Today's News:
* This year's upcoming E3 event recently took another big hit in terms of dropouts. IGN reported that Sega, Tencent, and Devolver Digital will also not be attending this year's event and joins the growing list of notable companies who have backed out from having a physical presence at this year's event. It was also reported that more companies likely will also be dropping out soon based on recent contacts with those companies.
Link:
https://www.ign.com/articles/rumors-...shers-back-out
* While Ubisoft is currently not planned to be holding a press conference at this year's E3 event, they recently announced they will be holding an E3-like Ubisoft Forward stream on June 12th to discuss updates for previously announced games current in development and the official debut of new games in development as well.
Link:
https://twitter.com/Ubisoft/status/1640747302166884352
* Valve recently announced that they will be dropping official support for their Steam Client for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 operating systems starting on January 1, 2024. Official reason is due to the way certain new features for Steam rely on an embedded version of Google Chrome that no longer works on older Windows OSs.
Link:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faq...4F2B-1321-800A
* The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) recently gave their official approval for Microsoft's attempt to purchase Activision Blizzard. Similar to other government bodies around the world, the JFTC stated in their filing that they believe that MS's purchase of AB "would not substantially restrain competition in any particular fields of trade" nor do they believe that it would violate Japanese anti-trust laws, especially in regards to cloud gaming.
Link:
https://www.destructoid.com/japan-ap...zard-purchase/