Activision announced the new installment of its popular video game saga Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare III, which will arrive on November 10 on PlayStation and Xbox consoles and PC.

The company has shared a trailer through its social networks, in which it has barely given clues about this new installment of the “first-person shooter” franchise.

It was last February when Bloomberg announced that Modern Warfare III would arrive this fall, according to sources related to the American video game developer consulted by this medium.

It was in May when media such as Insider Gaming shared the developer’s launch plans, when they also announced that the title was being developed by Sledgehammer Games, a subsidiary of Activision, and that it would include a campaign mode, multiplayer, zombies and a new map, among others. details.

So, they announced that, after a series of betas for PlayStation 4 (PS4) and PlayStation 5 (PS5), as well as Xbox One, Xbox Series X.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced that its next-generation game console, PlayStation 5 (PS5) has exceeded 40 million units sold worldwide since its launch in November 2020.

The new Sony console went on sale in a first group of seven countries on November 12, 2020 and was generalized to the rest of the world, including Spain, on the 19th of that same month. His bet for the new era of entertainment was a futuristic design with white, black and blue LED lights, with the matching DualSense controller, and support for 4K UHD resolution and later also 8K.

Its launch, however, occurred in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. “We were facing headwinds with the pandemic, and it took months for supply chains to normalize so that enough inventory could be held to meet demand. In this regard, we continue to thank the community for their patience, but now the supply of PS5 is well supplied and pent-up demand is finally being met,” SIE resident and CEO Jim Ryan said in a press release.

In this context, the company has just announced that the console has exceeded 40 million units sold worldwide since its launch. During this time, the content has also been improved, with a catalog of more than 2,500 games, and the ability to customize the experience, with new colors for the PS5 controller and covers.

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Fans of one of the most popular and successful video games of all time now have the ability to earn Bitcoins while playing the game, thanks to a collaboration between Satlantis, a community-operated Bitcoin-themed Minecraft server, and Zebedee, a fintech and Bitcoin payments startup.

Zebedee’s team excitedly announced on their blog that they are bringing Bitcoin to Minecraft. The company, which has brought BTC rewards to a wide variety of games, thus responded to increasing player demand for the leading cryptocurrency in Minecraft.

This integration, while unofficial and not endorsed by Minecraft developer Mojang Studios, allows players to earn real Bitcoin rewards for completing quests. These rewards can be used in the game to acquire land, buy resources or equipment, as well as trade or exchange with other players on the server.

Additionally, BTC rewards can be withdrawn to the Zebedee app, where users can spend the bitcoins on the company’s gaming network or transfer them to exchanges that support the Lightning Network.

The Satlantis server brings an exciting twist to the celebrated video game by incorporating elements inspired by cryptocurrency mining. In this way, those familiar with crypto mining practices will recognize concepts such as ASIC, hash rate, block reward, and mining pool. This server works on the Java edition of Minecraft for computers.

Although the gains may be modest, they are still Bitcoin. According to Zebedee, the reward pool is filled with more than 150,000 satoshis (approximately $45) every day, of which 1 % is distributed every 10 minutes among players. A satoshi is the smallest unit of measurement for a Bitcoin; each BTC contains 100 million satoshis.

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Google is preparing a function that will allow YouTube users to play video games on the streaming content platform, either from a computer or from a mobile device.

The company would have invited its employees to try a new product called Playables, which would translate as Playable, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.

According to the internal email to which this newspaper has had access, this new product would allow access to video games both on mobile devices (iOS and Android) and on a computer’s web browser.

For the moment, these employees would have been able to test video games such as Stack Bounce, an arcade in which “players try to break layers of bricks with a ball,” according to the capture accessed by The Wall Street Journal.

It should be remembered that this new feature would maintain similarities with the one already existing on Netflix, since the streaming audiovisual content platform introduced video games for mobile devices in 2021, both on Android and iOS.

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Activision Blizzard announced that it will carry out the shutdown of the Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera servers on September 21, as its development teams will focus on “future Call of Duty content.”

This installment of the Call of Duty saga is the rebranded version of the original Call of Duty: Warzone, the first standalone battle royale in the saga released in 2020, which was renamed Warzone Caldera following the release of Warzone 2.0 in 2022.

Now, the video game development company said that it will close its servers for Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera on September 21, so users will no longer have access to online services and the original Warzone experience.

As Activision explained through a statement on its website, this decision is due to the fact that, from now on, its developer teams “will focus on future Call of Duty content“, including the current free Warzone experience.

In this sense, the company highlighted the value of the “incredible experiences” that Warzone has offered to players of the Call of Duty franchise “since its first launch.” He also thanked the entire community and developers for making Warzone “an amazing place to play together.”

