#acquisition

Blizzard acquires Spellbreak studio Proletariat to bolster World of Warcraft | VentureBeat
▻https://venturebeat.com/2022/06/29/blizzard-acquires-spellbreak-studio-proletariat-to-bolster-world-of-war

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Blizzard Entertainment has acquired Spellbreak maker Proletariat to beef up the staff on its massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

Under the deal, Boston-based Proletariat will become part of Blizzard, and its team of 100 people will begin working on World of Warcraft, including the Dragonflight expansion coming later this year. Spellbreak, a battle royale game where wizards and witches cast spells at each other, will be sunset. (The company announced this news yesterday.)

Le développeur Proletariat va fermer son jeu vidéo de type Battle Royale dans un univers d’Heroic Fantasy au profit de développements avec Blizzard :

On the future of Spellbreak — Spellbreak
▻https://go.playspellbreak.com/blog/spellbreak-future

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After more than four years of elemental magic and spell combinations, we’ve made the decision to end development of Spellbreak. The servers will be shut down as of early 2023. Thank you to the millions of players who have joined us in the Hollow Lands since 2018; it’s been an amazing journey.

TEST SPELLBREAK : un BATTLE ROYALE qui vaut le détour ? ▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwpdNKK6TY8

8 sept. 2020 Près de 2 ans après son annonce et de longues phases d’alpha et de beta fermée, Spellbreak débarque finalement sur toutes nos machines. Ce Battle Royale free-to-play, mettant en scène des sorciers se tirant la bourre à coup de boules de feu ou de projections de rocher, a de quoi attirer le quidam lassé des pétoires traditionnelles. Le concept est séduisant, mais au-delà de ses joutes usant du maniement des éléments, qu’apporte Spellbreak à la formule éprouvée du BR ? Notre critique !

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #activision_blizzard #blizzard #proletariat #jeu_vidéo_world_of_warcraft #jeu_vidéo_spellbreak #acquisition #business #finance #vicarious_visions #jeu_vidéo_diablo

Microsoft enters agreement to respect Activision Blizzard union - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/06/13/microsoft-union-activision-blizzard-cwa

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#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #activision_blizzard #microsoft #business #finance #acquisition #ressources_humaines #syndicalisme #game_workers_alliance #raven_software #brad_smith #xbox #phil_spencer #christopher_shelton #bobby_kotick #keywords_studios #jeu_vidéo_dragon_age_dreadwolf #ea #electronic_arts #bioware #lacey_haines #margaret_o_mara #wilma_liebman #barack_obama #joe_biden

Microsoft Promises Not to Squash Historic Video Game Industry Union
▻https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3mvn/microsoft-promises-not-to-squash-historic-video-game-industry-union

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A highly unusual agreement means that workers may have an easier time forming unions at Activision Blizzard once Microsoft has finished its acquisition of the gaming giant.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #activision_blizzard #microsoft #ressources_humaines #syndicalisme #business #finance #rachat #acquisition #communications_workers_of_america #chris_shelton #assurance_qualité #raven_software #jeu_vidéo_call_of_duty_warzone #phil_spencer #xbox

Several Private Equity Firms Reportedly Looking Into Ubisoft Acquisition - Game Informer
▻https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/04/25/several-private-equity-firms-reportedly-looking-into-ubisoft-acquisiti

Ubisoft could be the next company to be purchased amidst ongoing industry-wide acquisitions that include Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard, Sony buying Bungie, and Take-Two acquiring mobile giant Zynga.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #business #finance #ubisoft #rachat #acquisition #consolidation #activision_blizzard #microsoft #sony #bungie #take_two #zynga #yves_guillemot #jeu_vidéo_assassin_s_creed #jeu_vidéo_far_cry #vivendi #rumeur #analyse

Atari Completes MobyGames Acquisition, Details Plans for the Site’s Continued Support » Atari
▻https://www.atari.com/atari-completes-mobygames-acquisition-details-plans-for-the-sites-continued-s

Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — has announced that the acquisition of long-standing video game database MobyGames has been completed following a $1.5 million purchase from AntStream.

MobyGames ownership update
▻https://www.mobygames.com/forums/dga,2/dgb,3/dgm,258131

I’m pleased to announce that Atari is now supporting [MobyGames] mission to preserve video game history. They have completed acquisition of [MobyGames] from Antstream.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #business #atari #mobygames #acquisition #histoire #préservation

Activision CEO set for $15M “golden parachute” in Microsoft deal - Axios
▻https://www.axios.com/activision-blizzard-microsoft-sec-filing-d0fdf84f-c402-4136-97d8-da8da039ad67

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Microsoft and Activision propose that Kotick could receive as much as $22 million in stock in July or later, if Activision’s board sees improvement in company culture.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #business #finance #microsoft #activision_blizzard #jeu_vidéo_overwatch_2 #jeu_vidéo_diable_iv #départ #licenciement #démission #parachute_doré #bobby_kotick #rachat #acquisition #syndicalisme #embauche #discrimination #ressources_humaines

Game engine, meet game streaming : Unity acquires Parsec for $320M | Ars Technica
▻https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/08/game-engine-meet-game-streaming-unity-acquires-parsec-for-320m

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The parent company of Unity, one of the most popular game development engines in the world, has made arguably its biggest acquisition of another gaming company yet. The deal, announced on Tuesday, sees Unity taking control of Parsec, a peer-to-peer game-streaming protocol. The acquisition is valued at $320 million.

