Microsoft bought Minecraft and developer Mojang in 2014 for $2.5 billion, but the Xbox company was not the only group to make an offer for the sandbox series. It was reported years ago that Activision (as well as EA) was also in the mix to buy Minecraft, and now former executive Bobby Kotick has discussed the bid process and what ultimately kept the deal from coming together.
Appearing on billionaire Ari Emanuel's podcast, Kotick said of Minecraft, "I almost bought it."
He added: "I had to...
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You can now beam Vampire Survivors directly into your eyeballs, as developer Poncle's indie-bullet-hell sensation is out now on a new platform: VR.
More specifically, it's available for the Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 3S, Meta Quest Pro, and Meta Quest 2, with a new trailer inviting players to "be the bullet hell, on your face."
This version of Vampire Survivors will come with two of the game's DLC expansions, Legacy of the Moonspell and Tides of the Foscari, built in. Both expansions add...
Arc Raiders' 1.2.0 update just landed on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, and alongside fixing various bugs and making some improvements, developer Embark Studios has also nerfed one of the extraction shooter's best perks for "over-providing valuable items."
Out now for consoles and PC, update 1.2.0 takes aim at Security Breach, one of the last perks you get in the Survival skill tree. This perk is the only way you can open the game's Security Lockers, extra loot boxes containing...
Just before it was scheduled to release the first-half earnings results for fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26), Ubisoft has delayed the report until something is published "in the coming days."
According to a sudden November 13 press release, the company has decided to postpone sharing its earnings "until the publication of its first-half 2025-26 results." It's asking Euronext, a European exchange market that provides trading and post-trade services, to halt trading until it informs the market when...
Valve just recently announced a new line of hardware, including a console-like Steam Machine. It's a little six-inch cube-like device that plays PC games on your TV. Who wants to do that and how big is the market? According to Alinea Analytics, about 20% of Steam Deck users--or a few million people--dock their system and play games on a TV, and this shows there is a "clear appetite" for a device like the Steam Machine that offers a "couch-friendly PC gaming experience."
"So partially, the...
Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, best known for creating the landmark battle royale game PUBG, outlined an ambitious plan for his development studio to produce three ambitious titles, including one that aims to support 100v100-player multiplayer matches.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Greene detailed the roughly 10-year plan for his studio, which was established in 2019 and is simply called PlayerUnknown Productions. The first game from the development team is Prologue: Go Wayback, a single-player...
Metroid has joined the Club Mocchi-Mocchi Mega Plush collection ahead of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's launch next month. Two officially licensed plushies inspired by the Nintendo series are available now for $39 each at Amazon. There's a 13.5-inch plush version of Samus' helmet and a 12-inch Morph Ball.
TOMY's Club Mocchi-Mocchi brand is home to the best and softest plushies themed around Nintendo games. The catalog already included a wide variety of plushies inspired by Kirby, Super Mario...
During the final week of October, Rockstar Games fired more than 30 employees across offices in the United Kingdom and Canada. Rockstar subsequently claimed that the staff members were let go for "gross misconduct," but the employees contend that they were terminated for attempting to organize with a union. Now, the battle over those labor moves may be heading to court.
Over 200 Rockstar employees have signed letters demanding that their colleagues be reinstated to their jobs. The fired...
Prime Video has released a new trailer for Fallout Season 2 ahead of its debut in December, and it shows off two of the new cast members for the sophomore season: Macaulay Culkin and Kumail Nanjiani.
We don't know much about the characters they are playing, but we see Nanjiani's character getting called in for a battle and Culkin's character murdering someone. The trailer also spotlights one of the new settings for Season 2, New Vegas, and overall includes numerous spoilers.
Additionally...
Grand Theft Auto V's multiplayer game, GTA Online, is available for free, but only for a limited time.
Rockstar Games has announced that GTA Online for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S is free to download and play now through November 17. Additionally, there is no PS Plus or Game Pass Essential requirement to play online, the developer said in a blog post.
GTA Online became a standalone game in 2022, and it normally costs $20. To be sure, after this free week wraps up, people will have to buy the...
