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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV Looks To Right The Wrongs Of Its Predecessor

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV Looks To Right The Wrongs Of Its Predecessor https://ift.tt/VFGJQnU Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV is arriving nearly a decade after the release of the third game in the real-time strategy series, and after spending some time with an extensive preview build that covered the opening missions of two its campaigns, I’m happy to report that it seems to be a return to form after the ill-received changes in Dawn of War III. The Dawn of War series has always reinvented itself with each entry. Dawn of War II eschewed the first game’s focus on amassing large armies in favor of micro-managing smaller groups, or sometimes individual units. It removed the original's base-building mechanics, and its maps were less of an open-ended sandbox, hewing closer to being an isometric action-RPG. While these changes didn’t sit well with some players of the original Dawn of War, others found the alterations to be bold, and the game was received positively , with man...
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Microsoft Says It Makes "Zero Business Sense" To Make Call Of Duty Exclusive

Microsoft Says It Makes "Zero Business Sense" To Make Call Of Duty Exclusive https://ift.tt/3f8ztA0

Microsoft has disputed the U.K. Competition and Market Authority's (CMA) concerns about the computing giant's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. According to a YouGov survey, commissioned by Microsoft, 3% of PlayStation owners would migrate to Xbox if Microsoft made Call of Duty exclusive. Microsoft claims that this is insufficient incentive to remove the massive franchise from PlayStation consoles.

Microsoft disclosed the results of the January survey to Axios. Last December, the CMA commissioned its own survey, which found that 15% of active Call of Duty players, meaning people who played at least 10 hours or spent $100 on the franchise, would switch to Xbox. The CMA's figure for all PlayStation owners who would switch has not been disclosed, though the CMA has publicly cited the statistic as proof that PlayStation would lose customers. The CMA has further used the survey as evidence that Microsoft would be incentivized to take Call of Duty off of PlayStation.

Rima Alaily, the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Competition Law Group, told Axios that, "As we have said all along: it makes zero business sense to take Call of Duty off of PlayStation." Alaily clarified that the amount of people who would switch to Xbox is "too small to hurt Sony’s ability to compete and too small to make a withholding strategy profitable for Xbox."

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