Tag: Phil Spencer

The next Xbox will be the ‘largest technical leap’ yet but Microsoft is still planning to release exclusive Xbox games on other platforms

You know all those Xbox rumours? The hot new hardware including a handheld, the idea that Microsoft is giving up on consoles altogether and releasing its exclusive Xbox games on third party platforms. Turns out it’s true. Well, most of it. Microsoft made a fairly comprehensive Xbox data dump yesterday including an official podcast on […]

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Amid mounting rumors of Xbox games coming to PlayStation, Phil Spencer announces a ‘business update’ for next week

Evidence is mounting that Microsoft will release a host of its Xbox console exclusives on PlayStation, potentially marking the end of a tradition nearly as old as the medium: the viciously partisan console war. Xbox head Phil Spencer has tacitly acknowledged the rumors and reports too, and if the partial end of Xbox console exclusivity […]

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After 3 years of ‘hands-off’ management, Microsoft is making Bethesda and Zenimax report directly to an Xbox bigwig

Just a couple of weeks after finishing its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is making some changes to its Xbox studio structure. In an internal memo acquired by The Verge, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is being promoted to president of game content and studios, a role that […]

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Phil Spencer confirms that Activision Blizzard games won’t come to Game Pass this year: ‘Now that the deal is closed, we’re starting that work, but there is work’

For gamers, one of the most alluring possibilities created by Microsoft’s finally-completed acquisition of Activision Blizzard is the prospect of games like Call of Duty, Diablo, and Overwatch on Game Pass. Microsoft’s subscription service is already a hell of a deal, and adding annualized iterations of Call of Duty plus everything Blizzard does makes it […]

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Microsoft CEO Phil Spencer is open to breaking the seal on some forgotten games: ‘If teams want to go back and revisit some [games] … I’m gonna be all in’

Whether you think Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard is a move toward a dry gaming monopoly or a financial windfall for Activision and Blizzard games both, it’s definitely happened. The UK’s CMA has given the thumbs up, Kotick’s on his way out—the deal’s closed, and now we get to see the impact ripples spread. […]

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Xbox boss Phil Spencer is open to breaking the seal on some forgotten games: ‘If teams want to go back and revisit some [games] … I’m gonna be all in’

Whether you think Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard is a move toward a dry gaming monopoly or a financial windfall for Activision and Blizzard games both, it’s definitely happened. The UK’s CMA has given the thumbs up, Kotick’s on his way out—the deal’s closed, and now we get to see the impact ripples spread. […]

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Leaked email reveals Phil Spencer’s damning verdict on AAA games: ‘Most publishers are riding the success of franchises created 10+ years ago’

A whole lot of interesting (and occasionally awkward) secrets were revealed by the big Microsoft document leak that occurred last week. One of the most notable bits was a brutally frank analysis by Xbox boss Phil Spencer on the current state of major videogame publishers like Activision and Electronic Arts, who Spencer said are struggling […]

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