Press X to Start

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”Press X to Start” is a gaming podcast, run by a group of friends who want to add diverse voices and conversations to video games and culture.... more

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May 23, 2026 Gamer's Digest 2026-20: The GTA6 Leaks were WRONG!
Did you really think GTA6 pre-orders were gonna drop today? Comment below! What we do know is no one getting GTA6 early to review.. NO ONE! And Xbox has rebranded to…… XBOX!!! All this and more on this episode of Press X to Start Gamer’s Digest
Gaming News:
r/GTA6 on Reddit: Take-Two/Rockstar's patents for GTA VI are unreal. How is ANY of this running on a PS5? GTA 5 was made for 2005 consoles, and by a company with a much smaller budget and development time frame than they have now. We are not ready for GTA 6. This will be vastly beyond our wildest expectations.
GTA 6 Review Copies Won't Be Distributed, It's Claimed - Insider Gaming
Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access | GamesRadar+
After a fan poll, Microsoft’s new games boss is rebranding Xbox, to ‘XBOX’ | VGC
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Marathon Reveals New PVE Mode and Big Plans for the Future | IGN
Sony Sued by Gamers Over Allegedly Pocketing Millions in Illegal Tariff Windfall
Sony Seems to Be Testing a New Feature That Reveals PS5 Player Counts to the Public
PlayStation Plus Price Increase Announced - Insider Gaming
Quick Hits:
Subnautica 2 Is Already Making Waves, Selling 2 Million Copies in Just 12 Hours
Krafton Will Likely Have to Pay $250 Million Bonus for Subnautica 2 That It Tried to Avoid
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Saros (beat)*
Dj - Crimson Desert
Savion - CD ( just doing side quests), Mixtape (pretty much done) preordered lego batman and 007
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1h 17min
May 23, 2026 Gamer's Digest 2026-19: Are there multiple Steam Machines?
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1h 9min
May 23, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-18: Bank of America tells us how much GTA6 should COST!?
Bank of America has thoughts on how much GTA6 should cost…. Who ask them.. Gamestop plans to buy Ebay.. with what money… Playstation have to payout to gamers… what in the upside down news?

Gaming News:
Rockstar should raise GTA 6’s price for good of ‘the entire industry’, says Bank of America | VGC
GTA 6 Needs To Sell Staggering Amount Of Copies To Meet Expectations | ScreenRant
Rockstar games like GTA release on console before PC because that’s the ‘core consumer’, Take-Two CEO Zelnick says | VGC
GameStop's Absurd Bid To Buy eBay For $56 Billion Sounds Bad | Kotaku
Sony PlayStation Lawsuit Refund: How To Check Eligibility and Claim Your Money - Insider Gaming
Sony Responds to PlayStation DRM Fears With Official Statement - Insider Gaming
Subscriber plug
Saros Is At The Center Of A Misinformation Campaign | Kotaku
Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls leadership team | CNBC
Valve just imported 50 tons of game consoles in two days | The Verge
Quick Hits
Open-world anime RPG Neverness to Everness hits $14 million globally on day one, led by Japan and US - AUTOMATON WEST
Halo Studios is ‘actively developing’ remakes of Halo 2 and Halo 3, it’s claimed | VGC
Injustice 3 in the Works at NetherRealm Studios, It's Claimed - Insider Gaming
Reggie Fils-Aimé Says Nintendo Stopped Selling To Amazon After Being Asked To Break The Law | Kotaku
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Saros
Dj - NTE, Crimson Desert (Got to the actual Crimson Desert)
Savion - CD (finally got the kuku pack, starting faction quests), Mixtape
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1h 5min
May 23, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-17: Is Saros the Return to Returnal?
On our plate for this week: Housemarque makes its returnal to the spot light with Saros, Ubisoft brings back the best of Assassin Creed with Black Flag REsynced, and is the Playstation DRM story a big deal?

Gaming News:
Saros Reviews Round Up | OpenCritic
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Showcase Confirms Lack of DLC And Multiplayer - Insider Gaming
Assassin's Creed Hexe Loses 50 Developers as Game Targets 2027 Release | Insider Gaming
PS5 and PS4 Digital Games May Require 30-Day DRM Check-In or Risk Losing Access | MP1st
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The new vampire RPG from ex-Witcher developers finally has a confirmed release date | Polygon
‘Their favourite games were already built with AI’: Google exec says almost every big studio uses AI, but not all disclose it | VGC
"Xbox will be where the world plays": Microsoft confirms Xbox is once again looking into acquisitions, huge manifesto for the future detailed | Windows Central
Quick Hits
Crimson Desert Has Sold So Well Developer Pearl Abyss Has Reportedly Given Every Employee a $3,400 Bonus | IGN
Marathon Was One Of March's Best-Selling Games In The U.S. | Kotaku
Resident Evil Requiem was already the fastest-selling game in the series, so for 7 million copies sold in under 2 months, Capcom had to break out the cake
Final Fantasy 14 Is Coming To Switch 2, But With An Annoying Caveat | GameSpot
Troy Baker Is Ready to Swap Voice Acting for Game Development | IGN

