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Blizzard said today that it's absorbing Vicarious Visions. What it didn't say:

- VV has been working on a Diablo II remake
- Team 1, Blizzard's "classic team," was quietly dismantled last fall

Blizzard's Team 1 was responsible for StarCraft II, Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft Remastered, and Warcraft 3 Reforged (which was the product of -- surprise! -- unrealistic deadlines created by financial pressures). Its next project was going to be the Diablo 2 remake.

Last year, Blizzard pulled the D2 remake from Team 1 and gave it to Team 3 (the Diablo IV team) which is now overseeing and working with Vicarious Visions on the project

A new lawsuit filed by five gamers in California federal court accuses Valve of abusing its power to keep PC game prices high.

As reported by THR, this lawsuit claims that Valve does not maintain its dominance over the PC market by offering better prices on Steam than other platforms, but does so by abusing its power to require developers to enter what is known as a 'Most Favored Nations' clause.

In a huge but not exactly surprising move, Epic Games is buying Tonic Games Group, which means developer Mediatonic and Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout are "joining the Epic Games family."

Nintendo's next Switch hardware revision has long been rumored, but details on what to expect from a possible "Switch Pro" finally began firming up on Wednesday, thanks to an apparent leak from its screen supplier.

Bloomberg Japan has the scoop, and it points to Samsung as the source of Switch's next panel type: a 7-inch OLED panel, currently estimated at 720p resolution. That Samsung OLED production line will begin cranking in June, according to Bloomberg's unnamed sources familiar with "internal matters." Meanwhile, other Nintendo hardware assemblers will begin receiving the panels "around July."