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With the world having to get a second mortgage on a house just to buy a bag of potatoes these days, increases in the price for a relatively niche service won't be a surprise. But if you're a fan of Nvidia's GeForce Now and want to keep using it, you'll be paying anywhere between 10% and 40% more, depending on where you live.

By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.

Microsoft has finally done it — nearly two years after first revealing plans to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard in a mammoth $68.7 billion deal, it has managed to secure the final regulatory clearance required to make Activision a fully-fledged subsidiary. But with one notable caveat.

Sony has announced that PS5 cloud streaming for PlayStation Plus Premium goes live on October 17th in Japan, October 23rd in Europe and October 30th in North America. There will be several titles from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog to stream, with “hundreds” of PS5 titles to support the same later.

Two months after PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers began receiving invites to a PlayStation 5 cloud streaming beta, Sony has announced the feature will be getting its full launch on on 23rd October in Europe and 30th October in the US.

PlayStation 5 cloud streaming for PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers will launch on October 17 in Japan, October 23 in Europe, and October 30 in North America, allowing users to play PlayStation 5 games without having to download them, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced.

Popular online payments service Klarna is tapping AI to let us "snap, search, and shop" for items identified in a photograph.

Ravensburger has announced it’ll be rolling out Disney Lorcana to ten more regions later this year, ahead a third set confirmed for early 2024.

Assassin's Creed Mirage is a return to the series' roots in a sense, bringing players to 9th Century Baghdad. But how does it stack up so far compared to the recent series entries? Here is our review in progress.

Activision has announced that Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is getting delayed to Spring 2024. Originally thought to have been slated for a November release, the game has seen a limited release in some countries so far, including Australia, Chile, Norway and Sweden.

Activision has delayed Call of Duty Warzone: Mobile’s launch window to 2024.

Warning! We’re getting into spoiler territory for Loki season 2 episode 1 below. So, make sure you’re up to date before reading on.

has been a return to the franchise's roots, with a smaller, more stealth-focused title set in a stunning recreation of Baghdad in the year 861. The title tells the origin of Basim Ibn Ishaq, a character who was introduced in the franchise's last title,, by which time he was already a Master Assassin on his travels to Norway​​​​​.

Assassin's Creed Mirage is a return to the series' roots in a sense, bringing players to 9th Century Baghdad. But how does it stack up so far compared to the recent series entries? Here is our review in progress.

Pepsi and EA Sports FC 24 have partnered to celebrate the launch of the new football video game with lots of in-game exclusive promotions now being rolled out to different regions around the world.

After laying off almost 900 employees, Epic Games has announced an expansion to the Fortnite V-Buck «pricing alignment», citing vague financial factors like «inflation and currency fluctuations». The price of Fortnite's premium currency is set to rise in various international markets, including the world's largest.

Fortnite is to increase the price of its in-game currency V-Bucks in a number of countries, including the US and across Europe. While publisher Epic Games attributed the decision to economic factors - citing previous “pricing alignment” in countries including the UK over the summer - the move will follow hundreds of job losses at the company, partially as the result of lower than expected revenue for their immensely popular battle royale shooter.

Along with laying off almost 900 employees, Epic Games announced an increase to V-Bucks prices in Fortnite. Starting October 27th, the United States, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and more will be affected. The increase is due to “economic factors such as inflation and currency fluctuations, and follow similar pricing alignments recently completed in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico.”

Epic is raising the price of V-Bucks in Fortnite for the second time this year, with the price changes now hitting Denmark, Japan, Sweden, and the United States on October 27.

Epic has revealed that they are raising the prices for Fortnite’s V-Bucks.

Over the past few years, Epic Games has been one of the biggest success stories in the industry. The massive popularity of Fortnite changed the entire gaming landscape, establishing the blueprint for a successful “live service” title. The profitability of Fortnite allowed Epic to do things like launch the Epic Games Store with better profit sharing for publishers, push a lot of cutting-edge new technology with Unreal Engine 5, and more. Unfortunately, it seems Epic’s run of unfettered success may have hit a speed bump.

Fortnite V-Bucks will increase in price in the United States and several other countries on October 27, 2023, Epic Games has announced.

Fortnite is about to get more expensive for many players who like to indulge in the battle royale’s in-game purchases, as it’s been confirmed that a new pricing alignment will increase the cost of V-Bucks and real-money item packs from next month in several countries.

Epic Games has announced plans to increase the price of Fortnite V-Bucks and some real money content packs.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

Starfield was comfortably No.1 across Europe during its launch week, GSD data shows.

