In a sad turn of events after last week CD Projekt Red confirmed that it had renewed tasking the Boston based inner studio The Molasses Flood with the restart of development of a new The Witcher coded named Sirius, most of its talent have been let go.
In a major victory for Microsoft and one of the three important markets which the Activision Blizzard acquisition can be stopped or paused have given the blessing for the transaction to close and this is a major blow to USA’s FTC and UK’s CMA.
CD Projekt Red announced last year that they were working on the next sets of games based on The Witcher franchise, the next Cyberpunk game and preproduction of a new original franchise and early this year, it was revealed that CD Projek needed to restart development and disallowing Boston-based The Molasses Flood studio.
Another gaming company took its turn to share their quarterly financial results and it is the japanese veteran Capcom, which boasted on being for a sixth consecutive year in gaming sales positive.
During Electronic Arts Q4 2023, its CEO once again re-introduced the idea of the company being bought or being the remaining part of the merger, while acknowledging that Electronic Arts is the top third party software publisher for Xbox.
The Nintendo Switch has amazed people because of two things. One, it capitalized on the commodity and flexibility of being a hybrid of a console and a portable gaming device, much like the Wii U controller and unified the until 2016’s traditional console and portable that Nintendo was always being known.
Late last week was a hard one as another gaming studio is about to fold without giving new more content and we are talking about PixelOpus, a Playstation Studios member that will end operation soon.
Next in line for our interest on earning report season related to the gaming industry is actually Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of Warner Bros. and the umbrella of Discovery Channel and this includes Warner Media and WB Games.
Meanwhile Intel continues the journey for a comeback after years of AMD practically being favored as a main CPU alternative for public and enterprise, the very same AMD is not having a seamless journey on continuing to the top and this is thanks to a tanking PC market.
We are about to see the repercussions of the United Kingdom giving its thumbs down on the Activision Blizzard buyout by Microsoft, but just another country gave its approval while Microsoft is giving more counter facts against the Cloud Gaming “dominance” narrative.