No Man’s Sky‘s Huge Overhaul, The Software Update That Stopped The World, And More Of The Week’s Top Stories

Also, the FTC called out Microsoft for its Xbox price hike and Jack Black canceled a Tenacious D tour

Kotaku Staff Published July 20, 2024 |

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This week saw No Man’s Sky, a game that has repeatedly reinvented itself in the years since its release, get one of its biggest overhauls ever. Not to be outdone, Baldur’s Gate 3 also got a patch that rounds out the game nicely. Also, the FTC responded to Microsoft’s latest Xbox Live price hike, calling it “exactly the sort of consumer harm” it had hoped to prevent by working to block the company’s merger with Activision. Click on for these stories and more.