Legendary musician Stan Bush has revealed that he's working on new music for Activision's next Transformers game, presumed to be the adaptation of the next live-action film, Transformers 3. This comes after his music had recently been featured in the publisher's Guitar Hero: World Tour and Transformers: War for Cybertron games.
"I am working on a song to submit for the next Transformers game that's coming out next summer," he says.
Despite losing its lawsuit seeking an injunction to freeze Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard in July 2023, the FTC appealed the decision with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. While it awaits a final decision from those justices, the FTC’s been filing additional evidence to support its claims that the merger would hurt competition in gaming and hurt customers, including a letter from earlier this year after Microsoft laid off nearly 2,000 employees across the newly acquired teams.
FTC never heard of inflation. Did they expect Gampass to remain the same price forever?
Would be funny if Gampass remained at 10€ fifty years from now...
"Microsoft insists Game Pass prices ‘will not increase as a result of Activision merger"
https://www.videogameschron...
"It says a price rise “would be counter-productive as it would increase subscriber churn rates”
"Game Pass prices will not increase as a result of the Merger"
Gamepass wouldn't increase in result of the merger... but it doesn't mean it wouldn't increase due to other reasons, like inflation, extra expenses, etc. Do you expect Gamepass to remain the same price forever?
All other online services have been increasing prices.
I cancelled my Ultimate sub after the announcement, so they were right. And yet, they still did it. That is so MS.
Inflation is down since they made that statement.
They also call into question the 2000+ people Microsoft has fired from the developers they bought.
And again, this is contradictory to what Microsoft said they would do.
They lied in court.
Lol...they never said gamepass wouldn't increase and they never said it would because of the merger. And even they did it's their right to do so. So what's your point?
Sony and other streaming services (Netflix, HBO, ...) have been increasing prices and altering their services. Do you expect Gamepass to remain the same price forever?
Others can increase prices and alter their services, but Microsoft can't?
Hypocrite much!
Exactly let's not forget this deal was done under the same economic climate this was predictable yet they maintained they would not be increasing prices yet now the merger is done they increased prices and split tiers to avoid further scrutiny.
This is and always has been how Microsoft do business deflect blame and increase profits
You are correct. It's actually lower. It was around 7% in 2021 and now it's around 3%, which is ideal.
inflation aint the same thing as to lock stuff behind a paywall that was previously not. lol
Yeah you're right. It's just a coincidence that this happened after spending billions of dollars buying up the industry. And closing studios. And firing thousands of people. All while barely being able to give away Xboxes. It's all because of inflation. LOL
Fanboyism bro this is pure fanboyism, it's bs we all know it so stop defending Microsoft.
Except $/mb of broadband, $/mb of storage, and $/compute power only gets cheaper over time. As Microsoft’s overhead has gone down, it’s prices have gone up.
@lelo: “FTC never heard of inflation. Did they expect Gampass to remain the same price forever?
Would be funny if Gampass remained at 10€ fifty years from now...”
I see you got the industrial size chapstick truck from Microsoft and put it into use already.
Add one more backpedaling to Microsoft and Phil rhetorics
Gamepass price was going up regardless of inflation or not and you know it. Hey atleast you guys have an excuse to ride for a little bit
Need I remind you of how much MS is worth? There was no need to let anyone go or any studio. MS are just cancer and should leave the industry.
Apparently it's ok that they raised PSN prices, but Xbox can't compete?!
The "Standard" is just a rebranded Xbox Live. Not expected but not crazy since they didn't really have a proper entry level subscription to match PSNs entry level.
Xbox raised their prices last year too though, their entry level was core or gamepass console.
The whole "Bu bu but Sony" thing with the PSN doesn't take into consideration Microsofts whole argument to the FTC during the entire Activision merger court case is that they wouldn't raise prices due to the merger, nothing would change.
Sony never said shit about raising prices and the like so while we can think it's scummy the FTC won't have an issue with it because the argument wasn't towards them, they never swore against anything.
If the Activision merger never happened and Microsoft raised their prices as a standard thing, like Sony with the PSN or even how Netflix has done it with their subscription it would have been business as usual.
I'm so tired of the Sony defense team. Pay off me thinks a lot of these comments come from Sony shills
All the judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just got a free windows 11 upgrade!
The price hike just brings it closer in line to PSN, yet it still has greater value. The standard sub matches the lowest PSN sub.
FTC trying to seem relevant. Claiming their multi million dollar case was to stop a $3 dollar price hike is a stupid argument and embarrassing for them.
PS+
$80 per year cheaper
More total games
Retro Games - Added monthly
VR games - Added Monthly
Ubisoft + Classics
4 k Streaming of nearly all games including ones you own digital not on the service. (xbox 1080p series s)
Sony Pictures Catalog
Anime from Crunchyroll
Full Game Trials with Trophy Support
PSN absolutely does not have more total games. I have PSN Ultimate or whatever it's called.
