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Microsoft just bought the massive video game publisher behind game franchises like 'DOOM,' 'Fallout,' and 'The Elder Scrolls' in a major coup that cost $7.5 billion

In a deal worth $7.5 billion, Microsoft is buying Bethesda Softworks parent company ZeniMax Media — which includes such gaming blockbuster franchises as "DOOM," "The Elder Scrolls," and "Fallout," among many others.

"As a proven game developer and publisher, Bethesda has seen success across every category of games, and together, we will further our ambition to empower the more than three billion gamers worldwide," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in the press release announcing the news.

 

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They bought a coup? I don’t get it.

Can Microsoft buy out FOX? Clean house, rebirth as WOLF, give people facts not false propaganda?

Will the games still be available on Sony or will they be XBox/PC only now?

Oh god. Todd Howard will have even more funding now, and he still will release The Elder Scrolls VI in an unplayable state

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