So about that Call of Duty post...

The largest objection to the Microsoft / Activision merger has been levied in the home country of the two monoliths.

The United Stated Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 today to proceed with a lawsuit blocking the $68.7b buyout of the Call of Duty / Warcraft / Candy Crush publisher by Microsoft.... Read more...

Answers? Check. Theme of Love? Check. Crazy Chocobo? ...unfortunately, check.

Square Enix has released the list of tracks that will be on the Final Bar Line, barring a few tracks for the special editions.

As part of a "Thearthythm Thursday", Square released the list of 385 tracks in the base game, as well as most of the tracks to be included in the Digital Deluxe edition at launch.

Four races, no COMs, blue shells only, all on different Rainbow Roads.

A major feature has been added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for all players alongside the Booster Course Pass courses.

The free update for all players includes the ability to disable specific items in online races, similar to the Item Switch found in Super Smash Bros games. Pass owners will receive the eight new-to-8-Deluxe courses as well.

Semi trucks are being dispatched to prevent his escape as we speak.

Former Sega developer Yuji Naka is facing charges related to a second insider trading case from his time at Square Enix.

Naka and another former Square Enix employee have been charged with more counts of violating Japan's Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, according to Japan's TV Asahi (link... Read more...

A massive shot across the bow of Sony to get them to shut up, most likely.

If the contentious Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard King goes through, Nintendo players will directly benefit according to an announcement from Microsoft gaming head Phil Spencer.

Overnight, Spencer announced in a social media post that Microsoft has signed a deal with Nintendo that... Read more...

As it regards that email from RFN this weekend: I'm sorry, but it's truly the fault of the publishers. Anyway, treasure is big now.

Things we missed last week: A streaming release of RE7 - so basically nothing. And since there was one other Western shadowdrop, that held us out of the 2000-game year for another week.

However, we will definitely hit 2000 this week with the headliner being Dragon Quest Treasures - the modern take... Read more...