Microsoft Acquires Bethesda Emergency Reaction Roundtable!

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In a move with enormous implications for the games industry as a whole, but especially for RPGs, Microsoft has acquired Bethesda, the publisher responsible for Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Starfield. What will this mean for role-playing games? How will this impact the next-gen race? And how will Sony react? Kat and Nadia are joined by special guests Mike Williams and Reb Valentine to break it all down! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	War. War never changes. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory.
0:15.0	Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower. But war never changes.
0:23.6	In the 21st century,
0:25.6	war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired.
0:30.6	Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons.
0:54.3	Welcome to a special emergency pod of Acts the Blood God.
0:56.7	This is the first time I think that we've ever done this.
1:06.0	We are going to be reacting to the news that Bethesda has been acquired by Microsoft just ahead of the Xbox series X pre-orders.
1:13.7	This has massive implications for the RPG space, including the fact that Xbox seems to own every legacy PC developer at this point.
1:15.5	They really cornered the mark on it.
1:18.6	We got a little bit of a roundtable happening with us.
1:21.4	I have, as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
1:22.6	Hello, Kat.
1:27.6	You'll have to make sure you insert some sort of claxon for this very special episode we are podcasting today.
1:28.2	The red alert.
1:28.7	I think it's appropriate. Whoop, boop, boop, boop.
1:32.4	Yes, that don't do quite fine.
1:34.6	And we also have Mike.
1:36.0	Hi, Mike.
1:37.3	Hello, hello.
1:38.4	How's everybody doing today?
1:40.2	And we have a newcomer to the party.
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