When Star Wars Outlaws first launched, it set out to deliver something the franchise had never done before: a true open-world Star Wars adventure focused on smugglers, syndicates, and the galaxy’s ...

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Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States who has been working with GameRant since August 2023 and self-publishing since May 2025. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has ...

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Xbox has been losing the gaming console war for years, as declining hardware sales struggle to compete against the Nintendo Switch and Sony's PlayStation. The past year has seen layoffs, price hikes ...

Another year, another update to Sony's PlayStation Portal. The latest tweak to the hardware considerably expands the roster of games playable on the device—but the end result only highlights how ...

While Microsoft has denied stepping away from hardware production outright, there’s no denying that the company’s decreasing reliance on first-party publishing will leave a gap in the console gaming ...

These days, it’s common to see the Super Nintendo Entertainment System referred to as one of the best consoles ever made — and often as the greatest of all time. But at the time of its release, there ...