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Sony should welcome Xbox Game Pass onto PlayStation 5

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 19, 2022
2 min

Microsoft Gaming is acquiring megapublisher Activision Blizzard, and that is bad news for Sony. This doesn’t mean the PlayStation brand is done, of course....

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Activision Blizzard wanted to sell, so it approached Microsoft

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 19, 2022
4 min

Activision Blizzard leadership and key ownership wanted to sell and was shopping itself around. In early November, the company brought that proposition to Microsoft....

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Firaxis veterans form new strategy game studio Bit Reactor

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 19, 2022
1 min

A group of lead developers and other creatives from Firaxis have formed a new studio called Bit Reactor. Greg Foertsch is the co-founder of...

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Autodesk acquires Moxion Cloud to help digital filmmakers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 19, 2022
2 min

Autodesk has acquired Moxion Cloud to help filmmakers with their “digital dailies” production tools. Autodesk acquired the New Zealand-based developer of a cloud-based platform...

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Carry1st raises $20M from A16z and Google for mobile games in Africa

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 19, 2022
5 min

Carry1st has raised $20 million in funding from marquee investors for its mobile game publishing platform targeted at unlocking demand in the African market....

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Varjo enables high-end VR/XR cloud streaming for its Varjo Reality Cloud

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 19, 2022
3 min

Varjo has added high-end VR/XR cloud streaming to its Varjo Reality Cloud platform, which enables remote people to see what someone is looking at...

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Bobby Kotick interview: Why Activision Blizzard did the deal with Microsoft

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 18, 2022
8 min

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard announced the biggest deal in gaming history today with Microsoft’s $68.7 billion cash offer to buy the decades-old independent game...