TL;DR: GameStop declares the "console wars" over as Halo becomes a cross-platform title arriving on PlayStation in 2026, ending two decades of exclusivity conflicts. Xbox Game Studios shifts focus ...

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Cross-platform gaming didn’t always exist. Early on, multiplayer gaming was confined to players within the same console ecosystem — PlayStation players couldn’t connect with Xbox users, and PC gamers ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Following the announcement that Halo: Campaign Evolved will be coming to PS5 as well as Xbox Series X|S and PC, GameStop has leveraged its position as ...

Halo, the Xbox crown jewel franchise, is coming to PlayStation for the first time. Does this mean the console wars are finally over, and Xbox has thrown in the towel? Or is the console market just ...

GameStop sparked a viral wave on social media after posting a mock "executive order" announcing an end to the decades-long battle between video game console brands, a parody that rather unexpectedly ...

The winds of change may be coming in the long-running video game console wars. My college roommate reached out to me last week asking my thoughts when he said he and his wife were considering getting ...

For decades, a war has been raging online and in stores. A fight between massive corporations trying to sell you plastic boxes that play games and their weirdly dedicated supporters. The fight was ...

Moore’s response comes from a recent interview on Danny Peña’s YouTube channel (via VGC). Shaping the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era, the former exec suggests the console wars helped the big three ...

In all the years that video games have been a popular form of entertainment, there have been debates and discourse about various aspects of it. Different people take stands to support or represent ...