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Disney to Acquire $1.5 Billion Stake in Epic Games, Create Shared Universe Connected to Fortnite
Walt Disney is acquiring a $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 12,400 crore) equity stake in Fortnite maker Epic Games as part of a collaboration involving Disney properties like Star Wars, Marvel and Avatar, the companies said Wednesday.
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US Court Snubs Video Game Maker's Legal Battle Against Apple
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an antitrust challenge by Epic Games, maker of the popular video game "Fortnite," to the way Apple runs its lucrative App Store, handing the software company a setback in its lengthy legal battle again
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Borderlands Maker Gearbox Reportedly Up for Sale by Embracer Group
Borderlands developer Gearbox will reportedly be sold off by Embracer, as it attempts to stabilise after its $2 billion investment deal with Savvy Games Group fell through. The report suggests that some third parties are interested in acquiring the developer, while its CCO Dan Hewitt is even considering going independent. Embracer previously shut d...
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Microsoft Looking for Solutions to Get UK Approval for $69 Billion Activision Blizzard Acquisition
The president of Microsoft said he was looking for solutions to try to get British approval for the software giant's $69 billion acquisition of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard.
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Valve Sets Trap, Permanently Bans Over 40,000 Dota 2 Players for Cheating: Details
Valve has banned over 40,000 Dota 2 players in the past couple of weeks, who were caught using third-party software to cheat in games. While the company wasn’t specific on the app’s purpose, it revealed that the software in question was able to access internal data used by the Dota client. Normally, such information should not be available to p...
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Microsoft Seeks to Push Activision Deal at EU Hearing for Market Competition
Microsoft President Brad Smith on Tuesday will seek to convince EU antitrust regulators at a closed hearing that the US software giant's $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,71,800 crore) bid for Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard will boost competition. Smith will lead a delegation of 18 senior executives, including Microsoft Gaming Chief Executive Off...
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Tencent Said to Be in Talks With Meta to Distribute Quest VR Headsets in China
Tencent Holdings is in talks with Meta Platforms to distribute its Meta Quest line of virtual reality headsets in China, three people familiar with the matter said. The talks between Tencent and Meta started last year and have continued in recent months, according to one of the sources who has direct knowledge of the matter, adding that the talks ...
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Microsoft Said to Have Offered No Remedies in EU Antitrust Review of Activision Deal
Microsoft's has not offered any remedies to EU antitrust regulators reviewing its proposed $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,71,400 crore) bid for Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard ahead of an expected full-scale EU probe, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. The US software company is betting on the acquisition to help it compete bett...
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Players With Disabilities Score in Video Game World
Long neglected by the industry, the issue of accessibility is increasingly front of mind for game makers. There are financial as well as ethical reasons for opening doors to even more players in the multi-billion dollar industry. According to the World Health Organization, more than a billion people live with some form of disability.
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Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard: 5 Reasons Why This Is the Company’s Biggest Deal Ever
Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion (roughly Rs. 5,10,990 crore) all-cash acquisition, uniting two of the biggest forces in video games. It's the software maker's biggest deal ever, almost three times as large as the 2016 purchase of LinkedIn. Here are five key reasons why it happened.
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Microsoft Taking Xbox Games Directly to TVs, Game Pass Ultimate Subscriptions to Be Possible via Web Browsers
Microsoft said it is working on software to let people play Xbox video games on smart TVs without need of consoles.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Grows 50 Percent, Xbox Sales Sees Boost During Pandemic
Microsoft reported its Azure cloud computing services grew 50 percent, the second quarter of acceleration in a business that had begun to slow as the global pandemic benefited the software maker's investment on working and learning from home.
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Fortnite Maker Epic Games to Test Idea of iPhone as Market Unto Itself in Lawsuit
Fortnite maker Epic Games has launched the most significant effort yet to advance the legal theory that Apple's iPhone ecosystem has become so "sticky" that it is a distinct software market over which Apple exercises monopoly power.
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More Disclosure on 'Loot Box' Odds Planned by Game Console Makers
Kings of the video game console world plan to require games hawking "loot boxes" to tell players how likely they are to get prized booty.
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Dell Returns to Market With NYSE Listing, 6 Years After It Went Private
The computer maker is trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'DELL', after it bought back shares that tracked the financial performance of software maker VMware.
