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E3 2023: Xbox, Nintendo, and Sony will all apparently skip the first in-person E3 since 2019
As first reported last night by IGN, E3 will apparently be a low-key affair, thanks to the absence of Sony, Nintendo, and Xbox. The...
Xbox CEO tells workers gaming division job cuts ‘were painful choices’
As readers know by now, last week Microsoft cut 10,000 people from its payroll, many of whom were part of the Xbox gaming division...
Microsoft Xbox boss announces commitments to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo Switch and keep the series on Steam
Last week insider reports said that Microsoft was willing to enter into a 10-year commitment with Sony that would ensure access to the Call...
Microsoft elaborates on its mobile platform hunger, confirms Overwatch and Diablo’s arrival to Game Pass
The vast majority of our readers made the shocked pikachu face when Microsoft CEO Phil Spencer admitted that his company's buyout of Activision-Blizzard is...
Microsoft admits that Activision-Blizzard acquisition is primarily driven by a desire to get into mobile gaming
Those who were questioning the motives and reasons for Microsoft's big juicy buyout offer of Activision-Blizzard need not wonder any longer. An interview with...
Microsoft’s Activision-Blizzard offer happened lightning-fast – and Microsoft wasn’t the only bidder
While the news of Microsoft's nearly $70 billion buyout of Activision Blizzard came as a sudden surprise this past January, the truth is that...
Sony believes Microsoft will ‘continue to ensure Activision games are multiplatform’
While most MMORPG players are watching this week's pending sale of Activision-Blizzard to Microsoft because of the MMORPGs, people outside the World of Warcraft...
Perfect Ten: Bad takes about Microsoft buying Activision-Blizzard and why they’re wrong
Sigh. So today's column is one that I really didn't have an urgent desire to write, but then we started talking about the various...
Acti-Blizz buyout, day two: Labor, stock, Kotick, and the reasons behind the sale
The news has been flying fast and furious over the last 24 hours since Microsoft announced it was buying Activision-Blizzard for just under $70B....
California DFEH appeals court denial to intervene in Activision-Blizzard’s EEOC settlement
California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing is not about to call it quits on fighting Activision-Blizzard's settlement with the US's Equal Employment Opportunity...
Microsoft’s Phil Spencer advocates for game preservation through emulators
You have probably noticed by now that we here at Massively OP are proponents of game emulators for MMOs that have been decommissioned. Rogue...
Activision-Blizzard workers and industry giants join chorus calling for Bobby Kotick’s resignation
People across the gaming industry are adding to the calls for Activision-Blizzard's Bobby Kotick to resign - or be removed.
As we've been covering, earlier...
Gamers welcomed Microsoft’s record-setting Xbox Series X launch with vaping memes
The release of Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S systems has reportedly been one of the largest for the company, at least according...
Final Fantasy XIV is coming to Xbox One, Microsoft’s Phil Spencer vows
At the London Microsoft presser today, Square Enix announced a crapton of its games are headed to Xbox Game Pass. None of them is...
Xbox’s Phil Spencer elaborates on community controls in the works to make Xbox Live less toxic
Jean-Paul Sartre's play "No Exit" provided us with the phrase "Hell is other people," and if you've dared to leave your mic or chat...
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer tries out Sea of Thieves, calls it a ‘magical experience’
For Microsoft, Sea of Thieves isn't some below-the-radar project that's beneath the company's notice. Its Xbox division, in particular, is very keen to see...
