Sorcha O’Carroll, Senior Director of Mergers at the CMA, stated: Following our Phase 1 investigation, we are concerned that Microsoft could use its control over popular games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft post-merger to harm rivals, including recent and future rivals in multi-game subscription services and cloud gaming. If our current concerns are not addressed, we plan to explore this deal in an in-depth Phase 2 investigation to reach a decision that works in the interests of UK gamers and businesses....

MSI Titan GT77, Raider GE77/67, Vector GP76/66, CreatorPro X17 Push Laptop Gaming To The Extreme With Intel’s Alder Lake-HX CPUs Press Release: Today, MSI - the innovative computing manufacturer in gaming and creator laptops - proudly unveils a new lineup of laptops equipped with the latest 12th Gen Intel HX series processors. The new premium laptop lineup delivers not just extreme performances but an innovative set of features including the built-in mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches, an exclusive built-in color calibration report, and the world’s first QHD 240Hz OLED display....

Looking back through Sumo Digital’s games portfolio, there is one football game: England International Football, published in 2004 by Codemasters for the original Xbox console. That was a long time ago, though, and it’s hard to extrapolate anything from that project. This LEGO football game is reportedly targeting a Q4 2022 launch to coincide with the Qatar World Cup (set to begin on November 21st). Other upcoming LEGO sports games include an open world racing game made by 2K subsidiary Visual Concepts (NBA 2K, WWE 2K) and another project belonging to a ‘major sports franchise’....

Created by modder ‘D-Won’, the “Maximum Descutrction” modification is a mod that makes spells and magic in the Special Edition of Skyrim have Mortal Kombat-like levels of gore by adding actual gore to magical spells. “Maximum Destruction adds magical gore effects to Skyrim. It allows you to pass down a gruesome elemental death to your opponents”, the modder writes. “You can burn them to a crisp, freeze them solid, send shocks down their spines or even watch as your poison slowly drains the life out of them....

A new report from Newzoo covers a lot of this, so let’s break down a few highlights. Obviously, Tencent remains our general overlord in terms of total revenue, growing by 9.9% year by year, to over $32 billion by the end of last year. Tencent owns companies like Riot Games, Remedy Entertainment, and PlatinumGames, to name a few. Meanwhile, over in the console sphere, Microsoft, being ranked the 4th public company in revenue totals, enjoyed healthy growth (a 9....

Clifton told Axios that they were fired as a result of asking about Nintendo of America’s thoughts on the unionization trend in QA that’s been seen in the industry as of late. This happened during a meeting for hundreds of Nintendo testers back in January. While Clifton’s question wasn’t answered in the meeting, a supervisor from Aston Carter called them, saying that his question was a “downer” and telling him to direct such inquiries to the contracting firm, not Nintendo....

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), a major manufacturer of graphic cards, continues to feature regularly in the “most mentioned” list of stocks as investors try to extrapolate future trends amid an onslaught of headwinds, moderated by a few hefty tailwinds. As is evidenced by the snippet above, NVIDIA was the third most popular stock symbol over the past 24 hours, a feat that it repeats quite often. Against this backdrop, the latest investment note from New Street has again shone a spotlight on the stock’s prospects....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Graphics Card Confirmed For 5th January Launch, ASUS TUF Gaming Custom Model Pictured Italian retailer, Drako.it, has listed the first custom NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics card which comes from AIB, ASUS. The graphics card is the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti TUF Gaming OC variant which has the SKU code ‘90YV0IJ0-M0NA00’. The graphics card is said to launch on 5th January and that’s the same launch date that we had reported in our exclusive last month....

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB Graphics Cards Show Up At US & UK Retailers, Starting at $1200 US MSRP Currently, there are two retailers that are listing the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB cards. These include Newegg (US) and LaptopsDirect (UK). Both retailers have listed down the 16 GB variant as we know that the RTX 4080 12 GB variant had been “unlaunched” just a few weeks back. So that’s going to make it easy for consumers to distinguish the card rather than trying to differentiate the two similarly named cards with a huge disparity in performance....