Unity Technologies, éditeur du moteur de jeux vidéo Unity, acquiert Parsec, éditeur d’une solution de travail à distance à destination de développeurs de jeux vidéo. L’article contextualise cette acquisition en distinguant cette solution à destination des professionnels des solutions de jeu en streaming grand public.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #unity #unity_technologies #parsec #business #acquisition #bureau_à_distance #remote_desktop #streaming #google_stadia #nvidia_geforce_now #ubisoft #jeu_vidéo_immortals_fenyx_rising #valve #steam_remote_play #epic_games #psyonix #mediatonic

Unity Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Parsec | Business Wire
▻https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210810005116/en/Unity-Enters-Into-Agreement-to-Acquire-Parsec

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Parsec’s technology allows creators to work together remotely and leverage high performance processing from anywhere

Le moteur de jeu Unity acquiert le développeur Parsec proposant des solutions de bureau à distance à destination des développeurs de jeux vidéo.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #unity #unity_technologies #parsec #business #développement #streaming #remote_desktop #bureau_à_distance #acquisition #marc_whitten #chris_dickson #benjy_boxer #electronic_arts #ea #ubisoft #square_enix

Sketchfab Community Blog - » Sketchfab is Joining the Epic Games Family
▻https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/sketchfab-is-joining-the-epic-games-family

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Sketchfab is Joining the Epic Games Family

[…]

We will remain an independently branded service with the same mission and vision, while working closely with Epic Games. We started collaborating with Epic earlier this year through an Epic MegaGrant, and are excited to accelerate those efforts. We are also already integrated with various Epic Games products like RealityCapture and ArtStation. We will maintain and expand our integration efforts with all creation tools and 3D/VR/AR platforms, so you can easily upload to and import from Sketchfab everywhere.

Lower fees for our Sellers
As part of our shared goal to make Sketchfab’s offerings more profitable to creators, we are reducing Sketchfab’s store fees to 12%, effective immediately.

Sketchfab Plus is now free
We are also making all the Plus plan features free, which means more uploads and larger file size at no cost.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #développement #outil #outil_3d #outil_modélisation_3d #modélisation #epic_games #sketchfab #acquisition #3d #saas #software_as_a_service #logiciel

Index Éducation rejoint Docaposte
▻https://www.docaposte.com/actualite/article/docaposte-acquiert-index-education

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Un bon montage je trouve, avec une prise de participation (majoritaire) opérée par deux acteurs publics. Le service public montre qu’il peut (quand il y met les moyens) prendre ses responsabilités. En l’occurence vis à vis d’un outil devenu essentiel pour l’enseignement scolaire.

Et bien sûr, un outil hautement sensible (car monopolistique, détenteur de données hyper sensibles, etc.). Donc il reste plein de nouveaux enjeux à suivre 😉

#edtech #acquisition

Germany tries to halt U.S. interest in firm working on coronavirus vaccine - Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-usa-idUSKBN2120IV

German government sources told Reuters on Sunday that the U.S. administration was looking into how it could gain access to a potential vaccine being developed by a German firm, CureVac.

Earlier, the Welt am Sonntag German newspaper reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had offered funds to lure CureVac to the United States, and the German government was making counter-offers to tempt it to stay.

Responding to the report, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, wrote on Twitter: “The Welt story was wrong.”

L’#Afrique réclame à l’#Europe le retour de ses #trésors pillés - 27/05/2018 - ladepeche.fr
▻https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2018/05/27/2805727-afrique-reclame-europe-retour-tresors-pilles.html

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Mi-hommes, mi-animaux, les trois totems trônent au coeur du #musée du quai Branly à Paris. « Statues du royaume de Dahomey, #don du général Dodds », stipule sobrement l’étiquette. Trésors pillés, rétorque le Bénin qui exige leur restitution.

Ou encore #acquisitions.
#pillages

Via Karim Bitar sur twitter

Facebook / Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye Tribe

▻https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/28/the-eye-tribe-oculus

It’s unclear exactly what Oculus will do with the technology, though it has potential applications for identity verification for security, immersive games, and a wide range of applications that let you navigate by looking rather than using your fingers.

Perhaps Facebook could one day allow you to Like a post just by looking at the Like button, or roll your eyes in Oculus VR to communicate that you’re annoyed.

#Facebook #Oculus #The_Eye_Tribe
#acquisition

Green and blue water demand from large-scale land #acquisitions in #Africa - 11471.full.pdf
▻http://www.pnas.org/content/113/41/11471.full.pdf

Pourquoi vous ne deviendrez jamais chinois

Avec moins de mille cinq cents naturalisés pour un milliard trois cents millions d’habitants, la Chine est l’un des pays les plus restrictifs quand il s’agit d’octroyer sa citoyenneté à des étrangers. Mais qu’en est-il en France, au Qatar, au Brésil ou au Mali ? Au moment où le débat entre droit du sol et droit du sang enflamme les pays touchés par la crise, l’examen des codes de la nationalité réserve de nombreuses surprises.

►https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/01/BREVILLE/49983
#nationalité #acquisition_de_nationalité #citoyenneté #naturalisation

Entre le prix affiché et le prix de vente, Pap.fr note que l’acheteur a obtenu environ 5 % de rabais :

▻http://www.leparticulier.fr/jcms/p1_1564267/les-prix-de-l-immobilier-se-negocient-de-5
#immobilier #achatimmo #acquisition

SOFA - #Facebook Acquires #Sofa
►http://www.madebysofa.com/blog/facebook-acquires-sofa

Sofa’s products, #Kaleidoscope and #Versions, are not a part of this #acquisition. Both apps will remain available and we’re committed to securing a great future for them outside Sofa.

#logiciel #mac

Forrester Information and Knowledge Management: SDL Acquires Tridion
►http://blogs.forrester.com/information_management/2007/04/sdl_acquires_tr.html

The WCM vendor landscape has shifted again, as global information management solution vendor SDL has announced that it will acquire Tridion.

#tridion #wcm #sdl #achat #acquisition #groupe:clever-age #clevermarks