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    After more than a year that they could not come to a new agreement and let games being removed from Chinese market (except Diablo Immortal), Blizzard Entertainment will return to China via Xbox consoles. Back in November 2022, when Activision Blizzard were still independent, could not reach a new business agreement beyond the availability of Diablo Immortal (a whole different agreement) and let January 2023 as the official month of most of Blizzard Entertainment games to be retired. This week's announcement is basically a Microsoft Gaming led gaming success in China gaming market, that includes to explore bringing new NetEase games to Xbox consoles and other platforms. NetEase hasn't been in the bench despite losing a powerful partner like Blizzard (which rumors saying that in part, is was due disturbed communication with unpleasant misunderstandings for then CEO Bobby Kotick), as buying and investing in Westerns gaming studios. For immediate effect, Chinese gamers will expect the recovery of access of previous available titles like World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and other titles in the Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo and StarCraft franchises. Of course, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer considers this agreement a new Xbox victory for bringing more games to more players around the world. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮
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    ABK Workers Alliance announced that #Activision Quality Assurance Tester in Minnesota, Los Angeles & Texas decided to officially unionize & the union was voluntarily recognized by Microsoft as parent company. During ABK buying saga & at the very beginning, Microsoft has said that will lift the notoriously known anti-union corporate culture of Activision if allowed to buy the gaming conglomerate. Of course, this would have the Communication Workers Of America, ABK Workers Alliance the backup main union organization, to vouch for Microsoft to be allowed to buy Activision Blizzard King. #Gaming #GameNews #YouTubeGaming 🎮 🕹
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    In a more than upbeat presentation than the "dire" scenarios that many outlets were rumoring, Microsoft Gaming finally came forward about the future of #Xbox and while acknowledging that all the mentioned things in the special Xbox Podcast episode were planned as early in December, it doesn't need to be taken a change of plans at all. Xbox Game Studios will be launching 4 unnamed games for Playstation 5 and Nintendo Switch and it was hinted that 2 of them are more than a year since launched, are community-drive games and no, is not neither Starfield nor Indiana Jones and for now they are not committing on more games. First party Xbox games will be on Game Pass with no End of date, including new launches and actually, new games will be releasing on Day1 and Game Pass is an Xbox service exclusively. Activision Blizzard King Games will be coming to Game Pass starting with Diablo IV on March 28th. Phil Spencer interestingly acknowledged that there is an importance of exclusive games for platforms, that includes Xbox, but he foresee that the strategy will be small part for the industry in between the next 5 to 10 years. Regardless of that, Xbox President Sarah Bond assured that Xbox is not abandoning the hardware business and actually, next-gen Xbox is already in development and we are inbound for some news this Holidays season but, Microsoft Gaming did not acknowledged the future of physical games while addressing Xbox's view on gaming preservation. Tomorrow I will be given my takeaways in a new gaming podcast episode. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮
  • Blizzard announced that #Overwatch2 S9: Champions will introduce bigger health bars (depends on hero), self-healing mechanics & reformat of Competitive Mode and rewards with a new Competitive Points system.

    Ranks will be reset for all.

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    Blizzard announced that #Overwatch2 S9: Champions will introduce bigger health bars (depends on hero), self-healing mechanics & reformat of Competitive Mode and rewards with a new Competitive Points system. Ranks will be reset for all. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮
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    In a new signal that FTC is not giving up on reversing #ActivisionBlizzard acquisition in the future, the regulator wrote to the 9th Circuit of Appeal Court that Microsoft contradicted on its promise that both Microsoft & ABK will operate independently post-merger. All this as a result of the recent layoff at Microsoft Gaming that also included redundant jobs and the eSport department of Activision Blizzard. After failing to win a Preliminary Injunction in Summer 2023, FTC has said that it will continue its inner process that if successful (an uphill road at best as per observers), could force Microsoft to divest ABK, but either way the process could take years. There is a chance that if by 2024 US Elections, there is a change in FTC administration and a republican one takes over, the FTC could abandon the efforts. The FTC under Biden Administration, has grown intolerant on mergers that means big companies just becoming bigger but, the low success rate has been questioned by Congress with tax money being used just to fail and FTC requesting more funding regardless. Meanwhile, Microsoft has denied FTC's accusation on the #ABK independence promise post-merger, indicating that Activision was already on plans for running layoffs before the deal's closure is incorrect to fully attribute to Microsoft Gaming's process. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮
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    Microsoft reported its Q2 2024 performance with $62 billion in revenue & net income of $21.9 billion, both a raise respectively of 18% & 33%. Microsoft Gaming & #Xbox were up 61% of revenue on content, 3% in hardware & 49% in gaming revenue YoY. And yes, this is the first quarter that includes Activision Blizzard. Meanwhile other segments of Microsoft were up except Surface business which went down by 6% YoY. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮
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    Activision Blizzard run an additional layoff aside from Microsoft Gaming's last week, this time impacting 83% of its #Esport business letting go 60 people. The now Microsoft-owned conglomerate feels that 12 people is enough to operate taking in-context that both Call Of Duty and Overwatch League are now operated via outsourced companies. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮
  • Project Odyssey was an unannounced #Blizzard game in development that was cancelled after this week's Microsoft Gaming layoff that included ABK.

