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Microsoft to showcase at No 10 as Activison ruling lands

The tech behemoth will take part in a games industry event in Downing Street next week on the same day that the CMA is due to rule on its takeover of the Call of Duty maker, Sky News understands.

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XiNatsuDragnel401d ago

Whelp the publisher wars will start thanks Microsoft.

InUrFoxHole400d ago

Perhaps you will be at ease with a tall glass of your tears? Enjoy love.

XiNatsuDragnel400d ago

Lol I'm sad because I rather not have a publisher war lol

MrDead401d ago

I have a feeling M$ and the Tory Party will get on very, very well

-Foxtrot401d ago (Edited 401d ago )

Hey throw a bunch of money at any Tory MP and they'll love you for life.

Knushwood Butt399d ago

Depends if their spouses own shares in MS.

LoveSpuds399d ago

Quite how anyone can disagree with your comment boggles my mind. How many scandles have their been with Tories and lobbying or the awarding lucrative contracts to friends and donors over the last 5 years?

Pocahontas399d ago

I thought Microsoft loved the whacky dems? They’re essentially the most woke to play the game.

343_Guilty_Spark399d ago (Edited 399d ago )

Sony probably gets a long very well with Japanese politicians

What is your point? You think only MSFT donates campaign funds to politicians?

MrDead399d ago

Microsoft is one of the worlds most aggressive companies when it comes to lobbying and coercing governments to be favourable to them thanks to their vast wealth

MS is one of the few companies in the world where you can't throw out similar comparisons because only a handful of companies have the wealth of MS, Sony has little to no influence when it comes to lobbying, MS has and it does so in continents such as Africa, Europe and the US and has been called to be broken up because of the sway it has when it comes to lobbying.

...and also saying because others do it still doesn't make it ok.

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Gamerscore2077401d ago

It’s going to be extremely interesting to see how MS is going to sustain all of the studios that they’re about to own now?

I was looking forward to seeing what the devs were going to produce at the Initiative, but we don’t even know if that studio exist anymore.

I was hoping Bethesda games were going to take advantage of the Series X system with titles like Deathloop & Ghostwire, but those titles are even the same or worst on the X.

I hope I’m wrong, but it looks like MS is biting off more than they can chew.

TheCaptainKuchiki400d ago

Sustain?
Lmao the first thing they'll do is fire 1000 people at ABK.
That's what companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft do when they acquire a new company.
Doesn't help that they fored 10000 people a few months ago.

Wikkid666400d ago

Yes, a lot of mergers cause layoffs because they eliminate redundant positions. That's not going to happen with the ABK purchase. They aren't merging ABK into Xbox it's going to be subsidiary under the Microsoft Gaming umbrella. They will keep ABK whole with their own publishing, marketing, business, development teams, etc. This is the exact approach they did with Zenimax.

shinoff2183400d ago

Well if that's true about keeping them separate. Why when ms layed off 10k people it was reported some of those jobs were from bethsada. How separate are they truly

Wikkid666400d ago (Edited 400d ago )

@shinoff2183
They're still owned by Microsoft. The difference is MS won't tell them to lay off anyone, they just tell them what their operating budget is. The Zenimax team needs to sit down and figure the numbers out and where to make the cuts.

Tacoboto400d ago

But we do know that The Initiative still exists... we know it because they can't make their own game, they need the help from Crystal Dynamics, which just so happens to be where the studio head of TI was from.

He and MS were so bad at forming a new team he needed his old one.

Extermin8or3_400d ago (Edited 400d ago )

Over half the team most of them senior leadership have reportedly left.

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ChasterMies399d ago (Edited 399d ago )

How do I fund all these studios I’m about to own now?

That's the neat part, you don't.

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IamTylerDurden1401d ago (Edited 401d ago )

The new cheap Elite as the thumb? Ok. Honestly it looks cheap. The regular Elites look elite, this looks like a regular controller with grip sleeves. Visually. Oh, and industry consolidation is bad. Yes. Bad.

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Tacoboto400d ago

That Elite is using customizations from Xbox Design Lab. If you're gonna complain, know what you're complaining about.

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Embracer to Release 70 Projects Before March 31, 2025, Includes 3 "Important Unannounced Titles"

Embracer Group plans to release 70 game projects before March 31, 2025, with three "important unannounced titles" included in the release.

Knightofelemia3h ago

They may not have a plan to exit gaming. But give it time they will eventually sell off everything and fade away into nothing.

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The MSI Claw Gaming Handheld Sees Another Game Performance Boost Through New BIOS and MSI Center M

MSI is proud to announce that its gaming handheld, Claw, has achieved a significant performance increase of up to 30% through a new BIOS and MSI Center M update. Furthermore, the new BIOS and MSI Center M enable Claw to smoothly play all of the top 100 po

purple1018h ago(Edited 8h ago)

is this the one with the switch2 chip inside.?

this is Intels first try at the format

probs not though, as it's $799. so not good for switch actually

Huey_My_D_Long2h ago

Well thats nice considering Ive heard it consistently performs worse when it really shouldn't.

Now if only Lenovo would do the same for the legion go

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Stellar Blade has sold more physical copies than Dragon's Dogma 2 in Japan, despite PS5 exclusivity

By the looks of it, PlayStation 5 exclusivity does not hurt the sales of Stellar Blade in Japan as the game has passed 90,000 sold physical copies.

Hugodastrevas9h ago

Stellar Blade really deserves way more praise than it got, devs have been adding more and more content, for free, since release and the game already was great to begin with!

BrettAwesome6h ago

More than it got? It got tons, by everyone except the sad wankers who's idea of a sex life, is pulling on their dicks while watching big fake cgi titties 😂

Cacabunga6h ago

I think we can safely claim that Stellar Blade 2 is confirmed!
I got it day one, i have some backlog due to RDR2 i just platinumed.. i will get to Stellar Blade in the near future

shinoff21835h ago

Same but I'm hitting yakuza right now. Stellar blade looks cool though.

neutralgamer19924h ago

Capcom really dropped the ball with DG2. They had easy success on their hand but instead with their stupid decisions ruined the games success

Stellar blade is an amazing game and deserves all the success. For all the artificial hate it got from people who had no interest in the game to begin with this shows if you make a good game it will sell. The so called 1st party drought from PlayStation has meant 4 exclusives in 2024 so far. Other companies need to learn how to run a business and plan for the future

H98h ago

Stellar blade is performing very impressively there, DD2 didn't do well because word of mouth destroyed it's reputation and not about the Microtransactions or performance, bad word of mouth about how the game lacks so many things that were in the first one

Redemption-646h ago

DS2 sold 2.5M in a little over a week, what the hell are you talking about?

H96h ago

"there", that's Japan, this article is about Japan, the bad word of mouth is about Japan

Hereandthere7h ago

Exclusives matter. No matter what bumbling phil and bond try to say, exclusives is why you buy a console.

The_Hooligan4h ago

How dare you speak common sense!!??

XiNatsuDragnel7h ago

Stellar blade is great excited for 2

anast7h ago

They dropped the ball with dogma. SB is a solid game, it just had to weather the social storm.

shinoff21835h ago(Edited 5h ago)

Said that dd2 was missing things the first one did,like mass effect 2? I haven't played it so I'm really asking.

spss114h ago

I've played both and I have no idea what people say when they claim it's "incomplete". I've only noticed new things in comparison to DD1 (I would give a list but spoilers). Sometimes I wonder if some people actually played DD1 or maybe they remember it differently. Anyways, if you liked the first one and want more of that, you'll probably like DD2.

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