It’s official! ZeniMax, parent company to Bethesda and other subsidiaries, is officially owned by Microsoft after the company spent $7.5 billion to acquire it. With the formality of competition committees and EU approval process giving the acquisition the thumbs up, the approved merger now paves the way for Microsoft and Xbox to become the biggest name in the hemisphere for western RPG video games and much more.

Marvel’s Avengers does have the potential to be fun, but turning a burly Gamma-powered bouncer into one of Earth’s mightiest mortals requires a heck of a lot of grinding to get to a point where that character is a true powerhouse. That journey towards the top of the superhero food chain is going to take even longer next week when next-gen upgrades and a new patch arrive in Avengers, the messaging of which was kind of murky according to developer Crystal Dynamics.

Six Days In Fallujah publisher Victura Games is changing its tone on the upcoming and controversial first-person shooter based on one of the most brutal battles in the Iraq War. The studio now says that the game is “inseparable from politics” because of how it depicts real-world events, something which Victura boss Peter Tamte shied away from originally when he mentioned in an earlier interview that Six Days in Fallujah was “not trying to make a political commentary” about the war.

Dragon Ball GT’s Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta or Dragon Ball Super's Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta, which one is more powerful? Dragon Ball FighterZ has an answer to that.

In an industry dominated by a freemium battle royale that has essentially become Ready Player One: The Video Game, Disintegration’s level of serviceable fun just wasn’t enough and as a result of its middling performance, its studio V1 Interactive is shutting down after five years of action.

Few companies have managed to nail the handheld console market as well as Nintendo, and now that the Switch has turned four years old, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa wants to avoid seeing sales “nosedive” as it enters its middle phase.

Genshin Impact, that chuffing good action-RPG with a surprising amount of content, is getting more content. Surprising! Genshin Impact’s 1.4 update, Invitation of Windblume, arrives on March 17 and amongst its offerings is new four-star playable character Rosaria, shiny four-star weapon the Windblume Ode, and a chance to go on a date with your favourite in-game waifus. Just as Odin intended.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick reckons that the time is nigh for video games to start charging a few bucks extra. Nigh we say! NIGH! Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference (cheers VGC), Zelnick was asked why the publisher had added an extra $10 to some of its games, or as we in the industry call it, a whole Hamilton.