Take-Two has suggested that development of Grand Theft Auto 6 won’t be held up if members of SAG-AFTRA, the labour union for American actors, decide to proceed with potential video game strike action. Union members recentlyvoted 98.32% in favour of strike authorisationregarding the Interactive Media Agreement, which covers members’ work on video games. While this doesn’t necessarily mean a strike is going to be called, it does mean that if SAG-AFTRA doesn’t get terms it considers acceptable while negotiating the Interactive Media Agreement, it can call a strike right away, knowing its members already support the decision....

Take-Two has claimed that it’s not seeing consumer resistance to its games being priced at $70. During the company’s earnings call on Wednesday, one analyst said there were recent examples of unnamedTake-Twocompetitors offering discounts on some AAA games “within days and weeks” of their release. Over two years since the $70 price point was adopted by some publishers for their current-gen games, are players still struggling to come to terms with it somewhat, they asked....

Nintendo has announced the release dates for its next Super Smash Bros amiibo figures. Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII and Kazuya Mishima from Tekken will both be available on June 10, 2025,the company tweeted. These will be followed later in the year by Pyra and Mythra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Once these amiibo are released, only one Smash Bros character will remain. Nintendohas yet to confirm when the final character, Sora from Kingdom Hearts, will be released in amiibo form....

Valve has launched this year’s Steam Summer Sale, featuring discounts on 1,000s of games for the next two weeks. TheSteamSummer Sale is running until July 8 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST. Featured sale items includeHalo: The Master Chief Collectionfor£14.99 (50% off),Battlefield 5for£13.74 (75% off), and Valheim for£13.94 (10% off). Other popular discounted titles includeSekiro: Shadows Die Twice– GOTY Edition for£24.95 (50% off),Forza Horizon 4for£27.49 (50% off),Horizon Zero Dawnfor£23....

The title of Bethesda’s upcoming Indiana Jones game may have leaked ahead of a planned reveal this month. As spotted by X userKurakasis, earlier this week Lucasfilm registered several domains forIndiana Jones and the Great Circle, including one that specifically refers to it as a game. They also note that Lucasfilm filed a trademark in Europe two years ago forThe Great Circle, which lists video games as one of the goods and services it’s intended to be used on....

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially approved Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The CMA has originally blocked the deal in April due to concerns about its impact on the nascent cloud gaming market. In a bid to allay these concerns, theXboxmakeragreed to sell Ubisoft cloud gaming rightsoutside the European Economic Area for allActivision Blizzardgames released over the next 15 years. The CMA announced last month that it had provisionally agreed to allow the deal, and today – following a consultation period – it has now officially cleared the acquisition....

Nintendo’s Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream announcement is now more popular than even the reveal of Nintendo Switch 2 on its Japanese X account. Announced in Nintendo’s latest Direct live streamon Thursday, Living the Dream is the first Tomodachi Life game since 2013. The comedic social simulation title has players interacting with Mii characters, referred to as “islanders”, as they solve problems and build relationships. According toNintendo, the 3DS game sold 6....

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Two indie games on Steam were disguised as Helldivers 2 earlier today, to scam players into buying them. News started spreading on social media that two duplicate copies ofHelldivers 2had appeared onSteam, selling at discounted prices of $12.49 and $19.99. According to SteamDB, however, both games were actually existing indie games, with all their metadata changed by the developer to imitate theArrowhead Game Studioshit. SteamDB’s history shows that both games were edited at 11....

Ubisoft is working on a fix for problems preventing some players from upgrading its games from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5. The publisher announced in July that it planned to offer current-gen owners of games includingAssassin’s Creed ValhallaandWatch Dogs Legionfree upgrades to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. However, a significant number ofPlayStationowners have encountered issues upgrading physical copies of the games followingPS5’s launch last month, as documented onUbisoft’s officialforumsandReddit....

It goes without saying that if a developer manages to release a Game of the Year contender, that year has to go down as a success. Consider, then, thatNintendo EPDhas not only released two viable candidates for the title of this year’s best game, but also given us the best entry in a series that’s been dormant for a decade. With 12 months like that under its belt, it’s little wonder that Nintendo EPD is VGC’s developer of the year....

Microsoft looks set to hold its regular E3-style Xbox games showcase in June. That’s according to GamesBeat journalist Jeff Grubb, who claimed ina video showon Friday thatMicrosoftis currently talking to publishers about a June event. This matches what VGC has heard from our own sources. “I’ll probably have more to say on this soon, but it’s in June, not May,” Grubb said. “Well, they might do something in May or September, I don’t know, but I know that they’re planning for an E3-style show in June....

Microsoft’s head of gaming has discussed why Halo Infinite doesn’t yet have a confirmed release date ahead of its planned holiday 2021 release. Xboxreiterated during this month’s E3 showcase that Infinite—which was originally planned as anXbox Series X/Slaunch title in 2020—will be released this holiday, alongside the game’sfree-to-play multiplayer experience. Asked if the game is still coming this year during the latestDropped Framespodcast, Xbox bossPhil Spencersaid “yeah, absolutely,” but thatMicrosoftwas still finalising release timing....