This week on Player Attack, casual games giant Zynga slaps down $200million to buy the brains behind Draw Something. Games are dragged into politics in both Australia and the United States, we get a peek behind the scenes of the new GlassBox engine powering SimCity, and Blizzard launches a new beta, thinks about smartphone games, and admits subscribers are leaving World of Warcraft. Dragon Age II post-release work is complete, a follow-up to Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is closer than you think, the Mistborn saga gets an RPG makeover, Minecraft sets a date for console, and Far Cry 3 features some tasty mind-bending botanicals.
The legal battle for the acquisition of Activision Blizzard continues, with Microsoft countering one of the FTC's latest moves and the Judge delaying a relevant ruling.
Look, to be honest the FTC should just stop.
MS has A/B and nothing has really changed yet...if you are worried about 5-10 years from now...just drop it cause the future is unpredictable.
Take this week's news, that 4 Xbox exclusive are going Multiplatform.
New local reports reveal that Blizzard is planning major layoffs at its office based in Cork, Ireland, affecting 136 jobs.
And? That's part of it. "insider" gaming getting there news from the outside.
Those that were cheering the acquisitions have no idea what they were cheering for. Dumb console war nonsense. They disturbed the entire industry, and they will continue to do what they’re doing to beef up quarterly profits and continue to pretend they did a good thing.
The FTC and the lawyers behind the "Gamers' lawsuit" against Microsoft over the acquisition of Activision Blizzard are denouncing the recent layoffs within the respective legal battles.