Including a 10-year Call Of Duty deal for Sony Microsoft might consider offering Sony a 10-year licensing deal for Call Of Duty to persuade European Union regulators to approve their Activision Blizzard acquisition.Reutersreport that sources familiar with the deal claim an offer could come ahead of the European Commission’s January deadline for their statement of objection, a formal list of the body’s concerns about how the $68.7 billion (£57 billion) buyout deal might affect competition within the games industry....

Reflecting with portals Portal with RTXnow has a release date, so anyone with a) a copy ofPortalon Steam and b) a ray tracing-capablegraphics cardwill be able to explore a freshly polished Aperture Science from December 8th. If you missed its reveal during theNvidia GeForce RTX 40 series launch event, Portal with RTX is free DLC for Portal that adds both fully ray traced lighting/reflection effects andDLSS upscalingsupport. The latter includesDLSS 3, so if you’ve early-adopted anRTX 4090orRTX 4080, you’ll also be able to use the latest version’s new frame generation function to boost framerates even higher....

An extremely good value piece of kit after a £270 discount. The 28-in Gigabyte M28U is one of the most affordable 4K 144Hz HDMI 2.1 monitors, ideal for use with PC, PS5 and Series X alike. Normally it is available for high but understandable-for-its-specs figure of £669, but for Black Friday (and its aftershocks), it’s been reduced to £399 which is a rather fetching price. So why consider the M28U? The short answer is this an ideal accompaniment for a mid-range to high-end gaming PC, giving you the option of either a crispy 4K resolution, high 144Hz refresh rate or both at once if your rig is up to the task....

New slayer Amy has already got her own trailer Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios have scheduled a showcase for upcoming zombie-thwacking action RPGDead Island 2. You can tune in on YouTube on December 6th at 8pm GMT/9pm CET/1pm PT, for some “action, gore and zombies”, they say. Ahead of that though, we’ve been introduced to another member of the game’s expanding cast of the still-living. New undead slayer Amy has been given her own teaser trailer, which you can watchhere....

Insert Tim Curry reference here University simTwo Point Campusis shipping its students off out into the actual universe when the game’s first big expansion arrives on PC on December 6th. Space Academy adds new interplanetary campus locations, including a cheesy asteroid, along with more student archetypes, courses, and classrooms for your college. You can catch a glimpse of what’s ahead in the new term by watching the video below. For DLC, Space Academy is as straightforward as it sounds....

You are expendable Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s pre-order beta has drawn to a close, because tomorrow the full game will release proper. That’s also when our opinions on Darktide will start to flow across these pages like so many heretics across the streets of Tertium. Perhaps you’d like to enjoy one last dose of concentrated marketing before that happens, in which case you can hop below to watch the Darktide launch trailer....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word That’s the appeal of Wordle, for me: it’s far from mindless, but its simplicity is a balm against the turmoils of everyday life. Or everyday gaming. Or, I suppose, both. “Simple” doesn’t mean “easy”, however, and some days the puzzle can leave me feeling really stuck. If you find yourself in such a position today, then read on below for a series of clues to help you arrive at the answer on your own, or scroll down below the video to view the solution in full....

From RAZRGRRL to PLEATHER You know you’ve walked into a cool space for serious cyberdudes when someone is casually getting tattooed at a filthy table littered with unspooled cable, PCI cards, rollerblades, and crushed energy drink cans. But how will they know that you too can jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace? Because you will establish your cybercred with a flash of your kewl knuckle tattoos. You do have some, don’t you?...

The Ryzen 9 7900X is even cheaper than its Black Friday price of £475. It was only a few days hence that we spotted a low price on the Ryzen 9 7900X, but for Cyber Monday there’s an even better deal on offer at Amazon UK. The deal price is £456.70, versus a normal price of £600, and is for stock from Amazon US - but that includes shipping, import duty and all other potential fees....

RGG Studio would consider Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan if Ishin is a “huge hit” A remake of Like A Dragon spin-off Ryū Ga Gotoku Kenzan could potentially happen, but devs RGG Studio say they’ll only consider it if the series' other upcoming spin-offIshinis a “a huge hit.” The comments came up in a recent interview byUngeekwith RGG Studio executive producer Masayoshi Yokoyama and chief director Hiroyuki Sakamoto. Although the remake of Ishin was announced during Sony’s September State Of Play stream, Kenzan seems quite far from being picked up for a revamp....

Our picks of the best prebuilt PC deals in the UK and US All of the bestCyber Mondaydeals on desktop gaming PCs are, quite simply, the same offers that were up for grabs on Black Friday. I suppose you could grumble that they weren’t eighty-sixed in favour of newer, better, Monday-er deals, but if you’ve been weighing up a new prebuilt PC, think of today as another chance to find a deal you missed....

Post-Black Friday offers on some of our favourite mechanical and membrane keyboards It’sCyber Monday, all you computing peripheral fans, and that means you’ve got one last shot at many of the best gaming keyboard deals to come out of Black Friday. Looking back over this list of discounted wares, which includes several models to have graced ourbest keyboardrankings, it does seem that most of last week’s highlights are still available....

Going mobile with the best Cyber Monday offers on gaming laptops Unlike with most flavours of PC hardware, the list of goodCyber Mondaygaming laptop deals is noticeably smaller than the catalogue of quality, discounted notebooks that Black Friday brought. That’s partly stock running out, and partly retailers just being less willing to extend these sales over the weekend. Killjoys. Still, we’re not out of luck yet, nor out of laptops – as you’ll see below, there’s still a variety of deals to choose from, especially in the UK....