One other lengthy week on the books, and fortunately this one was not totally dominated by the Microsoft-FTC-Activision Blizzard scuffle. The truth is, provided that Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have prolonged their deadline for the acquisition to October, it seems that the entire occasion is on ice for the close to future. This offers each events (and the U.Okay.’s CMA) extra time to barter. Anyway, if I’ve to go yet one more week doing a column on the FTC vs Microsoft, I’m going to go barely extra mad than normal. So as an alternative, let’s speak about another stuff that occurred this week.

Ubisoft posted a slight dip in gross sales for Q1 FY24, although CEO Yves Guillemot stays optimistic, saying it was a “better-than-expected efficiency.” The corporate additionally revealed it plans to launch 10 video games on this fiscal 12 months, together with Murderer’s Creed Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Rainbow Six Cell, The Crew Motorfest, The Division Resurgence, Simply Dance 24, XDefiant, Prince of Persia The Misplaced Crown, Cranium & Bones (FINALLY) and “one other massive sport.” Your guess is pretty much as good as mine as to what that final one might be.

PlayStation dropped a brand new story trailer for the upcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, which lastly gave us an excellent have a look at Venom. They’re nonetheless very shy about letting us hear Tony Todd’s voice — throughout two trailers, he’s mentioned 9 phrases. However it nonetheless appears to be like excellent and I’m excited to listen to extra. Talking of trailers, Netherrealm at the moment launched two new trailers for Mortal Kombat 1. Within the first, we noticed three new confirmed kombatants: Li Mei, Tanya and Baraka. Within the second, we bought our first confirmed DLC kharacters, and the rumors had been true: Homelander, Omni-Man and Peacemaker be a part of the fray, as do returning fighters Takeda, Ermac and Quan Chi.

As for my private gaming schedule, I can lastly, FINALLY play Last Fantasy XVI now that my husband has completed it. The sacrifices I make for love, actually. However now I can lastly see what all of the fuss is about — I’ve barely made it a couple of hours into the sport and I’m already loving how completely different the sport is from earlier titles. You realize me, I like an excellent spectacle motion sport and it actually is that thus far. I’ll most likely additionally play some Pikmin 4 now that it’s lastly out. I’ve by no means performed a Pikmin sport earlier than, so this’ll be shiny and new for me!

What to play this week

What’s new:

• Pikmin 4
• Xenonauts 2
• Viewfinder
• Pokémon Sleep
• My Pleasant Neighborhood
• Cross Tails
• Brewpub Simulator

New on subscription providers:

• Techtonica (Xbox Recreation Move)
• Toem (Xbox Recreation Move)
• The Cave(Xbox Recreation Move)
• Maquette (Xbox Recreation Move)
• Figment 2: Creed Valley (Xbox Recreation Move)
• The Wandering Village (Xbox Recreation Move)
• It Takes Two (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• Sniper Elite 5 (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• Snowrunner (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• World Conflict Z (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• The Ascent (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• Undertale (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Backside – Rehydrated (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• Melty Blood: Sort Lumina (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• Dysmantle (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• Dynasty Warriors 9 (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• Samurai Warriors 5 (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Journey (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• Quick & Livid: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• Monster Jam Metal Titans (PlayStation Plus Additional+Premium)
• Gravity Crash Transportable (PlayStation Plus Premium)
• Twisted Metallic (PlayStation Plus Premium)
• Twisted Metallic 2 (PlayStation Plus Premium)
• Wytchwood (Prime Gaming)
• Embr (GeForce Now)
• Stardew Valley+ (Apple Arcade)