Hey Hey Gamers! January is known for being light on Gaming News. However, this week we got the biggest Gaming news that we have gotten since the Bethesda acquisition by Microsoft. To top it off, it is yet another acquisition by Microsoft. An acquisition of Activision/Blizzard, seven times the size of their previous acquisitions. So this week's episode is all about the impact of such news. What does this mean for Gamepass? what does this mean for competitors? What kinds of IPs are now available as Microsoft's First Party Titles? All that and much more in Chat N Games your weekly gaming show

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00:03:00 - Where were you when you heard Microsoft is set to acquire Activision/Blizzard

00:07:00 - Valuation of other Big Gaming Publishers

00:28:00 List of Activision/Blizzard/King IP

00:43:00 Game Pass' new value

00:44:00 How can PlayStation compete now?

00:54:00 The Impact of 2 Gaming Giants Competing

Microsoft to Acquire Activision/Blizzard - https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-activision-blizzard-buy-acquisition-acquired

Microsoft Wire Blog Post - 

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/01/18/welcoming-activision-blizzard-to-microsoft-gaming/

Phil Spencer tweet to PlayStation

https://bit.ly/3H3f1dW

VGA List of Activion/Blizzard/King IP:

 List of Companies Valuations - 

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Post-Mortem: A podcast series where we dive deep into one or two of the mechanics from one of the games we completed. We give just overview thoughts of the overall game, but really focus on creating deeper conversations about the special mechanics of certain games. The following Post-Mortem will be a deep dive into Metroid Dread's level progression