The endless Saga of the legal battle between Microsoft and the FTC over the acquisition of Activision Blizzard continues, but a Judge just shut a door in Microsoft's face.
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.
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.
Read a comment earlier calling it a "special monetization operation." I had to chuckle at that.
Good on the judge. The deal is done and Microsoft doesn’t need to demand anything!
Never forget MS spent a combined $80 billion to remove multiplatform publishers from competing platforms and their gamers... even after all this MS are still petty bitc*es.
They are also being looked at by anti-trust agencies again because between MS and Google they're buying up and monopolising everything AI related too.
Good, requesting more information from Sony was just a fishing expedition. They've already reached an agreement so Sony is no longer a 3rd party adversary in this matter. It's the FTC who stringing this out fight with them.
Whenever I think about it: what incredibly dull acquisitions MS had made with Zenimax and AB.
Except for the buyout sum, there was nothing impressive, visionary or special about it. Nothing unique.
They were, plain and simple, only designed to weaken Playstation and Nintendo. And to offer the taken IPs then back to them for money with a contract or maybe a Game Pass agreement.
I really want the Xbox brand to stay around, I really do, because competition is what matters.
But I admit I would let go of a little laugh if, in some years, the acquisitions turn out to have failed financially and didn't draw any gamer away from competition.
But I also admit that, with all those IPs under their hood now, Microsoft now owns a LOT of potential at least to turn things around.
Let's see. Time will tell.
We all know the Judge is biased.