![]() Dozens of new video games, both exclusive and not exclusive, will be available on the subscription service Xbox Game Pass on their day of release. The publisher of iconic franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout will be bringing its next two new projects - including the highly anticipated Starfield - exclusively to Xbox and Windows PC. In Sunday’s Xbox and Bethesda E3 showcase, we saw Microsoft’s big bets pay off. In the following years, Microsoft has bought up video game developers like they’re used furniture on Facebook Marketplace, culminating with the recent acquisition of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks for a whopping $7.5 billion, one of the most expensive acquisitions in the history of entertainment. That same year, Microsoft acquired Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion, and that was just the beginning. Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s CEO in 2014, and immediately invested in the company’s video game group. Microsoft was making big moves they were just happening behind the scenes. While Sony invested gobs of time and money into cinematic showpieces like God of War, Spider-Man, and The Last of Us Part 2, Microsoft filled its press events with news about studio acquisitions, familiar entries in established franchises, nascent subscription services, and cloud streaming platforms. Let’s be real: For nearly five years, Xbox has been pretty boring. ![]() Microsoft invested a fortune in Xbox, and now we’re finally seeing why.
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