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The biggest going concern for the Microsoft/Activision merger was the UK’s regulatory body shutting it down. The CMA is all-powerful and didn’t seem overly keen on the deal going through. Some analysts put it finishing at as low as 15%. But that all changed yesterday. In a massively rare move, the CMA revised its provisional findings and decided that the console market wasn’t at threat from the merger. In layman’s terms, Microsoft could remove Call of Duty from PlayStation and…

A new LEGO game has been revealed! LEGO 2K Drive is coming out this year. Check out the reveal trailer and our thoughts on the below. LEGO 2K Drive will be coming May 19th for the Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS4/PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC. This new LEGO game is an open world driving game. It looks really wild too! All kinds of vehicles and environments. You can go anywhere, build a car and race against everyone: including other players!…

When Suicide Squad was shown at the Sony direct, it received mixed reaction. I filed it under “play in a sub service” and didn’t think about it again. Apparently that wasn’t enough for some people. According to Bloomberg, the game has ended up being delayed. This follows backlash from fans. Despite that, it will still likely hit this year. So don’t expect it to suddenly become Arkham City 2. I wrote the other day about how sometimes it seems developers…

One of the big releases of this week has been Wo Long, the Soulslike set within the Three Kingdoms period of China. I’ve not played it much, but I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen. And the most amazing thing? I was in on the ground floor. In all the talk about subscription services, it tends to be the value that comes up the most. People will get really excited about the prospect of getting something for (seemingly) nothing, especially if that…

There was a time when Suicide Squad and in particular Harley Quinn were huge. And that coincided with a time when superhero GAAS titles were soaked in potential. That time is decidedly not now. I don’t have strong opinions on the showing of Rocksteady’s new Suicide Squad. It debuted to mixed reaction at this week’s PlayStation State of Play, and while I won’t be rushing out to buy it, decent reviews make it a must-play at some point. These are…

Playstation will air a new State of Play this Thursday, February 23, 2023. We have all the details below. A new State of Play will air this Thursday at 3pm central. It will feature Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Five new PSVR2 games, and some third party and indie reveals. Its unknown what third party and indie games will show up. Its supposed to be ‘reveals’ so it should be new titles that we don’t know about. Hopefully we’ll…

In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a very quick raft of releases of old games for new consoles, and not a single one has released without some issue, big or small. Just think about that for a second. Goldeneye, Tales of Symphonia. Hell, even the Blade Runner release from last year is still being fixed (which is admirable, but plays into my point here). There is clearly a demand for old games. There are entire communities of retro fans…

Hogwarts Legacy will be out for the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X/S next week! An official launch trailer was released today. Please check it out and then come back here for our thoughts on the game. Hogwarts Legacy continues to look amazing. In the official launch trailer, we get more of a glimpse at the game’s story. A new student comes to Hogwarts as a fifth year student and gets into lots of trouble. We see a dragon, a…

With all the talk about The Last of Us, and the popularity of “film-like” games, it’s got me to thinking. When is a game a game? What basic elements of interactivity create something that just can’t be chopped up and placed into another medium? Ironically, the game that made me start thinking of this was Telling Lies. On the surface, it’s about as filmic as you can get. You scrub through actual video, clicking words in the subtitles to find…

The Last of Us is a TV show now, and a million websites have declared it the end of the Video Game adaption curse. But at this point it’s just a talking point. This article won’t touch on The Last of Us – I’m not watching it until the series is finished – but instead on the hype around every new video game adaption as finally “breaking the curse”. It happened with Sonic, it happened with Mortal Kombat and it…