Microsoft

24

Mar

By Seasoned Gaming

Latest News

Xbox Acquisition of Activision-Blizzard : The CMA Issues Updated Findings

In the on-going saga of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, the CMA published its updated findings today. You can find the full details here, but the short summary is this: ...the CMA inquiry group has updated its provisional findings and reached the provisional conclusion that, overall, the transaction will not result…

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21

Feb

By Elliot Porter

Latest News

Microsoft Announces Agreement with NVIDIA to Bring Xbox PC Games to GeForce NOW

Earlier today, Head of Xbox and Microsoft's CEO of Gaming, Phil Spencer, announced a 10 year agreement with PC gaming giants NVIDIA to bring Xbox PC games to GeForce NOW streaming. https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/1628096694939156486?s=20 Add to this the news of Xbox's partnership with Nintendo, and Phil's intention to be able to play…

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21

Feb

By Seasoned Gaming

Latest News

Microsoft Announces Ten-Year Deal to Bring Call of Duty to Nintendo Players

As the battle over Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard heats up, it's clear Microsoft is doubling-down on their commitment to bring AB games to more players as a way to seal the deal. This morning Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President at Microsoft, announced that they have signed a ten-year, legally…

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18

Jan

By Seasoned Gaming

Latest News

Report : Joe Staten Leaves 343 Industries and Halo to Re-Join Xbox Publishing

As reported by several sources and detailed by Microsoft earlier today, the company is parting ways with approximately 10,000 positions. While it represents less than 5% of Microsoft's total workforce, it is still a large number of employees, with positions impacted across all divisions. While details are still surfacing, particularly…

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08

Dec

By Seasoned Gaming

Latest News

FTC Sues to Block Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision-Blizzard

Breaking over the last hour, the FTC has officially announced that they will sue Microsoft to block their acquisition of Activision-Blizzard. You can find the full filing here, and they also detailed their key claims via a long thread on Twitter (below). https://twitter.com/FTC/status/1600930585345724417?s=20&t=1yHkBEk_vqY5WKZtybEVjw The news comes just one day after…

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17

Nov

By Bryan Finck

Articles

Who Are Gamers in 2022?

Despite readily available evidence to the contrary, the world’s population of “gamers” still has a hard time shaking off preconceived notions about those who inhabit its ranks. Indeed, some may never let go of the idea that gamers are just lonely, anti-social, often toxic young men wasting their lives in…

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14

Oct

By Steve Esposito

Articles, Latest News

Microsoft’s ABK Acquisition is Sony’s Iceberg Embarrassment

Since Microsoft announced the purchase of Activision-Blizzard and King, discourse has effectively run its course. At first, we did not know what to really expect when it came to the nuance of this deal, and now that we inch ever so close to the completion of this insanely expensive acquisition,…

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01

Sep

By Seasoned Gaming

Latest News

Xbox Confirms Overwatch, Call of Duty, and Diablo will be in Game Pass

This morning CEO of Gaming for Microsoft, Phil Spencer, issued a new statement on the Activision-Blizzard acquisition. As posted on Microsoft's Blog, it confirms a few details about the future including what titles would arrive on Game Pass and which may be exclusive. The statement from Spencer specifically states a…

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26

Jul

By Seasoned Gaming

Latest News

Xbox Series X/S are Fastest Selling Consoles in Brand History

It's fiscal results time again and today Microsoft shared the results of it's 2022 fiscal year 4th quarter (April through June 2022). With the focus on gaming, it once again provides insight into the success of the Xbox brand and how it continues to evolve. You can find Microsoft's full…

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09

Jun

By Ains

Latest News

Xbox Announces New Ways to Interact with their Ecosystem

I've written extensively about Xbox's direction and where they are driving their gaming segment over the next several years. This morning, a few days before their next big showcase, they shared more details on those plans. As detailed on the Xbox Wire Blog, the Xbox team is focused on partnerships…

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02

Jun

By Eric Bezanson

Latest News

Tell Me Why is Free on Xbox and Steam for the Month of June

Revealed by the games developer DONTNOD via the games official twitter account , the critically acclaimed narrative adventure game, Tell Me Why, will be free during the month of June. This is in support of Pride month and is the second time the developers have done this. As noted in…

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04

May

By Eric Bezanson

Articles

Game Pass In-Review : April 2022

Welcome to a new monthly feature being trialed here at SG, Game Pass In-Review! While Gamepass does provide a very low financial barrier to entry when it comes to checking out what's on offer, there is still the barrier of free time. As many of us here at SG are...…

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25

Apr

By Eric Bezanson

Latest News

Diablo Immortal Release Date and PC Version Announced

When Diablo Immortal was first revealed long ago at Blizzcon 2018, it was a bit of a nightmare. Highlighted by a red shirt guy comparing the announcement to an out of season April fools joke, and of course the infamous "do you not have phones" quote. Since then the team…

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23

Apr

By Eric Bezanson

Latest News

Halo Infinite Update : When to Expect Co-Op and Forge

In addition to the new modes revealed a few days ago 343industries have revealed the entirety of Season 2's Roadmap in the most recent Halo Waypoint Blogpost.  The roadmap shows off some of the stuff we already knew about like the new game modes, Catalyst Arena map, and Breaker Big…

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26

Jan

By Seasoned Gaming

Latest News

Xbox 2021 Fiscal Results Show Strong Growth Across the Board

It's time again for quarterly fiscal results from the big three. And being a new year, it's also a time to reflect on the calendar year performance of each company. Xbox held their investors call yesterday afternoon and in short, the news is quite good. The 2021 calendar year marked…

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