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It Certainly Looks Like Yakuza Successor Gang Of Dragon Is Dead

It Certainly Looks Like Yakuza Successor Gang Of Dragon Is Dead https://ift.tt/mKDNRvw While some fans are still holding out hope for a financial savior to sweep in and save Nagoshi Studios' debut title, Gang of Dragon , more small details have emerged from print and social media this week that paint a very unpleasant picture of the studio's fate. Things haven't been looking particularly rosy for the upstart Nagoshi Studios--headed by former Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi--for a while now. Following a reveal of their debut title, , at The Game Awards , things soon looked very shaky when it was revealed that their primary funder, Chinese giant NetEase, was pulling out of further commitments . Following the sudden vanishing (and reappearance) of their YouTube channel , followed by their website going offline , things have been pointing in a dire direction. The first indication of further trouble comes from the 40th anniversary issue of storied Japanese video...
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Starfield Could Have Been A PlayStation Exclusive Prompting Microsoft's ZeniMax Acquisition

Starfield Could Have Been A PlayStation Exclusive, Prompting Microsoft's ZeniMax Acquisition https://ift.tt/5QKT6Ib

Xbox boss Phil Spencer revealed that Xbox's highly anticipated RPG Starfield could have been PlayStation exclusive and Microsoft had purchased Zenimax to prevent that from happening.

While speaking with the FTC about the Activision Blizzard acquisition (via The Verge) today, we know that Spencer revealed that Sony pays competitors on a routine basis to skip Xbox. So to prevent this from happening, Microsoft felt it needed to purchase Bethesda to prevent it from being a PlayStation exclusive. Spencer had this to say about purchasing Zenimax:

"When we acquired ZeniMax, one of the impetus for that is that Sony had done a deal for Deathloop and Ghostwire... to pay Bethesda to not ship those games on Xbox," Spencer said. "So the discussion about Starfield when we heard that Starfield was potentially also going to end up skipping Xbox, we can't be in a position as a third-place console where we fall further behind on our content ownership, so we've had to secure content to remain viable in the business."

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