Games Inbox: Microsoft buying Activision as the worst news ever, Nintendo x Sony, and monopoly worries

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The Wednesday Inbox is horrified by Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard, but one reader is impressed by Halo Infinite.

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Infinite worry I am really uncertain how I feel about Microsoft’s almost unlimited wealth and simply vacuuming up the world’s gaming resources, little finger to the corner of one’s mouth with a devious chuckle.

Now I am no fanboy and have owned/own a lot of different formats, but this is starting to sit uneasily with my spider senses. That is not to say I even care about the franchises involved but the whole ownership and freedom to evolve a medium, that can literally go anywhere and present anything one can imagine, does concern me.

I welcome the oddities of the entire industry, Nintendo with its secretive weirdness yet wondrous games, Sony with its perhaps formulaic yet imaginative and infinitely playable output. As a primarily PC centric gamer I love Microsoft too.

However, I worry about this culture of infinite wealth controlling all aspects of my life, in particular my favourite pastime.

Thinking about my recent excitement within the gaming universe and the product I am most looking forward to is a relatively simple looking tiny yellow box with a little crank.

If the major players own this industry in its entirety, then this little box of potential would simply never exist and nor will anyone else’s dreams.

Love you as always GC.Chris

Worst news ever I switched to Xbox for the first time ever this generation because I felt Game Pass was just too good to ignore. I was feeling pretty smug about that decision until today, when news of Xbox buying Activision Blizzard leaked out.

Now I’m experiencing feelings of dismay at what I