Microsoft is Buying Activision Blizzard for Almost $70 Billion Byte Me

In a deal that is shocking to everyone, Microsoft is purchasing Activision Blizzard in a deal that is sending shockwaves through the gaming industry.

What We're Playing
Cliff: Superliminal, Stories Untold, Observation Colby: Anvil Dylan: Wild Rift

News
So Xbox Did Something

PlayStation Might Be Embracing BC

The Reason PS Games Are Coming to PC is Because Studios Kept Asking

Can’t Get a PS5? How Does a PS4 Sound?

Almost 40 Employees Have “Left” Blizzard

Humble Will No Longer Be Supporting Mac or Linux

Your New PC Might Not Be Able to Play 4k Blurays

Riot Will Literally Pay You to Quit

Questions
Tr1pletrouble: What made-up word would you incorporate into the English language if you could?

Princess_Megan: Some PS3 games have now been released for PS5. Are you excited to re-experience any of these games? Also, if you could bring back any game from a previous generation, updated with all the bells and whistles, which game would you choose?

*monotone screaming*: Do you think remastered games are necessary or do you think it would be better to make sequels to games?

Mansocks: Why should I play Anvil?

Rich: What's more satisfying.. beating a single player game alone or a multiple player with teammates?

Primefan: What’s more satisfying playing mudrunner or wreckfest?

Joe Coleslaw: I am going through a transition into my life that I did not see coming so soon. Besides, Moving Out... What video game comes to mind when you hear starting from scratch for starting anew.

Cheap/Free Games
Epic Games


Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.

Game Pass


Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Nobody Saves the World - Jan. 18
Death’s Door (Cloud, Console, and PC) ID@Xbox – January 20
Pupperazzi – 20th
Windjammers 2 – 20th
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 20
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege: Deluxe Edition (PC) – January 20
Hitman Trilogy - 20th
Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master (Console and PC) – January 27
Edge Of Eternity – February 10 (Console)
Total War: Warhammer 3 – February 17 (PC)
Shredders – February TBA (Console, PC, Cloud)

Humble Bundle


https://www.humblebundle.com/games/surviving-mars-bundle

Patreon

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Alan Schulte
Joe Cole Jr.
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Rich Deacon

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