Newzoo: Acquisitions have already disrupted 2022’s gaming landscape
Newzoo today released data and analysis about 2022’s spate of mergers and acquisitions in the games industry. According to its information, the various acquisitions...
Phil Spencer to receive lifetime achievement award at DICE Awards
Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, is getting into gaming’s hall of fame. Spencer will be the latest recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award...
Microsoft’s Halo: Infinite crosses 20M players
Microsoft said that its Halo: Infinite video game has crossed more than 20 million players, making it the biggest Halo game in the franchise’s...
The DeanBeat: Interpreting Microsoft’s $68.7B Activision Blizzard deal as a metaverse play
Microsoft‘s $68.7 billion pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard will shake up the game industry to its core. It has upset the status quo and...
Activision Blizzard wanted to sell, so it approached Microsoft
Activision Blizzard leadership and key ownership wanted to sell and was shopping itself around. In early November, the company brought that proposition to Microsoft....
Bobby Kotick interview: Why Activision Blizzard did the deal with Microsoft
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...
Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard
In an earth-shattering deal, Microsoft announced today that it has agreed to buy Activision Blizzard. According to Bloomberg, that deal is valued at about...
GoldenEye 007 on Xbox is like an old wrestler at the Royal Rumble
Microsoft and Nintendo seem close. But despite their corporate bromance, these are still companies that want to do what is best for themselves first...
The DeanBeat: Predictions for gaming in 2022
Predictions are a dicey business. The year 2020 was one of the most unpredictable in all of human history. And now I think about...
The award for finally making me like Halo goes to … the grappling hook
Before Halo Infinite, I wasn’t a fan of the Halo series. I’ve always found it boring. This happens to me a lot — games...