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.
For a third year in a row, it is a E3-less E3 season and while E3 future is uncertain at best, Geoff Kighley will bring back once again The Summer Game Fest virtual event where everyone can get a glimpse on current and future gaming projects and announcements and the engine has just started.
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.
This are not easy days for Xbox and Microsoft Gaming as the company not only had a setback on their quest to buy Activision Blizzard, but also that Xbox itself has not found it’s key game to say that 2023 has been a seamless year so far.
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.