They don't get day one exclusives.
They don't even have Last of Us 2 Remake on there yet! Or Last of Us Part 1!!
You get Ubisoft classics, so does Xbox. But w Xbox also get EA games!
VR games don't matter to me, but Xbox also gets PC games that don't matter to me.
Both have classic games.
Streaming means nothing to me, it's still a failed concept, Digital Foundry tests it often, and it's not there yet for "serious gamers". The lag is intense!
Sony pictures and anime are neat, I'll give ya that.
Full game trials are cool, but Xbox gets the full game day one, so.... 🤷
I haven't had a good game in PSN since HellDivers, this year has been dead.
Honestly, once Xbox starts dumping all these exclusives on to GamePass, it's gonna be a flood of great titles
It's $80 cheaper, you're paying $240 a year in hopes of getting Microsoft games, and things aren't looking great on the development side of things beyond all the stuff they started 5 years ago. There is no guarantee that some of these studios will even exist going forward.
No, game pass does not offer Ubisoft Classics, and you only need Extra unlike EA Play which requires Ultimate.
And it doesn't matter what you don't want, xbox isn't offering it for people who do. Those things add value for a lot of people.
What digital foundry found was that PS+ Streaming was vastly superior to xcloud.
Full Game Trials include 3'rd party games.
PlayStation get's "good games" all the time that aren't on xbox,GranBlue Fantasy Relink, Final Fantasy, Helldivers, Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade, Zenless Zone Zero, Pacific Drive ect. every week something new comes out or is announced for PlayStation that's not on xbox.
And you're bragging about day one but that keep proving to be unsustainable. That's why studios got closed, 5000+ people got fired, games got ported to PlayStation, the reward system got gutted, prices were increased multiple times and those new games got removed from game pass and paywalled to a more expensive tier.
@GamerRN
I guess you don't subscribe to both services.
PS+ Premium has close to 1000 games.
GPU has less than 500.
GPU doesn't come with Ubisoft Classic.
However, the do have EA Play instead.
I pay 120$ a year by using cdkeys.com for GamePass Ultimate
And I definitely have both... My main gripe is PSN extreme or whatever it's called is u don't have all the 1st party stuff I want. That being said I just started up Death Standing Directors cut (terrible game, cool story)... I really want Last of Us Part 1 and Part 2.... Other than that, I don't think I have access to Ubisoft games? Where do I access those? Are there any good ones? The menu system is very confusing trying to go to classic games, PSN collection, etc etc etc
The FTC should give up. Microsoft owns the US Government and then someday the world and all its useless masses.
They're not wrong.
But with MS main competitor Sony raising PS Plus prices roughly 30% across all tiers last September and in general sub services hiking prices or experimenting with different tiers like ones with ads (probably coming to GP soon) I think they won't have trouble arguing they're not doing anything others aren't who haven't just shelled out massively for mergers.
But when it's done on the unprecedented size and scale MS are doing it it's a concern.
But Sony was not the one lying in court saying they will not increase the price of their subs if they are allowed to buy AVK for $70B
I think the FTC have a good argument. But with Sony increasing prices and other sub services in general before MS it's not hard for them to spin the price hikes and new tiers as just part of an industry trend and not due to the merger.
If nobody else was raising prices or experimenting with tiers then they wouldn't have a leg to stand on, but they are.
Like Governments burying bad news on big news days, MS can use the current industry wide troubles and economic climate to legitimise their actions.
Sony increased their yearly prices by 30% last year. Which Microsoft doesn't have.
Going by yearly Extra is 11.25 a month compared to 15 a month for Gamepass standard.
Going by yearly Premium is 13.33 a month compared to 20 a month for Ultimate. And let's not forget yearly PS+ is on sale (25 to 30%) several times a year like it just was for days of play recently.
Also both Sony and Microsoft had a price increase last year. This is another price increase from Microsoft.
So since Sony raised the prices last year Microsoft can raise to whatever they want how many times they want?
Microsoft has been operating as a branch of the US Government for quite some time. This is why they have been able to get away with so much anti consumer stuff on Windows 11. Yet Google, Amazon etc have all been getting scalded by the Government.
They aren't incompetent.
But you can only do so much when so many are in corporate pockets, including politicians and judges.
Companies pay bribes... I mean lobby to make sure consumer protection rules don't apply to them, the FTC has been made powerless. MS is well versed in avoiding rules that apply to others.
I understand what you mean, I am not asking FTC to have won, I just expect them to provide one worthwhile argument and defend it well, gamers where providing more detailed arguments than FTC even tried to make
@H9
FTC provided worthwhile arguments, they basically prophesied the Game Pass price increases from Xbox post-merger. Somehow that isn't enough for you.
