It’s no secret that Xbox has been lagging behind PlayStation in terms of first-party content, but the year 2024 offers both the platform and Microsoft CEO Phil Spencer a real chance at redemption. Since acquiring Bethesda Game Studios and Activision Blizzard King, Microsoft holds ownership of some of the biggest IP in the game industry. […]
Microsoft appears to have shifted its focus from releasing exclusives to bringing its games catalog to PS5 and other platforms. This is based on a new set of reports suggesting that Microsoft’s business strategy has shifted focus. The rumor started with games like Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves coming to other consoles. Sea of […]
After successfully acquiring Activision Blizzard King, Microsoft now owns 13 video game franchises worth more than $1 Billion. Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, revealed during the company’s first quarter (Q1) Fiscal Year 2024 earnings call that the software giant owns 13 different video game franchises worth over $1 Billion after the acquisition of Activision Blizzard King. […]
Microsoft has raised the price of Halo and Activision Blizzard games in several regions on Valve’s digital distribution platform, Steam. As seen on SteamDB, Microsoft has increased the price of Halo as well as Activision Blizzard titles on Steam without any prior warning. The reason behind this sudden price hike is unknown, though it appears […]
Capcom has stated clearly that, in the event that an acquisition attempt is made from Microsoft, Capcom will gracefully decline. Speaking during an interview with Bloomberg, Capcom COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto stated that he would gracefully decline an acquisition proposal from Microsoft because he believes it would be better the they were equal partners. Additionally, Tsujimoto […]
Microsoft is looking to acquire Nintendo “at some point”, and it believes that the Mario maker’s future “exists off of its own hardware”. Through a flurry of leaked documents involved in the court case between the FTC and Microsoft, it has been revealed that the software giant has been looking to acquire Nintendo since the […]
When entering the gaming business, Microsoft had to pay millions of dollars to publishers and developers in order to get games to release day one on Xbox. Speaking during the latest episode of Iron Lords Podcast, former corporate vice-president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business division Peter Moore revealed that when the software giant entered the […]
Microsoft appears to be working on a new, cheaper third-party storage expansion for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. A new Western Digital Xbox storage expansion card has emerged at the online retail portal for Best Buy. Based on the listing, which has now been removed by the retailer, the new expansion card […]
Microsoft barely had any games that could qualify for the Metacritic publisher ranking for the year 2022, despite coming out on top in 2021. Metacritic published its game publisher ranking for the year 2022, based on the Metascore average of their titles released within the year, and Microsoft was nowhere to be found. In its […]
Microsoft has responded to the CMA’s preliminary findings, claiming that Sony’s stance on the Activision Blizzard King deal is a self-serving attempt to protect its market dominance. The CMA has published both Microsoft and Sony’s response to its provisional findings. Microsoft claims that Sony’s stance on the Activision Blizzard King deal is a “self-serving attempt […]
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