Former Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotyk wants to buy TikTok, – The Wall Street Journal
He has already presented the idea to potential partners, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The Wall Street Journal reports that former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotyk is…
Microsoft will lay off 1,900 employees of the gaming division (8% of the workforce) – Activision Blizzard, Xbox and Bethesda will cut staff
Microsoft has laid off 1,900 workers from its Activision Blizzard and Xbox divisions. While most of the layoffs involve Activision Blizzard, some employees at Xbox and ZeniMax…
Bobby Kotyk is leaving Activision Blizzard on December 29, Jill Braff will lead ZeniMax and Bethesda
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is officially stepping down on December 29. Microsoft did not name a direct replacement, instead moving Activision Blizzard executives, including Blizzard President…
Bobby Kotyk is leaving Activision Blizzard on December 29, Jill Braff will lead ZeniMax and Bethesda
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is officially stepping down on December 29. Microsoft did not name a direct replacement, instead moving Activision Blizzard executives, including Blizzard President…
The British regulator has blocked Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard for $69 billion – the companies will appeal
The British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s acquisition of one of the largest game publishers, Activision Blizzard, for $68.7 billion. The CMA previously made…
Xbox games available on PC will also appear on GeForce Now – Microsoft and NVIDIA have entered into a ten-year agreement
Microsoft has signed a ten-year deal with NVIDIA to make Xbox games available on PC available on GeForce Now. The company is positioning the deal as a…
Microsoft has signed a 10-year contract with Nintendo to publish Xbox games on the platform – the emphasis is on Call of Duty
Microsoft president and general counsel Brad Smith announced the news of a ten-year deal with Nintendo on Twitter. According to the contract, Call of Duty and other…
The appearance of games in Xbox Game Pass harms their sales – according to the materials of the investigation of the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard agreement by the British regulator
As the situation surrounding the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard deal unfolds, many details about the workings of the corporations involved are emerging. From the materials of the…
Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard will hurt gamers – British regulator’s preliminary ruling. The final verdict will be announced after April 26.
The British regulator ruled that Microsoft’s deal to buy publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion will lead to higher prices for British gamers and less competition. The…
Microsoft earned $52.7 billion in the second quarter – Windows and Xbox “did not work” well, unlike cloud technologies
Microsoft published its financial report for the second quarter of 2022 amid the announcement of large-scale layoffs at the company. The software maker had $52.7 billion in…
EU to review deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard for compliance with antitrust laws – Reuters
Microsoft’s potential deal to buy Activision Blizzard risks hitting another snag on its way to closure. According to Reuters, the European Union intends to check the agreement…
Google and NVIDIA have sided with Sony in raising concerns about Activision Blizzard’s deal with Microsoft to the US regulator
Google and NVIDIA have raised concerns with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In doing so, the companies joined Sony in…
In 2022, global spending on mobile games fell by 5% to $110 billion. The reason is excessive “frugality” of players caused by inflation
In 2022, users spent only $110 billion on mobile games (down 5% from 2021), but the number of first installs increased by 8% to a record 90…
A preliminary hearing on the FTC’s lawsuit against Microsoft is set for January 3
In December, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. And now the date of the first pretrial hearing…
Microsoft offered Sony the option to add Call Of Duty to PS Plus – Bloomberg
According to informed sources, Microsoft has granted Sony the right to distribute Call of Duty series games through PlayStation Plus subscription. The offer to place the franchise…
A US regulator is suing Microsoft to block its $68.7 billion deal with Activision Blizzard.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is trying through the courts to block Microsoft’s deal to acquire the major gaming company Activision Blizzard. The lawsuit was filed…
Microsoft promises at least 10 years of Call of Duty games on Nintendo if the deal with Activision Blizzard is not disrupted
Microsoft promises that if the deal to buy Activision Blizzard is successfully completed, it will release Call of Duty games for Nintendo consoles and make them available…
Sony tried to convince British regulator that no Battlefield will replace Call of Duty – to block Microsoft’s ActiBlizz deal
While Sony is fighting hard to get regulators to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Battlefield is the focus of that controversy. In a filing with the…
The FTC intends to file an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard, three people familiar with the matter…
The European Commission will investigate the purchase of Microsoft Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion by March 23
The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard . The European Commission will need 90 working days until March…
Modern Warfare II raised $800 million in three days and set a new Call of Duty sales record
Activision Blizzard’s latest game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, had the best start in the history of the Call of Duty franchise, eclipsing the previous record…
Microsoft accuses Sony of compensating third-party developers for not having their games on Xbox Game Pass
Microsoft’s claim that blew up the Internet came in an Aug. 9 statement to Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE, the antitrust regulator). The document is…
Mobile games make more money for Activision Blizzard than PC and console games combined
Activision Blizzard released its quarterly financial report. He testifies that due to the sharp drop in sales of PC and consoles, corresponding revenues are also declining, and…
Diablo Immortal is a new mobile hit, but not without its problems. Opinion
On June 2, a new game in the Diablo series, subtitled Immortal, was released on smartphones and PC (beta). I spent a couple of dozen hours in…
Diablo Immortal online play is already available in some countries. But not in Belgium and the Netherlands – due to local rules about loot boxes, which were equated with gambling
The shareware mobile game Diablo Immortal is already available in some countries. This is the latest game in the long-running Diablo franchise and the first to be…