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GUEST OPINION: The world of online gaming is a high-stakes arena. Platforms like Steam and Epic Games need to distribute content with the efficiency of tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft.

Microsoft has finally got the go-ahead for its proposed acquisition of games giant Activision Blizzard, with the UK regulatory authority giving clearance for the merger ahead of a deadline of 18 October.

Microsoft has moved a step closer to completing its acquisition with games company Activision Blizzard after the British regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, said a revised offer made by Redmond addressed concerns it had about the deal.

The UK competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, has confirmed that it has blocked the original deal submitted by Microsoft in its bid to acquire gaming firm Activision Blizzard.

Perth-based Pentanet's Nvidia-powered cloud gaming system will be available next week.

Equinix a digital infrastructure company, has been chosen by application hosting and infrastructure service provider i3D.net to support its global gaming platform. Acquired by one of the world’s largest game publishers, Ubisoft, i3D.net provides a global low-latency network and has partnered with Equinix to gain proximity to its end users following an uptick in activity.

Application hosting and infrastructure service provider i3D.net has selected digital infrastructure company Equinix to support its global gaming platform.

Watch Dogs 2 is a good game. Its much maligned predecessor suffered from a significant investment of Ubisoft marketing dollars leading to a pre-release hype level that the end product could not meet.

My grammar detector is having a tough time with the word, but the folks behind South Park The Fractured But Whole game are quite happy with the way the next hilarious South Park video game is heading.

It’s not the Far Cry to start your Far Cry foray, but it is a hell of a lot of fun.

Driving the varied free, high, by and road-ways of the US is a fun way to burn huge chunks of time in The Crew.

So you played through Far Cry 3, and perhaps even Blood Dragon, and really enjoyed your time in the jungle.  Well, Far Cry 4 delivers another dose of Ubisoft tower climbing fun.

Plenty of exciting software announcements coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo in LA, but what to play now, here are some thoughts on a couple of cross platform titles available today; Wolfenstein: The New Order and Watch Dogs.

Using the Ubi-Art technique and partnering Ubisoft Montreal and Cirque du Soleil has resulted in the beautiful tale of the Child of Light.

Teaser only, Ubisoft release the first footage of the next Assassin’s Creed game, here is the first in-game footage from Assassin’s Creed Unity.

Got a shiny new Xbox One or PlayStation 4 ?  Wondering what to play on it because the launch game list is a little underwhelming?  Perhaps consider a multiplatform game, if you do, you should put Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag high on the list.

I spent some enjoyable co-op fun time with the new Rayman Legends last night, Rayman out bros New Super Mario Bros.

In a real life scene that mirrors its upcoming game Watchdogs, game publisher and developer Ubisoft has had its systems breached and recommends all customers with Ubisoft accounts change their passwords.

Ubisoft faced a hard act to follow after Microsoft but managed to show off some impressive titles at its E3 presentation today.

RockSmith is the sophisticated rhythm game cum teaching tool which has players utilising a real guitar to achieve goals, one of these it seems is the ability to learn to play said guitar in the shortest time possible.