Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, owner of the Call of Duty IP, opened Pandora's box and led to the biggest rivalry between Sony and Microsoft.
After its latest games didn't meet sales targets, Square Enix is going multiplatform but the company's track record isn't convincing.
Square Enix been multiplatform for decades, a few exclusively-deals doesn't make them any less multiplatform.
Nor is selling their games on a console with only 25 million install base going to bring their sales to where they hope they will be... Unless they somehow manage to dumb down FF7 trilogy to work on switch, they aren't going to have much luck. They already released it on PC, after all.
Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt explains how the studio name comes from a name translation, plus the background on the game title “Helldivers.”
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Kinda obvious why given the clout the game has outside of specialist gaming circles ($$$$$)
Money, duh.
Big name with the gaming world and amongst the casuals. Typically one of the maybe only 3 games casuals get every year.
It was but its rapidly going downhill because activision are supporting & promoting the cheaters. Give it a few years and it will be a distant memory