So this came completely out of nowhere, but MS are buying Activision for a mere $68 Billion!
https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/ (https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/)
Hopefully this will finally get a lot of the scummy people out of Activision, and really open up some avenues for interesting games. Let alone the idea of the back catalog going onto game pass. You could get the Age of Empires dev's finally making a new Warcraft or Starcraft!
Jesus, this is huge. I wonder how long before the entire Activision library makes it to Game Pass.
How much Disney paid for 20th Century Fox ?
Quote from: Kradan on Jan 18, 2022, 03:45:33 PM
How much Disney paid for 20th Century Fox ?
Around $71 Billion, so only a little bit more than this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fox_by_Disney (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fox_by_Disney)
Interesting. I'm not very versed in videogames field but I think I've heard nothing but bad things about Actision
It's come out recently that a lot of the people in charge of the company as a whole, as well as a lot of people in charge of individual games are essentially all terrible terrible people. To the point where World of Warcraft is losing millions of players, Overwatch is having to change characters names because the person the name them after was a shithead, and the company as a whole lost i think it was about 30% in the stock market.
A lot of what is coming out of MS seems to indicate they are going to try and purge a lot of these people and this behaviour out of the company, but we'll have to see how that goes.
This is a huge coup for Microsoft. Call of Duty being an Xbox exclusive would be a massive shift.
Quote from: Dachande on Jan 18, 2022, 02:18:47 PM
You could get the Age of Empires dev's finally making a new Warcraft or Starcraft!
Yes please! 8)
LIST: Here's every Activision Blizzard IP Xbox now owns, including Crash Bandicoot and Guitar Hero (https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/list-heres-every-activision-blizzard-ip-xbox-now-owns-including-crash-bandicoot-and-guitar-hero/)
QuoteThe list of IPs that could potentially be owned by Xbox following Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard includes:
Blur
Caesar
Call of Duty
Candy Crush
Crash Bandicoot
Diablo
DJ Hero
Empire Earth
Gabriel Knight
Geometry Wars
Guitar Hero
Gun
Hearthstone
Heroes of the Storm
Hexen
Interstate '76
King's Quest
Laura Bow Mysteries
The Lost Vikings
Overwatch
Phantasmagoria
Pitfall
Police Quest
Prototype
Quest for Glory
Singularity
Skylanders
Solider of Fortune
Space Quest
Spyro the Dragon
StarCraft
Tenchu (legacy games)
TimeShift
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
True Crime
World of Warcraft
Zork
Oh shit, Crash Bandicoot !
That's right! it's wonderful! :o
I'd like to see a remaster of Singularity.
Insane.
Now they should buy Valve.
Maybe that way people will finally get Episode 3
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jan 18, 2022, 10:56:26 PM
I'd like to see a remaster of Singularity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AitaHayHO7c
And the fact that game takes place in some sort of alternative history Soviet post-apocalypse has nothing to do with it
Portal or Half-Life?
Nobody wants Portal 3 other than me and you know it
I just want Prototype 3, I hated they never did anything with the I.P after 2. Really seems to be the trend though. Activision was sitting on a ton of properties that should get a sequel or remake.
:D
I hope MS will revive Heroes of The Storm ::)
Quote from: Kradan on Jan 18, 2022, 11:28:46 PM
Nobody wants Portal 3 other than me and you know it
I want Portal 3.
That makes two of us
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