One month ago, Bethesda launched the highly anticipated Starfield as their first big franchise after The Elder Scrolls in more than 25 years. And while both games received generally favorable reviews from players and critics alike, the post-launch period has been interesting.
It’s official, Microsoft has bought Activision Blizzard. The acquisition was first announced in early 2022 and late last week, the deal was finalized for almost $69 Billion dollars! I’m here to break down all the takeaways from this massive merger.
A very interesting week in the world of Xbox Gaming News with a couple of positive stories and also some pretty bad ones too. Let’s talk about all that plus an exciting update in the saga of the Xbox and Microsoft trying to acquire Activision Blizzard.
We are in the final month of both Xbox Live Gold and Games With Gold as Microsoft will be moving on completely with Game Pass Core as its direct substitute that will give you everything already being given by Xbox Live Gold but a selected catalog of 25 games that switches with time.
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It was almost a year ago that Microsoft announced that all Xbox consoles from Xbox One to current Xbox Series S and X will gain a new User Interface and more in sync with Xbox as a platform and since, it was only for Xbox Insider users since May of this year.
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It is the final quarter report for Fiscal Year 2023 for Microsoft and while IT DOES NOT INCLUDE the closure of the Activision Blizzard acquisition, business must go on and this is how the Redmond tech giant dealt business in the last part month and fiscal year in general.
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Imagine the impact of the Activision Blizzard transaction is so big, that at the latest investor conference of Ubisoft about their first quarter of Fiscal Year 2024, it was raised on how Ubisoft sees Microsoft gaining a gaming conglomerate.
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If there is a Microsoft Graveyard as like the Google Graveyard, the new tombstone that will be set on September 14th 2023, will be Xbox Live Gold, the first subscription that Microsoft ever gave to Xbox to allow multiplayer and later, monthly free claimable games as long as you kept subscribed.
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In Xbox related news, Microsoft ran an important showcase for the independent gaming studios and developers community as Xbox has been a stronghold for indies developers for years and 2023 is not an exception.
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After pretty much the gaming community was on their computer, smartphones or whenever you follow your social media since this Friday as it was speculated that a decision for a Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard was due.
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