Enlarge / The company that publishes Grand Theft Auto now owns all of these goofballs, too… (credit: Zynga ) Major console game publisher Take-Two has acquired social and mobile gaming giant Zynga for a whopping $12. 7 billion in cash and stock, marking the deal the largest acquisition of a single gaming company in history. […]
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Enlarge / FIFA players are demanding NFT collectibles, according to EA CEO Andrew Wilson. Some of the biggest publishers in gaming are using recent earnings calls to express bullish optimism about the concept of non-fungible tokens (and the blockchain more generally) being a part of their future business in one way or another. Ubisoft led off […]
The dream team. [credit: Gearbox Software ] Borderlands 3 players on Xbox consoles, Windows, Stadia, and the Mac will soon be able to band together across platforms thanks to a coming cross-play update. But players on the PS4 and PS5 will be left out of that group and will be forced to play only with […]
Shots from the reverse-engineered version of Grand Theft Auto III showing off the graphical improvements over the 2002 original. [credit: RockStar Games ] The reverse-engineered source code for the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City is back online today, months after it was originally posted and then quickly taken down via […]
Enlarge / Fishing for answers. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Last July, Take-Two announced that NBA 2K21 would be the first game to ask $70 for the standard edition on “next-generation” systems (i.e., PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X). Last week, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doubled down on that decision, saying the market was […]