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Sony Signs 10-Year Deal With Microsoft To Keep Call of Duty on PlayStation
Sony has today signed a deal with Microsoft to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the success with the FTC concerning Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Sony Signs Deal With Microsoft As reported by CNBC, only has signed a binding, 10-year agreement with Microsoft to ensure that Activision’s Call…
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Activision Blizzard Fires WoW Designer Over Character Lines Indirectly Mocking The Company
Eric Covington, a game designer at Activision Blizzard has revealed that after 9 years at the company, he has been let go over lines for a character that made fun of corporate greed. Activision Blizzard Game Designer Fired Covington had recently wrote some jokes for the lines of a loot…
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Microsoft To Hire Top Lawyer To Take on The UK’s Competition WatchDog
Microsoft has hired a top lawyer who has previously repeatedly defeated the EU to attempt to get the UK to change their mind on blocking the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Microsoft Hiring Top Lawyer To Appeal UK Competition Watchdog Last month the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority blocked Microsoft’s…
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Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Takeover Blocked in The UK
Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Activision Blizzard has seen scrutiny for a long time now but today it has finally received a verdict from the UK’s Competition and Markets authority. Activision Blizzard Takeover Blocked In The UK The proposed takeover which would see Microsoft acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7bn (£55bn) has…
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Activision Blizzard Sued Over eSports Salaries
Activision Blizzard has been sued by the US government over the salaries of their esports players citing a violation of antitrust laws. Department of Justice Sues Activision Blizzard In a report from gamesindustry.biz it has been revealed that the US Department of Justice has filed a civil suit against Activision…
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Microsoft Believes 10 Years is Plenty of Time For Sony to Develop Call of Duty Alternative
Microsoft’s takeover of Activision is still ongoing and is still being disputed by market regulators and in an attempt to gain approval for this deal, Microsoft has offered Sony 10 years of Call of Duty games which it believes is enough time for the company to develop a Call of…
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Half the 2023 COD Schedule Leaked in Activision Hack
Information surrounding the roadmap of future updates for the latest Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 has been leaked in a hacking incident at Activision. Following a tweet from user @vxunderground, Activision was breached back in December last year involving a successful Phishing attempt of a privileged user on the…
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Activision Says Sony isn’t Returning Their Calls (And I Don’t Blame Them!)
I should start this by making two points clear. I never believed that Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Activision was going to be good for non-Xbox and PC gamers. Additionally, I never thought that, following the scrutiny of various international regulatory bodies, it would be allowed to go ahead. – Ultimately,…
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COD Modern Warfare 2 Season 2 Update FINALLY Looks to Fix its Awful Interface!
While I think Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, on the whole, is an excellent game, there are still more than a few problems which, quite frankly, I had hoped would’ve been long solved by now. – While I’m not going to go too deep down that rabbit hole (because…
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Warzone 2 is Bringing Back 1 v 1 Gulags – Devs Do Listen to Us Sometimes!
I daresay that more than a few of you reading this have likely played Warzone 2 (or 2.0 if you prefer). It is, after all, free to play and pretty good fun too! – Despite receiving typically positive praise from both fans and critics though, this is clearly not to…
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Modern Warfare 2 Criticism Rises Over Unnecessarily Bad Spawn Locations!
Modern Warfare 2 is a pretty decent game. With that being said though, and putting Warzone to one side, that’s not to say that it doesn’t have its problems. One of the more notable matters complained about since its release has, however, and in my opinion at least, been a…
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Warzone 2’s Boom Period Might Be Over as Player Count Sees Huge Dip!
It is, of course, entirely expected (and yes, a bit obvious perhaps) that a new and major gaming release will prominently see its highest player count levels over the first few months of its release. How long this period lasts though varies quite hugely with it predominantly depending on the…
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Microsoft’s Activision Deal in Further Doubt as Nvidia & Google Speak Against It!
As some of you may be aware, following an announcement shortly before Christmas the FTC in America confirmed that they would be investigating Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Activision to see, in blunt terms, whether it would represent any breach of anti-competition laws. – Since then, there have been a few…
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Microsoft Goes ‘Pro-Union’ – Likely in an Attempt to Win Some Love with the FTC
Has Microsoft ever given a position before on their stance regarding unionisation within the tech and/or gaming world? I’m not entirely sure to be honest. I’ve always just presumed that Microsoft has always basically done whatever best suited Microsoft’s interests (which may or may not, incidentally, coincide with their employees).…
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Microsoft Regrets Calling FTC ‘Unconstitutional’ in Activision Takeover Hearing
It’s likely, if not probable, that a lot of you who have been keeping an eye on Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision/Blizzard lost track of the latest developments over the Christmas/New Year period. With that being said, however, a lot has happened over the last month so let me quickly…
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