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The Artful Escape is on its way to PlayStation and Switch on 25th January.

Shares in Sony have dropped by 13 percent, as the Tokyo stock market reacted to yesterday's industry-shaking announcement that Microsoft will buy Activision Blizzard.

UPDATE 19/01/22: Banjo-Kazooie will hit Switch Online on 20th January.

Toem sent me back to my phone, not for the internet and its hints and tips and workarounds, but for the folder that holds my photographs - back to the last few months of my life and a story I didn't realise I had been writing.

Yet more games have been confirmed for Xbox Game Pass, in what may well be one of the subscription's best months ever.

The Creative Assembly's much-loved historical strategy game Total War: Medieval 2 is making its way to iOS and Android devices sometime this spring.

The ABK Workers Alliance - a group of Activision Blizzard employees that has continued to push for major workplace reforms following last year's shocking reports detailing a culture of alleged sexual harassment, assault, and inappropriate behaviour at the company - has responded to today's news that Microsoft is buying the publisher, saying that while the move is "surprising", it does not change the group's goals.

Join us for the latest updates on today's news that Microsoft is paying nearly $70bn for Activision Blizzard. So far:

Following today's bombshell announcement that Microsoft is purchasing Activision Blizzard for $70BN, many questions still remain, not least regarding how the deal will impact platform exclusivity for the third-party publisher's previously multi-platform titles - and it's something Xbox head Phil Spencer has started to address, albeit in the vaguest of terms, as he continues his post-announcement PR rounds.

Activision Blizzard's controversial boss Bobby Kotick is expected to head out the door once Microsoft's groundbreaking takeover bid goes through.

Wow indeed. The thunderclap of the news of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $68.7bn - the largest in the brief history of video games, and grossly overshadowing the $7.5bn Microsoft paid up for Bethesda - is still ringing noisily. The reverberations won't let up for some time, and right now there's a scramble to simply understand what it all means.

Microsoft will review the effectiveness of its sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies and practices.

Game Pass now has over 25 million subscribers, across both Xbox and PC.

Microsoft is buying Call of Duty and World of Warcraft maker Activision Blizzard in an astonishing, industry-shaking deal worth $68.7bn.

Barely two weeks have passed since the release of Dead Cells' third paid expansion, The Queen and the Sea, but developer Motion Twin's astonishing post-launch support continues apace, with the studio now requesting input as it looks to improve the acclaimed rogue-like action-platformer's accessibility features.

Netflix has released a brand new trailer for its forthcoming Cuphead cartoon The Cuphead Show.

Is cloud gaming finally a viable alternative to the local experience? The recent release of the new premium RTX 3080 tier for GeForce Now sees Nvidia push online streaming specs higher than we've ever seen them before: more compute, enviable ray tracing performance, AI upscaling via DLSS, 1440p120 and 4K60 HDR functionality. Meanwhile, Nvidia makes big claims about GeForce Now actually outperforming Xbox Series X in terms of input lag. In a world where PC upgrade prices are sky-high - if you can find the hardware to begin with - maybe Nvidia's £89.99/$99.99/€99.99 six month subs might be worth considering?

Nobody Saves The World might have the most accurate cats in any game ever. Imperious, judgey, capable of magic. I tend to kill them immediately when they appear -because of their area denial swipe storm attack - so I don't get time to really study them, but this morning I found a trailer and paused it on a screen filled with Nobody's cats: drawn up tall, ears nobly architectural with those straight lines and points, pupils contracted to the degree where they look like little nigella seeds standing on end. The cloak with its prog collar and elegant folds, the inevitable arcane medallion: ninety percent sure that if cats could dress, this is what they would choose to leave the house in.

Tomb Raider, the 1996 classic originally released on the PS1, Saturn and PC, has been ported multiple times. But now it can be played on the Game Boy Advance.

Danganronpa, the popular high school murder adventure series, has today arrived on Xbox for the first time.

UPDATE 18/01/22: An Activision Blizzard spokesperson has disputed the assertion that Kotick prevented these numbers from releasing, saying it's "simply inaccurate".

Nintendo is launching a Tetris 99 crossover event with Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Fortnite's most infamous location, Tilted Towers, has returned to the battle royale's island.

Innersloth has revealed the roadmap for Among Us in 2022, with friend lists as the next major addition.

Deep in Tokyo's fashion district I'm told there's a climbing wall like no other. I first read about it years back in Dezeen. Occasionally I wonder if it's still there. I hope it is.

HBO and Sony's The Last of Us television adaptation continues to swell its cast, with Euphoria's Storm Reid now set to guest star in the role of Ellie's one-time best friend Riley Abel.

Amid reports Sony is overhauling its PlayStation Plus service into something more closely resembling Game Pass, Xbox head Phil Spencer has said he thinks it's an "inevitability" competitors will begin adopting the model because it's "the right answer".

As PS5 continues to remain elusive, Sony has opened up registrations on its PlayStation Direct site to give European consumers a chance to purchase the console straight from the company.

Voiceverse NFT, the company that prolific video game voice actor Troy Baker announced he would partner with last week, has now admitted to using voice lines created by a non-commercial rival.

Before we move on to discussing the latest gaming and technology news, there's something very important I need to share with you: Quake Remastered has reignited my love for multiplayer gaming. Maybe it's simply nostalgia. Back in the mid-90s, myself and my colleagues at EMAP magazines used to play the game religiously via a mini-LAN set-up in the office. When we moved to offices in Docklands, the whole office was networked up, making more massive multiplayer games a viable lunchtime pursuit. Last month, the same personalities came back together to replay the game once again, starting with the classic levels. It holds up, it genuinely does. If you're jaded by today's massive multiplayer shooters, battle royales, season passes and progression systems, round up some friends and get together for some Quake Remastered. It supports cross-play and all systems - even Switch - support keyboard and mouse. It's amazing: the simplicity, the purity and the genius-level design will blow you away.