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Ubisoft is making some big changes to its game subscription service Ubisoft+. The Ubisoft+ Multi-Access and PC Access are now Ubisoft+ Premium, and a cheaper Ubisoft+ Classics on PC is available.

In YouTube's continuing war against ad-blocking users, it's being discovered that the site has enabled code that slows itself down, with immediate recovery once the user turns off their ad blocker.

Artifact, the news aggregator app launched by Instagram co-founders, is shutting down. The app will offer core news reading capability for some time but remove the ability to create new posts.

Bethesda will bring the first Starfield update of 2024 to Steam players in beta form next week. Slated to be the game's biggest update yet, it will carry over 100 bug fixes and improvements.

Hi-Rez Studios has announced SMITE 2, a stand-alone sequel to their popular MOBA game, for the PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5. Players can sign up for alpha testing of the game now.

Microsoft and EA have brought forth a massive sports gaming weekend for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Xbox Game Pass Core members, offering seven games from the publisher to try out.

The Epic Games Store is kicking off its 2024 giveaways with a copy of Sail Forth for PC gamers. This single-player sailing and adventuring indie game is free to claim for the next seven days.

The NVIDIA GeForce Now cloud gaming service has added a number of games to its library this week, including the World War I-based strategy-sim game War Hospital from Brave Lamb Studio.

Google is making quite a few changes to its company and products. After the layoffs, it has announced that it will soon be ditching some underutilized features on Google Assistant.

The name of the upcoming MachineGames-developed action-adventure title featuring Indiana Jones may have just leaked. The first gameplay reveal is slated to happen next week as well.

Google confirmed that it had laid off several hundred workers in its Google Assistant and core engineering teams on Wednesday, on top of layoffs in its Devices and Services division.

Intel has released its latest driver for the newly released 14th Gen Raptor Lake HX and U series, as well as for the rest of the desktop 14th Gen CPU lineups. It also supports the new Price of Persia.

A new report states Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman will depart Google as part of a restructuring of the company's Devices and Services division, which will include layoffs.

Mojang has confirmed that Minecraft Legends, the action-strategy spin-off of its sandbox game, will end active development after it releases a final Snow vs Snouts Lost Legend challenge.

Microsoft's Turn 10 studio says it has received a lot of player feedback from its racing sim Forza Motorsport since it launched in October and will be making improvements to the game during 2024.

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The next first-party game coming from Sony, Helldivers 2, is hitting both PlayStation and PC simultaneously, and today, the official system requirements were announced for the latter platform.

The second annual Xbox Developer_Direct is streaming next week, giving the spotlight to the upcoming Xbox titles Indiana Jones, Avowed, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, and Ara: History Untold.

Even though some time ago, Threads did not appear to have chronological sorting for its posts, there have been updates. Now, users can sort their search results reverse chronologically.

Some insiders are claiming that Microsoft is looking into porting its live service games like Sea of Thieves to rival platforms. The pirate adventure game may soon be coming to PlayStation 5.

Recently some Western companies including Google were relieved of some fines imposed by Russians. Out of these, Telegram commented that it was unaware of the reasons why the charges were dropped.

Teachers using Google Classrooms can now turn existing Google Forms into practice assignments for students. The feature is available to users of select Workspace for Education tiers.

Microsoft will soon add Teams support to Google's Android Auto platform. Users will be able to join Teams meetings and take calls while driving in their Android Auto-equipped vehicles.

Netflix's gaming library has been expanding at a rapid pace in recent months, however the platform is looking at more ways to make money from the service including a charge for some titles and adverts

The fan-run Homecoming server for the once-dead MMO City of Heroes has been given an official license to run the game from its publisher and owner NCSOFT, over 10 years after its official shutdown.

Qualcomm has announced a new and improved VR-specific chip, the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2. It will be used to power upcoming VR headset products from Samsung, along with other companies.

The NVIDIA GeForce NOW cloud gaming streaming service has added some new games to its library of titles, including the recently launched free-to-play first person shooter game The Finals.

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Today's giveaway on the Epic Games Store has been unveiled to be a copy of A Plague Tale: Innocence. The well-received adventure game from Asobo Studio is free to claim for the next 24 hours.

The first Xbox Game Pass wave of 2024 is pretty massive, bringing Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Resident Evil 2, Hell Let Loose, We Happy Few, and more to subscribers across consoles, PC, and cloud.

An updated post on the Disney Park blog claims that Star Wars Outlaws, the open world game set in the Star Wars universe from developer Massive and publisher Ubisoft, is due for release in 2024.

Another 24-hour giveaway has kicked off on the Epic Games Store, and this time it's a copy of 20 Minutes Till Dawn that's being offered. It is a Vampire Survivors-like that released in 2023.

The Epic Games Store's first freebie of 2024 is Escape Academy. It is a puzzle game about solving various escape rooms as part of a special school for escapists. It offers both solo and co-op play.