Spain Gets First NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Custom Graphics Cards Listed At Prices Lower Than The Official MSRP Update: The retailer has changed the pricing of the GALAX SG variant from 1899.94 to 2099.94 Euros which means it is now slightly higher than the MSRP. Meanwhile, there’s one model that seems to be listed at MSRP (for now). The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Custom models were listed by Spanish retailer, Coolmod....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Rumored Launch Schedule: RTX 4090 In October, RTX 4080 In November, RTX 4070 In December, RTX 4060 Unveil at CES 2023 Now there have been rumors going around that NVIDIA will be launching its GeForce RTX 4090 GPU first followed by the RTX 4080, RTX 4070, and RTX 4060. This indeed seems to be the case however, the actual launch might still be a few months away as we have learned from our sources....

Official tvOS 16 Release Date is Here for Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K Owners - Get Ready for Download on the 12th of September Apple didn’t say a word regarding tvOS 16 during WWDC’s opening keynote, but that doesn’t mean the update does not exist. Apple has been seeding betas to developers and public beta testers, and now the company has announced the official tvOS 16 release date, too....

Like our first hands-on preview, One Piece Odyssey opens with Luffy and the Straw Hat Crew crash-landing on the remote island of Waford. Only half of the crew survives the landing intact, with Nami, Zoro, and others scattered around to be rescued throughout King Kong Garden. To find his lost companions, Luffy will have to squad up with three available pirates and engage in turn-based JPRG battles against a variety of native beasts and humanoids to level up and grow their stats and new abilities....

OnePlus 10 Pro Finally Releasing Globally in March, Marking the End of “Unified OS” the Company Was Working On According to the company, the OnePlus 10 Pro happens to be the fastest-selling phone in China and it has been over a month since the phone officially launched in the home country and according to the company, the phone has managed to generate a revenue of 100 million Yuan or $15 million in the first and second open sales....

OnePlus 10T Ultra Could be a Befitting Rival to Galaxy S22 Ultra and Other Premium Smartphones OnePlus has gone ahead and submitted a filing for a new device that we are calling the OnePlus 10T Ultra and based on the information we have, the new phone is going to be going against the Galaxy S22 Ultra. You can look at the filed patents below, courtesy of IT Home. The images in question show a phone that looks a lot like the OnePlus 10 Pro both from the front and the back, however, the camera island definitely looks bigger and protrudes as well, this gives us a hint that the OnePlus 10T Ultra could actually sport a beefier, more powerful camera....

The poll sent out to random Overwatch players asked how much they’d be willing to pay for various cosmetics, including $45 dollars for a Mythic skin. I hope this is just him getting one of the higher price surveys and not an indication that they’re leaning towards this much monetization. pic.twitter.com/RWr7LbwkLB — Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 (@Portergauge) July 30, 2022 Yikes! Ah, but don’t get too worried just yet. Blizzard provided a statement to GamesRadar saying the figures in the poll were randomized and don’t necessarily reflect anything in the plans....

Turning to the software side of things, Warner Bros’ hit crossover fighter MultiVersus took the top spot, while Xenoblade Chronicles 3 came in at #4 (a solid result considering the game was only on sale for 3 days during the month) and Digimon Survive was #8. Elsewhere, Elden Ring and Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga continued their impressive runs, coming in at #2 and #3 respectively. Here are July’s top 20 games according to NPD: And here are the top-10 best-selling games of 2022 thus far: What are your thoughts on the July NPD numbers?...

The Upcoming Rainbow Six Mobile Actually Looks Amazing for a Mobile Game According to Ubisoft’s announcement, the Rainbow Six Mobile will be a “competitive and tactical FPS game with two teams of 5 — Attackers and Defenders," as you see in the original game. However, it is important to know that the game is not going to be a direct, one-to-one port of the PC/console versions that are optimized for smaller touch screens....

This rumor comes courtesy of Tez2, the original source of the GTA IV and RDR remaster cancelation leak. When a user on the GTAForums asked whether the Red Dead Redemption 2 next-gen upgrades had also been canned, Tez2 responded with the following… “Yes. I’ve heard about those a long time ago. As well as their plan to come up with an Enhanced Rockstar Editor. All canceled/halted by now.” Take this with a grain of salt for now, but Tez2 has already shown they have the goods on this particular subject....

CEO Tero Virtala said in a statement: Remedy is currently working on five world-class game titles, and our capability to develop these games is stronger than ever. With our transition to a multi-project operating model, we have learned that it is better to keep our game projects in the early development phase for a longer period of time than in the past. The benefit of this is that the development team size and thus the operating costs stay lower, and it gives the teams the time they require to design, prepare and test key elements of the game before the project moves onto a phase of development where a larger team is required....