No, it doesn’t mean that Bulletstorms and Outriders developers are joining Xbox Game Studios and also, is not the original IP that People Can Fly announced that it was developing for a failed 2K Games publishing deal, but it means more work regardless.
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The FTC has won some time but I don’t know if this counts as a first round win. Nevertheless, things are pressing on and Microsoft currently cannot close the transaction to claim Activision Blizzard as its newest member of Xbox Game Studios.
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Many expected that Blizzard Entertainment would have chosen to be careful on next steps after a backtracking of some features that the game will now gain in parts, mainly the Hero Mode and now the unpleasant surprise is that story-driven missions are behind a paywall.
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Apparently, last quarter’s unpleasant surprise to Embracer Group is having quite the effect as early this week the gaming and entertainment conglomerate needed to do some big adjustment, including closing some subsidiaries and businesses.
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Another scheduled presentation just went live and currently on-demand and as promised, Capcom held their annual Capcom Showcase 2023 in the middle of their 40th anniversary, to give us an update of all games that are working and unexpectedly included an apology from one of their development teams.
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The Federal Trade Commission could see the CMA getting out of control on trying to have Microsoft being unable to buy Activision Blizzard as unexpectedly, many within the UK government actually favored the transaction and made a preemptive move.
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The next main presentation on this E3-less E3 season is veteran Ubisoft and with Ubisoft Forward 2023, we get a glimpse on what is next for what is left of 2023 and 2024 in terms of already known and new game projects.
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The weekend went by and Microsoft with Xbox already presented what we can expect from Xbox branded games (including not-exclusives) for what is left of 2023 and 2024 with some welcome surprises.
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Beside Xbox, PC Gamer magazine ran its PC Gaming Show presentation of its 2023 edition and this is a list of games presented at the event that you might consider buying for your new gaming PC rig.
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One of the important gaming announcement platform season or my so-called E3-less E3 season just took place and it is Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest 2023 and this is what we can expect from gaming in the short and long term.
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