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Sony is reportedly set to discount PlayStation 5 Slim across Europe again this month.

Fallout games took three of the top 10 places on the European sales chart last month.

Command and Conquer games stormed the European software sales chart in March.

Helldivers 2 was February’s best-selling game in Europe following an impressive launch.

Bandai Namco Entertainment filed a trademark for “Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree” on January 22 in Europe.

PS4 game sales were higher than Xbox Series X/S software sales in Europe last year.

 Sorry, OpenAI. The European Union is making life for the leaders of artificial intelligence  (AI) much less private.  A newly agreed draft of the region's upcoming AI Act will force ChatGPT maker OpenAI and other companies to share previously hidden details about how they build their products. The legislation will still rely on companies to audit themselves, but it's nonetheless a promising development as corporate giants race to launch powerful AI systems with almost no oversight from regulators. 

AI regulation is necessary but not sufficient to stop Europe from being a tech footnote.

 European Union policymakers and lawmakers clinched a deal on Friday on the world's first comprehensive set of rules regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in tools such as ChatGPT and in biometric surveillance.

Square Enix has filed trademarks for “Visions of Mana” (1, 2) and “Pixelight” (1, 2) in Europe and Australia. Both marks were filed on December 7.

 Hailed as a world first, European Union artificial intelligence rules are facing a make-or-break moment as negotiators try to hammer out the final details this week — talks complicated by the sudden rise of generative AI that produces human-like work.

We review Caper: Europe, a two player card game published by Keymaster Games. In Caper: Europe, you are traveling around Europe trying to steal the best things.

Sony's PlayStation hardware revision, the PS5 Slim model, is available now in various European countries as well as the US.

Xbox Series sales in Europe have dropped considerably compared to last year, while PS5 sales experienced a major boost year-on-year.

10.21 million PC and console games were sold across Europe according to GSD, a slight drop of 2.3% year-on-year.

The Dragon’s Dogma 2 release date will seemingly be Friday March 22, 2024.

The new Turok 3 remaster has slipped out earlier than planned in Europe and Australia, following confusion over the game's recently-delayed launch date.

Nintendo of Europe has announced plans to launch a new Switch OLED console bundle that comes with the platform’s best-selling game.

After years of accelerating growth, Europe's electric car sales appear to be entering a go-slow zone as drivers wait for better, cheaper models that are two to three years down the road.

Europe's hope to rival OpenAI, Aleph Alpha, may have just raised close to 500 million euros ($534 million) from investors this week, but its co-founder said Friday the start-up was in a battle to even survive.

Black Friday is rapidly approaching, and some companies, like Nintendo, have already revealed their official lineup of deals, while others are lagging a bit behind. Sony hasn’t yet revealed what kind of bargains US players can expect, but it seems they may have quietly let slip their European deals (Black Friday is a worldwide phenomenon at this point).

Heavily discounted PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X bundles have been spotted in Europe.

Amazon Games and Bandai Namco have announced a Blue Protocol closed technical test for North American and European players starting on November 8th. 

Meta Platforms Inc. will offer users in Europe ad-free access to Facebook and Instagram for a subscription fee. 

The price of Fortnite V-Bucks and some other real money Fortnite content packs will be increasing today in some regions.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder has done very well since launching last week on Nintendo Switch, debuting second in physical sales charts for the United Kingdom. It’s also performed exceptionally throughout Europe, becoming the fastest-selling Mario game ever in the continent in its first three days on sale.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is officially Europe's fastest-selling Mario game of all time.

Players are buying Super Mario Bros Wonder at record speed, as the side-scroller has officially become the series' fastest-selling game in Europe.

Nintendo has announced that Super Mario Bros. Wonder is Europe's fastest-selling Super Mario game ever.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder seems to be a resounding success for Nintendo. Today, the European Twitter (X) account revealed that the newly released 2D platform game is now the fastest-selling Mario title ever in Europe for the first three days of sale.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the fastest-selling Super Mario game ever in Europe, Nintendo has claimed.

Big-name video games released in September have sold less at launch than their predecessors across Europe, according to fresh data.

Yesterday, Circana (formerly NPD) shared September sales data showing that Starfield was a massive success in the United States. The game topped last month's best-selling chart, becoming the first Bethesda Game Studios title to do so (both The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4 debuted in second place) despite its availability on the Game Pass subscription service.

Video game sales across Europe were down in September compared with the year before, according to the latest figures from GSD.

Starting today, we’re taking a step forward in cloud gaming by rolling out our PS5 cloud streaming feature for PlayStation Plus Premium members. This includes supported PS5-native games available through the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog* and Game Trials, as well as supported digital PS5 titles you own. 

NVIDIA has confirmed via its Customer Help page that GeForce NOW pricing is set to increase in Europe and Canada starting on November 1st.

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.

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.

Nighthawk Interactive has announced that they’ll be publishing Pui Pui Molcar Let’s! Molcar Party! in North America and Europe on November 21. It’s set for release on Switch.

With the release of Intel's 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh closing in, European & Asian retailers have started to list the CPUs early on.

Gungrave G.O.R.E Ultimate Enhanced Edition is out now for Switch via Nintendo eShop in Europe, and will launch on October 18, 2023 in North America and on January 11, 2024 in Japan and Asia, developer Studyio IGGYMOB announced.

