Microsoft's $68.7B deal to buy Activision Blizzard has been locked by the UK's CMA on competition concerns for the growing cloud market.
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
The new Escape from Tarkov Unheard Edition has the community in an outrage after promising exclusive access to the new PvE mode for $250 USD.
$250? Do they not know all the other games that already exist or will be made in the future that can do similar?
This is for the hardcore people that have 2500 h in the game. They basically play that one game the whole year.
Oh and those same people are mad as hell at this... what a way to reward fans of your game and annihilate newcomers.
HOLY SHIT!
Huge plot twist it was blocked even without the Playstation issues.
Sounds like they will appeal but at this rate they should just move on, since without this deal I don't see how Xbox can recover from it's sales decline.
MS already said they will keep going for it. It might take a little longer though.
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Microsoft is very desperate, they will not leave this deal.
The CMA’s concerns are that Cloud gaming has tripled but MS accounts for 60-70% of Cloud gaming. Did they not think the reason for the growth in Cloud gaming was because of MS Investments in the last few years? Third party AAA games, touch controls on mobile and it being a subscription instead of buy2play has made Xbox the #1 cloud service in the UK. Why are they being punished for this? This is a really bad move from the CMA!