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After selling Golf Clash developer Playdemic to EA, the Warner Bros. Games division will still be making games from some of the company’s core franchises. This comes after WarnerMedia’s merger with Discovery, Inc. Via Stephen Totilo on Twitter, Warner Bros. said in a press release: “While we have great respect for the Playdemic team, our decision to divest is a part of our overall strategy to build games based on Warner Bros.

Xbox gamers will be pleased to know that Microsoft has today announced the return of its unique Xbox Design Lab, designed to allow you to customize your Xbox controllers in a variety of different colors and styles. Using the Xbox Design Lab, a customization program offers different ways to create your own personalized custom Xbox controller using different color body, back case, D-pad, bumpers, triggers, thumbsticks, ABXY, View, Menu, and

Microsoft has announced the latest wave of additions to its Xbox Game Pass service. June hasn’t been the most exciting month for Xbox Game Pass releases, although the lack of new titles was offset somewhat by the excellent lineup of free Summer Games Fest demos. Nonetheless, the month is closing out with a few more Game Pass additions, and the promise of more to come in July. Joining the service

The three-player cooperative survival shooter set in the Alien universe, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, will arrive Aug. 24, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC (via Steam), Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. 20th Century Games and Cold Iron Studios announced the release date for Aliens: Fireteam Elite on Wednesday, also revealing the game’s adjusted name (it was previously known as just Aliens: Fireteam). The game costs $39.99 and offers four story-driven campaigns and customizable

After being delayed past the launch of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in November 2020, 343 Industries’ Halo Infinite is set to arrive in Holiday 2021. It’s a game that’s now been previewed at four separate summer showcases, starting with its initial reveal back at E3 2018. With a campaign gameplay reveal last year that delivered visuals many thought underwhelming, as well as the now-infamous (and much-memed)

Microsoft promised on June 10th that it was in the “final stages” of upgrading its Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) datacenters with Xbox Series X hardware — and nearly two weeks later, it seems as if you can finally play games on that new hardware. Some xCloud games are now showing upgraded graphics options in their setting’s menus that would otherwise only be available on the Xbox Series X, or are

After circling the drain just a year ago, Gamestop has managed to cash in on its recently skyrocketed meme stock for Scrooge McDuck piles of real cash, pulling in 1.1 billion dollars. “[The company] has completed its previously announced ‘at-the-market equity offering program (the ‘ATM Program’),” GameStop announced today in a new SEC filing. “The Company ultimately sold 5,000,000 shares of its common stock under the ATM Program and generated

Ralph Lauren is trying to make esports sexy by kitting players out in fashionable fits.Its latest advertisement features Swedish League of Legends player Martin “Rekkles” Larsson. It shows the player getting on horseback after swapping out his competition jersey at a Ralph Lauren atelier for a suave blazer and well-fitted jeans. Larsson was signed in November 2020 as the ADC (an acronym for attack damage carry) for gaming organization G2’s

Infamous for its troubled launch, the onslaught of bugs, and subsequent removal from the PlayStation Store, Cyberpunk 2077 stands in a league of its own. Now, six months after its initial launch, Cyberpunk 2077 is back on the PlayStation Store, though it comes with a warning label that advises players to avoid playing it on a base PlayStation 4 system. “Users continue to experience performance issues with this game,” the warning reads. “Purchase for

While a long list of firms collectively lost tens of billions of dollars betting against Gamestop, White Square is the first to close its doors. Wall Street Bets may have finally helped kill its first hedge fund today: White Square Capital, a London-based hedge fund that shorted GameStop, is shutting down according to the Financial Times. At its peak, White Square had $440 million in assets under management but suffered double-digit