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.

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.

SEGA has cancelled the Creative Assembly-developed multiplayer first-person shooter HYENAS, as well as some other unannounced titles that were in development by its European entity, the company announced.

Video game and console sales throughout Europe rose year-on-year in August.

10.7 million video games from AAA publishers were sold across Europe last month, GSD data reports.

PS5 sales in Europe last month have increased almost 200% compared to August 2022.

Starfield is the fifth fastest-selling game in Europe this year based on its launch week performance.

Today, GamesIndustry.biz has reported GSD (Game Sales Data) showing that Starfield has become the biggest Xbox launch this generation in Europe, beating Forza Horizon 5 in this regard. It is also the fastest-selling game based on a new intellectual property released in 2023 thus far.

Starfield has had the biggest launch for any Xbox Series X|S game in Europe.

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

Irish regulators on Friday handed out a 345-million-euro ($369-million) fine to TikTok over data breaches, part of a battle between the European Union and big tech firms on issues from tax avoidance and hate speech to data privacy and monopolistic practices.

Amazon implements disclosure rules for AI-generated content in e-books; eBay unveils AI-powered tool for effortless product listings; European Federation of Journalists and ACT join RSF's AI charter project for media; Google to mandate disclosure of AI content in political Ads- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

Microsoft will change how links behave when clicked from the Windows Widgets panel in Windows 11 so that they respect your default browser rather than automatically opening in Edge.

It seems Meta is turning further and further away from its news ambitions. Between threatening to block news altogether in parts of the US (or all of it), Canada, and more, the company has had a rocky history with hosting news in general. Now, the company plans to remove the News tab in some of the largest European Markets.

Starfield’s Constellation Edition remains in stock in the United Kingdom, Europe and Canada, but it’s currently unavailable in the United States.

Team Asobi and Sony might be gearing up to reveal a new Astro Bot title, based on recent trademarks filing by the publisher for the franchise.

Another day, another impressive PS5 achievement. Today it’s the turn of European tracker GSD, which has reported a 244 per cent increase in sales year-over-year on Sony’s system this July, following various price promotions right across the world. It should be noted that this hardware data only covers select countries like France, Italy, and Portugal, with major markets like the UK and Germany excluded. Of course, we know how things have been going in Deutschland of late.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has launched another PlayStation 5 hardware sale in Europe.

Samba de Amigo: Party Central, the Switch instalment of Sega's classic maraca-shaking rhythm game, now has an eShop demo in Europe ahead of its full launch next Tuesday, 29th August.

Publisher Hooded Horse and developer Ulisses Spiele have announced tactical RPG Hexxen: Hunters for PC (Steam, Epic Games Store). It will launch in 2024.

Sony will introduce more temporary PlayStation 5 price cuts in select European regions this week.

Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe are facing one of the most far-reaching efforts to clean up what people encounter online.

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

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC agreed Tuesday on a multibillion-dollar deal to build a plant in Germany, part of a push to put Europe at the centre of the global semiconductor industry.

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU is a weird product that is only available outside of China through select system integrators. As such, the graphics card has recently started to show up within listings by EU retailers.

Bandai Namco Europe has seemingly let slip about two more characters coming to Tekken 8's roster.

Investment outfit Gem Capital has plans to invest $50 million in Eastern European game studios.

The European Union's AI regulation has some predicting a spate of Brussels copycats. Close, but not quite.

Over in Europe, the PlayStation 5 has received a mild price cut. On the UK's PlayStation Direct site, the standard edition of the console is now priced at £404.99 (or roughly $521), down from its original price of £479.99. 

Sony is temporarily lowering the price of the PlayStation 5 in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, and India, a discount that appears to signal a similar temporary price drop in the U.S.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has launched a PlayStation 5 hardware sale in Europe.

The European Commission, which announced Thursday an inquiry into Microsoft's promotion of its Teams messaging app, has fought US tech giants on fronts from tax avoidance, disinformation and hate speech to data privacy and monopolistic practices.

Bandai Namco Europe has launched a new YouTube channel dedicated to the original soundtracks for some of its biggest franchises.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB GPU is already discounted in Europe which is the trend for all new graphics card launches.

A PlayStation 5 price drop in the United States and Europe may be announced soon, judging from the hints dropped today by an extremely reliable leaker.

76.1 million console and PC games were sold across Europe during the first half of the year, which is marginally up over the same period in 2022.

We’re a few years into the latest-generation console platforms for Microsoft and Sony. The Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 launch came in at a very interesting time. This was during a point in our history when we experienced a massive pandemic, and as a result, getting console units out into the marketplace was a struggle. Whether it was due to manufacturing, shipping, or scalpers, plenty of issues prevented these consoles from really getting out into players’ hands. But we’re beyond that point now, and you should have no trouble finding units available within your local retailers. 

PS5 hardware sales spiked an impressive 116 per cent year-over-year in Europe during June, as Sony’s console continues to make up for the shortfall it experienced due to stock shortages in the aftermath of the pandemic. The next-gen console has absolutely rocketed in 2023, and is likely to end the year even stronger due to the rumoured release of a revised hardware model. With both the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X|S posting small slumps last month, the PS5 was comfortably Europe’s best-selling system.

Pokemon-themed sleep tracking app, Pokemon Sleep, is now available in Europe.