Gaming

Under chair Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken a lot of heat for trying to be aggressive in its approach to regulating tech companies and preventing monopolies. Now the FTC is facing criticism from both Republicans in Congress and very online Xbox fans for appealing a recent court decision that gave Microsoft the greenlight to finish its …

Pikmin 4 is out next week, and to celebrate the release of the fourth main entry in the franchise, fans are showing the world just how much they love Pikmin by buying 15-second slots on billboards in Times Square. Spotted first by GamesRadar, the Pikimin fandom is holding a “Times Square Takeover” in New York. Using TSX Live, a mobile …

Apparently nothing stops the House of the Dragon train. A new report states that the HBO series will move ahead with filming Season 2 even after Hollywood actors and writers have gone on strike. According to Variety, sources informed the publication that UK actors–who make up a lot of the cast–can keep shooting House of the Dragon because they have …

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Bungie has won close to $500,000 in damages from an individual who perpetrated a campaign of harassment and terror against a Destiny 2 community manager, and his wife, for highlighting the art of a Black community member. The judgment was issued in default to defendant Jesse James Comer, who failed to turn up to defend themselves in the superior court …

Season 4 Reloaded launched on July 12, bringing the conclusion to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘s post-launch narrative with the arrival of the final Raid episode, Episode 4. Our full walkthrough will show you how to complete the Raid finale and score this episode’s unique mission rewards. What are Raids in Modern Warfare 2? Raids continue the story of …

In a new filing from Microsoft detailing the company’s post-trial “findings” and “conclusions” after its recent victory in court against the Federal Trade Commission the Xbox maker revealed that Call of Duty leaving Steam was part of an Activision plan to grow Battle.net. But according to the docs this controversial move was a “resounding failure.” The Top 10 Most-Played Games …

A new court document in its ongoing battle with the FTC reveals how Microsoft believed it could use Xbox Game Pass and console sales to help offset the losses it would incur from making Starfield and Indiana Jones console exclusives. In a new document focused on the FTC’s final findings of fact, the FTC cites Microsoft Gaming Chief Financial Officer …

In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1, Vanessa Kirby returns to the role of Alanna Mitsopolis, the arms-dealing White Widow that was first introduced in 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Having already played the character, Kirby was far more comfortable as the White Widow this time, but there was one rather challenging aspect in Dead Reckoning. Warning: The following …

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for July 13th, 2023. In today’s article, we’ve got a whole bunch of new releases to check out. The best of the bunch include Atelier Marie Remake, Touhou: New World, and Manic Mechanics, but there are lots of different things here to cover a variety of tastes. After summarizing those, we …