The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced its decision to block Micorosft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Wednesday citing concerns it would hurt competition in the growing cloud gaming market where Microsoft dominates thanks to Game Pass. It’s a shocking turn of events for what seemed like a mega merger that was

Wartales is currently in Early Access on Steam. It’s being developed by Shiro Games, the French studio behind the Viking RTS Northgard. And it has been taking up a lot of my time this month. Blade’s Book Club Is The Best Thing About Marvel’s Midnight Suns There’s a lot going on in Wartales, a lot

Square Enix, a publisher never afraid to embarrass itself with the latest technological fad, has quietly released an “AI-driven” game onto Steam. And it sucks. Blade’s Book Club Is The Best Thing About Marvel’s Midnight Suns Not the game itself! To say The Portopia Serial Murder Case is a bad game is unfair, because this

Funko Fusion, announced Tuesday, is an upcoming video game starring Funko Pop characters that will mix together takes on various Universal-owned IP into a pop-culture mishmash that I assume somebody, somewhere is probably excited about. Blade’s Book Club Is The Best Thing About Marvel’s Midnight Suns Funko Pops are more than just plastic detritus that

Illustration: Chelsea Beck / Kotaku Two years in, Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S is already losing steam. The tech giant reported on Tuesday that revenue from console hardware sales was down 30 percent from the same time in 2022 after big games like Starfield got delayed. Game Pass didn’t seem to be making up the difference.

Screenshot: Blizzard / Kotaku We’ve all been there: Ya sink a bunch of hours into a dense RPG only to find out your character build isn’t working out as well as you’d like. When that happens, it’s time to respec. No two games handle this the same way, and it sounds like Diablo IV will

Following the recent review bombing of Horizon Forbidden West’s latest story DLC Burning Shores, review aggregator Metacritic has confirmed in a statement to Eurogamer that the site is “evolving [its] processes” to introduce tools that will create stricter moderation for abusive and disrespectful reviews. Blade’s Book Club Is The Best Thing About Marvel’s Midnight Suns

In a new interview published Monday, PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida talked about how difficult and expensive it is to make video games, explaining that the company behind hits like God of War and The Last of Us cancels “so many games” in order to “save” developers from getting stuck on something. Blade’s Book Club Is The

There’s a lot you can do with $300,000: buy a couple Teslas, invest in some stocks, get a PS5 or Xbox Series S/X (or a few of them). It’s an amount of money some people will never see in their lifetimes. Yet, someone with the cash to burn took their $300,000 and bought a super-rare

Gif: 343 Industries / InfernoPlus / MintBlitz / Kotaku The Halo series has had so many legendary vehicles that it’s a wonder we haven’t seen an official racing spin-off by now (no, that Forza Warthog doesn’t count). While players have created no shortage of Forge-crafted mini-games focused on vehicle hijinks, one brave modder has finally