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 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.
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.
Today, Microsoft has begun to deploy the May 2023 Xbox update where your console gains internal improvement and some notable features and this time we got three of them, one precisely carrying on with the adoption of Discord as part of Xbox voice chat.
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.
With no E3 this year, it is up to game developers and publishers to began what actually killed the hype about e#, having their own presentation platform and of course, Microsoft will not waste time with Xbox.
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.