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• This Custom Xbox-Inside-An-Alligator Console Is Actually One Big Ad For GTA 6

  03-11-2026 22:22 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Given that Sony holds the marketing rights for Grand Theft Auto 6, Microsoft has had to get creative to promote the open-world crime game for Xbox--and the company's latest effort in that department goes big.Say Hello to the X-Bite, a playable Xbox Series X console that was designed to look like it was swallowed whole by one of Florida's millions of alligators. Microsoft only made one of these ornate consoles, and you have to win a contest to get it.Microsoft's blog post doesn't mention GTA 6 or
  
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• WoW: Forever Shamans Are Protesting Class Changes After Being “Completely Ignored”

  03-11-2026 20:54 via GameSpot - All News
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever just received a massive batch of class-balance updates ahead of launch that have boosted power across the board, but one group of players isn't happy with the changes: Shamans.Developer Blizzard recently released Forever's launch patch notes based on feedback and data accumulated during the beta, resulting in a power spike for all classes and major reworks for classes like Paladin and Rogue. Shamans, too, received some significant changes, most notably the removal of a
  
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• WoW: Forever Won’t Get More Class Balance Changes Any Time Soon

  03-11-2026 20:31 via GameSpot - All News
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever is gearing up for launch with some major class balance changes, but don't expect any more for at least a month.As detailed in Forever's launch patch notes, Blizzard is making some dramatic class changes, including major reworks to Rogue and Paladin talents, in time for release that will result in a big spike in player power. Blizzard said it has used all the data from the game's month-long beta to "get everything tuned to a reasonable place."However, don't expect addit
  
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• GTA 6 Is Getting A Physical Map–Here’s How To Get One For Free Or Very Cheap

  03-11-2026 20:28 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Rockstar Games has confirmed more details about Grand Theft Auto 6's impending release on November 19, including more information about physical goodies. While the game itself won't be available on a disc, Rockstar is offering a printable physical GTA 6 cover art poster and a map of the game's setting, Leonida.
  The poster and Leonida map will be available for free as digital downloads on GTA 6's official website on November 19. A double-sized physical version of the poster will be available "sho
  
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• WoW: Forever Is Giving Players A Big Damage Boost For Launch

  03-11-2026 20:19 via GameSpot - All News
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever is changing in some major ways for launch, with Blizzard revealing classes across the board will deal more damage as it pursues design solutions that better fit in with Forever's combat.In a lengthy developer note attached to Forever's launch patch notes, Blizzard outlined its philosophy for its latest version of WoW. It said during the game's nearly month-long beta that it was trying to keep player power in check. That meant every time it gave a class new tools and ab
  
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• 25 Years Of Xbox Bundle Includes All These Games For $570

  03-11-2026 17:13 via GameSpot - All News
  
  To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Xbox this year, Microsoft has launched a "25 Years of Xbox" digital game bundle. It includes 25 games for $570.
  That works out to about $23/game, but it's more nuanced than that, as some of the games are bundles themselves. For example, one of the games in the bundle, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, includes Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4. There are Gears of War and Age of Empire bundles, too.Some of the games in the bundle a
  
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• One Popular PC Game Storefront Has Had Enough Of AI Slop, And It’s Taking Action

  03-11-2026 16:12 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Indie game storefront Itch.io has announced it removed "a couple terabytes of AI slop" and has begun taking steps to combat the deluge of AI-created games appearing on the platform. "Just because you can upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized AI-generated models doesn't mean you should upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized AI-generated models," Itch wrote in a social media post.The platform had already noted that the number of game pages being created per day had doubled from 3,000 to 6,00
  
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• The Elder Scrolls 6 Is Officially Titled Sentinel

  03-11-2026 16:05 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Confirming a recent report, Bethesda has confirmed the subtitle of the next Elder Scrolls game as The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. This was shared as part of a 40-year anniversary video recapping many of Bethesda's highlights over the year.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvcfI8RPZYc
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• Buying GTA 6 Could Save You $5,000, Or At Least This Guy Thinks So

  03-11-2026 15:53 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Self-made millionaire Mark Tilbury has shared some advice for how buying GTA 6 can actually save you $5,000. Just don't take this too seriously.Here's how he arrived at that number: If the game costs $100 (for the Ultimate Edition) and it takes 80 hours to complete, that works out to $1.25/hour of "fun." After adding on side missions and simply exploring GTA 6's map, investing in the game seems like an even better deal at just 50 cents of fun per hour.
  If you play for four hours every evening, t
  
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• South Of Midnight Director Says He Would Not Have Funded The Game

  03-11-2026 15:14 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Xbox funded and published 2025's South of Midnight, a highly acclaimed action-adventure game set in the American Deep South. The game's creative director, David Sears, said he believes South of Midnight is a "generational" game that he hopes people discover and play for a long time and one that he thought would help elevate the "prestige" of Xbox.
  At the same time, Sears said he wasn't sure Microsoft's spending spree under the previous leaders Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond--which is how Sears' stu
  
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• Remedy’s Big Bet On Control Resonant Appears To Be Paying Off

  03-11-2026 14:51 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Following the September release of Control Resonant, business is boomin' for developer Remedy Entertainment. The studio reported that its third-quarter revenue surged 226% to €39.6 million / $44.3 million after the game's release, following the financial review period on October 15, a feat CEO Jean-Charles Gaudechon called "a defining milestone" for Remedy.In terms of operating profit, Remedy said it made €0.6 million / $670,794, and while that may not sound like much, it's still better th
  
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• Borderlands Franchise Hits 100 Million Sales As Gearbox Hints At What’s Next

  03-11-2026 14:17 via GameSpot - All News
  
  The Borderlands franchise has reached a new sales milestone, as developer Gearbox Software announced that Borderlands 4 had pushed the series over the 100 million units sold mark. Celebrating the achievement, the studio also took time to reveal what's next for Borderlands 4 as it enters its second year, as well as plans it's busy cooking up for the IP."We just wrapped our Year 1 roadmap, and the team is cooking hard on more Borderlands 4 content for next year," Gearbox wrote in a blog post, addi
  
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• GOG Wants To Bring Back Physical PC Games, But There’s A Catch

  03-11-2026 14:14 via GameSpot - All News
  
  While PlayStation 5 console owners are preparing for a discless future, PC gamers have been living in all-digital world for decades now. The advent of Steam and cheaper broadband internet helped end physical PC game sales in the early 2000s, but GOG is dreaming up a future where these games can thrive once again--if it can get past a few obstacles that stand in its way.Speaking to GamesRadar, Marcin Paczynski, GOG's senior business development and partnerships manager, laid out a dream scenario
  
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