Wed. 05/08 – Bethesda Bloodbath

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Multiple Bethesda studios are being shut down by Xbox and gamers are worried. The new Pixel phone announcement yesterday that probably nobody heard about. What if OpenAI decides to go after web search? And the surprising fact that FTX investors could be made whole, and then some. With interest! Links: Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda (IGN) US revokes licences for supply of chips to China’s Huawei (Financial Times) Exclusive: In Tesla Autopilot probe, US prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud (Reuters) Google’s New $500 Pixel 8A Smartphone Will Get 7 Years of Software Updates (Wired) OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity (Bloomberg) TikTok Sues U.S. Government Over Law Forcing Sale or Ban (NYTimes) FTX Has Billions More Than Needed to Pay Bankruptcy Victims (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, May 8.
0:07.0	2024, I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Multiple Bethesda studios are being shut down by Xbox and gamers are worried. The new
0:13.5	Pixel phone announcement yesterday that probably nobody heard about,
0:16.7	what if open AI decides to go after web search and the surprising fact that
0:21.0	FTX investors could be made whole and then some with
0:23.8	interest. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:28.4	I. GN has seen a memo that indicates Microsoft's Xbox plans to shut down multiple
0:37.6	Bethesda studios and consolidate teams to prioritize high impact titles and invest in Bethesda's existing portfolio.
0:45.2	Quote Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios including Redfall maker
0:50.3	Arcade Austin, Hi-Fi Rush, and The Evil Within developer Tango Game Works and more in devastating
0:56.2	cuts at Bethesda Igen can confirm. Alpha Dog Games, maker of mobile game Mighty Doom Doom will also close.
1:03.6	Roundhouse Studios will be absorbed by the Elder
1:06.4	Scroll's online developer Zenimax Online Studios.
1:09.9	Microsoft currently valued at over $3 trillion.
1:12.6	Did not say how many staff will lose their jobs,
1:14.7	but significant layoffs are inevitable.
1:17.1	Igen has asked Bethesda for comment.
1:19.4	Microsoft declined to expand further
1:21.1	when contacted by Igen.
1:23.2	On Redfall, the disastrous vampire co-op game will now not receive promised updates including
1:28.4	an offline mode and new character DLC as Microsoft has ended all development on the game.
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