Embracer Group buy the whole of Middle-Earth, plus seven more games companies
One gaming giant to own them all
the consolidation of the games industry
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Tencent reportedly want a bigger piece of the Ubisoft pie
The Chinese company met with the Guillemots in May about buying more shares
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Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buyout is being investigated by UK government regulator
The Competition and Markets Authority are on the case
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Blizzard acquire Spellbreak studio to focus on World Of Warcraft expansions
Proletariat have announced they will shutter their magical battle royale early in 2023
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New York City sue Activision Blizzard, demand to see company records
They claim Bobby Kotick was "unfit" to negotiate the deal with Microsoft
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Square Enix sell Tomb Raider, Deus Ex and several studios to Embracer Group
The $300 million deal includes Crystal Dynamics and Eidos-Montréal
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Activision Blizzard shareholders approve the company's $69 billion acquisition by Microsoft
Correction: that’s 219,262,920,000 Freddos in real money
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Perfect World Entertainment are now part of Gearbox Publishing, still making nerdy MMOs
Another one for the Embracer Group
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Tales From The Borderlands is making a comeback this year, minus Telltale Games
Don't call it a sequel
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Mythforce looks like a first-person 80s cartoon
Made by the studio who remastered Baldur's Gate
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Tencent buy majority stake in Rime and Song Of Nunu developers
Studio say they'll focus more on "original IP"
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Epic Games have purchased music platform Bandcamp
They say it's part of their push to build a cross-media "ecosystem"
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Tencent buy 1C Entertainment, makers of King's Bounty
Along with outsourcing specialists QLOC
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Gabe Newell talks Steam Deck, crypto risks and why the PC industry “won’t tolerate” closed platforms
We interview Valve’s co-founder on hardware plans and consolidation in gaming
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Consolidation in games must “create value for customers,” says Gabe Newell
“How are you making your game developers better developers?”
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Tencent buying former BioWare general manager's new studio
Inflexion Games are making Nightingale
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Ubisoft say they'd consider being bought if someone offered
But of course they would, that's just business
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Lord Of The Rings: Gollum developer Daedalic have been bought by Nacon
Gollum's co-publisher are all in
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Wordle bought by the New York Times for a seven-figure sum
It won't go immediately behind the paywall, at least?
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Sony are buying Destiny devs Bungie for $3.6 billion
Bungie will remain multiplatform and have the option to self-publish
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Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal has deeper implications for video games than you think
Corporate monopolies might be inevitable, but they also aren't good
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Microsoft are buying Activision Blizzard for $69 billion
EXCUSE ME, WHAT?
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Take-Two buying FarmVille gang Zynga in $12.7 billion deal
Planning to make more of their series mobile, and such