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Sony's new $500 PlayStation 5 will launch Nov. 12

A Sony PlayStation 4 games controller on display at the Sony Corp. headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, February 4, 2020. /CFP Sony's upcoming PlayStation 5 video game console will cost 500 U.S. doll

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PS5: Sony confirms price and release date - and Harry Potter game among new additions

Sony announced versions of the console will be available in November, with a digital edition selling for £359.

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Apple lays out its messy vision for how xCloud and Stadia will work with its App Store rules

Apple laid out some interesting updates to its App Store rules this morning, the most headline-grabbing of which was a section dedicated to cloud gaming platforms like Microsoft’s xCloud and Goo

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How Unity built a gaming engine for the future

Last week, Unity Software Inc. filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange, but the 16-year-old tech company is universally known within the gaming industry and largely unknown outside of it.Uni

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Microsoft introduces monthly financing plan for its new Xbox consoles

Monthly financing isn’t an entirely new concept in the world of Xbox. Microsoft offered a similar plan for the Xbox One S a few years ago. The idea is pretty simple: pay a monthly fee for hardware an

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Microsoft reveals release date and price of new Xbox consoles

The company promises "thousands of games" on release - but marquee launch title Halo Infinite has been delayed until 2021.

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Microsoft confirms $499 Xbox Series X arrives November 10, pre-orders begin September 22

The flagship Xbox Series X is arriving on November 10, and will carry a retail price tag of $499, Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday. The console will also be available for pre-orders beginning on Sept

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Daily Crunch: Apple files countersuit against Epic

Apple strikes back at Epic Games, Android 11 is here and Microsoft announces a new stripped-down Xbox. This is your Daily Crunch for September 8, 2020.The big story: Apple files countersuit against Ep

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Laura Deming, Frederik Groce, Amish Jani, Jessica Verilli, and Vanessa Larco are coming to Disrupt

At TechCrunch Disrupt, our Startup Battlefield competition this year looks to be fiercer than ever, judging by the applicants. That’s actually saying something, considering the game-changing bra

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Nintendo 'planning to release upgraded Switch next year' - reports

The upgraded device will reportedly support 4K graphics, and launch alongside a strong stable of new games.

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Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator was worth the wait

It’s been 14 years since the launch of Flight Simulator X, which long seemed like it would be the final release in the long-running series. When the company announced it would re-launch the fran

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The Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box makes any home theater a bit more theatrical

Philips has steadily expanded its Hue line of smart lighting products to cover the entire home, inside and out. But while the ability to remotely control your lighting, including adjusting color, int

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Microsoft’s dual-screen Surface Duo arrives September 10 for $1,399

I can’t recall the last time people were this intrigued by a (non-Xbox) piece of Microsoft hardware. Announced a little under a year ago amid a deluge of new devices, the Surface Duo turned a lot of

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New Xbox to launch in November... but without long-awaited Halo game

The "most powerful ever" games console will feature twice the processing power of the current generation Xbox One X.

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Microsoft brings Xbox games to your mobile phone

The service will not be available on iOS devices due to Apple's strict rules about how apps on its App Store have to function.

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The next-gen Xbox will ship in November

The last few months have provided a steady trickle of information about the next Xbox console — or the Xbox Series X, as it’s known.We know what it looks like. We know a lot about what’s i

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Apple goes to war with the gaming industry

Most gamers may not view Apple as a games company to the same degree that they see Sony with PlayStation or Microsoft with Xbox, but the iPhone-maker continues to uniformly drive the industry with de