Sony announced massive price increases for its PS5 consoles last week, with the PS5 Pro getting slapped with the biggest price hike out of all of them: a whopping $150, pushing the MSRP of the hardware to $900. The good news is that the new price hasn't gone into effect yet, but the bad news is that time is running out, as you only have until April 2 to get a PS5 Pro at its current price of $750.

Officially, Sony says that "continued pressures in the global economic landscape" have forced its hand, leading to the price increases. With an AI-driven demand for components like SSDs and RAM, it's no wonder that the cost of producing PS5 and PS5 Pro consoles has gone up, with the PS5 Pro in particular being equipped with a 2TB SSD, 16GB of GDDR6 RAM, and 2GB of DDR5 RAM. It's not the first time that Sony has faced issues involving manufacturing costs, but the global semiconductor shortage of the early 2020s pales in comparison to current world events, geopolitical instability, and US president Donald Trump's tariffs.

The PS5 Pro is a great console, if you have the right tech to support it. The build quality is rock-solid, and the internal hardware--along with the improved PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR)--make 4K 60fps games more viable on it. But to see those results, you will need a top-notch TV, and those aren't exactly cheap either. A disc drive is also not included, so if you were planning to watch 4K Blu-rays or play physical games on the PS5 Pro, that's an extra expense to consider.

One of Bethesda Game Studio's Elder Scrolls spin-offs, The Elder Scrolls: Blades, will be shutting down in June, according to a post on the Nintendo eShop.

The free-to-play dungeon crawler and town-builder's last day will be June 30, after which the game's servers will go offline, rendering the entire game inaccessible. In the meantime, all items in The Elder Scrolls: Blades' store will be purchasable with a single Sigil or Gem, so players can "enjoy all the content Blades has to offer," according to Bethesda.

Blades released in 2019 and saw players battling through dungeons to score loot, then returning to town to upgrade and customize the settlement. The game additionally included one-on-one arena PvP battles, with cross-play and cross-progression across devices.

While Crimson Desert has seen huge success since its March 19 launch on consoles and PC, toppling its own concurrent player numbers and selling over 3 million copies to date, the game isn't without its flaws. The narrative is one of them, as it's so confusing that not even Kliff's voice actor was able to make much sense of it.

Speaking on Skill Up's Friends Per Second podcast on March 29 (via Eurogamer), Alec Newman expressed how important writing is for any medium. He said he kept seeking clarity about the story and the characters because the project, to Newman, "felt very much like making a TV series" where the focus kept changing. This isn't a secret--Crimson Desert started as a prequel to developer Pearl Abyss' MMORPG Black Desert Online before transforming into the single-player action-adventure RPG that it is now--but it certainly presented continuity changes for Newman and the other VAs.

"I don't want to say they kept changing the goalpost, but we started off recording with cards of the different parts of Pywell and the various characters," Newman said. "He's from this faction and he's from that faction, and I kept just saying, 'Yes, but what is happening?'"

Castlevania fans can now sink their teeth into the entire Netflix anime without breaking the bank. Castlevania: The Complete Series Limited Edition Box Set features all four seasons of the Netflix anime based on Konami's gothic horror action-adventure game franchise, and it's available on the cheap as a part of the Amazon Big Spring Sale. First released in 2025, the box set is currently available for $115, a 26% discount from its standard price of $155.

In addition to all four seasons of the anime, the Castlevania: The Complete Series Limited Edition Box Set also includes:

If you're anything like me, as soon as Pokemon Pokopia declared the need for paper to complete the next step of the Team Initiation Challenge, you suddenly forgot how on earth to craft it. Thankfully, I figured it out via a painstaking method of deduction. Luckily for you, I wrote it down so you don't have to talk to tens of Pokemon before remembering the right way to get it done.

There are several Pokemon that can help to make paper, but before that, you'll need to gather up some bundles of Wastepaper. These will be given to specific Pokemon in order to craft it into normal paper. You can find Wastepaper in the Sparkling Skylands in abundance, so head there to get as much as you need.

After that, you'll need to track down a Pokemon with the Recycle ability. From my earlier hours in the game, I remembered Trubbish having this exclusive specialty, so I headed to him for all my paper needs. You could also ask the likes of Metang, Garbador, Magnezone, Koffing, Weezing, Cinccino, Porygon, Porygon2, Beldum, or Metagross. Remember, if you're ever wondering which specialty a Pokemon has, our full Pokopia Pokedex has you covered.

Oh sure, your Steam library might be unreasonably enormous, but what your life is really missing is the finicky organization that collectors crave. A new game is aiming to replicate that feeling by letting you nicely organize your actual Steam library onto shelves.

Boxroom, announced as part of Steam's House and Home Fest, looks and plays a lot like other home designer sims like House Flipper. The major difference here is that you're just designing one room, and it can creates a virtual space to store your whole Steam library. A demo is available now that lets you try out the concept with a random assortment of your Steam games.

The trailer shows lots of flexibility in organizing your room, not all of which is available in this demo. But you can place some shelves and sort through your game collection to place them on those shelves, which is very satisfying for those of us who are fastidious about having everything placed just-so.

A new update for the popular RPG Crimson Desert has seemingly removed some of the generative AI art that fans discovered in the game recently. The patch notes alluded to this, with developer Pearl Abyss saying the new update would offer "visual improvements" that included replacing "select 2D visual assets to better align with the game's art direction."

Pearl Abyss previously confirmed that Crimson Desert launched with AI-generated art assets that were not meant to be published in the final game. The studio also said it should have disclosed the game's use of AI prior to launch.

An in-game painting featuring horses with too many limbs was replaced by a new piece of art. You can see the new art below, as captured by GameSpot.

Is a Switch 2 price hike coming? Many are theorizing that this will happen at some point in the future due to the so-called "RAMaggedon" and other factors, and even Nintendo's own top boss said he cannot rule out a price increase. Now, Dr. Serkan Toto of research group Kantan Games has said he believes the Switch 2 may see price hike, and it could happen by the end of the year.

"I would be very surprised if the Switch was still $450 in the US at the end of 2026," he told GamesRadar.

He added that "people get used to everything," and that includes price increases for gaming hardware. Or at least that's what companies like Sony and others who have raised prices already are betting on, he said. Sony, for its part, just announced a second price hike for the PS5, while Microsoft raised Xbox prices in 2025.