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Microsoft’s big deal to eat up one of the biggest power pellets of the video game industry received a boost from EU regulators. On Monday, the European Commission—the body overseeing the Microsoft/Activision Blizzard merger—announced it had approved the $68.7 billion deal to go forward, as long as the companies pinkie swear they’ll throw a competitive bone to other publishers along the way.Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots NextIn its announcement Monday morning, the commission said that Microsoft and…

It seemed like the release of the long-awaited BioWare RPG Dragon Age: Dreadwolf could finally happen this year, but the latest financial report from EA suggests that the game won’t be out before April 2024. It has been about eight-and-a-half years since the last game in the series, Dragon Age: Inquisition, was released. This fourth entry in the Dragon Age franchise reportedly had a rocky development before the current, single-player version of the game really got off the ground after the release of…

On Wednesday, UK regulators torpedoed Microsoft’s planned $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying the deal wouldn’t help anybody but the companies themselves. Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots NextThe country’s Competition and Markets Authority, which had been reviewing the deal for close to a year now, said the deal would have drastically reduced competition in the cloud gaming sector especially. In the government release, the chair of the panel investigating the deal, Martin Coleman,…

Meta has once again taken up the scythe and struck a wide swathe of staff from its field of developers. The first in what’s expected to be a total of 10,000 job cuts at the company is expected to impact teams for Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and in the company’s Reality Labs division working on its virtual reality tech. However, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “year of efficiency” layoffs have also hit members of Meta’s gaming studios working on VR titles.Making the Facebook Papers PublicMeta owns nine separate game studios,…

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While the latest generation of consoles got off to a slow start due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re finally seeing stock get back to a normal level, and that includes the PlayStation 5 Pro as well, so if you’re looking for a disc version, you’re in luck! Even better, Best Buy has this excellent PS5 bundle that includes God of War Ragnarök, and the whole thing is going for $510 rather than the $560 you’d usually find it for. Why you should buy the PlayStation 5 God of War Ragnarök Bundle The PlayStation 5 is a…

The Epic Games Store is celebrating Easter weekend with some free games. From now until Thursday, April 13, players can get Dying Light: Enhanced Edition for free on PC. Dying Light is a 2015 first-person survival game that has players killing zombies and parkouring around a city. The Enhanced Edition features extra content, including its 2016 expansion Dying Light: The Following. It’s a well-timed freebie considering that it was developed by Dead Island developer Techland, and a sequel to that game launches in just…

Activision published a massive new blog post highlighting what to expect from Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Season 3. The upcoming season, which will launch on April 12, has plenty in store, including new Warzone 2.0 modes, a DMZ overhaul, new weapons, and plenty of additional features. On the Warzone 2.0 side of things, expect the new Al Mazrah Massive Resurgence mode to drop as soon as the season begins. This will allow players to respawn continuously as long as at least one player…

There are so many classic games from the past that have become difficult for new players to experience. The farther away in time we get from these games’ releases, the more difficult it can get to not only get the game itself but also the extra hardware needed to play them. That alone is a major barrier that turns people away from playing games many consider to be some of the greatest of all time. And that’s not even taking into account dated graphics, controls, and mechanics. Remakes offer a new generation a chance…

The Department of Justice said Monday that it had reached a settlement with gaming giant Activision Blizzard over a complaint accusing the company of financially penalizing successful Overwatch and Call of Duty esports teams. The DOJ alleged Activision’s “Competitive Balance Tax” would have “effectively operated as a salary tax and limited competition.” Activision says it never made a team pay the tax and that the leagues dropped the monetary measure from their contracts in 2021. The settlement and its proposed consent…