The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard. An independent agency of the US government, the FTC alleges the $69 billion deal would enable Microsoft to suppress competitors to its Xbox gaming consoles. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – PC Trailer In a complaint issued December 8, the
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Credit: AMD)The last products to arrive in our end-of-year hardwarepalooza are the chiplet-based AMD Radeon 7900 series GPUs. The RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT will officially go on sale Tuesday, Dec. 13. Whether you’ll be able to buy one
Blizzard announced a release date for Diablo 4 during The Game Awards 2022 this evening. Releasing on June 6, 2023, the game will feature cross-platform play and progression on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, plus couch co-op on consoles at launch. The most brutal vision of Sanctuary yet, according to Blizzard, finds the demon Lilith and
Asobo Studio and Microsoft have announced Microsoft Flight Simulator has over 10 million players. Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition Microsoft also shared figures representing accomplishments made by the community. According to the figures shared, players have taken over 500 million flights and flown over 40 billion miles. This figure represents 10 million trips around
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Lucas Santos/Unsplash)Microsoft’s indeterminate acquisition of Activision Blizzard has sparked quite a bit of tension between the tech giant and its competitors. Most notably, Sony has voiced its concerns regarding Microsoft’s impending ability to snatch major Activision franchises away from
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Philip Shoots/Unsplash)Alienware appears to be reviving its memorable 18-inch gaming laptop. In a video shared via the Dell subsidiary’s Twitter account Monday, Alienware—true to its brand—teases a product by depicting its UFO-like arrival to Earth. The only hint as
A new video showing off some new Dead Island 2 gameplay has been released, showing off plenty of gore, weapons, and combat. The video follows the latest showcase for the game which featured new information with an extended look at new gameplay, and news that the game will support Alex Game Control. This feature will
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Cooler Master is throwing its hat into the “computer desk as isolation chamber” market with a new gaming pod. Dubbed the Orb X, this all-in-one, desk-and-monitor setup wraps around the user like an RGB cocoon. The company describes it as
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Techspot)If you thought gaming at 144Hz was glorious, that might be simply quaint in a few years. At a recent technology conference in China, a company unveiled the world’s first 600Hz gaming display. This begs the question: but why?
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Starfield. (Image: Bethesda)Well, it’s finally happening. After a long period of hemming and hawing (and, to be fair, some pretty ugly economic fluctuations), Microsoft has made the decision to bump first-party Xbox game prices from $59.99 to $69.99. The change
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Anticipation is starting to build for AMD’s next-gen graphics cards. The company is deploying an unusual, month-long delay between the announcement and the on-sale date next week. With cards starting to be shipped to retailers, Asus has become the first
The wait is over. Project L has just received its second and final update for 2022, featuring some in-engine Illaoi gameplay, a core gameplay breakdown, as well as an overview of the tag system that’ll play a major part in Riot’s free to play fighter. This update comes with lead designer Tom Cannon providing much
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Apple headset render via Antonio DeRosa)Apple seems to be getting close to the launch of its much-hyped AR/VR headset, as it’s reportedly settled on a name for the operating system. Noted Apple soothsayer Mark Gurman is reporting it’s going
You are reading that headline correctly, a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player has achieved the world record for longest amount of time playing the game at 69 hours, four minutes, and 20 seconds. Some of us will become doctors or nurses, jobs that help people. Others will create art that moves us to tears. But
Sloclap’s Kung Fu game Sifu is getting the movie treatment, courtesy of Story Kitchen and John Wick writer Derek Kolstad. As reported by Deadline, Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson will produce the film along with Kolstad, Mike Goldberg, Dan Jevons and Timothy I. Stevenson. Sifu Launch Trailer If you are unfamiliar with Sifu, it centers
Microsoft has announced its annual ID@Xbox Winter Game Demo Event will start next week. Partnering with The Game Awards, the event will run December 6-12 and will include over 20 demos of unreleased games for Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. You are cordially invited to attend the Inkulinati Academy As usual, the demos will
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s time to bust out that tiny violin you’ve been saving for special occasions. It turns out the poor reception of the $1,200 RTX 4080 has resulted in some collateral damage: Scalpers are now stuck with loads of GPUs. It’s
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Image: Valve)Valve has some pretty grandiose ideas for spicing up this year’s Game Awards. On Wednesday the company tweeted that it would be giving away a Steam Deck every minute of the event. Considering the Game Awards is typically a
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (The Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti will likely look very similar to its 4080 16GB. Credit: Gigabyte)Nvidia famously “unlaunched” the much-derided RTX 4080 12GB GPU a few weeks after it was announced. Instead, it chose to only move forward with its
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Credit: PCMag)It wouldn’t be a Windows update without some bugs, and indeed, there were some annoyances when Microsoft finally released the 22H2 update (formally the Windows 11 2022 Update). Among the issues was a possible drop in game performance, but
In the first update since it launched on November 18, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet is finally dishing out bug fixes and opening up ranked play. If you’ve been on the internet at all this week, there’s a mighty chance that you’ve seen the abundance of bugs, glitches, and performance issues that Pokemon players have been
^Stay tuned after the ad for our deep-dive chat into Midnight Suns, with thirty minutes of gorgeous ultrawide footage We’ll admit it: we thought Marvel’s Midnight Suns had 6/10 written all over it. It seemed to so confused, that we wondered for months – in private – about whether it could possibly be a good,
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft’s bid to acquire Activision Blizzard is on thin ice. Antitrust regulators from several regions have been reviewing the deal all year, and several have recently expressed concern that the acquisition could drastically reduce competition within the video game industry.
Some games are just nice. Something you can stick on your Steam Deck or Switch and just chill out with for a while. One such game, which also happens to be a day one release on Xbox Game Pass for consoles and PC, is Soccer Story. Given that we’re in peak football season at the
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Credit: PCMag)Now that Nvidia has launched the RTX 4090 and 4080, it is desperately trying to clear the channel of older GPUs. The end of crypto mining and economic unease has resulted in a deluge of GPUs, often at bargain
I have a soft spot in my heart for a game with a good twist. A narrative switcheroo, that drags you further into the story than you’d otherwise care to go. The Knight Witch is one such game, one I initially wasn’t too keen on but eventually won me over. The Knight Witch is a
Are you waiting impatiently for the upcoming Splinter Cell remake? You know, the one that’s apparently being rewritten for a modern day audience and that recently lost its director (who had 11 years’ experience at Ubisoft)? Well, if the wait is unbearably hard, then we’ve got some good news for you: Splinter Cell is back
It’s been a messy old week for Sony and Microsoft. After the UK Government published Xbox and PlayStation’s full arguments over the Activision Blizzard acquisition case to a public domain, media types and players alike have been trawling the pages, sniffing out bytes of snark issued by both companies in an effort to make themselves
The Sims 4 is no stranger to regular updates, with a bustling community of creatives building architecturally-interesting homes and vibrant, maniacal Simmers. It’s a community that has thrived since conception, and one that Maxis rarely neglects.The Sims 4 is now free to play!This time around, Maxis has dished out the Gallery Profanity Filter Update, which
In an era where games are scrambling to find new and innovative ways to monetise themselves, the season pass reigns. So, it comes as little to no surprise that The Callisto Protocol is going to feature a season pass of its own. First reported by the folk over at VGC, the information regarding the season
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