Biggest Gaming News of the Week: 1/10/22 - 1/16/22
Take-Two Interactive makes one of the biggest acquisitions in the gaming industry, while Bend Studio's former director laments the cancelled Days Gone sequel, in this week's gaming news. Game Rant has compiled some of the biggest gaming news stories from this past week together into a concise post for fans and enthusiasts to stay up to date on the most important events in the industry per week. Highlighting the most relevant stories, this list is not inherently and totally objective, and will not contain every news story this week. Rather, this is intended for gaming fans who want a quick rundown on the largest/most impactful stories that occurred in the last week in games.
In this week's recap of gaming news, Take-Two Interactive plans to spend $12.7 billion to acquire one of the biggest mobile developers in a bid to enter that section of the games industry. Former Bend Studio director Jeff Ross gave some additional details on the cancelled Days Gone sequel that the studio failed to pitch to Sony. Meanwhile, Sony intends to combat PS5 shortages by prolonging production of the previous console instead. Nvidia silently announces a new GPU refresh after already announcing two brand new graphics cards at CES 2022. All that and more in this week's review of the biggest news in the games industry.
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This week, publisher Take-Two Interactive has announced plans to acquire mobile game developer Zynga for $12.7 billion, set to finalize (pending approval) in Q1 2023. Zynga is known for developing and publishing some of the most popular mobile and browser games of all time, including examples like Words with Friends and FarmVille. Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau explains that "Take-Two’s best-in-class
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