What We Been Playing:
Sean - Pragmata (Finished)
Dj - Crimson Desert (Got to the actual Crimson Desert)
Savion - CD (finally got the kuku pack)
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1h 8min
May 23, 2026 Gamer's Digest 2026-16: Xbox GamePass Price is Dropping, But...
On our plate for this week:
GamePass is finally coming down in price but with a catch? Are you ready for the new God of War? And Ubisoft is bringing back the best Assassin Creed…

Gaming News: Time code: 00:00
Game Pass Gets Price Drop, New Call Of Duty Games No Longer Included - GameSpot
God of War Faye Spin-Off Claimed to Feature Tyr and Multiple Mythologies | MP1st
Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced Releases July 9, 2026 - Insider Gaming
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Arc Raiders studio contacted by crime scientist "intrigued by how players are interacting," dev says only 30% of players focus on PvP: "It kind of blew the whole extraction shooter open" | Games Radar
‘Elden Ring’: Alex Garland’s A24 Video Game Movie Reveals Full Cast, 2028 Release Date and It’s Being Shot for Imax | Variety
‘Call of Duty’ Movie Gets Mission Ready With Summer 2028 Release Date Variety
Quick Hits
#CrimsonDesert has sold through over 5 million copies worldwide! | Pearl Abyss YT channel
All-New IP PRAGMATA Surpasses One Million Units Sold in Two Days!– Highly innovative and original gameplay earns strong reception from players around the globe – | Press Release | CAPCOM
Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' | PC Gamer
Shuhei Yoshida Says Jim Ryan Fired Him From PlayStation Studios "Because I Didn’t Listen to Him" | This Week in Video Games
PlayStation Starts Following UK Laws On Age Verification | Gameranx
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Pragmata
Dj - Crimson Desert (Oh..this is Game of Thrones)
Savion - CD
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1h 9min
May 23, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-15: Disney is Making an Extraction Shooter?
Who’s excited to get griefed by a dude in a mickey mouse helmet while your trying to extract clubhouse tokens.. Epic and Disney are, Marathon is adding more to their extraction formula, and Xbox Game Pass may be changing….again
Gaming News
Epic Games is working on an Arc Raiders-like Disney extraction shooter slated to release by the end of the year | GamesIndustry.biz
Marathon Gets New Experimental Mode | IGN
Marathon Reportedly Had a Budget of Over $200 Million — and While the Pressure Is on Bungie to Gain More Players, It Is Not Facing an Imminent, Concord-Style Shutdown | IGN
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Xbox Game Pass ‘has become too expensive,’ says Microsoft’s new gaming chief in leaked memo | TheVerge
Xbox Is Reportedly Considering a Return To Exclusive Games: "There Are Very, Very Big Discussions Internally," Insider Says | WccfTech
Pete Hines says he quit Bethesda post-Xbox because ‘it’s part of something not genuine’ | VGC
‘Bloodborne’ Video Game Getting R-Rated Animated Movie Adaptation From Sony | Variety
Filming has wrapped with Legend of Zelda
Quick Hits
GTA Leak Raises Take-Two Interactive Stock Value By Over $1 Billion | Insider Gaming
007 First Light is Delayed on the Nintendo Switch 2 | Insider Gaming
No Man's Sky's adds Pokémon-inspired battles in major game update | Polygon
The FAA wants gamers to apply for air traffic control jobs | BBC
What We Been Playing
Dj -Crimson Desert (Oh..this is Game of Thrones), Pokopia (playing Bob the Builder)
Savion - Crimson Desert
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1h 10min
April 13, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-14: Is Playstation Teasing Uncharted 5?
Lenovo Legion Go 2 is 2 High 2 Buy, or is it? Did we just get an Uncharted 5 tease, and Playstation 6 may unfortunately be sooner than we expected. All this and more on this episode of Press X to Start Gamer’s Digest!
Gaming News
Best Buy Lists Lenovo Legion Go 2 at Twice the Price of the ROG Xbox Ally X | Windows Report
Uncharted 5? Fans Believe Cryptic Naughty Dog Dev Post Is Teasing The Game | GameSpot
'PlayStation 6 Is Not Many Years Away': Leaks Suggest Sony Is Working On Imminent Generational Transition With Handheld Support and 'PlayGo' Smart Delivery | WccfTech
AMD Wouldn't Waste Resources Doing Validation If They Thought The PlayStation 6 Could Be Delayed, Leaker Claims | WccfTech
Last Of Us Online Was ‘80 Percent’ Done When It Was Canceled | Kotaku
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Super Mario becomes the only animated movie series to open globally at more than $350 million twice | VGC
EXCLUSIVE: Eidos Montreal Cancels 7+ Year In-Development Title That Cost Hundreds of Millions | Insider Gaming
US patent office revokes Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle | VGC
PlayStation Games on PC Took 3 Years to Earn $300M | Insider Gaming
PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites | Game Observer
Quick Hits
The Google Pixel 10 can now play Steam games, thanks to the latest GameNative release | Android Police
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Bayonetta 3
Dj -Crimson Desert, Pokemon Pokopia
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53min
April 13, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-13: Playstation 5 Got a Reverse Discount!
Playstation is demanding more money from us before their big titles hit, Nintendo is bring a certain Space Fox, and Crimson Desert continues to sell…
Gaming News
The PS5 Price Hike Was Inevitable, But What Comes Next? | GameSpot
Sources: Nintendo is planning a new Star Fox and a major Zelda remake this year, but no 3D Mario | VGC
As Crimson Desert nears 5 million sales, Pearl Abyss CEO says it’s looking into a Switch 2 port | VGC
Crimson Desert Main Development Team Moves to Next Title | Insider Gaming
Subscriber plug
Xbox Games Showcase 2026 Followed by Gears of War: E-Day Direct Airs June 7 - and Xbox Fanfest Returns | Xbox Wire
Xbox Game Pass “TRITON” shows up with only first‑party games, sparking questions about whether Microsoft is preparing a major shake‑up to its subscription model | Windows Central
Xbox Announces 14 Titles Coming To Game Pass At March's Partner Preview Showcase | PureXbox
Quick Hits
‘We are in it for the long haul’: Bungie says Marathon will be steadily improved for ‘many years’ | VGC
After Almost 25 Years, An Unreleased Dreamcast Game Cancelled In The Wake Of 9/11 Has Just Been Brought Back Online | Time Extension
What We Been Playing:
Sean - N/A
Dj -Crimson Desert
Crimson Desert Patch Notes Version 1.01.00
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57min
March 30, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-12: Crimson Desert has the Internet In A Chokehold!
Crimson Desert is finally out, and the internet is at odds with how to feel about the game...and well… how to play it. Insomniac wants to give you even more reason to pre-order Wolverine later this spring, and Stranger than Heaven will headline Xbox’s Partner Preview this Week!....
Gaming News
Crimson Desert Patch 1.00.03 Makes The Game Easier and Fixes Huge Concerns | Insider Gaming
Sold 2 million copies in 24 hours
Steam reviews are leaning toward positive after the patch
Pearl Abyss Addresses Crimson Desert AI Art Scandal: 'We Apologize For These Oversights' - Insider Gaming
Insomniac 'Wants To Show More' Wolverine Before Opening Pre-Orders - Insider Gaming
Sega’s Stranger Than Heaven will headline an Xbox Partner event this week | VGC
Minecraft Dungeons is getting a sequel this year, and it’s coming to PS5 and Switch 2 | VGC
Ubisoft announces layoffs and the cease of game development at Red Storm Entertainment | GamesIndustry.biz
Saudi Arabia Just Spent Over $6 Billion Buying Up More Of The Video Game Industry | Kotaku