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A US federal court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Microsoft from closing the $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard purchase deal.

The setbacks in the possible acquisition of the developer by the Xbox manufacturer have occurred since the news was released, in January 2022, when Sony suggested that, if this purchase took place, its main competitor could exercise a monopoly in the video game sector.

From then on, various international organizations began to study the case to find out what the real consequences of this purchase could be and its impact on other brands, such as the Japanese one.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is the national consumer protection agency of the United States, filed a lawsuit to block this economic transaction.

This blocking lawsuit will be resolved in a trial scheduled for August 2, but it does not prevent Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, whose contract requires the acquisition to close on July 18, from closing a previous agreement.

To prevent this, this Monday, the FTC asked the US courts to block this agreement between the Xbox manufacturer and the Call Of Duty developer with a temporary restraining order.

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, for their part, will have until June 16 to present legal arguments against the injunction, while the FTC will have until June 20 to respond.

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Future games in the EA Sports ecosystem will expand customization options through the implementation of virtual brand creations, hand in hand with Nike and its SWOOSH community.

EA Sports has announced a collaboration agreement with Nike Virtual Studios to bring the “.SWOOSH” creations to the publisher’s future sports video games, as reported in a statement.

These are tokens stored in a blockchain or NFTwith which players of EA Sports titles will be able to access content that combines “sports and style” and offers “unique opportunities for self-expression and creativity.”

“.SWOOSH” is the Nike community where followers of the sports brand can “create, collect, sell or wear” virtual creations on immersive experience platforms or video games. At the moment, this platform is in a closed beta phase.

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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) conference of this year 2023, which was planned to be held from June 13 to 16, was canceled after learning that some of the most relevant companies in the video game sector, such as Microsoft, Nintendo and Ubisoft, would not participate. in the event and, therefore, failing to arouse the “necessary interest”.

E3, one of the most recognized video game sector events in the industry, was scheduled to be held again in person in Los Angeles (United States) for the first time since 2019, since it was also canceled in the year 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and in 2022 to “deliver a revitalized experience” at the next E3.

Now, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced that E3 2023 is officially cancelled, as communicated through a Twitter post.

It is also corroborated by IGN, who had access to the email sent to its team members communicating its cancellation. In said email, the organization expressed that the reasons for its cancellation are due in part to the fact that E3 has not managed to “garner the sustained interest necessary” to show “the size, strength and impact” of the video game industry.

Despite this, the ESA emphasizes that E3 “remains a much-loved event and brand“, although it does not provide further details on whether this exhibition will be organized again in the coming years.

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At the beginning of last December, the CEO of Microsoft Gaming and head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, announced via Twitter that the company had “acquired a commitment” to bring the video game developed by Activision Blizzard to the products of the Japanese company Nintendo after its merger with the American developer.

In this same announcement, Spencer also confirmed that he had committed “to continue offering Call of Duty on Steam concurrently with Xbox after closing the merger with Activision Blizzard King.”

The manager announced these agreements in the framework of an investigation by which different authorized bodies analyze the legitimacy of the purchase agreement of the American video game developer, something that is strongly opposed by its main competitor, Sony, which manufactures PlayStation.

The president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, who this Tuesday presents the arguments for which they believe this acquisition should be approved at a hearing of the European Commission, has now announced the signing of a partnership with the manufacturer of Nintendo Switch.

“Microsoft and Nintendo have negotiated and signed a ten-year binding agreement to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo players the same day as Xbox, with all features and content parity,” the manager said via Twitter.

Smith has insisted that this agreement will allow owners of Nintendo platforms “to experience Call Of Duty like Xbox and PlayStation players” and has recalled his commitment to “give long-term access to the game to other platforms.”

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The Game Pass video game subscription service surpassed the record of 120 million monthly active users, despite the results of Microsoft’s fiscal second quarter, which ended in December 2022.

As Microsoft Communications Director Frank Shaw has reported through a post on Twitter, Xbox saw “new highs” for Game Pass subscriptions, as well as hours of game streaming and monthly active devices. .

Also, according to data shared by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his earnings call, Shaw noted that monthly active users “surpassed a record 120 million” during this quarter.

On the other hand, as Microsoft shows in its latest quarterly financial and earnings report, Xbox decreased revenue both from the sale of hardware and from the platform’s content and services compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year. That is, Xbox has sold fewer games and fewer consoles.

The technology giant has posted a net profit of 16,425 million dollars in this period, which is equivalent to a decline of 12.5% compared to the earnings of the same period of the previous year.

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