It a real shame that politicians have been so successful in turning the public against civil servants who keep the country running. Rather than blame political for the shit state of things, they blame everyone else!
I see what they mean and thanks, but it does seem like an inevitable price hike.
The value is starting to be especially debatable now though and the odd tier system makes it feel like a mess.
Ok, and were you trying to prevent this when PS+ doubled their price? How much of a price hike is the Gamepass price from what it was previously? Is it comparable to PS+'s price hike? Nintendo also added an additional tier to their service that you have to pay more for. Is the FTC trying to prevent those or only going against Xbox? What is the "consumer harm" exactly that only Xbox is doing, but the others aren't?
Hell, while we're at it, what about Netflix and Amazon Prime raising prices? You preventing those? Like, what's the difference with Xbox that you were trying to prevent? Y'all seemed extremely clueless about the game industry in court.
Meh, fine with the $3 increase. My Playstation Premium renews in 2025, I may reduce that as I rarely play the old games and only need the minimum to play online. Everything in life has gone up, blame whom you wish, this is where we are at, as I wish they could have stopped my car insurance, house insurance, taxes, everything you buy at the store, every app, gas from going up, too while they were trying to stop MS. Did people think the gaming industry was immune? Reality..
Let me get this straight
Thousands of jobs lost
Price increase for new subscribers
Still no 9/10 or 10/10 games
And people are happy with this
How?
There's one small problem with that... Peacock is part of a totally different industry, one that doesn't make video games.
I hope MS will get fucked over in the long run. They are worth 3 trillion so I don't see any fine hurting them. They should be forced to bring back all the employees they let go and the studios as well on top of back pay lost plus extra benefits.
If the FTC can pressure Microsoft into back pedaling then I will happily watch from the sidelines.
Who didn't see this coming you don't buy the number one IP in terms of raw sales and profit per year for the last 20 years to simply give it away for 10 bucks a month.
So many people looked at Microsoft as their best mate during the process like they were going to make cod a free game for them.
Sorry no Microsoft is a cutthroat business they've done this same thing in other areas come in take over buy out competition and increase the prices as the consumers are locked in and would not be able to move away look at Azure every other month there's a new licensing SKU to do something or a price increase to the point of organisations moving away from cloud and spending millions to move back to on prem or multi cloud approaches
Here is the start date and time for the Xbox Games Summer Showcase 2024 with bundles of exciting leaks and how to watch.
10AM PT/1PM ET/6PM london time.
on June 9th.
this is so odd. we had ps before the summer fest and now xbox after.
Summer Fest and the Sony show were both crap, let's hope Microsoft and Ubisoft shows are decent.
(the way this is going, I'm not asking for good/great shows, simply asking for decent shows...)
I miss E3.
State of Play is a 30 minute sizzle reel. It is not meant to compete with the yearly Xbox showcase.
best e3 was when they showcased breath of the wild with the nintendo tree people i watched that quite a few times ha.
I'm definitely of the mind that d4 was complete crap at release...but the state of it right this moment is not complete crap. They've simplified a lot which actually helped their overtly stupid itemization.
End game content is still kind of stupid but at least progression and itemization is better.
@crows90
Maybe but it is still boring. It might be a little bit better but it is not a good game.
Xbox had typically kept the old e3 dates alive it seems to always fall on Queens / Kings birthday holiday in Aus only reason I've noticed as it used to be a day off to engross myself in e3 showcases but nowadays it's nothing
The rumor is 30 games with a nearly 2 hour show. I hope so I, been saying they need to go balls to the wall with their showcase. That's according to Grubb again. Yeah a huge pinch of salt he's only been wrong or half right about some stuff.
There's also suppose to be a Wu Tang Clan game that's a kungfu action RPG featuring the legendary hip hop group New Yorks own Wu Tang Clan. You read right Wu Tang Clan kungfu action RPG.
Sounds weird, random and quirky but hey I'm down to see it.
State of decay 3 info is leaking on twitter!
Looks good. Personally don’t play horror/ zombie games, but I appreciate it’s a good game so that’s a win for Xbox fans.
Lord knows they need a win at the moment
Appreciate the concern, but I think we'll be just fine. Hope you all enjoy tomorrow's show.
"The rumor is 30 games with a nearly 2 hour show. I hope so I, been saying they need to go balls to the wall with their showcase."
MS had the best showcases in the last few years.
This year, the bar is so low with those last showcases, that imo, MS and Ubisoft doesn´t even need to make much of an effort to beat them.
"That's according to Grubb again. Yeah a huge pinch of salt he's only been wrong or half right about some stuff."
Grubb was right about the last State of Play. Just a few days for the end of the month, he´d continued and insisted that it was going to happen. And he was right! Sony made a last minute announcement for whatever reason, but the guy was spot on.
