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Square Enix's new president says the company isn't happy with the long development times for big game releases, and wants to speed up new game launches.

California district court judge Jacqueline Scott Corley identifies eight major reasons why Microsoft has no incentive to withhold Call of Duty from Sony.

Judge Corley has DENIED the FTC's request for a preliminary injunction, Microsoft may commence its $68.7B merger with Activision in 'close over' strategy.

Jay Watamaniuk, who helped write Mass Effect, Anthem, and Star Wars The Old Republic, has left BioWare after more than 21 years with the RPG developer.

Electronic Arts opens a new studio, Cliffhanger Games, in its EA Entertainment label to make a singleplayer Black Panther game with an original story.

Modern Warfare was a huge success on PlayStation, selling 4.4 million copies in its first week, accounting for around 30% of $1 billion record sales.

Final Fantasy XVI's sales performance on PlayStation 5 has pushed total Final Fantasy franchise sales past 180 million worldwide in the last 36 years.

Nintendo's latest annual report gives more insight on the performance comparisons between gaming's big 3 triumvirate: Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo.

Between Xbox Series X resupply, a new Series S, the Xbox Game Pass Price hike, and Starfield, Xbox gaming is poised to deliver a record-breaking Q1.

Baldur's Gate III is such a massive RPG that it can take 80 hours if you rush through it...and 'many times that' if you take your time and explore.

The new Xbox Game Pass price hike has officially taken place on console, and Microsoft has also adjusted the Xbox LIVE -> Game Pass conversion ratios.

FTC's pre-hearing findings of fact document says that Activision and Microsoft 'identified large financial benefits' from Activision games on Game Pass.

NetherRealm and WB Games reveal a chaotically brutal new gameplay trailer for Mortal Kombat 1, showcasing the retunr of a bunch of classic characters.

Danish video game developer IO Interactive has opened its fifth studio to help work on upcoming new projects like the ambitious 007 James Bond game.

Nintendo increases its research and development (R&D) spending as it prepares its next-gen Switch console and a fusillade of new software and content.

Capcom says it wants to take 'great care' in new Mega Man games, is not interested in rushing new products out in order to maximize repeated sales.

Grand Theft Auto V has returned to Xbox Game Pass for the third time, showing that publishers are interested in taking advantage of the subscription.

Xbox Game Pass isn't just a subscription--it's a new transformative business model that is changing consumer buying habits in a very interesting way.

Based on testimony from Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, the Call of Duty franchise has 70 million daily active users, which is 4 million more than Roblox.

Fallout creator Tim Cain reveals that The Outer Worlds was made with casual RPG players in mind and discusses the main pitch for the FPS space sim.

Console gamers are the most likely to convert from player to payer, and console has the 'highest share of users' willing to spend $25 or more on games.

Bethesda's executive director Todd Howard talks about how Starfield feeds into player motivations and rewards around discovering and exploring planets.

The support of the Xbox games business enabled Bethesda to amp up their ambitious ideas and plans with Starfield: 'Their support has been incredible'

Starfield may not be launching this year if it also had to release on PlayStation 5 and was not exclusive to Xbox consoles, ZeniMax's Pete Hines says.

South Africa is the latest country and region to offer unconditional approve of the Microsoft-Activision merger and becomes the 10th region to do so.

Starfield will be a modder's paradise with a ton of opportunities--the game's massive array of 1,000 planets is like a canvas for Bethesda's faithful.

It sounds like Ubisoft's new ambitious plan to host a number of Assassin's Creed games under one games-as-a-platform banner is starting to take shape.

A recent Xbox developer briefing reveals Xbox console sales data, pinpoints current sales figures for both Gen 8 Xbox One & Gen 9 Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Data from the FTC v Microsoft evidentiary hearing shows how much of a lead Nintendo has over PlayStation and Xbox in terms of first-party revenues.

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick regrets not releasing more games onto the Nintendo Switch, and is interested in trying again with Nintendo's new console.

Bethesda's Todd Howard praises Starfield's tech team for the new Creation Engine 2 upgrade, promises consistency and says the game 'feels great' to play.

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is a big believer in native mobile gaming, and believes that phones will eventually be able to play demanding games like MW2.

FTC lawyer does quick off-the-cuff math to determine Activision CEO Bobby Kotick's stock would be worth $400 million, which he doesn't directly clarify.

Fallout creator Tim Cain has voiced concerns about Bethesda's current trajectory with the modern Fallout games, says he is worried about Fallout 5.

The Elder Scrolls 6 has a targeted launch of 2026, Microsoft's lawyer says, but this greatly conflicts with comments from Phil Spencer on TEVI's release.

Microsoft will mostly be hands-off if the $68.7 billion merger goes through, and Activision will be a limited-integration company similar to ZeniMax.

New reports show that Microsoft has tried and ultimately failed to convince Activision's management to put its games on Xbox Game Pass subscriptions.

Although Microsoft owns Minecraft, the mega-hit block-builder earns much more revenue on competing platforms like the Switch and PlayStation than on Xbox.

The ZeniMax acquisition, codenamed Project Atom, used a sliding-scale 'Neutrino Model' to determine the effects of taking ZeniMax games exclusive to Xbox.

All future ZeniMax and Bethesda games, including new IP and upcoming entries like Fallout 5 and The Elder Scrolls VI, may be made exclusive to XXbox.

An internal Microsoft report shared with employees may hint that advertisements may become a bigger part of Xbox's video games business in the future.

In a poorly-redacted report that was uploaded to a public federal court folder, Sony admits that it does sometimes require subscription exclusivity.

NVIDIA and Microsoft signed multi-year deals that offer Xbox and Activision content to GeForce Now, and an addendum may have lowered Windows license costs.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has a radical idea about game exclusivity--if it were up to him, there would be no platform exclusives, Xbox or otherwise.

The original Red Dead Redemption has been suspiciously re-rated by Korea's games rating board, ignites speculation of a RDR1 remaster release from Rockstar.

FTC's principal witness, economist Dr. Robin Lee, missed a valuable opportunity to highlight the sheer magnitude of Activision-Blizzard's megaton games.

In sworn testimony in the FTC v Microsoft court case, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan says he believes Microsoft will use Call of Duty to damage Sony gaming.

Xbox gaming missed management's internal annual revenue estimates by $780 million, and also failed to meet expected Xbox Game Pass subscription growth.

Microsoft aspires to make Xbox reach global games industry leadership by 2030, and double total Xbox gaming revenues across the next 7-year timeframe.

Microsoft's internal mergers and acquisitions consideration list from 2021 includes 100+ devs/publishers like Bungie, CD Projekt RED, Hello Games, SEGA.