Microsoft Moves – Infection – The SURVIVAL PODCAST Episode 395

Game Pass Sharing, Tencent wants Ubisoft and more on this week’s episode of Infection – The SURVIVAL PODCAST

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• Microsoft

• • Microsoft is rolling out a 5-person, family sharing Game Pass plan | PC Gamer
    • Source: Xbox Insiders in Colombia and Ireland Can Preview a New Game Pass Offer Starting Today!
  • Microsoft and Unity partner to empower digital creators, 3D artists and game developers everywhere through the power of Azure

• Activision/Blizzard

• • Activision Blizzard earned more on mobile games last quarter than PC and consoles combined
  • Court tosses lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard’s Call of Duty as ‘factually baseless’
  • Blizzard is union-busting again, this time targeting the Diablo IV team | Massively Overpowered

• Tencent

• • Tencent makes megabucks offer to buy majority stake in Ubisoft | PC Gamer

• • Source: Exclusive: Tencent seeks bigger stake in ‘Assassin’s Creed’ maker Ubisoft | Reuters

• Steam

• • Steam bans award logos and review scores in key art images | PC Gamer

• Rockstar

• • Rockstar posts hundreds of new job listings and we bet they’re for Grand Theft Auto 6 | PC Gamer
    • Source: Rockstar Games Careers

• • Grand Theft Auto 6 will have a playable female protagonist, report claims | PC Gamer

• • • Rockstar Games Cleaned Up Its Frat-Boy Culture — and Grand Theft Auto, Too
    • GTA 6 will set creative bars ‘for all entertainment,’ declares publisher | PC Gamer

• China

• • China’s games market sees first decline since records began
  • China’s tech crackdown is creating a gloomy outlook even for titans like Tencent | PC Gamer