I've a feeling we're going to see a Halo Infinite "relaunch" at E3.

They're too quiet about Season 4 and it comes only a couple weeks after E3.

Think they'll do a trailer like "how the game is today" and then a "what is coming in the future" and the trailer will have big updates to Forge (AI, Water), a PvE mode, the next set of maps, new game modes, QoL features, career progression, etc. Maybe I'm a bit optimistic but a ton of shit leaked and Season 4 is so close after E3 that it makes sense for Halo Infinite to show up in some form.

Source: Idas

New report from MLex:

- Microsoft President Brad Smith took aim at the CMA for blocking the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying the decision would affect investment in the UK and was based on a "faulty" understanding of the gaming market.

- He said that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should "look hard at the role of the CMA," and he said the European Commission's approach was far better.

- Sarah Cardell, chief executive of the CMA, said: "This decision shows how important it is to support competition in the UK, and the UK is absolutely open for business."

- Investors and companies were "probably better off thinking harder about going to the European Union than to Britain," Smith said in an interview on BBC radio. "The impact of this decision is far broader than on Microsoft or this acquisition alone."

- Smith explained that the CMA had taken a narrow view of the gaming market, focused on a "potential concern" about how the "small" business might develop. "The process in Brussels worked far better than what we're now addressing in London."

- "This decision is probably the darkest day in our four decades in Britain. It does more to shake our confidence in the future of the opportunity to grow a technology business in Britain than we've ever confronted before," Smith said.

- Speaking on the same program, Cardell stressed the potential of the cloud gaming industry and that allowing Microsoft and Activision Blizzard to merge would "really harm the ability of other competing cloud platforms to compete effectively."

- Smith said the watchdog had gone silent on Microsoft two weeks ago, and then the prohibition decision arrived yesterday.

- "This is not the way regulators in Brussels work with companies. You have more of a conversation," he said, adding that Microsoft had made the same offer of concessions to the EU regulator as it did to its British counterpart.

- Cardell rejected the criticism of her office's procedures. "We conducted a lengthy in-depth investigation that took a full six months and Microsoft had ample opportunity to put their case to us."

- "We reached the decision on the basis of a huge amount of engagement. We looked at more than a million documents to reach our final decision," Cardell said.

- Smith said the "English Channel has never seemed wider" regarding the attractiveness of investments and the regulator process.

- Smith described Brussels as "a place where one can sit down and actually have a conversation with the regulators who are accountable to the elected leaders. And the difference we now confront in London, where we have regulators who are not only unelected but unaccountable, and now making decisions that just feel fundamentally unwise."

- According to Brad Smith, "I am optimistic that the European Commission will continue to go forward, as it has signaled in recent weeks and months, that it will regard the very promises that the CMA has rejected as far more appropriate."

MS is not happy :P

Microsoft Says EU ‘More Attractive’ Post-Brexit After Takeover Blocked – (The Guardian.com)

On the one hand, Brad is right that UK is shit post-Brexit for investment. But I'm not sure the aggressive (PUBLIC) attacks will help, I think it will cause the CMA to double down, Lol. Brits don't ever accept they're wrong, we double down, this country is crazy nationalistic, CMA won't like Microsoft's threats to UK and the UK Gov is hands off with the CMA so they aren't going to do anything.

CMA has never lost. CAT may send it back but the bar for that is extremely high, only a 33% chance that Microsoft wins that and even if they do, CMA will just fix any mistake made and come to the same conclusion. Irrationality is a high bar which requires that CMA makes a decision which "no rational person would make" or they need to find legal mistakes, interpretation of data is not a legal mistake and predictions of a future market isn't illegal either even if those predictions are dumb as shit. CMA will block it again except this time with a "Microsoft is fucking annoying us" energy.

And it may cause Europe to look at Microsoft differently too, Europe already doesn't tend to like American attitudes, both in government and business. Them seeing Microsoft acting this aggressively when not getting their way may cause them to question Microsoft's intentions. Europe has already sued Microsoft once before, Lol. Hmm. They should really wait for EC's approval before acting this way. Europe still coordinates with UK.

Really feels like 60fps was ready for launch at some point. They must have hit a extremely last minute bug which fucked it, would explain the hurried and random Tweet announcing only 30fps and no communication since then on a timeframe and now this dang sticker which is a nightmare logistically. They were probably caught by complete surprise but retail had already been printed and sent.

5,000 Concurrent Users in UK. 💀💀💀

It's no wonder Stadia died. It's no wonder Luna is dying. xCloud is only alive because it's clinging onto Game Pass for dear life.

Fuck me that's a low number, Lol. Did CMA fuck up in their calculations, yet again?

All these Series X into xCloud and they only have the capacity for 5,000 in the UK. That's crazy.

How can you claim that is a fast growing market with a straight face, how can you make assumptions it will turn into a huge market, when the so called "market leader" as you claim who already "dominates" the area only has 5,000 concurrent users in the UK. Bro. Protecting a less than 10,000 market over a multi-million one.

MS pulled out a miracle with a math error on the last argument... now they have to argue theoretical possibilities. Doubt it will be overturned, but miracles do exist.
#copium

And lol yeah it's a dumpster fire outside of here. Full of absolutely terrible takes from people who have no clue what they're talking about. I seriously hate the concern trolls about how Phil has done a terrible job and that Mattrick should come back. Just say xbox sucks, and should go away, way more respect for that take than the fake concern.

Everything just feels like it restarted and we're back to the waiting game. May 21st for the EC date I guess...

Best of luck xbots.

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