Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard is lastly performed, and so we are able to lastly cease speaking about it! Or, effectively, no less than we are able to cease speaking in regards to the annoying will-they-or-won’t-they regulatory facet of it. Now it is time to discuss in regards to the video games! We talk about Activision-Blizzard video games within the again catalog that we might wish to see calmly refreshed for the Xbox Sequence X|S (just like the latest Quake 2 remaster), earlier than taking turns speaking about which of their IPs we would wish to see Microsoft deliver again as a brand-new sport. Plus: Starfield tops the gross sales charts, Bethesda’s “Uncle Pete” Hines says goodbye, and extra!

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