Given the recent acquisitions spree, there are other rumours in the gaming industry like Sony buying Square Enix and making Final Fantasy a PS exclusive. Will Microsoft buy Ubisoft to list Assassin’s Creed to its game pass? These unimaginable outcomes might just come true. SIE has signalled th...
Sony remains one of the largest game publishers in the world, constantly expanding both through nurturing internal teams and buying new studios (e.g. its latest acquisition of Firewalk Studios). Here’s a brief guide to the history of PlayStation’s M&A deals and all the developers it current...
Microsoft is betting on the long term, spending the better part of the past couple of years buying up development studios. The thinking there is the exclusives they get from those game makers will pay dividends far into the future. Sony, meanwhile, is paying big third-party publishers for ex...
BREAKING: Sony is buying Bungie, the maker of Destiny — another seismic gaming deal that comes just two weeks after Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard. Bungie put Xbox on the map. Now it's part of PlayStation Studios. Filed to Bloomberg Terminal, hitting web soon — Jason Schreier (@ja...
exclusive games to its platform. Oculus may now be taking a close look at the likes of Ready at Dawn, Twisted Pixel, Sanzaru Games, 4A Games, and others, to ensure they don’t get snatched up, especially considering thatMicrosoft’s Xbox Game Studios has also been on a studio-buying ...
withDreamsdeveloper Media Molecule in 2010 andGhost of Tsushimamaker Sucker Punch Productions in 2011. In the meantime, Microsoft has been beefing up its development portfolio by buying up studios left and right, with seven acquisitions since E3 2018:Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, Playground Games,...
but it will be interesting to see what this new studio eventually unleashes on the gaming world, and whether this newest acquisition by Sony (which also bought former Halo developer Bungiejust after Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard announcement) will be part of an ongoing buying spree to rival wh...
This week’s video comes from Robert Scoble’s tour in SRI International, showing a handbag buying application, using Kinect to make it seem like a real handbag is actually dangling from the lady’s arm. See more videos, including one aboud head mounted display based AR gaming, in this pos...
PlayStation maker Sony today announced that it intends to begin producing mobile games designed for iPhone and Android devices through the acquisition of Savage Game Studios. Savage Game Studios founders have worked for companies that include Rovio, Zynga, and Wargaming, and Sony says they have "ma...
Arrowhead Game Studios announced an update as part of its 60-day plan to retool the game for players, and it provides updates for some big problem areas. Carli Velocci September 6 Get a close look at the Astro Bot special edition PS5 controller ...