Quick Hits
Slay the Spire 2: One of the best indie Steam launches of all time | Alinea Analytics
Microsoft Reportedly Offering Up to 50% Off Xbox Series X/S to Select Xbox One Users | Twisted Voxel
Sony Removes Over 1,000 Low-Quality Games From PlayStation Store | MP1st
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Yakuza 3 Kiwami: Dark Ties side story
Dj -Crimson Desert, Pokemon Pokopia
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56min
March 23, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-11 - NVIDIA Slapping AI Filters on Our Games!
NVIDIA is throwing AI filters on your favorite games, Xbox is installing AI Clippy 2.0 on your console, and PC will overtake consoles in 2 years! So sound the alarm bells!
Gaming News
Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, Injecting Even More AI Into Games - IGN
Gaming Copilot coming to current-gen Xbox consoles in 2026 | GamesIndustry.biz
PC will overtake console revenue by 2028, says Newzoo | GamesIndustry.biz
Pokopia is already one of the best-selling Pokémon spin-offs, after just four days | VGC
Crimson Desert Estimated to Have Already Reached $20M in Pre-Order Revenue With Nearly 400K Copies Sold on Steam Alone
Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones Which CEO Admits Are Better
Arc Raiders, The Finals Dev Embark Studios Parts Ways With Co-founder Following Misconduct Allegations - IGN

Quick Hits
The Neowsletter - March 2026 | Mega Crit Games
Marathon has likely sold close to 2 million copies in the first week | Reddit
Marathon is rolling out an "experimental duo queue" | Eurogamer
Saudi Arabia Buys Another 5 Percent Of Capcom As Resident Evil Requiem Sells 6 Million Copies | Kotaku
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Yakuza 3 Kiwami, Ghost of Yotei Legends
Dj -Ghost of Yotei Legends, Pokemon Pokopia
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57min

FAQs about Press X to Start:

How many episodes does Press X to Start have?

The podcast currently has 527 episodes available.