Grubb was only half right. He only got the month down, which was late last month for a PS event but wrong on it being a PS showcase.
Half right at best. He's still not that credible these days. He definitely wasn't spot on.
Grubb has been pretty spot on in his comments regarding showcases. You can tell he's not guessing, he knows in advance.
Microsoft has had the best showcases for the last 3-4 years. The problem with Microsoft and the Xbox division is their reputation and trademark around the world. That's what's really affecting them.
The presentation is going to be the painful part. There might be some good games though.
You can always make a drinking game out of it for every time they say the words "Made for a modern audience".
You'd think that every now and then even these dispassionate fools may do a good job...they've disappointed every single year since before release of Xbox one....that's a really long streak of disappointments...lol
For sure. they have the money to put on a top tier show, but I'm afraid it will look like an event where super rich people are noticeably trying to be cheap. And they have this strange smile like they know they are trying o get over on people. It just makes for an awkward and tasteless showing.
I hope it's a good showing knowing most games that will be shown will be multiplats & XB timed exclusives that'll eventually become multi-plats.
It is what it is at this point.
At least the good games will have a chance to be bought, take advantage of the superior DualSense, and *maybe* give those studios a better shot at survival.
They'll also have better shadows, and run with higher dynamic res on the PS5 Pro.
So if they're multiplat would you suddenly like Xbox games?
You never have before you've made that clear several times over.
My point is what I said. You don't like Xbox games, you've said it repeatedly. So would you suddenly like Xbox games if they were available on PS5.
This year holidays, Xbox will pit Indiana jones and Avowed, against Sonys astro-bot.
Although technically those two are bigger and better than Astro bot, they might not be as polished, or as fun as Astro
Next year, they are putting Contraband and fable (maybe) against whatever Sony has cooking. They will probably not be successful in that either
In my opinion, buying those 18 studios is not really doing much (or enough) for them, if anything it has exposed their greed even more than people already thought!
Not to mention gta6 is going to run best in ps5 pro for 100% definitely
I’d go as far as to say, Microsoft couldn’t have done any worse this gen even if they tried to
i got a ps5 just for astro boy, it shows off all the features of the controller and system that no other game does till date and im expecting more of that plus a better game
There is quite a bit more than avowed and Indy this year. Should get some of those dates tomorrow.
Why do they have to "pit up" against each other? Makes no sense play what you like and stop treating this like it's sports, very weird.
You not wrong MS has gone down hill in most metrics this gen but are going up hill with the games. The fact that I'm seeing PS fans on Twitter saying they can't wait for Xbox to supply them with games is like a fever dream in which the roles have reversed, they can't be doing that bad if that's the case. They came from having no games for 12, 13 years to having most of the games.
That lead right into another article saying that MS has shut down tango and arkane? What?! To pay off their activision hole? How dumb.
Imo this is end of the line make or break for xbox as a whole. Ive personally moved on, got tired of endless promises of must own first party exclusives. But I'd be very interested in a handheld if thats true.
Hoping for some cool announcements here. DMCV and DBZ fighterz got announced at Xbox conferences so it's happened before.
Kinda hoping for Team Ico (Gen Design now) to show their new Epic funded game there.
I think this will be a good show. Microsoft has never really had bad shows, it’s just bad output/quality on release. We are going to start putting the stuff they announced too soon on doorsteps with actual release dates and then they can put more emphasis on Gears, Fable, Perfect Dark etc
Remember the Xbox One reveal that showed practically anything but games? It wasn't a good show.
"TV, TV, TV"
"Sports, sports, sports"
"Call of Duty, Call of Duty, Call of Duty"
I'm hoping we will finally see the rumored spyro 4 and the remasters of oblivion and fallout 3.
I just want to know what ID SOFTWARE is working on? Is it a new DOOM game or QUAKE game?
Hopefully a new Quake but I guess a new Doom would be less risky for them. If they could make a campaign like the first Quake and include multiplayer like Quake III's, that could be awesome.
2 hours is very long for any video game event. I don't even remember e3 presentations being so long. Maybe it'll be a form of relaunch of the xbox brand.
God, I’m kind of over Microsoft, but at this point I need SOMEONE to announce some kind of sizeable new project. Cuz there was fuckall at SoP and SGF, like does the industry have ANY unannounced big projects to announce? Or are they all like 4 years out?
Cheat software provider EngineOwning will pay Call of Duty creator Activision nearly $15 million in damages and legal fees.
This is what developers and manufacturers should do. I know going after cheat devices/makers is a cat and mouse game, and cost money. However, they can get that money back by sueing these manufacturers of cheat devices. Take a page from Nintendo's playbook.
Man I hope its not the movie adaptation but instead the continuation of the War for Cybertron.
You got the touch....
You got the POWAAAAHHHHH.....
YEAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!