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Top story Xbox's Arkane Studios attracts multiple buyout bids, with Ubisoft among the suitors

Arkane, which Xbox divested earlier this year, could keep Marvel's Blade alive if a buyer such as Ubisoft completes a deal.

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Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake tops Metacritic's 2026 rankings with a 96 ahead of Switch 2 launch

Reviewers hail Nintendo's Switch 2 remake as a masterpiece, making it the highest-rated game of the year so far.

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Bethesda confirms The Elder Scrolls 6 is titled Sentinel, set in Hammerfell, with no release date

The subtitle reveal, arriving eight years after the game's initial teaser, confirms the long-awaited sequel's setting.

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The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel is reportedly still more than two years away from release

Bethesda has said it will be some time before more is shared, tempering expectations set by the new teaser.

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Nintendo cartridge maker Macronix exits ROM manufacturing, threatening physical Switch games

The chipmaker's exit could raise costs for physical Switch and Switch 2 cartridges and accelerate the shift to digital.

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Nexus Mods makes AI disclosure mandatory but declines to ban AI mods outright

The largest PC mod host will require labeling and offer filters, saying an outright ban would not eliminate AI from modding.

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Valve admits Steam review backlog is delaying game launches amid AI flood

Developers report QA wait times ballooning to over two weeks as Valve re-reviews submissions, prompting delays.

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Former Halo and Destiny composer Marty O'Donnell loses his US congressional race in Nevada

The Republican candidate and ex-Bungie audio director fell short in his bid for Nevada's 3rd Congressional District.

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Sam Altman walks back comments calling it 'terrible' for people to have RAM in their PCs

The OpenAI chief addressed backlash over the remark, at one point renaming his Twitter profile to Ram Altman.

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GTA 6 has sold nearly 8 million copies, with PS5 dominating the platform split

Sensor Tower's unofficial tracker puts the game at 7.71 million units, underscoring its early commercial scale.

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Control Resonant becomes Remedy's fastest-selling game, tripling quarterly revenue

The Remedy title passed one million copies, providing a significant financial boost for the studio.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 gets a Delicious in Dungeon crossover update, live now with Switch 2 patch incoming

Capcom's timed collaboration with the fantasy cooking anime arrives alongside a new game update.

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Guild Wars gets its first new expansion in almost 20 years with Afterlife

ArenaNet and co-dev studio 2Weeks announced a full paid expansion for the 21-year-old original game.

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UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans King, Scopely and other mobile ads for misrepresenting gameplay

The regulator ruled that ads featuring non-representative gameplay misled consumers.

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Pokemon Pokopia's Dazzling Decorations DLC launches December 9 on Switch 2

The Pokemon Company and Game Freak confirmed the second wave of DLC for the Switch 2 title.

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Itch.io purges terabytes of AI slop and expands storefront AI filters

The storefront said it deleted a large volume of AI-generated games and now lets users exclude generative AI content.

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