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Analysis: Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard, which shifts the balance of power in video games

GeekWire

(Microsoft Image) OK, now what? I wasn’t sure we’d ever get here, but 21 months later , Microsoft has successfully fended off the FTC, pacified the CMA, and completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. It’s not a question of whether Microsoft will earn back that $69 billion, but when.

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End of console wars? Microsoft could set new precedent by bringing Xbox games to PlayStation

GeekWire

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle , one of this year’s big releases on Xbox, may also be headed to the PlayStation 5 under a rumored initiative at Microsoft. Xbox Image) Rumors have been in circulation for weeks that Microsoft might publish some of its exclusive games on competing consoles. I have no love for that world.”

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Unity’s Marc Whitten shares apology note following backlash to controversial licensing policies

GeekWire

(LinkedIn Photo) After more than a week of controversy, Unity Technologies posted an apology letter to its community and promised to undo or rollback many of the changes it had planned to make to the licensing agreements for its game engine Unity. Whitten is a Microsoft veteran and one of the founding members of the Xbox design team.

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Microsoft Lands Exclusive License for OpenAI's Astonishing GPT-3 Model

Gizmodo

Microsoft is having a hell of a week. billion deal to acquire Zenimax and all of its big video game properties. Today, Microsoft announced another deal that could also have a huge long-term impact in the… Read more. On Monday, the company announced a $7.5 In one move, the Xbox platform’s future suddenly looked a lot brighter.

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

This year’s Microsoft Ignite developer conference might as well be called AIgnite, with over half of the almost 600 sessions featuring artificial intelligence in some shape or form. Here’s some of the top AI news CIOs will want to take away from Microsoft Ignite 2023. The new Copilot will be generally available from Dec.

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MicroSoft: Still dominating in enterprise office automation

CTOvision

All enterprise professionals should continue to track MicroSoft ( NASDAQ:MSFT ). We focus most of our energy tracking smaller, more disruptive firms since most enterprise technologists will know how to get updates on MicroSoft, but like the other Tech Titans we track we have to keep an eye out for surprises. What Is Microsoft HoloLens?

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Epic Games buys Seattle-area video game development toolmaker RAD

GeekWire

If you’ve played any video game that was made in the last 21 years or so, there’s a good chance the game was using RAD’s Bink tool to encode its video files. Bink has quietly powered an incredible number of games’ video cutscenes over the last 21 years or so. Epic Games Image).

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