Over the past few months, the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger has come under intense scrutiny from various government agencies across the world for its potential effect on the video game market, especially since Sony might end up losing access to Activision Blizzard titles on the PlayStation. Sony has also argued that there won’t be anything to stop Microsoft from making games [...]
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If you’ve yet to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate because you’re not really sure if the $14.99 subscription fee is worth it, then Microsoft’s latest offer might just be what you’re waiting for. In line with tomorrow’s Cyber Monday digital shopping extravaganza, players can now subscribe to the premium video game streaming service for just $1 for the first [...]
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Looks like there's trouble in the metaverse. Wemade, the South Korean gaming company behind numerous play to earn MMOs including Mir 4, saw its stock price plummet 30% today after its Play 2 Earn token 'Wemix' will be delisted from numerous popular South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges on Dec 8th. The 30% plunge in the company's stock price was the maximum [...]
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With Microsoft and Activision Blizzard now in the process of finalizing their $69 billion merger, various government agencies have been scrutinizing the deal over concerns of its effects on free competition, particularly since there’s always the possibility that Microsoft could end up limiting Sony’s access to Activision Blizzard games. Sony itself is also worried that the PlayStation might not be [...]
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is preparing to throw a wrench in Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. According to news site Politico, the commission is looking to file a federal antitrust lawsuit against the companies to block the deal. “The investigation remains ongoing, but much of the heavy lifting is completed, including depositions of Microsoft chief executive Satya [...]
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Camelot Unchained developer City State Entertainment has secured over $15 million in additional funding in the studio’s most successful funding round to date. The latest funding round featured both old and new investors including Mark Jacobs’ newest game studio, Mythic Entertainment, which was acquired by Electronic Arts back in 2006. According to the official press release, the funds will be [...]
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After years of being away from Steam, Ubisoft will be returning to the platform with several titles in tow including Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. The Viking-inspired Assassin’s Creed game will be arriving on Steam on December 6th with Anno 1800 and Roller Champions expected to follow suit sometime in the future. December 6th will also mark the release of Assassin’s Creed [...]
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Blizzard Albany may have gotten the green light to form a union but its parent company apparently isn’t above conjuring up all sorts of hurdles to delay the studio’s QA workers from unionizing. Blizzard Entertainment (the parent company) has filed a request for review with the National Labor Relations Board which effectively impounds all union election ballots until the review [...]
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Klang Games has been slapped with a cease and desist order on any communications and marketing related to its upcoming colony-building MMO, SEED. Weirdly enough, the legal issue currently being faced by the studio was brought on by a seemingly unrelated company, New Life Ventures Inc., which is apparently the owner of the sugar daddy dating site, sugardaddie.com. It’s worth [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment will be suspending nearly all of their game services in China after failing to negotiate a new licensing deal with their Chinese publisher NetEase. The partnership between the two companies will officially be coming to an end in January 2023 and unless Blizzard can broker a new deal by that time or find a new publishing partner in [...]
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