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.
Starfield – lore and story info for the Earth Story Arc and Prologue. In this first part, we talk about what happened to Earth and all the key events that lead to our current adventure in Starfield and will serve as a base for future Starfield lore content that will be in production shortly.
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.
Xbox Game Pass is bringing more new games to Xbox console and PC owners in the coming months, including never before announced game for Xbox in general as part of the announcements expected at the TGS or Tokyo Game Show 2023.
Bethesda’s brand new sci-fi RPG and 2023’s most anticipated video game, Starfield, is now available on GeForce Now! Set in a futuristic time where humanity already has the reach for stars on a every day basis, filled with mysterious stars and threatening creatures, you’ll explore planets and space stations throughout the entire universe.
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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