Microsoft’s $69 billion deal Buying Activision Blizzard came closer on Friday in big steps. UK regulators issued a preliminary finding that the acquisition would not harm competition, despite previously indicating the Xbox maker would need to spin off the call of Duty shop to have the sale approved. The British competition and market surveillance authority ...
Before tomorrow DiabloIV Open Beta warns Blizzard that – like last weekend – players will likely suffer long waits and other server issues as even more people than last weekend queue up to try and play the super-hyped sequel. In case you missed it, yes, the upcoming dungeon crawling action RPG DiabloIV had a closed ...
2023 has already been a pretty solid year for gaming. However, if you stop and look at Metacritic to see what some of the top-rated games released this year actually were, you’ll notice a trend: many of them are remakes or remasters of older games. It’s a trend that probably has a few different causes, ...
Availability:Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Windows (Steam Deck not supported), macOS, iOS, Android, Original Xbox, Nintendo SwitchStar Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Windows (Steam Deck YMMV), macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Original Xbox, Nintendo Switch Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic came out in 2003 and with it ...
photo: Activision Blizzard Milan Fashion Week has just wrapped up, and while that’s not typically the sort of thing we’d cover on this site about anime, reality TV, and comics, there was a surprise inclusion on the 2023 show: Blizzards Diablo Series. (I usually say because I have previously wrote about Milan Fashion Week back ...
Microsoft President Brad Smithphoto: Valeria Mongelli / Bloomberg (Getty Images) Today, Microsoft President Brad Smith and Xbox CEO Phil Spencer spoke briefly to the media about it ongoing attempt to consume Activision Blizzard Kingonce again pretending it was all about the bigger spavin call of Duty. At one point, Smith said he had a contract ...
Picture: Natural selection 2 This is how many online games have been shut down so far in 2023 that we already had to do a summaryand it is only February. Which means there are many more to suffer similar fates over the next 10 months, and the next two to suffer their demise Natural selection ...
Picture: Valve It was pretty cool last week at Valve, the developers of antiquity Team Fortress 2, said the game is getting “a full-fledged update-sized update.”. It’s less cool to find out a week later that the company edited that announcement post to slow everyone down. You can’t blame people for getting upset! As neglected ...
screenshot: CNBC/Kotaku To relieve UK regulators reluctance In order to approve the Microsoft acquisition, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick reached out to CNBC to make the case for the merger. Be Comments on the becoming of the United Kingdom “Death Valley”, if the merger was not approved, deserved it well deserved mockery. But maybe we ...
screenshot: Motif Studio / Kotaku motif studios Empty room make new is a bloody slow crawl to victory that may be made easier with a discovered exploit by a Reddit user earlier this week. The exploit has players pull out endless Pulse Rifle ammo to exchange for currency, a process recalled by a commenter on ...
