Activision Blizzard King joins Bethesda

[CurrySpirals]

Microsoft’s $69 Billion acquisition of ABK is finally complete after 20 months.

Who’s ready for some pronouns in Call of Duty ;)

https://www.trueachievements.com/n55258/microsoft-completes-69-billion-acquisition-of-activision-blizzard

[Darth Revan]

COD went downhill for me ever since the addition of warzone anyways, at least when it comes to the models, i mean we have catpeople now, in a call of duty game.

and the worst part is you can use this warzone models in the normal multiplayer as well.

[Goof]

goodbye playstation

[Cquarto91 Warband Mod Archiver]

They should buy EA next :)

[Koba]

A Microsoft dev made Halo: Infinite SOLO, and for some reason ppl think they are the saviour of gaming LMAO. MS havent been responsible for a good game since the early 2000's.

[Goof]

Originally posted by Koba:

A Microsoft dev made Halo: Infinite SOLO, and for some reason ppl think they are the saviour of gaming LMAO. MS havent been responsible for a good game since the early 2000's.

the current strategy for microsoft right now is to buy all high end game developers to keep them from making playstation games. Call of duty has an extremely large playstation base. Thats why playstation sued microsoft and stalled the acquisition

[Kriya Takagi]

I get the feeling Microsoft is gonna pull a Sega.
They buying up all these studios and if by some reason they exit the console market they have a ton of IP's they can license out and make money off of

[EricHVela]

Pronouns in Space Quest? That'll be a hard sell given how it often parodies the excessive sexism in games. (Latex Babes of Estros, as a parody of the very real game, Leather Goddesses of Phobos.) It's about a blonde, white guy who's a complete undatable idiot loser and still manages to save the galaxy despite every attempt to just find some place to take a nap.

...and Microsoft just got ahold of that IP. They also got Leisure Suit Larry. That'll go over well with the overly sensitive, can't-take-a-joke crowd. (No. It won't go over well.)

[Darth Revan]

Originally posted by EricHVela:

Pronouns in Space Quest? That'll be a hard sell given how it often parodies the excessive sexism in games. (Latex Babes of Estros, as a parody of the very real game, Leather Goddesses of Phobos.) It's about a blonde, white guy who's a complete undatable idiot loser and still manages to save the galaxy despite every attempt to just find some place to take a nap.

...and Microsoft just got ahold of that IP. They also got Leisure Suit Larry. That'll go over well with the overly sensitive, can't-take-a-joke crowd. (No. It won't go over well.)

Leisure Suit Larry is amazing, i love those games. :)

also microsoft got some true cash cows with this deal too, i mean they got candy crush.

[MugHug]

Originally posted by CurrySpirals:

Microsoft’s $69 Billion acquisition of ABK is finally complete after 20 months.

Who’s ready for some pronouns in Call of Duty ;)

https://www.trueachievements.com/n55258/microsoft-completes-69-billion-acquisition-of-activision-blizzard

Pronouns in Call of Duty ;)

Fantastic and am on board with you over your excitement.

[CurrySpirals]

Originally posted by Goof:

Originally posted by Koba:

A Microsoft dev made Halo: Infinite SOLO, and for some reason ppl think they are the saviour of gaming LMAO. MS havent been responsible for a good game since the early 2000's.

the current strategy for microsoft right now is to buy all high end game developers to keep them from making playstation games. Call of duty has an extremely large playstation base. Thats why playstation sued microsoft and stalled the acquisition

They have signed 10 year contracts to keep Call of Duty multi platform. Although, originally they offered Sony a 10 year contract on ALL ABK IP and PS CEO Jim Ryan turned it down, lol. Not surprised to see he’s ”retiring” after the debacle that was his attempt to stop this deal. And his godawful plan to pivot Sony to Online Games as Service, which is failing apart before its even gotten off the ground.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/the-last-of-us-multiplayer-canceled-by-naughty-dog-themselves/ar-AA1i79Rg

Instead of Last of Us online game, we’re getting Last of Us 2 remastered, haha.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/10/07/naughty-dog-do-not-remaster-the-last-of-us-part-ii-come-on/?sh=46673e9166fd