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98% of Activision Blizzard shareholders voted to approve the Microsoft acquisition. As first reported yesterday evening by GamesIndustry.biz (opens in new tab), an overwhelming number of the publisher’s shareholders have voted to proceed with the buyout. The transaction is expected to close on June 30, 2023, and there’s now no …

We’re pleased to report that the grandpa bed mod that is currently taking the Stardew Valley community by storm is still going strong, with even sillier creations coming to light since our last story.  Yesterday, the Stardew Valley Grandpa bed mod saga very quickly got out of hand with modders …

Iconic animated duo Wallace & Gromit are getting their own VR game next year for the Meta Quest 2.  Wallace and Gromit: The Grand Getaway is being developed in partnership with Aardman Studios (who you may also know from Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, or Flushed Away), Meta Quest, and …

If you’ve ever wanted to live out your own magical Disney fantasies, you’ll soon be able to with Disney Dreamlight Valley.  This new free-to-play sim adventure, born from a partnership between Disney and developer Gameloft, challenges players to restore a village to its former glory. After a strange event called …

GTA 5 has received some welcome improvements following a minor update. Despite the original game launching almost a decade ago, Rockstar is still working to make GTA 5 better. The developer recently released Update 1.56 for the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of the game, as well as the …

The BBC Proms will feature music from Battlefield 2042, but the game’s player base isn’t entirely convinced by the choice. Earlier this week, the BBC (opens in new tab) revealed its line up for The Proms later this year would included a concert dedicated to gaming music. Included in the …

Nintendo icon and In-N-Out burger enthusiast Shigeru Miyamoto recently got hold of the Nintendo’s Twitter password and made himself into a meme. Miyamoto’s intent was simply to announce the delay of Chris Pratt’s Mario movie to April 2023, but the weird and mildly foreboding way he phrased the announcement is …

PS Plus Premium could offer two-hour “trials” of full-price PlayStation games. According to a report from Game Developer (opens in new tab), “Sony has begun communicating with developers about its plans for timed game trials for PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers.” Developers working on any game that costs upwards of $34 …

Diablo 4’s development is progressing smoothly, Blizzard has confirmed. Activision Blizzard released its first-quarter financial results report (opens in new tab) yesterday. It gives us not only a look at the company’s commercial performance but also a glimpse at its current and future plans.  In the report, Blizzard provided an …

Ubisoft has shut down the online servers for almost one hundred of its older games. Ubisoft has seemingly had something of a spring clean – and a pretty major one at that. The company has turned off the servers for 90 of its more aged titles, effectively pulling the plug …