Elden Ring’s success (of selling 12 million units within 2 weeks of its launch) has piqued both Sony’s and Microsoft’s interest in the Japanese developer. This week, Xbox head Phillip Spencer confirmed that the software giant is aggressively pursuing the developer. The buyout negotiations were confirmed by Spencer on a recent interview with Digital…
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Xbox Games Pass Owns 60 Percent of the Gaming Subscription Market
With over 25 million subscribers and 60% of the total revenue of 3.7 billion dollars in the gaming subscription market segment, Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service is the leader of the gaming subscription market. Microsoft’s goal has always been for its service to turn into gaming’s Netflix. 60 Percent of the Gaming Subscription Market…
Microsoft to Acquire Activision/Blizzard; Game Pass is About to get Beefier
The Big News today has to do with Microsoft shocking the business world by acquiring Activision in a historic 68.7 billion dollar deal. Given the Call of Duty fanbase currently playing on the PlayStation 4/5 platform, future exclusivity of this and other franchises could deliver a massive blow to the Japanese giant. Microsoft is not…
Spencer: Respects Nintendo and Sony, but Google and Amazon are Microsoft’s Rivals
In a very interesting interview with a popular UK video games magazine (Edge), Phil Spencer opened up about his take on console wars and who Xbox’s real rivals are moving forwards. Xbox Series X is Doing Better Than Xbox One But… Sony continues to lead current generation home console hardware sales, if you count the…
Avowed Could be Obsidian’s Answer to The Elder Scrolls
Obsidian’s Avowed was formally announced more than a year ago. It was an important announcement for Role-Playing Game fans everywhere because Obsidian has a very good game development pedigree. Fallout fans have found Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds to be a godsend, and many of these fans swear by Fallout: New Vegas (developed by Obsidian) being…
Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6 Xbox Exclusive? and Cyberpunk 2077’s Next Gen Update
This week, as we have previously speculated on NER since Bethesda’s buy out, industry insider, Jeff Grubb (VentureBeat), claimed that both Starfield, and The Elder Scrolls 6 will be Xbox ‘exclusive’ titles. The statement comes as Bethesda’s Pete Hines (SVP Marketing and Communications) made some lukewarm statements where he wasn’t specifically shutting out the PlayStation…
Throwback Bit Thursday: The Bard’s Tale
Very few games, especially ‘average’ ones, have managed to leave a lasting impression on me nearly two decades after I last played them. The Bard’s Tale, however, managed to do just that. It was an average game that managed to leave a lasting (and somewhat positive) image of itself in my memories, despite its flaws….
Starfield Arrives Next Year as an Xbox/PC/Game Pass Exclusive
Bethesda’s next big AAA RPG is not the long awaited Elder Scrolls 6, but Starfield. The game is a futuristic RPG set in the vastness of space. That’s not to say that most of us are not excited about the game. On the contrary, Starfield looks like one of the most promising Bethesda undertakings (outside…
Starfield Confirmed As Xbox and PC Exclusive
It should come as no surprise that Bethesda’s new IP Starfield was announced as an Xbox and PC exclusive. After Microsoft purchased Bethesda last year, we anticipated that this would mean some Bethesda titles would become exclusives. It turns out that that is becoming the case. Confirmed Exclusive According to a GamesBeat article, Microsoft has…
Nintendo/Xbox Game Pass Collaboration Rumors
There’s a new rumor going around involving a possible collaboration between Nintendo and Xbox. It’s being teased by an industry insider that Bravely Default could be coming to Xbox Game Pass. Of course, this is still just speculation, but it would fall in line with some of the other additions to the membership recently like…