Konami and developer NeoBards Entertainment have rolled out a new update for Silent Hill f that introduces a new Casual action difficulty. In addition, the patch notes point to an added skip feature for New Game+ players, faster stamina replenishment for Hinako, and enemy reductions in certain areas.
There is a laundry list of bug fixes with the new Silent Hill f update, too, according to Konami's website. Interestingly, it's noted that the Casual action difficulty can be selected from the...
Now that Krafton Inc. is becoming an "AI-first" company, the South Korean PUBG publisher is offering employees a "growth direction" opportunity through voluntary resignations, effectively reducing human jobs.
According to a Business Korea report (spotted by Eurogamer), Krafton internally began a voluntary resignation program on November 12. Based on tenure, employees who signed up were offered the following packages: six months' salary for those with one year or less; 12 months' salary for...
Sony and NCSoft are making a new Horizon MMO, but it's not the only entry in the series in the works right now, it seems. Developer Guerrilla Games said the studio is "busily working on" new experiences where players can "hunt machines in the world of Horizon."
"More on that to come," the developer said.
Guerrilla has not announced any new Horizon games, but it's been reported for some time now that the developer is making a multiplayer Horizon game. Reporter Jason Schreier reiterated this...
Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has discussed cancelling games during his tenure at the company, including a new IP from God of War developer Santa Monica Studio. Sony had invested $25 million into the game, saw potential in it, but ultimately decided to shut it down and eat the cost.
Yoshida said on the My Perfect Console podcast that this new game was not a God of War title, but it had a "really amazing concept and very interesting gameplay ideas." Sony worked on this game for...
Sony has announced Horizon Steel Frontiers, a new game for mobile devices and PC under development at Guild Wars studio NCSoft. The new entry in the Horizon franchise is an MMORPG that looks heavily inspired by Capcom's Monster Hunter series--albeit with mechanical monsters instead of organic ones--and the PC version will be playable through NCSoft's Purple platform.
Developed in collaboration with Horizon studio Guerrilla Games, Horizon Steel Frontiers is set in the Deadlands. As a...
Rockstar's 2010 game Red Dead Redemption has been rated for Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. The ESRB recently posted a rating for the game on these platforms, and this has led some to believe a remaster of the game is in the works and that it could possibly launch soon. Nothing is confirmed, however. At the same time, Red Dead Redemption is coming to iOS and Android on December 4, according to listings that people recently discovered.
Rockstar has apparently partnered with Netflix to...
Five years into the PS5 lifecycle, Sony is confident that the best-selling game of all time for the system has yet to be released. In a new interview, PlayStation's senior VP of marketing, sales, and business operations, Eric Lempel, spoke about how the PS5 era has just started to find its feet, and he has an idea of what the console's biggest-selling game will be.
"I would say we're really hitting our stride now," Lempel said to BBC News. As for the game that will be the PS5's sales...
Valve has unveiled its first look at its new gaming machines, including Steam Frame, a virtual reality headset that can handle VR and non-VR games. Apparently, Steam Frame is also being used as a way to bring Android games directly to Steam users.
According to The Verge, Valve will support and encourage developers to bring Android apps to Steam. As part of this initiative, Valve will release a Steam Frame developer kit for developers who already use Android APKs for apps and VR headsets on...
Even former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime was surprised by the somewhat sparse launch lineup of the Nintendo Switch 2.
"I wouldn't be completely honest if [I didn't say] from a business perspective, when I first saw that lineup, I scratched my head a little bit," said Fils-Aime--who served as Nintendo of America's president and chief operating officer from 2006 until he retired in 2019--during an interview with The Game Business. "But I think certainly what I underestimated...
RuneScape's Treasure Hunter microtransactions will soon be no more, after the game's community overwhelmingly voted to see it and other similar microtransactions removed. Developer Jagex is calling it a "new era" for the MMORPG.
In a video announcing the decision, Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy (known to the community as Mod North) said "the community has spoken," and as such, Treasure Hunter will be removed on January 19, 2026.
The feature sees players granted keys each day that can be used to...