A new report from Bloomberg says Dishonored developer Arkane might not be as doomed as it appeared last month, as multiple companies have made offers to acquire the studio.Citing "people familiar with the negotiations," the Bloomberg report says Ubisoft is among Arkane's suitors, as are at least two other unnamed gaming companies. Xbox has also considered selling the studio to its own management, effectively making it independent, although whether that...

It's been a good few months for Remedy Entertainment. In its latest financial results, the Finnish game developer announced that its third quarter revenue had more than tripled to €39.6 million ($44.3 million) from the €12.2 million ($13.7 million) it made during the same quarter last year.That spike in income is all thanks to preorders and launch sales of Control Resonant—of which only the first seven days of sales were...

You might be thinking, if you're the optimistic sort, that today's official unveiling of The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel means that wheels are turning and things are happening and you're going to be off to Hammerfell soon—or at the very least, learning more about what's coming in Bethesda's next big RPG. Alas, in a follow-up post on social media, the studio made it clear that you shouldn't start holding your...

Konami might have finally set down the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 to focus on releasing Metal Gear Solid 4 from its PS3 prison, but modders continue chipping away at the PS2-and-earlier era Metal Gear games. MGSHDFix, whose mission statement is to repair broken visual bugs, fix crashes, and generally give the older Metal Gears a bit of a spitshine, has got a big new update. Now is...

Final Fantasy 14's queues can get long—not for roulettes, mind, those are usually pretty nippy—but if you're trying to complete a specific alliance raid as a newer player, you can be stuck twiddling your thumbs for ages. Square Enix is planning to make a change that'll fix that soon, though. In a recent blog post to the game's website, it's been announced that same-region player matchmaking'll be available starting November...

Binance saw a huge outpouring of withdrawals when it re-opened to customers on Sunday following a hack for the history books. The cryptocurrency exchange lost $6.3 billion, roughly $3 billion of which was frozen in transit and the rest covered by the company, but it lost a bunch more once it let customers take their money out on November 1.Customers withdrew $4.649 billion from the exchange in just under 10...

Longtime Microsoft executive Helen Chiang was made Xbox's first-ever chief operating officer as part of the 'reset' in July, a role that gave her "end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services." Then, just three months later and with virtually no fanfare, she was gone, amidst an anonymous claim that she was "terminated for policy violations."Saying it was important "to set the record straight," Chiang has now formally denied...

Phantom | RTX 5080 | 265F: was $2999.99 now $2799.99Okay, there's some pretty slow RAM in this build, but for this price in the current market I'm not complaining. I didn't think I'd see any RTX 5080 build like this one at such a price again, but lo and behold, Stormcraft has other ideas. This rig should handle any game, even at 4K. It's a true high-end deal.Key specs: Core...

Six months after the disappearance of Nagoshi Studio's website, a Google-translated notice in the Japan government's Kanpo website (via Gematsu) says the company has now officially closed its doors.Founded by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi in 2021 after a run of more than 30 years at Sega, Nagoshi Studio's first game was revealed at the 2025 Game Awards as Gang of Dragon—although the reveal was really just a brief CGI clip...

I must admit, I was mighty intrigued by the idea of a modern mouse (and all their high DPI machinations) with a screen slapped on the side, but I must also admit I thought we would be over the growing pains by now, what with screens being slammed into everything from cases to coolers to controllers. Yet one look at the Turtle Beach Command Series MC7 suggests those growing pains...