Microsoft has officially announced two major acquisitions at the X018 exhibition. She buys independent role-playing forges Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment. The transaction amounts are not called.

Take-Two shares Capcom and Ubisoft’s interest in the cloud streaming market, but does not yet see a business model suitable for publishers on it.

The authors of Pillars of Eternity will soon lose their independence. According to three sources of the Kotaku publication, the acquisition of Obsidian by Microsoft is at the final stage.

The future is closer than we thought. Microsoft has officially introduced Project xCloud. This is a service that will allow you to play Xbox One products on a large number of platforms, including mobile devices. The announcement took place a couple of days after the test launch of the streaming solution from Google.

According to the results of the first half of 2018, the total sales of Nintendo consoles overtook those of Microsoft in unit terms.

Bill Gates’ company took an unexpected step in the hope of surpassing Sony PlayStation 4 in sales. Microsoft launched the Xbox All Access initiative. According to its terms, the user receives a set-top box (Xbox One X or Xbox One S to choose from) and a subscription to two main gaming services. In return, he will have to pay the company a certain amount every month for two years.

The executive director of the Yakuza adventure franchise Toshihiro Nagoshi said that in the past he tried to interest Nintendo and Microsoft in his project. As a result, he was rejected by both companies, which is why the Yakuza series was released only on Sony PlayStation consoles for 8 years.

The recently acquired Microsoft gaming studio Playground Games has hired six experienced developers who previously worked in large companies. All of them will be working on some new PRG — apparently, on Fable IV.

Microsoft Corporation now calculates royalties for game publishers using blockchain technology based on its own Azure cloud service. According to the company, the transition to blockchain will significantly accelerate payments to publishers who release their titles on the Xbox platform.

Nintendo and Microsoft have launched a joint advertising campaign in honor of the release of the Minecraft multiplatform update. “It’s better together,” the competitors assure, while Sony continues to resist and does not allow playing under the same account on different platforms.

We are looking into what happened to the shares of Nintendo, Ubisoft, Sony, Square Enix, Microsoft and Electronic Arts after their presentations at E3.

As part of the presentation at E3, Microsoft announced the doubling of the number of internal studios. She bought four previously independent companies, and also launched another subsidiary in Santa Monica.

On June 10, at 23.00 Moscow time, Microsoft’s presentation at the E3 gaming exhibition began. The company demonstrated 50 projects. Fifteen of them were announced for the first time. About the main ones — in our material.

The head of Microsoft Studios, Matt Booty, told MCV about the strategy that the company adheres to in the development of the gaming direction. According to him, Microsoft is interested in online games and gaming services.

Microsoft has acquired GitHub, the world’s largest hosting and collective software development platform with an audience of 28 million people. The transaction amount was $7.5 billion.

Developers Bayonetta and NieR: Automata from the Japanese studio PlatinumGames will no longer transfer intellectual rights to their projects to publishers. The studio does not want to depend on the customer’s requests during development.

The head of games at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, said that in the near future the company does not plan to develop its own game in the battle royale genre.

Microsoft reported earnings for the third fiscal quarter of 2018, which ended for the company on March 31 of this year. The Xbox division’s revenue during this period reached $2.251 billion. This is 18% more than at the same time last year.

Employees of the Terminal Reality studio filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation. According to the developers, Microsoft illegally uses the company’s graphics technologies.