SKATE IS DEAD! EA WILL NEVER MAKE A SKATE GAME EVER AGAIN! At least that’s the drama that unfolded on Friday when news popped up of Electronic Arts abandoning the trademark for Skate, leading many an armchair pundit to declare the franchise well and truly dead. Not exactly.

As the Rainbow Six Siege Pro League Finals wrap up in Tokoname, Japan, Ubisoft’s ready to take the wraps off its new operators, and the updates coming to the game as part of the fourth and final season of Rainbow Six Siege’s Year 4 plans. It’s called Operation Shifting Tides, and while Ubisoft teased it yesterday, they’ve lifted the lid …

There are still those who are willing to get up at the crack of dusk and boot up their console to find him for you. People who’ll risk digital life and limb to let you know if Xur is selling a treasure or rubbish. I just so happen to be one of those people. Maybe you’re stuck at work and can only log in later tonight. In that case: Where is Xur?

Surprise! Grand Theft Auto V is a blockbuster! In news that should come as a shock to no one, Rockstar Games is still selling copies of their classic sandbox by the truckload. Back in May, it was reported that Grand Theft Auto V had crossed the 110 million copies sold mark, while a new quarterly fiscal report from Take Two Interactive has painted an even rosier picture for the game: Between May and November, that figure shot up to 115 million units sold.

Hey! Need for Speed Heat is out, with EA giving the once revered, now mostly middling racing series another spin. I can’t really think of a single NFS game this generation that I’d point to as being a good game, with most of its thunder in the last few years having been thoroughly stolen by better games, Like Forza Horizon. Is this ne One, Heat, any good? Well, it seems it’s a bit mixed, but it looks like it’s better than the lootbox-laden Payback.

With numbers like that, I think it’s fair to say that no matter how loudly people shout, microtransactions aren’t going anywhere. Yesterday, during an earnings call for the third quarter of 2019, Activision Blizzard announced that microtransactions in their games are are bringing in all kinds of cash for the publisher. Thing is, while that’s still an amount of money …

Whether you’re on PC, PS4 or Xbox One, The Outer Worlds is a blast to play. Nintendo Switch owners however? They’ll need to wait a little bit longer but not too long.

We told you yesterday that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was getting a patch in the next few days, and that it would likely stop the infamous 725 Shotgun from being quite as lethal at long range as it has been. It would also likely reduce the damage caused by the overpowered M4A1 rifle. Well, that patch is now live, and it’s done both of those things, along with a lot more.