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An official deal to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo has been reached. Early into the day on Tuesday, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith confirmed that the company and Nintendo had both signed what he billed as a “binding 10-year legal agreement” that will bring Call of Duty to Nintendo users. More specifically, […]
The Microsoft–Activision deal may be in jeopardy. According to the New York Times, the Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s acquisition of the popular video game-maker. The tech giant announced the $69 billion deal at the top of the year, claiming the move would expand its Xbox Cloud Gaming service and help it compete with leading […]
Fortnite developer Epic Games and Microsoft’s Xbox raised $144 million over the course of two weeks for Ukrainian relief organizations, Deadline reports. The proceeds will be split between Direct Relief, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the United Nations World Food Programme. Epic Games announced last month that all money made from March 20 through April 3 would […]
After selling 82 million games worldwide, Master Chief is ready to make his acting debut, and a very explosive one at that. The new trailer for the Halo series—coming to Paramount+ and produced by Showtime, 343 Industries, and Amblin Entertainment—was unveiled Sunday during the NFL’s AFC Championship game. The new clip follows the Covenant, an alien, attacking a village before Master Chief and crew […]
Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard Inc., the Santa Monica-based company whose produced franchise properties range from Tony Hawk to Call of Duty. As announced Tuesday, Microsoft Corp. plans to acquire Activision Blizzard in a deal valued at $68.7 billion. Upon the anticipated close of this transaction, per the company, Microsoft will become the third biggest gaming company […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Apple’s gaming business is booming. A new report from the Wall Street Journal suggests the tech giant made more revenue from […]
Bill Gates clearly knows how to take a joke—even when he’s the butt of it. This was demonstrated in a recent TikTok video in which Gates was seen watching Chris Rock’s Tamborine, a 2018 stand-up special for Netflix. The clip begins with a close-up of the TV as Rock makes some harsh assumptions about the Microsoft founder’s childhood. “Do you think kids were nice to Bill Gates in […]
A little over a week ago we gave you a look at the Space Jam: A New Legacy Xbox Wireless Controllers that Xbox and Warner Bros. collaborated on, but today they took the Space Jam: A New Legacy collaboration game (pun intended) to another level. This morning, to coincide with the release of Space Jam: A New Legacy — […]
After more than 25 years, Microsoft announced this week that it will retire the Internet Explorer web browser on June 15, 2022. Launched in 1995, Internet Explorer was the dominant browser on Windows PCs for years until options such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers came along. “We are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer […]
Bill Gates has transferred somewhere between $3 billion and $4 billion in shares to his former wife Melinda, according the Wall Street Journal. The shares, of which $850 million are of Deere & Co. (a 7 percent stake in the equipment company), were most recently transferred to Melinda on Thursday. The transfers were recorded Friday by Gates and his […]
