The Biggest Gaming News For January 31, 2022
We heard a lot about big business today. Seeing as how Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, we’ve been hearing a lot about big business all month, but the news this time around was definitely still worthy of note. The developer behind Destiny 2, Bungie, was just acquired by Sony for $3.6 billion. I’ll point out in passing that Wordle was also purchased by The New York Times for a price in the “low seven figures.” But there were some other stories that you should know about as well. The news for example broke this afternoon that Activision Blizzard has gotten back to its union busting. Some things never change.
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Final Fantasy has been around for a long time. The franchise goes right back to the earliest days of gaming. Today in fact marks 25 years of Final Fantasy 7 and the developers have been sharing their feelings with the fans. “I had always thought of Final Fantasy 7 as a recent game, but it has actually now become one of the games from the early series,” Yoshinori Kitase said. Final Fantasy 7 launched ten years after the first game, but that was still a full 15 years ago at this point. “There will be even more new Final Fantasy 7 projects that started up after the remake coming in the future, too. The team sees this twenty-fifth anniversary as a waypoint on our journey with Final Fantasy 7,” Tetsuya Nomura added.
The voice actor Troy Baker took a lot of heat when he announced a new line of “voice NFTs.” The idea was to partner with a company called VoiceVerseNFT, but fans of his work were disappointed that he would stoop to such a level. Baker has now backtracked on the project. "Thank you all for your feedback and patience,” he said.
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