable brilliance and top-tier exclusives. With Xbox losing focus and PlayStation banking on costly remakes, Nintendo seemed unstoppable—until they revealed in an April Nintendo Direct the $80 price for games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This $20 jump for a several-year-old title and ongoing shift from the pricing standards of the past has sparked outrage. Yet, the console still sold well at launch, with demand soaring. Can it rise above the pricing backlash? I snagged Nintendo’s newst system at a midnight launch to find out—here’s my review of the Nintendo Switch 2.