Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, equity firm Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner's Affinity partners have completed their $55 billion acquisition of EA Sports FC, Battlefield, The Sims, Mass Effect and Dragon Age publisher EA. https://bit.ly/4wIx0jy

Microsoft, they of the recent mass layoffs and reported Israeli military links, are reportedly set to offer devs a chance to bring their Xbox 360 games to PC as part of an ongoing backwards compatibility push. https://bit.ly/4gbXzYo

I do not have $200 to spare on one single video game right now. In this economy, spending such an obscene amount of dough on one game would be tantamount to throwing it down the drain. https://bit.ly/4clnHh7

13th century Mongolian courier sim The Legend of Khiimori becomes a battle against supernatural "poison of the earth spirit" with its Corruption Update. https://bit.ly/3RRD3mG

Hooded Horse's watery 4X sequel Endless Legend 2 gets a 1.0 launch date and a new faction of terraforming desert dwellers. https://bit.ly/4fVefSJ

Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced's Kraken wheel will no longer be "wheely expensive" following the latest update, which will also teach you how to throw cash. https://bit.ly/4vZethz

Microsoft will let devs bring more Xbox 360 games to PC in the coming years via backwards compatibility, leaked document suggests. https://bit.ly/4gbXzYo

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Samsung, who've been accused of worsening the RAM crisis via price fixing, reckon components will only get more expensive in 2027. https://bit.ly/4hcsdlr

Tongue your friends in Big Hops Together, the froggy platformer's new eight player co-op update, which was inspired by Mario mods. https://bit.ly/3RNgGP5

Capcom are reworking Dragon’s Dogma 2's infamous Dragonsplague so you can "enjoy the strategic decisions we originally envisioned" for it. https://bit.ly/4wx9aXO

AMD graphics card price hikes are reportedly following Nvidia's, as the AI-fuelled RAM shortage continues to set wallets alight. https://bit.ly/44ZpC7f

The Soulslike genre has grown stale after Elden Ring, and only FromSoftware can take it to strange new places. https://bit.ly/4w9oTLV

Making Baldur’s Gate 4 would be "a great challenge" for Rogue Trader devs Owlcat. https://bit.ly/4bmSRVc

American Truck Simulator trundles off to a land of enchanted highways and giant bovines with a freshly announced North Dakota expansion. https://bit.ly/4wa713n

This week in PC games: Beast of Reincarnation, Big Walk, and Marvel Tōkon, plus a round table RPG, some flammable robots, and a flock of lovestruck pigeons. https://bit.ly/4wFvI90

Manage a cafe by day, go to bed and fight in your dreams in a world without sleep by night in Hips N Noses. https://bit.ly/4xaUlKn

Silent Hill: Townfall's devs say they're purposefully playing against your nostalgic tech feelings, but I'm not sure it'll work on me. https://bit.ly/4vZloHx

Crimson Desert's latest patch is good news for all you moneygrubs, as it adds in a bounty of new trading posts and goods to pawn off. https://bit.ly/4wEqLNI

Got a spare $10? Net yourself almost 150 games and help support laid off game devs with the game industry hardship fund bundle. https://bit.ly/4wGDzDk

"I sense immense expectations": Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's director on ending the remake trilogy and DLC. https://bit.ly/3TwNSew

What if Stop Killing Games win? Anthem, SpaceCraft and Warframe devs on the "massive undertaking" of preserving an always-online game. https://bit.ly/4yTPzmc

Massive Fallout: New Vegas mod Fallout: New California hits GOG, offering another way to get some "proper, story-driven Fallout" in your belly. https://bit.ly/4z0l5PJ

20 years ago, Dead Rising showed a different path for open worlds, and more games should pinch its ideas. https://bit.ly/4yScxu1

EA expect their $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia and private equity firms to close next week, with "all regulatory approvals required" in place. https://bit.ly/4pLSNnD

A former Assassin's Creed dev is making a ghost-hunting horror mystery based on visits to abandoned convents, in which your greatest weapon is a chunky instant camera. https://bit.ly/4yRGdaw

Midnight Moments is a cyberpunk diorama builder for the neon sign and drizzly rain lovers. https://bit.ly/4wIStbS

Rideshare "Stimulator" is an Uber driver sim set in a city full of weirdos that I'm hoping is satirical enough to pull the concept off. https://bit.ly/4bSjtxk

Machine Party, out now, is masochistic Mario Party from the dev that brought you Buckshot Roulette. https://bit.ly/4xbDU0m

RuneScape: Dragonwilds revamps the agility skill and gives you Wipeout style courses to test your mettle on. https://bit.ly/44ZF1UZ