Games Inbox: Activision Blizzard and the end of Sony, Resident Evil Village DLC, and CD Projekt buyout
The Thursday Inbox considers a new theory for why Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard, as one reader hopes for a River Raid reboot.
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Xbox kids Hopefully this is not the end of Sony PlayStation, it would be tragic to see a company that’s given us so many great games and memories down the years swallowed up by Microsoft’s bullish business tactics.
Other than the legion of 12-year-old Xbox fanboys that plague social media, I don’t see how anyone could possibly be happy about this?Russell
Glass half full RE: Microsoft and Activision. I appreciate people do have valid concerns about this but it’s far too early to say it’s the beginning of the complete takeover of gaming by Microsoft. Playing devil’s advocate here, it could be a really positive move, perhaps Microsoft will relent on the yearly Call Of Duty releases to allow the studios to innovate more with future entries and/or free up the studios to make games that aren’t Call Of Duty.
It’s too early to tell, either way is all I’m saying, because unlike Bethesda, Activision don’t put out many games but they do have some very experienced studios that I’m sure could be really good if they were allowed to get off the Call Of Duty treadmill and make something else.
I promise I will take it all back if they end up acquiring EA or Ubisoft or someone like that next though.Carl
GC: That’s not likely to help PlayStation owners much though, is it?
The rich get richer It’s difficult to get excited about Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard – a huge multinational conglomerate buying a vastly profitable games publisher for an obscene amount of money, no doubt making all involved even more wealthy, isn’t exactly
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