by Joey McDermott | May 20, 2023 | Gaming, News
Breathing life back into Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard this week was the European Commission, EU’s antitrust approval body, which approved the $69 billion acquisition. In their research, the European Commission found the transaction to be...
by Joey McDermott | May 14, 2023 | Gaming, News
Heading into 2023, many critics had The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the sequel to game of the year award winner The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, on their shortlist for a number of award nominations. It’s pretty safe to say at this point that they...
by Joey McDermott | May 13, 2023 | Gaming, News
Amidst economic uncertainty, the technology and entertainment industries have been cutting projects and downsizing their workforce as of late. It appears that the Sony PlayStation family is next on the docket of layoffs with multiple PlayStation-backed projects being...
by Joey McDermott | May 8, 2023 | Gaming, News
Let’s sink our teeth into the talk of this past week…Redfall. Xbox and Bethesda’s vampire-slaying, co-op, looter shooter from Arkane Austin was in prime position to drive a wooden stake through the “Xbox doesn’t have great first party games” narrative that always...
by Joey McDermott | Apr 30, 2023 | Gaming, News
BAFTA Game Awards ‘Best Game’ winner and Steam’s highest-rated game of 2022 Vampire Survivors is set to be the next video game in a growing list to get a television adaptation. Luca Galante, founder of game developer poncle, is partnering up with Story Kitchen to...
by Joey McDermott | Apr 29, 2023 | Esports, Gaming, News
This past Wednesday the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) voted to block Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard (ATVI) on the grounds of (a projected future of) cloud gaming, in what may end up...
by Joey McDermott | Apr 22, 2023 | Gaming, News
Japanese game developer and publisher Sega has announced the intent to acquire Angry Birds maker Rovio for $776 million. If the deal goes through, it would see Sega paying just shy of a 20% premium (9.25 euros per share) on what shares were listed for at the time of...