While the Xbox One, Xbox One S and Xbox One X were physically done by 2020, Microsoft and Xbox Game Studios were stretching along with 3rd party gaming studios some more life with games until things normalized after the pandemic, but everything that has a beginning, has an end.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No, it is not for the attempt of Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard, but it is for another and more important issue that has been a plague since the Internet became public access and it is the management of information.
Even these days I decided to make a pause playing Redfall until a major hotfix or patch gets issued by Arkane (my case particularly was melee/stabbing not functioning, game disabling the menu out of nowhere, map out of focus in BAD timing and graphics stuttering where enough after 5+ hours).
Microsoft took its turn to announce what games will be claimable for free for the month of June 2023, and again it is just a two game offering within the Xbox One catalog and it is Adios and The Vale: Shadow of the Crown.
Microsoft continues on not wasting time and while it seems that the CMA refusal to let the Redmond giant to buy Activision Blizzard has some government with pro business interest in the UK calling the CMA out, the company is making good use of its words.
Additionally on a 10 year agreement for having Call Of Duty available on their network, Microsoft and Nvidia has already inked another agreement, this time with Xbox and GeForce Now, which will bring Xbox Game Studio to the Cloud Gaming platform.