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Epic Games, in partnership with Microsoft and the Fortnite community, has raised over $100 million which will go towards humanitarian relief efforts in war-torn Ukraine. The funds were raised from all the proceeds from the PC, Xbox, and mobile versions of the popular battle royale shooter since March 20th. “Epic is committing all its Fortnite proceeds from March 20, 2022 [...]
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With the immense popularity of Microsoft’s Game Pass service, some other company is bound to want to break off a piece of the pie. Around 25 million Game Pass subscribers are currently enjoying a rotating lineup of free games from various video game developers on PC and Xbox and Sony wants in on the action. In fact, Sony is planning [...]
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At the top of the week, Epic Games announced that they will be donating all Fortnite profits from March 20th to April 3rd to aid humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine. As of today, the studio reports that they’ve already raised over $50 million with more than a week left in the campaign. That’s as much as some entire countries have [...]
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Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard might just be the lifeboat that saves the company from drowning in controversies and scandals. But, that’s assuming that the deal goes through at all. ABK’s shareholders will still need to vote on the deal before both parties can proceed with the acquisition. According to the Board of Directors, the merger has been unanimously deemed [...]
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Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Hi-Rez Studios have joined other video game developers and companies in protesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. EA and Microsoft have cut all ties with the invading country while Hi-Rez is taking a more practical route to show their support for Ukraine. In addition to removing the Russian and Belarusian teams from NHL 2022 and their FIFA [...]
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Activision Blizzard just can’t seem to catch a break. The controversial video game company is now facing two new lawsuits that revolve around its ongoing acquisition deal with Microsoft. The lawsuits were filed by shareholders Kyle Watson and Shiva Stein against both the company and its board of directors According to Polygon, the lawsuits claim that the financial information that [...]
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Microsoft’s plans to acquire Activision Blizzard for $69 billion has done wonders for the Call of Duty publisher’s stock prices. ABK’s stock prices went from an all-time high of $103.81 USD in February 2021 to just $57.36 USD in December 2021 amid the workplace scandal that rocked the company and the poor performance of existing IPs. Stock prices have since [...]
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Microsoft’s ongoing acquisition of Activision Blizzard has PlayStation players concerned that the company might pull their favorite games from the platform. Microsoft, however, maintains that they will continue to support Activision Blizzard games on Sony’s family of consoles even after the deal pushes through. “To be clear, Microsoft will continue to make Call of Duty and other popular Activision Blizzard [...]
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Microsoft announced today that they're purchasing Activision Blizzard for about $69B USD (Nice). The acquisition is the biggest ever in Microsoft's long corporate history and shows that the company strongly believes in the gaming market. Both companies have agreed to the transaction, the deal isn't expected to close until 2023 and there's still a chance regulators may not approve the [...]
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It’s the end of an era for Microsoft and console players as the Xbox manufacturer confirms that they’ve stopped manufacturing Xbox One S units altogether and are just waiting for the remainder of the units to sell out. The tech giant ceased production of all Xbox One consoles as of December 2020 and are now focusing on the Xbox Series [...]
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