AI Roundup: Tencent has obtained regulatory approval to launch its AI model, Hunyuan, in China. This tool already powers over 50 of Tencent's products and services. A study by Finnish and Norwegian researchers found that AI chatbots like ChatGPT-3 and ChatGPT-4 generate more creative ideas for unconventional everyday items than average humans. In a separate development, MIT researchers developed Style2Fab, a generative AI tool allowing users to customize 3D-printable models using natural language prompts while preserving functionality.

After a couple of days of furious game developer reactions, game engine company Unity have backtracked a teensy bit on their plan to charge developers who meet certain revenue and copies-sold thresholds a "runtime fee" for every installation of their game.

Yesterday (Tuesday, September 12), it was announced that the game engine Unity will soon begin charging developers a monthly fee based on the number of installs their games have, in a move that has left many indie studios upset and frustrated.

A raid by the Norway House RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) turned up «nine firearms that were illegally owned and obtained, over 130 grams of a substance believed to be crack cocaine, machetes, a sword, bear mace, and ammunition», according to a news release posted to its website yesterday.

Electronic Arts has published a list of the top-rated EA Sports FC 24 players.

EA has published its Ultimate Team top ratings for the upcoming EA Sports FC 24, which mixes male and female players for the first time.

There has been some surprising news this week for fans of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: the Leader Pass DLC has been released on all console platforms, including the PS4.

Auroras, commonly known as Northern Lights, are a rare sky phenomenon that result in stunning streaks of colourful light in the sky near the polar regions. However, there are instances where these flashing lights have also appeared across the world, especially if the solar storm that causes them is of strong intensity. Recently, people on a flight to Europe bore witness to a mesmerizing aurora that was snapped by a user, and the social media post has gone viral since then.

The third and final season of Ragnarok, Netflix's Norwegian teen fantasy drama, is one spot away from dethroning Who is Erin Carter? as the number one on the streaming charts.

Cozy MMO Sky: Children of the Light just made history with a massive in-game concert. 

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann has dropped his $100 million lawsuit against Chess.com and fellow grandmasters Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, and will be allowed to return to the chess website, the company announced Tuesday.

Journey developer thatgamecompany has made history with its cozy MMO Sky: Children of the Light via an in-game concert attended by a record number of players.

Microsoft has ended its latest $1 Xbox Game Pass promotion, days before the release of its much-anticipated exclusive Starfield.

Bad news, Xbox fans – you won't be able to play Starfield for $1, because Xbox has withdrawn the $1 14-day Xbox Game Pass trial. Again.

Samsung is making waves with its upcoming smart ring, which is set to revolutionise wearable technology with its unique features and capabilities.

No anime is complete without a character song or an episode-closing bop — One Piece included. Between over 1,000 episodes and a handful of movies, the animation adaptations of Eiichiro Oda’s manga have spawned over 50 singles over the years. So when it came time to write music for Netflix’s live-action take on One Piece, composers Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli (who previously composed for The Witcher and wrote “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher”) knew they had to whip up at least one total banger, even if no one asked them to.

NVIDIA has teamed up with Remedy Entertainment to give away a unique and rare Alan Wake II-inspired GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.

The government in Thailand is threatening to shut down access to Facebook due to the fraudulent ads and profiles that appear on the social network.

Norwegian independent studio Red Thread Games, known to gamers for adventure titles like Dreamfall Chapters and Draugen, has re-emerged to show their upcoming game Dustborn. The game, published by Quantic Dream, is Red Thread's first attempt at the action/adventure genre.

11.6 million console and PC games were sold in July across Europe, up 34% over the same period in 2022.

We’re spreading the joy (and chaotically good fun) to more countries as Warcraft Rumble™ enters soft launch. Along with players in the Philippines—players in Canada, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Norway can now experience this triumph of gnomish engineering.

It wouldn’t be Dungeons & Dragons without a merry bard keeping the party's spirits high, and to fulfil your archetypal destiny we have for you our Baldur's Gate 3 bard class guide with the best choices and options to build your bard.

Norway's data protection agency said Tuesday it would start fining Facebook and Instagram owner Meta nearly $100,000 per day for defying a ban on using users' personal information to target ads.

Xbox has reportedly reduced the length of its $1 Game Pass trial, a month after it was reintroduced.

There’s only two types of people in the world. Those who couldn't imagine growing up without being aware of Tove Jansson’s Moomin series, among the very best of children's literature, and those who have no idea who Tove Jansson even is.

The European Commission has given Belgium the go-ahead to bolster its game industry by creating a tax shelter.

Hackers breached the Norwegian government by using a previously unknown vulnerability in third-party software. 

Apple Watch has proved to be a life-saving companion for a trail runner who encountered a serious accident during his run. 59-year-old Robert Naess had a terrifying fall while on a trail run, but thanks to the Apple Watch, help was summoned in time.