And also: Microsoft's response to Sony's exclusive games, the ninja turtle in a nostalgic gesture and the fugitive criminal who returned to prison because of a voice of duty
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Microsoft is fighting back
Official and final: Bethesda has become Microsoft's in-house development studio after the European Commission and the US Securities and Exchange Commission approved the $ 7.5 billion deal.
Bottom line: From now on, the Xbox (and PC) will become the official home of well-known brands like Doom, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Dishonored and of course do Wolfenstein ("Nazi Castle").
But does that mean that all the next games in these series will go exclusively to the Microsoft console and not to the competing devices from Sony and Nintendo?
Some do, others do not, but it's too early to know which ones.
In an announcement made by Phil Spencer, the boss of Xbox, it was explained that all of Bethesda's new games will indeed be exclusive to Microsoft platforms, except for brands with previous contractual obligations to other platforms, which Microsoft of course intends to honor.
In short, there is a good chance that we will see the next pledges in the leading Bethesda series also for competing consoles, but over the years their number will decrease, until the contracts expire.
And for that matter: Xbox's subscription service, Xbox Games Pass, brought up 20 selected Bethesda games over the weekend, some of them relatively new like the excellent Doom Eternal, as a tribute to gamers.
The vast majority of them are available for both console and computer, so if you missed some of them over the years, it's time to fill in the gaps.
Wanted a cop - got a cop
Familiar with this urge, that you must play a "no-duty" voice even if you are not allowed to, and are you willing to go to jail for it?
No?
So you're probably not Clint Butler, a 36-year-old British criminal who was captured by police and returned to prison after being found violating the isolation laws in the kingdom.
Butler ran a 17-year prison sentence for armed robbery and other offenses.
He escaped from prison in late 2020 and has since disappeared.
But in January this year (details released only recently), Butler and his friend were detained by police in the city of Birmingham while violating corona restrictions and behaving suspiciously.
The policeman asked the two to identify themselves and demanded an explanation for the breach of the closure.
Butler claimed he went out to buy the new "Voice of Duty" because he was bored at home, but when the policeman demanded to see identifying documents - Butler kicked him and tried to escape.
The offender was eventually neutralized and returned to the detention facility, with a year and a half added to his original sentence for attempting to escape and assault the police officer.
In "Voice of Duty," apparently, he will no longer be playing soon, certainly not before a few more games in the series come out, and the new copy he wanted to purchase will no longer be, well, new.
We are in (of) market
Children of the 80s and early 90s who grew up on ninja turtles, arcade halls and megasons - you are about to be washed away by the waves of nostalgia, see you have been warned.
Few would disagree that Turtles in Time, the two-dimensional action game released to Arcade in 1991 and to Nintendo a year later, is one of the best Side Scrollers (a game where, in principle, you move in one direction and hit anything that blocks the way) Ever.
It's hard to believe that 30 years have passed since then, and even though that game allowed the turtles to travel in time, it turns out that we were just rushing forward.
But not all is lost, because the new game Shredder's Revenge pays homage to that mythological hit and was actually inspired by it.
It's best to just watch the trailer and cuddle up to past memories, preferably with a pizza triangle in hand.
The game does not currently have a release date, but it is estimated that it will be released in the coming months for all consoles and the computer.
And if you're wondering, then yes - it's really the voice of Mike Patton, lead singer of Faith No More, performing the Turtle's theme song.
If already nostalgia then to the end.
An addicted game?
FIFA clutter. EA's football game community is furious, and rightly so. According to reports, a company employee offered rare FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) cards from the Icons and Prime Moments series for very high sums of money that crossed the $ 2,000 mark. If a buyer agreed For the offer, the seller promised to update the buyer's FIFA account on the virtual cards within a few days.
This is of course a forbidden action, since FUT cards are distributed to buyers randomly as a kind of lottery, so the buyer does not know which cards he will receive - rare or common.
Particularly rare cards, which are often less than a single percent likely to get, may give a player who receives them a big advantage over his online competitors.
Therefore, whoever buys them knowing which he will actually receive fraud, and the employee of EA who allegedly sold them is a partner in the scam.
The company, which is aware of the allegations, has opened an internal investigation and promised to correct the distortion in case the omission, dubbed EAGate, turns out to be true.