    Reportedly the game was in development since 2018 & was a Minecraft X Rust kind of universe.

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    Project Odyssey was an unannounced #Blizzard game in development that was cancelled after this week's Microsoft Gaming layoff that included ABK. Reportedly the game was in development since 2018 & was a Minecraft X Rust kind of universe. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮
  • Blizzard Entertainment has officially outsourced the management of #Overwatch official esport league with ESL Faceit Group administrating The Overwatch Champions Series World Final and taking place at DreamHack Stockholm.

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    Blizzard Entertainment has officially outsourced the management of #Overwatch official esport league with ESL Faceit Group administrating The Overwatch Champions Series World Final and taking place at DreamHack Stockholm. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮
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  • Also on #CES2024, Nvidia confirmed that it will bring G-Sync & Reflex support for its Cloud Gaming GeForce Now with the announcement that Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 will be the latest from Activision Blizzard games entering the service.

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    Also on #CES2024, Nvidia confirmed that it will bring G-Sync & Reflex support for its Cloud Gaming GeForce Now with the announcement that Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 will be the latest from Activision Blizzard games entering the service. #Gaming #GamingNews
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  • 1047 Games will stop developing new content for Splitgate in favor of a spinoff
    Despite the popularity of the game viewed as heavily inspired by Halo Multiplayer, Splitgate, things are going for changes and developers 1047 Games made the unexpected announcement today that Splitgate will have no more new content. Basically, they are managing resources to what's next for them and we might see a first original game in the universe of Splitgate and not necessarily it is a...
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  • A great Q2 2023 for Activision Blizzard but bad news for Overwatch League
    It is once again earning reports season and our first interest for gaming industry is, ironically, Activision Blizzard heading to its probable second to last earning reports of Q2 2023 and there are reasons to celebrate. Activision Blizzard reported $2.207 billion of revenue and $583 million of operating income, both a positive of 32% and 62% compared to last year and the second Q2 with high...
  • A lengthy summary of the last 2 days of the Preliminary Injunction against the Activision Blizzard acquisition
    It is Day 4 and Day 5 of the hearing of the FTC requesting a Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft to avoid closing the transaction where they will welcome the Activision Blizzard conglomerate as a new family member of Xbox Game Studios. On Day 4 this past Wednesday, it was a big day as both CEO of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, respectively Satya Nadella and Bobby Kotick will have their...
  • Activision Blizzard celebrate a strong Q1 2023 after a sour start of the day
    It is still earning report seasons and while not the way Activision Blizzard wanted to start the day with the UK blocking their attempt on being sold to Microsoft, they have reason enough to be happy at the end of the day. Activision Blizzard declared the Q1 2023 to be their biggest yet as the company landed a $2.38 billion in revenue, 32% up from last year and a WHOOPING $740 million income or...
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  • Activision Blizzard forced to retract and fulfilled a long promised jobs
    Without resuming EVERYTHING that had happened at both Activision and Blizzard, as a conglomerate, Activision Blizzard practically had many fires that they started themselves and one in particular could just not take as long as it did. But finally a promise was fulfilled (obviously was not on plans but public relationship said otherwise) and Activision Blizzards has granted over 1,100 temporary...
  • Activision Blizzard reports its Q4 and Fiscal Year 2022 results
    A little later after being forced to enter an agreement to pay the SEC $35 millions  on labor-related settlement, the owners of Call Of Duty franchise and Blizzard Entertainment, Activision Blizzard, has announced their Fiscal Year 2022 results. Activision Blizzard reported in their latest report that by Q4 2022 the gaming conglomerate could amaze 2.34 billion of dollars and being more or...
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  • Activision Blizzard shareholders approve Microsoft’s buyout
    What was expected to happen with some minor expectations and practically it is up to the regulators, at this time just one party, to see if the consumer’s interest is best if Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard or not. Besides some shareholders sued to stop the  purchase of the Activision Blizzard conglomerate a few months ago, that didn’t stop the voting that happened today....
  • Activision Blizzard will not join Xbox Game Studios if it can be bought by Microsoft
    For weeks I had been mixing Xbox Game Studios with Activision Blizzard as I thought (an MANY GAMERS) that the direct effect on Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard would be making it part of the Xbox Game Studios family, but as per a report, it claims that it will not be the case. If the FTC fails to get granted a preliminary injunction to avoid Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard, Activision...
  • Amazon announces what is next for Prime Gaming at August 2022
    Next on gaming subscription providers to take turns to tell us what we can expect for August 2022 is Amazon with Prime Gaming, this includes all the free drops on many popular multiplayer games. Games announced for August includes: Recompile: This atmospheric, Metroidvania-inspired hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling...
  • Better late than ever with Diablo II update fixes
    One of the biggest expectations of a Diablo remaster, particularly Diablo II: Resurrected, is that Blizzard Entertainment didn’t carry out the flaws that the original game presented and for some reason kept. And finally, some bugs that were a few decades old are finally fixed, at least for the remaster that is. As announced by Blizzard, Patch 2.4 for Diablo II: Resurrected is live and...
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