Microsoft Explored Acquiring SEGA, Bungie And IO Interactive

Microsoft at one point had considered acquiring SEGA, Bungie, IO Interactive, and more. This is based on an email sent by Xbox CEO Phil Spencer to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Microsoft CFO Amy Hood in November 2020. Microsoft's ongoing attempts to buy Activision Blizzard for $69 billion have forced the company to divulge all kinds of details...

Take-Two Buys Zynga, The Company Who Plagued Facebook With FarmVille & Slot Machine Games

Take-Two Interactive, a company known for just relying on its cash cow Grand Theft Auto Online for too darn long that it forgot how to publish remastered GTA games, is using all its fat stacks to buy Zynga. The Facebook game-savvy developer will be bought for US$12.7 billion. The acquisition is going to happen close during the first quarter of T...

Facebook’s Farmville Is Shutting Down At The End Of 2020

Zynga's Farmville has been one of Facebook's biggest games since it launched in 2009. The agriculture farming simulation game was a fun way for people, both casual and hardcore gamers alike, to spend their free time on the streaming site with. After 11 years, Zynga is finally shutting down Farmville permanently on 31 December 2020, according to...