This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft’s bid to acquire Activision Blizzard is on thin ice. Antitrust regulators from several regions have been reviewing the deal all year, and several have recently expressed concern that the acquisition could drastically reduce competition within the video game industry.
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Credit: PCMag)Now that Nvidia has launched the RTX 4090 and 4080, it is desperately trying to clear the channel of older GPUs. The end of crypto mining and economic unease has resulted in a deluge of GPUs, often at bargain
Audio player loading… Xbox All Access is a great option if you can’t afford outright to buy an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S. It’s changed how gamers buy or upgrade new Xbox consoles for four years – offering players the option to pay for their Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S via
Refresh 2022-11-28T00:46:31.851Z (Image credit: Future) If you’re looking for a premium headset, and we’re talking top shelf here, then you may be interested in Amazon’s deal on the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay Portal for PS5 and PC. They’ve had a $200 discount, taking them down to $299 (opens in new tab). In our Bang &
Xbox Wireless Controller – One-minute review The Xbox Wireless Controller is a revised version of the Xbox One controller, which underwent some upgrades for its release alongside the Xbox Series X|S. Despite bearing the same name as its predecessor, the Xbox Wireless Controller is a marked improvement over Microsoft’s previous Xbox One gamepad. If that appeals
Audio player loading… Windows 11’s latest version has suffered at the hands of a bug that messes quite badly with gaming performance for some users, leading to the 22H2 update being blocked on those PCs to prevent the problem manifesting – but the good news is that upgrade block has now been partially lifted. In
With Xbox Series X now here, is it worth buying an Xbox One X? Well, not really, but that’s not to say it’s a bad console. Microsoft previously announced that the Xbox One X is no longer in production. Instead, the company has focused production efforts on the Xbox Series X, the new-generation successor that
Are you waiting impatiently for the upcoming Splinter Cell remake? You know, the one that’s apparently being rewritten for a modern day audience and that recently lost its director (who had 11 years’ experience at Ubisoft)? Well, if the wait is unbearably hard, then we’ve got some good news for you: Splinter Cell is back
If you’re in the market for the best-value Nintendo Switch bundles available, then you’re in the right place. We’ve found the cheapest offers in both the US and UK that come with top games and accessories. As we’re currently between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we’re seeing some excellent savings on Nintendo consoles. You can
The Xbox One S All-Digital was Microsoft’s first disc-less console, and a sign of things to come. It represented a grand experiment into the future of how we consume film, TV, entertainment and games. We’re using past tense there because Microsoft is no longer producing new Xbox One S All-Digital or Xbox One X consoles.
It’s been a messy old week for Sony and Microsoft. After the UK Government published Xbox and PlayStation’s full arguments over the Activision Blizzard acquisition case to a public domain, media types and players alike have been trawling the pages, sniffing out bytes of snark issued by both companies in an effort to make themselves
The VG247 Best Games Ever Podcast has been going for six months! Can you believe it? The show that was spawned out of a random Slack message has gone from mild strength to ever-so-slightly-less-mild strength. To celebrate this milestone I sat down with host Jim Trinca to berate him about the choices he’s made so
Audio player loading… The Witcher 4 is officially in the works, though it may not be called that when it finally releases. You see, the next mainline game in The Witcher series is being referred to as Polaris for now. We’re still calling it The Witcher 4, but note that it seems to be kicking
Xbox Elite Wireless Controller surprised us when it was first announced. Both its price ($149.99/£119/AU$199.95 from the Microsoft Store) and its purpose seemed misaligned with the image Microsoft wanted to put out there, especially after the Xbox One’s slow start out of the gate. Since the first Elite has been succeeded by an upgraded pad,
Refresh 2022-11-24T08:26:48.189Z (Image credit: Shutterstock) This isn’t the most exciting purchase, I get it, but, if you’re anything like me, then every time your Xbox Wireless controller runs out of charge you think to yourself ‘I should really bulk buy some batteries’. Well, now’s your chance as, for Black Friday, some bog standard AA batteries
^Stay tuned after the ads for our summary of CD Projekt RED’s livestream, and our view on why The Witcher 3 deserves a next-gen upgrade. The fabled next-gen upgrade for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was announced all the way back when we first got our hands on the new consoles, so it’s been a
The Xbox One S launched three years after the original Xbox One. Back in 2016, it captured our attention as a quieter, smaller, higher-quality gaming machine that showed-off the capabilities of the current-gen console. But the question is: can we still recommend it even though Microsoft has since released the more powerful Xbox One X?
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. What a difference a year can make. It wasn’t long ago that you would have been lucky to spot a high-end GPU in stock someplace, and it would have most likely been priced well above MSRP. Now, the latest Nvidia