microsoft Archives

Beset Activision Blizzard bought for $68.7bn by Microsoft

January 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Just a few hours ago, news of Activision firing more people due to sexual harassment broke.

Have you ever heard of the year’s best performing gaming companies?

September 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gamers stuck it to big business, and then, sorry to say, it looked like everyone piled on, and it became another soulless money melee.

Is the network down? ToolTester puts Xbox vs Playstation in an outage head to head

September 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

No one gets more frustrated by a website outage at the blog than me, but at least I save money when the site is offline! I'm not, for example, Sony or Microsoft with empires to run.

These are the most hated gaming brands in the world

September 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rave Reviews has data mined Twitter to see which gaming brands people complain about the most. That's what they're calling hate.

$7.5 billion gaming deal: Microsoft buys ZeniMax Media

September 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Microsoft today announced a $7.5 billion cash deal to buy ZeniMax Media, the owners Bethesda Softworks and makers of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom and Dishonored.

Microsoft is bringing Fable back to the Xbox

July 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fable, which might be a reboot rather than Fable 4, will be available for the Xbox Series X and Windows 10 machines.

Limited Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox One X deal will be the last of its kind

April 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The bundle will be out in June 2020, but the Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox wireless controller is out today, as are some of the other accessories while the rest are on pre-order.