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• Official Zelda Website Raises Eyebrows By Labeling 3DS Game As Playable On Switch

  13-11-2026 18:13 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Nintendo is celebrating The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary in many different ways, but one detail on the company's official website raised confusion--and curiosity-- about a classic 3DS Zelda game.A "History" page on Nintendo's website lists every mainline Zelda game in release order, including the release date and which platforms you can play for each entry. The site marks every game that's playable for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers--and the 2013 3DS game The Legend of Zelda: A Link Be
  
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• GTA 6 And These Other Games Can Justify An $80 Price, Expert Says

  13-11-2026 17:37 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 finally releases on November 19, and you'll have to pay at least $80 for it. That's a full $20 more than what GTA 5 cost in 2013 and $10 more than many other big AAA games today. Is $80 going to become the "new normal" for AAA games, or is it, along with Nintendo's Mario Kart World and Tears of the Kingdom for Switch 2, an outlier at $80?According to Alinea Analytics researcher Rhys Elliott, $80 won't be an across-the-board new price for all games. Some developers w
  
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• GTA 6 In-Game TV Show Macca & Friends Looks Ridiculous In The Best Way

  13-11-2026 16:13 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Rockstar Games has released the first footage of an in-game GTA 6 TV show called "Macca & Friends," which is about a sunglass-wearing pink alligator and his wetland friends in Leonida (the stand-in for Florida).
  One of Macca's friends is Pinchie the crab, who is Macca's landlord. Macca is also friends with a hat-wearing manatee and a flamingo. Check out the trailer below, which sets up a story where Macca needs to get money to pay his landlord. The story involves the group seemingly posing a
  
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• The PS5’s New Graphics-Upscaling Trick Is Spreading To More Games

  13-11-2026 15:47 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Sony has announced that several more games are getting a Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR) upgrade on PS5. Introduced in September, QSSR is an AI-guided upscaling technology similar to the PS5 Pro's PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), and it originally supported only Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei. That lineup is expanding over the next couple of weeks to include games like Control Resonant, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Arc Raiders, The Finals, No Man's Sky, and Hell Let Loose: V
  
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• Xbox Says Putting Ads In Games, Something No One Likes, Could Help Save Gaming

  13-11-2026 15:26 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Xbox Cloud Gaming now has a free ad-supported version that's rolling out as part of Microsoft's bigger push to bring more ads to Xbox. Jonathan Stringfield, who worked on Activision's advertising push and is now doing some of the same work in his title as GM for Xbox Media Solutions, said in an interview that people shouldn't see this as a move by Xbox to cram ads into all of its games.“There is zero world where there is intention--written, explicit, implicit, or otherwise--that ads will be an
  
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• The Xbox 25th Anniversary Console Restock Sold Out Before You Could Finish Reading This Headline

  13-11-2026 14:27 via GameSpot - All News
  
  After quickly selling out earlier this year, Microsoft dropped a limited number of its 25th Anniversary Xbox Series X consoles for sale this week--aaaaannnd they're already gone. Easily the best-looking Xbox Series X console thanks to its transparent green case, it looks like the majority of people looking to get one of these are out of luck, unless they're willing to pony up and pay extra for one of these consoles on sites like eBay, where they're currently being listed at next-gen console pric
  
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• Get Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater And All Bonus DLC Cheaper Than The Standard Edition Right Now

  13-11-2026 13:33 via GameSpot - All News
  
  I don’t think there’s ever been a more iconic sound than the ‘!’ noise that triggers when you’re spotted in Metal Gear Solid. Even when I was a little kid, my first exposure to the franchise was through the Mesal Gear Solid: Snake Escape minigame in Ape Escape 3. That’s not really relevant, besides the fact that it shares a similar name with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, a remake and an absolute blast that’s now cheaper than ever, with all DLC included.If you ask anyone who
  
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• “You Guys Are F***ing Idiots”: Jeff Kaplan Takes Aim At Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 Reveal

  13-11-2026 12:52 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Saying Overwatch 2 has had a rocky road since its 2019 reveal would be an understatement, and former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan isn't a fan of how the game was first announced.
  Speaking to Gaming World Interviews, Kaplan didn't mince words about the BlizzCon 2019 opening ceremony, where Overwatch 2 was shown for the first time, as Blizzard promised numerous features it either walked back or didn't deliver.Kaplan said that from 2018 until his departure, he experienced constant friction with B
  
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• Fable Is Looking A Lot Darker Than We Expected

  13-11-2026 12:00 via GameSpot - All News
  
  Amid a modest 25th-anniversary celebration, Xbox dropped a new preview of the Fable reboot. This snippet — which runs for under four minutes — offers plenty of gameplay and a closer look at some of the ghoulish enemies you'll face, set in a slice of Albion that looks surprisingly grim compared to the lighthearted Fable teasers that came before it."The Hero of Briar Hill has entered the depths of Deepwood alongside Arden, a local Hero, to investigate why strange magical happenings have been t
  
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• Wolfenstein 3 Is Officially In Production At MachineGames

  13-11-2026 10:50 via GameSpot - All News
  
  The long-rumored Wolfenstein 3 has been officially confirmed to be in development at MachineGames. The news follows many hints and rumors of a third game in MachineGames' planned Wolfenstein trilogy, the franchise's first new entry since Wolfenstein: Youngblood in 2019 and its first mainline title since 2017.Xbox CEO Asha Shar posted the announcement as part of Xbox's 25th anniversary celebrations, and Bethesda also shared the news in its own post.
  https://bsky.app/profile/bethesda.net/post/3n25
  
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