PlayStation Plus Subscription Price Increase Announced Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed a price adjustment for PlayStation Plus memberships, marking the first such change since the service’s major restructuring in 2022. The company announced that monthly and annual subscription costs will rise across all tiers, effective May 14, 2024. This decision follows inflation trends and rising…
From the relative safety of a café in Warsaw that still remembers when pixels were rationed, I bring you the geopolitical tremor nobody asked for: Minecraft’s “Mounts of Mayhem” update has galloped onto 180 million screens, dragging behind it more baggage than a UN peacekeeping convoy. Mojang insists the patch is merely about rideable ravagers,…
Microsoft Xbox Prices: The Great Global Wallet-ectomy, 2024 Edition ————————————————————- It begins, as all modern tragedies do, with a tweet. Last week, Microsoft quietly announced that Xbox Series X|S prices will rise “in select markets,” a euphemism as bland and ominous as a tax audit. From São Paulo to Stockholm, gamers performed the synchronized international…
Fortnite, the Technicolor Fever Dream the World Can’t Shake By Matteo “Grim” Bellini, roving correspondent in exile from three continents It began, as all modern catastrophes do, with a comet. One moment the planet was busy stockpiling micro-plastics and passive-aggressive tweets; the next, 250 million earthlings had been press-ganged into a lurid cartoon war zone…
FC 26 Web App: The Quietest Global Border-Crossing Since the Black Death, Now With Pack Odds By the time the first wave of commuters in Lagos have finished bargaining with their bus conductors over 20-naira change, the FC 26 Web App has already logged 1.3 million log-ins from five continents. By the time the Tokyo…
Donkey Kong Bananza DLC: The Barrel Heard ’Round the World By our man at the console, Berlin bureau, with a Wi-Fi connection slightly better than Crimea’s Somewhere between the Russian Central Bank’s 21 % emergency rate hike and the news that Bangladeshi garment workers are now paid in mobile-game vouchers, Nintendo quietly dropped the Donkey…
Kyoto’s House of Mario Files Blueprints for the Next Global Addiction By Our Man in the Airport Lounge, still sober enough to type TOKYO—While half the planet argues about whose turn it is to save democracy and the other half wonders whether the air will still be breathable by Christmas, Nintendo Co. has been quietly…
