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Nintendo has dominated portable gaming with the Switch 2, but Sony finally offers a compelling alternative for PlayStation owners who want their games on the go. The company built an empire around the PS5 as a living room powerhouse and the PS Portal extends that experience beyond the couch and into your hands. This device streams your entire PS5 library to a beautiful 8-inch screen, and lets you play God of War or Spider-Man anywhere in your home or via cloud gaming on the move.

Not every delay is a disappointment. In the release-driven world of video games, players naturally get bummed out when news breaks that a highly anticipated game (looking at you) gets pushed a few months. But as Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto said, "a delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is forever bad." And while the jury is out on whether or not he actually said this, there's no denying that a delayed game is among his very best.

How do we build the future of communication at the same time? So we, you know, we've been, I think in a good way, working on this ever since we started... and so fast-forward to where we are today, it's just like every week, what is the latest tech? At the scale we're at, 150 million daily actives, 11 billion hours a month, like what is the best way to keep pushing this forward?

From now until November 23 at 9:59 PM ET / 6:59 PM PT, you can go to the game's Steam page and add Vermintide 2 to your library. The title usually costs $30, but Fatshark is offering the game for free to mark 10 years of "Tide" games from the studio, beginning with Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide in 2015.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the God of War franchise, and one of the best ways to celebrate is to grab the latest entry in the long-running series, God of War Ragnarok, which is down to its lowest price yet for Black Friday. You can grab the game for just $20 (was $70) at Amazon, PlayStation Direct, and Walmart for a limited time.

Ubisoft has announced a new game prototype featuring voice-controlled AI teammates that understand visual context and natural language. This "Teammates" project builds on the Neo NPCs Ubisoft showed off with Nvidia in 2024 to demo in-game AI that can naturally respond to players. A key difference this time, besides the complexity of the interactions the prototype supports, is that Teammates is already being played in a closed playtest with "a few hundred players," Ubisoft says.

PlayStation's Black Friday 2025 sales have kicked off, and if you're looking to grow your PS5 library, then you'll want to check out this deal on Stellar Blade. Shift Up's action-RPG is on sale for $40, a big cut from its usual price of $70. The discount is available at Amazon, PlayStation Direct, Walmart, and Best Buy.

The PS5 launched in 2022 and maintained strict pricing for years, with Sony rarely offering any meaningful discounts even during major shopping events. This marks the first year the console sees genuine Black Friday price cuts, and these deals appear exclusively on Amazon. The PS5 Slim with disc drive drops to $449 from $549, while the Digital Edition hits $399 instead of $499.

Since late 2021, something has been building in the community. Dataminers have continued to extract and share pieces of code from other Valve games that seem to indicate that the company is working on a new Half-Life game, reportedly codenamed HLX. Then, earlier this month, Valve announced three (lol) new pieces of gaming hardware, but didn't announce a new game to go with any of it.

The first was a big injection of new cash, say from a sovereign wealth fund like Saudi Arabia's. The second was an outright sale of a major portion of the company, maybe to its current backstop investor Tencent. The third was much more mundane: an accounting error. After a week of speculation, the Assassin's Creed publisher confirmed that was indeed the reason for the delay.

It would be a lie not to say that obviously spring looks really good,

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's new version of Nuketown arrived on November 20, and one of the first things people tried on it was shooting off all the mannequin heads to unlock the long-running Nuketown Easter egg. Unfortunately, it doesn't work in Black Ops 7, at least not yet. This isn't a huge shock, though, as Black Ops 6's version of Nuketown didn't unlock the Easter egg right away, either.

According to an Insider Gaming story ( corroborated by Eurogamer), the information came to light after Ubisoft's earnings report was finally released. The report--which the company delayed at the last minute so it could "finalize the closing of the semester," per CFO Frederick Duguet--mentioned that one "unannounced game" will come out before the end of Ubisoft's fiscal year ending on March 31, 2026.

In the patch notes, Treyarch says the studio "slightly overshot" its target balance, and a small tuning change is made to reduce this aim-assist penalty from 35% to 25%. "Our goal for this new mechanic and our other aim-assist range changes is to provide the most competitive experience for all players and inputs," the developer says. "Aim Assist is one of the most integral components of gameplay feel, so it's crucial for us to settle on tuning that both feels great to play with and hits our balance goals."