Bloomberg's Jason Schreier also notes that there's "cautious optimism" about the merger and Bobby Kotick's departure along with a "fear of layoffs."
The League will be going live on February 4th for PC along with the new Siege of the Atlas expansion. More details coming January 27th.
Phil Spencer says that, "We had to look at that forward plan and ensure we had a kind of confidence in that” when pursuing the acquisition.
Following the game's troublesome launch and reception, EA is reportedly looking at free-to-play in "some capacity" as per Tom Henderson.
Banshee-44 is getting a new reputation system with Gunsmith Materials and Weapon Telemetries being phased out along with Mod Components.
The year is chock-full of high-profile titles and many of them look absolutely gorgeous. Take a look at 15 that look to be the absolute creme of the crop.
Developers DICE and Ripple Effect Studios have released new updates for Battlefield 2042 and Battlefield Portal respectively.
EA is allegedly setting things in motion for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 2's reveal, which will apparently launch later this year.
Criterion Games' first new Need for Speed game in a while will supposedly launch later this year, according to an insider.
"Sony is an important part of our industry, and we value our relationship," says Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who recently had conversations with Sony leadership.
There's a very good chance that Activision Blizzard won't be as singularly focused on Call of Duty once the Xbox deal is finalized.
The action-packed 2D sports title is available for Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC along with Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass.
It's coming to Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS4, PS5 and PC. The Standard Edition costs $60 on previous-gen and $70 for current-gen platforms.
The action adventure title features over 300 playable characters and numerous planets to explore across all nine episodes in the film series.
MIDia Research's Karol Severin says it wouldn't be "financially sound" for Microsoft to turn off revenue from Activision titles on PlayStation.
Ghostrunner's much anticipated Project_Hel expansion has now been delayed by almost 2 months, and will be releasing on March 3rd instead.
A DFC Intelligence analyst believes that making Call of Duty exclusive to Xbox platforms could make getting the deal past anti-trust regulators a big hassle.
Microsoft will be completing the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, but Sony expects them to still launch multiplatform games to fulfil contractual obligations.
A work-in-progress screenshot showcases number of kills, a player list, objectives and more with "further updates" made once it's live.
Rare loot drops will also be seeing changes but senior community manager advises spending any remaining Gunsmith materials.
