In the news: Embracer Group snags Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal from Square Enix West for $300M, Xbox has an intermittent outage throughout the weekend that even affected offline play, and is that something to be concerned about with the upcoming Xbox Streaming Stick? Also, a modder turns a toddler toy into a fully working controller - and plays Elden Ring, and Epic Games finds a way to say "F*** YOU APPLE & GOOGLE" with their partnership with Xbox to add Fortnite to Xbox Cloud Streaming.