Microsoft's antitrust woes have been resurrected by a group of states including California and New York that are seeking to extend the duration of the antitrust sanctions imposed on Microsoft under the 2002 consent decree agreement.
Microsoft can thank Google, Apple, and Mozilla for the strong likelihood that the company will not be subject to additional extensions of the decree. New salvos from the States aren't hitting their target, so most sanctions will expire early in 2008.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
What the hell is this? I'm being serious here.
Man if this contributor put this much energy in finding real news *and more rounded for that matter* we would have a winner.
This persons news post history seems very biased(always involves MSFT never posts anything else.
i dont know too much about law so could someone tell me what this sanction means for M$ involvement in the gaming business
in other news i had eggs for lunch
i had pizza for lunch. IT WAS THE BEST PIZZA I EVER HAD!!!!