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Big acquisitions “destroy creativity” in the video game industry – developer
There is no doubt that 2022 was a year full of surprises of high caliber about the phenomenon of acquisitions, which has now become the news of the hour. Every week we may have news of a large company’s acquisition of one of the emerging companies or new studios, and the name of major companies…
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Microsoft: 250 Japanese developers are currently working on games for Xbox…
As part of the TGS 2022 Tokyo Video Game Show, Microsoft announced the existence of long and deep partnerships with many Japanese developers who are currently working on titles for Xbox. During IGN Japan’s special coverage (via VGC) on Saturday, Sarah Bond, who is the vice president of Xbox gaming for Microsoft, was asked if…
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Xbox Series consoles will get a new interface next year
As part of the plan to support the new generation Xbox Series X|S devices, Microsoft announced that it will work on updating the user interface completely during the next year. Xbox announced a while ago its intention to revamp the “Xbox dashboard” user interface, which Chief Product Manager Ivy Krislov commented on, which he called…
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Games coming to Xbox Game Pass and those leaving this month revealed
Today, Microsoft revealed the new titles that will join the Xbox Game Pass library this month, September 2022, and will begin arriving from Tuesday. The list of addresses that will leave the service at the end of the current month has also been revealed. Subscribers to the service will be on a date with 8…
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Head of Xbox Studios: The time to develop AAA games in one studio is over
The head of Xbox Studios said today that the time to develop big games on a budget and the size of AAA games in one studio is long over. During one of the Q&A episodes of PAX West 2022, Matt Bowie was asked whether the reason why so many big titles were postponed from their…
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Phil Spencer’s letter to Jim Ryan about the guarantee of a Call of Duty release on PlayStation is suspicious
Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, sent a private message to PlayStation President Jim Ryan, in which he provided guarantees that the Call of Duty game will be released on PlayStation platforms “for several years” after the end of the PlayStation agreements with Activision. This suspicious message was addressed by a report published by…
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CMA: The Xbox Activision deal will affect the PlayStation 6 and beyond.
The British Competition and Marketing Authority (CMA) released a 35-point statement expressing its concerns that the Xbox Activision deal would crush competitors, especially the future of the PlayStation brand. According to the statement, the authority indicated that the effects of this deal may not appear now, but it may appear in the future when Sony…
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After the CMA decision, the head of Xbox confirms: Call of Duty will be released on Game Pass from day one, and on the PlayStation platform as well..
Microsoft’s Xbox Studios Director Phil Spencer said through an official statement about the fate of the Call of Duty series after the acquisition of Activision, confirming that it will be released from day one on the Xbox Game Pass service. Through Microsoft’s official blog Blogs.Microsoft, Xbox Studios Director Phil Spencer stated about the fate of…
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UK competition authority CMA expresses concerns over Activision Blizzard deal
Just days after the discussion of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by the Brazilian competition authority CADE, the United Kingdom’s competition authority (CMA) is once again talking about the matter, and voicing its concerns about the impact of this deal on competition. The UK competition authority, after seeing several interested comments about the potential acquisition of…
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It looks like the Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family bundle is about to be announced.
Earlier this year, rumors emerged that Microsoft intends to launch a new package within the Xbox Game Pass service, which is directed to family and friends, Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family, where five people from the same family can share the same account in the service and access all the benefits without limits At…
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