News Microsoft finally buy Activision Blizzard as last legal hurdles fall away And Bobby Kotick is staying on through the end of 2023 Oct. 13, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 74 comments
News Bobby Kotick thinks videogames could use Elon Musk's brain tech, according to reports "We're going to be able to do things that we've never done before." Oct. 11, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 43 comments
News Minecraft's 2023 mob vote has its first candidate: the crab The player vote begins in 10 days Oct. 3, 2023 Graham Smith 3 comments
News Worms, Blasphemous and Overcooked publisher Team17 is the latest video game company to face job losses What a terrible few months for the industry it’s been Oct. 2, 2023 Matt Jarvis 20 comments
Deals Upgrade to the Xbox Elite Series 2 Core gamepad for $99 $31 off for a great-feeling gamepad that works on PC and Xbox consoles. Sept. 22, 2023 Will Judd
Feature "They don’t care": Inside the triumphs and failures of accessible gaming hardware How custom and adaptive controllers serve players with disabilities – and how steep costs and bad attitudes threaten the good they can do Sept. 22, 2023 James Archer 32 comments
News UK regulator provisionally approves Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard buyout, following Ubisoft deal Selling Actiblizz cloud gaming rights to Ubi will ensure "open competition", CMA says Sept. 22, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 18 comments
News Phil Spencer argues AAA publishers are "riding the success of franchises created 10+ years ago" in leaked mail Ubisoft, Take-Two and co were "slow to react" to growth of game subscription services Sept. 20, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 42 comments
Feature Dishonored 3 is the only exciting thing on Bethesda's leaked 5-year plan, and I'm worried I will also give you Ghostwire: Tokyo 2, that game owned Sept. 19, 2023 Alice Bell 79 comments
News New Xbox Sebile controller revealed by Microsoft-FTC leak-o-rama Features quieter buttons Sept. 19, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 12 comments
News Microsoft to launch new "hybrid" cloud and AI-based gaming platform in 2028, according to leaked docs Cower before the onset of "Cohesive Hybrid Compute" Sept. 19, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 12 comments
News Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email "It's just taking a long time for Nintendo to see that their future exists off of their own hardware..." Sept. 19, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 50 comments
Feature RPG experts on why we love Baldur's Gate 3, and the future of the genre "Fidelity is a death cult," says Mark Darrah Sept. 18, 2023 Nic Reuben 114 comments
News Alan Wake 2's developers "have always internally felt that we need to find ways to do longer games" And nu-Wake will be Remedy's longest yet Sept. 12, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 23 comments
News Starfield's rotoscoped animated advert pokes fun at hoarding players And the adoring fan Sept. 9, 2023 Graham Smith 14 comments
News Thomas The Tank Engine has already been made into a ship in Starfield Players are recreating some wild spacecraft, from iconic Star Wars and Halo ships to abstract shapes Sept. 8, 2023 Kaan Serin 7 comments
News Ubisoft set to buy cloud streaming rights to Activision Blizzard games from Microsoft Microsoft's attempt to appease UK regulators Aug. 22, 2023 Kaan Serin 8 comments
News Starfield's animated trailers offer some player motivation for life among the stars I'd rather be a postman July 25, 2023 Graham Smith 2 comments
News Miss Max Payne's original face? This mod puts Sam Lake's mug in Max Payne 3 “Yes, you will see how Sam Lake shaves his head!” July 25, 2023 Kaan Serin 8 comments
Feature Supporters only | Alan Wake is a terrible writer but dammit, I respect him Dreamweaver (almost literally) July 25, 2023 Alice Bell 12 comments
News Microsoft and Activision Blizzard agree three-month extension for their proposed merger The never-ending acquisition July 19, 2023 Kaan Serin 3 comments
News Celeste and Toem join Game Pass soon, while Marvel's Avengers leaves Microsoft have announced the next batch of comings and goings July 18, 2023 Kaan Serin 28 comments
News The FTC appeals court case loss against Microsoft's Activision Blizzard buyout Back again July 13, 2023 Kaan Serin 12 comments
News There’s a new weirdest way to play Doom: using rat neurons grown in a jar It’ll be hard to top this, honestly. July 12, 2023 Matt Jarvis 34 comments
News Microsoft could face a "new merger investigation" from UK regulators No deal to maybe-deal July 12, 2023 Kaan Serin 7 comments