Biggest Video Game News Of The Week (January 29 - February 4)

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Another week has been and gone which means it is once again time to digest everything we've learned about the present and future of the video game industry over the course of the last seven days. Considering how much has happened already in 2022, you'd be forgiven for forgetting that it's only just February. The acquisition game continued this week as PlayStation appears to have reacted to Xbox picking up Activision while Nintendo continues to prove it's still the real heavyweight in the industry right now via the Switch's lifetime sales numbers. All of that and more below as we recap and relive the biggest video game news of the week.

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Last month, Xbox shook the very foundations of the gaming industry by spending $68.7 billion on Activision Blizzard. Everyone has been waiting with bated breath ever since for PlayStation's reaction and this week we appear to have got it. The Sony-run console creators acquired Bungie. The deal is worth $3.6 billion which is still huge but dwarfed by the Activision acquisition. However, the kicker is Bungie created Xbox's flagship series, Halo. Don't panic, Xbox owners. Bungie hasn't owned the rights to Halo for a while. It's still pretty telling that Bungie is now a PlayStation-owned studio and Jim Ryan has promised there are more acquisitions to come.

It has been quite the week for acquisitions. In fact, it was quite the day. At around the same time that PlayStation revealed to the world it had bought Bungie, Wordle's creator let everyone know he had sold his hit viral game to The New York Times. The exact amount paid for Wordle is unknown. All that was revealed is rights to the game were sold for a seven-figure sum. Fair