Turns out that letting Microsoft acquire Bethesda, iD, Obsidian, Activision, Double Fine, Arkane, Ninja Theory, Mojang, Compulsion and other game studios wasn’t actually good for games, the people who make them or the people who play them.
What’s more surprising is that it seems like it wasn’t very good for Microsoft, either?
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