Now this is interesting news to anyone that has a love for games and especially those made by Bethesda

"Microsoft quickly pivoted from its failed TikTok bid and dropped a cool $7.5B to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of game publisher Bethesda Softworks (Doom, Fallout, Elder Scrolls). "

This is the most money spent by them ever on gaming and I wonder what this will mean to my favourites like Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Will we see a even bigger commercialisation? Will we see this as the new hero in a game...

All jokes aside, this is big news if they increase the budgets and keep the same game quality (Fallout 76 is another story...) They do say that it is to offer more to their Xbox Live offerings, this is great for console although I do not know if they are going to work this towards the general PC gaming community.

"Microsoft has new consoles debuting on Nov. 10, the Xbox Series X and stripped down Series S version. It will be competing against Sony’s new PlayStation 5 console."

They also have steak in other gaming companies that produce Halo and Minecraft and those are going great to date, I am keeping my hopes alive and hoping that I do not hear that iconic voice asking "how can I help you today?"

“We believe the deal checks a lot of boxes for Microsoft, such as strengthening the Xbox/Games division product portfolio as competition increases, boosting the profile of Xbox subscription services, and providing more content for the company’s cloud gaming initiatives,”

As a RPG fanatic, this is good news although it is worrying that most of their articles revolve around Console and their battle against Sony Playstation.

GG's

OMG - Old Man Gamer