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Britxbox: Podcast Expansion Pack 53

Britxbox writes: "The expansion pack is here to bring you the week's news and your dose of lolz. This week we talk about:

Activision's conference call of death
Guitar Hero killed
DJ Hero killed
True Crime: Hong Kong killed
New CoD studio!
Assassin's Creed....2011 edition

Then Spiiike decides to cut the show short. I know, blame him."

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Ex-Assassin's Creed Boss Sues Ubisoft Over Alleged Forced Firing

In 2025 Marc-Alexis Côté, the head of the Assassin’s Creed franchise and a 20 year veteran of Ubisoft, abruptly left the publisher following the launch of Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

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Kotick claims lawsuit objecting to MS-Activision deal was "tied to Embracer's desire to boost sales"

Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.

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OpenGL48d ago

Yeah, the Microsoft deal has DEFINITELY worked out for everyone.

galgor48d ago

Can this mother fucker just get lost already

PRIMORDUS48d ago

He belongs in here ⚰️, hopefully sooner than later.

MrDead47d ago (Edited 47d ago )

Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.

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Microsoft needs to listen or risk irreparable harm to Call of Duty

Windows Central: "The money may keep rolling in, but Microsoft is the custodian of one of the biggest selling video game series in history. If something doesn't change, I fear we'll reach a breaking point and irreparable damage will have been done."

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StoneTitan98d ago

Because ms is so good at managing studios, surely they will get it right

:P

franwex98d ago

In my view, they should probably merge MP with Warzone and essentially make it free to play like Halo Infinite. The campaign/zombies mode can be $30 yearly DLC. I know this would be insanity as most COD players essentially pay the full price of the game simply for the MP. However-with a shrinking player base they may have to consider it. Making it free would bring in a ton of players.

Profchaos98d ago

To late MW3 should have been a lesson but here we are two years later with a steaming pile a shite called blops7

bsingle4098d ago

Nothing lasts forever, eventually something will come along to make people forget about COD

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1Victor98d ago (Edited 98d ago )

@Oumba:”We’ve heard that story many times before 😂”
You know what we seen many times good franchises been run into the ground by bad management like h___o , f___a and most of the sports game oh I forgot the dynasty warriors
Oh forgot to say
Happy thanksgiving to all the N4G members
🥳 🍗 🦃

MDTunkown98d ago

Halo killer once arrived and technically call of duty killer also arrived, its name is Fortnite

dveio98d ago

Call of Duty was riding the revenue horse and charts for ~20 years. Whether undeserved or deserved.

But I endorse everyone to remind you that Microsoft could have decided differently when they took it over.

The money was certainly there, and they could have taken their time revamping the franchise:

Current-gen tech, manageable microtransactions, not imitating Fortnite and returning to core values of the franchise's origin.

They didn't.

Let's see next year. Hopefully without the then 13 years old PS4 and One hardware.

blacktiger98d ago

you need to stop saying "let see next year"

XBManiac98d ago

dveo is an alias of Phil Spencer?

XBManiac98d ago

dveio is an alias of Phil Spencer?

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