Microsoft is laying off around 8% of its Gaming Workforce, affecting game developers across Xbox, ZeniMax Media, and the newly acquired Activision Blizzard. The Verge reported on these layoffs ...
Regulators cited competition concerns, saying they feared that if the deal went through, Activision Blizzard's games would ... to Microsoft's acquisition of ZeniMax, which owns video game studio ...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Microsoft's actions after acquiring ZeniMax ... Media in 2021 is an indication of how it could handle the games produced by Activision-Blizzard's studios.
Xbox head Phil Spencer says there's still a lot of work to be done to get Activision games on Game Pass. Microsoft officially completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard last week, two years ...
Following on the 2014 acquisitions of Mojang (makers of Minecraft) and 2021 acquisition of ZeniMax Media/Bethesda (makers of Doom, Elder Scrolls, and Fallout), Activision Blizzard brings IP like ...
Those cutbacks affected not just its Xbox Game Studios division but also Activision Blizzard and ZeniMax Media, which continue to operate as standalone publishing arms. The company later cited ...
The impact of the layoffs extends across teams within Activision Blizzard, Xbox and ZeniMax, all entities under Microsoft's gaming umbrella. A previously announced - but untitled - survival game ...
All eyes have turned to the US’s FTC as Microsoft attempts to get its Activision Blizzard deal approved ... We are back to the Zenimax Bethesda deal, which keeps coming up in Sony’s arguments.
over the fate of its $69 billion buyout of Activision Blizzard unearthed a number of explosive revelations, among them the fact Microsoft renegotiated ZeniMax's deal with Disney to make Bethesda's ...