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Disney to Acquire $1.5 Billion Stake in Epic Games, Create Shared Universe Connected to Fortnite
Walt Disney is acquiring a $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 12,400 crore) equity stake in Fortnite maker Epic Games as part of a collaboration involving Disney properties like Star Wars, Marvel and Avatar, the companies said Wednesday.
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US Court Snubs Video Game Maker's Legal Battle Against Apple
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an antitrust challenge by Epic Games, maker of the popular video game "Fortnite," to the way Apple runs its lucrative App Store, handing the software company a setback in its lengthy legal battle again
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Borderlands Maker Gearbox Reportedly Up for Sale by Embracer Group
Borderlands developer Gearbox will reportedly be sold off by Embracer, as it attempts to stabilise after its $2 billion investment deal with Savvy Games Group fell through. The report suggests that some third parties are interested in acquiring the developer, while its CCO Dan Hewitt is even considering going independent. Embracer previously shut d...
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Microsoft Looking for Solutions to Get UK Approval for $69 Billion Activision Blizzard Acquisition
The president of Microsoft said he was looking for solutions to try to get British approval for the software giant's $69 billion acquisition of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard.
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Valve Sets Trap, Permanently Bans Over 40,000 Dota 2 Players for Cheating: Details
Valve has banned over 40,000 Dota 2 players in the past couple of weeks, who were caught using third-party software to cheat in games. While the company wasn’t specific on the app’s purpose, it revealed that the software in question was able to access internal data used by the Dota client. Normally, such information should not be available to p...
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Microsoft Seeks to Push Activision Deal at EU Hearing for Market Competition
Microsoft President Brad Smith on Tuesday will seek to convince EU antitrust regulators at a closed hearing that the US software giant's $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,71,800 crore) bid for Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard will boost competition. Smith will lead a delegation of 18 senior executives, including Microsoft Gaming Chief Executive Off...
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Tencent Said to Be in Talks With Meta to Distribute Quest VR Headsets in China
Tencent Holdings is in talks with Meta Platforms to distribute its Meta Quest line of virtual reality headsets in China, three people familiar with the matter said. The talks between Tencent and Meta started last year and have continued in recent months, according to one of the sources who has direct knowledge of the matter, adding that the talks ...
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Microsoft Said to Have Offered No Remedies in EU Antitrust Review of Activision Deal
Microsoft's has not offered any remedies to EU antitrust regulators reviewing its proposed $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,71,400 crore) bid for Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard ahead of an expected full-scale EU probe, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. The US software company is betting on the acquisition to help it compete bett...
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Players With Disabilities Score in Video Game World
Long neglected by the industry, the issue of accessibility is increasingly front of mind for game makers. There are financial as well as ethical reasons for opening doors to even more players in the multi-billion dollar industry. According to the World Health Organization, more than a billion people live with some form of disability.
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Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard: 5 Reasons Why This Is the Company’s Biggest Deal Ever
Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion (roughly Rs. 5,10,990 crore) all-cash acquisition, uniting two of the biggest forces in video games. It's the software maker's biggest deal ever, almost three times as large as the 2016 purchase of LinkedIn. Here are five key reasons why it happened.
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Microsoft Taking Xbox Games Directly to TVs, Game Pass Ultimate Subscriptions to Be Possible via Web Browsers
Microsoft said it is working on software to let people play Xbox video games on smart TVs without need of consoles.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Grows 50 Percent, Xbox Sales Sees Boost During Pandemic
Microsoft reported its Azure cloud computing services grew 50 percent, the second quarter of acceleration in a business that had begun to slow as the global pandemic benefited the software maker's investment on working and learning from home.
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Fortnite Maker Epic Games to Test Idea of iPhone as Market Unto Itself in Lawsuit
Fortnite maker Epic Games has launched the most significant effort yet to advance the legal theory that Apple's iPhone ecosystem has become so "sticky" that it is a distinct software market over which Apple exercises monopoly power.
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More Disclosure on 'Loot Box' Odds Planned by Game Console Makers
Kings of the video game console world plan to require games hawking "loot boxes" to tell players how likely they are to get prized booty.
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Dell Returns to Market With NYSE Listing, 6 Years After It Went Private
The computer maker is trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'DELL', after it bought back shares that tracked the financial performance of software maker VMware.
