The deal between Activision Blizzard and Microsoft is finally closed. Microsoft Gaming and Xbox head Phil Spencer announced that Activision is now part of Xbox Game Studios. The deal was announced back in January 2022, but it was not closed in the original time frame. Sony actively interfered with this,...
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard held a press conference on their deal, where Microsoft revealed a number of interesting data that companies usually do not talk about. If every company often strives to show its success, now Microsoft, on the contrary, is trying its best to demonstrate to regulators how much...
Microsoft has published a report on the results of the second quarter of fiscal year 2023. The company’s revenue rose 2% to $52.7 billion, while net income fell 12% to $16.4 billion. This is far from Microsoft’s best quarter. These results are due to several reasons. First, there is a...
Microsoft is facing increasing resistance to buying Activision Blizzard despite its best efforts. After the FTC lawsuit, ordinary gamers sued the company. In San Francisco, ten people have filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing the company of giving the company an unrivaled position in the gaming industry. Interestingly, among...
Microsoft seems to be willing to go to great lengths to buy Activision Blizzard. With the company now facing a big new problem in the form of a lawsuit from the FTC, the company has reportedly agreed to Sony adding Call of Duty to its PlayStation Plus subscription. In an...
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer), discussing the troubled deal to buy Activision Blizzard, accused Sony that the latter wants to maintain its dominance in the console market. Sony is trying to defend its dominance on consoles. They are growing, shrinking the Xbox. Sony has a very different view...
Microsoft’s gaming division plans to raise prices for a number of exclusive Xbox Series console games starting in 2023. The list includes Forza Motorsport, Redfall and Starfield, as well as some other games from in-house studios. Now released games cost about $60, but next year the price will rise to...
Microsoft wants to buy Activision Blizzard. And she’s even ready to admit that Sony games are better. From Microsoft’s big response to the British regulator, it became known that the company considers Sony games to be better than its own. Or at least talks about it, because it’s profitable. In...
Sony believes that Microsoft wants to turn it into Nintendo in order to reduce the level of competition. The saga around the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard continues, and Sony does not change its position that this deal should not take place. The Japanese giant recently responded to a...
Microsoft has so far abandoned plans to release its Xbox cloud gaming console in the near future. The head of the entire division of the Xbox Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer) said that the company has not yet succeeded in making a product with such a price, which they originally imagined...
Microsoft is not going to make Call of Duty games exclusive to Xbox and PC, that is, it will not remove games from PlayStation consoles. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer) spoke about this in an interview on the Same Brain podcast. We will not remove Call of Duty...
The game A Plague Tale: Requiem some time ago surprised with very high system requirements, and today we can make sure that the project really turned out to be very resource-intensive, which is why one of the modern consoles copes with it far from being as good as with many...
It looks like the head of Xbox Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer) lit up the company’s cloud console. He posted a photo dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Fallout, but a curious device was found in the picture. The Verge journalists claim that this is the same Xbox cloud console that...
The subscription service Xbox Game Pass, as it became known, already brings Microsoft a good income. At the end of last year, on consoles alone, Game Pass brought the company $2.9 billion. Unfortunately, it is not known what the revenue of the service was on all platforms. But on the...
Aaron Greenberg, Vice President of Game Marketing at Xbox, has unveiled the second version of the Xbox Mini Fridge, which is a scaled down version of the original unit, bringing the price down considerably. Microsoft’s new Mini-Me Xbox Series X refrigerator is now available at Walmart and is priced at...
Microsoft has finally admitted that sales of Xbox One consoles were significantly lower than those of a competitor. At one time, Microsoft stopped sharing data on the number of consoles sold, and we could only be guided by third-party sources. Now the company also did not disclose how many Xbox...
