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New games are coming to Game Pass this July – Here’s the full list
Microsoft have announced what games will be arriving on their Game Pass subscription service in the next couple of weeks. While there are no huge triple-A titles or surprise shadow drops, there are some very cool indie games to check out.
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Tesco will no longer sell physical videogames
As more and more games are sold digitally, UK Supermarket giant Tesco has announced that is going to stop selling boxed videogames in its 2,800 stores.
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Xbox Live Gold is ending, will be replaced with Game Pass Core
Xbox Games with Gold has been limping along for a while now, each months offering of new games becoming less and less noteworthy. Really, the only reason to stay subscribed was to access multiplayer gaming. It looks like the reason Games with Gold has been less than impressive recently is because Microsoft was planning to…
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Microsoft & Sony enter deal to bring Call of Duty to PlayStation
The possibility that Microsoft would make Call of Duty exclusive to the Xbox was always a stretch but was still an understandable fear. That fear has now been put to rest as Microsoft and Sony have entered into a “binding agreement” to ensure that the long-running FPS will continue to come to PlayStation.
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Ninth Court rejects FTC’s appeal, Microsoft-Activision deal can now go ahead
Microsoft’s plans for industry domination continue to grab the headlines. Now, only the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) stands in the way of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. However, Microsoft does not need the approval of the CMA and can actually close the deal as it stands.
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Jez Corden reckons Starcraft 3 is real
Jez Corden, editor of Windows Central, believes that Starcraft 3 is very much real, at least that’s what he says during a drunken Twitter AMA session last week.
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The FTC is appealing the Microsoft-Activision deal for a second time
A short while ago the Federal Trade Commission lost its legal battle against Microsoft where it attempted to get Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard stopped so that it could continue looking into the deal. The FTC attempted to appeal the decision but US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who presided over the case, promptly rejected…
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Lucid Games has been bought by Tencent
Gobble, Gobble. That’s the sound that Chinese mega-company Tencent presumably made as it snapped up Lucid Games, absorbing it into one of its multiple subsidiaries. In this specific case, the subsidiary is LightSpeed Studios that describes its vision as being “To create the Lightspeed Universe, the ecosystem that connects players and developers around the world.”
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Edge #387 Review scores
The latest issue of Edge magazine has begun to drop through subscribers’ letterboxes. Although print is dying a slow death, Edge magazine continues to be the only magazine I continue to support thanks to its sharp writing and interesting reviews.
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Microsoft has won its case against the FTC
Microsoft has won the legal battle against the Federal Trade Committee. The FTC was attempting to get a temporary injunction to block Microsoft’s ongoing plans to purchase Activision Blizzard. The injunction was to give the FTC more time to investigate the matter, but today the court ruled in Microsoft’s favour, removing a substantial obstacle from…
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