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Nielsen has released a new paper called 360 Gaming Report that reveals some very similar worldwide gaming statistics. Across the globe, gamers spend between 8-15% of leisure time primarily playing on consoles and mobile devices with a nearly 50-50 split between male and female gamers. Console gamers tend to be in the 35 and under bracket with PC gamers averaging between 30-45 years old.

After years of quietly, and sometimes not so quietly, buying up any shares of Gameloft, Vivendi finally has become the majority owner of the mobile games company. Alongside the Gameloft purchases, Vivendi has also been making moves on Ubisoft by purchasing available stocks from shareholders at an inflated price that ‘encourages’ them to sell. The Guillemot brothers run Ubisoft and have been scrambling to secure agreements from shareholders to keep more Ubi stocks out of Vivendi hands.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, speaking at the Cowen & Company Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, has said that there are too many impediments to VR gaming in the current state of the world and that it’s “ridiculous to think the average home in America would dedicate an entire room to VR gaming”.

This week on Game On, Chris and Brax sit down to discuss a week dominated by Overwatch, but that’s not all! They also discuss Battleborn’s immediate $20 price cut, No Man’s Sky’s latest delay, Fallout 4: Far Harbor, Funcom’s life saving investment, and the Warcraft movie. Small correction: the Smite controversy was about Hindu deities. Not Buddha. Our bad.

GoG Connect is a new feature at Good Old Games that allows players to add non-DRM restricted Steam games to their GoG collection. This is not open to all Steam non-DRM titles, but there is an impressive list that you can check to see which of your Steam games qualifies. The offer is a limited time one from several publishers and developers including Deep Silver, Harebrained Schemes, TaleWorlds and more.

MMORPG.com has been given gift keys for Empire: Revenant – the all new browser game brought to you by AMZGame featuring figures from ancient history and mythology to engage in epic PvE and PvP battles! This key will give you great in game items such as Rare Chests, Rare Keys, Clay Jars and more. Get your key now!

Piranha Bytes and Nordic Games have a treat in store for fans of the upcoming ARPG ELEX. To set the mood for the post apocalyptic universe, devs sent out a new trailer and updated the official website with more information about game classes, the game world and more.

Gamigo Group has posted an announcement on its corporate site to announce its merger with Aeria Games Europe. The new joint company will be focusing primarily on publishing games such as Echo of Soul, Fiesta Online and several others in North America and Europe.

Big budgets and summer blockbusters are the popcorn and large coke of Hollywood and they cost millions. Every studio swings for the fences and expects massive numbers to hit with every summer film. Some do shockingly well, Guardians of the Galaxy, others do horrifically bad, the latest Fantastic Four. Now, before it has even been released to the public, the Warcraft film is dying quickly on the vine.

Former Ubisoft Paris devs have created a new studio called Sloclap that is working on a new action online RPG called Absolver. What gives Absolver its unique slot in the online gaming space is that it is a game with tons of battle action against other players or working cooperatively through dungeon, and all accomplished without firing a single shot. Absolver has no firearms at all.