EA thinks it got Battlefield right this time, projecting confidence to investors in advance of a summer reveal: ‘When we get it right, Battlefield is a giant franchise and often the biggest shooter in the year’

After the unhappy reception for Battlefield 2042, EA went all in on player feedback, methodically addressing complaints and promising that the next Battlefield game will center the opinions of fans from the start, with what EA CEO Andrew Wilson calls “the biggest playtesting initiative in franchise history.” Wilson has been talking up Battlefield 6 (or…

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FTC loses bid to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which already happened in 2023

More than a year after Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of videogame behemoth Activision Blizzard was successfully completed, the US Federal Trade Commission’s effort to block it has run aground. A federal appeals court has rejected the FTC’s appeal of a ruling that denied its request for a preliminary injunction against the deal, saying the lower…

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Confusion reigns as report of an A24 Elden Ring movie emerges, disappears, and emerges again

Hoo, boy. Alright, let’s see here. Yesterday, an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday rapidly became confusing for Elden Ring-heads and people looking at particular corners of the internet when Nexus Point News, an entertainment news site, published an article claiming that Annihilation and Civil War director Alex Garland is set to direct an Elden Ring film adaptation…

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Props for the honesty: Tim Sweeney says the reason ‘people characterize the Epic Games launcher as clunky’ is—wait for it—’because the Epic Games launcher is clunky’

‘The Epic Games Store launcher sucks less than it used to’ is not very high praise but it’s about as far as I’m willing to go. It has improved, undeniably, but it’s still painfully slow, awkward, and just not pleasant to use—not to the point that I refuse to use it, but if I have…

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The latest GTA 6 trailer confirmed its most exciting feature: A bunch of logos for pretend companies

After the release of yesterday’s GTA 6 trailer, I became someone I’ve never been before. I was feverish, hungry—I was ticking through the footage frame by frame, drinking in as much detail as possible. Unlike the countless frenzied YouTubers and Reddit theorycrafters, however, I wasn’t trying to divine anything about GTA 6’s story or gameplay….

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I pride myself on keeping up with Steam’s under-the-radar gems, but April was packed with enough new games to keep me busy for the rest of 2025

I don’t think it’s controversial to say that there’s a lot of good games coming out in 2025, but April in particular was ridiculous. More than 100 games on my wishlist dropped over the course of just 30 days, and some of those (like the galaxy-brained Blue Prince and the hotly debated Clair Obscur) were…

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