Rumour: Microsoft buying Playground Games & others?

Last edited by Monkey Man on Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Keith Ranger Dolliver was appointed to the board of directors for Playground Games on 29th May. He is the VP & Deputy General Counsel of Business and Corporate Development at Microsoft. He is appointed as director during a merger and acquisition time. He was appointed to Lionhead, Rare, and LinkedIn previously.

They opended up a 2nd studio last year - https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017 ... cing-title

Rumoured that the 2nd studio is making the Fable Reboot.

Has hired -

Sean Eyestone, production director, previously senior producer at Battlefront II developer EA DICE and spent ten years working at Kojima Productions on various Metal Gear Solid games, including open-world entries Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes.

Will Kennedy, chief designer, spent eight years at Rockstar North, working as level and game designer then senior online mission and flow designer on Grand Theft Auto V.

Juan Fernandez di Simon, principal combat designer, previously senior designer on Ninja Theory's Hellblade, and spent three years at Rime developer Tequila Works.

MS could be part, majority or full owner of PG.

Because that can only end well.

I know it's not the right thread, but read yesterday that MS are buying/have bought GitHub.

Pedz wrote:I know it's not the right thread, but read yesterday that MS are buying/have bought GitHub.

strawberry floating hell.

2021. We eat Amazon branded Huel smoothies at every meal. Facebook news announces Zuckerberg's hiring of Elon Musk. Microsoft have bought Spain.

Tafdolphin wrote:
Pedz wrote:I know it's not the right thread, but read yesterday that MS are buying/have bought GitHub.

strawberry floating hell.

2021. We eat Amazon branded Huel smoothies at every meal. Facebook news announces Zuckerberg's hiring of Elon Musk. Microsoft have bought Spain.

I believe it's costing 7.5 billion dollars.

If it's equity, Playground wouldn't be part of Microsoft Studios. If it's a full ownership deal, Microsoft Studios have added 3(4) studios in the last couple of months.
- Avatars Studios Redmond
- Xbox Santa Monica
- Playground Forza Horizon
- Playground Fable

Insider Matt on Resetera replies -

More.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/micros ... st-8747882

Thought they already owned them, tbh.

^That. I mean, they're the Forza dev, yeah?

Forza Horizon dev.

Monkey Man wrote:
If it's equity, Playground wouldn't be part of Microsoft Studios. If it's a full ownership deal, Microsoft Studios have added 3(4) studios in the last couple of months.
- Avatars Studios Redmond
- Xbox Santa Monica
- Playground Forza Horizon
- Playground Fable

Insider Matt on Resetera replies -

More.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/micros ... st-8747882

Probably PUBG Corp, I can’t see it being anyone big like an EA.

Rumour: Microsoft buying Playground Games & others?

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