Battlefield 6 vs. CoD: Black Ops 7: A post-holiday retrospective on which shooter won the 2025 sales crown
The dust has finally settled on the most chaotic holiday shopping season the first person shooter genre has seen in years.
The dust has finally settled on the most chaotic holiday shopping season the first person shooter genre has seen in years.
Some games launch loud, burn bright, and disappear within a year. Others refuse to die.
When I first dropped into Arc Raiders, it was immediately clear that this was not trying to be just another disposable multiplayer shooter chasing a trend.
Competitive gaming has reached a point where preparation matters just as much as raw talent. Professional players do not simply launch a game and queue into a ranked match or scrim cold.
When Black Ops 7 launched, it did exactly what the Call of Duty franchise has done for nearly two decades.
Matchmaking is one of those systems most players interact with constantly but rarely think about in detail. You queue up, wait a bit, load into a match, and hope the game feels fair.
Gaming has always been more than pixels on a screen. It is a shared language, a set of rituals, and a culture built by players talking to one another long before developers or marketers tried to define what gaming should look like.
For decades, console gaming and PC gaming lived in clearly defined lanes. Consoles were built around controllers, designed for couch play, split screens, and accessibility.
For PC gamers, storage upgrades are often marketed as one of the most dramatic performance improvements you can make.
Communication has always been one of the most powerful tools in gaming.
The Call of Duty franchise has maintained an almost mythical status in gaming, delivering annual releases since 2005 with a consistency that few other series can match.
The technology industry was sent into a frenzy with the announcement of Nvidia’s unprecedented $5 billion investment in Intel
In early September 2025 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) quietly granted Nintendo two patents, numbers 12,403,397 and 12,409,387, that are already sending ripples through the game-development world.
After more than two decades of waiting, Konami has finally delivered the highly anticipated remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
When Battlefield 6 opened its doors to players for two weekends of beta testing, it wasn’t just another pre-release trial run.